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
- Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
- 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.
- You can spend your days however you like: soaking up the sun on deck, enjoying a beauty treatment or working out in the gym.
- He needn't have worried; we were all too busy soaking up the scenery.
- They're soft and mushy, anemically pale yellow, and thick-cut - perfect for soaking up a squirt of malt vinegar or dipping in a side order of mildly spicy curry sauce.
- But she reckons she will spend her downtime soaking up some British culture. The Sun
- We walked along the beach, past the rows of supine bodies soaking up the sun.
- So we brought in the spindly lemon tree that spends all summer soaking up the sun (and the traffic grime) on our porch. Times, Sunday Times
- It was possible to just laze around on deck on one of the many sun-loungers soaking up the rays while attentive staff members plied you with ice cold drinks.
- The 32-year-old Iraqi-American actress calls herself a ‘sponge’, listening, soaking up and regurgitating stories.
