salted

Example Sentences

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Many try to keep cool by covering their heads, drinking salted water or adjusting work hours to avoid the harshest afternoon sun - but such measures offer only limited relief.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Fans of lightly salted Calbee chips will no longer see the familiar orange and blue design, while seaweed-flavor enthusiasts will miss out on yellow and green.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

The pork chops of my childhood were thin, boneless, and oven-bound — salted and peppered just before they went in, cooked through without much ceremony.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026

During the end of March and most of April, my father caught and salted alewives for crab bait, overhauled the motor on the Portia Sue, and converted it once more for crabbing.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson