| 1. | As I took hold of the handle of the door I heard an exclamation, oddly truncated at the end, and a click and a thud. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 2. | The truncated part of the horns must be as broad as it is high. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 3. | The truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | If the body is larger than the light the shadow resembles a truncated and inverted pyramid, and its length has also no defined termination. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | The two arms fell with a sudden force they heard the hissing of the scimitar and the cry of the victim, then a truncated mass sank beneath the blow. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |