How to Use salt pan in a Sentence

salt pan

noun

• Not for the first time, out on the salt pan, my mind had turned to death.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• Nation/World Not for the first time, out on the salt pan, my mind had turned to death.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• When Steve took over, there were just three salt pans here.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
• In the afternoon, opt to relax at our hotel or visit the Inca ruins of Moray and the salt pans of Maras.
  — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• This place is a dry landscape dotted with salt pans that hint at a former wetland paradise.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
• But even a desiccated salt pan of a lake, Dickman said, has its appeal.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
• In the country, Gujarat is the leading salt-producing state, followed by Tamil Nadu, where the port city of Thoothukudi is known for its salt pans.
  — Sharmila Vaidyanathan, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2023
• From then on, the record-breakers had to take to vast beaches at low tide; then inaccessible salt pans; then the remotest deserts; just to reach a number.
  — A-LIST, 24 Dec. 2017
• Once upon a time, before the skyscrapers and stock market, Hong Kong was just a collection of fishing villages and salt pans.
  — Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
• The beach is also used for salt panning by Hawaiians, who in summer harvest a pinkish-colored sea salt from the shallows.
  — Timbers Kauai, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2017
• Central Botswana is at its best in Africa’s summer, when the region’s desert and salt pans turn to grassland, drawing parades of animals.
  — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2018
• Much of that place is now a dry salt pan—and inhabited by modern Khoisan people, sometimes called Bushmen.
  — Richard Conniff, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2019
• The deal made the highly degraded expanse of marshes, mud flats and salt pans off limits to development.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Along with mangroves, salt pans hold the seawater from entering Mumbai.
  — Nikhil S Dixit, Quartz India, 15 Oct. 2019
• The same thing happened when Esteban took samples from Andalusia’s salt pans, those hypersaline remnants of ancient seas in what is now southern Spain.
  — Carrie Arnold, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2019
• Being able to move across the sand quickly is key to their survival—and anyone who has walked or run on a beach knows that the granular nature of sand can slow down movement and expend more energy than walking or running on, say, a dry salt pan.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024