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How to use leach in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Leach means a quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. Example: “Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.”

Examples of leach by meaning

verbTo purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.

  • Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
  • Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new...

verbTo part with soluble constituents by percolation.

  • The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.

verbTo bleed; to seep.

  • A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19
  • It's been leaching into the background of the world this whole time, in plain sight, and he never saw it, and it's here now—2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 140

More sentences with leach

  • I rarely had birthday parties, so I leached onto other people's parties, especially Alize's.2019, Chloelia Salome, While I'm Young, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry Alize
  • So leach boy, go join your friends in GTA, and tell them how much it sucks here.2000 September 14, Calgary Rob, “5 Years in Calgary Did Some Good, Afterall^([sic])”, in calgary.general (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry GTAer
  • In leaching process, determination of waterhead is important for intensifying leaching, avoiding pollution, etc.1998, Yang Xianwan, CHM'98: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hydrometallurgy, Kunming, China, November 3-5, 1998, page…. From the entry waterhead
  • A light-colored horizon, representing the region of maximum leaching (or reduction) where podzolized or solodized.1936, Charles Edwin Kellogg, Development and Significance of the Great Soil Groups of the United States. From the entry solodize
  • Pedalfers are humid-climate soils where leaching is dominant.2012, William M. Marsh, Martin M. Kaufman, Physical Geography: Great Systems and Global Environments, page 315. From the entry pedalfer
  • The San Francisco Bay Ohlones shared the same technique of tannin leaching as employed by all the other balanophagous Californians.2008, Philip J. Dreyfus, Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry balanephagous
  • The rain had lessened—and was that actually sun on the horizon, leaching through the thinning clouds in an electric streak?2005, Kate Brallier, Seal Island, New York, N.Y.: Tor Romance, →ISBN, page 241. From the entry seawife
  • During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319. From the entry coniferous
  • The leached loess may subsequently reerode by water.1974, A. P. Schick, Geomorphic processes in arid environments, page 99. From the entry reerode
  • They are subject, however, to heavy leaching, and unless protected by an ample covering of vegetation, they too tend to laterize.1973, Thomas Duval Roberts, Benjamin Nimer, Area handbook for Ivory Coast, page 44. From the entry laterize
  • Leach felt rewarded for her determination to reach the field.1946, Ada P. Stearns, The Magnolia Tree is Blooming: Missionary Service during the War Years 1937-1945, New York: Woman's American Baptist…. From the entry Kityang
  • The concepts of preferential flow and mobile and immobile water are related to each other and to that of the holdback of solute against leaching.2022, H. Magdi Selim, Liwang Ma, Physical Nonequilibrium in Soils: Modeling and Application, page 225. From the entry holdback
  • The sooner the better, as the current nonsystem had the city of Bering acting as a leach field for the city of Bering.2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry nonsystem
  • With time, nutrients are leached from the organic material, rabbits graze the vegetation, and the species become more typical of daleside communities.1999, C. Philip Wheater, Urban habitats. From the entry daleside
  • In this paper, a mathematical model for calculating waterhead was developed based on principle of hydrology and characteristics of ionic rare earth leaching.1998, Yang Xianwan, CHM'98: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hydrometallurgy, Kunming, China, November 3-5, 1998, page…. From the entry waterhead
  • After application, herbicides persist in the soil until they are degraded to less harmful compounds or are removed from the soil by washoff or leaching.1976, Anthony S. Donigian (Jr.), Norman H. Crawford, Modeling Pesticides and Nutrients on Agricultural Lands (page 41). From the entry washoff
  • Considerable copper ore, steam-shoveled from Sacramento Hill and piled at Bisbee, was of smelting and milling grade, and some of it was put on the dump for heap leaching.1922 November 28, V. C. Heikes, “Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc in Arizona”, in Mineral Resources of the United States 1921, part I…. From the entry steam shovel

Meaning of leach

  1. noun A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  2. noun A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  3. noun A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.

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Questions about leach in a sentence

How do you use leach in a sentence?
Leach is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.”
What is a short sentence with leach?
“Pedalfers are humid-climate soils where leaching is dominant.”
What does leach mean?
Leach means a quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

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