Seeping is an English word with synonyms like oozing or oozy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Seeping meaning
present participle and gerund of seep
Using Seeping
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of seep
- Useful related words include: oozing, oozy, leaky.
- In the example corpus, seeping often appears in combinations such as: seeping into, seeping from, seeping out.
Context around Seeping
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 12 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Seeping
- In this selection, "seeping" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, water, burnout, sweat, past, wounds and insistently stand out and add context to how "seeping" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alone with seeping wounds or and are also seeping into the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "seeping" sits close to words such as abnormality, absenteeism and absorbent, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with seeping
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rainwater is seeping into this basement. (6 words)
And, it’s seeping into our every day lives too. (10 words)
It seemed to be seeping through the rocks onto the beach. (11 words)
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. (43 words)
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. (39 words)
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. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
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.
Common combinations with seeping
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- seeping into 27×
- seeping from 8×
- seeping out 6×
- from seeping 5×
- water seeping 5×
- seeping through 5×
- seeping in 5×
- been seeping 3×
- is seeping 2×
- and seeping 2×