How to Use scrub oak in a Sentence

scrub oak

noun

• The marshes, pitch pines and scrub oaks give an outer Cape Cod feel to the park.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
• The girl was found lying on the ground at 9 a.m. about 460 feet from the road, where a chain had been double-wrapped around her neck, binding her to a scrub oak.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The rocky but usually dry crossings are fringed with scrappy stands of scrub oak, willows and catclaw.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• A half-mile wide and more than a mile long, Henderson Beach's eco-system supports a scenic spray of low-growth sand pine, scrub oak, sea oats and dune rosemary on its rolling dunes.
  — Bob Rountree, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Cactus, manzanita, yucca, agave and a smattering of mesquite trees thrive among scrub oak and junipers.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• This is your foot-traffic-only portal into a lush craggy creek-side fold of scrub oak and guaranteed solitude where the hike quickly hits its stride.
  — Jordan Rane, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Firefighters had to fight through rocky terrain and dense manzanita and scrub oak that sprang up after the catastrophic Dude Fire of 1990, which had destroyed the native ponderosa pines and changed the area’s flora forever.
  — azcentral, 15 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• Meantime, attention surrounding the skirmish provided the Sioux with foundation backing to develop a wind farm in Porcupine Hills, an area of scrub oak and buffalo grass with cattle ranches.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 June 2021

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