salt lake

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noun

a body of water having no outlet to the sea and containing in solution a high concentration of salts, especially sodium chloride.

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Origin of salt lake

First recorded in 1755–65

Words nearby salt lake

salting out, saltire, saltirewise, saltish, salt junk, salt lake, Salt Lake City, saltless, salt lick, salt marsh, salt-marsh caterpillar

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How to use salt lake in a sentence

Due to its centrality, the Salt Lake field plays an outsized role in terms of strange petroleum events in the city.
The Fiery Underground Oil Pit Eating L.A.|Geoff Manaugh|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There were cases in Honolulu, Salt Lake City, Washington, D.C., and Miami.
Ebola Panic Is Worse Than the Disease|Abby Haglage|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In contrast many red state metros such as Houston, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake, and Dallas-Ft.
Class Issues, Not Race, Will Likely Seal the Next Election|Joel Kotkin|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The pages of the Salt Lake Tribune have rarely been so animated.
The Kremlin’s Favorite Anti-Gay Hate Group is Coming to Utah|Jay Michaelson|July 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In a 2012 interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, Gann said, “He opened my eyes to the possibility of it being a show [in America].”
The Weird Existential Genius of ‘Wilfred’|Rich Goldstein|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We can't even be sure if the Salt Lake is a lake, or whether the glister we see there is just dry sand.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
After a while Great Salt Lake lay sparkling in the sun and looking cool and blue.
Stories of California|Ella M. Sexton
Intergradation has been noted in specimens from the eastern and southeastern shores of Great Salt Lake.
Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii|Henry W. Setzer
Great Salt Lake has not been so effective in isolating the animals living on the islands as heretofore has been thought.
Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii|Henry W. Setzer
The Company at once assumed the contract, and furnished all the money required for the line east of Salt Lake.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865|Various

British Dictionary definitions for salt lake

salt lake

noun

an inland lake of high salinity resulting from inland drainage in an arid area of high evaporation

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