Sentence examples for had not absorbed from inspiring English sources
He had not absorbed the extent of Caracas's deterioration until he became mayor, he said.
Art had not caught up with reality: it had not absorbed it.
His brief play against Kansas City on Oct. 23 before the Raiders' bye was disastrous, and predictably so, given that he had gotten the playbook only a few days earlier and had not absorbed the protections or plays.
[cartoon id= a20545"] Well, essayists can go where scholars dare not tread — a key lesson to take from Montaigne — and this essayist finds it impossible to imagine that Shakespeare had not absorbed Montaigne fully, and decisively, right around 1600.
Is "Fate" the record of a lesson Emerson had not absorbed in his early writing, concerning the multiple ways in which circumstances over which we have no control — plagues, hurricanes, temperament, sexuality, old age — constrain self-reliance or self-development?
They had signed the notice at closing but had not absorbed the content, probably because it was one of 30 or more documents they had to sign that day.
But the group still hadn't absorbed the piece yet, and it had to accommodate the strings too.
If I hadn't absorbed the new language in that way, I wouldn't have been able to write any of the books I've written in English, or to have lived a full life in this language.
But I hadn't absorbed them in a way you'd consider them to be "influences," as fine as all of them are.
If I have not absorbed that, that's too bad.
