Example sentences for: fatua

How can you use “fatua” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Claiborne investigates and reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats , about which he tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information that fatua is Latin for `foolish': it was also Latin for `wild,' which might be more to the point.


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