How to Use salt lake in a Sentence

salt lake

noun
  • Think of it as a mini salt lake forming on your wall under the cover of paint.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Unlike freshwater lakes, which drain through rivers or streams, salt lakes have no outlet to the sea.
    — Rosa Lyster, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The rest is extracted from salt lakes or from salt flats called salars in Chile and Bolivia.
    — Joe McDonald, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • Zhou believes that there is much more in the salt lakes that can be extracted apart from potassium and lithium.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Around the world, birds flock to salt lakes, drawn by the flies and brine shrimp that live in them, and by the relative absence of predators.
    — Rosa Lyster, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The enzyme used to stonewash jeans was originally derived from wild microbes in salt lakes in Kenya.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
  • There’s the lithium on the salt lakes in Bolivia; mineral has accrued over millions of years.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2018
  • Simply put, the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere is shrinking rapidly.
    — Lucy Kafanov, CNN, 17 July 2021
  • Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is Australia’s largest inland lake and one of the world’s largest salt lakes.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • China is currently exploiting its salt lakes to source potassium and lithium.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Be sure to bring your swimsuit, too; the Dead Sea, a salt lake at the center of the island, is a great spot for swimming and sunbathing.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Unfolding in epic scale, Kazakhstan is where wild horses gallop across boundless steppes, and salt lakes shimmer in hues of pink and silver.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Within the oasis are a cluster of psychedelic blue salt lakes, natural springs, date palm plantations and olive trees.
    — Gisela Williams Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Across the globe, more than 100 saline terminal lakes exist, but history has shown that salt lakes that go into decline have never been able to be saved.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Originally discovered in bacteria that thrive in salt lakes, ectoin helps shield these organisms’ cells from damage.
    — Siena Gagliano, Allure, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Seawater is gathered from the ocean and brine is a highly concentrated salt water that may naturally occur underground or in salt lakes.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • According to historians, this compound appeared 4 million years ago when salt lakes evaporated and formed trona deposits.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 14 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The resort planned daily family activities, including visits to a local village and school, a kayak trip to the salt lake, a hike to nearby waterfalls, and daily snorkel trips.
    — Judy Koutsky, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In specific systems, such as the salt lakes China is currently using for potassium and lithium, salinity is too high for the systems to run efficiently.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For almost 200 years scientists wondered how this was possible, and one unique salt lake — the Dead Sea in Israel — may provide an answer.
    — David Bressan, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Found naturally in seawater, salt lake brines, crustal rocks, and deposits, magnesium makes up 13 percent of Earth’s mass and is the eighth most abundant element in the planet’s crust.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Unlike solar or wind, osmotic power can run continuously wherever fresh and saltwater meet; at estuaries, desalination plants, even inland salt lakes.
    — New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
  • High-salinity environments, such as salt lakes, currently limit the micromotors’ operation.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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