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Example sentences for: oats

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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.
In any event, it is hard to discern, from the arch style affected in an attempt to make dull facts interesting, just what is the origin of sow one's wild oats . In many entries, Claiborne labors the obvious, offering little or nothing we do not already know, could easily imagine, or for which the author offers no explanation.
All patients were on a gluten-free diet and ate oats that were free of contamination by other cereals.
Pavage, pontage, avenage, beaconage , and furnage were taxes or tolls for, respectively, paved roads, bridges, rent in oats, upkeep of beacons, and the use of the lord's oven.
Kvacker, for example, referring to any kind of porridge, is a truncated form of Quaker Oats, while kottej is cottage cheese and not a quaint little thatched dwelling with roses entwined round the door.