Still they were all eatable, and most of them really palatable.
The tea's cold and as black as ink, growled the indignant lodger, "and the egg isn't eatable."
The tongue, tenderloin and brisket are generally preferred, but all the meat is eatable.
They looked at the food as critics, and acknowledged it to be eatable, with the faint air of an exile's sadness.
Examplesofeatable
eatable
The price of common articles including eatables like sugar, salt, rice, and wheat also went up.
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What is generally enclosed with a letter is a document and not aneatable.
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English can make a subtle distinction betweeneatableand edible, readable and legible.
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That trade involves the necessity of fish being preserved in such a way as to remaineatable.
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I think it is admitted that if food is to be madeeatablesome colouring and some flavourings must be used.
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The farmer's wife said that during that hot weather the eggs were hardlyeatablewhen they reached the consumer.
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It is nothing to do with the price of herring fresh, kippered, oreatablein any other form, but purely herring for meal and oil.
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It may be that our trains would be cleaner and our food in many restaurants moreeatableif people complained more.
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You took the dog outside the room and you hid anything, so long as it waseatable, in any part of the room.
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The best and most devoted cooks are at their wits' end to provideeatablemeals, and the worst send up revolting messes.
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Maybe, but at any rate the herrings would be properly cured andeatableunlike the dyed kippers of today.
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But the fact of the matter is that we are now using things which are not all thateatable.
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We had it on very good authority, that if one wraps loaves they can be kept for days and be quiteeatableat the end of three or four days.
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I do not mind that but when the 'unspeakable' begin to peddle the 'eatable', they should be open to the hygiene rules, as set down in this regulation.
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That meant four profits and four sets of freight and portering charges, with the produce all the time getting more and more tired and lesseatable.
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