| It is also not unknown for flood debris to block passages, so be prepared to encounter the odd tree trunk in unexpected places. |
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| I hopped in a low branch over a river and leaned against the tree trunk, gazing ahead of me. |
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| Here, I got a great view of an elf owl and marveled at the way its plumage blended in with the tree trunk behind him. |
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| Small beings that eat wood are nestled deeply and comfortably in a dead tree trunk. |
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| If you put your ear against an old tree trunk lying in the grass, a park official will knock on the trunk and you can hear what an ant hears. |
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| The morning drill took place before a red flag pitched on a slender tree trunk in the middle of a clearing. |
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| I stood up and balanced on the one foot wide branch and walked to the tree trunk. |
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| One of the most touching is a visualization of bipolar disorder as a tree trunk. |
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| When the groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil was pulled from his fake tree trunk in Pennsylvania on February 2, he saw his shadow. |
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| In general, graffiti is removed by using paint in a colour which has the closest match to the actual colour of the tree trunk. |
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| Even after death, a tree trunk on the ground provides a home for desert night lizards, ants, and scorpions. |
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| A few grooves in a tree trunk, looking vaguely like a face, elevated into being the sacred image of our saviour. |
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| He leaves the body on a strong branch and ties the body to the tree trunk and heads back. |
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| If you're handy with a chainsaw you can simply carve a seat with a back support straight out of a large tree trunk. |
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| The route is fairly steep, up through the trees, until eventually you reach a bench made from a tree trunk. |
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| It thickens the blood, enhances the constitution, and makes a man as strong as a tree trunk. |
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| We pause for a moment to reflect before the sculpture carved from a single tree trunk. |
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| Some kinds of mushroom which grow out of the side of a tree trunk have almost no stalk. |
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| Mr Bowling said he had arranged to have the tree trunk removed yesterday afternoon. |
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| And sticking out of a nest down the side of the mountain, was a tree trunk just wide enough for someone to walk on and cross to the other side. |
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| In a branched system, a single pipe feeds smaller pipes along the way much like a tree trunk feeds the branches. |
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| Her chin scraped against the rough bark of a fallen tree trunk and her arm twisted painfully beneath her. |
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| By rubbing a glandular area against a surface such as a tree trunk, a branch, or even another lemur, the animal deposits a scent mark. |
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| Frustrated and annoyed, she sat alone upon a lone tree trunk, the soft grass glistening from the dew. |
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| Some still make their own bows and arrows and carve dugout canoes from a single tree trunk. |
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| The shape and colour of Phloeidae are such that they are homochromous with the tree trunk or mimetic, resembling patches of lichens. |
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| Mr Bradbury said people should know better than to start any sort of fire within a forest, even if they thought it was only an old tree trunk. |
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| By the time I had donned my wellies a large proportion of the big tree trunk had already succumbed to his chainsaw. |
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| Brown remarks that the work's structure related to the concentric rings of a tree trunk. |
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| She managed to wriggle partially into the fork between the stubby branch and the tree trunk. |
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| Gracie sits next to a rosebud and tree trunk, a poignant reminder of a life cut short. |
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| The way they see it, a tree trunk is not just a tree trunk, but also a bronchial tube. |
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| And, with that, she had slid gracefully down the tree trunk and walked off. |
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| The sensor can be attached to a spike that is pushed into soil or poked into a tree trunk, or it can be clamped to a plant stem. |
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| Varves afford geologists an opportunity to calculate the age of the lake, similar to counting the rings of a tree trunk. |
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| Who has never carved his name on a tree trunk, a school desk or, worse, on an historical building ? |
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| This advanced technology of the resistograph type uses ultrasound to reveal the state of decay of a transverse section of a tree trunk. |
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| Narrow-beamed uplights highlight the tree trunk as a vertical, linear feature. |
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| At dusk, the tree house appears to cling to the tree trunk like a giant glowworm. |
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| The pepper tree trunk exudes a resin that may have served in the Andean cultures to embalm their dead. |
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| Bernard describes an approach that has threatened to go awry: that of a buffalo whose front leg was taken by a cable connected to a tree trunk. |
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| Coppicing is cutting the tree trunk off close to the ground in order to stimulate the growth of new shoots on the stump. |
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| The growth nodes are regularly spaced: unlike a tree trunk which increases in diameter, the culm extends like a telescopic cane. |
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| Notice the tree trunk used as a bridge by the drivers to walk across the stream without getting wet. |
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| On a tree trunk, in the ocean or in the human gut, thousands of microbe species live cheek by jowl. |
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| Pad the tree trunk and branches with burlap and tie all loose ends with soft rope or twine. |
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| The moth overwinters as a larva in a cocoon under rough bark on the tree trunk near the ground. |
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| The bird flew off chirping in alarm, and the rodent scurried around the tree trunk and watched events with a bright and beady eye. |
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| In response, Salaberry stood on a tree trunk, shouldered the musket of one of his Voltigeurs and put an end to his speech! |
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| I stood behind a tree trunk, holding the rod and watching the bait. |
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| These posts supported a ridgepole consisting of a tree trunk, the spreading roots of which were roughly shaped into the likeness of a hawk. |
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| But the philodendron simply uncoils itself, crawls over to the nearest tree trunk, and climbs up again. |
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| That is when Marie-France saw the women near the tree trunk milling about along with a lone young man. |
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| The five meters statue long and carved in the stone places in an immense tree trunk of pipal. |
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| Over it, he placed a photograph of a plane tree trunk that highlighted the troubling similarities between the bark and the mural painting. |
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| Use your hand span to measure the distance around a tree trunk. |
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| The foot of the tree trunk is surrounded by an ample semi-circle where the lovely horses graze, very close to their masters. |
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| One afternoon, I watched a nuthatch land on a tree trunk, and I could hear its talons make contact with the bark. |
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| Finally we hide behind a big tree trunk, only 30-40 metres away from the group. |
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| The rock struck the center of the tree trunk with a resounding ping. |
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| Choose some safe targets to throw some snowballs at like a tree trunk, bush, playground equipment or fence post. |
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| Sitting on a tree trunk along the kitchen wall, Latifa listens to her mother and is confused. |
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| If your ball is caught in the tree trunk, you will get a free ball as an award! |
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| The sculpture called Seminal is carved out of an ash tree trunk. |
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| Neophyllis melacarpa is a squamulose lichen from the wet forests of southeast Australia and New Zealand which grows on rotting wood and tree trunk bases. |
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| The arrow vibrated in the tree trunk, twanging, and in the sudden silence of the forest around them, Kieran could hear the sound of riders closing the distance. |
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| One tree trunk mould might conceal radio equipment but another shaped like a piece of camel dung hid a booby trap that could blow the tyre off a truck. |
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| It is great fun to pore over clues and tunnel into a tree trunk like termites, and I am not apologizing for a guilty pleasure. |
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| The tree trunk has become a useful crutch for the inebriate. |
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| Participants then take turns to present one of the issues identified and come to a consensus about where each card fits in relation to the tree trunk and to each other. |
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| Store coolers and all food in your vehicle, or hang food from a tree at a minimum of three metres from the ground and one metre from the tree trunk. |
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| Just 20m of pale, slender, lightly ridged tree trunk. |
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| These employees are like a tough tree trunk that has survived all weathers and supports a crown that gathers sunlight and air from all over the world. |
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| Durian has more or less distinct shoot types, but the most striking feature is that its flowers are formed on the underside of the branches close to the tree trunk. |
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| The plan was similar to the technique used by the green woodpecker, which strikes the tree trunk with its beak to make the worms and caterpillars leave their holes in the wood, whereupon they are eaten. |
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| Pollarding is more drastic pruning: the tree trunk is cut at a height of about 2 m. Below the cut a number of watershoots emerge, which after about a year can be cut to be used as large cuttings, so-called live stakes. |
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| The Hidebehind is never found in the open. He always conceals himself behind a tree trunk. |
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| Apart from dating the instruments, the dendrochronological analyses permitted to determine which instruments had been made from wood of the same provenance and, in some cases, from the same tree trunk. |
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| If you are cutting the whole branch, cut it close to the tree trunk. |
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| He races up a tree trunk and descends with a sopping honeycomb. |
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| Mount the tree trunk on a wall or poster board. |
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| Horizontal leaves were older than the other two leaves selected for measurements and grew perpendicular to and away from the host tree trunk. |
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| Model poles were usually more freely sculptural than large poles, as carvers did not have to grapple with the physical and conceptual limitations imposed by the tree trunk. |
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| Before the white man came to Canada, it is said, a squirrel could skitter up a tree trunk on the bluffs of the present Quebec City and travel by leaping from branch to branch and swimming rivers to the present Windsor, Ont. |
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| As long as they fished only for their families, using the chapan, a small wooden boat dug out of a tree trunk equipped with a paddle, fishlines, hooks and a spear, the ecological balance of the islands would not be harmed. |
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| Battering rams were also used, usually in the form of a tree trunk given an iron cap. |
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| Having walked almost 10km, we stop to rest on a fallen tree trunk at a lagoon populated by Egyptian geese and African jacanas. |
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| The descent slope was almost 90 degrees, because in the last 28 feet before impact, the aircraft slid along a tree trunk, tearing off the branches as it passed, until it hit the ground. |
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| Flowering on the tree trunk and main branches, called cauliflory, is a very effective way of allocating shoot growth and floral development to different locations. |
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| The aircraft struck the ground still travelling from left to right and came to rest in an upright position with the right wing failed at the root and supported by a tree trunk. |
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| Though surprised, she brings him his ghutra and his thobe as he requests, and he clothes the tree trunk with them to appear like a man standing in the yard. |
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