To set it much lower than this would create a possibility of its leaking when the turbine was making a non-condensing run, and when the pressure at the turbine exhaust end is often above that of the atmosphere.
There are many condensers using salt water in their tubes, and in these cases it would seem natural to turn to some analytical method of detecting the amount of saline and foreign matter leaking into the condensed steam.
It might be that the main poppet valve has sustained some injury not evident on inspection, or was leaking badly.
If any leaking occurs past the valve it is taken care of by a drip-pipe to the third stage.
Any water leaking from the tubes above the bottom baffle-plate will ultimately be deposited upon that plate.
The earliest form of clock consisted merely of a leaking bucket.
Of course, the ram has to slide freely into and out of the cylinder, but how could he prevent the water from leaking out past the ram?
Merely plastering the cement over the surface of the joint will always result in a leaking joint.
By what expedient is the piston rod enabled to pass through the cylinder cover without leaking steam out of the cylinder or air into it?
His own intercourse with Wenceslas during the years of his exile in Simití had been wholly formal, and not altogether disagreeable as long as the contributions of gold to the Bishop's leaking coffers continued.
Long time leaking out, seems to me," remarked Kane.
The crews of the exploded guns had no guns to fight, but they had to combat both fire and water, either of which seemed at any moment likely to destroy the leaking and burning ship.
In addition to this, the shot from the Serapis had made several enormous holes in the crazy old hull of the Bon Homme Richard, and she was leakinglike a sieve, while she was afire in a dozen places at once.
Ten of the crew of the Vigilant are blacks, and as our ship is leaking so badly that the constant pumping is fagging to the crew, I have set the blacks at the pumps, with their own consent.
The constant straining of the ship, in the numerous gales she had encountered, had opened the seams in her bends, and all our state-rooms were leaking more or less, keeping our beds and clothing damp.
She is damaged in her hull, is leaking badly, is unseaworthy, and will require to be docked and repaired before it will be possible for her to proceed to sea.
She had experienced a heavy gale, had sprung some of her spars, and was leaking badly--hence the easy sail she had been under.
Spare shot-boxes and other heavy articles were fetching way, and the ship was leakingconsiderably through her upper works.
Our boilers had been leaking for several days, and the engineer availed himself of the opportunity to repair them.
The women talked of leaking roofs and water pipes and useless bathrooms and outrageous costs.
Before he tackled anyleaking pipes he proposed to make a few leaks in the deer up in the Adirondacks.
My roof is leakingbadly and it will have to be fixed at once," the Professor announced.
Toward evening, as he was entering a narrow passage between the buttes, he felt as though he was leaking again and landed on a bar to investigate.
There was one difficulty, however, which nothing that we could do would remedy; and that was the leaking of the forecastle, which made it very uncomfortable in bad weather, and rendered half of the berths tenantless.
He was on his way to the United States when he left the leaking ship on which he and his daughter were passengers, and his intentions regarding his journey did not appear to have been altered by his mishaps.
In a few minutes the last of Mascola's fleet, leaking badly and settling low in the water, lumbered by with rapidly pulsing motor in the direction of Northwest Harbor.
Four of the craft had been jammed in the mêlée and were leaking badly.
The house across the river is also crowded, andleaking worse than the hotel where we are stopping.
The roof being old and well settled, keeps it from leaking badly; but Mrs. S.
The Dutch commander sent the other vessel back with the wounded and some sick men, as soon as the engagement with Don Diego de Quiñones had happened, chiefly because that galleon was leaking badly.
He says he felt it in bed, but thought it was only the roofleaking again.
We were out in a skiff yesterday and the little boat got to leaking so badly that we both of us had to stay in the water.
We have seen one storm on the lake and we don't want to be caught in another, especially with a leaking old tub like this.
Now turn her over," called Fred and under the united action of the boys the leaking boat speedily reversed its position and lay upon the water, keel upward.
She's leaking a little of the pressure down there but not nearly enough.
Spokima is leaking at the rate of a quarter million acre feet an hour.
The 'Endurance' was now leaking badly, and at 9 p.
So the gun remained among the stores and sleeping- bags in the narrow quarters beneath our leaking deck, and the birds followed us unmolested.
I am sorry to tell you, ladies," he said quietly, "that the ship is leaking so badly that I fear we shall have to abandon her.
The water-tank was leaking through a crack in the side, but not so badly that we could not go on to Cleveland, where repairs could be made more quickly.
At Carlyle, on the way to South Bend, the tire was leaking slightly, the nail had worked out.
When we stopped for luncheon at a little village not far from Pawtucket, the tire which had been put on in Boston was leaking badly.
Even when the work was done in the most careful way this method of construction gave a great deal of trouble from the leaking of the stuffing boxes or the jackets themselves.
Now that the pictures were down and the rugs were up, she discovered the badly broken plaster, the tattered condition of the wall paper, the leaking drain, and the clumsily mended rat-holes.
If, however, the water leaking into a compartment of a ship be expelled by pumping air into the space, the work is done so soon as the compartment is filled with air down to the level of the leak.
This suggestion carries with it a much larger and more important one--namely, the use of air pumps instead of water pumps to save a leakingship while afloat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
