How to Use red oak in a Sentence

red oak

noun
  • Texas red oaks grow to about the same size and shape as live oaks but at a faster rate of growth.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • My red oak tree has a fungus growing on its trunk and at its base.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Plant life ranges from red oaks and sycamores to small wildflowers.
    — Rich Heileman, cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
  • The body draped over the upper branches of the red oak does not move.
    — Calin Van Paris, Outside, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Jaron’s acorns had become tall red oaks, higher than the house.
    — Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • All are smoked in-house with red oak and white oak wood in a Moberg smoker.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Also known as the red oak, the nuttall oak grows as high as 60 feet.
    — Jennifer Michelle Greenberg, Houston Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2018
  • And red-shoulders have used the tree, a huge red oak, for several years in a row.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
  • The home has french doors, six working fireplaces and new hand-hewn, red oak beamed ceilings.
    — Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Floors will be red oak, and Gehry plans to use frosted glass, felt, steel, leather, bronze, and onyx.
    — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 10 July 2018
  • Also, white oak family acorns tend to be larger than the red oak acorns.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • On the ground are wedges of red oak—fuel for the mobile home’s only source of heat, a wood stove.
    — Maddie McGarvey, History & Culture, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The state also produces some of the best sugar maple and red oak timber in the world.
    — Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Black gum, dogwood and northern red oak turn various shades of red.
    — Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Finally a pageant of meats commences, smoked with a blend of red oak and almond wood.
    — Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Texas red oak is like a live oak in its size, attractive shape and drought tolerance.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • In the fall, the park is lit with the bright yellow of towering green ash trees and the russet of red oaks.
    — Colleen Creamer, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Broadly speaking, red oaks seem to be pumping out the acorns more than white oaks and chestnut oaks this year.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • My red oak tree leafs out beautifully each spring, but within a month or two, half of the leaves turn brown.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 2 July 2020
  • In the chapel, my eyes fell upon a 15-foot-tall red oak and pipe organ next to the monks’ choir stalls.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The saplings of red maple, northeastern red oak and eastern redbud are $5 each.
    — cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Tree Height and Shape The height and shape are red oak vs white oak trees is the final tipoff.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 July 2023
  • The meat is smoked for around 13 hours with California red oak.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The spores are carried by sap beetles from fungal mats formed on infected red oaks to the fresh wounds on live oaks.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The two trails share the same tremendous hemlock and pine trees and red oaks that have held steady for over 300 years.
    — Idra Novey, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
  • Trees can be seen through the house’s transparent walls and the living room’s red oak floor connects to decks that float above the woodland.
    — oregonlive, 1 June 2022
  • Above Burton’s bed, there is a red oak poster board with a couple of pictures, numbers and phrases on it.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Don’t assume that the Shumard red oak died of Texas root rot (also known as cotton root rot).
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The prior homeowner had replaced a Shumard red oak that must have died of the same disease.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The disease can spread to live oaks by spores carried by sap beetles from the red oaks or through the interconnected roots.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2026

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