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a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves
great oaks grow from little acorns
How To Use oak tree In A Sentence
- The sun shone brightly through the spreading leaves of the oak trees that surrounded the court.
- When he was in Hesse he approached the town of Geismar and came upon a oak tree sacred to Thor, the German god of thunder.
- Do not allow yourself the comfort of an easy road, a road that is devoid of risk and genuine inspiration, because one day all too soon, you're going to wake up in a room that smells of formaldehyde -- a urinous, lonely room with floral-print wallpaper and a window that looks out on a solitary bare oak tree. Brad Listi: Unsolicited Advice
- Made from the inner bark of the Mediterranean cork oak tree, cork can be cut repeatedly from trees that may be hundreds of years old.
- Why did he invoke the swarthy boogeymen of the modern right-wing imagination right before launching into a verse about the good old days when his "grandpappy" would "take all the rope in Texas ... find a tall oak tree," and "hang them high in the street, for all the people to see? Max Blumenthal: Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith Nation
- She finally reached the correct wall, the one beside the oak tree that would serve in concealing her as well as serving as an aid to help her up.
- The reception began under towering oak trees strung with lights, next to a fire pit.
- He also stripped the ivy from the house and chopped down the oak trees, including one with a treehouse built for the previous residents' kids.
- And then just down the street, maybe about two miles from there there's a historic neighborhood called Cabbagetown in downtown Atlanta, about 20 homes were damaged because of falling very huge, hundred-foot oak trees. CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008
- Oak trees work to a seasonal calendar that is not impressed by a few days of untypical sunshine.