How to Use seep in a Sentence

seep

1 of 2 verb

• The chemicals seeped into the ground.
• Blood was seeping through the bandage.
• Place the dumpling on the spoon and use the chopstick to poke into the dumpling so the juices seep out.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2023
• The mulch absorbs the water, and that water seeps into the ground and feeds the roots.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Sewage seeped out, and the smell was a real appetite killer.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• The liquid didn’t seep through to the underside and left no stain.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
• Worse, the moisture can seep into the fibers and result in mold and mildew.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2023
• Spread cheese to the edge of the grits crust to prevent any custard from seeping out while the quiche bakes.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2023
• Let some of the paint seep outside the eyes for an extra-ominous look.
  — Taylor Murphy, House Beautiful, 7 June 2023
• But even for those who haven’t had to flee, the war has seeped into daily life in ways large and small.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2023
• The team found a line of cold seeps estimated to be 1,950 feet long, NOAA says.
  — Mark Price, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• The small lip on the edge of the platter helps catch any water that may seep out of your container.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
• The rain and snow from winter leave moisture that seeps into cracks and joints in the pavement.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• The warming ocean seeps underneath the ice and melts it from below.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• When the ground is cold and hard, however, no rain can seep into it.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• But in this case, water seeping into the sand from the river kept the logs wet and preserved them, Barham says.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2023
• The salty bay water seeping into their front yard would kill them.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• The charred wood acts like a filter and strains out some of the chemicals before the distillate seeps into the wood.
  — Michael W. Crowder, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
• To remove a henna tattoo, the layers of skin where the dye has seeped into need to be removed.
  — Manal Aman, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2023
• The bird had blood all seeping underneath all of its skin tissue.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
• The scent of salt and lumber, evoking a journey on a wooden sailing ship, seeps into the room.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• Wait too long in between coats and the first coat may prevent the second coat from seeping into the mortar.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• For the most part, this backpack did a good job preventing leaks, though a small amount of water seeped through once the ice melted.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
• In those moments, the elk’s undeniably sweet, musky smell seeps into the bus.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 20 Feb. 2024
• Heat was still seeping up from the brick underfoot, but the dark night sky was more forgiving.
  — Taylor Eisenhauer, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2023
• To keep water from seeping into the bottom of the springform pan, line the outside with aluminum foil.
  — Daniel Neman, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The older man, blood seeping through his white T-shirt, pulls a gun from his coat and confronts both the younger man and the woman, who have moved to the far end of the subway car.
  — Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Take, for instance, the steering that allows not a trace of vagueness or uncertainty to seep through to the palms of the driver.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 26 Apr. 2023
• The paradigm shift is seeping from medicine into the wider culture.
  — Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 14 Feb. 2024
• In addition, the amount of water that seeps out of the hose will depend on the porosity of the material.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023

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seep

2 of 2 noun

• Even still, microscopic bits of air seep in through the cork and help the wine evolve.
  — NOLA.com, 26 June 2017
• Through such holes in the storytelling, the play’s richest emotions seep.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• Or maybe just cracked an inch to let in a seep of the cool night air flowing off the ocean that was however many blocks away?
  — T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Sometimes, females would arrive at a male’s seep and try to eat the eggs that other females had laid in the spot.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Aug. 2020
• Use a damp cloth to clean off dust and grime, being careful not to let any liquid seep inside.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 11 Dec. 2020
• By 1852, the once-sprawling tent city, and its poisonous seep holes, had disappeared.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 May 2020
• What qualifies as such a seep is left up to the oil and gas supervisor.
  — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• The seep was only one in a series of recent setbacks, locals say.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Methane seeps, which form in sediments near shores along the coastal margins, are one of the most common cold seeps.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Simply use a damp cloth to clean off any dust and grime, being careful not to let any liquid seep behind the switch.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 10 Nov. 2020
• It’s linked to a fault line: Scientists first mistook the leak for a cold methane seep – there are at least 1,000 methane seeps in the region.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• It’s called a seep: Cracks or fissures in the ocean floor that gush liquid or gasses up the water column are commonly found in the world’s oceans.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Interestingly, the seep is not on the eponymous trail, but a few yards ahead on the Little Elden Trail.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2021
• Thousands of years ago, prey animals fell into the seeps, made a ruckus, and attracted predators such as the saber-tooth cat and the dire wolf.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• The idea here was to do something like locate a shipwreck or a natural methane seep.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 1 June 2019
• Now, yellow seep monkey flowers blossomed in a half-mile-long swath.
  — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 14 July 2017
• Walk along the beaches of this Southern California city and chances are, tar will stick to your feet from the natural seeps.
  — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 9 May 2017
• And, unlike at other seeps, the water at Pythia’s Oasis flows nonstop.
  — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• Then Pearl let the quiet of her house seep into her and pour into and fortify the most precious quiet at the very center of her.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• On an adjacent couch, Paul keels over, the bullet hole in his forehead beginning to seep.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 1 June 2020
• Ziemkiewicz directed Hurley to open the metal door of the treatment system, which looked like a miniature grain silo built over the seep.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• The sole includes circle outlines that serve as guides for drilling drainage ports, a vital feature if your trail run includes creeks and seeps.
  — Roy M. Wallack, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• What causes the vertical protrustions, and why are such structures not found at other seep sites?
  — Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2016
• But Machado follows the seep of such stories far below the level of consciousness.
  — Nora Caplan-Bricker, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• The seep occurred in an oil field where Chevron uses a process called steam injection to extract underground crude oil.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2019
• Did the global pandemic seep from a truckbed crowded with animal cages on its way to market?
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• Sometimes soggy but mostly dry, the seep is a favorite hangout for wildlife like deer, squirrels and rabbits.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2021
• Their struggles on a briny bay fouled by petroleum seeps and derelict oil rigs are etched onto their faces and stained into their clothes.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• Today, smaller seeps (vertical lines) still bubble up around the craters.
  — Stephanie Pappas Live Science Contributor, Fox News, 5 June 2017
• How rainfall and groundwater seep in can also build up pressure and lead to cracks and collapses.
  — Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 3 May 2024