Verb Blood was seeping through the bandage. The chemicals seeped into the ground.
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Verb
This gas can seep into homes and other buildings through pipes and cracks in foundations. Maya Miller, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022 The Pac-12′s month-long fight for survival could seep into the football season, and perhaps deep into the season, as the forces of realignment ripple across the college landscape.oregonlive, 29 July 2022 When the ground is so hard from drought, water doesn’t seep in as much and runs off faster in flood, Francis said. Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022 When the ground is so hard from drought, water doesn’t seep in as much and runs off faster in flood, Francis and others said. Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022 Undulating fields with dips and ponds where water can collect and slowly seep back into the soil will stop it from running off too quickly.WIRED, 21 Aug. 2022 It’s not aggressive like the old ones that would seep into sheetrock. Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2022 The roots help bind the soil together and let water seep slowly into the ground, reducing soil erosion and runoff into nearby waterways. Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2022 And yet, despite those best efforts, Thursday's revelations will still seep through to at least some GOP media viewers and readers. Brian Stelter, CNN, 22 July 2022
Noun
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 research showing racist tweets directed at Harris comes as sentiments of white supremacy seep into American society and politics. Musadiq Bidar, CBS News, 9 June 2022 Where the former keeps water out of the topmost layer of your jacket (causing it to bead rather than seep), the latter keeps water from getting through your jacket at its fastening points. Sara Coughlin, SELF, 24 Mar. 2022 That once dynamic seep ecosystem is still influencing the area long after the volcanoes sputtered out, the researchers concluded in a study published on Tuesday in Nature Communications. Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2022 The seep was only one in a series of recent setbacks, locals say.Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022 But slowly, and persuasively, bits of the paranormal and horror genre seep into the novel, and these elements become as much a part of the plot as the mystery.Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022 Situated in a depression surrounded by desert vistas and seep willows, the shallow, reedy waterhole is a haven for desert creatures. Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2021 Secrets, fears and distrust seep through Gunthrum as Flanagan shows how these issues become a part of the daily fabric of the residents’ lives. Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
alteration of earlier sipe, from Middle English sipen, from Old English sipian; akin to Middle Low German sipen to seep