Verb (used with object) : The vodka is seeped through charcoal to purify it. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Water seeps through cracks in the wall. ,The new ideas finally seeped down to the lower echelons. ,Fog seeped through the trees, obliterating everything. From Dictionary.com.
He lay against the stone wall, blood seeping from a wound at the back of his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Wordwitch « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Swiftly comes the deprecating simile: "like foam seeping from a fire extinguisher". From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 - Presentation Speech] Reference
I was goin to make a comment about plankton seeping from the whales mouth, decided it was to grubby though. From Wordnik.com. [hump] Reference
And along with it, he knew he felt a kind of seeping despair. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Do you find these words kind of seeping into your own vocabulary?. From Wordnik.com. ['Turducken,' 'Vuvuzela,' And More New Dictionary Words] Reference
Words like "seeping" were used to describe the scene of the bludgeon. From Wordnik.com. [shaken & stirred] Reference
By Saturday, I can pull on my thinnest Lycra skinny jeans and I've stopped 'seeping'. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"It's kind of seeping into the (investor) consciousness that March was pretty weak," he says. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
The oil slick is slowly seeping toward their settlement. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Imperils Native American Town, And Way Of Life] Reference
I imagine the mess seeping out of me: slow, wet, thick. From Wordnik.com. [Nearing the End] Reference
Unidentified Female #2: The water's seeping into my shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Mixed Picture One Year After Serve America Act] Reference
She had turned very pale and blood was seeping into her pants. From Wordnik.com. [Death In A Dumpster] Reference
I felt humiliation seeping through my veins, infecting my very bones. From Wordnik.com. [Breath, He Said.] Reference
All of the monkeys had shaved heads and seeping wounds on their skulls. From Wordnik.com. [Release] Reference
They drive without interruption, the message seeping into their hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Dashboard Jesus] Reference
Condit's sins, whatever they are, may finally be seeping through the mask. From Wordnik.com. [Behind The Smile] Reference
He would reanimate, as though hydrated from the sweat on his skin seeping in. From Wordnik.com. [In The Digging] Reference
He held her tightly and listened to the creaking house and the seeping winds. From Wordnik.com. [The Ex] Reference
She feels the snugness of her bed, the warmth of sleep seeping into her body. From Wordnik.com. [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference
Her eyes creaked open in the misty morning sun seeping through my dusty window. From Wordnik.com. [Spiders on the Wall] Reference
So experts are saying a lot of the sewage is now seeping into the water aquifer. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey Refocuses Attention On Plight Of Gazans] Reference
Water now draining into the ocean should be seeping into the underground aquifer. From Wordnik.com. [Letting The Water Run Into 'Big Sugar's' Bowl] Reference
With all of the radiation seeping into my brain there is one ritual I refuse to update. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Matlack: James Franco, Others Discuss Favorite 'Guy Rituals'] Reference
Lifting the blankets she saw a bloodstain the size of her palm, seeping into the sheets. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] Reference
She pursued them around the corner, the snow no doubt seeping in under her socked heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Recall Year] Reference
There is no hint of the sealant actually having to do its job and seeping through a puncture. From Wordnik.com. [Wrenched and Ridden bike reviews: Schwalbe Ultremo HT tubular tires] Reference
Jeanette's finger was the beak of a strange bird twirling in Billy's fluid seeping out of her. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Life] Reference
Designed to prevent oil from seeping through the bag, PFOA can migrate into the food when heated. From Wordnik.com. [Nine Ways to Avoid Household Toxins] Reference
The tip of their wings touched each other with mana seeping down the mirror like a cascading waterfall. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.8: Realization] Reference
She put the sandwiches onto two paper plates, put napkins under them where the pickle juice was seeping through. From Wordnik.com. [Julianne] Reference
The beach was still dark, but glimmers of light were slowly seeping through the sky and lighting the foam of breaking waves. From Wordnik.com. [John Hamilton's Reflection] Reference
China said that jewelry could be made of more than 0.06 percent lead by weight because the coating would keep the lead from seeping out. From Wordnik.com. [More children's jewelry recalled for lead; China questioned risks] Reference
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