brackishness
Example Sentences
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But over time it became clear that the new city’s brackishness was a problem.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2017
One offered that she appreciates how its brackishness, which discourages pounding, works as a moderation mechanism, a check against going out too hard too fast: “It's kind of my wedding drink.”
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2013
Canua is a small country town, eighteen c. from Agra, W. by S. around which very good indigo is made, owing to the strength of the soil and brackishness of the water.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
At first the brackishness in the water repelled him; but almost at once he found himself accepting it with avidity.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
These consist partly of marine and partly of freshwater species; but they are few in number, the brackishness of the water appearing to be very unfavorable to the development of testacea.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
