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• Heavy rains have caused the dam's abutments to seep, raising concern over possible dam failure.From the entry abutment
• Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.From the entry crannies
• There was an arrow-hole in his abdomen, from which blood was seeping.From the entry arrow-hole
• Pus was seeping out of the wound.From the entry pus
• Seep carbonates throughout the geological record share similar petrofabrics, specifically botryoidal cements, yellow calcite, micrite, and micropeloids.2022 August 30, Andrzej Kaim, J. Kirk Cochran, Neil H. Landman, Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps, Springer Nature, page 118. From the entry petrofabrics
• Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84. From the entry fruticose
• Today, boogaloo has seeped out of the gaming community and found fertile ground in militant fringe movements.2020 January 10, Hannah Allam, “'Boogaloo' Is The New Far-Right Slang For Civil War”, in NPR, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2020. From the entry boogaloo
• Without proper safeguarding, toxic heavy metals seep into the soil and groundwater.2019 December 8, Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat, “The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs”, in New York Times. From the entry toxic
• Although I'm a very slow study, Annie Dillard's simple observation is beginning to seep in.2017, Vance G. Morgan, Freelance Christianity: Philosophy, Faith, and the Real World, page 68. From the entry slow study
• “Did law enforcement press charges?” Lettie asked, concern seeping into her voice.2012, Ella Monroe, Secrets and Lies: A Capital Girls Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry cush
• You can still be professional, but let your personality seep in.2006, Debbie Weil, The corporate blogging book. From the entry bloggy
• Geogenic emissions are primarily the result of oil or natural gas seeps and soil wind erosion.2005, William Kuykenda, Emissions Inventory Guidance for Implementation of Ozone and Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality…. From the entry geogenic
• A black cloud seeped out of the crack of the egg and spread throughout the room.1996 January 22, Randal Keith Milholland, “SG: Gomi #3-"The Death of Johnny Figment" Part III (2/2)”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet). From the entry akuma
• We had spoken briefly before dinner, just as Willy’s Christmas rigatoni were seeping up the stew sauce.1993, Camilla T. Crespi [pseudonym; Camilla Trinchieri], chapter 16, in The Trouble with Thin Ice, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN…. From the entry rigatoni
• His desire for a tip seeped out of him like oil from petroleous rock.1961, Sir Darrell Bates, The Shell at My Ear, page 142. From the entry petroleous
• Even as resort fees are under fire, the nickel-and-diming of travelers that airlines have adopted is seeping into hotel operations.2023 October 11, Elaine Glusac, “‘Spending Money to Get Nothing’: The Latest on Resort Fees”, in The New York Times. From the entry nickel and dime
• It is fascinating when a country’s culture seeps even into their math lessons, although it’s not really surprising.2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “North Korea”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 21, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros.…. From the entry artifact
• While the occasional wry witticism seeps through, overall Shipler is painfully conscientious about trying to offer both sides of any debate.2015, Hans Rollman, “Freedom of Speech: It’s Complicated”, in PopMatters. From the entry witticism
• "The fanfiction actually began to seep into the show.2015, Jessica DiCicco, quoted in Kyle Butcher, "Supa DiCicco", Blank Gold Coast, April 2015, page 46. From the entry Bubbline
• Blood may seep to the back of the throat and may clot, producing an “artificial gag” of clotted blood.2014, Anil Aggrawal, APC Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, page 298. From the entry gag
• One gets the more involved in listening to music, mostly classical, when it seeps in to you to the very soul.2011, Elsa De Visser, Interlinked. From the entry begifting
• However, it is the large-sized rhynchonellids that have been most readily identified to date as members of ancient hydrocarbon seep communities.2010, Steffen Kiel, The Vent and Seep Biota: Aspects from Microbes to Ecosystems. From the entry rhynchonellid
• I was seeping like a loose faucet.2007, Rechella, Players Got Played, Kensington Books, page 112. From the entry gushy
• Singlism seems to seep into way too many of the nooks and crannies of a person's life and leave its stain.2006, Bella DePaulo, Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, St. Martin's…. From the entry singlism
• But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa that was seeping into Victorian iconography.2001, Dennis Berthold, “Melville's Medusas”, in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou, editors, Melville "Among the nations"…. From the entry medusa
• It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry muzak
• Successive falls of snow had thawed, or partially thawed, seeped into the ballast and, as temperatures dropped again, refrozen.1964 April, Warren Smith, “The Midland's accelerated timetable—the first year—II”, in Modern Railways, page 243. From the entry refreeze
• It holds the rain and the mist, and they seep into the ground, feeding the streams in every kloof.1948, Alan Paton, chapter 1, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, published 1987. From the entry kloof
• Through the window, they passed the children a batch of freshly fried pakodas wrapped in newspaper, the oil already starting to seep through.2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 99. From the entry pakoda
• A dark insidious force cloaked in an enigmatic shroud of maniacal secrecy had seeped it's way into the far cavernous regions of the subconscious mind.2020 October 2, Clive Atwater, “Chapter Ten Ghastly Finds In Hallow Valley”, in The Boogieman, Archway Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry boogen
• Native mumijo commonly used in traditional medicine is a brown to blackish-brown exudation of variable consistencies that seeps from rock layers of different mountain regions.2012, A.I. Konstantinov, “Molecular Composition Study of Mumijo from Different Geographic Areas Using Size-Exclusion Chromatography, NMR…. From the entry mumijo
• The lead seals confining the liquefying body of the former king were not secure and foulsome black ooze seeped from one edge.2011, Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English. From the entry foulsome

Meaning of seep

1. verb To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
2. verb To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
3. verb To diminish or wane away slowly.

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Questions about seep in a sentence

How do you use seep in a sentence?

Seep is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Water has seeped through the roof.”

What is a short sentence with seep?

“The crack is seeping water.”

What does seep mean?

Seep means to ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.