How to Use black walnut in a Sentence
black walnut
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Walden is a skewed desk made of black walnut with a book on it.
— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024 -
The ailanthus, the black walnut, and the staghorn sumac are three of their favorite victims.
— Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022 -
The floor has hand-hewn wide planks of African black walnut, no surprise.
— Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2020 -
Some of the trees, a mix of black walnut, oak and box elder, are more than 80 years old, Hart said.
— Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023 -
The black walnut bitters nod to fall and add richness to balance the heat of the chili simple syrup.
— Jared Bajkowski, kansascity, 13 Oct. 2017 -
Or making your buck-saw out of black walnut with carved rosettes?
— Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022 -
Her native tree simply grew on their own, such as the black walnut trees and a small oak tree on the hill.
— Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024 -
The trails are lined with large sycamore, black walnut and cottonwood trees.
— Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022 -
The black walnut of the counter tops reads more like living-room furniture.
— Margot Dougherty, WSJ, 10 May 2018 -
Check out the Oregon Landscape Plants page for black walnut.
— oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022 -
Inside, the trailer features a black walnut skin that gives it a dark, cozy feel.
— Megan Barber, Curbed, 18 Oct. 2018 -
The island in the kitchen has a black walnut counter that Julia sanded and finished with food-safe oil.
— oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2020 -
The species of trees include oak, sycamore, ash, beech, maple, apple, cherry and black walnut.
— Greg Burnett, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2019 -
Inside and out all the visible wood is cedar, except the floors, which are maple, oak and black walnut.
— Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2018 -
The takeaway here is that good things, in this case American black walnut wood, are hefty!
— Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Aug. 2021 -
In the moonlight, the black walnuts seemed to sway sentiently, like elephant trunks.
— Nicolette Polek, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 -
With a full sound and a deep bass, The Sixies on sale have a handsome black walnut wooden veneer.
— David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018 -
They are known to feed on over 70 plant species, including black walnut, red maple and tree of heaven.
— Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023 -
Her windows face the trees on the rock, which include maple, ash, black walnut and mulberry.
— Amy Sohn, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019 -
Hickory trees and black walnut trees have turned out an amazing crop of nuts as well.
— Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023 -
The corpses are always at a corner of the track where squirrels drop green-and-black husks from the overhanging branches of a black walnut.
— Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022 -
The search for next year’s Big Tree winner will be for a black walnut tree growing in Geauga County.
— Joan Rusek, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019 -
They are both located under a maple tree and all of them are very close to a 60-year-old English or black walnut.
— oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023 -
Glass was cut in amoeboid shapes to fit between the black walnut railings on the staircases.
— Jeastman, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Mary Lou Barnes Raupach’s black walnut tree towers 80 feet in the air and is considered to be the second biggest of its species in the state.
— Joan Rusek, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020 -
The deadly pest first found in Maryland in 2018 damages fruit trees and some hardwood species such as black walnut and oak but not firs or spruces.
— Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 Nov. 2021 -
There was the wooden artwork on the wall, built from a black walnut tree Tetrick had chopped down on his property.
— cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022 -
The electric fireplace comes in the black walnut finish that's shown in addition to a gray wash finish.
— Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2022 -
The land was dotted with black walnut trees, and Pickerell’s house was shaded by a massive example of the species.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 June 2023 -
The flavors are maximized and reduced with wine, tomato and black walnut miso.
— Kaila Yu, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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