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How to use oatmeal in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun, adjective

Oatmeal means meal made from rolled or round oats. Example: “I don't especially like mushy oatmeal.”

Examples of oatmeal by meaning

nounA breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk or water.

  • As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist

More sentences with oatmeal

  • I don't especially like mushy oatmeal.From the entry mushy
  • Ultra-processed foods, like energy drinks, instant oatmeal, sliced bread, or hot dogs."2025 November 10, Morgan Coulson, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2025. From the entry ultra-processed food
  • "Why'd you slip the potty princess a turbolax if you already put oatmeal in her pamps?"2021 April 9, @str8jacker, Twitter. From the entry potty princess
  • He had a mayorly appearance, but he spoke as if his mouth was full of oatmeal mush.2011, Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life. From the entry mayorly
  • Nonirritating oatmeal soaps are a good choice for people with sensitive skin.2002, Carol Turkington, Jeffrey S. Dover, The Encyclopedia of Skin and Skin Disorders, Third Edition, page 261. From the entry oatmeal soap
  • A piece of oatmeal stuck in the underhang of Roy's lip.1987, Patricia Volk, White light. From the entry underhang
  • Classic cookies include oatmeal chocolate chip creme pie, PB cup and another fall flavor is the chai cookie butter.2022 November 26, Tiana Kennell, “First Watch expanding, cookie shop opens, Peruvian chef event”, in Asheville Citizen Times, volume 153…. From the entry PB cup
  • Mom made her favorite oatmeal no-bakes and Rice Krispies treats.2003, Kristen Heitzmann, The Still of Night, page 84. From the entry favorite
  • I squealed, clawed, cried, & babbled all at the same time as I felt my brain turn to Gerber oatmeal.1995 January 8, Grumpy Bear, “STORY: Baby Again”, in alt.sex.fetish.diapers (Usenet). From the entry paci gag
  • We had oatmeal porridge for breakfast, which was fairly filling, but I always starved at lunch and dinner.1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiv. From the entry filling
  • I usually like a coconut fro-yo with some kind of chocolate situation and anything with cinnamon, or graham cracker-y, or oatmeal cookie type vibe.2016 March 31, Leah Chernikoff, quoting Kate Hudson, “Talking About That Athleisure Life With the Very Cool, Very Lost Kate Hudson”, in…. From the entry graham cracker-y
  • Among Swift's favorite malaphors are "He's a ragged individualist"; "I was up at the crank of dawn"; and "He's a fly in the oatmeal."2012, George Michael Killenberg, Public Affairs Reporting Now: News of, by and for the People, Taylor & Francis. From the entry malaphor
  • While Mother raisined our oatmeal with niacin tablets and wheatgermed our milk, Opal baked us sugar cakes and sugar cookies, deep-fried us sugar doughnuts.2011, The Georgia Review - Volume 65, page 219. From the entry raisin
  • I switched from eating Italian beefs, drinking high-calorie mocha lattes and big sodas to drinking lots of water, eating salmon and having oatmeal for breakfast.2006, “Losing Weight The Old-Fashioned Way”, in Ebony, volume 61, number 9, page 77. From the entry Italian beef
  • The boys’ favorite foods include homemade pizza, chocolate chip banana muffins, black witch cake and “eggs-in-a-basket,” (an egg fried in a piece of oatmeal bread).2006 May 7, Colleen Scholer, “She thinks of friends when cooking”, in Sun Journal, Lewiston, Me.: Lewiston Daily Sun, →OCLC, page E6…. From the entry egg-in-a-basket
  • George Matheson Murray, the man she was to meet in South Vancouver, was an oatmeal porridge Scot as Canadian as maple syrup.2003, Stan Sauerwein, Ma Murray: The Story of Canada's Crusty Queen of Publishing, Altitude Publishing, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry Canadian as maple syrup
  • Cost $1.55, with tip, for coffee and rolls for two, a bowl of oatmeal for her and one egg Benedict for me.1917 November 11, Theodore Dreiser, edited by Thomas P. Riggio, James L. W. West III, and Neda M. Westlake, American Diaries, 1902-1926…. From the entry egg benedict
  • On March 24 : For breakfast - cocoa, two rashers of bacon, 2 oz. of dry oatmeal, and 1 oz. of cream.1916, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, page 54. From the entry rasher
  • We honor foot-high pie, oatmeal pecan pie, “pake” (that’s a pie baked inside a cake), apple green chili pecan pie, levee-high pie and even gooey butter cake pie.2015 November 18, Patricia Corrigan, “Sweet! St. Louis thrives with pies”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 68, number 44, page 1B. From the entry pake
  • A carafe of tea and a plate of oatmeal cookies were on a small mahogany table in front of a pink and lime green plaid loveseat.2007, Nora Charles, Death Rides the Surf, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry love seat
  • In fact, Quaker research found that “about 30 percent of consumers are looking for a different texture, a different variety, than oatmeal can deliver,” he added.2007 September 10, Stuart Elliott, “Hot Cereal, Hey, It’s All Natural”, in New York Times. From the entry multigrain
  • Perhaps that explained the breakfast of oatmeal porridge—piled plates of thick stirabout thickly sprinkled with pale, very sweet powdery brown sugar—and the eggs to follow with rolls and butter.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 92. From the entry stirabout
  • In tin packages costing twenty-five cents each the company offers afternoon teas, butter thins, ginger wafers, graham wafers, unsweetened grahams, oatmeals, pilot wafers, square saltines and zephyrettes.1912, American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record - Volume 60, page 63. From the entry zephyrette
  • Breakfast was served at 8am and sometimes consisted of skillygalee, a sort of oatmeal gruel prepared in fatty water and which by the time of Trafalgar included butter and sugar.2005, Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Steve Noon, Nelson's Sailors, Osprey Publishing, page 24. From the entry skillygalee
  • Chocolate chip, raisin spice, oatmeal, peanut butter and “big softy” cookies are sold by the dozenful in plastic bags to young and old alike who come knocking at her door.1983 June 26, Diane Lund, “Cookie shop not half-baked idea”, in The Sunday Oregonian, volume 102, number 30, Portland, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dozenful

Meaning of oatmeal

  1. noun Meal made from rolled or round oats.
  2. noun A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk or water.
  3. noun A light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal.

Full definition of oatmeal

Questions about oatmeal in a sentence

How do you use oatmeal in a sentence?
Oatmeal is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “I don't especially like mushy oatmeal.”
What is a short sentence with oatmeal?
“I don't especially like mushy oatmeal.”
What does oatmeal mean?
Oatmeal means meal made from rolled or round oats.

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