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

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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.
The course is lined with beautiful oak trees, native grasses and plants.
They are commonest in fir woods, but in other woods they are often seen in oak trees, usually at the top. Times, Sunday Times
Concepts of oak trees and how they differ from other types of trees require assimilation and accommodation of relevant experience.
Circles of dead leaves and gray mulch surrounded the bases of the giant oak trees. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
He had a face not unlike the oak trees whose wood he admired, which is to say craggy, and a disposition to match. Outfoxed Diary Entry
It's white clapboard, surrounded by oak trees with a flagpole in the yard erected by Bob. THE INNOCENT
Its hedged fields are sprinkled with oak trees, and apple orchards and half-timbered houses abound.
There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
A giant live oak tree shaded the west side of the house, a long-abandoned tire swing hanging dejectedly from a sturdy branch.
We chopped down an oak tree.
Q . When precisely did the glass of water become an oak tree?
There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
Small acorns grow into great oak trees.
It is a widespread phenomenon that takes place at different scales: the large mass of soil brought up among the exposed roots of a wind-toppled oak tree and the few-millimeter thick sediment layer disturbed along the trail of a tiny aquatic snail are both examples of bioturbation. Archive 2007-01-01
As dryads are generally spirits of oak trees, hamadryads exhibit more power over the forest.
A squirrel comes sometimes, when his home in the oak tree gets waterlogged.
The other memory is of a small group of turkey vultures that, every morning, sunned their wings in a dead oak tree next to our house in Oakland where I grew up.
From the point of view of phycology, oak trees are just a peculiar form of green algae.
He was to take the timber at a valuation, and it is a sufficient proof of his ignorance of these matters, that he really did not know the difference between a hazel bush and an oak tree; for, although he was a very clever and an ingenious man in his way, yet he actually applied to me, to know how they would measure such _small timber_ as that which he pointed out to me, which was nothing more than a _hazel bush! Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2
Willie ran up the pathway towards the cottage, through the graves and under the oak tree, his shoes squelching.
Oak trees come from acorns. The Treasure Seekers
To the south, their left, grassland scattered with oak trees lay between steep hills all brushy and forested. A TIME OF WAR
The experiment (conducted May - June 2000) tested whole and torn leaves from 10 bay trees, 10 oak trees, and 10 toyon trees at our research site.
Red kites are building their massive nests in the tops of oak trees, usually in a dense wood. Times, Sunday Times
There was no wind, and not a whisper in the old oak tree twenty yards away.
Andy had often sat there, like she was now, and had always tilted her head to stare at the oak tree.
The moan was a wordless cry of hunger that drifted to them through the pillars of oak trees, like the plaintive call of a wandering ghost. Rot & Ruin
In fact, I can't recall any account of an oak tree actually dying from old age; it may be that they go on and on, changing form and surviving until some accident destroys them.
An oak tree cast its shadow over a tiny round pool.
Up on a ridge to the right of us, someone has been felling an oak tree all day.
There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
Oak trees provide acorns, dogwoods and sumac provide red berries through the fall and winter and serviceberry bears edible berries in late spring or early summer.
We sheltered under the shade of the massive overwhelming oak trees whose bark was protected from vandalism by vicious spikes forced into the trunk.
The only green that remained was the spreading, tired, dark foliage of the occasional live oak tree standing sentinel in sere pastureland.
My back lawn ha ha is full of feral raspberries and I have a berberis the size of a small oak tree under my window. Spinning is a no-no.
He said about two-acres of mature, ash, sycamore copper beech and oak trees were felled.
How do I get rid of these annoying pests without destroying my other foliage or the oak tree?
A huge oak tree provided a refuge from the storm.
On the neighboring oak tree goes a peg holding a feathered Robin Hood cap that each markswoman must don before drawing her dart. Home Swell Home
We sat in the leafy shade of an oak tree.
Large oak trees overshadow the garden.
Timber from 340 oak trees was shaped with replica tools and treated with pine resin.
His home, of which he was very proud, was a gray architectural monstrosity designed to look like a medieval castle, inside acres of pecan and live oak trees, all of it in an unzoned area that mixed pipeyards and welding shops with thoroughbred horse barns and red-clay tennis courts. Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set
His brother Bob is chairman of the Oak Tree Foundation, which provides humanitarian aid to the poor, sick and needy children of Romania from its base in Huddersfield.
Each of the individual dedications was pinned to the oak trees by children from the village school at Esquelbecq.
Last weekend, underneath the canopy of a sprawling oak tree in a remote park in downtown Austin, a small group gathered around a vintage airstream, a table and few chairs. Danika Boyle: Sparks From the Culinary Edge
Willow, lime and again oak trees give some of the most useful bast fibres.
It's worthy of note that the oak tree, sacred to Zeus, is the very tree which is most susceptible to be struck by lightning.
The larva of the mottled umber moth is a reddish brown caterpillar that eats the leaves of oak trees and shrubs.
And poison ivy vines grow so muscular I mistook them for the reaching arms of big oak trees.
Our horse whinnied with relief and found shelter under a tall, knarled oak tree.
An enormous oak tree stands at the entrance to the school.
An oak tree cast its shadow over a tiny round pool.
When a man set out to build a tannery, he used to go into the woods where he could be sure of enough oak trees to supply him for many years with the bark from which tannin is made; but it has been found that the bark of several other kinds of trees, such as larch, chestnut, spruce, pine, and hemlock, will tan as well as that of oak. Makers of Many Things
While the caterpillar will not kill the oak tree, the loss of leaves means the trees produce fewer acorns.
You walk around them, because oak trees stand by themselves. Christianity Today
Concepts of oak trees and how they differ from other types of trees require assimilation and accommodation of relevant experience.
In case you haven't noticed, Jack, the place is lousy with oak trees.
They were waiting for her by the time she reached the shady green undergrowth of the oak tree.
The branching pattern of an oak tree or an apple tree looks complex, but it really isn't.
The road widening will uproot 46 oak trees and damage wildlife habitat.
Soon I'm riding free through grassy fields studded with oak trees under a blanket of stars.
A huge oak tree provided a refuge from the storm.
Under an oak tree's umbrage I dried the damp away.
Imagine a sturdy, bountiful oak tree producing acorns that will germinate successive oak trees.
The oak tree is being more cautious, of course, and will wait a while yet before venturing into leaf.
There is an historic oak tree alongside the cooperage, which is said to have been used to tie up the Hudson's Bay Company's vessels in the earliest times when wharves were few and far between. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
A caterpillar dangled in front of me, hanging in mid-air by a silver thread attached to an oak tree twig.
Formal pedestrian promenades along either side are gracefully paralleled by double rows of live oak trees.
Henry arrived and was introduced around and thereafter had Evelyn acting like twining ivy to his oak tree. SOMEBODY
A huge oak tree provided a refuge from the storm.
Red kites are building their massive nests in the tops of oak trees, usually in a dense wood. Times, Sunday Times
I'm a little too old and far too creaky to dance round the maypole but I did do a little jig by the oak tree.
He was a huge man, built like an oak tree.
Lab tests suggest that a lethal disease of oak trees in California and Oregon could strike some popular garden shrubs in the rhododendron family.
In one of my gardens, in the dappled shade of oak trees, I have placed a pair of them either side of a wooden picket gate, where they are a delight each spring.
An oak tree was planted in honour of the occasion .
The first stretch was done under the shade of huge oak trees with an occasional rhododendron tree bursting into life with blood red flowers or a snake flower aping the hood of a cobra peeping out from the trunk of a tree.
She grinned as she began sneaking stealthily up on a boy her age sitting on the picnic table under the large oak tree the school was built around.
The branching pattern of an oak tree or an apple tree looks complex, but it really isn't.
The grounds lay claim to an ancient oak tree - reputed to be over 600 years old - that is listed on the prestigious Tree Registry of Ireland.
She had a small house between the villages, on a small hill near a thicket of oak trees.
It is commonly found among California live oak trees.
She was sitting in the shade of a large oak tree.
The storm brought the old oak tree crashing down.
Oak trees provide acorns, dogwoods and sumac provide red berries through the fall and winter and serviceberry bears edible berries in late spring or early summer.
Wouldn't you like to plant an oak tree this winter, for your grandchildren? Times, Sunday Times
Willie ran up the pathway towards the cottage, through the graves and under the oak tree, his shoes squelching.
The map showed clearly that the distribution of oak trees is coterminous with the locations of the settled civilizations of Asia, Europe, and North America.
The soldiers huddled under the oak tree, passing around a bottle.
Suddenly he thought of the forest, the oak tree and the chances that she might be there.
The landscape had opened out into gentle hills sprinkled with a lot of oak trees and tamarack pines. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
Acorns come from oak trees, which were a very common tree in Medieval England.
The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality.
Instead, a complicated procedure for seeking permission to fell oak trees legally was introduced.
While the common oak tree tends to have a broad frame, the pin oak has a more slender frame with a graceful, filigreed framework of branchlets.
I had sat on the branch of an oak tree and gazed out at the forest surrounding me.
Because the fairway is split by a lateral water hazard and two large bunkers, the player can elect to hit a middle iron to the fairway area on the right, which is guarded by a large oak tree. USATODAY.com - Hole descriptions
I sighed deeply and took a seat on the grass, bracing next to a tall white oak tree.
It is made from shaped planks split from a large oak tree. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
They bought 100 oak trees that a neighbour had felled from their woodland. Times, Sunday Times
But at Reelsville they lost the Road. He wrote, "Not a track was to be seen on the smooth green turf beneath the tall, shady oak trees."
The Druids would cut the mistletoe that grew on the oak tree and give it as a blessing.
An enormous oak tree stands at the entrance to the school.
This important national anniversary was associated with Charles II hiding in an oak tree at Boscobel after the rout of his army at Worcester in September 1651.
She had hid for a time within the hollow of the oak tree as pursuers raced through the forest looking for her.
Learn how to plant Burr oak tree acorns with expert tips on growing oak trees from acorns in this free gardening video.
Some areas have clumps of sweetbay, redbay, and dwarf southern live oak trees. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
Now, when I say our large fires, I mean the _large_ fires of _America_, consisting of three or four oak trees, containing a load of wood each, besides many large boughs and branches, altogether forming a fire some twenty or thirty feet long, with flames flickering up twice as high as one's head. Diary in America, Series One
It will remove 46 coast live oak trees, they note, and damage some habitat of endangered animals.
As part of their project, they created an Oak tree grove, with picnic and seating area, an ideal spot to rest or break a long journey.
There had been a beanstalk there once, but that had been cut down, and over the years an oak tree had grown there instead.
The wind was bouncing the branches of the big oak trees.
It has oak trees that are hundreds of years old, towering cottonwoods and sycamores and secluded areas where acres of trunk-to-trunk pecan trees haven't yet grown waist-high.
Flat Woods came from the even level of height of oak trees in that heavily timbered area.
Accompanied by a sharp crash of thunder, a bolt of lightning came down from the sky and struck a nearby oak tree.
It was a large majestic oak tree, and every knot and burl on it had a memory for me.
Peeling tan bark had to take place in the spring time when the tan-oak trees were full of sap.
An oak tree cast its shadow over a tiny round pool.
One sunny spring day I was limbing a huge oak tree in the back yard that was too close to the house. No Ordinary Utensil
A pretty hole with a nice backdrop of beech and oak trees. Times, Sunday Times
Accessed by climbing to the top of an oak tree, the walkway provides a dramatic vista.
O'Neill unseated Bob Baffert, who saddled horses to 21 wins at Oak Tree in 1998 and '99.
The sidewalks were shaded by huge, hovering oak trees that looked barren in the cool weather.
Shaded by a droopy live oak tree and splotched with moss clinging to its mortared block walls, it looked dropped there from some ancient time, seeming all the more out of place with asphalt crowding it on three sides. Sonny Brewer - An interview with author
It was he, for instance, who came up with the idea of recycling a downed white oak tree and using the wood for moldings and fireplace mantels in the living room and family room/kitchen.
The first one appeared two years ago, at the base of an oak tree. Times, Sunday Times
The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality.
Even at night it's so good to straighten up and take a short break outside, standing on the porch or under the oak tree, looking up at the stars and breathing the good, cold fresh air.
White impatiens, White Nancy lamiums, spathiphyllums and white caladiums glow at night under an oak tree.
Large oak trees overshadow the garden.
An old oak tree had blown down in the storm.
‘There is more fun at Corke Lodge’ writes Jane Powers, The Irish Times, where ‘the "ancient garden" of box parterres is punctuated by melancholy gothic follies, and emerges eerily from the dense boskage of evergreen oaks, myrtles, and a writhing cork oak tree with deeply corrugated bark.’
Actually, it was a pretty big meadow with a small river flowing on the left side of it with a huge oak tree in the middle.
While the common oak tree tends to have a broad frame, the pin oak has a more slender frame with a graceful framework of branchlets.
It's that huge oak tree out there now. Times, Sunday Times
THESE are just some of an amazing collection of artworks and furniture - all sculpted from a single oak tree. The Sun
A fertilised zygote is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree. About face by Dobson in Kentucky endorsement
He told the hearing that between 50-100 oak trees on his land would be cut down because of the Bypass project.
The oak tree across the road from my study window is practically bare but the beeches and hazels behind it are still fully leafed in gleaming yellow and the horse chestnut is largely green even now.
All alone in the world, she had run to the cliff where the monumental oak tree sat, leaned against it and cried.
We sat in the leafy shade of an oak tree.
An old oak tree once stood here.
We walked, without speaking much, clambered over the stile and through the paddock towards the river and the oak tree whose roots came up through the mossy soil like a tangle of serpents.
An oak tree cast its shadow over a tiny round pool.
George ran to an oak tree and picked up an oak apple.
Just as I was trying to scent her on the breeze, I heard her call from the top branches of an oak tree.
He tried hard not to look like a fox, and gazed nonchalantly up to where brief rays of sunlight filtered through the branches of nearby oak trees and onto the decayed husks of dead bluebells.
The oak tree across the road is practically bare but the beeches and hazels behind it are still fully leafed.
In June, berries are ripe and we will look for the coralroot orchids under the oak trees.
They found shelter from the storm under a large oak tree.
Mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests are native to the mesic uplands of the Inner Coastal Plain (84d); sugar maple and red oak trees are rare or absent in these forests, but are common in the mesic upland forests of Ecoregions 58, 64, and 67. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
That even the Indians who live there occupy different rungs on the socio-economic ladder, should surprise nobody, even those of us who only visit to eat bhelpuri and to stock up on bhindi from Oak Tree Road.
For the first time this year I wore shorts outdoors while I wandered about the front garden and driveway, picking up sticks and fallen twigs from the oak tree.
The course is lined with beautiful oak trees, native grasses and plants.
Oak trees on the estate were felled and seasoned to provide the massive beams for the timber-framed construction.
These arborists climb high in an ancient oak tree and drag along a chain saw to hack off dead branches, which they let crash to the ground.
Then I think of Elizabeth Woodville waiting for the King of England under an oak tree, as if she just happened to be by the roadside, a hedge witch casting her spells, and I think that my way at least is an honorable offer and not a begging for an amorous glance and a sluttish strutting of her well-worn wares. The Red Queen
The wind was bouncing the branches of the big oak trees.
An oak tree cast its shadow over a tiny round pool.
When it come a rainy day she and I would go over in the woods, and it took four oak trees to make eight crossties, about two lengths eight and a half foot crosstie. Oral History Interview with John Wesley Snipes, 1976 September 20 and November 20. Interview H-98. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By John Wesley Snipes
The leaves of a tall oak tree tapped against the tiny glass window.
The gardens which surround the property include beech, lime and holm oak trees while in the eastern corner is an ancient churchyard.
The crest has an oak tree dimidiated with a wheatsheaf, bound together by a blue and white wave.
An oak tree was planted in honour of the occasion .
Anyway, the place to see and be seen at the Masters is under the big oak tree that sits immediately behind the clubhouse.
Concepts of oak trees and how they differ from other types of trees require assimilation and accommodation of relevant experience.
See any elms or oak trees or other non-native species?
One of the highlights of the session was a spirited exchange between the University of Minnesota's Michael Stokes Paulsen and my colleage Jed Rubenfeld on the status of the fetus -- or, as they put it, over whether an acorn is an oak tree. Balkinization
It is commonly found among California live oak trees.
There were three oak trees against the main front door, and no one could budge it. CHARMED LIFE
The twisting limbs of oak trees are silhouetted against a darkening sky as a nearly full moon rises in the east.
Kiernan's latest novel, The Red Tree August 2009 is in turns a pseudo-autographical novel, a psychological portrait of a first-person narrator on the verge of madness, and a sometimes terrifying mystery that surrounds a particular red oak tree in Rhode Island. link: OF Blog of the Fallen: Caitlín R. Archive 2009-09-01
A group dedicated to saving nature celebrated by planting an oak tree.
Around two hectares of undergrowth, gorse bushes and an oak tree were destroyed.
As they watched the house crumble, they put a coin in the hollow of an oak tree and solemnly vowed to get it back. Times, Sunday Times
The clear, blue water sparkled like glass, and was ringed by fifty-foot oak trees.
Out of 260 offers he was able to accept 160 full size oak trees and then had to convince the Dean and Chapter that it was normal to use unseasoned timber for constructing roofs.
On oak trees, the acorns are fully formed, but most of them are not quite ready to drop. Times, Sunday Times
Two lonely people fantasized a burial in wood from oak trees planted by their own hands.
A circle of mushrooms ringing the base of your oak tree may be armillaria, a "honey" fungus that is "the harbinger of death for your oak tree," says LeeAnn SFGate: Top News Stories
It was he, for instance, who came up with the idea of recycling a downed white oak tree and using the wood for moldings and fireplace mantels in the living room and family room/kitchen.
Helonica treehopper This sap-eating insect was collected from the branches of a white oak tree. The Search For Hidden Life
They found shelter from the storm under a large oak tree.
The bed at the foot of the oak tree is currently planted with small shade-loving shrubs, reasonably enough.
A boy was standing beside her with a bow and arrow, on the reverse was a group of indians seated under an oak tree, smoking the long feathered and beaded pipe, which they call the calumet of peace. The Travellers
His artistic creation involves three plastic child dummies hanging from nooses in an old oak tree in Milan's busy May 24 square.
As I approached some old oak trees, I slowed to a walk, then stopped entirely.
They entered a small clearing surrounded by oak trees.
Those early buildings of the race course still exist too, in red brick, with white fascias and red tile roofs, with long verandas set under luxuriant oak trees and manicured gardens.

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