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Explore Percolate through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like filter or perforate. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Percolate in a sentence

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Percolate meaning

  1. To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
  2. To drain or seep through a porous substance.
  3. To make (coffee) in a percolator.

Synonyms of Percolate

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Using Percolate

  • The main meaning on this page is: To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter. | To drain or seep through a porous substance. | To make (coffee) in a percolator.
  • Useful related words include: filter, perk up, perforate, penetrate.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: percoleren, filteren, filtreren.
  • In the example corpus, percolate often appears in combinations such as: to percolate, percolate through, percolate into.

Context around Percolate

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Percolate

  • In this selection, "percolate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, strings, benefits, continually, inside, behind and down stand out and add context to how "percolate" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a cigar percolate coffee fill and age to percolate into our. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "percolate" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with percolate

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Give it some time to percolate. (6 words)

The rain is expected to percolate groundwater in Chennai. (9 words)

While world leaders prepare for war, real threats continually percolate. (10 words)

Further, she said because much of the lands that house apartments in and around Kingston and St Andrew are made up of hard landscapes – concretes and pavements – water is unable to percolate into the ground, increasing run-off. (38 words)

Now, during monsoon, water starts to percolate inside the already disturbed slope and overburden the soil, making it loose and if there is heavy rain for 3-4 days straight, the situation aggravates and landslides take place. (37 words)

Just as we don’t demand that our toddlers be self-reliant, Americans need to allow the reality of ourselves as dependent in our old age to percolate into our psyches and our nation’s social policies. (37 words)

Example sentences (18)

Everyone in Westminster was bored stiff with the phrase, which meant it was only just starting to percolate through to the electorate.

For example, the pavement in Shenzhen Bay Park’s wide shoreline path, the Coastal Leisure Belt, allows water to infiltrate slowly and then percolate through a deep bed of gravel underneath, which slows it even more.

Give it some time to percolate.

Now, during monsoon, water starts to percolate inside the already disturbed slope and overburden the soil, making it loose and if there is heavy rain for 3-4 days straight, the situation aggravates and landslides take place.

Further, she said because much of the lands that house apartments in and around Kingston and St Andrew are made up of hard landscapes – concretes and pavements – water is unable to percolate into the ground, increasing run-off.

Waltzing pianos and pizzicato strings percolate behind their usual prowling synths and garage rock sound.

Working as a hotel entertainment sales manager, DelliBovi also got a peek behind the curtain, learning what’s involved in getting celebrities from point A to point B. And soon a business idea started to percolate.

Chandrajit Banerjee, director general of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), told that the industry will also press the CM to ensure Ease of Doing Business benefits percolate down to the district level.

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While world leaders prepare for war, real threats continually percolate.

Before dinner parties, she would light a cigar, percolate coffee, fill a glass with cognac and sprinkle it around the home.

Just as we don’t demand that our toddlers be self-reliant, Americans need to allow the reality of ourselves as dependent in our old age to percolate into our psyches and our nation’s social policies.

The rain is expected to percolate groundwater in Chennai.

That can be enough to effectively percolate energy up through the layers, and propel sand up into the winds.

The justices like to have issues percolate below so that they can benefit from the opinions of lower court judges.

You can also see these words and phrases start to percolate through statements coming from various members of Team Trump, on social media and in the press.

Lake Chad has no apparent outlet, but its waters percolate into the Soro and Bodélé depressions.

Libby (1965), p. 6. This exchange process brings mainC from the atmosphere into the surface waters of the ocean, but the mainC thus introduced takes a long time to percolate through the entire volume of the ocean.

Substrata of impermeable rock and stone can trap water and retain it in pockets, or on long faulting subsurface ridges or volcanic dikes water can collect and percolate to the surface.

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Common combinations with percolate

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "percolate" in a sentence?
An example: "Everyone in Westminster was bored stiff with the phrase, which meant it was only just starting to percolate through to the electorate." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "percolate" from authentic English texts.
What does "percolate" mean?
Percolate means: To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
What are synonyms of "percolate"?
Common synonyms of "percolate" include: filter, perk up, perforate, penetrate, permeate, sink in, fan out, spread out. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "percolate" in Dutch?
"percolate" translates to Dutch as: percoleren, filteren, filtreren.
How many example sentences with "percolate" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "percolate", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.