Leaky meaning

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Permitting leaks or leakage.

A leaky roof; a leaky defense system.

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Allowing the accidental entrance or escape of a fluid substance; having a leak or leaks.
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Having leaks, not sealed.

The leaky bucket only dripped one drop at a time, but by the time I got back to the house it was half empty.

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Leaky Sentence Examples

  • I wouldn't tell that ninny if his shoes were on fire and he was standing at a leaky gas pump.

  • We tackle our work; professionally and without rancor to one another in spite of a pall of indecision that oft times seeps in like a chill from a leaky window frame.

  • Robertson has shown that the typhoid bacillus can grow very easily in certain soils, can persist in soils through the winter months, and when the soil is artificially fed, as may be done by a leaky drain or by access of filthy water from the surface, the microorganism will take on a fresh growth in the warm season.

  • The painkillers didn't work, and by noon, she had a pulsing headache and no idea how to change the leaky bandage around her wrist.

  • Is the drip, drip, drip of that leaky faucet driving you batty?

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