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Examples of briny in a Sentence
oysters with a briny flavor
Recent Examples of briny from the Web
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Goat Cheese & Fresh Spinach The olives are briny, the spinach has a mellow bitterness, and the cheese has a strong funky flavor.
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Around Neets, there was only the line where the hills had been logged years back, soft-looking alders waving in the briny evening breeze.
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The country of origin, the milk used and how the cheese is produced impact the flavor and texture, which can range from briny to mild and extremely creamy to crumbly and dry.
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Use ripe, local, tomatoes, seedless cucumbers, briny, delicious Kalamata olives.
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Feta is tangy and briny, with a firm but crumbly texture similar to Mexico's queso fresco.
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Capers and kalamata olives add a briny salty flavor.
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Each table held yet another manifestation of the briny air, a tub of salt harvested from the nearby sea.
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But the flavor was more complex -- less salty and more briny, with almost a seaweedlike quality.
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First Known Use of briny
1581
BRINY Defined for Kids
Definition of briny for Students
brinier;
briniest
:salty
a briny flavor
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