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Example sentences for: soaking

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Or so the story says, quoting five experts in support along the way, before swerving abruptly to a "to be sure" 11th paragraph that says Y2K preparedness "posed an enormous distraction, soaking up time and money that might have been plowed into projects with a more immediate payoff," and that "much of the investment went to inoculate older technology against the computer bug rather than to embrace the newest processes that could revolutionize the way work is done."
I didn't have any of the blue liquid ad agencies use in commercials to indicate absorbency, so I gauged the soaking power of individual sheets with tap water.
Davis started to bleed when the electricity hit him, soaking his shirt bright red, scaring the assembled witnesses.
Jeff's term for a child in the awkward stage between needing diapers and being reliable in big boys or big girls (real underpants) is a time bomb . When accidents happen, the victim never admits being soaking wet, but will concede to feeling the “least little bit dampish.”
You can spend a wonderful morning just soaking in the atmosphere.