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briny
1[ brahy-nee ]
briny
2[ brahy-nee ]
noun
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Derived Forms
- ˈbrininess, noun
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Other Words From
- brini·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
This cider is bone dry and has a really great olive & briny quality that makes it a killer food pairing cider.
The river smelled faintly briny as waves brushed up against the pier.
Since the stone crab is capable of regrowing its claws every 18 months, this break prevents overfishing of the briny delicacy.
We sampled dozens of olive varieties, ranging from light and briny to cured and herbaceous.
Her fat red cheeks would quiver with emotion, and be wet with briny tears, over the sorrows of Mr. Trollope's heroines.
She shook off her briny blindness, and settled to the full sweep of the arms, quite silent now.
And with it came a breeze, a moving, briny, bay-cooled breeze that stirred the grass with a whisper of night.
"Ta-ta," McGuffey cried in his tantalizing falsetto voice, and followed his leader into the briny deep.
The settlers live mostly on the bay, where, from constant evaporation, the waters are more briny than the Atlantic.
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