Comparatively brackish

Usage examples of saltier.

He tasted the water, and while it was saltier than the small seas to the northwest, it was nowhere near as salty as the Salt Sea.

With its flow of fresh water disrupted, Florida Bay got saltier each season.

They would reach the salt-laden, deathly coast with naught but even saltier bread to eat, and little water to assuage their thirst.

The Atlantic, for instance, is saltier than the Pacific, and a good thing too.

Sabrino gorged himself on crumbly white cheese, almost preserved with salt and garlic, olives even saltier than the almonds, and breads with wheat and barley flour dusted with sesame seeds.

The queen had an interesting taste, quite unlike any other abdomen of her experience: more complex, saltier, even sweeter, by no means unpleasant.

The weight of twenty-eight hundred kilometers of water, nearly all of it far saltier than any Earth ocean, provides some eighty thousand atmospheres of pressure.

The drift of the organism was not rapid, and would presumably become less so as the low-salinity current weakened and grew saltier with changing latitude.

He had assumed it would be about at water level, since what had frozen at the ocean surface could hardly be sunk very far by hail landing on it and would presumably be melted from below by warmer and saltier water about as fast as the hail piled up above.

The giant central lake was warmer than bath water, saltier than the Atlantic, and filled with foul-tasting lungfish and coelacanths, plus crocodiles bigger than any bus.

This would keep the sea from getting any saltier and would also provide inland Southern California and Mexico with a convenient port for international shipping.

I thought of Camilla out there and I sobbed and noticed my tears were saltier than the sea water.

Fish cannot live in it: the water is many times saltier than the ocean.

GruyŠre - a smaller, saltier, creamier, more delicious Swiss with smaller holes (called "eyes").

These estuarine marshes would fill with eroded soils, while at the same time they were getting saltier, along with the North Sea itself.