Example Sentences

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When you buy plantation teaks, you have a lot of wood that's just not usable, says Lapp.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

Utuado is surrounded by dense forest of native ceiba, Asian teaks, and West Indian and Honduran mahogany where parrots roost.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2017

David Stahle of the University of Arkansas Tree Ring Lab recently presented data derived from teaks in Java and firs in Mexico and the American Southwest that date back to 1706.

From Time Magazine Archive

The valley was cloaked in African olive trees, African cedars, broad-leaved croton trees, Hagenia abyssinica trees drenched in moss, and whiplike young gray Elgon teaks.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Around the hospital and the church stood the beautiful ferocious trees, a complex of camphors and teaks.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston