Example sentences for: absorb

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

  • It’s an easy 2-mile (3-km) walk, but worth lingering over for a couple of hours to absorb the beauty of the largest living creations in nature.

  • Similar high-level segmentation accounted for other object types within the tissue - namely clear space, vacuoles, sinusoids and cytoplasmic material - that generally tend to absorb (or not absorb) one type of stain.

  • I know what you mean about the Michael Clarke Duncan character in The Green Mile . 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 (is there much difference between what Duncan does for Hanks here and what Poitier did for Steiger in In the Heat of the Night ?).

  • Protein A (for anti-T7) and protein G (for anti-Flag) sepharose beads were used to absorb the antibodies.

  • As the government's principal knowledge bank on Islamist terrorism, with the main responsibility for strategic analysis and net assessment, it should absorb a significant portion of the analytical talent now residing in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and the DIA's Joint Intelligence Task Force-Combatting Terrorism (JITF-CT).


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