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

At the depth of 1,222 feet the water became saltish, then sulphury.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

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 water is perfectly clear, has a saltish taste, and at the spring is not unlike weak broth, though it has a disagreeable odor.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

Brackish, brak′ish, adj. saltish: applied to water mixed with salt or with sea-water.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various