How to Use rock salt in a Sentence

rock salt

noun
  • I put some rock salt on the sidewalk to melt the ice.
  • Road salt is a rock salt, about the size of salt found in a grinder for flavoring food.
    Eugene Register-Guard, OregonLive.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Our friends bring their dogs over and are worried that the rock salt would hurt their pets’ feet.
    Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Apply some de-icer or rock salt to your sidewalk and steps.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Fill your cooler with ice. Sprinkle the ice with rock salt or ice cream salt.
    Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
  • To make them, simply fill an ice cube tray with lemon wedges, rock salt, and water.
    Andrea Crowley, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2022
  • From there, the meat is placed in a bath of rock salt, which Betz says keeps all the meat’s delicious juices inside.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 June 2023
  • Cover a rimmed baking sheet with rock salt and nestle the oyster half shells in the salt to steady them.
    Barbara Mahany, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • After a walk, wipe dogs’ paws, legs and stomach to rid them of rock salt that may have been spread outdoors.
    The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Add the ingredients to the middle bucket, place ice around the sides of the container, and then add rock salt to the ice.
    Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 22 July 2019
  • One angel showed up with a piece of carpet and rock salt for the traveler whose car was stuck in snow.
    Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
  • First, shovel away any snow that's on top of the icy surface, then sprinkle small amounts of rock salt onto the ice.
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Lake Retba’s banks are lined with mountains of drying rock salt and fleur de sel.
    Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
  • Get the recipe! Make ice cream without an ice cream machine using this zip-top bag and rock salt trick.
    Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 20 Dec. 2021
  • All the salt in the county is ordered from the Detroit Salt Co., Michigan's only rock salt mine since 1997.
    Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Then one day, a favorite ex-pre-school teacher named Karen came over with a bag of rock salt and totally changed the game.
    Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 20 Dec. 2021
  • There are slabs of rock salt, mined deep in the desert, next to crates of Algerian cigarettes.
    The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The most extensive part of Boba Tree's menu is the cheese foam tea, the store's specialty that contains rock salt and cheese.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Health officials and researchers also say eating raw onions and rock salt is not proven to be a cure.
    Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 31 May 2021
  • Prepare rock salt: Spread rock salt evenly on 2 rimmed baking sheets.
    Emily Nabors Hall, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2023
  • If ice has already built up, use calcium chloride or urea to melt the dam, not rock salt, experts say.
    Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2021
  • If your are out holiday shopping Friday, add rock salt to your list.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The rock salt lowers the temperature of the ice-and-water bath to 27 degrees, which is the temperature at which cream can start to freeze.
    Alex Heard, Outside Online, 4 July 2020
  • Why, yes, hapless kid traipsing across our lawn, our shotgun is loaded with rock salt.
    Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • And my dad — the outside man — prepped the barbecue, washed the crusts of salt and dust out of the wooden ice cream maker, and then went to pick up ice and rock salt at the ice house on the other side of town.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
  • The company’s name is inspired by the way ice cream was made in the old days: churned by hand with rock salt, then packed in insulating layers of straw.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Or at the very least, whatever impact created it likely hit a very large reserve of rock salt or the ocean.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 July 2019
  • Officers located pieces of rock salt on the ledge outside the window.
    Andy Attina / Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • When added to palm fruit juice or oil, odo, as well as kanwa (rock salt) coagulate it to produce a thick sauce or soup such as owo.
    Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Serve them on a tray of rock salt for a simple and impressive presentation.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023

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