hickory
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I like their sandwiches, or the hickory burger with cheese, and there’s good French fries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The kitchen also follows the same aesthetic as the rest of the home and is adorned in wood cabinetry, a wooden island, and hand-hewn hickory flooring.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
Customers are increasingly being lured by brands like TimberTech, which dispense with wood altogether in favor of polyvinyl chloride patterned to resemble mahogany, teak, or hickory.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
All the while, one cricket after another walked in under our hickory shirts on bobwire legs and made life a misery.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
On big old oaks or hickories, the resulting branch flagging is unsightly, but it’s a temporary eyesore that the tree will outgrow.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020
He says certain trees like scarlet oaks and hickories have potential for colorful displays if they get rain in early October.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
Surrounded by tall hickories, ash and oak, it is mostly covered in shade, a condition not ideal for grass.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2019
As a whole, the deciduous forest was home to many different tree species—oaks, beeches, maples, basswoods, hickories, chestnut, ashes, elms, birches and poplars—but different types of trees predominated in different regions.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2014
They were like white bouquets God had stuck in the stands of ancient oaks and hickories, glistening green in their own new growth.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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