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Discover LudwigThe phrase "at the trunk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific location or position related to the trunk of a tree, vehicle, or other objects.
Example: "The squirrel was perched comfortably at the trunk of the old oak tree, watching the world go by."
Alternatives: "by the trunk" or "near the trunk".
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There was an old willow, split at the trunk, like the one that ate hobbits in the forest where Tom Bombadil lived.
Suddenly, unaccountably, I found myself at the trunk of the car.
And a man and woman are seemingly joined at the trunk thanks to leveraged bodies.
Hobel, on hands and knees, sniffed at the trunk of a tree.
He described trees "as much as 36 feet in the girth," not 36 feet across at the trunk.
Some species produced a single large cone at the trunk apex, and others may have produced many smaller cones.
"And if the Parking Spot does a good job, the shuttle meets me at the trunk of my car and drops me off at the terminal door".
I couldn't think of any reason to refuse, so I picked up the knife and took a couple of stabs at the trunk of a nearby palm tree.
The rust enters a tree through the needles and moves into the twigs and branches and eventually arrives at the trunk, which it girdles and kills.
He lay there in a huddle, staring at the trunk of the bush he was lying under, at last year's leaves, at his underwear and the mesh of the fence.
When she peers from behind a tree to see him hop into a car with "an idle woman", Griffith denies us a shot of her horrorstruck face – all we see is her fingers clutching at the trunk.
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