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Sentence Examples A huge oaken door with a small hatchway halfway up loomed in front of Wolf. Everywhere one looked, row after row of long oaken bookcases held scrolls, parchments and bound books. He closed the oaken door behind them gently, trying to muffle the resounding clack as the lock caught in the latch with a hand. However, bacterial decomposition had saturated the Vasa's oaken beams with hydrogen sulfide, which eventually created a huge reservoir of sulfur. A dark chamber with a large oaken door at one end looks all the more malevolent in the flickering torchlight. Its oaken structure protects the user from acid rains, sun burns and unwanted attention. In front of us stood a low oaken table on which there was more mead and wine, and, appropriately for the room, a collection of long clay pipes, loose tobacco and spills. In the church, in the south aisle just before the entrance of the chancel, we see an oaken Saint-Job. We tend to think of ourselves as intellectually stable, the oaken pile of principle driven reassuringly deep into the ground. Solid oaken units, wash basins in bluestone or bluestone worked into the surface, are the key elements of our collections. Behind the guard was another, but he seemed to be more of a mage, with flowing red robes and an oaken staff with a brilliant carbuncle sapphire in its top. In the church you will see the eighteen oaken casks from Russia which have been there for 200 years. Valmagne is also one the oldest vineyards in Languedoc and its famous wines can be tasted and bought on the very spot. The result of a controlled policy of restricted yield and maturing the wine like they did in the olden days, that is, in oaken casks, brings forth a wine which is very specific for this region: fruity and yet dry. Upward from the keel, the hull was made by overlapping nine planks on either side with rivets fastening the oaken planks together. I received from the mayor an oaken box with a silver top and filled with the famous Shrewsbury cakes. While he was sculpturing oaken firewood during the war, he can now revert to his friend's donations of exotic wood. Thus some small sculptures carved during the last years of his life are made from unknown wood. Calvados produces superlative apple cider, which is aged with nuts in small oaken barrels or distilled into the celebrated apple brandy that bears its name. In the nineties a syndicate spent 20,000 dollars and got one of Hussar's worm-eaten, oaken ribs, which was made into a cane and is now owned by a man in Brooklyn. For me, the word I'd use to describe it is 'oaky.' There was a fullness, with a strong suggestion of oaken casks, some grace notes of cilantro, and just a hint of orange peel. The oaken panels were integrated into the walls of the nave and illustrate the visionary and even narrative expression power of his religious animism. Show More Sentences The Canadian delegation of Veterans was impressed with the vaulted ceilings that stretched high above them and the massive six-inch oaken doors that closed behind the procession. The fact that the church was constructed as a monastery is evident in the priests' choir with the choir stalls behind the cross and the oaken lectern, in the middle of the priest's choir. Elevation in small oaken barrels for 14-18 months. This wine is aged for a year in oaken or chestnut barrels. The rooms are decorated in the style of the 18th century, with oaken beams for the ceiling, black and white tiles for the pavement and flowery display cases. The guest residence was stylishly restored with valid material, such as the floor with old clay tiles, the ceiling with oaken beams, and the old fireplace. On oaken settle Marmion sate, And view'd around the blazing hearth. The Hand-bos, a bulwark formed of oaken piles, fastened with metal clamps, moored with iron anchors, and secured by gravel and granite, was snapped to pieces like packthread. The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them. The only provision was a youth club which ran two nights a week at Oaken Grove School. Examples from Classical Literature In my sleep shall I roam 'neath oaken prow, as it glideth o'er the murky ocean. Then Herrmann was rattling the knocker on the huge oaken doors of a two story flat-roofed house that looked a century old. Ay, and the half-cut loaf on the oaken table, with alongside o't the knife. An oaken colour, flatted, in accord with the prevailing tone of the panelling in the room was thought most suitable. Near the edge of the step-off platform on the fourth floor was an oaken panel, inscribed with silver lettering in relief. This was done by polishing and varnishing it, and by gilding the carved work of the elbows, and likewise the oaken flowers of the back. Leaning against the oaken post, he heard the rustling of paper. The oaken cabinet faced him with its open doors and contents in disorder. He would have then been able to see what was going on at the oaken box. As he went, he felt as if the oaken floor were elastic beneath his tread. On the straight-back'd oaken settle, congregate the older children. Here Marlowe paused and walked to the oaken desk before the window. It tears through the oaken timbers and into one of the steam-boilers. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. He had caught hold of one of the frayed ropes which hung down through apertures in the oaken roof. That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crowbars. He put the letter in a drawer at the back of the bureau, and closed the heavy oaken lid again. The big oaken chairs, graced with rude carvings, were well enough, but that was the stopping place. She then muffled the bell in an unfinished stocking, and put up the oaken bar across the door. The old gentleman untucked his arm from his side, and having pointed to one of the oaken presses, immediately replaced it, in its old position. Show More Sentences Behind were the little clump of steel-clad horsemen, their lances raised, with long pensils drooping down the oaken shafts. That was what I thought as I grasped the oaken bar of the stile. Sir John rode to the preceptory and hammered fiercely on its oaken door. Photogravures in rich oaken frames adorned the roseate walls. Then he breathed a little freer, for here at least was an oaken barrier between himself and what he feared. In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. High oaken sideboards, inlaid with ebony, stood at the two extremities of the room, and upon their shelves glittered china, porcelain, and glass of inestimable value. Prince John turned pale, tottered, and caught at the back of an oaken bench to support himself much like to a man who receives an arrow in his bosom. Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom. A wooden-faced high priest flicks a red india-rubber ball into a polished oaken bowl, at the bottom of which are holes, each bearing a number up to nine. His bugle horn hung at his hip and his bow and arrows at his back, while in his hand he bore a good stout oaken staff, which he twirled with his fingers as he strolled along. The oaken chair, to be sure, may tempt him with its roominess. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with oaken What is the adjective for oaken? What is the noun for oaken? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words OAK oak Oahu oafs oafishness oafishly Oakham Oakland Oakley oakmoss oak-panelled oakridge 5-letter Words Starting With o oa oak oake