Sentence examples for like a trunk from inspiring English sources

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It was almost like a trunk — a mobile office.

"Ele" is flexible and wriggly like a trunk and "phant" is big and heavy and solid.

Mr. Norris uses some fairly hoary dramatic contrivances (like a trunk that's buried in one act and unearthed in the second) to connect this diptych.

THE comedian Fred Allen liked to say that Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn sounded "like a trunk falling down a flight of stairs".

Magnified hair looks like a trunk with an outer layer of fish scales five or six deep protecting the trunk's inner fibrous protein, called keratin.

Guilty, feels like a trunk piece.

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Watching "Downton Abbey," a thoroughly enjoyable British series on PBS about masters and servants in a stately home on the eve of World War I, is a bit like buying a trunk at Restoration Hardware.

Wright modeled his buildings on trees, each floor cantilevering out from a central core like branches from a trunk.

It's not like there's a trunk in the fighter where 'Oh, we'll just put these in the trunk and kick it out.'".

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The one who feels the elephant's massive leg thinks the elephant is like a tree trunk, while the one who touches the elephant's trunk thinks the elephant is indeed very much like a snake.

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