These are applied to arable land as fertilizers and inevitably some washes into the river or percolates through the soil and into the aquifer. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
percolate coffee. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I'm still processing this 'call to arms' and personally think it needs to percolate from the bottom up not the Government down. From Wordnik.com. [December 2008] Reference
Cherry let the idea percolate with ABC executives because he knew it was a "pretty risky proposition.". From Wordnik.com. [RockyMountainNews.com] Reference
After I let the idea percolate for a time, I decided against pursuing that course for something with much less pressure. From Wordnik.com. [It Begins!] Reference
At very high fields, the filaments formed an interconnected network across which charges could travel, or 'percolate'. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
"percolate" and keep going up and down in the organization. From Wordnik.com. [ClickZ News Blog] Reference
We're not just letting it sit there and percolate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2004] Reference
A lot of sunshine that caused things to percolate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2007] Reference
It may take 1,000 years to percolate to the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Bottomless Well?] Reference
That's when this H1N1 virus first started to percolate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2009] Reference
We'll keep an eye on that thing as it continues to percolate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference
Lawns slow rainwater by allowing it to percolate into the soil. From Wordnik.com. [A thick lawn can be yours with just a few steps] Reference
Not a word of this fate would percolate into the world without. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
The second thing is what can we see that will actually percolate?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2009] Reference
What can we put on hold and what needs to percolate a little bit?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2009] Reference
But it takes time for voters to -- for it to percolate amongst voters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2008] Reference
One particular memory began to percolate within him and boil over his rim. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
ROBERTS: It is interesting that it took a while for that story to percolate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2002] Reference
People say it takes six months for the rate cut to percolate through the economy. From Wordnik.com. [Can It Get Any Worse?] Reference
So, this area is going to percolate right over parts of north and Central Georgia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008] Reference
WOLF: It's not going to have the opportunity to percolate and become much stronger. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2006] Reference
Now, do the questions as to how to assign the gifts ever percolate up to your level?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Clinton Pardons: House Government Reform Committee Questions Former Clinton Aides - March 1, 2001] Reference
And this issue of inexperience is starting to percolate, especially among young voters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 20, 2008] Reference
And you can hear the ideas already with this young George Gershwin starting to percolate. From Wordnik.com. [Marin Alsop's Shared Musical Roots] Reference
It took a while for this to percolate up and it was posted on the Huffington Post Friday. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2008] Reference
And no warnings out right now but certainly they could percolate throughout the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2008] Reference
I percolate — the essay collection I really want is in the computer but not on the shelf. From Wordnik.com. [Titus, I] Reference
In one place evil liquids and gases will percolate; in another evil accumulations will putrefy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
You have inflation starting to percolate, plus, the biggest problem is people are living longer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 17, 2008] Reference
And the older ones were not designed to allow storm water to naturally percolate into the ground. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2008] Reference
It took fully a minute for Marty's announcement to really percolate to his cousin's understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
The water will thus percolate through the stone without splashing and evenly wet the sand and cement. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Then there is the other extreme of compact clay, through which water seems scarcely to percolate at all. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Let them percolate for a few weeks; then whichever makes you want to read the next sentence is the winner. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Essay] Reference
I wish I were the kind of person who could take a month or two or three to sit back and let a story percolate. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Nash: The Making of a Novel: Nature Abhors a Vacuum] Reference
Indeed, it's Tomlin's "the Friz," as she's known in the hallways, who makes this little science primer percolate. From Wordnik.com. [Ms. Frizzle Explains All] Reference
Eventually their work was shown at the Montbeliard Video Festival in France, just when the video scene was beginning to percolate. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
As a rule it was somewhere where the water from an adjacent brook would percolate through the earth and make things uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference
This process begins before the water boils, but the hotter the water becomes the more rapidly does it percolate through the coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference
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