Sentence examples for trunk from inspiring English sources

I travel sometimes for work, taking groups out of London by minibus, heading off via the trunk roads.

A tree trunk painting by celebrated Iranian poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri sold for around 28bn rials (£560,000), becoming the most expensive painting ever sold in Iran.

Putting the past behind you is one thing; shoving it in a sealed trunk and dropping it into the ocean depths is another.

We inhabit a post-pastoral terrain, full of modification and compromise, and for this reason my glossaries began to fill up with "unnatural" language: terms from coastal sea defences (pillbox, bulwark, rock-armour), or soft estate, the Highways Agency term for those natural habitats that have developed along the verges of motorways and trunk roads.

Take off too much, and the tree goes into shock and produces a lot of watershoots – upright shoots that won't fruit and appear mostly from the trunk.

But it's fun to step inside the trunk of a huge baobab tree brought from Africa as a sapling 400 years ago, and to spot the wild horses, descendants of animals also brought by the Portuguese, that roam the island.

Close said: "In Helsinki, they were in two cars and his father was in the trunk of one car.

He sized it up for a minute or two, then decided to play the most audacious little cut, right around the left side of trunk and away up the fairway into the heart of the green.

The Adventuress: The Irresistible Rise of Miss Cath Fox by Nicholas Coleridge In seconds the duke had lowered his trousers and boxers and positioned himself across a leather steamer trunk, emblazoned with the royal arms of Hohenzollern Castle.

Through contacts in Africa Gardiner asked for some samples of Nigerian guarea wood to be shipped; in the event 17 tons of it, huge sections of tree trunk, arrived at Tilbury Docks and were then transported to St Ives, and Hepworth's studio.

These tree gods would grant wishes and good luck to those who came to them in a kindly manner, i.e. knocking on the tree trunk to get their attention.