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How to use salty in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Salty means tasting of salt. Example: “We resummoned the waiter when we realized our food was too salty to eat.”

Examples of salty by meaning

adjectiveTasting of salt.

  • Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired

adjectiveContaining salt.

  • At Zipaquirá, the salty ore is taken from the mine in chunks, then thrown into large tanks of water, where the salt is dissolved out.1957, Americas (English Ed.)

adjectiveCoarse; provocative; earthy.

  • In the following piece she has some characteristically salty things to say about what happens when law and medicine meet.1962, William Henry Davenport, The Good Physician: A Treasury of Medicine
  • (In characteristically salty fashion, Sara admits: “I was no doubt a horrible little bitch" at this age.)2010, R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood: A Life, Knopf, →ISBN, page 201
  • The court might have been tempted to construe the First Amendment as too momentous — too consequential — to vindicate a disappointed teenager’s salty outburst after being cut from the varsity cheer squad.2021 June 24, Justin Driver, “A Cheerleader Lands an F on Snapchat, but a B+ in Court”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

adjectiveExperienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).

  • There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches salty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
  • Plus bits of business involving a salty Russian seafarer and overflying warplanes.2015 March 12, Bill Mann, “The film that makes me cry: Local Hero”, in The Guardian

adjectiveIrritated, annoyed, angry, bitter.

  • Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2...
  • I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing, page 162
  • Misery can make you blame everybody else for your salty attitude.2004, J. Ransom, Colla'd Greens Fuh-ya Soul, →ISBN, page 39

More sentences with salty

  • We resummoned the waiter when we realized our food was too salty to eat.From the entry resummon
  • The bay has fresher water at the surface and saltier water at the bottom, in between is the pycnocline.From the entry pycnocline
  • The soup is a tadge too salty.From the entry tadge
  • Dutch Licorice Salmiak Rocks are classic Dutch sweets with a distinctive salty and tangy flavour.2024, “Dutch Licorice Salmiak Rocks”, in Lolly Shop. From the entry salmiak
  • Gradually, the salty smell abated, or perhaps they had just become nose-blind to it.2015, Dale Kutzera, Andy McBean 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. From the entry nose blind
  • Riding a fine line between salty and sweet, it's not as fishy as it sounds.2015 February 25, Clarissa Wei, “Tainin is Taiwan's food capital; these 19 dishes show why”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Dec…. From the entry Anping
  • The itty-bitty pigs in a blanket were salty, hot-doggy and everything I thought they would be.2015 July 2, Cory Myers, “Food Falls: Hot dogs and America: A study in exces”, in Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D., Link section, page 9…. From the entry hot-doggy
  • When cooked, it tastes like bistek Tagalog—a little sour, salty from soy sauce—but without the onions.2014 November, Claude Tayag, Mary Ann Quioc, “Pork tapa”, in Linamnam: Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines, 2nd edition, Mandaluyong…. From the entry bistek tagalog
  • Yogurt-containing and salmiak (salty liquorice) flavoured lollipops have much higher pH values (3.8–4.7).2011 April 8, H S Brand, D L Gambon, A Paap, M S Bulthuis, E C I Veerman, A V Nieuw Amerongen, International Dental Journal. From the entry salmiak
  • It's also got an addictive aspect to it - that sweet and salty combination of flavors.2009 August 12, Lisa Abraham, “Bacon comes home - Old favorite tastes even better when you do the curing yourself”, in Akron Beacon…. From the entry bacon
  • Kefalotiri is a salty sheep’s- and goat’s-milk cheese and is available at selected Greek markets.2006 May 30, Donna Deane, “Classic Greek: Popular ‘Mediterranean’ dishes are really delicious blends of several exotic influences”, in The…. From the entry goat's-milk cheese
  • The ten-year-old Ardbeg is traditionally considered the saltiest, peatiest malt on Islay (and that's saying something).2004, Matthew Teller, editor, The Rough Guide to Britain, page 1120. From the entry peaty
  • This cold water downwells and flows below the saltier but warmer surface water.1999, Alison Duxbury, Alyn C. Duxbury, Fundamentals of Oceanography, page 141. From the entry downwell
  • Alternately add the floury salty mixture and the buttermilky banana mash to the first eggy sugary mixture.1998 October 15, “Cooker’s corner: Home Ec for Hop kids”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, volume CIII, number 7, [Baltimore, Md.]: [T]he…. From the entry buttermilky
  • Botticelli's Venus, born of the salty brine, was dressed in nothing but splendor.1992, Armando Riverol, Live from Atlantic City: The History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After and in Spite of Television, Popular…. From the entry bathing beauty
  • Kugel recipes run the gamut from sweet to salty, soft to crisp, bland to sharp.1988, “Evening and Morning Meals: Menu Plan”, in The Taste of Shabbos: The Complete Sabbath Cookbook, 2nd edition, Jerusalem, Israel: Aish…. From the entry kugel
  • It may look like lox but it ain’t (it’s saltier and has a maple-syrupy taste).1979 January 25, John Dalmas, “You’re nobody till . . .”, in The Journal-News, Rockland County, N.Y., page 3M, column 1. From the entry maple-syrupy
  • Even the onion soup was semi-homemade, a bit salty, but better than many a pretentious French restaurant.1974, The Washingtonian - Volume 9, page 134. From the entry semi-homemade
  • The fish sauce shall have a mellowy taste and should not be too salty.1968 August 5, “Philippine Trade Standared Specifications for Fish Sauce”, in Official Gazette, volume 64, number 32, page 8108. From the entry mellowy
  • Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. From the entry nictate
  • Charlie found me the saltiest, mushroomiest hard cheeses.2023, Dina Nayeri, chapter 6, in Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough, New York, N.Y.: Catapult, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry mushroomy
  • It didn’t help that Zuri pulled out her saltiest language in Ky’s required meetings with the coven council.2020, E.J. Russell, Witch Under Wraps, Riptide Publishing, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry magistra
  • If I take the water myself, sure salty one.2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 9, page 62. From the entry one
  • My grown-up version is a lot less salty, but has much more flavor and the same satisfying slurpability.2016, Heather Christo, Pure Delicious. From the entry slurpability
  • Domiati cheese tastes salty and has been described as being chewy in a way that is almost squeaky on the teeth.2016 October 25, The Oxford Companion to Cheese, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry domiati
  • So what's behind that insatiable sweet or salty tooth?2015 October 19, Macaela MacKenzie, “Why Some People Have a Sweet Tooth and Others Crave Salty Foods”, in Women's Health. From the entry salty tooth
  • My palate passionately lies in the savory kitchen with its salty fats and infernal flavors of chilies and spices.2011, Daniel Orr, Paradise Kitchen: Caribbean Cooking with Chef Daniel Orr, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry kitchen
  • If you're like me and you can't choose between your salty tooth and your sweet tooth, this one's for you.2011 October 11, Paula Deen and Melissa Clark, Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More…. From the entry salty tooth
  • Let your lingua loiter on its salty, hard surface.2009, Alex J. Packer, Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol Or Other Drugs, Read How You Want, →ISBN…. From the entry lingua
  • Consumers are also increasingly embracing wellness trends while others are on GLP-1s or medications that curb their desire to snack on sweet or salty foods.2025 August 25, Julie Creswell, “Krispy Kreme Bets on Big-Box Stores to Stay Fresh”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry GLP-1

Meaning of salty

  1. adjective Tasting of salt.
  2. adjective Containing salt.
  3. adjective Coarse; provocative; earthy.

Full definition of salty

Questions about salty in a sentence

How do you use salty in a sentence?
Salty is used as an adjective. For example: “We resummoned the waiter when we realized our food was too salty to eat.”
What is a short sentence with salty?
“The soup is a tadge too salty.”
What does salty mean?
Salty means tasting of salt.

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