hickory
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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
And if they have never played with hickory clubs, it's great fun.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025
I unwound the old sheet from around my middle, and me and Lloyd climbed the ladder to the bell tower like two squirrels up a shellbark hickory.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
“I estimated through my work that it would literally take centuries for native forests” full of oaks, walnuts, hickories and tulip poplars to return, he says.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 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
I made a sketch of the farm on my road map, and put x’s where the hickories were.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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