Trunk is an English word with synonyms like snout or proboscis. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Trunk in a sentence
Related words
Trunk meaning
- Part of a body.
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
Synonyms of Trunk
Using Trunk
- The main meaning on this page is: Part of a body. | The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches. | Part of a body.
- Useful related words include: tree trunk, snout, proboscis, compartment.
- In the example corpus, trunk often appears in combinations such as: the trunk, trunk of, trunk or.
Context around Trunk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trunk
- In this selection, "trunk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tree, creative, southwick, highway, gathering and itself stand out and add context to how "trunk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2019 southwick trunk or treat and 30 or trunk highway no. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trunk" sits close to words such as archer, artifacts and biblical, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trunk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A flyer for the Howl-O-Ween Trunk or Treat. (10 words)
A trunk of Jurassic proportions at the 2019 Southwick Trunk or Treat. (12 words)
According to the application document, the Echo Cable System’s main trunk connects Eureka, California with Singapore. (17 words)
She and her team in the research project are tracing the methane to see if it is produced in the leaves alongside photosynthesis, or if it is soil-borne gas flowing up through the trunk, or from other activities in the trunk itself. (43 words)
Looking at history is very much like examining an elephant, where one person feels a leg and thinks it’s a tree trunk, and another feels the elephant’s trunk and thinks it’s a snake. (36 words)
The southern-fried romp will thrill theater-goers with upbeat music, laughter, romance, schemes of deception, a talking raven and a head kept in a trunk (yes, a head – that talks – kept in a trunk). (35 words)
Trunk or Treat is a safe, controlled Candy-Coated Experience for kids…bring your children in costume and they’ll get the opportunity to go from Trunk to Trunk gathering Halloween goodies! (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Trunk or Treat is a safe, controlled Candy-Coated Experience for kids…bring your children in costume and they’ll get the opportunity to go from Trunk to Trunk gathering Halloween goodies!
If you're expecting lots of littles to stop by your trunk, this creative trunk-or-treat theme is the way to go.
Looking at history is very much like examining an elephant, where one person feels a leg and thinks it’s a tree trunk, and another feels the elephant’s trunk and thinks it’s a snake.
A trunk of Jurassic proportions at the 2019 Southwick Trunk or Treat.
In 1912, the road became part of a state highway known as Trunk Highway No. 30 or Trunk Highway No. 59.
She and her team in the research project are tracing the methane to see if it is produced in the leaves alongside photosynthesis, or if it is soil-borne gas flowing up through the trunk, or from other activities in the trunk itself.
Branches are often at a 90-degree angle to the trunk, and the smallest twigs tend to bend backward towards the trunk.
The southern-fried romp will thrill theater-goers with upbeat music, laughter, romance, schemes of deception, a talking raven and a head kept in a trunk (yes, a head – that talks – kept in a trunk).
If the infection is the root of the tree, and the inflammation is the trunk, then the cancer and the antibiotic are two branches; the antibiotic is not the trunk.
Otherwise these trunk engine pistons bore little resemblance to the trunk piston; they were extremely large diameter and double-acting.
Sifakas move by vertical clinging and leaping, meaning they maintain an upright position leaping from tree trunk to tree trunk and moving along branches.
The introvert is retractable into the trunk via two pairs of retractor muscles that extend as narrow ribbons from the trunk wall to attachment points in the introvert.
The originating marker then passed the trunk call completion requirements (type of pulsing, resistance of the trunk, etc.) and the called party's details to the sender and released.
A 33-year-old man has been charged with murder following the grisly discovery of human bones in a burnt-out tree trunk.
According to the application document, the Echo Cable System’s main trunk connects Eureka, California with Singapore.
According to the criminal complaint against Huggins, an officer observed garbage bags with empty beer containers both inside the vehicle and in the trunk.
Additionally, you cannot keep an open container in the car unless it is kept somewhere not normally occupied by passengers, like the trunk.
A flyer for the Howl-O-Ween Trunk or Treat.
And on his first trip, 15 people climbed into his car to be saved, terrified, scared, some injured, they climbed into his trunk sat on the roof, and escaped to safety.
An extremely popular spot frequented by locals in the region, Trunk Bay is named after the Leatherback turtle, which is endemic to the area and colloquially known as trunks by residents.
Common combinations with trunk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the trunk 84×
- trunk of 33×
- trunk or 18×
- trunk and 18×
- tree trunk 13×
- trunk road 9×
- his trunk 7×
- main trunk 5×
- trunk with 5×
- trunk to 4×