Example sentences for: oaks

How can you use “oaks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Time for a rest in the shade of the cypresses, pines, and holm oaks of the palace’s Boboli Gardens, a favorite picnic destination in Florence.

  • Oakham (Leicestershire) is not named for its oaks but means Occa's homestead or Occa's riverside land, depending whether the second half of the name represents Old English hām or hamm .

  • On the periphery, there’s the Valley’s Sherman Oaks Galleria and nearby Fashion Square.

  • He reproached the much beloved garden at Dumbarton Oaks for its limited plant palate, especially what he referred to as the "forsythia mess"--a hillside covered in the yellow, early spring flowering shrub that others consider a bold sweep of color.

  • You know from the start you're in a grand playpen for horror buffs--full of mists, covered bridges, glowing pumpkin-head scarecrows, black oaks that seem frozen in death throes.


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