soak up
Example Sentences
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It’s then left to simmer and soak up all those flavors.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
More than 66,000 people filled Lumen Field in Seattle’s SoDo district, but thousands more simply stood in the streets surrounding the stadium to soak up the energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Thousands of new “vocational schools” sprung up to soak up the money, many of them bogus.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
But it has for years been unable to replicate the retail-banking returns of peers with vast nationwide networks that soak up supercheap checking account deposits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Vonetta was sure to soak up every word, every expression, to reenact later.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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