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How to use leakage in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Leakage means an act of leaking, or something that leaks. Example: “Engineers discovered leakage in the fuel tank.”

Examples of leakage by meaning

nounAn act of leaking, or something that leaks.

  • Engineers discovered leakage in the fuel tank.

More sentences with leakage

  • The closed-ear design provides ample protection from sound leakage during podcast recording.2023 February 26, Lauren Moison, “The 6 Best Podcast Headphones, According To An Audio Engineer”, in Bustle, archived from the original on…. From the entry closed-ear
  • If the crack is seeping water, the foam totally stops the leakage.2015, Crack repair service, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2020. From the entry seep
  • Progressive hyperfluorescence with late leakage was considered a sign of lesion activity.2015 December 17, “MHC Class I Chain-Related Gene A Polymorphisms and Linkage Disequilibrium with HLA-B and HLA-C Alleles in Ocular…. From the entry hyperfluorescence
  • Water stops are provided in both the types of joints, to prevent leakage of water.1992, B. C. Punmia, Irrigation and Water Power Engineering, page 354. From the entry water stop
  • Closure should be as airtight as possible in order to reduce leakage of carboxide to a minimum.1943, United States. Navy, Bureau of ships Manual, pages 36-29. From the entry carboxide
  • Latent smudges may be usable to infer recently and frequently touched areas of the screen – a form of information leakage.2010 August 9, Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith, “Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”…. From the entry smudge attack
  • Except for the present exchange, I wasn't aware that there had been any leakage outside that limited scope.2009 October, Cary Karp, quoting Debbie Garside, “Subject: RE: language question re: IDNs”, in online mailing list. From the entry synoglyph
  • Since then, there have been many studies of leakage and decoherence in the context of the quantum-dot quantum computing proposal.2008, D. Klauser, W. A. Coish, Daniel Loss, “Quantum-Dot Spin Qubit and Hyperfine Interaction”, in Rolf Haug, editor, Advances in Solid…. From the entry decoherence
  • Excessive leakage currents were measured for four chips (2 NPN, 1 PNP, and 1 diode) after the delid operation.1972, International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics, 1972 International Microelectronic Symposium. From the entry delid
  • Within seconds, the same huffy nurse returns and starts checking my cast for leakage and my blood pressure for, I guess, spikeage.2016, Jill MacKenzie, Spin the Sky. From the entry spikeage
  • When that occurs, the device does not measure the amount of methane that the second sensor would capture, and so it underrecords methane leakage rates.2015 August 4, John Schwartz, “Methane Leaks May Greatly Exceed Estimates, Report Says”, in New York Times. From the entry underrecord
  • Hence, the oxygen vacancy loses some of its “negative charge” and takes on a “positive character” that counterattracts the leakage of negative charge.1967: the Chemical Society of Great Britain and the University of Nottingham, The alkali metals: an International Symposium held at…. From the entry counterattracts
  • To achieve a large dynamic range, low leakage, and high bandwidth, the SCA sampling switches are implemented as 2.5 V nMOSFETs controlled by 1.2 V shift registers.2025 March, Jinseo1 Park, Evan Angelico, Andrew Arzac, Davide Braga, Ahan Datta, Troy England, Farah Fahim, Henry J. Frisch, Mary Heintz…. From the entry nMOSFET
  • Renal trauma caused by blunt force, entrapment, falls, puncture or accidental trocarisation may rupture the renal capsule leading to leakage of urine into the perirenal tissues.2015 July 3, Ueli Braun, Karl Nuss, “Uroperitoneum in cattle: Ultrasonographic findings, diagnosis and treatment”, in Acta Veterinaria…. From the entry trocarisation
  • To help lessen the leakage, the funeral home had zipped the body inside a “Unionall,” a leak-resistant jumpsuit, before dressing the Bopper in his funeral suit.2011, Dr Bill Bass, Jefferson Bass, Jon Jefferson, Beyond the Body Farm. From the entry unionall
  • Because of the elastic around the legs and waist, fitted diapers prevent leakage better than other cloth diapers do, although they still need an added cover.2010, Kathleen Huggins, The Expectant Parents' Companion: Simplifying What to Do, Buy, Or Borrow for an Easy Life with Baby…. From the entry fitted diaper
  • In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.2001 October 31, Simon Bradshaw, “Re: Steampunk Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry atompunk
  • Complicated labyrinthing was erected to prevent any leakage of X-rays, the aim being to ensure that four scatterings of rays occurred before the beam could escape.1965, Australian Chemical Engineering - Volume 6, page 23. From the entry labyrinthing
  • If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source.1928, R. Austin Freeman, As a Thief in the Night, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry platitudinize

Meaning of leakage

  1. noun An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
  2. noun The amount lost due to a leak.
  3. noun An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.

Full definition of leakage

Questions about leakage in a sentence

How do you use leakage in a sentence?
Leakage is used as a noun. For example: “Engineers discovered leakage in the fuel tank.”
What is a short sentence with leakage?
“Engineers discovered leakage in the fuel tank.”
What does leakage mean?
Leakage means an act of leaking, or something that leaks.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leakage (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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