单词 | leaky |
释义 | leaky (liːki ) Word forms: leakier, leakiest adjective Something that is leaky has holes, cracks, or other faults which allow liquids and gases to pass through. ...the cost of repairing the leaky roof. Synonyms: leaking, split, cracked, punctured Collocations: leaky defence He points to a concerted effort to improve a perennially leaky defence. Times,Sunday Times On-loan keeper hopes to plug a leaky defence. The Sun There have also been significant reshuffles in the backline and tactical rejigs in an attempt to plug a leaky defence. The Sun Certainly, their artist's drawing seems to be impressionistic at best, with no visible sign of a track or even a leaky defence. Times, Sunday Times You can get 33-1 for them to qualify which borders on criminal — especially when you consider their leaky defence has kept just one clean sheet in 10 games. The Sun And it's all down to a leaky pipe. The Sun The so-called post-16 'leaky pipe' required further investigation, they said. Times, Sunday Times Bury a length of porous hose, also known as 'leaky pipe', beneath raised beds to maintain a slow, steady rate of watering for vulnerable seedlings. Times, Sunday Times It must have been a leaky pipe or something because it was right under the bathroom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It blamed a leaky pipe near the production line for the contamination. Times, Sunday Times But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. Christianity Today If there's a narrowed or leaky valve, the flow of blood will be audible, too, as a 'murmur'. Times, Sunday Times The eight-times-married movie icon had surgery to correct a 'leaky valve'. The Sun Doctors unblocked two heart vessels with stents, but his heart was severely damaged and a leaky valve meant that further surgery was his only chance of recovery. Times, Sunday Times The cause of the anomaly was traced to a leaky valve, which allowed fuel to leak during the coast between the first and second burns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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