Sentence examples for trunks instead of from inspiring English sources

Others scrape together savings or loans from their parents to open beachside eateries - opting for surfer trunks instead of a suit and tie.

In the late 1920s he became the first personality to pause for photographers in swim trunks instead of wearing full regalia.

Making Obama into a man wearing brilliant red surfer trunks, instead of a more modest black pair, making the image more dramatic by having him walking out of darkness, and changing the exposure so he looks more gilded changes viewers' ideas about who the man is.

Indeed, not since 1955 had the city presented a single trunk instead of numerous scrawny conifers bundled to look tall, fat and shiny.

I have made the mistake to put my pocket book in chich I kept the check in my trunk instead of putting it in my ?grip and found it out when it was to late.

This is remarkable, she says, considering that elephants' vocal tracts are anatomically different from ours: they are longer, and they have a trunk instead of lips.

I put a kite in Dumbo's trunk instead of a feather.

Modern Taiwanese poetry, after more than half a century of separate growth and evolution, has become a literary territory complete in itself, a trunk instead of a branch.

On a tour of his grove, which stretches as far as the eye can see, Barrera pointed out telltale signs of initial infestation: new stalks of palm fronds emerging gray from the trunk instead of a healthy lime green color.

The plug-in hybrid displayed at the show was nowhere near its final form; it will be a version of the Prius, which it will differ from in that it will have two nickel-metal hydride batteries under the floor of its trunk, instead of the Prius' one large (and heavy and expensive) battery pack.

Men on the SFA-rich diet accumulated fat mass predominantly on the trunk instead of the limbs.