brackishness
Example Sentences
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But over time it became clear that the new city’s brackishness was a problem.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2017
One offered that she appreciates how its brackishness, which discourages pounding, works as a moderation mechanism, a check against going out too hard too fast: “It's kind of my wedding drink.”
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2013
He walked some distance by this stream, in order to get some water which might be free from brackishness, and then, with very little trouble, he crossed it.
From Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Richard Stockton
At first the brackishness in the water repelled him; but almost at once he found himself accepting it with avidity.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The only local disorder is a very malignant sore, which may perhaps be due to the brackishness of the water.
From Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
