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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024