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Example sentences for: absorb

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Without trees to absorb the moisture, monsoon rains run off rapidly, swelling the rivers and causing severe floods downstream in India and Bangladesh.
Taking both steps together, one pound of ice will absorb about 48,000 calories in the process of becoming 80° pool water.
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.
But massive growth during the 20th century saw Edinburgh absorb many of these formerly independent communities into its ever-enlarging limits.
To the extent the Republicans have held their fire, they have left Clinton alone in the arena to absorb the media's scrutiny, mockery, and incredulity.