Example sentences for: absorbing

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

  • Since such conditions are not limited by geography, old speech has been remarkably hardy in resisting as well as absorbing the new.

  • Critics often praise nonfiction by saying that it reads like fiction, when all they really mean is that it is absorbing and well written.

  • The slogan of the 1963 March on Washington was not colorblind laws but "Jobs and Freedom," and the movement's ultimate goal, King insisted, was to "make freedom real and substantive" for black Americans by absorbing them "into the mainstream of American life."

  • Arena was used as often as the more correct harena sand, and we seem to have preferred it as well, because that is the word we adopted for the sandy site of gladiatorial combat, sand being unbeatable at absorbing blood and gore.

  • The most absorbing sections chart the struggle to power with a variety of illustrations: countless maps, evocative photos of both torture victims and triumphal scenes, and assorted personal memorabilia from passports to bloodstained clothes.


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