An old tin can or a sponge may serve to bale out water from a leaking rowboat, but such a crude device would be absurd if employed on our huge vessels of war and commerce. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
It was the clank of the levers and the swish of the leaking cylinder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
By doing this, he would permit the greater external pressure to squeeze the soil into the leaking pockets and thereby choke the leak. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.