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How to use the word absorbing in a Sentence? Page #2

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It used to be — and I was talking to President Obama about this the other day — it used to be that you would do an event like this and then you would shake hands with people and they would talk to you, they would say, 'I liked what you said about this' or 'You didn't mention that' or 'Can I tell you this?' And it was a constant learning and absorbing experience.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Absorbing the exceptional culinary flavors of Peru would be one of the highlights of the company's new tour to the country in 2016, which will have everything from 'a 'New Andean' feast at Huaca Pucllana -- one of Lima's most celebrated restaurants overlooking the illuminated ruins of a pre-Inca pyramid -- to a traditional Pachamanca feast.

Phil Cappelli

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With every sunrise make wishes which serve larger interest, and so shall be done. Good morning everyone. Empower your self absorbing sun rays between your eyes, and with every sunrise, simply MickeyMize.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

I'm not selling eggs, where I can raise the price to absorb that, i end up absorbing directly the increases.

George Pavarini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Trees are some of the most prominent and important organisms on the planet, trees provide a wide range of important ecosystem services for humans. They store water and nutrients, stabilize the soil, provide habitats for plants and animals, offset the impacts of climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and they generate the oxygen that we need to breath.

Thomas Crowther

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Camera obscura. The reverse engineering of our brain allows us to disassemble all the little pieces in the "camera obscura" of our mind and to identify changes and choices made, after absorbing the phenomena of our life.

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Everything is about the vehicle absorbing the force of the blast to save the occupants.

Mary Williams

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A large number of young people having such undesirable attitudes toward violence against women - including girls themselves - is alarming, these are school-going and college-going students – they’re not uneducated or non-literate people. These are people from cities, not even rural areas... These attitudes that students are displaying are potentially what they are absorbing from society at large, from their families.

Manjunath Sadashiva

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Yinon is one of those guys who is really passionate about what he is doing. He’s good at absorbing information and explaining it well, that’s an important piece, a good ingredient for success. They are a small team and have accomplished quite a bit. In fact, a lot of the features they built took us a lot longer to realize at LinkedIn. Somehow they made it work.

Guericke The meteoric rise

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Earnings season is winding down and the market is absorbing reports from retailers, which are generally pretty good and the economy is in good shape right,so investors are hoping for a better world economy.

Giri Cherukuri

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.

Doug Madory

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Srully Blotnick

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Srully D. Blotnick

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.

Henry Thomas Buckle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched.

John K. Hutchens

added by anonymous
14 years ago

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Henry James

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Paul Newman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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