Sentence examples for couple of trunks from inspiring English sources

Hill and Campion don't have much to work with in the way of props — a couple of trunks with a few articles of clothing in them, and a row of several dozen pairs of footwear, ranging from dress shoes to work boots, at the back of the stage, which, since the play calls for only one change of shoes, are mostly for show.

In the last five or six years, two really important caches of personal papers surfaced -- one being a couple of trunks of papers belonging to one of Wilson's daughters, and the other being papers that belonged Woodrow Wilson's personal physician and really most loyal friend, Dr. Cary Grayson.

"When George Washington left office, he just packed a couple of trunks of papers and took them with him back to Mt. Vernon," said David Van Tassel, supervising archivist for the Office of Presidential Libraries in the National Archives and Records Administration.

During a lean period last winter, agency workers were happy to see "a couple of little girls come in with a couple of trunk loads of food," Mr. Johnson said.

(Although we were told there was a bull elephant on the reserve that could kill a rhino with a couple of trunk slams, so perhaps not quite so regal).

Sharpton is packing a couple of steamer trunks.

No rental car, no hotel room, no shoes -- just a couple of hitchhikers on an island with a pair of trunks and a surfboard.

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.

Watching her son chase a couple of friends around the trunk of a nearby tree, Hiba repressed a giggle before breaking into a smile.

His father still lives near there, and every time he comes for a visit, he throws a couple of hundred pounds into the trunk of his car.

More than a year later, the indomitable plant stands four feet tall, she said, with "a trunk a couple of inches around".