Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
trunks
IPA transcription: [tɹ'ʌŋks]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
short_pants, shorts, trunks
Meaning:
trousers that end at or above the knee
Usage examples
"And search her trunks?"
I felt queer all the afternoon as I packed those trunks for the five o'clock train.
'I expect they've packed our trunks by now,' said Dan. 'This time tomorrow we'll be home.'
Our trunks are in Okochee, to be forwarded when we shall have made permanent arrangements."
A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage--a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.
Seeing how a certain bird carved holes in the trunks of trees, he learned how to make and use the chisel.
Mrs. Phillips insists upon my using her saddle until I can get one from the East, so I can ride as soon as our trunks come.
Little by little, vegetation spread. Tiny animals--worms, insects--rode ashore on tree trunks snatched from islands to windward.
They had turned themselves out of doors while their trunks were being packed, and strolled over the Downs towards the dull evening sea.
A few yards ahead of us, through the crowded trunks of the dwarf forest, I saw a gray mass, like the wall of a fortress, across our path.