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Examples of drinkable in a Sentence
Adjective
This coffee is so hot it's not drinkable.
technically, that cheap stuff may be wine, but it's hardly drinkable
Noun
the thoughtful hostess offered her guests an assortment of alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinkables
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Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
In a spacecraft or on a space station, where every drop of potentially drinkable water is sacred, this could be viewed as wasteful.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 12 July 2024
Ella Nilsen, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
Also, these products may contain synthetic materials and chemical agents that can harm wildlife and strain the treatment process that helps make water drinkable.
—cleveland, 1 May 2020
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Adjective
The system could process half a liter of urine in five minutes and could return 87 percent of it as drinkable water.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2024
In a spacecraft or on a space station, where every drop of potentially drinkable water is sacred, this could be viewed as wasteful.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 12 July 2024
Noun
And states and individual water districts are also submitting applications for additional funding to support long-term projects including drip irrigation, ripping out water-intensive grass from cities, or investing in desalination plants to make ocean water or brackish water drinkable.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
Also, these products may contain synthetic materials and chemical agents that can harm wildlife and strain the treatment process that helps make water drinkable.
—cleveland, 1 May 2020
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“Drinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drinkable. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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