How To Use Soaking up In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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You can spend your days however you like: soaking up the sun on deck, enjoying a beauty treatment or working out in the gym.
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He needn't have worried; we were all too busy soaking up the scenery.
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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.
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But she reckons she will spend her downtime soaking up some British culture.
The Sun
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We walked along the beach, past the rows of supine bodies soaking up the sun.
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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
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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.
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The 32-year-old Iraqi-American actress calls herself a ‘sponge’, listening, soaking up and regurgitating stories.
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Also designed by BASF, the plaster contains microcapsules filled with wax particles that store latent heat - if it is very warm outside, the wax melts, thereby soaking up heat without raising the temperature of the room.
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Although working offshore on the oil rigs and soaking up the suds on the course does not help his game, he still turns in some good scores.
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We walked along the beach, past the rows of supine bodies soaking up the sun.
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Imagine giant fields filled with photovoltaic solar panels, soaking up rays.
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Finally, soaking up the deference of the others, the alpha designer leans forward, and exercising the absolute minimum of movement, grazes the lid open with the palm of his hand.
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Soaking up the thermic whatsits very nicely, they are.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her hair was still wet but she had toweled it off, soaking up the excess rainwater.
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But for most people, the most popular beach activity remains lying in the sun with a refreshing drink next to them, soaking up the sunshine.
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But motor oil wears out and gets dirty, soaking up toxic heavy metals like lead and cadmium, and so it must be changed.
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Their carer says they are like little sponges, soaking up love and attention.
The Sun
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The singer has been spending her free time soaking up the sun in Rio wearing ill-fitting swimwear.
The Sun
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It was a nice day and with no guests about, the oddly shy pony boy should have been out soaking up the sun.
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You may get some truly bizarre planetary climate models, involving such things as water soaking up through the ground to keep plants alive let’s see–if there is so much water underground that it soaks UP to the surface, isn’t that what we call a bog?
The Glory - The Panda's Thumb
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Lie on a white sand beach soaking up the sun during the day and go for long moonlit walks along the oceans edge at night.
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We walked along the beach, past the rows of supine bodies soaking up the sun.
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Walk into any bar on a Friday night and she's sure to be there, working her delicate trade, soaking up free drinks as fast as she can get saps to buy them.
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Their carer says they are like little sponges, soaking up love and attention.
The Sun
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With its long slide soaking up most of recoil, firing the pistol was as tame as the purr of a contented kitten.
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In the domed restaurant, diners can eat alfresco, soaking up the ocean vista.
Times, Sunday Times
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The home side were soaking up the pressure well and clearing their lines effectively, counter-attacking as they did so.
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We felt foolish standing there with rain water soaking up our ragged jean clad legs so we pretended that we liked that feeling of creeping dampness on the tube.
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The home side were soaking up the pressure well and clearing their lines effectively, counter-attacking as they did so.
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Flat bread is a great side dish for dipping in and soaking up those sauces.
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We walked along the beach, past the rows of supine bodies soaking up the sun.
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One of my favorite accompaniments with fragrant Thai curries is steamed rice and one of my favorite vegetables in the curry itself, soaking up rich coconut flavors, is eggplant and these were the two ingredients that I substituted for the pumpkin.
Archive 2007-11-01
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This trout angler is soaking up some peace and quiet in Wisconsin's "Driftless Area
Field & Stream
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Spend a couple of days soaking up its 15th and 18th century buildings, modern skyscrapers and its pretty squares, parks and plazas.
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Behind the soft darkness of the cloth, she wept silently, the blindfold soaking up her tears.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Anyone watching (and trust me, there are some) will assume that I am soaking up every crumb of wisdom that falls from the speaker's lips.
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But the real sightseeing to be done here is wandering the streets and soaking up the sights, colours and sounds of this vibrant destination.
The Sun
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The biodiesel and feed starch farmer believes kenaf, a kind of grass, is the answer to soaking up oil as it washes on shore.
Sand Cleaning Technology Test May Help Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup
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The couple celebrated the pregnancy with a babymoon in Hawaii this week, soaking up the sun on the isle of Maui.
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She felt like her mind was a sponge - soaking up infinite amounts of information that she would probably never hear again.
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Right now, the tampon chandelier is only soaking up the gazes of art lovers, and will continue to do so until the Belem Cultural Center exhibition ends, on May 18, 2010.
Beautiful Room : Chandelier Creative
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The only exception I make is when I'm going to fry them or want to roast them to a creamy softness, as in moussaka or parmigiana, because salting does seem to deter them from soaking up such a gargantuan amount of oil.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes
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After soaking up the view of France's capital from this favourite spot, they boarded their homebound coach late afternoon and arrived back in Britain in the early hours of Monday.
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We were lying by the pool, soaking up the afternoon sun.
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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
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As late as the 1850s, people scratched out a bare existence by soaking up surface oil from springs around Oil Creek in Pennsylvania.
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Small HDL particles are much less effective at soaking up their bad brethren.
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I know there are in Belfast tidy gardens of roses, bookstalls with shelves of poetry, cats soaking up sun in shop windows.
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I flopped down onto my sleep sack, which was already damp from soaking up moisture from the soil.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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DEAR EXPERIENCE: When a partner "nags," the nagging becomes the relationship red herring, soaking up the emotional energy, while the source of the discontent can be pushed aside.
Ask Amy
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When estate agency staff were sent off to southern Spain, it wasn't to lounge on sunbeds all day soaking up the rays.
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He needn't have worried; we were all too busy soaking up the scenery.
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The pool is ideal for soaking up the autumn sunshine and swimming long laps.
The Sun
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There you can spend leisurely days relaxing with an ice-cold beer from the friendly bar while soaking up the sun around one of the two swimming pools.
The Sun
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It was wonderfully meditative, and as I sat there cross-legged, gonging away and soaking up the mystical reverberations, I got to thinking.
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The Braves lingered on the field a little longer than usual, soaking up the cheers from 29,299 while BTO's "Taking Care of Business" blared from the speakers and "10 Straight Championships" flashed on the scoreboard.
USATODAY.com - Braves gut Fish to take another NL East title
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Yet both courtyards call the resident gardeners to cast off clippers and broom and live in the garden itself: welcoming friends, soaking up sunshine, cherishing solitude.
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The pool is ideal for soaking up the autumn sunshine and swimming long laps.
The Sun
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Some golfers were lucky enough to be holed up at number 16 and started soaking up the suds instead of rain.
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Their carer says they are like little sponges, soaking up love and attention.
The Sun
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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 …
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He had just finished soaking up the last of his roast beef with a heel of bread.
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He was quite content sitting on the bus, reading his paper and soaking up the atmosphere.
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Steven Bradshaw's image of Mr Yellow soaking up the sun amongst the daffs in Museum Gardens is simply one to make you smile.
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When the ground is parched it behaves like a huge radiator, soaking up solar energy and then heating the air above.
Times, Sunday Times
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The parts were pulled from the 1,400-degree mix after soaking up the heat for up to an hour and then quenched in cold water.
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We were just sitting soaking up the atmosphere.
