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Example sentences for "salt water"

  • As getting dry was a somewhat perfunctory proceeding, the linoleum in the forward cabin was covered with pools of salt water by the time the last platter of bacon and eggs was empty.

  • Salt water is fine to bathe in when you have ivy poisoning, and there'll be plenty of that around.

  • It is well known that there is much lime in salt water; it is also known that coral is composed of lime.

  • The wood-pigeon was then split open, quite flat, washed clean in salt water, and treated in a similar manner.

  • Around me were the tombs of many generations.

  • Encouraged by the favorable opinion of Mr. Blackwood, the author went on as diligently with the novel as his health allowed.

  • There follows a description of the journey, according to a careful itinerary prepared by her nephew.

  • Boil the fish in salt water, then bone and shred.

  • Boil in salt water, containing a piece of butter, celery root, parsley and an onion; when done remove from the fire and lay on a platter.

  • These air-breathing swamp-dwellers could not have lived in salt water.

  • Fresh-water animals succeeded those of salt water in the swamps that formed the coal measures.

  • Illustration] Boil cauliflower in salt water, separate into small pieces, and put in a baking dish, make a cream sauce and pour over it.

  • Onions to be eaten raw or cooked will lose their rank flavor if they are pulled and thrown into salt water an hour before use.

  • Leave half an inch of stem on each, and lay them in salt water a couple of days, then cook in weak vinegar until tender, but not so long as to break them.

  • Occasionally we had passed small dried up salt lakes and the beds of salt water channels; but even these did not appear to have had any water in them for a long time.

  • This was the "salt watercourse" of my former journeys so called from the large reaches of salt water in its bed a mile or two among the hills.

  • One mile before encamping, we crossed the bed of a salt water channel, trending to the westward, which was probably connected with the Lagoon Harbour of Flinders, as it appeared to receive the flood tide.

  • When cooked they are partly deprived of salt water, which promotes their digestion; their albumen also becomes hard (like hard boiled eggs).

  • The legs and arms are specifically lighter than salt water, and will be supported by it, so that a human body cannot sink in salt water, though the lungs were filled as above, but from the greater specific gravity of the head.

  • Mr Tomkins, in case I should forget it, do me the favour to put the kettle of salt water down in the report.

  • Salt water we could not drink of course, though we sometimes used it to cook with.

  • Some could not say words bad enough to express their contempt, and laid all the trouble of salt water to Lot's wife.

  • When we reached the lowest part of the valley we had to turn south to get around a little, slow running stream of salt water, that moved north and emptied into a Salt Lake.

  • Herlings (for so they are also named on their first ascent from the sea) rarely weigh one pound, unless they remain for a longer time than usual in salt water.

  • The large deposits in the Permian beds of Stassfurt, as well as those in the Tertiary of Alsace and Spain, have been formed by the evaporation of very large quantities of salt water, presumably sea water.

  • Gypsum deposits, like deposits of common salt, occur in beds which are the result of evaporation of salt water.

  • All the important commercial gypsum deposits are believed to have been formed by evaporation of salt water in the manner indicated.

  • Salt Water to Clean Matting--A cloth dampened in salt water is the best thing for cleaning matting.

  • And he himself vowed that if we had been a moment longer with him that time, he would have had to take a breath of salt water.

  • The "priming" of the iron, the life of the metal, having been burned out in passing from fresh to salt water, was the cause of the trouble.

  • The red caps and shirts of the Garibaldians brightened the throng in the streets, and the old stones of Venice, bathed in salt water at their bases, were deluged with bunting, flags, and rainbow colors.

  • After sixty hours on salt water, Carleton's ear caught the boom of the surf on the beach.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salt water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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