Sentence examples for trunk about from inspiring English sources

Numidotherium stood about 1.5 meters tall and had a trunk about the length of a tapir's.

Team members ran a cable from Eagle's arresting hook to the trees, and moored the racer to the biggest trunk — about 30 inches in diameter.

He described it as a steamer trunk, about three feet long, two feet high and two feet deep, with a brass latch.

Today, when I think of our relationship with technology, I cannot help but think of human and Tlic, the latter's insect limbs wrapped around the former's warm-blooded trunk, about to hatch something new.

Another work that has been recognized in various Roman copies is the Apollo Sauroctonus, in which the god is shown as a boy leaning against a tree trunk, about to kill a lizard with an arrow.

Each stalk is about 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter and produces about 12 to 25 leaves with overlapping leaf stalks, or petioles, sheathing the plant stalk to form an herbaceous (nonwoody) false trunk about 30 to 40 cm in diameter.

They were handsome trees with straight trunks about three inches across and nicely shaped tops.

They will keep an eye out for trees less than 20 feet high, with trunks about four or five inches in diameter.

The tree has multiple trunks about five feet in diameter, with a wide branch that stretches clear across the little pool where Mary and Dickon, Burnett's characters, have been immortalized -- or arrested, it almost seems -- in a bronze fountain.

The total volume of tree trunks (about 5 billion [m3]) is increasing year by year.

Drive one hook into both trunks about 8 feet (2.4 m) above the bottom of the platform.