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Example sentences for "oak"

Lexicographically close words:
nyne; nystagmus; nyt; nyth; nzer; oake; oaken; oaks; oakum; oald
  1. Ben had heard about Dave's proposed departure for the South, and he came over several times to see his former Oak Hall chum before the latter left home.

  2. By the handwritings he knew that one letter was from Phil Lawrence and another from Shadow Hamilton, one of his old Oak Hall chums, and a fellow who loved to tell stories.

  3. The Oak Hall boys are becoming scattered," said Phil.

  4. Ben started to sing one of the old Oak Hall favorites, and Dave and the girls joined in.

  5. It won't be much different from when I was at Oak Hall, Jessie," he answered.

  6. Luke has written a song about Oak Hall that is about the finest thing I ever heard.

  7. A number of years have passed since Dave graduated from Oak Hall and took up the profession of a civil engineer.

  8. Just got off the accommodation coming the other way," announced Joseph Beggs, otherwise known as Buster, a fat youth who had long been one of Dave's Oak Hall classmates.

  9. The time on the train was spent in talk about Oak Hall and their numerous classmates, many of them now well scattered throughout the States.

  10. An ordination hymn attributed to a maternal uncle, but perhaps a sort of production not demanding the creative faculty.

  11. All which will appear the more clearly when we consider, that, even to this day, raising the wind is proverbial for raising money, and that brokers and banks were invented by the Venetians at a later period.

  12. Nevertheless, it is the unavoidable destiny of Jonahs to be cast overboard sooner or later.

  13. In places one comes upon old fields that have been allowed to revert to broom sedge, scrub oak and scrub pine.

  14. He found it "exceedingly Rich, & must be very valuable--the lower end of the Land is rich white oak in places springey .

  15. The Butler's House and Magnolia Set Out by Washington the Year of His Death.

  16. Weekly Report on the Work of the Spinners.

  17. He stood in the shadow of an oak staring at her with parted lips, for this woman seemed to him to be the most beautiful and graceful creature that mind could conceive of.

  18. There is a great oak near here, and I think that Bertrand will bring the horses there, for it is an old hunting-tryst of ours.

  19. Now it was a lithe, furtive stoat which shot across the path upon some fell errand of its own; then it was a wild cat which squatted upon the outlying branch of an oak and peeped at the traveller with a yellow and dubious eye.

  20. Up the broad steps Alleyne went, still following his boyish guide, until at the folding oak doors the latter paused, and ushered him into the main hall of the castle.

  21. At one side of this fire, in a high-backed oak chair, sat a lady, her face turned towards the door.

  22. The acorns gathered from the shrub oak are the prettiest.

  23. From this stem small leaves will soon begin to sprout; and in the course of a few weeks you will have a handsome oak plant, several inches in height.

  24. Take several sizes of natural oak leaves, and draw the pattern on pasteboard, and pencil them as the natural leaf is veined.

  25. Autumn leaves, if small, and the youngest oak leaves mix in well.

  26. To gild the upper edge, I will also give a pretty design for an oak and ivy bracket.

  27. The oak entrance hall was to be ornamented with old delft.

  28. Tea was set out on one half of the oak dining-table.

  29. I went out into the passage, and sat down on an oak chest.

  30. We saw no Indians or village on that or the following day, and the provisions being out, returned to Live Oak Camp on the morning of the 23d.

  31. We had suffered not a little from hunger; our expectation was to return in a day at farthest, to Live Oak Camp; we therefore left most of our provisions with the boats, and felt the want of them severely as we were absent three days.

  32. We sailed and rowed many miles up the river, and halted at a pretty spot, called afterwards Live Oak Camp.

  33. We left the boats at Live Oak Camp, with a few men to guard them, shouldered our knapsacks and tramped through the woods.

  34. One end of the table was unoccupied, and to this Peke drew a couple of rush-bottomed chairs with sturdy oak backs, and bade Helmsley sit down beside him.

  35. Here there was a plain old-fashioned oak bedstead, trimmed with the same white hangings, the bed itself being covered with a neat quilt of diamond-patterned silk patchwork.

  36. Robert, son of the Conqueror, carved in Irish oak and painted.

  37. The oak is now of a very dark brown hue, and, being highly polished, it produces a sombre but rich effect.

  38. The English oak is not a handsome tree, being short and sturdy, with a round, thick mass of foliage, lying all within its own bounds.

  39. I noticed a small oak in the bed of the cascade, and there is a lighter vegetation scattered about.

  40. The roof of the choir is of oak and very fine, and as much as ninety feet high.

  41. I went out to the field with him after dinner; he was cutting oak sprouts from among the young corn and we had quite a chat.

  42. The land was uneven, with oak ridges, beech slopes and shell-bark hickory flats, but the road was smooth, and for the two trotting horses the buggy was merely a plaything.

  43. Each little girl had a dolly made of the loveliest flowers, and a cradle of green oak leaves, sewed together by grass blades.

  44. No, it must be that he had stuck oak leaves into his curly locks for ornament, pretty oak leaves tinged with soft red.

  45. Then she went down the big oak staircase followed by her two pussies.

  46. Such a pretty oak table and beautifully carved chairs; where did you get them from?

  47. We will call him Green Ears; for I had forgotten to say that being a tree-imp, his ears were shaped like oak leaves, and were green tinged with pinky red.

  48. The heads were expressive; and the textures of the velvets, tapestries, oak carvings, and so forth, had been executed with more than ordinary finish and fidelity.

  49. The great oak beside the porch is as old as the house itself; and on the windows of a little disused parlor overlooking the garden may still be seen the names of Sedley, Rochester and other wits of the Restoration.

  50. To the left, in a great oak chair beside the bed from which he had just risen, sat the dying king, with a rich, furred mantle loosely thrown around him.

  51. The Capricorn of the Oak inhabits the deep layers of the trunk; the Capricorn of the Cherry-tree inhabits the surface.

  52. The Saperda of the Poplar adopts the method of the Capricorn of the Oak in its general features.

  53. She stood pondering over the subject when her eye caught sight of a covered dish standing on a bench by the kitchen door.

  54. Suppose I read to you what Aunt Elizabeth says.

  55. She must clean house, and see that all Ada's clothes were clean and whole, for it would never do to let Aunt Elizabeth find that they had not been kept carefully.

  56. Only a short time ago her aunt and uncle had been kinder to her than she had reason to expect they could be, and now to find them so harsh to Louis seemed a contradiction.

  57. I am going to the storeroom, open your window," was what she wrote, and the note served its purpose, for when the storeroom window was raised there stood Louis before his window.


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