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

As we approach Marseilles, we cross a dreary flat of wide extent, covered with stones and saltish grass, and said to produce the finest cattle in France.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

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

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

The termination ish added to adjectives, expresses a slight degree of quality below the comparative; as, black, blackish; salt, saltish.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

It has a saltish taste according to the accurate Baron Haller, not unlike the whey of milk, which it even resembles in smell.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus