BRINE in a Sentence

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1. My fleet is anchored on the Tyrrhenian brine.
2. His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brine
 n.  water containing salts
 v.  soak in brine
Classic Sentence:
1  Here with seven sail gathered of all his company Aeneas enters; and disembarking on the land of their desire the Trojans gain the chosen beach, and set their feet dripping with brine upon the shore.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  when Orion rising on us through the cloudrack with sudden surf bore us on blind shoals, and scattered us afar with his boisterous gales and whelming brine over waves and trackless reefs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
3  My fleet is anchored on the Tyrrhenian brine.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
4  Then they stood on one side and went to tell the girl, while Ulysses washed himself in the stream and scrubbed the brine from his back and from his broad shoulders.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VI
5  His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
6  The towels with which they smacked their bodies were heavy with cold seawater; and drenched with cold brine was their matted hair.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  The frog had been hanging on a wire of copper; and it had been the metal of our knife which had sent the strange power to the copper through the brine of the frog's body.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART THREE
Example Sentence:
1  I wish to foster, not to blight -- to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood -- no, nor of brine: my harvest must be in smiles, in endearments, in sweet -- That will do.