SALT in a Sentence

Learn SALT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
110 example sentences for SALT, such as:
1. Add one heaped tablespoon of salt.
2. This might need some salt and pepper.
3. Adding salt to food improves the flavour.
4. Her humour adds salt to her conversation.
5. those spots where salt springs are found.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SALT
salt
 n.  a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
 v.  preserve with salt
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  It needed salt badly but she was too hungry to hunt for it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  "I'll tear this house down, stone by stone, and burn it and sow every acre with salt before I see either of you put foot over this threshold," she shouted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  When we wanted salt pork and gunpowder, we sent out a man on horseback, and probably he was shot dead by the Injuns before he got back.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Her repentance was not proof against Uncle Whittier when she stopped in at his grocery for salt and a package of safety matches.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  When Carol saw him with his uniform off, in a pepper-and salt suit and a new gray felt hat, she was disappointed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language, heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
8  In the present instance, too, this dignity is heightened by the pepper and salt colour of his head at the summit, giving token of advanced age and large experience.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
9  I liked to see him and to hear him about the place the only Lebrun who is worth a pinch of salt.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
10  Mr. Ratignolle was one of those men who are called the salt of the earth.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
11  From the banks of the big river to the shores of the salt lake, there was none to meet us.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
12  The salt lake gave us its fish, the wood its deer, and the air its birds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
13  Here, you see, we have plenty of salt, and can make a quick broil.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
14  those spots where salt springs are found.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
15  You may hear them groan, when the south wind blows, louder than the lowing buffaloes, along the shores of the great salt lake, where the big canoes come and go with them in droves.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Brush the aubergines with oil, add salt and pepper, and bake till soft.
2  Add one heaped tablespoon of salt.
3  Do not add salt to beans when cooking as this tends to toughen the skins.
4  Add a little salt to bring out the flavour of the herbs.
5  Lime preserved in salt is a north African speciality which is used to flavour chicken dishes.
6  An acid can react with a base to form a salt.
7  Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.
8  A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
9  Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.
10  Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.
11  Dehydrated meals, soups and sauces contain a lot of salt.
12  Her humour adds salt to her conversation.
13  Adding salt to food improves the flavour.
14  Put all the ingredients, including a pinch of salt, into a food processor.
15  This might need some salt and pepper.