How to Use salt flat in a Sentence
salt flat
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The images show how the lake bloomed across the low-lying salt flat on Aug. 30.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
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Driving on the salt flats often leaves tracks that can scar the desert for decades.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
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In its place were vast salt flats that shone in the sun and crunched underfoot.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
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But the hardships paid off when the crew finally reached the salt flats.
—Wired, 16 Nov. 2019
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Are there any salt flats or dry lakes en route to Miami?
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2016
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The rest is extracted from salt lakes or from salt flats called salars in Chile and Bolivia.
—Joe McDonald, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
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The moon, a waxing gibbous, shimmered through clouds onto the salt flats.
—Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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When one beach isn’t enough, take the bike path seven miles along the San Diego bay, past the salt flats, to Coronado.
—Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
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At the salt flat, two companies pump out brine from below the surface.
—Ian Morse, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2020
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In the record-setting run, Holbrook towed Mueller-Korenek close to the two-mile mark of the five-mile salt flats course, hitting a speed around 150 mph.
—Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
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There are areas that are perfectly flat, like salt flats and lake beds.
—Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2017
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Campbell's next target is to improve his speed at the Bonneville Speedway on the salt flats of Utah.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
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Brenda Bowen, a scientist who's been studying the salt flats, said that the amount of salt in the landscape has decreased over the past 30 years.
—CBS News, 5 Oct. 2019
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Instead of water, a barren salt flat stretched behind the governor and framed the ghost of a once great lake.
—Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021
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The dual tracks of the car that had gotten stuck and the skid steer used to remove it from a salt flat in Death Valley National Park.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
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Today, though, dolomite forms in only a few select salt flats and lagoons.
—Rachel Preiser, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Built right on top of the picturesque Salar de Uyuni (the largest salt flat in the world), the Kachi Lodge offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
—Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 28 May 2019
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In Rio Grande, a town on the edge of the salt flat, residents expected lithium to bring jobs and modernity.
—Ryan Dube, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
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The Camargue, a marshy delta by the Mediterranean, features red salt flats and free-roaming white horses.
—Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2019
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At the end of the facility’s life, the company is to use water from the Great Salt Lake to build a one-foot-thick salt flat over the top of the waste pit, sealing it off for good.
—Emma Penrod, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
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Kachi Lodge puts a cool spin on glamping, housing guests in futuristic-looking luxe domes spread across the salt flat.
—Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 28 May 2019
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For the first time since 2005, a lake — called Lake Manly — has formed in Badwater Basin, an expanse of salt flats within the park that are usually bone-dry.
—Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
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The world's largest salt flat covers 4,000 square miles of Bolivian altiplano.
—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2021
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Outside lie the vast salt flats and the attacking Imperial forces.
—Alastair Marsh, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2019
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After the salt flats became a source of unhealthful dust pollution, the city was ordered to control the problem.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
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Badwater Basin, made up of salt flats, is considered the lowest point in all of North America.
—Ty O'Neil, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
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After waking up at 4:30 a.m., Torres and I drove into the middle of the salt flat in the dark and got out, wrapped in thick clothing against the freezing temperatures.
—Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
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The mild temperatures make hiking on dusty trails, rolling dunes, and salt flats comfortable.
—Sarah L. Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2023
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Rocket cars accelerating over salt flats and dry lake beds can get going a good bit faster.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2018
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The park is home to the gorgeous salt flats of Badwater Basin, which mark the lowest elevation point in the United States (282 feet below sea level).
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
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