How to Use brackish in a Sentence

brackish

adjective

• The air hangs heavy with the brackish smell of the tidal creek, and all seems normal for 4:30 a.m.
  — Eric Dusenbery, ajc, 28 Sep. 2021
• The brackish waters also soaked the walls of the house.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2017
• In the guest rooms, the taps poured out brackish water.
  — Richard Quest and Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 May 2021
• Jonathan Young stood chest-deep in the brackish waters of the Presidio’s Crissy Marsh and tugged on a rope tied to a glass buoy.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• This tree can thrive in brackish water that flows between rivers and the sea.
  — World Economic Forum, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The water would come from the Lower Floridan Aquifer, which can be brackish and kind of stinky.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• And with water there that is very brackish, salty, and the kids get diarrhea.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• This means that it can be used in salt, fresh and brackish water, explained Sega.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2022
• For all that has been lost here, there remains a brackish pride in what little is left.
  — Eamon Lynch, azcentral, 15 July 2019
• This part of the state, at the border of Taylor and Price counties, is kind of like brackish water, in land form.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• The tracks at White Sands were laid down along the shore of an ancient brackish lake that once filled the valley where the park’s famous dunes now stand.
  — Wire Reports, oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2021
• As we got sloshed about in the whitecaps, my goggles started to fog and the brackish water rinsed my throat.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2022
• Students at many schools are growing striped bass and perch, two species found in the brackish Chesapeake Bay.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The brackish places where rivers meet seas are also a prime habitat for Vibrio.
  — Cleve Wootson, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
• Lewis and his colleagues have collected them for study in the brackish waters of Alviso Marsh in the southern part of the bay.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2021
• The water is brackish and will require a fair amount of filtering.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2013
• Wounds that do come into contact with brackish water or the juices of raw seafood should be cleaned in soap and water.
  — Frances Stead Sellers and Sabrina Malhi, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
• Due to brackish water, the oysters in the area are true perfection: creamy, buttery, and not too briny or fishy.
  — Julia Sayers, AL.com, 14 Aug. 2017
• But at high tide, the creek flows upstream, as if backward, and broadens into a brackish pond.
  — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
• The ovoid shape wobbled slowly downward in the brackish water.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• Children pumped brackish water from the earth to wash clothes as Ahmet shaved his father’s beard with thick white foam.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• Thick mangroves reach their tentacle-like roots into the brackish water of the streams that wind through the island.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2017
• Last week, at least three boats capsized, spilling dozens of people into the brackish waters.
  — Muneeza Naqvi, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• Ike had made the trek into this brackish wilderness for the sole purpose of finding out what kind of lures the big snook find irresistible.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
• Some types of this bacteria can be found in warm brackish water, similar to many spots along the Gulf.
  — CBS News, 1 July 2019
• These bacteria live in brackish water—a mix of salty and fresh, often where a river meets a sea.
  — Mandy Oaklander, Time, 17 June 2019
• But her water bowl is filled with a noisome black, brackish liquid — what has fouled it, and for how long, is anyone’s guess.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• Evidence proves that crabs mastered dwelling on land and in brackish and fresh water at least twelve times since the dinosaur era.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
• To restore the wetland, the Corps used sediment pumped from Pontchartrain to create brackish marsh in what was open water in the refuge.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Half of the world's mangrove ecosystems, with trees whose roots stretch down into brackish water, are at risk of collapse.
  — Julia Simon, NPR, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024