17 example sentences using leak.
Leak used in a sentence
Leak in a sentence as a noun
Anything that's not perfectly thought through is going to leak.
We had a test feed leak out onto a live page for a couple of hours, and man did it make the news.
Every time there is a leak > like this, the powers that be close the circle of trust a little tighter.
> David Brooks made a case for why he thought Snowden was wrong to leak information about the Prism surveillance program ...
I listen to NPR every day and it's almost insufferable to listen to when they talk about the NSA leak.
I don't mean in the weak sense of "won't leak resources" but in the stronger sense of leaving the system in a consistent state after an exception.
Hm, we should make an Ask HN thread - what is the best ingenious methods for current NSA employees to leak again, now that they have to share a computer with a partner?
As more documents leak, I become increasingly concerned with the apparently blank cheque for surveillance that the NSA has been issued.
I initially was anti-Snowden when the first leaks came out; I was unconcerned that the government might be storing metadata.
Leak in a sentence as a verb
Very little of the debate is about the actual NSA monitoring program itself, most of of the time they talk about why this leak happened and why Edward Snowden is a "strange" guy.
Manning didn't leak "war crimes", he leaked whatever info he could download, without verifying that it was all actually evidence deserving of whistle-blowing.
There are certainly similar transgressions committed by less "problematic" politicians that never leak.
Even better, what if the government was closing in a child pornographer with chemical weapons and a nuke, and the leak allowed him to rape more children while nuking a nunnery and poisoning an orphanage?
I would not under almost any circumstances, including the revelation that he was working directly with the FSB†when he decided what to leak, use the word "traitor" to describe a national security leaker.
And a couple of years later when the tub sprung a leak, the plumber couldnt figure out how to get in there, said they must have done a shoddy job on connecting the pipes, then when he finally got a good look at it, realized why they did it that way.
However nice it might be to peek into diplomatic traffic from the outside, it was still classified, it was not evidence of war crimes, and Manning never read it all anyways before he leaked it to a foreign national over an unsecure network.
The idea that the character of the whistleblowers themselves has anything to do with the quality or impact of the information they leak is a propaganda trick enforced by the media-- a leak with a face can be discredited if the face can be discredited, and in the 21st century, everyone has skeletons in the closet.
Leak definitions
an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; "one of the tires developed a leak"
soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak"
See also: wetting
the discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"
unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
tell anonymously; "The news were leaked to the paper"
be leaked; "The news leaked out despite his secrecy"
enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; "Water leaked out of the can into the backpack"; "Gas leaked into the basement"
have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"