Example sentences for: absorbed

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

  • In central Spain they were slowly absorbed by the reluctant Iberians, but elsewhere both tribes kept fiercely apart, establishing from the first the renowned independence that still characterizes Spain’s provinces.

  • These days, it is Democrats who seem to have absorbed Reagan's lesson about the value of submerging differences for the sake of victory.

  • But McCain's punches were awkwardly thrown--in part because the other candidates crowded the ring, keeping Bush and McCain apart--and Bush absorbed the blows with genial poise.

  • Since his time, 13 new departments have been created and only two eliminated (the Navy Department was absorbed into the Department of Defense in 1949, and the Post Office was spun off as a federal corporation in 1971).

  • But they absorbed Columbine's football team community values--aggression, planning, cohesion, and physical sacrifice for the goal--in the methodical planning and execution of their atrocity.


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