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

"It was found to be saltish to the taste, and to dissolve readily in water."

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

It has a saltish taste according to the accurate Baron Haller, not unlike the whey of milk, which it even resembles in smell.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The well El-Kusayr, just below the ruin, though at present closed, yielded till lately a large quantity: about half a mile to the westward is, or rather was, a saltish pit surrounded by four sweet.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Oxide, a compound of oxygen, and a base destitute of acid and saltish properties.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)