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briny
/ˈbɹaɪni/
adj 1noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
deep, english, turned, under
VERB + BRINY
runs
BRINY + NOUN
author, landers, writer
PREP.
on
Definitions
adj
1
Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.
on the briny deep
noun
1
The sea.
[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.
I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny / And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny
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on the briny deep
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[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense
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I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny / And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny
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Scientists believe water on Mars would be briny because past landers and rovers, as well as Martian meteorites, have shown that the planet's surface is salty.
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