Example Sentences

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Creamy white cone-shaped flower clusters form on old wood and are set off by deep green, lobed oaklike foliage.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Though Pynacker's tree has oaklike leaves, its sinuous trunk is not that of an oak of any kind.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2010

Matthias is an oaklike man, successful, preeminent, proud.

From Time Magazine Archive

Arthur Burton Rascoe came from such acorny beginnings that sentimentalists of success might well have expected his career to achieve oaklike stature.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a grass country of many low, rounded hills and dipping valleys, with fine isolated oaklike trees here and there in the depressions, and compact, beautiful oaklike groves thrown over the hills like blankets.

From African Camp Fires by White, Stewart Edward