A brackish lagoon.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A thin brackish gruel.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"Expand shrimp and crab farming in brackish water".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

I use them in brackish water with shrimp and they do a great job of lip hooking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circle Hook Debate Revisited] Reference

Algae can grow in brackish (semi-salty) water and probably could even help reclaim some sewage.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY: World’s First Biodiesel Jet! | Inhabitat] Reference

The water available during the April to August growing season tends to be brackish, which isn't good for most crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Articles] Reference

The water has a detestable, unsatisfying blurred taste, to which the adjective "brackish" is applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Botha in the Field] Reference

And he had turned up his nose because it was brackish!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

His soul has no thirst for that brackish and bitter water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference

To them, it's the brown, brackish, beautiful Chesapeake Bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [That repulsive unflushed toilet? Better to swim in it than in the Chesapeake Bay] Reference

The water was brackish and the banks were fringed with timber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Oysters thrive in brackish water - a mixture of salt and freshwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Fisheries' Future In Doubt] Reference

A seamless vista, out over the brackish divide between pool and ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infinity Pool] Reference

Occasionally it is slightly brackish, but usually it is clear and cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

Sluggish brackish streams creep along between banks of fetid black mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The green stuff tasted a little brackish, but Bart got it down all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colors of Space] Reference

Sometimes the water is sweetish, frequently brackish, and generally warm.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

It ascends from the south over a plateau marked by salt or brackish lakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

The solution tastes neither sour nor brackish; it has no effect upon indicators.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

I looked back through the haze of the passing fence at the brackish, pasty water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moving Day] Reference

It had lost the brackish taste of dead leaves decomposing in a rusty enamel bucket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watershed] Reference

There was a certain amount of water in the pan, but brackish and unpleasant to drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference

Four small pumps in the main street and one tiny brackish pond totalled the facilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

She needs to be alone in the swamp, with its rich brackish smell and slow mossy currents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing Ground] Reference

The warm liquid was brackish, but satisfied in part their thirst, and they drank eagerly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

The strata in which these animals are imbedded indicate that the water was fresh or brackish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference

He swam on through the utter blackness of the brackish water until his head broke surface again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

She poured a brackish substance into the tiny teacups and poured Barbie's cup down her neckhole for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Window (Part II)] Reference

You gasp and swallow brackish water knowing this mechanism is the sum of a greater whole of untold parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference

 They ate brackish Oysters Rockefeller — from the gulf, Ben offered — and drank a middling prosecco.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Alamo] Reference

The water is hot, brackish, and repulsive to the taste, but it is water -- and in the desert, water is water!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

This brackish water was found to be delicious, although it had a sulphurous taste: its color was that of whey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

This brackish water was found to be delicious, although it had a sulphurous taste: its colour was that of whey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference

If they get out in the current, maybe float down by the narrows, the water gets brackish, not so long I'd guess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biodegradability] Reference

The taste was brackish, but not entirely salt, and though it stung his lips, the liquid relieved a measure of his thirst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

It was not so wet as the swamp at Vehnmoor, but the drinking water was even worse than the brackish, peat-laden water there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

Soon the men were forced to subsist on a once-daily ration of plain rice along with sweetened tea brewed from brackish water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under Siege In Bethlehem] Reference

Sea-water also is undrinkable and brackish, but it feeds fish, and is a sort of vehicle to convey and transport travellers anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

We lay in the heather all day, soaked to the skin with the brackish water of the swamp, the odor of which still hung to our clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

Then, in a brackish but not altogether awful rasp, he began to sing a sob soaked rendition of what I suspected to be his beloved cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave to the Rhinestone] Reference