Sentence examples for down the trunk from inspiring English sources

She loaded up her 19-year-old Plymouth Valiant, tied down the trunk and set off for the airport in Bangor.

"In overthrowing me," he said as he was shipped to France, "you have only cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty of the Blacks in Saint Domingue: it will spring back from the roots".

And so the boy cut down the trunk, made a boat and sailed away.

They don't bother letting down the trunk latch, choosing to hurtle over the side instead in one fluid movement.

Mama tried to discourage him from tying down the trunk.

One night lightning struck the tree travelled down the trunk, struck his helmet under which he kept a Luger.

When he finished, he sat down on the trunk and tightened the straps on his stilts.

All the windows are rolled down and the trunk is wide open.

Under humid conditions the seedlings grow rapidly, sending roots down along the trunk of the host tree.

There the seeds develop aerial roots that grow down along the trunk of the supporting tree, enlarge, and gradually crush the host to death.

I thudded down, straddling the trunk, holding the saw at arm's length with my finger still gripping the trigger and my pulse racing.