How to Use black walnut in a Sentence

black walnut

noun
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  • Walden is a skewed desk made of black walnut with a book on it.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 12 July 2024
  • The ailanthus, the black walnut, and the staghorn sumac are three of their favorite victims.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The floor has hand-hewn wide planks of African black walnut, no surprise.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Some of the trees, a mix of black walnut, oak and box elder, are more than 80 years old, Hart said.
    — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The black walnut bitters nod to fall and add richness to balance the heat of the chili simple syrup.
    — Jared Bajkowski, kansascity, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Or making your buck-saw out of black walnut with carved rosettes?
    — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The trails are lined with large sycamore, black walnut and cottonwood trees.
    — Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The black walnut of the counter tops reads more like living-room furniture.
    — Margot Dougherty, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • Check out the Oregon Landscape Plants page for black walnut.
    — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Inside, the trailer features a black walnut skin that gives it a dark, cozy feel.
    — Megan Barber, Curbed, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The island in the kitchen has a black walnut counter that Julia sanded and finished with food-safe oil.
    — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The species of trees include oak, sycamore, ash, beech, maple, apple, cherry and black walnut.
    — Greg Burnett, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Inside and out all the visible wood is cedar, except the floors, which are maple, oak and black walnut.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The takeaway here is that good things, in this case American black walnut wood, are hefty!
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In the moonlight, the black walnuts seemed to sway sentiently, like elephant trunks.
    — Nicolette Polek, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • With a full sound and a deep bass, The Sixies on sale have a handsome black walnut wooden veneer.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
  • They are known to feed on over 70 plant species, including black walnut, red maple and tree of heaven.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
  • Her windows face the trees on the rock, which include maple, ash, black walnut and mulberry.
    — Amy Sohn, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Hickory trees and black walnut trees have turned out an amazing crop of nuts as well.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The corpses are always at a corner of the track where squirrels drop green-and-black husks from the overhanging branches of a black walnut.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The search for next year’s Big Tree winner will be for a black walnut tree growing in Geauga County.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
  • They are both located under a maple tree and all of them are very close to a 60-year-old English or black walnut.
    — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Glass was cut in amoeboid shapes to fit between the black walnut railings on the staircases.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Mary Lou Barnes Raupach’s black walnut tree towers 80 feet in the air and is considered to be the second biggest of its species in the state.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The deadly pest first found in Maryland in 2018 damages fruit trees and some hardwood species such as black walnut and oak but not firs or spruces.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • There was the wooden artwork on the wall, built from a black walnut tree Tetrick had chopped down on his property.
    — cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The electric fireplace comes in the black walnut finish that's shown in addition to a gray wash finish.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The land was dotted with black walnut trees, and Pickerell’s house was shaded by a massive example of the species.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Maple, black walnut, ash, cottonwood, spruce, cedar and white pine trees dot the property.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Rather than hang on to their leaves until later in the fall and make a big splash out of the season, black walnut, tulip poplar, osage orange, and a whole host of other tree species simply cut the cord.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024

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