LEAKY in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of LEAKY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
leaky
 a.  permitting leaks or leakage; permitting liquids to penetrate
Classic Sentence:
1  Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
2  It is only when a leaky vessel is in some very out of the way part of those waters, some really landless latitude, that her captain begins to feel a little anxious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
3  Ole lived in a leaky dugout somewhere at the edge of the settlement.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
4  There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
5  But I had not much time to give him, because I was helping the engine-driver to take to pieces the leaky cylinders, to straighten a bent connecting-rod, and in other such matters.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence:
1  Water will dribble from the leaky faucet as long as it is raining.
2  The workers are checking on the leaky roof.