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spring a leak
verb
To begin to leak.
Exact(21)
Won't their hermetically sealed world spring a leak?
And should the containment vessel spring a leak, then some of the water, containing radioactive debris, may flow out and contaminate other parts of the site.
RICHARD BALSANO became a customer of the Home Depot long before his baseboard heating pipe picked a bad time to spring a leak.
But the composer of "Saturday Night" is already aware that "happy endings can spring a leak," as a Sondheim lyric from a later show observes.
"If you do spring a leak and have to go in quickly these panels would be in the way and you might damage or destroy them when responding to an emergency".
Despite several renovations, the experience of going to Thekla is somehow improved by the nagging concern that she might spring a leak at any moment, plunging the band and crowd into a photogenic rock'n'roll catastrophe.
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Disney storytelling will be evident at the Spring-a-Leak area, an all-ages play area designed to look like an island structure blown away by a "strong island breeze".
In heavy seas it sprang a leak.
The bottle sprang a leak.
The boat sprang a leak.
Joseph certainly sprang a leak late tonight.
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