How to Use potable in a Sentence

potable

1 of 2 adjective

• Like, say, if the rain is poisonous, wouldn't there be a lack of potable water?
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 May 2018
• Why did the great Mayan cities of the ninth century run out of potable water?
  — Tunku Varadarajan, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The dyes are certified to use in and around potable waters.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024
• The area also sits atop the Glen Canyon Aquifer, which provides more than half of Moab’s potable water.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2020
• The 6-foot dam retains what was once the city's potable water supply and feeds into the South River.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2017
• Some of these people haven’t had water since the fire -- that’s zero potable water.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2019
• Among the missing links: poor transportation options and a lack of potable water and sewage lines.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2 May 2017
• Life drains into a stream Less than 1% of Earth’s water is potable and available for human use.
  — Boris Kondratieff, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
• Y’all no longer need to bring out the boiling pot to have safe, potable water in your home, according to KHOU, which first broke the news this morning.
  — Laura Furr Mericas, Chron, 21 Feb. 2021
• The most recent holdup involves completion of the potable water plant.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 3 June 2019
• Secondary water is a water source that’s not treated and non-potable.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2021
• For $2,000, a company sells a machine that claims to turn moisture in the air into potable water.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
• Thirst-quenching in a psychic way, that is; there is no actual potable water on this hike.
  — Bonnie Tsui, New York Times, 25 July 2017
• The reservoir — the scenic centerpiece of the hilly neighborhood named after it — no longer holds potable water.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• These islands are a true pack-in and pack-out situation, with no potable water in the park, no food for sale, and vault toilets here and there.
  — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2024
• Campers can expect vault toilets, a dump station, and potable water.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
• Without potable water, staff and patients were using hand wipes for bathing.
  — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• Adequate food and potable water no more than two hours after the delay starts.
  — Sasha Richie, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Ashore, there's potable water, picnic tables, some of the islands' best weather and plenty to do.
  — Elisa Parhad, latimes.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• Half the island lacks phone service, and about 40 percent of households lack access to potable water.
  — Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• There, the country’s drought has pushed some camels to enter villages in search of food and water, posing a threat to the safety of both people and their potable water.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2020
• From there, the lake would be allowed to fill naturally, unless no rain is forecast in which case potable water would be used to fill the lake.
  — Jon Arnold, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2020
• There is not a single Indian city that can provide potable water from its taps.
  — Kamakshi Ayyar, Time, 6 June 2018
• There is a bathroom, RV dump station, grills (no campfires allowed) and potable water.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 9 July 2018
• Twitter played an instrumental role in the rescue of people trapped in their homes, many of which lacked potable water.
  — Natalie Meade, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2019
• Hikers sleep in huts with bunk beds, toilets, cooking areas and potable water.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 3 May 2023
• Those include two dumpsters, four Port-a-Potties, and two potable water stations.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
• Everyone is struggling to get through their days without potable water as the local water district works to treat the source of the problem.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• And the city has set up several sites for distribution of non-potable or flushing water this week.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2021
• Shishmaref lacks basic plumbing for sewage and potable water.
  — Zach Hughes, latimes.com, 2 May 2018

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potable

2 of 2 noun

• All of you are gonna get down and dowse the ground for potable drinking water.
  — Al Mullen, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• Lines for water -- potable or not -- are long in many parts of the island.
  — Mckenna Ewen, CNN, 18 Oct. 2017
• And there wasn’t nearly enough potable water to go around.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022
• The report says the truck had no potable running water.
  — Garfield Hylton, orlandosentinel.com, 21 July 2021
• The tribe swaps some of that water back to the park service in exchange for potable water.
  — AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• This is the only hot spring on earth where the water is potable; the temperature kills pathogens.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• One potable water plant is down but water is still safe to drink, Nelson said.
  — Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• The Hemlock Negroni—who knew hemlock was potable?—makes for a good nightcap.
  — Elizabeth Dunn, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• The severe water shortage is the result of too little rain that has failed to fill the wells the town relies on for potable water.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2021
• The inside of the bag will bead with potable condensation when left in direct sunlight.
  — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 19 June 2020
• There were few roads or trails or even paths to follow and scant potable water, but plenty of pit vipers and tarantulas.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• Nearby is free firewood, vault toilets, and a potable well water pump.
  — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• But growth on the reservation is expected to stretch the supply of potable water to its limits.
  — Sarah Oven, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2021
• Of note, water from fountains in general isn’t potable, and should not be consumed.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 5 May 2021
• People woke up those who were still sleeping, moved cars to higher ground, and filled up jugs and bottles with potable water.
  — Carter Sickels, Outside Online, 3 Sep. 2022
• Another specialty of the house is on the potable, not edible, side.
  — Bruce Ingram, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• None of Glacier’s campgrounds have electrical hookups, and most lack potable water or firewood for sale.
  — Katie Jackson, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2022
• The tin roofs of the houses overlapped one another like fish scales; a roadside tap dripped a brown fluid that passed for potable water.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Echo Park Lake, which once employed potable water to maintain the lake, now recycles and cleans area runoff for that purpose.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• Their non-potable classification is why bitters may be sold in stores that don't sell hard liquor.
  — chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• The trucks have access to power hookups, a potable-water source and disposal of gray water — water that's been used to wash dishes and so on.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2019
• The Vigo graphite black sink faucet taps potable water from a 21-gallon onboard tank for cleaning dishes.
  — Everett Potter, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Puerto Rico reports 96 percent of the island has water, but there are questions about how much of it is potable.
  — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2018
• There's no dump station or potable water access, so come prepared.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2021
• Families lined up at a steel tanker to fill plastic jugs with potable water, who draped clothes over the cane supports of their lean-to shelters, roofed with fronds and blankets.
  — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2021
• Most were staying at one of the 15 campsites at Water Canyon Campground, which offers potable water and wind shelters.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• The site also recycled stormwater to reduce discharge costs and offset the cost of potable water.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2020
• Just as pressing are the illnesses brought on by a lack of food, potable water and shelter from continuing rain.
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• Our power also comes from the Earth—in the form of fossil fuels, the global food supply, breathable air, potable water—and we, too, can be severed from it.
  — Lily Houston Smith, The Atlantic, 23 June 2022
• Today, with climate change bringing ever-more-extreme weather, the river is no longer the sole or even a minor source of potable water for the county.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024