How To Use Trunk In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Ted, a tall, brown tree-trunk of a man, raced outriggers for more than 30 years.
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At the bottom of the trunk she found a set of white undergarments including lacy petticoats and a full corseted bodice.
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Another steel trunk provides ample storage at the foot of the bed, and holds smaller items.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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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.
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Naupli have a cephalic shield or the beginnings of the dorsal carapace, and no segmentation on the trunk.
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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
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The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
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But if it spreads to other distant organs, the cells have taken a trunk road through the blood or lymph system.
The Sun
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Round the body of the trees, planted some at their root, and some upon the different parts of the trunk, crept the withy, the snakeweed, the ivy, and the hop, and intermingled with them the jessamine and the honeysuckle, in the most unbounded profusion.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance
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The tree trunk was hollow inside.
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It was the only year with the chrome spheres on the trunk as shown in the picture along with that year two tone coves on the sides and a "washboard" fake air intake looking but nice hood.
Why does this man want to have sex with his mother anyway?
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The external iliac vein is the main venous trunk of the pelvic limb and its branches are the medial circumflex femoral...
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At the same time, branch-cutting was encouraged to get the tree to grow a single, main trunk.
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He would at least describe the wench who'd clocked him with a trunk.
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The big ones with the tusks and the trunks are surely elephants.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bark was riven off from the trunk.
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The rash usually starts on the trunk of the body in red bumps.
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Urban arterial road is the main undertaker for the urban transportation. The transportation capacity can be improved by combining and controlling many intersections in one trunk road.
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She looked through the trunk of clothes kept at the hotel.
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In many places the straight trunks of the kapok tree are used to make dugout canoes.
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The main trunk of the stapedial artery atrophies and its origin from the internal carotid disappears.
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I realized she was assessing my back muscles, judging their strength, reading them the way a botanist reads the rings of a tree's trunk.
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The aortal trunk, G, of the arterial system is disposed along the median line, as well for its own safety as for the fitting distribution of those branches which spring symmetrically from either side of it to supply the lateral regions of the body.
Surgical Anatomy
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These effects of microgravity can be reduced by special regimes which exercise the muscles, especially those of the trunk and lower limbs.
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Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands.
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With the aid of lacker varnish and skilful painting, paper made excellent trunks, tobacco bags, cigar cases, saddles, telescope cases, the frames of microscopes; and we even saw and used excellent water-proof coats made of simple paper, which did keep out the rain, and were as supple as the best macintosh ... ..
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
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Weeping bedsores covered his body, and his tree trunk-like legs were riddled with blood clots.
The Sun
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Sam tells him to just stop talking before turning to contemplate the four gallons of go-juice sitting in the Impala's trunk ... then he quietly asks Dean not to watch.
Chron.com Chronicle
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Caught under by the breeze, the awnings of the fore-deck bellied upwards and collapsed slowly, and above their heavy flapping the gray stuff of Captain Whalley's roomy coat fluttered incessantly around his arms and trunk.
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An avenue of pleached limes has the lowest branches springing out from the main stem a good 2m from the ground, allowing a clear view through the young trunks.
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a tree with an unbranched trunk
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A Yoshino cherry is propagated by grafting a cutting onto another cherry trunk or by rooting small cuttings.
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The canoe is made of one big trunk.
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Emergent species like the strangler fig (Ficus dugandii) may reach heights of over 60 m while very abundant epiphytes such as Araceae sp and Cyclanthaceae sp. cover the lower parts of tree trunks and ferns help make up the dense understory.
Western Ecuador moist forests
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Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.
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Also, remove the cartop ski and bike racks, which add weight and create drag when you aren't using them, and clean out the trunk.
Mensfitness.com
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The most efficient way to heat a house is to give each register its own supply duct directly off the trunk lines.
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Missouri fortunately escaped. opened my trunks and boxes and exposed the articles to dry. found my papers damp and several articles damp. the stoper had come out of a phial of laudinum and the contents had run into the drawer and distroyed a gret part of my medicine in such manner that it was past recovery. waited very impatiently for the return of
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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The tree seemed to dribble out of its branches like candlewax, and solidify into the spreading trunk and gorged roots.
Wildwood
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Trace amounts of iron oxide impart vibrant red, red-orange, orange, and yellow colors that sometimes contrast markedly with browns and blacks in these silicified trunks.
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Without vaulting or trusses, Yemeni traditional architecture had to rely on the usable length of palm, acacia or tamarisk trunks for spans.
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He jumped off the table to the mattress, trampolined off that to the Gold Mountain trunk and onto the chair.
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As he wove in and out of the knotted trunks Nick heard the ping, ping around him with a moment's puzzlement.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The students thought so, too, as they gave the Trunk two sustained ovations.
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Ashy dermatosis is a chronic condition characterized by asymptomatic, slate-gray or violaceous hyperpigmented macules distributed most commonly over the trunk and proximal extremities, and less frequently over the face and neck.
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Mature specimens develop a thick trunk and stems with leaves and flowers at the top of the plant, often too high for the gardener to enjoy.
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His thick brow wrinkling in thought, the archdruid neared the trunk once more.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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The Major leaned against the chestnut's trunk.
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A hemstitched bureau scarf that she had tucked in her trunk, in unquestioning faith in the bureau that was to be part of the ranch equipment, took the "raw edge," as it were, off the desk.
Judith of the Plains
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They have not permitted any wild creatures to escape despite another fallen trunk, but that is due to luck, and to the renewed tendency of the creatures to attack the lancers, rather than to attempt to escape beyond the deadland.
The Magi'i Of Cyador
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A mourning cloak butterfly flew up from a tree trunk in the sunshine where it was basking.
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The only beauties of the place, and those unintentional, were the long lines of hand-planted shade-trees, uglified as far as possible with whitewashed trunks and croppy heads, but still lovable, growing, living things.
Animal Heroes
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The trunk of an Asian elephant is so exquisitely prehensile that it can pick up a dime from a concrete floor.
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Debbie grabs Biscuit's trunk and tries to yank her free, but the raccoon's teeth refuse to unclamp.
How the Rabies Epidemic Is Affecting Deer and Other Wildlife
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By the end of that century, the ballerina's long tutu and the premier danseur's tights, trunks and maillot became de rigueur and virtually standardized.
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Walking hand in hand, we passed several other people on roller skates, in bikinis and swimming trunks, with shopping bags in their hands and all.
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The trunk, which readers away from boatable waters may need to be informed is an elevation about a foot above the main deck, to afford head-room in the middle of the cabin, had three deck lights, or ports, on each side.
The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder
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The rash begins as finely punctate erythema on the superior trunk and face two to three days after the onset of illness.
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He then tied electrical cable around the trunk and his neck before hanging himself.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal, Styling by Anne Cardenas Some are ornate, others as understatedly handsome as a steamer trunk.
Sometimes It's Not Just a Cigar Box
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Some are understood to have gone from lay-bys alongside major trunk roads such as the A64, while five others are set to be removed in the near future from streets in York.
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The surveys concluded that the tree's trunk was essentially hollow and there were large areas of deadwood within its crown.
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He hummed to himself as he opened the trunk.
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Most of the children have burns to the trunk and limbs and therefore find it fairly easy to hide their scars and pressure garments under tracksuits and high collared, long sleeved shirts.
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Minimalists will love the temple stone garden in which sawn tree trunks weave a path through unadorned gravel.
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He is there on the trunk, hanging on as though by magnetics.
THE BINGO PALACE
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—In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief.
2009 June
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Likewise, trunks for foraging woodpeckers and vegetational structures for dead-leaf foraging antbirds are found throughout the midstory, often extending into the understory and canopy.
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Rays radiate from the centre of the trunk, and the heartwood - the inner rings - differs from the outer rings, which are called the sapwood.
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It was a perilous undertaking to climb a walnut tree, for the limbs began to grow high up and the trunk was covered with a rough bark, hence the name shagbark; to shin up, and still more to descend, was apt to make patches or a new seat to your trousers your mother's evening work after you had gone to bed.
Confessions of Boyhood
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For twenty years Joe has weighed, marked, and released flying squirrels that enter live traps attached to tree trunks.
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Tanis set her trunk near the couch and let out a small yip at the sudden sharp pain to his lower back.
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Wants to wear trunks on the beach this summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wrapped his wings around himself and then leaned back against the trunk of the tree, watching the ground beneath him.
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Most designers featured in the exhibition have chosen to play with the image of their master himself, with his long trunk and short legs, the characteristic derby hat and pince-nez glasses.
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But so did much of what had been packed into that massive trunk.
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Libby also checked his method by determining the age of heartwood from the trunks of redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens), and of Douglas firs
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 - Presentation Speech
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You can also drill several holes in the trunk, near the root ball, and inject stump killer into the holes with a baster.
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Today, I cannot pass a hazel tree without putting my palm on its fattest trunk.
Times, Sunday Times
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First car was a '64 Austin Healy Sprite, deer head and legs sticking out the trunk was quite a site. didn't get too far back into the woods but back then I had no problem doing that on foot
Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles
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For example, ground birds can usually only walk horizontally on the ground whereas woodpeckers climb up and down vertically on tree trunks.
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My mother recently found one of the journals I kept during my wanderings in the 90's, buried at the bottom of one of my old tin trunks that had been sitting out beside the woodpile at the lodge for a few years, and mailed it to me.
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These gray or gray-green plants live on the branches and trunks of the trees, but they are not parasitic.
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Push short lengths of candy cane into the base of the triangles to make tree trunks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its twisted trunk and mangled branches resembled a terrifyingly gaunt person arching their back in immense agony.
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Then, the Kamov will grasp the standing trunk with a hydraulic grapple at the bottom of the long line, break it off and ferry it to the landing.
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And left an orbless trunk, that knows nor night nor day.
Poetical Sketches
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The car's trunk has a huge storage capacity.
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In lancelets, the trunk somites extend and fuse ventrally to give the unsegmented periviscelar coelom.
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Once a week, however, it shinnied down a trunk to the ground where it took a long, healthy shoot at the base of the tree.
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The biggest obstacle in our way was a tree trunk in the road.
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On the reef we saw nervous trunkfish, snappers and the odd barracuda.
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“Bonderro” is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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SAMANEA SAMAN is a truly noble tropical tree. It has a sturdy, smooth, pale grey trunk mostly divided near its base into a few hefty branches that grow almost horizontally to support its monstrous parasol canopy.
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The simplest denotation of a tree, a trunk dividing upward into two thick branches, appears against placeless black.
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What do the high-intensity headlights, anti-lock brake systems, global positioning screens and trunk- or hood-mounted light switches on your car have in common?
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And although they're famous for the skimpy proportions of their bikinis and trunks, these labels are also making suits for even the shiest backsides.
Bathing Beauties
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I always keep a blanket and a toolkit in the trunk for emergencies.
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Displaying their talents, these giants will perform shows such trunk painting and a mock elephant battle ridden by mahouts.
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The tumor is predominantly located subcutaneously or in the deep soft tissue of the extremities and trunk, peritoneum, or retroperitoneum.
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Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells.
All Gold Canon
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The posterior communicating artery is sometimes joined with the middle cerebral artery instead of the trunk of the internal carotid.
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The Gatling guns all fired simultaneously, tearing through the rear of the vehicle and into the trunk.
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His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman's boots were laced half way up the stout legs.
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The two trees have grown together to form a double trunk.
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She is immobile, has limited head and trunk control and is doubly incontinent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stash spare wiper blades and a gallon of nonfreezing washer fluid in the trunk.
7 car problems that can leave you stranded
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A porter stops to rest under the shade of a huge banyan tree, its trunk twisting out of the earth and its umbrella-like branches arching over a granite stairway.
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He directed the last comment to the man with her trunk.
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The trunk of the hickory is unique in appearance as the bark separates from the tree in long platelike strips which hang on at one end and give the scraggly appearance from which the tree derives its name.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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He's got a thick trunk.
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We came to a stream and crossed it on a tree trunk some one had flattened with an adze.
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I removed the lower limbs on our 15-foot vitex to maintain a vase-shaped, shade-tree form with five trunks.
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The grey-trunked trees sprang up straight to a great height and then interwove their pale-grey branches in a long tunnel through which the autumn light fell faintly.
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There they climb into a series of wooden constructions three metres high, made with tree trunks lashed together with lianas like tree houses perched above the flood.
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Tears of disappointment would come in spite of myself, as I crept away to hide the poor, crimpled manuscript in the depths of my trunk.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
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It stood near the window; its thick trunk, barkless, with a rotten heart, prevented the light from entering the room; the bent, black branches, devoid of leaves, stretched themselves mournfully and helplessly in the air, and shaking to and fro, they creaked softly, plaintively.
The Man Who Was Afraid
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Yucatán Maya mostly live in huts of plastered limestone or tree trunks with steep thatched roofs.
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The trees were mostly birches, with here and there a twisted trunk of alder, overgrown with bramble and honeysuckle.
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He stared at the big chimney of the powerhouse, as tall as the trunk of a poplar in a "deadening" at home, and covered with vines to the top, and he wondered what on earth that could be.
The Heart of the Hills
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The process is characterized by dirty grayish or ash-gray-colored maculae on the skin of the trunk and limbs.
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Hint: A four-door sedan with a traditional notchback trunk is available.
Mazda2 Touring hatchback does small well but is missing the 'zoom-zoom'
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The rock struck the center of the tree trunk with a resounding ping.
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At both locations, you can see various types of bamboos, from those as thin as an index finger to stout trunks that are thicker than an arm.
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She peeked inside the trunk first, but it was empty. Ditto the highboys. The wardrobe, though was half-full of what appeared to be very, very old winter coats.
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Regeneration occurs from the branches or the trunk of fallen trees that root into the underlying soil.
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If these are not removed they can girdle the tree, cutting into the trunk and eventually killing the tree.
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Also in the same third year of Ten-in, a great tree-trunk, one hundred and fifty feet long, was stranded on the seashore near a shrine called Ube-no-yashiro, at Miyanoshita-mura, which is in Inaba.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
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The growth of the trunk or stem of all exogenous plants, or those which increase in size on the outside of the stem, is brought about by the descent of certain formative tissue called cambium, elaborated by the leaves and descending between the old wood and the bark, where it is formed into alburnum or woody matter.
Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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Spray trees purple, and mass purple and lilac flowers around the trunks.
Times, Sunday Times
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That being a miracle, the babu forthwith wrought another one, and within a minute King's one trunk was checked through to Delhi.
In The Time Of Light
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It is to underscore a plain but often overlooked fact about the stuff that sits in the steamer trunk at Sears.
The Constraints of Corporate Tradition
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Occasionally heads sit oddly on their bodies, and swollen limbs meet their trunks awkwardly.
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A little farther away, he caught sight of Yoller, leaning unsteadily against the trunk of a small sycamore.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Bob bumped his head on a tree trunk and conked out.
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At that stage, the bonsai will have filled out (with tertiary branches) and there'll be moss on the trunk and roots.
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As it puts down roots, the trunk shoots up and branches spread out.
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They cleared the crest and emerged from the pool as if into another world, for now they were in the thicket of velvet-trunked young madronos and looking down the open, sun-washed hillside, across the nodding grasses, to the drifts of blue and white nemophilae that carpeted the tiny meadow on either side the tiny stream.
Chapter XXIV
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Medium readd "Rename File dialog" + Cover Manager section, typo fix in trunk, backport to
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The natives make excellent boats from the tree trunks.
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There was a thunk from behind him as the trunk door released.
AMERICAN GODS
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Krishna Pandit did the same and was extremely happy when the snake guided him through the swampy and marshy land, until he reached the hollow trunk of a mulberry tree.
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The elephant used its trunk to put food in its mouth and suck up water.
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It's the ultimate haute Robinson Crusoe hideaway: a handful of thatched villas, constructed by local artisans without recourse to a single nail, incorporating driftwood and reclaimed tree trunks as wall supports and table legs.
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Talented fashion all-rounders are bathing trunks and shorts in quick-dry fabrics offered with colour co-ordinated shirts to complete beach outfits.
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Far below, the forest rose on either side of the river gorge, but to reach that we would have to descend a winding path alongside a steep-sided valley cut by a stream that slithered under fallen trunks.
Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland
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The White Elephant waved his trunk around at the village.
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She went to the trunk and popped it open, placing Adrianne's bags into the back.
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He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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She pulled along a large trunk
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After the driver brought him to the River Overlook Hotel, he gave the taxi driver a sixteen percent tip on his fare, and took his baggage out of the taxicab's trunk.
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He reached into the trunk of the taxi and grabbed his suitcase, nabbing the bottle.
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But if you see black identity as you see southern identity, or Irish identity, or Italian identity — not as a separate trunk, but as a branch of the American tree, with roots in the broader experience — then you understand that the particulars of black culture are inseparable from the particulars of the country.
American Girl
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A didgeridoo is a droning wind instrument made from a hollowed-out tree branch or trunk.
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The two trees with the smoky trunks were blighted high up, and the withered branches domineered above the leaves, Through the whole building white had turned yellow, yellow nearly black; and since the time when the poor lady died, it had slowly become a dark gap in the long monotonous street.
Dombey and Son
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The Coolamon has been carved from the trunk of a tree.
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He afterward went into another small room, where he found sundry small trunks and cases locked up.
The Children of the New Forest
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Francis was found in the car's trunk, covered in blood but conscious.
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But the trunks of the trees were slimy green and cold to touch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mrs. Plummet shed real tears when I told her my good news at six o'clock that night; and more tears a fortnight later when I moved out of my little hall bedroom, and my feather-weight trunk, lightsomely balanced on the shoulders of one man, was conveyed to the express-wagon and thence to new lodgings in Irving Place.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel
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When her neighbour's house was flattened in airstrikes she fled again and now lives in makeshift tents sculpted out of tree trunks and beige canvases.
Times, Sunday Times
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Being an inexperienced traveller she took a good many trunks and was pretty unpopular with the steward before he could make her understand that one trunk to the stateroom was the rule.
Gigolo
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He was more interested in crap games, the over-and-under, the horses, and selling sweaters out of the trunk of his car.
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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is an elongated dark globule within the emission nebula IC 1396 in the constellation of Cepheus.
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Chris Travers: A pollard is a “beheaded” tree (“pollard” meaning “beheaded”), i.e. a tree which was the upper branches and trunk cut off so that it produces a large quantity of upright shoots.
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
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This tapering was the natural growth of the trunk; it was not, I mean, cut tapering with an ax.
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
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He left the path along the water and stole under the trees, along the deep shadow of little plantations, where the boughs of chestnut trees hung their great leaves low, and there was blacker refuge, shaping his course in circles which had for their object a stealthy inspection of chairs side by side, against tree-trunks, of enlaced lovers, who stirred at his approach.
The Man of Property
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The rich plushy, plumelike branches grow in regular whorls around the trunk, and on the topmost whorls, standing erect, are the large, beautiful cones.
Steep Trails
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In later years, CN took over the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and other small enterprises such as the Newfoundland Railway and absorbed it into the company.
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One woman used her shoulder and trunk muscles to feed herself via a gadget with a spoon attached to a ball-bearing swivel.
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The trunk of the silver birch has always been too bent and gnarled for commercial use.
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Large broken tree trunks are found randomly distributed through the coal in many different orientations.
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Luckily enough, a circus happens to be passing by, and one dwarf leads his elephant over to the car, where the elephant plucks the woman out with his trunk.
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The Countess glanced at a stack of boxes and trunks propped against the wainscoting and at once became disconsolate.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The lid of the trunk will not lift.
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Thin, faint yellow collars on trunks of cypress and tupelo rimming the old slough recorded the regression of recent flooding in the swamp.
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The branch has separated from the trunk of the tree.
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He would open up the brightly coloured, beflowered trunk, pull out a fabulous costume - a magician, a bear, a dragon, a snowman - and he would play, unselfconsciously, at inhabiting those clothes.
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He reached our car and threw the last of our luggage into the trunk.
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These roots, dropping into the surrounding mud, also become stilts that support more stilts and new trunks nestled in the tangled mass.
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She had pulled up the lower edges of her trunks and exposed half moons of untanned flesh.
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Frustrated and annoyed, she sat alone upon a lone tree trunk, the soft grass glistening from the dew.
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Putting his performance down to beginner's luck, I stepped up for another go, determined not to lay down my weapons until I had succeeded in making at least one tomahawk stick in the tree trunk.
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The intensity of the explosion is recorded on the charred tree trunks.
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Sometimes the train puffed between lines of grey slab fencing in which were armies of white skeleton trees that had been 'rung' for extermination, or with bleached stumps sticking up in a chaos of felled trunks, while in some there had sprung up sickly iron-bark saplings.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Should be apparent from his stunning takedown of the “uninformed bossiness” of Strunk and White in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
2009 April « Motivated Grammar
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The men's furnishings line, with its signature Lilly print ties, pocket squares and beachwear (an example being swim trunks in the classic Lilly print), also caught the eyes of many of the attendees.
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The shawl was in a box in her trunk.
Anne of Green Gables
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Elephant trunks and tongues are other examples of a muscular hydrostat.
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The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support.
How I Found Livingstone
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You put your head out of that window, and I'm locking you in the trunk, you oversexed Alsatian.
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But, as there's nobody else here in the town that I care to see (a mild dose of "smoosh," given at the right time and in the right way, never does any harm, you know) and as there's no sample room here I'm sure you'll allow me to have my trunk thrown in your store where I shall not be in your way.
Tales of the Road
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You see, I cut a trunk sample of my own and ciphered the rings twice more to be sure.
In The Shadow of The Cypress
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Both leben and much food collocation do not alternate very much, especially, breakfast is matching for bread , dessert , there is trunk having sparse, good mouth feeling nutrition enriches.
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He had brought them to the hospital in a steamer trunk.
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Greg opened one trunk, and found it packed to the brim with books.
