trunks

Example Sentences

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Others took inventory of the hastily packed belongings in their trunks or snoozed as comfortably as they could in plastic chairs at the evacuation site.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

"My legs, they just feel like trunks, tree trunks," he told the BBC.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

The whole logging process—from feller-bunchers that cut and stack tree trunks to delimbers that shear off the branches—could be operated by one person on-site with remote help from others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

We passed mountains of trunks and branches, piled high.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

She walked between fallen trees, and when there was no room between the trees, she climbed up and walked along their trunks.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis