You see, the water that wears a cave out of the softer layers of rock seeps in along the fissures of the surface rock, and at first they make subterranean rivers.
The rain water, charged with the carbonic acid gas of the atmosphere, seeps in from the surface and falls drop by drop.
It seeps through the porous rock to subterranean channels.
A late Quaternary mammal fauna from the tar seeps of McKittrick, California.
A bank of clouds hangs off the Fronteriza, and as the overhead stars wink out and the morning star burns on, the pale glow turns peach and seeps higher.
In a secluded canyon you’ll find a grotto no bigger than a room, with countless seeps trickling down the face of a high, nearly dry waterfall.
It is small, with very little level space in front of it, and water from the interior runs or seeps out of it, keeping the floor muddy throughout the year.
Occasionally, in such situations, the water continues to flow out; but usually it finds a way to reach a lower level, and so the cave in time becomes dry except for such water as seeps through from the earth immediately above.
Diyútay ra kaáyu ang mahiadtu sa mga táwu, A very small amount seeps down to the people.
The water which thus passes into the humus and the soil beneath does not remain there, but slowly seeps downward, and finally after weeks and months emerges at a lower level as a stream.
As water seepsthrough the soil or flows over the land, it absorbs and retains various soil constituents which modify its character and, in some cases, render it almost useless for household purposes.
As the sewage seeps through the ground it loses its impurities, but the quantity of earth required to purify it depends upon its abundance; a small depth of soil cannot take care of an indefinite amount of sewage.
Water actually seeps into tiny spaces between the grains of sand.
Water seeps into tiny cracks, freezes in winter, and pries flakes or blocks of stone loose.
Water also seeps along joints and bedding planes and gathers in all seams and crevices.
But the water of springs is often well charged with soluble minerals; in its slow, long journey underground it has searched out the soluble parts of the rocks through which it seeps and has dissolved as much of them as it could.
Some of it gradually seeps down through the ground to an underground stream.
As the water from the rains seeps through the soil and rocks, it dissolves the salt in them and continually carries some of it into the rivers.
Mexican water jars are made of porous clay; the water that seeps through keeps the water inside cool.
West of The Maze is Elaterite Basin, so named because of a dark-brown elastic mineral resin called elaterite, which seeps from the White Rim Sandstone.
One of these seeps is shown in figure 34, and a wedge-shaped layer of the sandstone is shown in figure 35.
They often occur in obscure nooks in the canyons, reached by tortuous trails winding through the talus and foothills, or as small seeps at the foot of some mesa.
The series of promontories upon which the Tusayan villages are built are exceptionally rich in these seeps and springs.
I seepswith my bid sister Totey's dolly," is what she appears to be saying.
I seeps wiv dolly, because my bid sister Totey said 'Yes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seeps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
