Example sentences for: absorb

How can you use “absorb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Roger: Doubtless Elvis will be responding to you about Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile , but I've got to say I flinched when I read that "his function is essentially to absorb and process white pain, suffering, disease and guilt, which he does visibly--which is a novel change from the decades of films in which black characters have done the same thing invisibly."

  • Instead of herbs some curanderos use an object for the sweeping, such as an egg or a lemon, believing that it will absorb the harm or illness affecting the patient.

  • But the Guardian of London reported on its front page that the countries of the European Union are "at loggerheads" on the issue and insist that they can absorb no more than a 10 th of the one million Albanian Kosovars ousted by Serbia.

  • The immigration study, prepared by the Rand Corp. warns that the increasingly skill-based California economy cannot continue to absorb large flows of poorly educated immigrants and calls on Congress to: reduce new legal immigrant admissions to "a moderate range," allow the rate of immigration to fluctuate with general economic conditions, and add education levels and English proficiency as admission criteria.

  • In other words, the issue is the quantity of violence that kids absorb from television, video games, and movies.


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