How to Use consumable in a Sentence

consumable

1 of 2 adjective

• This makes sense, as these are consumable parts with finite use ranges.
  — Alex Leanse, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2016
• So do levies on food, gasoline and other key consumable items.
  — Adrian D. Garcia, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• Should consumable hemp products be banned in Texas?
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
• Items from the shop floor that aren’t fit for sale but perfectly consumable will be used in the menu too.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• First, whisky is a consumable product.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Her job is to spin the flare-ups of a dying climate into cute, consumable sound bites for viewers.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
• Earlier this year, consumable goods like food were what was driving sales growth at dollar stores.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020
• So far, no one has given me a good option to use for materials that would be safe for consumable food.
  — oregonlive, 28 Sep. 2019
• To make the flavors and designs of their foods add up to a pleasant and consumable identity.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
• Some ancient remains may still be consumable today, or at least used to create a modern dish or drink.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2020
• Tax consumable hemp products at 15% of retail costs.
  — Marissa Payne, Des Moines Register, 5 Feb. 2026
• And protein is very hot right now, so anything consumable with a protein label is in for the wellness culture.
  — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
• Rich borrowers don’t spend their interest savings, which tends to keep demand for consumable goods in check.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2019
• Coated non-stick, by contrast, is a consumable no matter the price, so buy something on the cheap end and replace often.
  — Ryan Brennan june 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
• Gift cards, toys, apparel, and consumable goods are expected to be the top gift purchases.
  — Joan Verdon, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• The Knowledge potion is the first consumable to affect gameplay.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
• Roughly 83 percent of consumable food calories come from just these 10 sources.
  — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 9 July 2019
• Some have drawers to hold the patient's consumable medical items, like syringes and tubing.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 30 Mar. 2020
• There should always be something transcendental—not just what people want, what is consumable.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• This performance was like that scene writ large, captured in a consumable experience.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2016
• As Schneider argued, schools are not a consumable good like breakfast cereal.
  — Julie Halpert, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2018
• Price Since bait is a consumable product, bait brands know their prices have to be modest enough for re-supplying to be affordable.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
• There were also plenty of non-consumable handmade items, great gifts for the upcoming holidays.
  — Annie Gentile, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• These codes, printed on most food and other consumable products, may seem cryptic or even random to the average person.
  — Thomas Burke, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Because clothing is a consumable good that wears out, it can reasonably be evaluated on a unit-price basis, much like cost per use.
  — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
• Texas lawmakers hit an impasse this spring over a measure that producers said would have barred delta-8 from consumable hemp products.
  — Jennifer Peltz, orlandosentinel.com, 28 July 2021
• No, consumable hemp products should not be banned in Texas, but they must be responsibly regulated.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
• For the general public, movies seem more and more accessible these days, watchable on a tablet or a phone, consumable at a pace under their control.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2020
• The focus of these points of tension is the way our society treats black women as inhuman, their bodies consumable or publicly available.
  — Ilana Masad, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Cupp said the most in-demand items are often consumable supplies needed across schools and grade levels — pencils, paper, notebooks or markers.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2025

consumable

2 of 2 noun

• Much of that volume is shelf-stable items and consumables.
  — Bloomberg, Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
• By the time a report is generated, the run is over, the consumables are spent, and the labor is gone.
  — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• The supply chain for consumables isn’t as broad as the ones for apparel, home goods and electronics.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2020
• How good are your suppliers of medicines, implants, equipment, gloves, and other consumables?
  — Cincinnati.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• There should be room for four to five groups to work on projects at the time, as well as a dining room area for guests to consume any consumables that end up consumable.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2018
• If possible, place the pantry near the fridge to keep the consumables zone consolidated.
  — Jessica Dailey, Good Housekeeping, 11 Feb. 2019
• Those sales were supercharged when the pandemic forced many people to shop online for groceries and consumables for the first time.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
• So if inflation in dry grocery and consumables is only 3% or 5%, that’s on top of 15%.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
• Oligarchs and con men erected their own castles, and vendors flush with black-market consumables clogged the streets of Moscow.
  — National Geographic, 22 Dec. 2016
• The company is the leading supplier of these machines and consumables.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019
• This limited consumables can be purchased or they can be crafted using ingredients players find in the wild.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• Their cash benefit will be spent on consumables, which will positively impact the retail business.
  — Roger Vincent, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Core revenue increased high-single digits on the back of high-single digit growth in consumables and mid-single digit growth in equipment.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
• Three-fourths of Dollar General’s sales are groceries and other consumables.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2020
• But of course, no matter how expensive the hardware is or how many consumables are included, over time, a service model is almost certain to cost you more.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2023
• The crew has consumables for months and could be re-supplied by two US cargo ships as well as a Japanese vehicle.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2018
• The new rules had narrowed the on-time window for food and consumables like baby products and pet supplies to one day, compared with two days for general merchandise.
  — Bloomberg.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Green tea is the most celebrated metabolism-boosting consumable, and for good reason.
  — Ellie Krieger, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• Mostly small bags and containers of potato chips, cookies and sweets, but also toiletries, bottles of water and other consumables.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 26 May 2017
• Given the voracious appetite of modern warfare, drones are likely to become consumables like bullets or artillery shells.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• Even so, at the start of the conflict, 3D printers were in short supply, and there was a limited supply of consumables like filament.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• But Dollar General's reliance on selling cheap consumables has pinched its profit.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 11 July 2019
• Like any consumable on an interplanetary mission, the reagents are only available in a very limited supply, just enough for a handful of attempts.
  — Derek Smith, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• On the eGX, the only real consumable are the tires, as well as switching out the batteries after a 45 minute session.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 4 June 2023
• Doral Mayor Christi Fraga says that cash donations are vital along with consumables.
  — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 26 June 2026
• Bioprocessing core revenue was up high-single digits versus the year-ago period, driven by double-digit growth in sales of consumables.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
• This is a generation that actually consumes its consumables.
  — Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• Buffett’s moves highlight a preference for sectors tied to everyday consumption and long-term goals, such as housing, energy, and consumables.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
• The golden consumables are a definite hit with guests, according to Sudheera Fernando.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2018
• Americans have in recent decades come to talk about education less as a public good, like a strong military or a noncorrupt judiciary, than as a private consumable.
  — Erika Christakis, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2017