trunk
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I had to use the trunk opener inside the glove compartment, which, of course, had been jimmied open, and I kept closed with duct tape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Dicus said deputies were not aware that anyone was in the trunk of the car during the traffic stop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Chris Edwards has been placing barriers like this massive tree trunk in front of the entrances to his fields - in a bid to deter hare coursers.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
There are more than 40 trunk line projects in the agency’s capital improvement plan, which will be in construction from now until 2057.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Jonathan lay on his stomach on top of his tree, with his armpits on the tree trunk.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Through the trunks, we get the occasional glimpse of the razed farmland which tightly fences this pocket of protected woodland.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
They also used instruments that measured CO2 levels in tree canopies every hour and sensors attached to tree trunks that tracked tiny changes in trunk size throughout the day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Fragments of bags, clothes, and a melted shoe lie half-buried in the charred earth at the site, alongside dead trees with burned trunks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Each time the museum records the humidity or hears the water inside the trunks we can talk about the heartbeat of a tree,” says Anadol, with obvious delight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Instead, its arms are like axe handles, and its legs are as thick as tree trunks.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing trunk
Stump Speech: Tree Terminology
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