How to Use salt lake in a Sentence

salt lake

noun
  • The rest is extracted from salt lakes or from salt flats called salars in Chile and Bolivia.
    Joe McDonald, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • Think of it as a mini salt lake forming on your wall under the cover of paint.
    Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Hunting is banned around most of the salt lake, but hunters are still allowed to shoot ducks in the network's southern tip.
    Star Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Simply put, the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere is shrinking rapidly.
    Lucy Kafanov, CNN, 17 July 2021
  • There’s the lithium on the salt lakes in Bolivia; mineral has accrued over millions of years.
    James Vincent, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2018
  • King also posted footage from her mud bath and floating in the Dead Sea — a salt lake tucked between the border of Jordan and Israel.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Competitors came up with a host of answers: The holes might be remnants of meteorites, or maybe dried up salt lakes, some said.
    Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Perched on the edge of a mostly dry salt lake, Trona has no source of clean water and for at least 70 years has relied on groundwater pumped from wells 30 miles away in the Indian Wells Valley.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Finally, the Black Tortoise – the only zone that needs to be pre-booked – represents winter and features a dimly-lit salt grotto, a salt lake to float in and hot water beds to help destress.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • And while that certainly disqualifies it as a secret spot, Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt lake in Bolivia and at almost 4,000 square miles in size, is more than big enough to give you space to take the perfect picture.
    Duncan Madden, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • And few of us may realize that a natural salt lake exists north of Harlingen near Raymondville that was essential to early cultures.
    Kim Pierce, Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Besides being absolutely breathtaking, this landlocked salt lake has long been touted for its health-giving properties.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Argentina’s new national park promises additional protection for hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and South America’s largest salt lake.
    Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The announcement, which has already begun drawing backlash from Southern California, comes as the giant salt lake and ecological curiosity on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada has becoming increasingly dry in recent years.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2023

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