How to Use hickory in a Sentence

hickory

noun

• The oxtails have a hefty char and smoke to them from the hickory.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 6 Dec. 2022
• Measure the amount of hickory tea left from the process.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 1 Oct. 2021
• The 28-inch hickory handle is turned by the Amish, and the leather sheath is also made right heah in Maine.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
• Most of the pieces of furniture in our home are made of hickory.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
• The boy used a hickory limb and a piece of binder twine for a bow, and stiff meadow weeds for arrows.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
• The cooks at George's prepare the meat entrees on a open pit with hickory logs.
  — Jared Boyd, AL.com, 24 June 2017
• The course has shorter holes for use of the hickory stick clubs that do not send the ball as far as modern clubs.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
• They often were made from the wood of ash trees, but could be made from maple, hickory or pine.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 26 June 2017
• Boots are rinsed free of sand and hung to dry atop the hickory handles of peaveys jabbed into logs.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
• So, here's to trying the hickory syrup that’s been described as smoky and woodsy.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Sep. 2022
• Lake Milton is a state park with houses on it, and white oak and hickory trees dot the area.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2020
• The ideal fly rod for hickory shad in Deer Creek and the Octoraro is a 9-foot, 5 weight.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
• The factory is fragrant with the smell of hickory, apple, pecan and mesquite wood, and the aroma of the spice blends.
  — Jennifer Hiller, San Antonio Express-News, 28 May 2018
• Beyond the windows were rows of soon-to-bud grapevines and a mashup of hickory and pecan trees known as hicans.
  — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
• The flooring on this level is a mix of oak and vinyl plank with the appearance of hickory.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• The top is built of dark hickory, and the base is 13 varied woods, stacked to handsome and stunning effect.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• To grill the meat: Use oak, mesquite or hickory wood to fire up the grill, or use wood chips soaked in water with charcoal, or a gas grill.
  — SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2020
• That rule applies whether the bacon is thick-cut or thin, hickory or maple-smoked, the fancy stuff or the cheap stuff.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2021
• The service station-turned-smoke shack uses a blend of hickory, pecan, and peach woods to smoke their meats.
  — Outside Online, 15 Mar. 2022
• Other nuts like walnuts and hickory nuts go through the same process.
  — Jay Cannon, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
• This new fish breaks the previous state record for hickory shad, which was caught in the same river just over a year ago.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2022
• The baby back ribs get dry rubbed, smoked, then grilled, and the pork spareribs are slow-roasted over hickory then basted with the house sauce.
  — Nathan Mattise, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2021
• This stretch of farmland was once oak, hickory and white-pine forest, the hunting grounds of the Chippewa.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• The 80-pound bear cub that won the state’s heart Wednesday for getting lost in downtown Hickory is safely back in the woods.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 22 June 2017
• And patches of hickory beech, red maple, and birch trees sprinkled the heathlands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
• Squirrels live off seed sources from hickories, oaks, and pines.
  — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• But the land described did indeed have stands of hard hickory and ash, which were good for crafting weapons.
  — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
• The forest is filled with red and white oaks, sugar maples, basswoods and hickory trees.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
• East on Brookville Road, smells of burning oak and hickory spilled from two large barbecue pits nearby.
  — Daniela Franco Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2022
• The caves are easily the Meramec Valley’s biggest draw, but in the fall, half of the appeal is found above the surface of the Earth, when Missouri’s maples, ashes, hickories, and oaks start to change colors.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024