How to Use salt pan in a Sentence

salt pan

noun
  • Not for the first time, out on the salt pan, my mind had turned to death.
    — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • As the moon rose, Mugibelo gestured out to the salt pans behind us.
    — AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Nation/World Not for the first time, out on the salt pan, my mind had turned to death.
    — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • This place is a dry landscape dotted with salt pans that hint at a former wetland paradise.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The next morning, Davis took me to the flamingo breeding grounds on the island's southern salt pans.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Along with mangroves, salt pans hold the seawater from entering Mumbai.
    — Nikhil S Dixit, Quartz India, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The deal made the highly degraded expanse of marshes, mud flats and salt pans off limits to development.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • The beach is also used for salt panning by Hawaiians, who in summer harvest a pinkish-colored sea salt from the shallows.
    — Timbers Kauai, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2017
  • From then on, the record-breakers had to take to vast beaches at low tide; then inaccessible salt pans; then the remotest deserts; just to reach a number.
    — A-LIST, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Much of that place is now a dry salt pan—and inhabited by modern Khoisan people, sometimes called Bushmen.
    — Richard Conniff, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Guests can walk with the San Bushmen, race across the salt pans on ATVs, and even track lions through the desert.
    — Amie O'Brien, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The glittering salt pans on the Mediterranean shoreline offer scenic views that the Romans once admired.
    — Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Here are some of the best eco-friendly options in locations worldwide, from the white sandy shores of Zanzibar to the salt pans of the Namib desert.
    — Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 18 June 2024
  • In the afternoon, opt to relax at our hotel or visit the Inca ruins of Moray and the salt pans of Maras.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Once upon a time, before the skyscrapers and stock market, Hong Kong was just a collection of fishing villages and salt pans.
    — Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
  • Central Botswana is at its best in Africa’s summer, when the region’s desert and salt pans turn to grassland, drawing parades of animals.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Much of the southern tip of the island is occupied by its colorful salt pans, and on the southeastern side of the island, Sorobon Beach draws kitesurfers.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Carbon offsets were achieved through the reforestation of the Nhamabwe salt pan with indigenous mangroves from the lodge’s own nursery.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The technicolor salt pans are even more memorable, shining with bright hues of pink, blue, and green, just as vibrant as the architecture of the island's capital.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Workers at salt pans in India toil in relentlessly rising temperatures.
    — Mia Amor Mottley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Surrounded by the savannahs of Botswana’s northeast, the pancake-flat Makgadikgadi Basin is one of the largest salt pans in the world.
    — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In the country, Gujarat is the leading salt-producing state, followed by Tamil Nadu, where the port city of Thoothukudi is known for its salt pans.
    — Sharmila Vaidyanathan, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The same thing happened when Esteban took samples from Andalusia’s salt pans, those hypersaline remnants of ancient seas in what is now southern Spain.
    — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
  • Being able to move across the sand quickly is key to their survival—and anyone who has walked or run on a beach knows that the granular nature of sand can slow down movement and expend more energy than walking or running on, say, a dry salt pan.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Once a freshwater lake, this former body of water has been reduced to a highly concentrated salt pan that is severely alkaline and toxic to most forms of animal and plant life except for flamingos, which prefer to forage on the surface.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Collected more than 300 feet offshore at depths of nearly 35 feet, the water undergoes a treatment process inspired by salt pans, which enhances the saline density to nearly twice that of the Dead Sea.
    — Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Slovenia has a small sliver of Adriatic coastline on its western border, a nearly 30-mile swathe offering pebble beaches, working salt pans, and historic towns like Piran and Koper, which were once ruled by the Venetian empire.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 June 2025
  • Botswana delivers a cinematic range of settings, from the salt pans near Jack’s Camp to the Okavango’s lush waterways surrounding Xigera Safari Lodge, or the combination of land and water safari at Wilderness Duma Tau.
    — Erina Pinar, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2025

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