saltine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saltine
Example Sentences
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The instrument is a 300 megapixel infrared camera equipped with 18 4K detectors, each roughly the size of a saltine cracker.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Adjust salt before serving with saltine crackers, chips or raw veggies.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024
For five days, from the end of February into March 1938, a two-step weather combo of staggering force and volume crashed bridges, knotted railroad trestles, and crumbled highways and roads like soggy saltine crackers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
This year has been a lot, so I think the best thing I could possibly recommend in our last newsletter for 2022 is a really buttery, really easy dessert: saltine toffee cookies.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
Grammy reaches for another saltine, and I know that she will have no more to say.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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