sea-salty

Examples of sea-salty in a sentence

• But the moans grew ever louder until they swallowed everyone in the room, and Johannes woke to the taste of his own sea-salty tears.2002, Brian Howell, The Dance of Geometry, [New Milford, Conn.]: The Toby Press LLC, →ISBN, page 11:
• He could close his eyes and see the sisters sitting right up front at his funeral, sea-salty tears raining down on the Sunday dresses they had not worn for years.2003, Michael Parker, “Off Island”, in Bill Henderson et al., editors, Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses, Wainscott, N.Y....
• And here (and she would tell you—very against her will!) Alice began to cry saddened, sea-salty tears.2008, Heather E. Hutsell, “Awakening Alice”, in Awakening Alice; A Ticket for Patience, 2nd edition, [FattyBabyCat Publishing], →ISBN...
• Then I cry the sea-salty tears of someone who is not certain what they have to go back to.2009, Jane Davis, chapter 17, in Half-Truths & White Lies, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 127:

Forms of sea-salty

Origin of sea-salty

From sea salt + -y.

Questions about sea-salty

What does sea-salty mean?

Sea-salty means containing or tasting of sea salt.

How do you use sea-salty in a sentence?

But the moans grew ever louder until they swallowed everyone in the room, and Johannes woke to the taste of his own sea-salty tears.

What part of speech is sea-salty?

Sea-salty is an adjective.