How to Use post oak in a Sentence

post oak

noun
  • Sweetgum, winged elm and post oak trees were ranked at the top of the list.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • There are few areas of old-growth post oak trees left in Texas.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Brisket is cooked low and slow over post oak, pecan and hickory wood.
    — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Some have names that correspond to their appearance, like the post oak.
    — Karen Martin, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2020
  • The brisket is dry-rubbed simply with salt and pepper and smoked over post oak in century-old brick pits.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The barbecue is smoked with post oak wood on one of three large J&R Oyler pits.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 6 Nov. 2020
  • All the meat is smoked with post oak wood, following traditional Central Texas style.
    — Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Properly rendered, brisket developed a silky layer of fat that basted the meat from within and absorbed the gentle smoke of post oak.
    — J.c. Reid, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The post oak wood was supposed to go out in a blaze of glory, a sacrifice to the gods of barbecue in exchange for a perfect brisket or a show-stopping rack of pork ribs.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The home was designed to account for the site’s topography and vegetation, nestled among the tall post oak trees and within the existing grades.
    — Dallas News, 10 May 2020
  • Kansas City-style typically uses hickory instead of post oak, often supplemented with fruit woods like apple or pear.
    — J.c. Reid, Houston Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
  • And no flavor-defining wood like hickory or post oak smoldering away; seemingly every grill in Portugal had a sack of Cuban lump charcoal beneath it.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • True Texas delivered pretty top-flight barbecue smoked with post oak wood and other amenities such as a craft beer tap line that pours $1 drafts every Tuesday and a spacious patio add to the score.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 25 May 2018

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