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• This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.From the entry grade
• The secret to a creamy risotto is letting the rice absorb one cup of broth at a time.From the entry risotto
• She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.From the entry fire hose
• The control rods absorb neutrons in the reactor core, keeping the fission reaction under control and preventing it from going prompt critical.From the entry under control
• They found out obliquely that she had heard from HR about the comments and was taking some time to absorb the sting of an implied reprimand.From the entry oblique
• Keeping the ties loose ensures that the yarn can absorb the dye without creating a resist.2026, Katherine Augustine, “Dyeing in the Baking Aisle”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 35. From the entry resist
• Chemical ingredients — such as avobenzone, oxybenzone and homosalate — absorb the UV rays.2023 July 15, Dana G. Smith, “Why Sunscreen Is the Only Anti-Aging Product You Need”, in The New York Times. From the entry uv
• Ability to absorb light via eyes and send it back out as solids and control it.2023 October 19, @sunset_krakoa, X (post), archived from the original on 08 May 2026. From the entry X-sona
• It's no secret that transgender women absorb the brunt of hate that comes from femmephobia.2018, Brynn Tannehill, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask), page 320. From the entry femmephobia
• Disposable nappies contain superabsorber granules which are made of a chemical which swells to absorb the urine.2010, Lynoa Cattanach, Be a Greener Parent: Teach Yourself, →ISBN. From the entry superabsorber
• Fish maw has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavors of other ingredients.2009 April 28, Teresa M. Chen, A Tradition of Soup: Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry maw
• An undershirt absorbs moisture from your body and equalizes your body temperature.2009, Peter Jungk, Crossing the Hudson, page 10. From the entry undershirt
• Precisions' meat pads are used in tray-packed meat, poultry and fish packaging to absorb fluids.2003 January 28, “P&G license product”, in The Cincinnati Post, page 6C. From the entry meat pad
• Bacteria are happy to absorb little rings of DNA called plasmids and adopt them as their own.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 247. From the entry plasmid
• We must not follow without seeing the line." We must absorb the historical lesson of Li Kuei.1975 September 12 [1975 September 9], “Shansi Prefecture Holds Forum on 'Water Margin'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China…. From the entry capitulationist
• Dennison, they contrived to absorb enough of it to keep them going.1914, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, The Precipice. From the entry undomestic
• She serves the prasad, small cone-shaped bright-yellow modaks that they eat whole after touching to their foreheads to absorb god's blessing.2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 181. From the entry modak
• It absorbs more than half of all immigrants to Britain.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Jun…. From the entry ethnically
• Although H. bertonii relies on scale insects to prepare its parasitism site on plants, it directly absorbs and utilizes plant sugars.2007, Ajit Varma, Plant Surface Microbiology. From the entry sugar
• Dressings may absorb dirt and may create a tacky surface.2006, Marion Kite, Roy Thomson, Conservation of Leather and Related Materials, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry spew
• Iceman is a Cryokinetic, meaning he can absorb and displace thermal energy from the air and objects around him.2006, X-Men III: The Official Game Guide, Brady, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry cryokinetic
• Thanks to its pentosans, rye flour absorbs eight times its weight in water, while wheat flour absorbs two.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 9, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN. From the entry pentosan
• Foreigners playing a foreign music, they couldn't assume it as a national birthright, or absorb it in all its Americentric detail.2003, Devin McKinney, Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History. From the entry Americentric
• A soaker pad can be placed under the infant so that it and not the blanket absorbs the overflow urine.1997, Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk, Irene M. Bobak, Shannon E. Perry, Maternity & Women's Health Care, Mosby, →ISBN, page 577. From the entry soaker pad
• When you shoot a bow, the arrow absorbs a high percentage of the energy released by the limbs.1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry dry
• A dovish policy keeps unemployment close to 6 percent and lets the price level swing more widely to absorb economic shocks.1985, Price Stability and Public Policy, page 143. From the entry dovish
• The intestine continues digestion and absorbs and stores food, allowing some to diffuse into the pseuodcele and about the body.1970, Relis Bastian Brown, General Biology, page 325. From the entry pseudocele
• She feels that whatever they absorb of the basic fundamentals of art will be valuable in later life.1963, Themis of Zeta Tau Alpha, volume 62, number 1, Menasha, Wis.: Zeta Tau Alpha, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 3. From the entry blotto
• The jambalaya was too tomato sauce-y, in part because the multigrain base didn’t absorb the liquid as well as traditional white rice.2019 February 3, Craig LaBan, “Green Soul”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 190th year, number 248, Philadelphia, Pa., page H14, column 2. From the entry tomato sauce-y
• Most sunscreens use either titanium dioxide or zinc oxide, chemicals that reflect, scatter, or absorb ultraviolet light and dissipate it as heat.2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry SPF
• An extra-salty siphuncle naturally absorbs water from the phragmocone chambers, and the empty space left behind is filled with gases diffusing out from the blood.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry siphuncle
• When the world economy is in a downturn, developing countries look to the United States to pick up the slack and absorb excess supply.2017, Summary: Fed Up!: Review and Analysis of Rick Perry's Book. From the entry pick up the slack

Meaning of absorb

1. verb To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
2. verb To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
3. verb To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.

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Questions about absorb in a sentence

How do you use absorb in a sentence?

Absorb is used as a verb. For example: “The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.”

What is a short sentence with absorb?

“I’ll absorb the charge for the window replacement.”

What does absorb mean?

Absorb means to include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.