How to Use absorbing in a Sentence

absorbing

adjective
  • But its strongest moments, and the most absorbing ones, are the show’s brief portraits of the friends and family around its central figure.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Here, a magical quest is less absorbing than the act of texting a crush.
    The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
  • 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
  • Michaelson has been sitting in tech rehearsals this past week, absorbing and fine tuning changes with Greif and Williams.
    Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The formula is lightweight, non-greasy, and fast absorbing.
    Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 5 June 2024
  • 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
  • Saint is only one of many characters whose stories unfold over the course of this deeply absorbing novel.
    Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • 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

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