How to Use trunk in a Sentence

trunk

noun

• Gemma's body in the trunk at the foot of the bed and move it to the game larder.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• Plus, the straps and hooks can abrade the paint at the edges of trunk lids and rear hatches.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
• Two migrants were in the back seat and three others were in the trunk, per CBP.
  — The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• Mossy greens sharply contrast against the warm browns of tree trunks and dirt.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
• The trunks will be made at LV’s atelier in Asnières, France.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2023
• The trunk will stay in place, along with two memorial plaques.
  — Samantha Latson, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Barbara opened a large black trunk that Kat kept in the living room.
  — Jazmine Hughes, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Use high speed for felling or to buck the trunk into firewood lengths.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• The space between the trees allowed the fire to creep along the ground, only charring some trunks.
  — Brian Melley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• One of the tall trunks even functions as a major support beam.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• If all the wood is stripped from this layer around the trunk, the tree will die, the university said.
  — Helena Wegner, Idaho Statesman, 22 Feb. 2024
• Mills then fired into the car’s trunk, the documents say.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
• Crews searched the garage and discovered the woman’s body inside the trunk of the car, Pickett said.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• During windstorms, the trunks of falling trees take bites out of walls, and their limbs whisk stones down to the soil.
  — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• Some of the trunks in these pictures have sinuous trunks of brown, splotched green, black and gray.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• As the cut nears the V, the uncut fibres act as a hinge that guides the direction of the fall and prevents the base of the trunk from bouncing.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• In the photo, McCaffrey soaked up the sun next to her in graphic-print swim trunks.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
• The short video showed the boy’s head peeking from the trunk, which also contained a large white object.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• Crawford entered the ring that night in Vegas with fish nets on his trunks.
  — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Right now, it’s typically lawn right up to the trunk, which the mower goes over.
  — Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• Each morning, men here strap guns inside suits, boots and swim trunks.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Same goes for pairing them with swim trunks—and what other style of footwear can pull off that trick?
  — Jake Woolf, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2023
• Firearms stored in a vehicle should be secured in a locked glove box or preferably the trunk.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
• Rather than a traditional hunt, this one is a trunk hop.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2023
• She was found in a car trunk Tuesday night in front of a Korean spa in Duluth.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Haul your gear—skis, golf clubs—without taking up space in the trunk with a rooftop cargo box from Thule.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Nov. 2023
• In the trunk, the deputy found a Glock handgun with a drum magazine and an AR pistol, police said.
  — Andi Babineau, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• Derby was located in the trunk dead with her neck and wrists slashed, police said.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2024
• Woo was there waiting, with stools set up as makeshift seating behind the open trunk of his car.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• With the Kelty Car-Go-Box, long gone are the days of haphazardly loading the trunk with camp gear and hoping for the best.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024