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At the three-day event, guests enjoyed lazy pool swims, yoga classes, pizza night and cooking lessons, a beach day with BBQ in true Australian style, a visit to the salt marshes and a relaxed dinner surrounded by nature on the Isola Grande.—Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 Situated where the Little River meets the Atlantic Ocean, the roughly one-mile Timber Point Trail loop in the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge takes visitors through salt marshes, forest areas, and sandy shores.—Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026 For all of these creatures, the coast’s patchwork of barrier islands, beaches, sandbars, salt marshes, tidal creeks and estuaries are vitally important for survival.—Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 16 May 2026 Full- or half-day trips take paddlers through blackwater wooded environments, salt marshes, estuaries, swamps, rivers, and intracoastal waterways.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for salt marsh
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of salt marsh was
before the 12th century