How to Use perishable in a Sentence

perishable

adjective

• Since the fruits are perishable, the box must be shipped via second-day air.
  — Molly Blanco, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
• In the past, the group has collected non-perishable food and clothing to help those in need.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2021
• Please bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to the SW food bank.
  — courant.com, 25 Feb. 2022
• Keep anything that is highly perishable in the back of the fridge, where the air is coldest.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 25 July 2022
• There are shelves of non-perishable food, sometimes enough to last for months.
  — Tim Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• The gym is asking guests to bring non-perishable food items for Cheer Guild Christmas to be dropped off at the door.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2021
• In the rush to pack up the show, some perishable items got locked away and spent more than a year growing a thick layer of mold.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2021
• Gaza’s fishermen, with their perishable exports, were among the first to feel the pain.
  — Issam Adwan and Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2023
• Please bring a non-perishable food item to help the Churches in Mission Food Drive.
  — Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star, 26 June 2021
• Guests are asked to bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to the South Windsor Food Bank.
  — courant.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• But the need hadn't lessened, and perishable food was still coming in by the pallet-load.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2021
• If juicing is too much work and not enough reward for you, go for the bottles of perishable juice and get the same lift.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• Guests are asked to bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to the Windsor Food Bank.
  — courant.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Her apartment was a hoarder-like mess of books, thrift store finds and non-perishable food items.
  — Nick Keppler, Men's Health, 22 Dec. 2022
• Bring non-perishable food items to donate to the Bend Food Project (which also enters you in the raffle).
  — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2022
• The presence of wheat germ also makes whole wheat flour far more perishable than white flour.
  — Carmen Collins, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2022
• Fireplaces leave much more perishable traces than stone tools and bones.
  — Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
• Highly perishable, they can be stored for a few days wrapped in paper towels in the fridge.
  — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Food: Have a variety of non-perishable foods and snacks, and a stove that can boil water.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 3 Sep. 2020
• The only rule was that their artwork could not be perishable.
  — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2024
• Want something chic and culinary, but not perishable, to put under the tree?
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2021
• Many in the working-class neighborhoods had to throw away perishable food.
  — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
• Campers must pack a non-perishable lunch and drink and bring a bathing suit, towel and tennis shoes daily.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2021
• These are perishable items that can only be sold up to a certain point in their ripening process.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• The truck had originally been a closed freight module of the kind used to transport perishable goods.
  — Fox News, 11 Dec. 2021
• More than 600 trucks, many loaded with perishable fresh foods, were backed up in both countries.
  — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2021
• Non-perishable items for the food bank are collected through food drives, but fresh produce can be hard to find and afford.
  — Hartford Courant, 26 May 2022
• Ninety dollars and 55 cents later, Elise rolled her cart of non-perishable items out to her car.
  — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 23 July 2020
• This system enables the freshness and safety of perishable items such as cultured products with short shelf lives, as well as longer-lasting items like cheese and milk during storage and distribution processes.
  — Oyku Ilgar, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Some companies may face inventory space constraints, while perishable food products and other goods don’t have any good alternative routes, Tang said.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024