trunk
Example Sentences
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But he showed a talent for selling as a teenager when he hawked bottles of aftershave lotion out of the trunk of his Buick.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
There were photos of trees broken in half at the trunk, Molina said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
"It was just this trunk of films that seemed too good to throw away. But I had no idea what they were or how to show them," McFarland told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Perhaps the most interesting of these is Carl Williams, the founder of Karl Kani, who made his start hawking baggy jeans out of the trunk of his car in Flatbush.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
He looked very alarmed at this, but when a few moments later Marlene’s trunk happened to knock off his cap, and we all laughed, he had to laugh too.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing trunk
Stump Speech: Tree Terminology
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