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

One might say, to be sure, that they were a little saltish, and then again, with that exception, there was no remarkable flavor; but that might be the rarity, not to have any flavor.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

In a hemorrhage from the lungs, the sufferer is quick to notice in the mouth the warm and saltish taste.

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)

“I’ll have fifty to-day, Mr. Kuk,” she said to the saltish individual when he hailed her from outside the tent.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks