How to Use reabsorb in a Sentence

reabsorb

verb

• Bile acids are reabsorbed at the end of the small bowel and reused.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
• The juices then mix with the salt, forming a brine that is then reabsorbed by the meat.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• The juices in the bird need that much time be reabsorbed by the meat, period.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 9 Oct. 2017
• Let the meat rest: This rest time gives the juices time to reabsorb into the meat before shredding.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2023
• In 1984, Deng was fixated over the strategy of how to reabsorb Hong Kong from the British.
  — Washington Post, 23 July 2019
• The loaf reabsorbs its juices and slices without crumbling.
  — Eric Velasco, AL.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• Second, because the fibers of the protein change while the meat is cooking, and need to relax post-cooking in order to reabsorb the juices.
  — Katie Workman, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• The salt will first pull moisture from the chops but then get reabsorbed over time along with the other spices, which will create more flavor in each bite.
  — Addie Broyles, charlotteobserver, 7 Sep. 2017
• To allow the gluten proteins to reabsorb water, the paste should rest for about 30 minutes, enough for the mass to be malleable to be shaped into sheets.
  — Ashton Yoon, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2018
• But here’s the catch: Since the stars and the gas are made of the same stuff, much of the light emitted by the stars is at just the right energy to be reabsorbed by the hydrogen surrounding them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• So would-be sloth farts are simply reabsorbed through the intestines into the bloodstream.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• The hope is that her body will naturally reabsorb them over time.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2020
• Then, as the tail end of the shock wave passes, a few thousandths of a second later, the membrane would revert to a fluid state, reabsorbing the heat.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• Even people without leaks make and reabsorb spinal fluid about twice a day.
  — Shari Rudavsky, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
• The brain normally reabsorbs cerebrospinal fluid at the same rate it is produced, but Scott’s does not.
  — Priority Health, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2018
• This is because salt keeps calcium from being reabsorbed from the urine into the blood.
  — Marcos Del Rosario-Santiago, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2019
• Some have gone as far as begging the United Kingdom to intervene and reabsorb the island.
  — Fox News, 7 July 2022
• After some time — at least one hour — this brine will reabsorb into the steak, yielding a better seasoned, juicier piece of meat.
  — Jeffrey Gardner, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
• This jellyfish reabsorbs its tentacles and sinks to the ocean bottom, resembling a cyst on the floor.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• Conquered by the Manchus and reabsorbed by Mao, these lands make up at least one-quarter of Chinese territory.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• The heat had not dissipated; instead the nerve had reabsorbed most of it, also within a few thousandths of a second.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• Cholestyramine works by keeping fat in the gut from breaking down and being reabsorbed into the blood after someone eats.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 25 Mar. 2024
• Cover chops with a tent of aluminum foil and let rest 5 minutes, to allow chops to reabsorb juices, before slicing and eating.
  — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 27 Aug. 2020
• While your skin is still damp, apply a moisturizer to further trap that water so your cells can reabsorb it.
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 7 May 2021
• Northerners didn’t even have to work hard to reabsorb the former traitors into the fold of national identity.
  — Richard Kreitner, The New Republic, 30 June 2020
• The bulk of non-Russians in the former Soviet borderlands want less and less to do with their former overlord and certainly do not want to be reabsorbed by it.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
• Most bile salts will be reabsorbed later on at the end of the small intestine, recirculating them for reuse.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 July 2023
• Sometimes, the ability of the terminal ileum (the part of the intestine where bile salts are reabsorbed) gets overwhelmed, and bile acids enter the colon, causing diarrhea.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 19 July 2023
• The idea is that regrowing plants, over time, would ultimately reabsorb the carbon dioxide released by the burning.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• Arnica may help relax your blood vessels, allowing blood to be reabsorbed back into the body.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 5 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024