6 sentences with 'absorbed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word absorbed and other words derived from it.
• « Digestion is the process by which nutrients are extracted from food so that they can be absorbed. »
• « Easily absorbed from the intestines, glucose absorption leads to pancreatic secretion of insulin, which helps transport it to the tissues. »
• « The inhabitants of Israel fled to Judah or were absorbed into the Assyrian Empire, losing their cultural identity in the process. »
• « Eventually the Minoans disappeared as a distinct culture, most likely after they were conquered and absorbed by the Mycenaeans, their northern neighbours. »
• « The answer is probably this: like the Western empire before it, the Byzantine Empire eventually collapsed. However, the empire not only collapsed, but was absorbed by a different culture with its own traditions: that of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. »
• « In the process, smaller states were often absorbed or at least forced to do the bidding of larger ones; this is true of Italian city-states and former independent kingdoms such as Burgundy in eastern France. »