salt

Example Sentences

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Soon, she’ll be released back into the San Gabriel River, where she was found and where a population of her kind resides — in a stretch where salt and fresh water comingle.

From Los Angeles Times

The winter storm that sent Americans scurrying to buy snowblowers, shovels, and rock salt now has them in a deep freeze.

From Barron's

The rain has stopped for now, but the air is thick with moisture and salt, as though the rain stirred up the ocean.

From Literature

My mother rides our donkey, and my brothers, Isaac and Jacob, carry our provisions—bread and cheese, eggplant empanadillas, roasted eggs, olives cured in salt, dried figs, almonds, and walnuts—and our few belongings.

From Literature

“We, in Big Sur, know to plan with a grain of salt,” said Matt Glazer, executive director of Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn, located near the northern end of the closure.

From Los Angeles Times