not fit to eat
Example Sentences
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When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat.
From Time Magazine Archive
This island we called Plumb Island, from its bearing an austere, astringent kind of fruit, resembling plumbs, but not fit to eat.
From Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 by Thomson, Basil
But it was not fit to eat, being some kind of hawk.
From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
All the provisions each man had was but two pounds meat and two pounds bread for a week, always one and sometimes both was not fit to eat.
From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Dandridge, Danske
