noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wild
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Some sowing of wild oats is approved of, indeed positively welcomed in certain circles and settings.
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Sons sow wild oats and daughters risk being ruined.
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He's sown all his wild oats .
■ NOUN
porridge
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Margaret fed me porridge oats dusty with salt.
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Crush the cornflakes and mix with the porridge oats , then sprinkle over the fruit.
■ VERB
roll
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If you can not get oat or rice bran, try substituting rolled oats .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sow your wild oats
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As invaders from the United States began to rove the valley, they helped complete the oats conquest.
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Besides wheat, the program will aid growers of crops like oats or barley who use their land for grazing.
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If you can not get oat or rice bran, try substituting rolled oats .
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Not particularly appetizing, but not necessarily enough to put you off your oats , either.
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She dressed her makeshift altar with a necklace of twisted corn, two jam-jars stuffed with bouquets of oats and barley.
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The oats price is weaker than that for wheat, reflecting the current poor market for oats generally.
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The pigeons, puffed, sullen, full of oats and spring thoughts, kept their distance.
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Wheat and rye and barley and oats ripened in the sun.