Examples of oat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Whereas oat milk nails add a sheer milky hint of color to nails, like a more natural-looking Frenchie, oatmeal nails are, well…the color of oatmeal. — Elle Turner, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2022 Typically, Klorane dry shampoo is derived from oat milk. — Chris Hachey, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022 Alongside a glass of oat milk, these cocoa-rich cookies are perfectly soft and chewy. — Taylor Worden, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2022 That might include a breakfast of whole grain toast with peanut butter and a smoothie made from banana and oat milk. — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2022 Help Mom upgrade her set-up with a Trade coffee subscription, which takes into account her flavor preferences, go-to brewing method, and even add-ins like oat milk, cream, and sugar, before recommending choice bags of beans from excellent roasters. — Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 22 Apr. 2022 Remove the oat mixture from the heat and stir in Greek yogurt. — Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2022 Once butter is golden brown and smells nutty, after 1-2 minutes, drizzle it over oat mixture, and toss to combine. — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021 Stir the dry ingredients into the oat milk mixture in batches until fully incorporated. — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for oat

Middle English ote "the grain of the oat plant, the plant itself," going back to Old English āte (weak feminine noun), of uncertain origin

Note: Old English āte has been compared with regional Dutch aate, oote "wild oats" (West and Zeeland Flanders), West Frisian and Groningen Dutch oat. (These contrast with Dutch haver, denoting cultivated oats, a reflex of the Common Germanic word for the grain.) Michiel de Vaan, in an addenda to the online etymologiebank.nl, believes that the Flanders words are semantic extensions of regional aat "food," of general Germanic origin (see eat entry 2), though this hypothesis would scarcely explain the Old English word. Jan de Vries (Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek, Brill, 1971) hypothesizes that the Low Country words may have been borrowed from English.

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