How to Use scrub oak in a Sentence

scrub oak

noun
  • The knolls are crowned with scrub oak and the slopes are swept bare from a long-ago fire.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The wagon train sped down the flat farm road lined by scrub oak, making good time.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The fish would be smoked over scrub oak, plentiful in Olive’s own yard.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The marshes, pitch pines and scrub oaks give an outer Cape Cod feel to the park.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
  • The coastal forest consists of scrub oaks and magnolias.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The coastal forest consists of scrub oaks and magnolias.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 June 2026
  • The coastal forest consists of scrub oaks and magnolias.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The rocky but usually dry crossings are fringed with scrappy stands of scrub oak, willows and catclaw.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Cactus, manzanita, yucca, agave and a smattering of mesquite trees thrive among scrub oak and junipers.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Ours is called chaparral, and it is often marked by the presence of scrub oak, sage, chamise and manzanita, among other plants.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Some plant species rely on wildfires for survival, including scrub oak, manzanita and chamise.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Fragments of the building’s foundation sit as a reminder of the cruelty among the sagebrush and scrub oak.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
  • Because of it, thick scrub oak forests grew where the Santa Monica Freeway runs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In the parts of the forest nearest the city, workers have cut down smaller trees, low-hanging branches and scrub oak, then stacked them into piles to dry out.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The trail begins among desert species like barrel cactus and creosote, followed by chaparral, scrub oak and manzanita.
    — Dina Mishev Max Whittaker, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Go deep into the trails at Rattlesnake Ridge and take in the wet pine flatwoods, scrub oaks and palmettos covering acres of sandy swells.
    — Brian Kelly, AL.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Much of the terrain remains covered with pines, cypress, palmetto, scrub oak all the things dear to Floridians and will remain so.
    — Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 21 July 2021
  • The aspens were pale green, with some leaves showing the first glimpses of yellow, and some of the scrub oak had started to turn, but otherwise the trees around us had yet to take on fall colors.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The studio element floats on piers above a landscape of scrub oak, cactus, juniper, cottonwoods and a wash that flows in winter and the summer monsoon.
    — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 21 June 2018
  • The hike starts out with a walk among low-growing pockets of mesquite, scrub oak, cactus, yucca and thickets of cat claw shrubs that punctuate largely barren grasslands.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Santa Ana winds continue to whip flames through the scrub oak, mustard grass, and other quick-to-burn vegetation growing in the region.
    — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Out most colorful tree species tend to be quaking aspen, canyon maple, scrub oak and Douglas hawthorn, often alongside the steady, dark hues of native evergreens.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Western states like Colorado and New Mexico often see a tourism boost as travelers seek out the vivid leaves of aspen and scrub oak trees.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The Coastal Trail runs along the Gulf Coast’s beaches, dunes, tidal flats, oyster bars, and salt marshes, fringed by pineland, scrub oak, and hardwood forests.
    — Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Incubation had begun for a trio of robin eggs collected in 1901, found in a Calumet nest made of grass and mud, and discovered in scrub oak.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • If space is limited, try small-scale oaks such as scrub oak (Quercus berberidifolia) and Nuttal’s scrub oak (Quercus dumosa).
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2021
  • The heavy-on-the-earth-tones views are disrupted by showy summer wildflowers including sacred datura and prickly poppies that add pops of white among a gray-green fringe of scrub oak and cliff-rose while attracting clouds of pollinators.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the chaparral and native trees, including the famous scrub oaks, on the slopes above the Napa and Sonoma valleys actually depend on fire for reproduction.
    — Constance Casey, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Squeezing through slot canyons and bushwhacking through scrub oak provided some Outside Lab-style abrasive durability that didn’t even leave a mark on the nylon ripstop material.
    — The Editors, Outside, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Oregon Department of Forestry Central Oregon tweeted that the fire was about 10 acres of grass and scrub oak and that crews had contained it and would continue to work on through the night.
    — oregonlive, 29 June 2020

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