How to Use live oak in a Sentence

live oak

noun
  • Stroll to see historic homes on streets lined with live oaks.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Large live oaks and bald cypress seem to be good survivors.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
  • One woman even chained herself to a live oak tree in protest.
    — al, 29 June 2022
  • Some evergreens such as live oaks may even be bare for a short while.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Our live oak was hurt badly by the extreme cold two years ago this month.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • My live oak trees lost at least half of their leaves in a recent hailstorm.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 18 June 2020
  • We are blessed to have some magnificent large old live oak trees.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The bar has windows that look out on a patio shaded by a large live oak tree.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Prepare to marvel at the sprawling live oaks wrapped with white lights.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2023
  • All the white oaks are less susceptible to oak wilt than live oak and the red oaks.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The marsh there feels endless, the live oaks along the shoreline ancient.
    — Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • The park is known for its shaded paths, ancient live oaks, and limestone rock beach.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 26 June 2024
  • From the street, only the top floor and garage, framed by live oaks, are visible.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • Forget stumps; this baby can probably pull a live oak out of the ground.
    — cleveland, 30 May 2020
  • The live oaks saved people’s homes and acted like a canopy of fire retardant.
    — Erica Zora Wrightson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Control live oak suckers that emerge from the base of the tree by mowing or pruning them.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
  • Some of the coastal live oak slabs even have bugholes and signs of powderpost beetles.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Neon parrakeets flocked over live oaks draped in Spanish moss.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Housing options are many — and often verdant and shady amid the city’s many live oaks.
    — A.d. Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018
  • Framed by 30-foot bluffs along the shore, it's littered with driftwood from live oak and cedar trees.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The company will have to keep 50% plus one of the live oak trees that have been graded.
    — Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The grounds burst with color each spring as azaleas reach their full bloom under the shade of graceful live oaks.
    — Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2025
  • From the trailhead, a shorter route is available on the live oak trail, which spans about a quarter of a mile.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Make sure your space can support at least one coast live oak tree, which can grow 25 to 80 feet tall.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • There was a focus on the acorns now dangling from the branches of the live oak trees or scattered about on the ground.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Standing in the middle of the meadow, like some regal queen, was a giant live oak tree.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 1 May 2025
  • The island was forested with palmettos and live oaks, but there was no sign of primate life.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • One of those trees is a large live oak in the center of the roundabout at Broad and Canal streets.
    — al, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Last month, the first nursery launched at EF with 30 trees — coast live oaks and sycamores.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Also, there are hiking trails, picnic areas and a playground in the midst of grand live oak trees.
    — Michael Candelaria, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2018

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