How to Use brackish in a Sentence

brackish

adjective
  • The species thrives in brackish water.
    — Alasdair Pal, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This tree can thrive in brackish water that flows between rivers and the sea.
    — World Economic Forum, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The reptiles like to dwell near rivers, springs, and brackish marshes.
    — Moná Thomas, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • For all that has been lost here, there remains a brackish pride in what little is left.
    — Eamon Lynch, azcentral, 15 July 2019
  • And with water there that is very brackish, salty, and the kids get diarrhea.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • This means that it can be used in salt, fresh and brackish water, explained Sega.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The brackish places where rivers meet seas are also a prime habitat for Vibrio.
    — Cleve Wootson, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • The water is brackish and will require a fair amount of filtering.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2013
  • But at high tide, the creek flows upstream, as if backward, and broadens into a brackish pond.
    — Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
  • As we got sloshed about in the whitecaps, my goggles started to fog and the brackish water rinsed my throat.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2022
  • Last week, at least three boats capsized, spilling dozens of people into the brackish waters.
    — Muneeza Naqvi, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Wounds that do come into contact with brackish water or the juices of raw seafood should be cleaned in soap and water.
    — Frances Stead Sellers and Sabrina Malhi, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The ovoid shape wobbled slowly downward in the brackish water.
    — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
  • These bacteria live in brackish water—a mix of salty and fresh, often where a river meets a sea.
    — Mandy Oaklander, Time, 17 June 2019
  • And God was not waiting for artists among tupelo gum trees or brackish marsh or duckweed.
    — Zachary Fine, The New York Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The technical word for this kind of water—saltier than fresh, fresher than salt—is brackish.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Some days, that meant giving her bits of macaroni, or rice cooked in brackish, unsafe water.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Shopkeepers and children tried sweeping the brackish water and trash away from their doors.
    — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2020
  • But her water bowl is filled with a noisome black, brackish liquid — what has fouled it, and for how long, is anyone’s guess.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Evidence proves that crabs mastered dwelling on land and in brackish and fresh water at least twelve times since the dinosaur era.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Half of the world's mangrove ecosystems, with trees whose roots stretch down into brackish water, are at risk of collapse.
    — Julia Simon, NPR, 22 May 2024
  • Children pumped brackish water from the earth to wash clothes as Ahmet shaved his father’s beard with thick white foam.
    — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This is about sailing out to the salty or brackish coastal waters and seeking the location where oysters may be found.
    — Thomas Lim, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Seawater and brackish waters — where salt and fresh water mix — in coastal areas tend to lead to the most cases.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
  • Tomatoes and semi-salt-tolerant veggies thrive in the brackish zone.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Some types of this bacteria can be found in warm brackish water, similar to many spots along the Gulf.
    — CBS News, 1 July 2019
  • Thick mangroves reach their tentacle-like roots into the brackish water of the streams that wind through the island.
    — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Just beyond that sits 200 acres of brackish water that makes up Chilmark Pond.
    — Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Just a few miles outside of Obuasi, the yellow holes filled with brackish water are ubiquitous.
    — Marisa Schwartz Taylor, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Not brackish at all, according to Berkowitz, who says the ducks dig in the soil for bugs, then bring the dirt into the water.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024

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