Seeping

This was done to stabilize the rock, to prevent water from seeping past the dam through the canyon rock, and to limit "uplift"—upward pressure from water seeping under the dam.

And, it’s seeping into our every day lives too.

I took last summer off because I could feel the burnout seeping into my brain.

It seemed to be seeping through the rocks onto the beach.

It’s no secret that China’s influence casts a long, dark shadow over various facets of Western life, from our beloved movies to the pages of our favorite comic books, even seeping into the realm of sports.

My hands were a sickly white as they clenched around the stem of the pickaxe, the sweat seeping into the wood and mixing with the dirt on my fingers.

Others, in their late 70s and 80s, have been left alone with seeping wounds or unable to get to the bathroom, and one patient with severe heart problems died within a week of discharge after no one came to check up on her.

Pensioner Fraser Miller spotted a murky brown liquid containing human faeces seeping from a manhole cover outside his flat in Hoo - and immediately reported it to Southern Water.

The Lakers fed off the emotion seeping from the first full-house home playoff crowd in 10 years.

With accents of salsa, mambo or merengue seeping insistently into the six works performed, from Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Argentina, this was music that defied you to sit still.

Although a considerable period has elapsed since the murders of Karin Grech and Raymond Caruana, these two episodes never had closure, and, as a consequence, their wounds are still seeping.

He said: "Businesses had been investing millions of pounds, training people up and we were just starting to see that confidence seeping into the sector.

Rainwater is seeping into this basement.

Tensions between Netanyahu and Democratic President Joe Biden have been seeping into the public, with Netanyahu last week accusing the Biden administration of withholding U.S. weapons from Israel — a claim he made again Sunday to his Cabinet.

The once-bustling town is now virtually deserted, with most of its buildings vanished and smoke ominously seeping through its graffiti-ridden streets.

This year, tensions over the Israel-Hamas war in are also seeping into the celebrations, exposing divisions within a community that is often aligned on political issues.

And the country could be saddled with a toxic ghost town, with pollutants seeping into the ground and surrounding sea.

And then the fact that I could be working on my thesis at any point just is sort of seeping into other things.

Even though it’s only been six days, she has these roots that are coming in – it’s her inner world seeping out, her beauty becomes something much more raw.

It said the dark features that run down steep inclines on the red planet were actually granular flows, where grains of sand and dust slip downhill to make dark streaks, rather than the ground being darkened by seeping water.