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.
Verb (used with object) : The vodka is seeped through charcoal to purify it. 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
They drive without interruption, the message seeping into their hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Dashboard Jesus] Reference
All of the monkeys had shaved heads and seeping wounds on their skulls. From Wordnik.com. [Release] 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
She feels the snugness of her bed, the warmth of sleep seeping into her body. From Wordnik.com. [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference
He held her tightly and listened to the creaking house and the seeping winds. From Wordnik.com. [The Ex] 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
She pursued them around the corner, the snow no doubt seeping in under her socked heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Recall Year] Reference
Lifting the blankets she saw a bloodstain the size of her palm, seeping into the sheets. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] 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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