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
• His spot was at the base of a big oak on the edge of the pasture.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
• An oak tree fell on [the] roof and hit [the] rafters, [and the] structure fell on the male.
  — NBC News, 9 July 2024
• The finish lingers on the back of your tongue, with a hint of oak and smoke.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• Light oak runs across the floors, while raffia and leather adorn the walls.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
• That left the youngest son, the one who kept growing like an oak tree.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• 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
• One is on the south side of the cemetery near a spot where a large oak tree once stood in the late 1960.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
• The original oak floors stretch through the whole first floor.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 19 Feb. 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
• Warnock had mentioned the oak tree largely to fill time.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The brown rot could be a fungus rotting out the oak’s heartwood.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023
• The property contains a 500-year old oak tree on the side lawn.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
• But those shrubs are just the crown of a giant, spreading oak tree, 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.
  — Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
• Matter of fact, there’s a lot of mushrooms near oak trees.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024
• 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
• This whisky is rich and robust with dark fruit, spices, and oak flavors.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Some of their favorites include oak, birch, cedar, and fruit trees.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 14 June 2023
• Perez sells some of the most tender and smoky brisket in the area out of his food truck, smoking it for 16 hours over oak wood.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Dec. 2022
• The terrain up there, Rogers told me, was mostly oak trees and was incredibly steep and rocky.
  — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
• The solid old oak tree, who doesn’t budge an inch even in the strongest of winds — staying in the same position as the world changes around him — is clearly my dad.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024