Example Sentences

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In that context, Wintel dominates the way a trunkless statue of Ozymandias presides over an arid desert.

From Time • Apr. 22, 2016

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/ Stand in the desert".

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2013

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert ..."

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2013

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone” indeed.

From Forbes • Jan. 26, 2012

There was no barn, no shed, only trunkless trees rising strangely out of the mist.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo