Example sentences for: leak

How can you use “leak” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • NASA later acknowledged that the shuttle suffered a hydrogen leak and a short-circuit as it took off.

  • If the leak did come from Currie's lawyer or from the Clinton legal team, the Times was a willful party to a gross deception.

  • But more important and more disturbing, at least from his client's point of view, is what the leak represented in terms of defense strategy.

  • If you go by Smith's account, the rest must have gone to: 1) a surprisingly large number of cell-phone calls--up to 20 a day per person--to a surprisingly large number of lovers; 2) alternative therapists--astrologists (three), spiritualists (including a clairvoyant who put her in touch with her grandmother), a tarot card reader, an energy healer, a hypnotherapist, an "anger-release" therapist, colonic irrigationists, osteopaths, chiropractors, reflexologists, aromatherapists, shiatsu and tai chi chuan experts, acupuncturists, and a "mind-body" therapist, the last a former tax accountant who gave her massages and diet advice; 3) more conventional forms of treatment for sleeplessness, eating disorders, paranoia, and self-mutilation, including an episode in which she slashed her arms and smeared the blood all over the walls of an airplane; 4) lunch at fancy restaurants to which she secretly invited tabloid reporters so she could drop by their tables and leak whatever she wanted to appear in their publications the next day.

  • OSHA's 1997 methylene chloride standard is strict and comprehensive; it lowered the 8-hour time weighted average Permissible Exposure Limit for the chemical from 1736 mg/m 3to 87 mg/m 3(500 ppm to 25 ppm) and required exposure monitoring, worker training, engineering controls, designation of restricted areas, spill and leak prevention and medical surveillance.


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