How to Use white oak in a Sentence

white oak

noun
  • Plush cream rugs lay over white oak floors.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Swamp white oak or swamp chestnut oak.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
  • Last spring that white oak still had its brown autumn leaves.
    — baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • There were big pines along one side and huge white oaks along the other.
    — Larry Dablemont, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The wings are turkey smoked low and slow with white oak daily.
    — Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Hunters should scout and find the white oaks with remaining food.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Rows of white oak and pecan firewood are stacked floor-to-ceiling.
    — Bob Carlton | [email protected], al, 14 July 2022
  • The nine-foot-tall front glass pivot door leads to rooms with wide-plank white oak floors.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • He was shot in the back of the head twice before the men hanged him from a white oak tree.
    — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 June 2021
  • Above the handsome new white oak floor are large lozenge-like hanging lamps.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Windows now line the east wall, so sunshine streams over the white oak floor.
    — Anne Brockhoff, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • All are smoked in-house with red oak and white oak wood in a Moberg smoker.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The nest is high in a white oak tree on private property near a stream.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Beneath the staircase is a recess daybed built out of white oak.
    — Monica Mercuri, House Beautiful, 31 Aug. 2021
  • After thinking about it, Hayes said a white oak is good as well.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • New custom white oak flooring was installed to match the rest of the home.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The room is now lighter and brighter, with walls sheathed in rippling beech wood and the stage clad in white oak.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • For each photo, the distillery promises to plant a white oak tree.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The tortilla softens and blisters over the flames of white oak logs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And then using a white oak and that sort of thing and playing around with cherry.
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Fisk and Hinshaw stained all the new white oak millwork to match the floors.
    — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Like whitetails, turkeys seem to prefer white oak acorns over all the rest.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Maverick grills over white oak, stacked in neat cords at the kitchen threshold.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The master suite has suede panel walls, wide-plank white oak floors and a balcony.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Food is cooked over an open flame, using the wood of Missouri white oak trees.
    — Jenna Thompson march 27, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In their place, Blair added wide-plank French white oak floors throughout the home.
    — Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Off came the polyurethane coating on our white oak floors and the heavy curtains in the dining room.
    — Lauren McBrayer, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The red and white oak used for the mirrors, stools, and shelves are set against a mostly white box-style room.
    — Isiah Magsino, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The crew still cuts down white oak and pecan trees and splits the logs in the big lot behind the old country store.
    — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Available in cherry, white oak, and walnut wood.
    — Elissa Suh, Architectural Digest, 17 Sep. 2025

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