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

The sweat is a turbid, saltish fluid with a feeble but characteristic odor due to certain volatile fatty acids.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

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)

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

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

El Heymedj, a station having sweet and saltish water.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by Burckhardt, John Lewis