Example Sentences

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If the meat is cut with the grain the slices will be unpalatably chewy and tough.

From Washington Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Fifteen months later a consultation was planned - later postponed because of the pandemic - after the HWB said that, although the numbers of whip offences by riders were down, they remained "unpalatably high".

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2022

British army rations were indigestible to starving people and could kill them, a concoction called Bengal Famine Mix, was unpalatably sweet, and intravenous feeding threw some, who feared fatal injections, into panic.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2020

In the 80s, there was still a macho cachet in eating unpalatably acidic apples on a spectrum from rock-hard granny smiths to hulking great knobbly cooking apples, in their abrasive, bark-like skins.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2015

Only the crabs didn’t have an unpalatably bitter or salty taste.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel