5 sentences with 'absorbs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word absorbs and other words derived from it.
• « It is estimated that Antarctica absorbs about five tonnes of lead per year, compared to 500 kilograms a few millennia ago. »
• « The fish absorbs oxygen from the wet sand through its own skin and retains it in its blood vessels. »
• « A 19th century biologist named Metchnikoff even claimed that one lives better without a large intestine, as it absorbs the toxins that cause tissue destruction. Many people believed him and the consequences were dire for them. »
• « Now, the lining of your books is blue because it is an opaque body that absorbs all the colours of the spectrum when it receives light and only rejects the colour blue. »
• « Through the process of socialisation, the individual absorbs the culture in which he or she is immersed, integrates into society and, at the same time, acquires his or her own personality. »