Sample Sentences for
potable
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    The public golf course is watered with non-potable water.
    non-potable = not suitable for drinking
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    This was clean, potable water, not something already cast away in a sopping towel.†  (source)
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    While the rest of us scrounged for potable water and food and stocked up on the weaponry for the last stand we were sure was coming, Daddy was out with my little brother's Radio Flyer carting home the books.†  (source)
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    Uncle Alfred insists that Loveless Lake is 'potable'—he says we have swallowed so much of it, we would be dead if it weren't.†  (source)
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    Or you could demand commodities: non-potable water, steel of defined grade, heavy water of power plant specs, other things.†  (source)
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    And to facilitate such, may I ask if this hostel stocks potables?†  (source)
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    There was very little potable water left in his skins.†  (source)
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    "Conservative" is the word I've always associated with conserving our environment from pollution, ensuring that our water is potable and our grass green.†  (source)
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    Most of the pages were filled with information like how to make a hot-rock bed, or a lean-to, or how to make water potable which I didn't really understand because I've never seen any water that can't be poured into a pot.†  (source)
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    It's potable water.†  (source)
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    Almost deliberately she ruined her taste for the better sort of potable liquors, concealing from herself, under the convenient labellings of physic, the ugly crawling hunger in her blood.†  (source)
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    Because of the island's lack of potable water, they concluded only 13,000 troops could be there.†  (source)
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    STILLTENT: small, scalable enclosure of micro-sandwich fabric designed to reclaim as potable water the ambient moisture discharged within it by the breath of its occupants.†  (source)
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