Sentence examples for percolating down from inspiring English sources

Heavy groundwater pumping in the 1940s, '50s and '60s caused large overdrafts, meaning the groundwater pumped out exceeded the natural recharge of water percolating down from the surface.

The rain was percolating down through the darkness above and landing in the small front garden with a quiet pitter-patter.

The shallow ponds, fed at one end by a burbling fountain, may look static, but the water is percolating down through the soil at a rate of about 3 feet a day, replenishing underground aquifers.

Which type of enriched sediment is deposited depends on the degree of mixing between the hydrothermal water deep in the crust at a spreading centre and the cold seawater percolating down into the crust.

They result from cold seawater percolating down into the hot oceanic crust through the zone of fissures and returning to the seafloor in a pipelike flow at the axis of the neovolcanic zone.

Both changes, which have been documented on the Great Neck and Manhasset Neck peninsulas, along the South Shore of Nassau County and on the East End, could be caused by pumping water out of the aquifers faster than it is being replenished by rainfall and waste water percolating down through the Island's sands.

"That percolates down to us".

The usage had percolated down from the noble class.

Have the achievements of the feminist movement percolated down through the many layers of our language?

But now the custom has percolated down from the superrich to the merely well heeled.

But the momentum of the van still finds a way to percolate down through the levels.