OAK in a Sentence

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For OAK, below is one of 132 sentences:
Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.

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 Meanings and Examples of OAK
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oak
 n.  any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus; durable wood of any of these trees or shrubs
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The muddy Flint River, running silently between walls of pine and water oak covered with tangled vines, wrapped about Gerald's new land like a curving arm and embraced it on two sides.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron bench beneath the largest oak in the front yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  He went off across the lawn and disappeared around the house, and she was alone under the rustling oak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Their nearest neighbor was twenty miles away by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  She opened the three windows, bringing in the smell of oak leaves and earth, but the fresh air could do little toward dispelling the sickening odors which had accumulated for weeks in this close room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  When he was able to totter about the house, he turned his hands to weaving baskets of split oak and mending the furniture ruined by the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  Jim Tarleton, little Hugh Munroe, Alex Fontaine and old man McRae's youngest grandson came slowly and awkwardly down the path from the house bearing Gerald's coffin on two lengths of split oak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  Dry red leaves still clung to the oak in Aunt Pitty's yard and a faint yellow green still persisted in the dying grass.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  Just as she was beginning to draw a breath of relief, her heart rose in her throat with sudden fright, for a huge negro slipped silently from behind a large oak tree.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  The big negro ducked back behind the oak, and the voice that answered was frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
12  I'll always remember you as you were that day of our last barbecue, sitting under an oak with a dozen boys around you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
13  Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
14  Halfway down the car is a semi-partition of carved oak columns, but the aisle is of bare, splintery, grease-blackened wood.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  A vista of heavy oak rockers with leather seats, asleep in a dismal row.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
2  When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.
3  There was an enormous oak table in the center of the room.
4  The door was paneled in oak.
5  A broad avenue of lime trees led up to a grand entrance with huge oak doors.
6  Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
7  An oak is not felled at one stroke.
8  The oak is a deciduous tree; in winter it looks quite bare.
9  The gnarled oak tree had been a landmark for years and was mentioned in several deeds.
10  Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces.
11  I'm not sure what species of oak is dropping these acorns, but they're amazing.
12  The disease blighted oaks and elms.
13  Many large oaks were felled during the war.
14  Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
15  They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.