be absorbed in
Example Sentences
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The impact would be magnified because the estimated $1 billion shortfall will have to be absorbed in the remaining months of the fiscal year, which ends September 30.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2024
Within a few minutes, Titan would be absorbed in darkness, and the porthole would be a ring of black.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023
“I suppose it’s a really bright ray of light. When any of us engage in anything, we want for that piece of work to be absorbed in some way,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023
But that’s one of the misleading qualities of abstract art: the illusion that it can be absorbed in a glance and summarized in a sentence.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
I was a little old for that, but I said thank you and pretended to be absorbed in coloring.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
