trunks

Example Sentences

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They communicate by touching each other with their trunks, smelling each other and vocalizing.

From Los Angeles Times

The trees were a shade darker than he remembered, and much taller—their trunks stretched like molasses.

From Literature

I endowed that word “all” with special meaning, and pressed dresses and packed trunks in a delirium of anticipation.

From Literature

They were little more than planks of unfinished lumber, with cots jammed into each corner and trunks at the end of them.

From Literature

Wires and twisted metal hung from the building and charred tree trunks lay on the ground.

From Barron's