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Example sentences for: soaking

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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.
While it would be a crime to ignore the churches, palazzos, and museums chronicling the unparalleled glories of Italy’s history, the best way to enjoy them is also to spend plenty of time soaking it in from a front-row seat in a café, or from under a canvas beach umbrella watching seaside life unfold.
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."
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 are too busy soaking up the sense data.