Leaked
[li:kt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Leak
Checker: Paulette
Examples
- The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It also leaked out that many of the men who had signed their paroles, intended to desert and go to their homes as soon as they got out of our lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Learning had already leaked out to other less pledged and controlled people, who thought for themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I concluded it was either leakage of gas into the manhole, or else the acid used in pickling the casting had given off hydrogen, and air had leaked in, making an explosive mixture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Paulette