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  • noun Plural form of trunkful.

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Examples

  • Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the first CIA jawbreaker team landed here with trunkfuls of cash and within days the war against the Taliban would begin, a war that still goes on today.

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009 2009

  • Shortly after the 9/11 attacks the first CIA jaw breaker team landed here with trunkfuls of cash and within days the war against the Taliban would begin, a war that still goes on today.

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009 2009

  • Last week the media reported the discovery of trunkfuls of counterfeit 100 dollar bills estimated at more than four million dollars (around three million euros) at a house belonging to one of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • As a young man he translated a number of George Bernard Shaw's plays into Bengali, but mislaid the manuscripts; perhaps they will turn up, he imagines, in his recently deceased mother's trunkfuls of papers.

    Winning Argument 2007

  • Some of them lay right down like pigs in the deeper part of the swamp, some drew up trunkfuls of water and syringed themselves and each other, and every one of them indulged in a good rub against a tree.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Recently, 10 of the gray elephants could be seen in the bush, blowing trunkfuls of red sand onto their backs to keep cool and chase away bugs before ambling off for more food.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • He was tearing trunkfuls of hay from the bale and stuffing them into his mouth.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • He was tearing trunkfuls of hay from the bale and stuffing them into his mouth.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • She heard a snort and turned to see Reg pulling up trunkfuls of dried lowgrass as the bull rested from her morning's workout with Standby.

    Elephant Song Longyear, Barry 1982

  • Close beside his gymnastic apparatus we keep three trunkfuls of note-books and reports representing as many years devoted labour at his studies.

    The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

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