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
The cattail rush basket in which we store the hickory nuts is almost empty.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
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
Its steep walls are lined with hardwoods, oaks, hickories and maples still dropping amber leaves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2016
More southern — and less colorful — species like oaks and hickories may march north, eventually replacing the maples and other exhibitionists.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2016
Gypsy moths arrived in 1983 and have since ravaged considerable acreages of oaks and hickories.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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