When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy.    From LearnThat.org.  [Tom Robbins]

He put his golf bag in the trunk.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

This upper part is what we call the trunk, which reaches from the mouth to the vent.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

Aunt Lulu's trunk is locked and strapped in her room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Lulu Bett] Reference

"The trunk is all these," said Mr. Peterkin, gloomily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peterkin Papers] Reference

This multi-label trunk show is offering steep discounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Weekend's Deals, Steals And Fashion Events] Reference

For normal use, the trunk is roomier than you expect it to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [What car is right for Mexico?] Reference

That sack you are holding, and that his trunk is in, is labeled.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Brooks Admits Defeat, For Now - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

Even though the main trunk broke, some roots remained intact and buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Adams had acquired the contents of a locked trunk from a Brooklyn warehouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archy and Mehitabel] Reference

Then perhaps the most important part: the split trunk is reunited and bound up.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Caple] Reference

Its trunk is hollow, with a hole big enough for a horseman to enter at one side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Months in Mexico] Reference

The tree fallen, its branches are lopped, its purple trunk is shortened into lengths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

Baba Yamamoto: There is a branch that is about to hit the main trunk that fixes a lot of bugs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-24] Reference

Why do you think the area of your body that houses all your vital organs is called your trunk?.    From Wordnik.com.  [ChiRunning] Reference

It has numerous long, straight, vertical arms which branch off the main trunk close to the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did You Know? Mexico in the Guinness world records: part two] Reference

The trunk is short and straight, with wide-spreading branches, and it has a smooth ash-like bark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

The trunk is not at all sturdy yet -- we have metal stakes on either side of the tree, twine connecting the stakes to the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worry Tree] Reference

At the extreme end of what is called the trunk are the parts concerned in the evacuation of the solid and also of the fluid residue.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

The merghee is a taller animal, but neither so compact nor so strong, and his trunk is short and slender in proportion to his height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference

Although occasionally of great size, the tree is easily climbed, as the trunk is short, and the branches are numerous and wide spreading.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young] Reference

The "trunk" -- or the frame of the home -- would eschew wood or metals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Green House of the Future] Reference

STOP! under each, open folder and check out 'trunk' - don't check out root project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dashboard RSS Feed] Reference

My trunk was a piece of brown paper with a pin lock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference

But at the bottom of his trunk was his savings-bank book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam's Chance And How He Improved It] Reference

His trunk was a perfect treasure house of gifts for the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

In the trunk is a pair of the sometimes-coveted rear fender skirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hemmings Classifieds] Reference

Second -- A trunk is the most costly luxury known to European travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Revised] Reference

Shortness of legs in relation to the trunk is another marked feature.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

The dolly you see sitting up against the trunk is my daughter Nannie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference

The muscles of the trunk were the last to lose the power of contraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812] Reference

The trunk was a spattered blood-red, including all over my new tan line jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke Signals: Necessity, mother of sauce] Reference

In her trunk was a blue plush box of the kind that is given to one at Christmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

Near his trunk was a very large one, which the officers were searching very thoroughly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rollo in Switzerland] Reference

If they must be left, lock them in the trunk, which is the most secure place in the vehicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gazette-Enterprise: News] Reference

His guest, M. Servan, receives an English traveling-trunk, which is said to be full of pistols.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference

But locking a bank-vault door behind you and curling up in a steamer trunk, that isn't approved.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shipmate—Columbus] Reference