Definition of seepage
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Examples of seepage in a Sentence
Check for seepage in the basement.
Recent Examples of seepage from the Web
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What if that seepage could be harnessed for energy in wells onshore, rather than out in the trickier ocean environment?
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Long sheet piles are driven straight down beneath the concrete base, deep enough to cut off the seepage of water through the levee and soil beneath the wall.
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Grizzled Beltway veterans may dismiss the lobbyist seepage as the inevitable result of the collision of campaign rhetoric with the practicalities of governing.
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Seepage from the building's internal drains, which were concealed in interior columns, weakened its concrete bones.
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Resuming operations at Koolan Island, mined for about three decades by BHP until 1993, and restarted by Mount Gibson in 2007, will require construction of a new section of seawall and a 467-meter long seepage barrier.
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The gas seepage threatened nearly 40 nearby mobile homes, state regulatory records show.
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Within the United States, seepage from oil and gas wells is the largest source of methane gas in the atmosphere.
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In recent years, riders have suffered through broken escalators, breakdowns, water seepage and frequent fires caused by aging electrical equipment; there were two track fires on Thursday alone, and a fire last year killed one person.
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First Known Use of seepage
circa 1825
SEEPAGE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of seepage for English Language Learners
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: an occurrence in which a liquid or gas flows or passes slowly through small openings
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