Example Sentences

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Some credit the oaks and redwoods at Aldersgate for saving the property from the Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Amid the moss-draped live oaks and blooming pink and white azaleas, a person in a purple Barney dinosaur costume held a sign reading: “Dino’s for Democracy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

This contrasts soon, however, with the surviving oaks, shown standing grandly among empty, otherwise deserted streets.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

The treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025

Alice, holding Lyra, had retreated further up the slope, but the open space was not very large: close-branched holm oaks with spiked leaves crowded in on all sides.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman