[ UK /sˈiːp/ ]
[ US /ˈsip/ ]
VERB
  1. pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
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How To Use seep In A Sentence

  • The rest of the explanation seeps out gradually as midnight melts into the early hours. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chemical seepage has caused untold damage.
  • Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
  • The vim seemed to seep out of Dundee at that point, and although they brought on Fabian Caballero with 15 minutes to go, to popular local acclaim, he was no more able to effect the result than his colleagues.
  • He paused again, letting the name seep into the minds of those assembled and waiting for the general reaction. Doors Into Chaos
  • The volume expansion provides an excellent mechanism to expel and propel fluid products – including hydrocarbons – from the area of serpentinization to seep sites at the crust hydrosphere/atmosphere interface. At it Again
  • Subterranean species are difficult to monitor since they appear seasonally and sporadically in seeps and springs or may not appear even during high water flows.
  • There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control.
  • The "fume" or "smell" events occur when oil seeps from faulty engine oil seals into the compressor bleed air used to ventilate and pressurise the cabin. HEADLINES
  • How strange that her bracing, sometimes unpalatably extreme stance could have seeped so gently into popular culture. Times, Sunday Times
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