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noun

brine

water containing salts

In a sentence

Six example sentences with brine, each labelled with its topic.

  • She left the turkey in a salty brine overnight, and by morning the meat had swelled and tasted seasoned throughout.

    Cooking

  • Deep basins on the sea floor hold pools of brine so dense that submersibles float on the boundary above them.

    Science

  • Desalination plants pump hot brine back into the bay, and seagrass beds nearest the outfall have thinned badly.

    Environment

  • Miners pump brine from beneath the salt flat into shallow ponds and let the sun concentrate the lithium for months.

    Technology

  • Roman workers boiled brine from the Cheshire springs in lead pans until only a crust of white salt remained.

    History

  • Bathers float without effort in the lake because its brine holds nearly ten times more salt than the open ocean.

    Travel

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