ABSORBENT in a Sentence

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1. The bumper absorbs shock on impact.
2. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer.
3. He appeared to be absorbed in thought.
4. This kind of material absorbs water easily.
5. She remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABSORBENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
absorbent
 a.  having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
 n.  a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
Classic Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
1  Many eyes, Miss La Trobe knew, for every cell in her body was absorbent, looked at the view.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot be known to us.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
4  The man had again become absorbed in his reflections.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
5  A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the eyes which remain open.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY
6  He was absorbed in a sort of prayer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
7  Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
8  He listened to her words as one listens to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind absorbed in reflection which had no bottom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY
9  He remained thus, mute, absorbed, evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
10  On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
11  Then she sat down again on her chair, and became absorbed in thought once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
12  He appeared to be absorbed in thought.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
13  Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard anything.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
14  He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who was not man, and he became absorbed in revery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
15  To make reparation is a function in which the whole soul is absorbed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  I no longer waited with interest for the curtain to rise; my attention was absorbed by the spectator.
17  There, I had a friend's face under my gaze; and what did it signify that those young ladies turned their backs on me? I looked at it; I smiled at the speaking likeness: I was absorbed and content.
18  She remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.
19  A region and former duchy of central Germany north and east of the Main and Rhine rivers. The region became a duchy in1806 and was absorbed by Prussia in1866. Members of the original dynasty subsequently ruled Luxembourg and the Netherlands(as the house of Orange).
20  They were too much absorbed in hating themselves -- hating the ill luck that made them take the spade and the pick there.
21  Suppose we put a cubic centimeter of ice outside on a summer day in such a way that all of the sunshine is absorbed by the ice.
22  The larger portion of dietary iron is absorbed slowly in its many food sources, including spinach.
23  A household radiator absorbs energy in the form of electric current and releases it in the form of heat.
24  This kind of material absorbs water easily.
25  The bumper absorbs shock on impact.
26  California absorbs many of the legal immigrants to the US.
27  This material absorbs the sound, and doesn't reflect it.
28  Chlorophyll is a green substance in plants that absorbs energy from sunlight and helps them grow.
29  He wondered again about its black color; that was ideal, of course, for absorbing solar energy.
30  He stood still, absorbing every detail of the street.