The phrase "absorb themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals or groups who become deeply engaged or involved in an activity or subject.
Example: "The students were so fascinated by the experiment that they began to absorb themselves in the process of discovery."
Alternatives: "immerse themselves" or "engross themselves".
It is not until you become physically aware of how your own health is entirely reliant on the health of the great web of life, that ideas such as deep ecology absorb themselves into your arteries, sinews and bones.
Promisingly, "attentive eating" does not seem to reduce his subjects' pleasure of their meals; on the contrary, they actually seemed to find it more enjoyable to absorb themselves in the sea of flavours hitting their tongues.
In my experience, colleagues who are uncommitted scholars tend to burn out quickly and absorb themselves in the socially rewarding world of college service, which can push them further away from their students.
Paradoxically, children can absorb themselves very deeply in technology, for example, video games, spending hours undistracted and fully focused.
Research is demonstrating that, in the constant distraction to which children are now so vulnerable, technology may be causing them to lose their ability to absorb themselves in activities such as reading for extended periods.
In a world where we tend to sensationalize and ascribe greatness to leaders, paradoxically, the ultimate leaders are the ones who are quick to reflect any external praise intended for them to their team instead, and to absorb themselves any blame ascribed to their team.
To see these Seattle artists absorbing themselves in one another's work does everyone good.
When they moved to America her family absorbed themselves in the culture, celebrating Jewish festivals for the first time.
The gearhead boys, who as teens absorbed themselves with Trans Am transmissions, became tech-heads and soon upgraded to the Amiga, a low-powered graphics machine.
The composition of plant sterols and plant stanols lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting the absorption of dietary and endogenously produced cholesterol from the small intestine and the plant sterols/stanols are only poorly absorbed themselves.
What is most frightening and unsurprising is that these white terrorists of American movies have absorbed themselves into a cultural lexicon of "cool".
