saltish

Example Sentences

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They sipped on their saltish Kashmiri pink tea a little longer instead of starting on the buffet their host had set out.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2017

Its physical properties are known to every one—it is a thickish, nearly opaque fluid, of a peculiar odor, saltish taste, etc.

From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Knowlton, Charles

Middle Miocene.—Sandstone containing quartz, intercalated with marl of a saltish taste.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various

The saltish old fellow chuckled deep in his hairy throat.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks

The sweat is a turbid, saltish fluid with a feeble but characteristic odor due to certain volatile fatty acids.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.