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
  • The oak trees saved the blue house on East Calaveras Street.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Light oak runs across the floors, while raffia and leather adorn the walls.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 May 2024
  • The pine, cedar, fir and oak trees are piles of pickup sticks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • So Frink spread pellets around the base of an oak tree.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2022
  • The 80-foot-tall oak tree in your yard is still growing.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 18 June 2022
  • 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
  • The assassins caught him and hung him from a big oak tree.
    — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
  • My oak trees are covered in green lichens and light green mossy stuff.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Warnock had mentioned the oak tree largely to fill time.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The original stairs mimicked the rest of the house—'80s oak and stained carpet.
    — Natalie Dayton, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
  • Walking in pairs a few meters apart, their eyes scanned the off-trail canopy for the lost oak.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 7 July 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 counters on the back bar are made from the oak wood of the original Malco stage.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 June 2022
  • 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 bourbon brings more sweetness, with lots of vanilla from the charred oak.
    — Gina Pace, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Reposado rests for eight months in French and American oak barrels.
    — Mr. Sancho Pancho Contributor, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025

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