NOUN
- (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
How To Use soaking up In A Sentence
- We were lying by the pool, soaking up the afternoon sun.
- We were handed a bowl containing a square of white-corn cornbread soaking up the bacon-flavored pinto bean broth along with a cup of sweet, fresh buttermilk.
- This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
- Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality. An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
- Valuable blogging time has been sacrificed to the arduous pursuit of lying in the garden soaking up the sun whilst gently quaffing on wine and desultorily reading a book.
- I flopped down onto my sleep sack, which was already damp from soaking up moisture from the soil.
- I know there are in Belfast tidy gardens of roses, bookstalls with shelves of poetry, cats soaking up sun in shop windows.
- Small HDL particles are much less effective at soaking up their bad brethren.
- As late as the 1850s, people scratched out a bare existence by soaking up surface oil from springs around Oil Creek in Pennsylvania.
- At the time, as he writes in a program note for "Kraft," he was soaking up the new-music scene in Berlin, then hopping with postpunk and nontonal pop. NYT > Home Page
