How to Use indigestible in a Sentence

indigestible

adjective

• Their presentation was an indigestible mass of information.
• But corn on the cob is a no-no for dogs because the cob is indigestible.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 May 2022
• But filling them up with indigestible foods is not the way to go.
  — Craig Dougherty, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2013
• The place has pictures of the food on the menu board, which usually is a harbinger of indigestible things.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• Bridget was a writer with an indigestible Irish past of her own.
  — Lore Segal, The New Yorker, 28 July 2022
• As a nation, their food is heavy, coarse, ill prepared and indigestible. . . .
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023
• The amount of waste your dog produces is proportional to the amount of indigestible content in his food.
  — Marygrace Taylor, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2018
• The worm tubes are made of chitin and tough proteins, but the sponge microbes have just the right enzymes to break down these normally indigestible substances.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• DAY 1 Two bags of bottles and roughage (plant material that's indigestible and acts as fiber) are delivered to my desk.
  — Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire, 7 Mar. 2017
• Sporamin is the main protein in sweet potato tubers, and is indigestible raw, which is why sweet potatoes must be cooked for humans to enjoy them.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
• At 2 hours and 30 minutes, the play can sometimes seem indulgent; parts of the story feel undigested and perhaps indigestible.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2022
• The result is an overload of images, both indigestible and irresistible.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
• After all, hacking up indigestible bits of food is hardly unique to birds; living creatures from crocodiles to sperm whales do it, too.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
• Still, many of these complaints are almost indigestible in their fatty self-righteousness.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
• Rather than investing in the trajectory of the story, we're thrown into a state of emotional distress that renders the show indigestible.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• Prebiotics are non-living, indigestible fibers that are used as food for probiotics.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
• Meanwhile, the Coquerel’s sifaka, which mainly subsists on plant leaves full of indigestible cellulose, can take up to 24 hours to digest.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 12 Dec. 2017
• Prebiotics are a type of indigestible fiber that act as food for the gut bacteria living in your large intestines, helping to create a thriving gut microbiome.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2023
• Mesopelagic fish, squid and crustaceans turned up in the stomachs of tuna, swordfish and blue sharks, while sperm whale stomachs contained the indigestible beaks of deep-sea squid, including the giant squid Architeuthis.
  — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
• These foods contain a type of phosphorus that is indigestible to the pigs, so farmers also feed their pigs an enzyme called phytase to allow the animals to break down and digest the phosphorus.
  — Aline Reynolds, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2010
• Within 24 hours, most of the corals had expelled the indigestible plastic grains, but 8 percent got stuck in their intestines, which could lead to fatal blockages and the leaching of chemicals from the plastic, which could have hormonal effects.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 Nov. 2017
• That’s partly because food, one of the main issues, is a particularly indigestible matter.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
• In short, this concept tries to explain why oligosaccharides – which are indigestible to babies – are the third-most prominent component in milk, are complex in structure and are variable between species.
  — Enea Rezzonico, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2015
• Plus, these tiny superfoods are full of prebiotic fiber,2 an indigestible fiber that serves as sustenance for our healthy gut bacteria.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2023
• This smorgasbord of changes suggests that the young rodents’ encounters with antibiotics had changed the microbes in their guts, to a cadre that was better at harvesting calories from otherwise indigestible food.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2012
• And how much nicer a sentence that is than all that life-ruining piffle about the atopic character of literary space, an indigestible confection that deserves to be tossed from one of Loving’s trains, to languish by the wayside forever.
  — Simon Winchester, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• Cows can benefit from these products too, turning grasses that are indigestible to humans into high-quality milk protein.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• Its exact causes are still uncertain, but its growth may be spurred by the irritation created by indigestible elements in the foods eaten by the whales, such as the beaks of cuttlefish, which are almost invariably found in ambergris.
  — Mallory Locklear, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2014
• Another signature move of the Haywood phenomenon is cyclones of swirling dust that suck up everyone and everything in their path before belching out the indigestible metal and plastic bits hours, or even days, later.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 22 July 2022
• These indigestible carbohydrates absorb and hold water, lending oatmeal its smooth and thick consistency, and help lower cholesterol, McGee says.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024