How to Use absorbing in a Sentence

absorbing

adjective

• Watching how this gets done, on both sides of the net, can be absorbing.
  — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• The jacket is not as absorbing and provocative as the cedar sculptures that are the result of decades of work and thought.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
• The first, focused on the momentous Bern and Kassel shows, is the most absorbing.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The sheet rock acts like a sponge, absorbing water far above the two to three inches covering the floor.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• For me, anyway, the most absorbing moment is the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• This absorbing, thoughtful film doesn’t take sides; that’s not James’ way.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Sequences like these are the best parts of the Hulu show—the funniest, the most absorbing and surprising.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
• Two of them — Harry and Stella — are the focus of Ms. Wang’s astute and absorbing film.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• These stories are the most absorbing in the collection.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
• But God is in the details, and the documentary fills in his life with an absorbing richness.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• Either way, the match was transformed from a tense and absorbing contest into a thriller.
  — SI.com, 31 May 2018
• And the way this plays out in the movie is absorbing, thrilling, and cheekily satisfying.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
• There has to have been one played at a higher standard, one richer in drama and more absorbing.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
• Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti American who’s made some of the most absorbing and transportive electronic music of the last decade.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
• An over-the-top electronic fusion of Tinkertoys and an ant farm, SC3K is deeply absorbing.
  — Karen Eng, WIRED, 1 July 1999
• Cooking was a job, not an absorbing hobby, and as with any other job, many people did it badly.
  — Megan McArdle, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2017
• The Libman Wonder Mop combines the absorbing power of a mop with the dusting abilities of a microfiber cloth.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• Greg Gard says Crowl is the 'best trash-talker' on the team Crowl has appeared to grow more comfortable absorbing contact on post-up moves as the season has progressed.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
• But again, the towel was fast absorbing, regardless of the two textures, and dried our wet hands in one or two passes and soaked up a quarter cup of water in minutes.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
• This is no fault of Elliott, who remains genuine and absorbing throughout.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• And some of the most absorbing contributions are abstract.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• Though everyone shines in solos, especially when the witty Ms. Dorrance plays against the group, the show is most absorbing when the whole tribe is onstage.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2016
• In one section of the show, visitors can tune in to the sounds of a giant yucca plant growing; in others, stalks of corn and plants absorbing water via their roots take center stage.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 29 Aug. 2019
• Kate Troll did not, and this absorbing, compassionate and life-affirming book is the result.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
• The other absorbing picture is not much more than an oil sketch, perhaps dashed off on site around 1884 for later elaboration in the artist’s studio.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
• Priscilla stays true to the facts, as its namesake remembers them, to offer an absorbing look at one of pop culture’s most famous couples.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 Nov. 2023
• The camera never once zoomed or swiveled in surprise: the director seemed content to tell an absorbing story with strong characters and poignant ironies.
  — Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
• His recounting of this clash between old and new media is authentic and absorbing.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• This soft beckoning was there not only in the piano’s imploring whispers, but in the sumptuous beauty of the strings on a deeply absorbing Adagio.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2019
• But the most absorbing pieces are those in which Gurba turns her unblinking gaze to life’s cruelties, weaving together disparate threads that somehow hold in the end.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024