How to Use bur oak in a Sentence

bur oak

noun
  • Like many other trees on this list, bur oak's deep, wide-spreading roots won't mesh well with small yards.
    — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 4 Apr. 2026
  • True, some of its hardiness can be attributed to the tree's species, which is a bur oak.
    — Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2022
  • Five months later, when the big buck pulled his disappearing act, my mind raced to that bur oak.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Tizza said that’s because the bur oaks are like the south’s live oak, the state tree of Georgia.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2019
  • When lace bugs eat bur oak leaves, their chemical composition changes.
    — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2020
  • In the park’s center, ringed by a bench, is a bur oak that is small now, but will grow quickly to provide substantial shade.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The best tall-growing trees would be Shumard red oak, bur oak, Chinese pistachio and cedar elm.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 22 June 2018
  • Results for the southern bur oak, while more mixed, were also generally better than the northern bur oak.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The 500 tree seedlings distributed included white, red and bur oak varieties.
    — Gina Grillo, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
  • But soon Lexington flourished, with suburbs sprouting among bur oak and American elm trees.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Consider Texas red oak, cedar elm, Mexican sycamore, Mexican white oak, bur oak, live oak and chinkapin oak.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • While bur oaks, which are native to Illinois, can live for as long as four centuries, the lifespan of the zoo’s tree was shortened by the development around it.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • Consider Texas red oak, live oak, bur oak, Mexican sycamore, cedar elm, Mexican white oak, chinkapin oak and anaqua.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • For some trees, that has meant evolving the capacity to resist droughts — to extract tremendous amounts of water from seemingly bone-dry soil — a bur oak, for example.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Lace bugs attack pyracanthas, Boston ivy, sycamores, bur oaks, chinquapin oaks, azaleas, American elms and boxwoods, among others, turning their leaves the same pale tan color.
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Crews spent Wednesday morning carefully dismantling Frank, the 250-year-old bur oak in Kansas City’s Northeast neighborhood.
    — Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2026

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