How to Use inedible in a Sentence

inedible

adjective

• The steak was overcooked, but not inedible.
• Then, using a spoon, trace it around the inside of the skin to carve out the flesh from the inedible skin.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2022
• Here’s the scoop on the best milk chocolate chips — and the inedible failures.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2017
• Wild birds, of course, don’t watch videos to learn what’s inedible.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 19 Dec. 2017
• Here are recipes for a tasty season or an inedible one for each of the 32 teams.
  — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• This doesn’t make the egg inedible, but the white along the crack will get a little rubbery.
  — Emily Farris, Bon Appetit, 24 May 2017
• In the case of the pygmy shrew, the only scraps the researchers found after three days were inedible fur, bone and skin.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
• And like an old piece of fruit, a lot of that data from the early days has grown mushy and inedible.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 May 2018
• Groats are the entire kernel of the oat, with just the inedible husk removed.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• Raw, the fruit is inedible, like an olive before it’s cured.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2022
• Don't get this confused with the inedible tea tree oil.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2021
• Her kids, picky eaters like many young children, found the meals inedible.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2021
• Once the first snow hits, these grouse are almost inedible.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2022
• On one baking sheet the little squares were inedible, just hard and dry.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2021
• Tips To Avoid Burnout Burnout can leave you feeling like a charred piece of toast—crispy, overdone and inedible.
  — Chris Kille, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The only thing that is removed in brown rice is the outer inedible hull.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 13 Sep. 2020
• But Elmer’s doesn’t dry the right way and is inedible, if nontoxic.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 17 May 2018
• Second, salt mined near the volcano has become inedible due to the ash fall from Nabro.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2016
• The flesh was pitted with black seeds and nearly inedible.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 14 Oct. 2022
• The irony is that pilot whales, like whales the world over, are becoming inedible.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• Skip the deep-fried ice cream and equally inedible deep-fried cheesecake.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
• When in doubt, trim the asparagus ends so you aren't left chewing for far too long on an inedible piece.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
• And why, among all the stupid, inedible entrees this month puts on its table, this one isn’t fit for the garbage disposal.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
• To make sure the bats didn't tire of hunting fake, inedible prey, every third run of the experiment a small piece of fish was placed on top of the frogs.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2016
• And for the charge that carp are inedible — more or less true — very few anglers kill and eat bass in Alabama, either.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 9 Oct. 2019
• Zack cooked dinner for Bliss in his apartment, and most of the dishes turned out inedible.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• As the name implies, this type needs to be freed of their inedible pods before consumption.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
• My friend is not the only one attracted to inedible art.
  — Nora Deligter, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2019
• The evergreen bears fragrant yellow flowers in late winter and early spring, followed by inedible olive-like fruits that draw in birds and squirrels.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2024
• While some organizations and institutions define food waste as edible food mass, the report includes both the edible and inedible parts of food.
  — Sam Delgado, Vox, 4 May 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024