salt water

Example Sentences

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Their hands, arms and legs bore wounds caused by the salt water.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The new pools are intended to handle year-round use, incorporating electric pool heaters, salt water and UV light water treatment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

The experiments were carried out under various conditions, for example in fresh and salt water.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

A full moon or storm tide can cover it for a while, and the salt water does a number on the mortar.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024

He carried the boy’s filthy clothes into the surf and washed them, standing shivering in the cold salt water naked from the waist down and sloshing them up and down and wringing them out.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy