How to Use oak in a Sentence

oak

noun

• Tall oaks line the street.
• The cabinets are made of oak.
• The table is solid oak.
• The oak is for the heat and the pecan is for the flavor, Rea said.
  — Toriano Porter, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• The finish lingers on the back of your tongue, with a hint of oak and smoke.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Once in the city, the sides of roads and sidewalks are blocked by neat piles of sawed pine and oak trunks.
  — James Call, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• The oak tree curled along the red fire escape that led to the workshop from a back entrance.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Nov. 2023
• Then the ‘Tinsley Ranch’ has the ovals and some neutral oak barrels to show the wood in the background.
  — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• There are many other types of oaks to love, and telling them apart can be a tough nut to crack.
  — Mark Gozonsky, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The oak trees around us are spewing acorns like bullets from a Gatling gun.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• In the litter of sycamore and oak leaves and the carpet of newborn grass, something caught my eye.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• There, guests dine on five- or eight-course menus under the branches of a 200-year-old oak tree.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
• Finally, one of the casks that the whisky was matured in was used to construct the oak inlay.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
• At 6-foot-5, Uiagalelei fills the pocket like an oak in a grove of aspen.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• Some of their favorites include oak, birch, cedar, and fruit trees.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 14 June 2023
• The trim, moldings and doors in the dining room, parlor and front hall are quarter-sawn oak.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
• Vale said the oak from the back of the tree was rotten, but a few branches on the front, some of which were about 65 feet long, could be preserved.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• The home features new oak floors and 9-foot ceilings throughout.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• Popovich's coaching tree is as sturdy as a 100-year-old oak.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• In turn, the insects flourished, munching their way through oak forests.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Starbucks wanted to build a drive-through lane and needed to remove the oak tree behind the store.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Stay at one of 30 walk-in campsites scattered amid oak trees and mossy outcrops.
  — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
• There’s structure here without the wine tasting as though it were propped up by oak.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• Charles Jones Photography To the right is a very wide set of stairs with oak treads, and just beyond that is the first of three full baths.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• The entrance, on the right, hides between custom oak closets in a wide foyer.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2023
• In Italy, the truffles grow in select spots, colonizing near the roots of oak, beech and poplar trees.
  — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• For example, axes that were sourced from 1,500 oak trees from France were used to chip wood.
  — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 27 July 2023
• This could happen if the City of Portland migrates oak species from places to the south, Tallamy noted.
  — Nathan Gilles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• The wine is aged for six months in French oak from grapes grown at nearly 6,500 feet in elevation.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The bright, spring-green leaves of the black oaks were just starting to fill out at the higher mountain elevations.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024