His self-absorbed attitude made it difficult for him to notice when his friends were struggling.

The technician wiped the spill with several absorbent papers before continuing the experiment.

The nurse reached for the absorbent cotton to clean the wound quickly.

She used a sheet of absorbent paper to quickly blot the spilled coffee before it soaked into the table.

Before applying oil glazes, the artist prepared an absorbent ground with distemper to ensure the oil paint would sit brightly on the surface.

The landscaper chose absorbent grounds near the stream to help manage runoff.

She would often absorb herself in the old journals for hours, forgetting the world around her.

The hospital installed thick panes of X-ray absorbing glass in the radiology suite to protect staff from scattered radiation.

The Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory proposes an interpretation of electrodynamics based on the assumption that solutions of the electromagnetic field equations must be invariant under time reversal, just as the equations themselves are.

The lab ordered several X-ray absorbing glasses to protect the detectors during calibration.