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Example sentences for: soaking
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To my amazement, all the subjects survived the soaking.
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.”
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.
I sat soaking at about 100°F, while an exuberant gentleman on my left, who was wearing his washcloth draped over his head, gave me his four words of English: New York, Broadway, Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon . The real cultural joy, however, lay in just immersing myself in this aura, evoking Dante and 8½, and watching the occupants through the steamy haze as they lathered, rinsed, and squatted on little plastic stools to shave before low-hung misted mirrors against the walls—all this before I slap-slapped back to my room to enjoy dinner on the floor.
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."
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