Example sentences for: absorbing

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

  • In the vicinity are two absorbing museums reflecting Kyoto’s extensive history as a magnet for Japan’s finest craftsmen.

  • The first is an absorbing, low-budget art movie about conjoined twins, the weaker of whom is dying and mordant, the other torn (so to speak) between loyalty to his brother and a tenuous connection to the external world--embodied in part by a prostitute (Michele Hicks) who looks like Bridget Fonda as Vampira and acts like a slightly less wooden porn star.

  • USA Today goes with a study released yesterday showing that the insurance costs of businesses are rising--at nearly three times the rate of inflation--but because of the tight labor market, companies are absorbing most of the added costs.

  • Absorbing this pro-life socialism is a long-term problem for Republicans.

  • Nicholas Lemann's absorbing new history of American meritocracy, The Big Test , contains an interesting anecdote about William F. Buckley's inadvertent role, while an undergraduate at Yale during the late 1940s, in helping that university restrict the number of Jews and Catholics it admitted.


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