Example Sentences

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Because of farming, nitrates were seeping into the earth and cattle pumped methane into the skies.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

The New York Times reported that millions of gallons of gasoline were seeping from storage tanks each year.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2023

In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Beshear said “barrels of corrosive chemicals” were seeping through.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2021

It turned out that rain and other road muck were seeping into the little black box that houses the controller unit and frying the mechanism within.

From The Verge • Jan. 2, 2020

He started to put the picked berries back in the sorted pile with the gut cherries but noticed that the raspberries were seeping through the jacket.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen