How to Use undrinkable in a Sentence

undrinkable

adjective
  • The water was undrinkable and had to be boiled.
  • Add too many hops, and the beer will be so bitter as to be undrinkable.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The water is undrinkable and raw sewage is pumped into the sea.
    David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Most of the planet’s great rivers—the Danube, the Tiber, the Mississippi—were undrinkable.
    National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The park’s undrinkable water and raw sewage leaks posed a hazard to residents’ health and well-being, the judge wrote.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • The city has had to warn residents their water may be undrinkable.
    Abc News, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • These places serve first-rate food alongside undrinkable wine.
    Bruce Palling, Newsweek, 7 July 2014
  • Now the vodka for dozens of little jars of tinctures — garden herbs and weeds soaking in now-undrinkable booze.
    Lisa Richardson, Longreads, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The tap water is undrinkable; untreated sewage is pumped into the sea.
    The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • Tap water is undrinkable, and the Mediterranean beachfront smells from the tons of untreated sewage dumped into it each day.
    Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • Food was running low, and the water became undrinkable.
    Author: Dave Bendinger, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
  • But most Iraqis receive just a few hours of electricity a day, tap water is undrinkable and the health care system is in ruins.
    Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • There’s no excuse for withholding full-throttle help for even a minute from a place where the water is undrinkable, the food supply is dwindling and the heat is stifling.
    Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The risks remain: bodies still to be uncovered, undrinkable water, the first mold spores taking hold.
    Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The Ballfields Café in Central Park sells more than 400 bottled waters a week to hot-dog lovers washing down the salt, families on the go and tourists from places where the tap water is undrinkable.
    Winnie Hu, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Brewers sometimes have to dump thousands of gallons of undrinkable beer.
    Mike Cherney, WSJ, 20 May 2018
  • Daily power cuts last for several hours, and the tap water is undrinkable.
    Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Jobs are hard to come by, Gaza's beaches are polluted by untreated sewage and tap water is undrinkable.
    Josef Federman and Dan Perry, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Jobs are hard to come by, Gaza’s beaches are polluted by untreated sewage and tap water is undrinkable.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2018
  • China is running out of water—half of its rivers have vanished, and 60 percent of its groundwater is undrinkable.
    Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Adams and others described their well water as undrinkable.
    Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Beside a row of craft rum and vodka taps, Jeremy Craig on Wednesday stirred a vat of his potent — but undrinkable — craft hand sanitizer.
    Suzanne Hirt, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
  • And the water that did come out of taps was often undrinkable due to dangerously low water pressure levels.
    oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Approximately 98 percent is from the oceans — and undrinkable because of the salt content.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Water is undrinkable and electricity available only for a few hours a day.
    The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Winemakers, on the other hand, have to contend with the possibility of investing in wine that could turn out undrinkable.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • For the last 15 years, the inhabitants of Zagora have been buying drinking water because tap water is undrinkable.
    Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2017
  • The annual summer algal blooms can render water undrinkable, and lead to beach closures.
    Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 30 June 2020
  • Three times in the past 18 months, waste has seeped out of such reservoirs, jamming underground rivers, flooding village streets and rendering the local reservoir water undrinkable.
    Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Precise ratios can be the difference between a smooth beverage and a bitter, undrinkable cup.
    Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 29 Sep. 2020

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