Brackish in a sentence

Brackish marsh main A brackish marsh may occur where a freshwater flow enters a salt marsh.

And how fitting for a shellfish shop on Ocean Street: Those fuzzy spatial boundaries evoke salty water flowing into fresh – an intermixing that generates the brackish environment that allows oysters to thrive.

Historically, manatees are an indicator of the islands’ intact environment due to their liking of fresh and brackish water habitats and abundant sea grass beds for grazing grounds surrounding the Virgin Islands coastal ecosystem.

It also has a mobile desalination plant for treating brackish water in the Noyo River and plans to build reservoirs.

Some plants can tolerate more brackish water.

Vibrio vulnificus — a bacteria that got its moniker as a flesh-eater from its ability to kill healthy tissue around a wound — flourishes in brackish floodwaters that can linger after a hurricane’s storm surge is long gone.

What followed that night in early January was the stuff of nightmares: a fearful scramble through pelting rain; a flooded car engine that stopped cold; a frantic escape on foot through dark, brackish water.

What was once an extensive marshes network has shrunk today to a few isolated ponds of stagnating brackish water, stinking of dead fish and highly polluted, sitting amid large swatches of desert landscape.

Author Randy Wayne White sends Doc Ford and Tomlinson on a new 2020 adventure in a mysterious brackish estuary teeming with Southwest Florida experiences.

It's not clear how the Eye moved from this volcanic area to the brackish lake Kylo met it at, why it wasn't as loyal to the Emperor, what intel it exchanged with Vader.

One of the neat aspects of the retailing on the shore is that Ron’s products are alongside other well-known products such as Bass Kandy Delight (BKD)—Ron’s go-to bait when he hits the brackish saltwater.

The parklands opened in 1988 to host World Expo 88, leaving sections of the Clem Jones Promenade along the river's edge standing in brackish saltwater ever since.

Riders reported the stink of human excrement, but the city honchos suggested that it could be mould, sealant or perhaps brackish water.

In fact, it is the vasty deep of that $500 billion larder which gives rise to the forces that not only thwart the Donald’s desire to drain the Swamp, but actually enlist him the cause of deepening its brackish waters.

The wells are used to mix distilled and brackish water to supply several areas with irrigation water for gardens and to wash cars and homes, the sources added.

This wet marl is corrosive as it’s brackish at best and salt at worst!

Though either desalination or purification of brackish water by reverse osmosis may be the only choice in some areas, both are energy-intensive.

As a result, it developed a flora which tolerated brackish water and was the home of numerous waterfowl.

As a result, the fresh water table will be pushed more inland, resulting in more brackish or saline groundwater in the coastal provinces.

Because brackish water is hostile to the growth of most terrestrial plant species, without appropriate management it is damaging to the environment (see article on shrimp farms ).