How to Use pin oak in a Sentence

pin oak

noun

• The pin oak grows as tall as 70 feet with a canopy up to 40 feet wide.
  — Jennifer Michelle Greenberg, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• The job required the removal of a large pin oak on the south side of the circle.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• John Reinier, a Metroparks wetland ecologist, said the restored wetlands should harbor pin oak, swamp white oak, frogs, muskrats and more.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Shaded by London planes and pin oak trees, the park was sandwiched between the new highway and a riverside promenade.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Each acorn was painted with colored bands to indicate its species: red oak, bur oak, black oak, white oak, swamp white oak, scarlet oak, pin oak, willow oak.
  — Brandon Keim Tristan Spinski, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• That’s how long Medina Kiwanis members have been distributing 12-inch-tall pin oak seedlings to the city’s third-graders in honor of Arbor Day each year.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 3 May 2021
• The park district has also planted native trees throughout the river’s floodplain, including swamp white oak, pin oak and sycamore.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2021
• Consider the additional habitat benefits of a scarlet oak or a pin oak that offers acorns for backyard wildlife.
  — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
• The land is mostly wet woods, with many mature trees, including shagbark hickory, American beech, American elm, black gum, red maple, pin oak and chestnut oak.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• National Wildflower Week event involving the planting of a pin oak tree in the Victoria Avenue building courtyard.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 5 May 2021
• Trees available include 1-gallon vitex and Mexican plum saplings and 5-gallon Little Gem magnolia, eastern redbud, cherry bark oak, pin oak and water oak.
  — Jennifer Michelle Greenberg, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
• Unfortunately, a similar-looking tree, northern pin oak, somehow gets sold and planted locally.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 13 June 2018

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