LEAK in a Sentence

Learn LEAK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

50 example sentences for LEAK, such as:

1. They sprung a leak, then they sank.
2. A little leak will sink a great ship.
3. Check the container for cracks or leaks.
4. The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
5. The key question of what caused the leak remains unanswered.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEAK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
leak
 v.  escape fluid from container through a hole or crack; tell anonymously; reveal
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Now all that mattered was food enough to keep off starvation, clothing enough to prevent freezing and a roof overhead which did not leak too much.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  He peremptorily denied for example, that any whale could so smite his stout sloop-of-war as to cause her to leak so much as a thimbleful.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
3  'Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let's have a taste.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the captain called upon the Islanders to assist him in the laborious business of heaving down the ship to stop the leak.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
5  Upon searching, it was found that the casks last struck into the hold were perfectly sound, and that the leak must be further off.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
6  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
7  Eh, it was that that did the business; after pitching heavily for twelve hours we sprung a leak.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
8  One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarcely remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 3
9  He saw where his boat leaked, but he did not look for the leak, perhaps purposely deceiving himself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24
10  It is of enormous importance that nothing further should leak out.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
11  The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust, and in one place, where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof, the thing itself had been worn away.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  They sprung a leak, then they sank.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
13  I saw the water ooze in at several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I endeavoured to stop them as well as I could.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
14  On both sides the sea came in at the wounded planks, but we stuffed two or three drawers and shirts in, and so stopped the leaks for the time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
15  The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
2  The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
3  If you suspect a gas leak, do not strike a match or even turn on an electric light.
4  If you suspect a gas leak do not strike a match or use electricity.
5  A little leak will sink a great ship.
6  The key question of what caused the leak remains unanswered.
7  The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday.
8  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more.
9  Jack had to caulk the tiles in the shower stall to stop the leak into the basement below.
10  To fix the leak in the pipes, the plumber planned to solder a couple of joints from which water had been oozing.
11  Testimony from Rove's former assistant may solidify case that he misled leak inquiry.
12  Check the container for cracks or leaks.
13  Check all radiators for small leaks, especially round pipework connections.
14  Some tried to stop up the leaks while others tried to steady the rudder.
15  She accused them of leaking confidential information about her private life.