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Example sentences for "oaks"

Lexicographically close words:
nyth; nzer; oak; oake; oaken; oakum; oald; oar; oare; oared
  1. I saw where he had bored several maples in the vicinity, but no oaks or chestnuts.

  2. Each day deepens the warm purple of fast-opening blossoms round the heads of the tall elms of the village, and the great oaks of this warm slope.

  3. It is moorland air that has draped the trees with shaggy lichens, adding centuries of age to oaks yet hardly in their prime, and lending to the sturdy fruit bushes of the borders the air of hoary patriarchs.

  4. After riding for an hour or two over the desolate level, I descended through rattling oaks to the bed of a stream, and then ascended through rattling oaks to the prairie beyond.

  5. Fine oaks and a fair view make all the beauty of Arlington.

  6. The day of the funeral was dark, cold, and gloomy; stormy winds howled and shrieked among the oaks and beeches of Raynham Park.

  7. They were more like the ages of oaks than of men.

  8. The patriarchal oaks and elms were still bowing gracefully each to its vis a vis.

  9. Here are great oaks of a century's growth planted and pruned by hands that have long since forgotten their cunning.

  10. When she awoke the little birds were singing as cheerily all around her in the magnolias and oaks as if their little tongues were touched with the spirit of her happy dreams.

  11. A bee-martin, as it leaped to wing from the neglected meadow, piped a shrill note or two and scurried away after the thieving crow; and the interlacing oaks and elms of a century's growth coquetted with the whispering winds.

  12. Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall.

  13. A grove of majestic live-oaks surrounded it.

  14. Perhaps the live-oaks made too thick and close a shelter about it.

  15. She stood under one of the big oaks at Les Cheniers.

  16. Howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage is come down.

  17. They build in hill oaks as a rule, the height of the nest from the ground varying much, some being as low as 10 feet, others nearer 30 feet.

  18. He soon got to know the long sad cry from the willows, and the little whispering in the tops of the poplar trees; the crisp, silvery rattle of the birches, and the deep roar from oaks and beech woods.

  19. In feathery whiteness the oaks stood up before her, their hoary heads a crown of beauty, as in a sainted old age.

  20. Alma looked out through her window,--not on the dark old oaks or the bare slender birches of yesterday.

  21. One of Whittier's ancestors was fined for cutting oaks on the common.

  22. This gave him an occasional opportunity, much enjoyed, to spend the day musing by the brook, or in the shade of the oaks and hemlocks on the breezy hilltops, which commanded a view unsurpassed for beauty.

  23. The Hawkswood oaks are a magnificent feature of the scene.

  24. The pale red sun was shooting light through the leaves, and warming the boles of the great oaks that stood in the yard, and melting the frost off the great gaudy threshing machine that stood between the stacks.

  25. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

  26. The shipboards, the masts and the oars from the oaks of Bashan are mentioned.

  27. And upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan" (Isa.

  28. North and south, as far as the eye could reach, nothing could be seen but a sandy plain, covered with dwarf oaks two and three feet high, and bearing innumerable acorns of a large size.

  29. Since that the leaves of the oaks have grown and died eighty times.

  30. The Oaks are out in force and the Maples are dressed up in their gayest clothes, you see.

  31. The oaks of the park are like those at Richmond, but there is not much fern except in the covers.

  32. As the men advanced we had a regular rise of wild pheasants, rocketing up from the reeds in every direction high over the oaks and chestnuts.

  33. All the wood-paths were bright with moss, the air still, and an endless shower of leaves from the oaks was falling over the whole hundred acres.

  34. Where sturdy oaks stood like sentinels guarding the forest folk from intrusion from the outside world now stand tall wooden poles with glaring white electric lights streaming from their tops.

  35. The boy's thoughts wandered far away for a moment to the wild woods where he again lay in the shade of mighty oaks and saw the deer come down to drink.

  36. Mighty oaks and hickories grew right at the water's edge, throwing out their boughs so far that often the whole stream was in the shade.

  37. Never before had the travelers seen oaks and beeches of such girth or elms and hickories of such height.

  38. The famous blue-stocking, Mrs. Montagu, writes of the 'shady oaks and beautiful verdure of South Lodge.

  39. On either side of the sandy road, as Conscience drove to the station, elms and silver oaks and maples were wearing new and tender shades of green.

  40. The visitor took a chair and for a moment sat gazing across the coloring hills where the maples were flaring with yellow and the oaks were russet-brown.

  41. It was like one of those games of hide-and-seek which the court used to play, when Louis was in a sportive mood, among the oaks and yew hedges of Versailles.

  42. Over the woodlands lay a thin gray vapour, the tops of the high oaks jutting out like dim islands from the sea of haze.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oaks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.