Sentence examples for a split trunk from inspiring English sources

Across the road from his new house stands a tall ginkgo with a split trunk.

The tree has a split trunk, forcing its branches upward into a shape Johnson hopes will signal a new era for the football team he owns.

And I would have been sorry to have missed the odd tree we found outside our inn in Arlington, the one with a split trunk, an opening just wide enough for a 2-year-old to squeeze through and feel as if he was having an adventure.

Or, if you are in a coniferous area with trees that don't typically split their trunks, you will have to stick a sturdy "Y" shaped limb/branch into the ground to simulate a tree with a split trunk.

For example, in days gone by, ash was regarded as a healing tree, and in Hampshire and elsewhere, weak-limbed children could be cured by passing them, stark-naked, through the split trunk of a young sapling.

A branch balanced on a split tree trunk became a seesaw.

'The art and science of prostheses' dates back over 100 years [3], when a split tree trunk with leather straps was the best replacement leg.

Its split trunk looked to Woody Johnson like the letter "V".

The split trunk of our neighbor's tree, whose branches blocked traffic on the street, appeared in a local TV newscast, with our front stoop and its rusted metal column as a backdrop.

The worst thing that can happen, and sometimes does, is a split of the main trunk.

A Tennessee lumber yard owner is stumped with what to do with a split-open tree trunk that appears to bear the image of Jesus Christ, WMC reports.