How To Use Seeping In A Sentence

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
There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control.
He kneels on the sand, the wetness immediately seeping through to his knees.
The poisons seeping from Hanford's contaminated land quickly dilute in the water.
Rain seeping through the ground into your basement or crawl space may appear as damp, moldy walls or may be handled by a sump pump.

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Lee got irritated as she saw blood seeping out of a gash on her hand.
High levels of nitrates and/or bacteria indicate that you have a plume of pollution seeping into your well, possibly from a local farm or industrial area.
Outside, snow flurried through light seeping through the window: silent static beyond the glass.
Her arms were covered in scratches and there was one extremely deep one that was still seeping some blood.
On the other hand, the Church assumed control of all levels of state education, and the lectures of professors at the Central University of Madrid were censored, to stop French ideas seeping into Spain.
Sixteen years old, he wears a nylon jacket with round cigarette burns in the shell, dirty cotton batting seeping out.
Making it into the lobby, he remembered wiping his brow repeatedly from the water seeping down his forehead.
Muddy trainer prints stained the polished floorboards, marring their flawless exterior like blood seeping over a white surface.
She was seen leaving there with her left middle finger heavily bandaged and blood seeping through. The Sun
Just kill yourself you stench ridden, pustulent seeping herpes sore you Think Progress » Fox News ambusher Griff Jenkins hypocritically cowers from interview: ‘Call the media relations people.’
Water had been slowly seeping away from the pond.
The windows were frosted over, so I had to scrape and scrape, all the while thinking the clock's ticking, the poison is seeping into his system!
His right eye is swollen, puffy and seeping something murky.
Philippe sagged forward, his hands gripping the animal's thin mane, blood seeping from the open wound in his leg. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
The keen edge cut through his glove easily and into his hand, blood seeping from the cut and dripping onto the pavement.
I would be lulled to sleep by the bass seeping up through the floors. Times, Sunday Times
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
As he drank from me, my skin crawled and I resisted the urge to retch, the sickness and corruption inside him feeling as if it were seeping under my skin. My Fair Succubi
His boiler had been leaking the deadly gas, which had been seeping through our floor. The Sun
Their music melds together a scuzzy, squally blend of rebellious gospel/folk that at times possesses the radiant buoyancy of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and in quieter moments the seeping warmth of M Ward or intelligent, lovely meanderings of Elvis Perkins. Heather Browne: Drew Grow Brings Rock and Roll Salvation
I would be lulled to sleep by the bass seeping up through the floors. Times, Sunday Times
Burlesque shows have been seeping into theatreland for a while now, and one, The Hurly Burly Show, returns after a successful Leicester Square Theatre run. This week's new theatre
Droplets splattered onto my sweatshirt, seeping through the thin fabric and chilling my skin.
Water seeping into exposed pores allows for frost action.
The Wheel Spins Freely Sat in your leather armchair, you find yourself in the bay window of suburbia where sunshine casts friendly shadows as you turn the newspaper's brilliant page and only the hum of Sunday traffic seeping through the open window competes with the tick of the clock when the door explodes and your howling child throws himself before you and offers up the severed wheel from a favourite toy and demands through lime-green snot and salmon-pink eyes for you to intervene (as if you were some god whose powers extended to the very edges of knowing what living is like but by candlelight feared the devil in the mirror) and so you hold that severed wheel from a favourite toy and somewhere on the other side of the Universe you feel the numbed heart of a star collapse and die and you realise the swirl of the grain of the floorboards is the fingerprint of a WN.com - Articles related to '3 Idiots' triumphs at IIFA; Vidya, Kareena are best actresses
Heavy banks of clouds covered the sky, only a pale glow seeping through.
The period costumes are exquisite too, with gorgeous colour and playfulness seeping in, defying the gloom. Times, Sunday Times
He knew he was bleeding by the wetness seeping down his leg, but he lacked the will to check out his injury.
Water was seeping out of the tank.
Nonetheless, the sad piano music was sweet and soothing, adding to an effect of the golden sun rising and the sunlight seeping through my windows.
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
Now, he risks being perceived as merely a cold draught seeping under the turnstiles into Wembley. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the body might first be anointed with oil to prevent water from seeping through the skin.
She was seen leaving there with her left middle finger heavily bandaged and blood seeping through. The Sun
Or it was from ancient times believed that species of fumitories sprang up spontaneously in fields of barley, without benefit of seeding itself, like smoke seeping from cracks in the earth, therefore was called ‘The Smoke of the Earth.’
And much of the heavy rain in April ran off the ground so rapidly that it washed away into rivers without seeping underground. Times, Sunday Times
It was as if his mind was a leaking vessel, his sanity seeping out like water.
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
So here he sat, oblivious to the cold seeping slowly into his bones, unmoving, unblinking, waiting for one confirmatory glimpse. THE ONLY GAME
What police did discover on entering the flat was a suitcase in the bathroom, with red liquid seeping out of it. Times, Sunday Times
Hideous, jarring Luther, filled with phlegmy death rattles, seeping brains, and motiveless daylight butcherings carried out by psychopaths "just for the lulz". Grace Dent's TV OD: Luther and Falling Skies
Blood was slowly seeping out of his body.
All the liveliness of the evening had been replaced by lonely silence, as soft and still as the darkness seeping through the frosted glass windows.
As the drip entered my arm I could feel the liquid seeping up from my shoulders to my fingertips to the tips of my toes. The Sun
Non-point pollution, in contrast, enters waterbodies in a diffuse manner, such as through run-off from farmers' fields or from forests, or as pollution seeping down into groundwater aquifers.
Caked in cracked dirt and seeping sweat, crawling on all fours, suffocating from the heat, and trying to avoid startled lizards and bats, I cannot help but feel that I am glad they widened the tunnels for us.
There were no windows, but there were, he saw, hairline cracks in the walls from which the luminescence was seeping. SACRAMENT
As they descended, the light became aqueous and a chill emanated from the forest floor, seeping through the lichen, moss and ferns. FLOATING CITY
His boots were getting very muddy; he could feel some of the cold ooze seeping through the cracks in the ill-made shoes and squishing between his toes.
In fact, the curry flavour is not just seducing gastronomes across the city of Big Ben, but also gradually seeping into London's economy with Indian-owned businesses accounting for five per cent of the city's economy.
Wouldn't disinformation "planted" abroad eventually make it back home by slowly seeping in unmonitored via the congested information-rich Internet?
I did get word, late last night, that a certain seeping, pustulent herpes sore of a woman who is 77.9% responsible for my finally having had enough of Second Life is now trying to insinuate her way into an acquaintances sim. "We think we've climbed so high, Up all the backs we've condemned..."
There was no wind and the sun seeping through the underside of the leaves turned them to glass. Times, Sunday Times
Water was seeping through the crack in the windshield.
I imagined the streams they now swam in, overhung with drooping vines or seeping from glacial meltwater. Times, Sunday Times
On we drove past the CJ Rance timber mill where life stood still on this holiday long weekend, save for blue smoke seeping from wood-curing stacks.
Winter and early spring are perfect for rhubarb crumble and custard, the sweet pink juices seeping through a golden buttery crust.
He paid the old man and walked back down towards the car park, chuckling to himself, ice cream seeping stickily over his wrists. DESPERADOES
I have lived in rented accommodation where we welcomed the rain seeping through the ceiling because it discouraged the rats.
When Cawood faced severe flooding in 2000, club members pumped away water seeping through the flood defences for three days.
The idea that this nonsense is seeping off the Internet to schools and other places of a professional nature alarms me in a way most alarming.
Oil from its tanks is still seeping out and threatening local wildlife, despite elaborate efforts by the Ministry of Defence to contain the leaks.
What police did discover on entering the flat was a suitcase in the bathroom, with red liquid seeping out of it. Times, Sunday Times
She added that fuses popped regularly and water had been seeping down the walls of their home.
In fact, he always wore a greasy old billycock - greasy, I imagine, because of the melted butter seeping down to his collar band.
And after I wrote that, I had a daymare of seeping, crushing cold innocence rising up from Fort Lauderdale oddly, it's grey with bright purple spots and slowly, implacably crushing all in its way...only to go about 1 tenth of a mile before getting distracted by some of Broward County's more fun sex stores, immediately putting on some nice red stuff and shrivelling up with all of the corruption, unable to resist. Another randomness post:
There was a large area of pinkish wet seeping through the bandage.
They have been working to make the gel suitable for sealing cracks in oil wells to prevent water seeping through, and have now been awarded a contract to use it in five sites.
The water, seeping through the underground conchiferous layer, mixes with the salt that is deposited from the seashores.
Meanwhile, the term "humble brag" is slowly seeping into the public consciousness. Re-Tweeting (Not-So) Humble Promoters
And much of the heavy rain in April ran off the ground so rapidly that it washed away into rivers without seeping underground. Times, Sunday Times
We just cannot stop modernism from seeping up between the floorboards, so a return to a premodern reading of the Bible is barred to us now.
Pesticides are seeping out of farmland and into the water supply.
The muted lighting seeping from recessed light fixtures in alcoves along the wall cast many a shadow throughout the room.
They were limestone, and seeping water had dissolved away the calcite. LISTENING WOMAN
Water is said to be seeping into the basement and the foundation may well be threatened.
It also disrupts the water table by preventing rainwater from seeping down through the soil.
I watched the pale brown stain seeping into the wallpaper, and I began to boil.
Impeccably fresh sardines cooked in pancetta do not need a slick of oil seeping from a curiously flavourless salsa verde.
All the areas had previously been thought to be safe from high levels of seeping radon, which comes out of the ground and gathers in enclosed spaces.
All the banned words, the secrets kept in whitewashed vaults, the half-forgotten plots—they’re all out here now, seeping invisibly into the land and air, into the marrowed folds of the bone. Underworld
Absence of proof failed to faze Alobar, however, since, thanks to the Bandaloop, he had witnessed three hundred and eighty-five thousand, eight hundred and six sunrises in his life, and judging from the milky molluscan glow seeping through the barred window, was about to witness yet another. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Could it be that this week's black mood is seeping out through my pores?
His daughter Margaret is writing a book about her unusual childhood and a biography by Paul Alexander is seeping unannounced into bookstores.
This shift towards supersizing is a trend that's been almost impossible to miss, seeping into many aspects of our lives. Times, Sunday Times
She was glad not to be able to see much of the place, foul with seeping water and fungus, a chamber of old horrors where prisoners hunched under the vaults of cold stone like monstrous white insects, wingless and half-blind.
Local media have questioned some projects, such as draining water from the chain of lakes outside the Old Summer Palace ruins to install an impermeable membrane that would stop water from seeping into the ground.
Oil is seeping out through a crack in the tank.
When you remove the ring after completing the layering you'll have a pretty pool of green oil seeping out from the edge.
The water seeping around the abutment of the Saint Francis Dam was brown.
E-waste is a huge issue right now and your electronics could end up in landfills, with toxic chemicals seeping into our ecosystems and polluting our waterways. Creative and Greener Ways to Get Rid of Old Electronics | Inhabitat
When the rain started coming down, the back garden just filled up and started seeping into the house.
The sitting room reeked of damp and mould, the source of which was seeping through the plaster on the south-facing gable end.
The sense of panic seeping through the climactic scenes is very well handled. Times, Sunday Times
Chris blinked, a bit of dry laughter seeping through his lips as he slapped a hand over his eyes.
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
A draft of cool air seeping in around my feet and calves.
Seconds later, an empty cup was on the floor and light brown liquid was seeping into the white fluff on the ground.
He later realised liquid was seeping from her mouth, and called an ambulance at about 3pm.
A popular tourist attraction at Mistley has been damaged by water seeping into the walls.
In the side street where I was moving the lamps had gone out, and in the faint light from the aurora that was seeping through thin cloud banks the snow had a bluish tinge like an overcoloured Christmas card. Northlight
Possible sheet metal damage was also noticed on the left side of the retardant tank and hydraulic oil was seeping from this point.
The period costumes are exquisite too, with gorgeous colour and playfulness seeping in, defying the gloom. Times, Sunday Times
In the gloom they were… terrifying: nightmarish shapes against the slivers of light seeping through the chinks in the shutters, overbearingly huge from my perspective.
Oil is seeping out through a crack in the tank.
His boiler had been leaking the deadly gas, which had been seeping through our floor. The Sun
Well, now she's on a mission to fix the dampness seeping through the wall behind the shower.
He couldn't even sense the cold and wetness seeping through his clothes.
Most parts of the dry sea floor are covered with deposits of billions of tonnes of toxic salts, brought there over the decades with the water seeping from the fields into the rivers.
The bell-tower, through which water was seeping into the bricks below, had to be waterproofed in 1991.
Her mascara was smeared with tears seeping through her eyes, her face was swollen with one or two bruised and a few cuts.
As the drip entered my arm I could feel the liquid seeping up from my shoulders to my fingertips to the tips of my toes. The Sun
Water had been slowly seeping away from the pond.
He knew he was bleeding by the wetness seeping down his leg, but he lacked the will to check out his injury.
Commission engineers believe water seeping through joints on top of the bridge is causing the concrete along the bottom of the edge of the deck slabs to "spall," or weaken and flake, Gas Drilling
They smelled of sheep tallow, woodsmoke and kerosene, and sometimes of whiskey seeping through their pores. Excerpt: Claiming Ground by Laura Bell
Its corrosive effects are also seeping into our personal lives, as all surveys reveal that we are becoming increasingly mistrustful of one another.
Perched on iron wheels, it is lined with close-grained pine boards stained a deep honey-amber by years of woodsmoke seeping from the stove. Wildwood
Soil compaction causes farmers a lot of problems by preventing moisture from seeping down to plant roots and by increasing water runoff and wind erosion.
The bitter disagreements and feuds within the British establishment surrounding the vexed issue of foreign policy are seeping out into the open.
I fear that the shameless invocation of democratic imagery to shroud fundamentally anti-democratic action is gradually seeping in and taking hold of Australia Felix.
‘Probaly some lunatic escaped from a mental hospital,’ Diana suggested, the color slowly seeping back into her face.
DILLON - As money scams are seeping into Dillon, its police department wants to remind everyone that "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
Water seeping through the coquina walls evidently provides adequate moisture and nutrients for these mosses and vascular plants.
Eric's temporality begins to unravel, events from the near future seeping into the present.
Blood was seeping slowly from the wound.
What the group of relatively inexperienced cavers didn't know was that the heavy rain of the previous few days was seeping through the porous limestone rock and would quickly fill the cavern with freezing cold, rushing water.
Bright and vibrant colours, made popular in children's bedrooms, are seeping into the rest of the house.
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
We believe it's unlikely that water will saturate the slab, seeping through to the wooden framing, it is quite possible, and even likely, that small cracks have developed over the years.
His tension was seeping away.
And the immersive nastiness of their aesthetic — decayed bathrooms, foul workshops, seeping industrial spaces, blades blotched with rust — distilled the slasher-flick elixir: atmosphere. Don’t Fear the Reaper
The sanitation of Windsor Castle was almost as bad as the slums of London, with seeping cesspits polluting the water supply.
You can almost feel the wetness and chill seeping into your bones.
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
As he pulled his black sweater off, I could see a steady flow of thick red liquid seeping freely from his left shoulder.
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
She was seen leaving there with her left middle finger heavily bandaged and blood seeping through. The Sun
Oil is seeping from the engine.
I smell the warm aroma of delicious fresh dung seeping through the heap.
Could the exhaust gases be seeping into the car? Times, Sunday Times
After stoking the fire, he circles the room again, searching for cracks and crevices where wind might be seeping in, and the life-sustaining warmth of the fire is escaping.

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