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Meaning of sea-salty | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Containing or tasting of sea salt.

Examples

“My sea-salty tears bring to mind my origins.”
Suddenly restless, he walked to the doorway to fill his lungs with clean, sea-salty river air.”
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.”
One can cry only so many / Sea salty tears / Oceans of missed kisses / Over the years
“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.”
And here (and she would tell youvery against her will!) Alice began to cry saddened, sea-salty tears.”
Then I cry the sea-salty tears of someone who is not certain what they have to go back to.”
Set a large pot of sea-salty watercup salt, 1 gallon water) to boil for the squid ink pasta.”
Sound trailed by breath traveling across the continent, desert stone and grass-covered plain and mountain range, canyons and lakes, small hamlets, big cities to the coast and then a thousand leagues under the sea along the cable snaking under a hundred quadrillions of gallons of sea-salty water all the way to other side. […] He rubbed his hands over his face and upper body, looked at his wet sooty streaked palms that smelled of sage-ash and sea-salty tears.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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