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Example sentences for "absorption"

Lexicographically close words:
absorber; absorbers; absorbing; absorbingly; absorbs; absorptions; absorptive; absque; abstain; abstained
  1. It needs constant handling, and the absorption of a certain amount of oil from the hands to keep it pliable.

  2. In his absorption Miko did not notice my light.

  3. A tenseness was upon all of us, despite the absorption of our feverish activities.

  4. C), is caused by this absorption of oxygen (10).

  5. Absorption of Gases by Liquids~ depends on molecular attraction and motion.

  6. The absorption of oxygen from the air causes some oils to become more viscous, to eventually become solid, without losing in weight, in fact sometimes gaining.

  7. Thus Cyrenaicism did not entirely vanish with its absorption in Epicureanism.

  8. It is probable that these smaller tribes were only gradually subdued by the Czechs and that some of them had previously to their absorption adopted special dialects.

  9. The uneasy self-absorption which Sheridan immortalized in the character of Sir Fretful Plagiary in The Critic is apparent enough in this autobiography, but presents itself there in no offensive form.

  10. Milbanke's absorption was so unfeigned that when Clodagh came running back nearly three hours later, full of remorse for her long desertion, he greeted her with something amounting to regret.

  11. Then gradually but decisively it was borne in upon his mind that his absorption was blunting his common sense.

  12. Asshlin's only answer was a laugh--a laugh from which all the bitterness had dropped away, leaving a buoyant ring of absorption and delight.

  13. By variations in the consumption of carbon dioxide, especially in its absorption and escape from the ocean, the hypothesis attempts to explain the periodicity of glaciation (i.

  14. It then had a hot dense atmosphere containing all the water of the earth in the form of vapor, and this atmosphere steadily became thinner due to absorption by the earth.

  15. The salts have a faint pink colour, and show a faint absorption spectrum; the spark spectrum is brilliant and well characterized.

  16. The result of this determination, and of Great Britain's absorption in internal politics, was that Russia, Prussia and Austria were enabled to carry out the first partition of Poland in 1772.

  17. There is no absorption of the artist by his work which produces great work, great because the beholder thinks rather of the work produced than of the artist who produces it.

  18. By absorption the barrier is removed and the tooth then comes forward.

  19. The cure took six months, and was not only accompanied by absorption of the affected parts, but the woman became pregnant in good time and gave birth to a boy with comparative comfort.

  20. Improvement in body nutrition generally, more complete absorption of nitrogenous food.

  21. The constitution of the human mind is in flat contradiction to the idea of the absorption of the will, the conscience, and the understanding of one man into the personality of another!

  22. In the community, God is released from the abstractness of unexpanded self-identity, as well as from the simple absorption in a bodily medium, by which sculpture represents Him.

  23. When his son dies, Goethe does not mourn, he plunges into the absorption of a study uncultivated before.

  24. In the immense majority of cases there is no settlement: and the absorption of all rights, all property, as well as all freedom of action, is complete.

  25. This intimate union plays an important part, according to Sachs, in the absorption of water and of the inorganic matter dissolved in it.

  26. This clover generally [page 515] grows in dry soil, but whether the power of absorption by the hairs on the buried flower-heads is of any importance to them we do not know.

  27. When there was no such absorption and the card was not displaced, it acted well and caused the radicle to bend to the opposite side.

  28. The young leaves of Cannabis sativa sink at night between 30o and 40o beneath the horizon; and Kraus attributes this to epinasty in conjunction with the absorption of water.

  29. We thus learn that an old leaf [page 239] circumnutates on a small scale, at least whilst absorbing carbonate of ammonia; for it is probable that this absorption may stimulate growth and thus re-excite circumnutation.

  30. He disapproved of William's total absorption in European politics, and his open partiality for his countrymen.

  31. He held that it would inevitably lead to the absorption of Canada by the United States, though he did not believe that this was the desire or the intention of its chief promoters.

  32. Virchow also cleared up the old and obscure ideas regarding pyaemia, and proved that an absorption of pus into the blood, which the name implies, is quite impossible; likewise, that pyaemia is inseparable from thrombotic processes.

  33. It was the circumstances of the tenth century which caused the Church to assume a less complacent attitude and, in her efforts to prevent her absorption by the State, to attempt the reduction of the State to a mere department of the Church.

  34. The effect of this absorption of power by the Papacy is to be traced in many directions.

  35. The champions of the former found a reconciliation of the two spheres to consist in the absorption of the secular by the ecclesiastical.

  36. The servants exchanged looks as my lady walked back with eyes that shone as they had never shone before, and something of that glory about her, that dazzling and mist of self-absorption which belongs to no other condition of the mind.

  37. Say what they may, we cannot help being pained by a dead absorption of that living bread!

  38. In his complete absorption he had not noticed the effect of his query upon Ames.

  39. His days were spent in complete absorption in his books, or in writing in his journal.

  40. He yielded to their encouragement to plunge heartily into his studies, for in such absorption lay diversion from dangerous channels of thought.

  41. When in Simití he hung over the child in rapt absorption as she worked out her problems, or recited her lessons to Josè.

  42. An hour or so later, while he was jotting down his remembrance of the conversation just overheard, together with his own caustic and protesting opinions, his absorption was broken by the strange child's accident.

  43. In dealing with the Indians our aim should be their ultimate absorption into the body of our people.

  44. Fresh from a struggle against arbitrary power, many patriots suffered from harassing fears of an absorption of the State governments by the General Government, and many from a dread that the States would break away from their orbits.

  45. I agree with them also that it is wise to leave the question of such absorption to this process of natural political gravitation.

  46. But in many cases this absorption must and should be very slow.

  47. The reduced workweek has also contributed to the absorption of those released from war service and war work.

  48. He bent above Lucy in a tender absorption speaking to her as he might have spoken to a child, calling to her, comforting and rousing her.

  49. Nothing could have been more touching than his absorption in his own case; his entire unconsciousness of anything in Manisty's mind that could conflict with it.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "absorption" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablation; absorbent; absorption; abstraction; adsorption; application; assimilation; attention; attrition; bile; blotter; concentration; contemplation; daydream; depletion; digestion; drain; dream; dreaming; earnestness; embarrassment; engagement; entanglement; erosion; exhaustion; expenditure; fantasy; finishing; immersion; implication; inclusion; infiltration; ingestion; intentness; interest; involution; involvement; liver; meditation; melancholy; monomania; mooning; muse; musing; obsession; osmosis; pensiveness; percolation; preoccupation; relation; reverie; saliva; seepage; sponge; sponging; study; submersion; thoughtfulness; trance; waste