edible - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Anyone who thinks doing an experiment in a kitchen makes the result edible should not do these experiments.
  • produce: Given the smell, it's shocking that this place was producing anything edible at all.
  • eat: They eat anything edible including rats, mice and, rabbits.

Modifies a noun

  • crawlies: These exceedingly slurpable lollies have genuine edible creepy crawlies embedded within their candy confines.
  • crab: Some believe that spider crab inhibit edible crab from entering the pots.
  • seedcrops: I had always wanted, as much as I was able, to meet the edible seedcrops on their own level.
  • fungus: The only thing it doesn't tell you is where the edible fungi are.
  • dormouse: Also, edible dormice can make a whistling sounds at short intervals over long periods, which announce their willingness to mate.
  • tuber: The plants are sprawling vines with edible underground stem tubers.

Modifying Another Word

  • perfectly: The flowers are perfectly edible, they make a pretty garnish anyway.
  • almost: I like the way the word sounds almost edible.
  • quite: The food was... okay, nothing special and a little pricey, but quite edible, and the views were lovely.
  • still: I worked in a grocery store, and I saw plenty of lightly bruised food, still edible, tossed in the trash.
  • only: But it's not the only edible that's fallen from flavor.
  • not: Tho not edible, they could be good sport, so Oscar poked his scarred nose through a window.

Used with adjective complement

  • look: The beads used in the work look almost edible.
  • have: Plants for the Future A resource center for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses.
  • consider: Sea fish are seldom returned alive to the water as most are considered edible.
  • become: The mushrooms that were edible become poisonous and those that were poisonous become edible.
  • stay: This the reason why bottled, canned and vacuum-packed foods stay edible for such a long time.

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