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
  • These places serve first-rate food alongside undrinkable wine.
    — Bruce Palling, Newsweek, 7 July 2014
  • The water is undrinkable and raw sewage is pumped into the sea.
    — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The city has had to warn residents their water may be undrinkable.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The tap water is undrinkable; untreated sewage is pumped into the sea.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • All the money in the world isn’t going to save you when the air is polluted and the water is undrinkable.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Water treatment couldn’t keep up, making their stores undrinkable.
    — Aaron Steckelberg, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • Brewers sometimes have to dump thousands of gallons of undrinkable beer.
    — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 20 May 2018
  • 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
  • Many, perhaps by design, were undrinkable.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Daily power cuts last for several hours, and the tap water is undrinkable.
    — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Water is undrinkable and electricity available only for a few hours a day.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Sanudin, 67, says sediment from mining made their main water source undrinkable.
    — NPR, 7 May 2026
  • 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
  • And the water that did come out of taps was often undrinkable due to dangerously low water pressure levels.
    — oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Their waterways are polluted and undrinkable, yet citizens still wash their clothes and utensils in them.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The annual summer algal blooms can render water undrinkable, and lead to beach closures.
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 30 June 2020
  • 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
  • If a hurricane hits, tap water often becomes undrinkable if the power fails at water treatment plants.
    — Janine Puhak, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • News reports said Arpaio forced inmates to wear pink underwear and often fed them expired food and undrinkable water.
    — Jonathan Van Harmelen, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Precise ratios can be the difference between a smooth beverage and a bitter, undrinkable cup.
    — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The water is almost entirely undrinkable, and raw sewage is befouling beaches and fishing grounds.
    — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Most of the planet’s great rivers—the Danube, the Tiber, the Mississippi—were undrinkable.
    — National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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

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