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briny

[brahy-nee] / ˈbraɪ ni /
ADJECTIVE
salty
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Viking god Erling Haaland gave a hallelujah to the briny magic of a Katz’s pastrami.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

She cold-called farm-to-table restaurants, talking chefs through sugar kelp's mild, briny flavour.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

In Thessaly, where around 45 percent of the briny white cheese is made from sheep and goat's milk, the impact of the disease is already significant.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

“It’s kind of inheriting that briny character, like a martini of the sea.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

I transfer to Kijkduin, a suburb on the sea, and as the train gets closer, the air becomes briny.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

I savored the creamy interior, brinier than a sea urchin but similar in texture.

From Washington Post Oct. 28, 2021

Denied the simpler masculine pleasures, guys cook up the most elaborate schoolboy pranks; the brinier the life, the earthier the lingo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Normally the purest river in the European part of the Soviet Union, the Dniester became "brinier than the saltiest sea water," in Vasilyev's words.

From Time Magazine Archive

Little clouds of faint violet-coloured mist rise from the lower and brinier portions of the pack, which stretches unbroken to the horizon.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

The menu lists them from mildest to briniest, and the selection rotates regularly, depending on local farmer availability.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2021

His briniest hour: Churchill trod carefully as he emerged from the Channel Tatler noted that the Churchills were enjoying themselves "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife".

From BBC Jul. 29, 2011




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