trunk line
nounDefinition of trunk line
1
: a transportation system (such as an airline, railroad, or highway) handling long-distance through traffic
2a
: a main supply channel (as for gas or oil)
b
: trunk sense 5b
Examples of trunk line in a Sentence
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One morning a string of seven green and white IBAMA 4x4s and an escort of police pickups snaked past piles of enormous tree trunks lining the edge of an expansive lumberyard. — Felipe Fittipaldi, National Geographic, "Inside the faltering fight against illegal Amazon logging," 28 Aug. 2019 Integration with export and industrial zones is low, as the main trunk line does not connect to individual industrial zones, creating significant last-mile shipping and logistics for firms, particularly at port connections. — Yunnan Chen, Quartz Africa, "Ethiopia and Kenya are struggling to manage debt for their Chinese-built railways," 4 June 2019 Internet service — essential to placing an order — cuts out frequently during the best of times and goes down entirely for weeks or months during winter, when the trunk line to Srinagar, the state capital, is damaged under the snow. — New York Times, "Delivering Amazon Packages to the Top of the World," 2 July 2018 The new red-carpet worry is cleavage lines For firming the jaw and neck and getting rid of tree trunk lines, radiofrequency micro-needling has taken over. — Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, "Derm-to-the-Stars Harold Lancer Says Big Butts Are Out, Lifted Nose Tips Are In," 27 June 2018 Water filtered through that grid into two larger sideline drains that fed a main trunk line north of the field. — Sara Cardine, latimes.com, "LCHS football field gets drainage upgrade after rains gang up on gridiron," 13 June 2018 In February 2017, a sewage trunk line south of the border ruptured. — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Congresswoman wants Navy to help fight Mexican sewage spills," 23 Apr. 2018 The complex, coast-to-coast trunk lines of Ma Bell might take a year or more to reconnect. — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, "'Charlottesville': A Government-Commissioned Story About Nuclear War," 25 Jan. 2018 Speaking in cadence while sitting atop trunks lined up as railcars, Bess and Beth reenact their excited train trip to meet the City of Benares. — OregonLive.com, "'Lifeboat' tells teens' terrifying World War II survivors' tale," 15 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'trunk line.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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