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

"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 water is perfectly clear, has a saltish taste, and at the spring is not unlike weak broth, though it has a disagreeable odor.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

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

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)