Percolates is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Percolates meaning
plural of percolate
Using Percolates
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of percolate
- In the example corpus, percolates often appears in combinations such as: percolates through, water percolates, slowly percolates.
Context around Percolates
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Percolates
- In this selection, "percolates" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, water, slowly, now, down and quickly stand out and add context to how "percolates" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 500 nanometres percolates down and and and instead percolates with quirky. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "percolates" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with percolates
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In these areas, rainwater runoff percolates quickly through the soil. (10 words)
When water percolates through limestone or other calcium-containing rocks, it partially dissolves the rock. (15 words)
As such water percolates through calcium carbonate rock, the CaCO 3 dissolves according to the second trend. (17 words)
A companion resolution, introduced by senators – Connecticut Dem Richard Blumenthal, liberal darling and Rhode Island Dem Sheldon Whitehouse, and South Carolina Republican Lindsay “Bombs Away” Graham – now percolates through that chamber of the capitol. (34 words)
Some precipitation evaporates, some slowly percolates through soil, some may be temporarily sequestered as snow or ice, and some may produce rapid runoff from surfaces including rock, pavement, roofs, and saturated or frozen ground. (34 words)
In the deep waters that the hatchetfish lives in, only blue light with a wavelength of 500 nanometres percolates down and needs to be reflected, so mirrors 125 nanometres apart provide good camouflage. (33 words)
Example sentences (15)
A companion resolution, introduced by senators – Connecticut Dem Richard Blumenthal, liberal darling and Rhode Island Dem Sheldon Whitehouse, and South Carolina Republican Lindsay “Bombs Away” Graham – now percolates through that chamber of the capitol.
As that blanket of snow on the ground slowly percolates through the soft spring soil, it is gradually releasing its fertilizer and moisture into the soil.
So Marcos’ most daunting challenge is turning the projections into reality and ensuring that economic growth percolates down to the common people and alleviates poverty.
It sidesteps turning history into "a chamber piece", Variety said, and instead "percolates with quirky and strange energy, overflowing with its sense of America as a place defined by its oddity".
Our ground is chock full of calcium, magnesium, and iron, so when our water percolates through the soil, it picks up those elements.
As such water percolates through calcium carbonate rock, the CaCO 3 dissolves according to the second trend.
Both tax cuts and spending have multiplier effects where the initial increase in demand from the policy percolates through the economy and generates additional economic activity.
Fine sediment transported from lower down the beach profile will compact if the receding water percolates or soaks into the beach.
Instead of trapping precipitation, which then percolates to groundwater systems, deforested areas become sources of surface water runoff, which moves much faster than subsurface flows.
In the deep waters that the hatchetfish lives in, only blue light with a wavelength of 500 nanometres percolates down and needs to be reflected, so mirrors 125 nanometres apart provide good camouflage.
In these areas, rainwater runoff percolates quickly through the soil.
Some precipitation evaporates, some slowly percolates through soil, some may be temporarily sequestered as snow or ice, and some may produce rapid runoff from surfaces including rock, pavement, roofs, and saturated or frozen ground.
The level has since dropped, as this bomb pulse or "bomb carbon" (as it is sometimes called) percolates into the rest of the reservoir.
This recharge is typically from rivers or meteoric water (precipitation) that percolates into the aquifer through overlying unsaturated materials.
When water percolates through limestone or other calcium-containing rocks, it partially dissolves the rock.
Common combinations with percolates
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: