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
Why does a bottle of fresh water, corked and let down 30 or 40 feet into the sea, often come up again with the water saltish, although the cork be still in its place?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 by Various
Unlike horses I saw at Waikiki, which shut their eyes and plunged their heads into water up to their ears, in search of a saltish weed which grows in the lagoons.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
People eat these berries and find them good, with a saltish, bitter taste, and yet a dash of sweetness.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
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
