Sentence examples for a long trunk from inspiring English sources

Down below, a Joshua tree-shaped stage with a long trunk of runway jutted into the crowd.

A huge log straddles the stream and higher up, just below the tree line, is a long trunk, cut into precise lengths, awaiting collection.

Elephant Moraine, so named because it looks like a small elephant with a long trunk, has yielded more than 2,000 meteorite specimen during seven previous visits, going back more than 15 years, by researchers with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, or Ansmet, program.

He has a long trunk and tusks, while she has short ones.

All elephants have several distinctive features the most notable of which is a long trunk or proboscis, used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water and grasping objects.

This is seen to be so both in a mechanical watch and in living systems.elephant has, Paley argues, a short neck because its head is so heavy, but in compensation it has a long trunk, enabling it to reach out.

The length of the trunk depends, physiologically, on the vigor of the plant, making it, for instance, difficult to create a very long trunk on a naturally weak-growing, weeping plant.

They are pale and eyeless animals composed of two main body regions: a cephalothorax consisting of the cephalon fused with the first trunk segment bearing the maxillipeds and a long homonomous trunk.

Two basic parts construct this leaf-like nanostructure: a long central trunk and two tapered nanoribbons in symmetric distribution in relation to the trunk.

Mejia is broad-shouldered and built more like a slugging first baseman, though her long trunk enables her to gather ground balls nimbly.

That may not be really how the Elephant got his distinctive long trunk rather than a short nose like most creatures but it makes a good and warning story about a Crocodile.