saline

Example Sentences

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Water running off farmlands flows into the saline lake, and less water would shrink the lake faster, affecting wildlife and nearby communities where windblown dust brings high asthma rates and other health problems.

From Los Angeles Times

Nematodes can be found in deep ocean sediments, Arctic environments, and even highly saline soils.

From Science Daily

For hours, they were unconscious, neighbours later said - revived with water, then saline injections as the house filled with people and cries.

From BBC

The woman said in the suit that Rubin requested she replace her saline implants with silicone, since that was a sturdier material.

From The Wall Street Journal

In this scenario, nematodes could have clung to feathers after birds visited saline lakes in South America and were then carried thousands of miles north.

From Science Daily