English vocabulary examples in context: absorb
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 1.
The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner hour.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 2.
Evidently he wished to talk to me, and of what, if not the subject which entirely absorbed him?
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 3.
What he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 4.
Of assistant tutors he kept but few, since most of the necessary instruction he imparted in person, and, without pedantic terminology and inflated diction and views, could so transmit to his listeners the inmost spirit of a lesson that even the youngest present absorbed its essential elements.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 5.
Some say that a larger number of asteroids come between the earth and the sun at this time of year, and others that the mere melting of the snow necessarily absorbs a large amount of heat, and accounts for the low temperature.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 6.
Was he, in the midst of these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune?
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 7.
His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm moments in which revery is so profound that it absorbs reality.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 8.
In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at all.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 9.
Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- 'So you are sure that he will come?'
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 10.
They there saw a sulphur spring which flowed abundantly between the rocks, and its waters discharged a strong sulphuric acid odor, after having absorbed the oxygen of the air.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 11.
Forty-seven millions of these insects are needed to weigh a grain, and yet, with the sea-salt they absorb, the solid elements of water which they assimilate, these animalculae produce limestone, and this limestone forms enormous submarine erections, of which the hardness and solidity equal granite.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 12.
The pigs had already produced young, and it may be understood that their care for these animals absorbed a great part of Neb and Pencroft's time.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 13.
But this evening, instead of his usual thought and meditations upon official details, his thoughts were absorbed by his wife and something disagreeable connected with her.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 14.
The business of reorganizing the farming of his land absorbed him as completely as though there would never be anything else in his life.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 15.
Pestsov insisted that one country can only absorb another when it is the more densely populated.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 16.
He was himself unconscious how, as he approached them, he seized on this impression and absorbed it, as he had the chin of the shopkeeper who had sold him the cigars, and put it away somewhere to be brought out when he wanted it.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 17.
And his management of his estate, which occupied and absorbed him more and more, was most successful.
Vocabulary in context: absorb -- Example 18.
Though it was half-way through the sermon, and the dense crowd that filled the cathedral was listening to it with absorbed and silent attention, yet several pairs of eyes glanced with curiosity and amazement at the new-comer.
