It is the duty of taste to warn us against uneatable things, and to recommend to our favourable attention eatable and wholesome ones; and, on the whole, in spite of small occasional remissness, it performs this duty with creditable success.
As an instance we may mention green gooseberries and hard greengages, which, though quite uneatable in their natural state, yet make delicious fruit pies or dishes of stewed fruit.
Farther along the pebble beach they found the ashes of a fire and the bones and uneatable remains of a hare.
Bones, bits of skin, fish scales and heads, and the uneatable parts of hares, squirrels and birds, were strewn about the ground in the Indian manner.
Venison killed on one day would beuneatable on the day following, unless it were half-dressed shortly after it was killed; thus the size of the animal in no way contributes to the continuation of the supply of food, as the meat will not keep.
The Coccinellidae or lady-birds are another uneatable group, and their conspicuous and singularly spotted bodies serve to distinguish them at a glance from all other beetles.
The white colour of the female Diaphora, although it must be very conspicuous at night, may, therefore, have been acquired in order to resemble the uneatable Spilosoma, and thus gain some protection.
These uneatable insects are probably more numerous than is supposed, although we already know immense numbers that are so protected.
Uneatable larvae, on the other hand, comprise all that are of conspicuous colours and are hairy or spiny.
It grows sometimes to a vast size, to the size almost of a shark; but when the cod is so big its flesh is always rank and uneatable by Europeans.
Its flesh is uneatable except by an aboriginal or a victim to famine.
A dinner, prepared from a New Art of Cookery, concocted under their auspices, would be more comical and more uneatable than the Roman dinner in Peregrine Pickle.
That is a handsomer ornament of a dinner-table than clusters of nosegays, and all sorts of uneatable decorations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uneatable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
