How to Use pin oak in a Sentence

pin oak

noun
  • There's some nice forests with pin oaks and some rare plant species in the forests.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The pin oak grows as tall as 70 feet with a canopy up to 40 feet wide.
    — Jennifer Michelle Greenberg, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The job required the removal of a large pin oak on the south side of the circle.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • Beneath her allée of pin oaks and in an area near the blueberry bushes, white crocus grow.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Numerous majestic pin oak, green ash, black elder and red maple trees provide food and shelter.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Shaded by London planes and pin oak trees, the park was sandwiched between the new highway and a riverside promenade.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The park district has also planted native trees throughout the river’s floodplain, including swamp white oak, pin oak and sycamore.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Red oak leaves are almost always pointy and sharp-looking; the classic example is the pin oak, which sports leaves that taper to sharp points that appear needle-like.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 July 2023
  • As a result, what was originally a course built on farmland was crowded with crab apples, flowering cherries, blue spruces and loads and loads of pin oaks.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 14 June 2025
  • Consider the additional habitat benefits of a scarlet oak or a pin oak that offers acorns for backyard wildlife.
    — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The species commonly feeds on the larvae of midges or flies that form galls, or growths that develop on plants as a reaction to insects and mites feeding on them, on the edges of pin oak leaves.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Unfortunately, a similar-looking tree, northern pin oak, somehow gets sold and planted locally.
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 13 June 2018
  • The land is mostly wet woods, with many mature trees, including shagbark hickory, American beech, American elm, black gum, red maple, pin oak and chestnut oak.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The species commonly feeds on the larvae of a midge, or a fly, that forms galls on the edges of pin oak leaves, according to the University of Maryland Extension.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024
  • That’s how long Medina Kiwanis members have been distributing 12-inch-tall pin oak seedlings to the city’s third-graders in honor of Arbor Day each year.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 3 May 2021
  • National Wildflower Week event involving the planting of a pin oak tree in the Victoria Avenue building courtyard.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 5 May 2021
  • The boards are assembled by Jean-Brieuc Chevalier, a cabinetmaker from Angers, who inlays pin oak with reflective sterling-silver squares.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Seven of the trees – yellow birch, northern catalpa, northern white cedar, white (American) elm, northern pin oak and tulip tree, along with the American beech – are in Porter County.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Sternberg also likes pin oak (Quercus palustris) and nuttall oak (Quercus nuttallii/aka Quercus texana) for seasonally wet areas.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Trees available include 1-gallon vitex and Mexican plum saplings and 5-gallon Little Gem magnolia, eastern redbud, cherry bark oak, pin oak and water oak.
    — Jennifer Michelle Greenberg, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Representatives from the Horn Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Mississippi Forestry Commission will speak and city officials will plant a pin oak to mark the occasion.
    — From Staff Reports, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Ask experts for help Bobby Jean Avery-Kimball, the president of the Indiana Native Plant Society Central Chapter, started her native landscaping journey with a fire pit and a pin oak.
    — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 8 June 2026

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