Sentence examples for trunk over from inspiring English sources

Huge frozen bulbs cling to branches like wasps' nests; where a tree's root are weak, the snow bends the trunk over on itself to form a distorted arch.

It is also used in tactile communication, in which it runs its trunk over another elephant's body or puts the tip into the other elephant's mouth".

Tracing the line back to the trunk over ground littered with rotten acorns and rodent-raided hazelnuts, I find a cherry tomato beginning to sprout from the moss.

And yet he tolerates some of the junior members, allowing them to share his prime drinking spot, and letting them fawn over him with a trunk over his tusk and many trunk-to-mouth salutes.

"You've got the airport and the mall right across the street," said the Quinta Mazatlan manager, Colleen Hook, as a golden-fronted woodpecker drilled away on a palm trunk over our heads.

Later he was attending the circus at Madison Square Garden, and as the opening parade passed him, a look of fond recognition came into the eye of one of the elephants, who reached his trunk over the rail, and lifted the surgeon out of the fifty-cent seat and put him in the seventy-five cents section.

To uproot medium-sized trees from 20 to 40 centimeters in diameter, the tractor advances raising the blade as high as possible to push the trunks over; as soon as the tree has begun to fall the operator must back to free the stump and the large roots which will be coming up - in this way, the fall will not be hampered.

Predatory birds that dwell in modern forests, such as the sharp-shinned hawk, are masters of making tight, quick turns around trunks and over branches as they pursue their prey.

Together they covered the original floor with lengths of pine and refinished the floor-to-ceiling columns — actually pine tree trunks — left over from the loft's industrial days.

After this you plunge into a wonderfully disorientating network of paths, leading under tree trunks and over smooth sheets of granite rock with the vast fronds of tree ferns arching out.

It's every time she sent you to swimming lessons in your dad's old trunks all over again.