Example Sentences

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While refill on the go is relatively straightforward for nonedible goods like soap and shampoo, public health departments in many places bar stores from letting people use their own containers for food.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2023

Gevo’s fuel uses sugars from nonedible industrial corn.

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2022

For the most part, Native Americans had little interest in adopting European foods, but the arrival of nonedible resources created an immediate impact.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Often associated with desserts in the United States and Europe — and sometimes overly perfumed edible and nonedible products hawked by corporations this time of year — these spices can do so much more.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2022

One manual I had read said to watch what the birds and animals were eating in order to learn what is edible and nonedible in the forest.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George