seepage

Example Sentences

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Back in 2013, University of Washington scientists and Sound Transit predicted in a climate change study for the Federal Transit Administration that heavier rainstorms would cause medium risk of “increased groundwater seepage into tunnels.”

From Seattle Times

After a hard rain, you can get water in your basement even if the basement never had a leakage or seepage problem.

From Washington Post

And I believe that most people have a certain yearning for formlessness, for food that looks the way they want to feel: gooey, warm and capable of seepage through existence’s most stringent boundaries.

From New York Times

She also recalled childhood picnics spent traipsing after him along dried-up river beds, as he searched tirelessly for sources of water seepage.

From BBC

In the pervasive sense of seepage and fragility, Mosse achieves, quite elegantly, a central aim in his work, which is to convey world-changing phenomena beyond the limits of documentary photography.

From New York Times