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UK
/tɹˈʌŋk/
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[ US /ˈtɹəŋk/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹəŋk/ ]
NOUN
- luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- a long flexible snout as of an elephant
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the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
they moved their arms and legs and bodies -
compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
he put his golf bag in the trunk
How To Use trunk In A Sentence
- Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk. Savages
- And how about my father's Graflex that I had never used, and my baby clothes in the brassbound trunk and the files full of dead people's passport photos? Earthly Possessions
- Ted, a tall, brown tree-trunk of a man, raced outriggers for more than 30 years.
- At the bottom of the trunk she found a set of white undergarments including lacy petticoats and a full corseted bodice.
- Another steel trunk provides ample storage at the foot of the bed, and holds smaller items. Times, Sunday Times
- The tree's coppicing habit, the way one specimen can have dozens of trunks, means that in places the pines look like a wall of bamboo, rather than relatives of the giant Araucariaceae that line the foreshores of Sydney beaches.
- This week's retail sales and events include grand opening parties, trunk shows, and parking lot sales for everything from clothing and accessories, to furniture, textiles, and giftware. Los Angeles Shopping Events and Sales Round-Up
- Free-range pigs have shelters shaped as triangles or half circles, but most porkers were lurking inside; pine trees had snow plastered on the north side of their trunks and the hot sun on the south side.
- Naupli have a cephalic shield or the beginnings of the dorsal carapace, and no segmentation on the trunk.
- How the books (not having been chosen with reference to this great event) were of awkward sizes, and did not make comfortable paving for the bottom of the trunk; whilst folded stockings may be called the packer's delight, from their usefulness to fill up corners. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances