Sentences with phrase «through small cracks»

This dangerous gas enters your home through small cracks and holes in the foundation.

Although only a tiny fraction of the ice shelf melts, the water infiltrates the shelf through small cracks in the ice.

Ironically, that process accelerated rot by allowing moisture in through small cracks and then trapping it.

Look at him through a small crack in the door, show him your treats, move them in front of his face (but out of his reach due to the mostly closed door), call his name and keep it up — try to get your dog totally excited and frustrated.

They can squeeze through the smallest crack of a door or fence and be gone.

For those who live in urban apartment buildings, one of the most disturbing nightmares is to be unknowingly spied upon by a neighbor, be it through a small crack in the closet (think of Roman Polanski's The Tenant) or a hole in the ceiling.

Her poetry is a reminder of the brief glimpse, as if through a small crack in a window, of paradise captured on a spectacular early fall eve at Rose Cottage.

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Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

I stood in the small hallway just outside of the sanctuary, nervously jogging from foot to foot as I strained to see through the crack between the doors into the church.

When your workforce is virtual, it's so much easier for small things to fall through the cracks, and to get missed.

For products with parts that you can't see inside, such as sippy cup valves, or bath toys without holes that have developed small cracks through which water can enter, the only way to really tell is by breaking them apart, which will likely ruin the product.

We know that HIV can be transmitted through breast milk, and there is a very small possibility that hepatitis can be passed along if a woman has cracked nipples (although the risk is so low that experts say that mothers with hepatitis are encouraged to continue breastfeeding).

This is no problem for most, but it only takes a small percentage to fall through the cracks for this to have terrible consequences.

«There's no question the small business community is getting squeezed and we have to make sure the small businesses don't fall through the cracks.»

Most packs already offer waterproof coating but some moisture can still slip in through zippers and other small cracks.

The researchers found that the fluid consistently created small but effective cracks in the samples that allowed water to flow through.

Soft robots could squeeze into the smallest cracks to find survivors trapped under rubble, burrow through the loose soil to find landmines to keep soldiers or civilians safe or swim to the depths of the ocean to find what we have yet to discover.

While nearly every sort of clean paper is recyclable curbside in NYC, the paper wrapping of a tea bag is small enough to fall through the cracks.

With so many big releases slated for 2018, there are bound to be a few smaller games that slip through the cracks.

Anyone that watches movies for a living must constantly keep their finger on the pulse of what's happening in cinema, but it's easy for one to slip through the cracks, which is why it's so exhilarating when a small indie like «Starred Up» comes out of nowhere and knocks you flat on your ass.

This indie road trip outing is yet another small title that just slipped through every single crack out there.

Our schools are designed to create a small, family - like environment that allows each student and teacher to know one another and ensure that no one «falls through the cracks.»

It's also an example of a small school where none of the kids fall through the cracks... and those... Read More

It's also an example of a small school where none of the kids fall through the cracks... and those that aren't working out will end up going elsewhere.

The teachers I've met with often remark that small schools provide a work environment where peers know and are accountable to each other as well as their students who often «fall through cracks.»

«In an era when the rich just get richer while the poor seem to fall through the cracks, we need to come together and speak out for change — whether it's smaller class sizes, training for educators, fair pay and benefits, health care or safer work environments.»

It was part of a national trend, with reformers and philanthropists calling for smaller, more personalized alternatives to reach teens falling through the cracks in big schools.

The smaller molecules of synthetic oil are able to pass through very small cracks and crevices that the larger molecules of petroleum - based oil can not.

Among other advantages of the dual - system approach, this would be a way to help make certain that small - town libraries don't fall through the cracks.

The case will hold the tablet and the keyboard like a small Android laptop, which will be great for those who want to be a little more productive and perhaps crack through those emails or revise those documents.

Safal Niveshak: Seth Klarman and many others (even Buffett) had mentioned that investors with small amounts to invest should look at things that no one is looking at, the ones that slip through the cracks.

Paying off a single loan in large amounts every month is often easier for people than paying off a number of smaller debts that tend to slip through the cracks.

This is a big victory for consumers and one I've advocated for years, because niggling little debts — created by unpaid library fines, forgotten parking tickets or a small medical bill that slipped through the insurance cracks — had an outsize impact on people's scores.

What started off as small cracks in our building grew to be so large that you could see through them to the outside of the building.

«Secure your yard to make sure there are no small openings, such as cracks in fences or loose boards near ground level, for your dog to escape through,» Pam adds.

Bats can be very difficult to keep out of homes and other buildings because they can enter through very small cracks.

A flea's small size and impressive mobility make it easy to sneak through floorboards, cracks and screens.

Only a small portion of Coba has been excavated and many of the structures remain hidden in the jungle, overgrown with jungle vegetation, while the ruins that have been partially excavated continue to have trees and plants growing through cracks in the rocks.

With so many megaton announcements, it's all too easy for the smaller games to slip through the cracks.

Fire that cracks through the ground now erupts multiple times, causing smaller and smaller safe zones.

Being a small site and often run alone by yours truly, things can sometimes slip through the cracks.

And just as grass grows through cracks in real concrete, small communities and individuals will start to appear through the metaphorical concrete of our industrial civilization.

There are tens of thousands of additional small dams that fall through the cracks of our national inventory.

and unemployment insurance benefits through 2012 before the holidays provide a small crack for also extending the 1603 Treasury Grant Program (TGP) another year.

So busy, in fact, that you sometimes let small things slip through the cracks, or drop things down to the bottom of your priority list.

I take pride in being the kind of person who can take on a large project without letting the small details fall through the cracks.

The seller advised me that occasionally, during heavy rains, a «small trickle» of water came in through a hairline crack in the concrete foundation.

It's also a useful tool for making sure that smaller tasks, such as returning library books, don't slip through the cracks.