How to Use consumable in a Sentence

consumable

1 of 2 adjective

• 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
• The old hags, the dykes, the frigid, the unf---ed, the unf---ables, the neurotics, the psychos, for all those girls who don't get a look in the universal market of the consumable chick.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Nov. 2022
• The format of the images should be usable and consumable.
  — Aparajeeta Das, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• This makes sense, as these are consumable parts with finite use ranges.
  — Alex Leanse, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2016
• 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
• So do levies on food, gasoline and other key consumable items.
  — Adrian D. Garcia, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• 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
• The Knowledge potion is the first consumable to affect gameplay.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 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
• 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
• Earlier this year, consumable goods like food were what was driving sales growth at dollar stores.
  — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020
• Roughly 83 percent of consumable food calories come from just these 10 sources.
  — Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 9 July 2019
• 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
• The store’s longtime signature beehive has moved permanently to the Sabine Creek Honey Farm, but honey is still among the consumable gift items stocked in the store.
  — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2022
• Video content also needs to be consumable without sound.
  — Yec, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Some have drawers to hold the patient's consumable medical items, like syringes and tubing.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 30 Mar. 2020
• In the hundreds of stores where this transformation has already taken place, consumable sales have increased 9%, Foulkes said.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2017
• Rich borrowers don’t spend their interest savings, which tends to keep demand for consumable goods in check.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2019
• 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
• Most of them aren’t very relevant to Tears of the Kingdom, but every single one will spawn at least a few generic consumable items, like meal ingredients.
  — WIRED, 5 July 2023
• Instead, hemp mostly contains cannabidiol oil, or CBD, which is used in pills, creams and consumable products.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, baltimoresun.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Dollar Tree has since brought back some of these items at $1.25 and expanded its offerings of meat, pizza, breakfasts and other consumable items.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Klick said a more organized testing program is needed for the consumable products.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• There were also plenty of non-consumable handmade items, great gifts for the upcoming holidays.
  — Annie Gentile, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• As Schneider argued, schools are not a consumable good like breakfast cereal.
  — Julie Halpert, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2018
• An amended law should allow package stores to sell a variety of highly consumable food products in order to recoup the potential wine sales lost to them.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2023
• The ’fit pic is here to stay, and today its formatted, utilitarian, and deliciously consumable content, but things change.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023

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consumable

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If possible, place the pantry near the fridge to keep the consumables zone consolidated.
  — Jessica Dailey, Good Housekeeping, 11 Feb. 2019
• 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
• Selling the convenience stores could deprive Kroger of one means for reaching its goal to capture more of the roughly $1.5 trillion spent in the U.S. each year on food and consumables.
  — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• And don't load up on consumables with expiration dates.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 15 July 2019
• The company is the leading supplier of these machines and consumables.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019
• How good are your suppliers of medicines, implants, equipment, gloves, and other consumables?
  — Cincinnati.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Doctors’ orders: Stay away from deli meats, soft cheeses and alcohol, among other consumables!
  — Jaclyn Stapp, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• 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
• About $30 million of the revenue hit is attributed to a sequencing systems and consumables purchase that didn’t close as expected in the second half of June, the company said.
  — Patrick Thomas, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Three-fourths of Dollar General’s sales are groceries and other consumables.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 2 Jan. 2020
• The Dragon spacecraft will remain powered on the entire time it is attached to Haven-1, providing some of the consumables such as air or water and other services needed to keep humans alive.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Their cash benefit will be spent on consumables, which will positively impact the retail business.
  — Roger Vincent, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• The store showcases a new format with affordably priced furniture, seasonal, home, food and consumables goods.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2019
• Few vestiges of Mariani’s legacy remain, but coca wine (and other coca consumables) are sold in of Latin America.
  — Marc Alexander, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Which, for primary heroes already on the disc and expected by fans, is quite a bit of time to devote solely to those unlocks and not to any other seemingly necessary consumables like loot boxes.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
• The golden consumables are a definite hit with guests, according to Sudheera Fernando.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2018
• But Dollar General's reliance on selling cheap consumables has pinched its profit.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 11 July 2019
• The biggest price increases were for sought-after, premium consumables such as wine and whiskey, as well as luxury cars and hospitality services, Julius Baer notes in a statement.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 20 June 2023
• Green tea is the most celebrated metabolism-boosting consumable, and for good reason.
  — Ellie Krieger, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024