He tried to remember what the trunk had looked like outside.
The trunk of a tree may look straight to us at a distance but can be quite irregular as you look closer.
The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who 'was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.
The trunk looked big enough, maybe, to hold half a man.
The trunk looked like it had been kicked.
A stone's throw down the path was a plant whose trunk looked like a pineapple with four leaves crawling from the top and across the ground.
Their great uprooted trunks looked like fallen spaceships wedged into the earth.
The giant trunks of trees less than a hundred yards away looked dim and ghostly.
The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab.
You can see near his waist band and in other colors what the faded trunks really look like.