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How to use leaky in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective

Leaky means having leaks; not fully sealed. Example: “The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.”

Examples of leaky by meaning

adjectiveHaving leaks; not fully sealed.

  • The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.
  • The ceiling was so leaky that someone had to fix it.
  • Nuclear reactors in Russian submarines are said to be so leaky that crews are often paid "sterility money".1983, Michael Stephenson, Roger Hearn, The Nuclear Case Book

More sentences with leaky

  • I used duct tape to cover the hole in a leaky pipe.From the entry duct tape
  • Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.From the entry dripping
  • Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer.From the entry between
  • You should think about getting that leaky roof repaired.From the entry think about
  • The bucket under the leaky roof needs frequent emptyings.From the entry emptying
  • “Leaky, Lyin’ Pete,” Waltz and Vance absolutely were texting secret war plans on an unsecure messaging app.2025 March 26, Chris Kelly, “‘Leaky Pete’ should be fired from a cannon”, in The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A9…. From the entry MAGAland
  • He rocks back and forth like a leaky old boat shakes on the ocean.1994, Helene P Foley, The Homeric hymn to Demeter: translation, commentary, and interpretive essays. From the entry knobbily
  • One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky.1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness: The River of Doubt. From the entry cranky
  • This is a classic case of leaky abstraction.2015, Suhas Chatekar, Learning NHibernate 4, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry leaky abstraction
  • My wife says that’s because the shoemaker's kids always go barefoot and the carpenter’s house always has a leaky roof.1999, Stephen King, “Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling”, in Hearts in Atlantis, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 493. From the entry the shoemaker's children go barefoot
  • No leaky joints or splitting follow our work.1908 September 29, Deetz & Mullen, “Pipes Plumbered by Us”, in The Evening Times, city edition, volume XLIV, number 231, Cumberland, Md.…. From the entry plumber
  • Just as the shoemaker's children go barefoot and the carpenter's children live under a leaky roof, I knew this day would come.2022, Valerie Schultz, A Hill of Beans: The Grace of Everyday Troubles, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry the shoemaker's children go barefoot
  • If an infant becomes wet because of leaky rubber pants or something like that, he's got to be changed in a hurry.1973, Michael J. Clark, “You're Taking…Who?…Where?”, in John Monroe Bennet, editor, Backpacker, volume 1, number 3, Do's and Don'ts for…. From the entry rubber pants
  • Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry dunnage
  • Bythell’s misanthropic memoir, “The Diary of a Bookseller,” covers one year in the life of the Bookshop, his used-bookstore in a drafty, leaky stone house in Wigtown, Scotland.2018 August 26, Laurie Hertzel, “The curmudgeon of Wigtown”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVII, number 144, page E12. From the entry used-bookstore
  • Our little leaky faucet had to wear a drool bib at all times, and went through them at the rate of one per hour, even more when he was teething.2012, Angela Wynne, The Baby Cheapskate Guide to Bargains, page 206. From the entry drooler

Meaning of leaky

  1. adjective Having leaks; not fully sealed.
  2. adjective Tending to leak secrets or information.

Full definition of leaky

Questions about leaky in a sentence

How do you use leaky in a sentence?
Leaky is used as an adjective. For example: “The leaky bucket dripped only one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.”
What is a short sentence with leaky?
“No leaky joints or splitting follow our work.”
What does leaky mean?
Leaky means having leaks; not fully sealed.

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