Sentence examples for he was absorbed from inspiring English sources
He was absorbed and sweating.
he was absorbed, lost, in an enormous shadow.
He was absorbed in a conversation that neither his daughters nor I could understand.
In the palace, he was absorbed by official painting and, increasingly, by nonartistic duties.
Twose said he was absorbed by her striking looks and "contemporary, edgy style".
In Rome, where republican life was precluded by the papal government, he was absorbed by technical and scientific matters.
From Two-Ton Tony's perspective, the beating that he was absorbing was a good thing.
He was already bankrolling the team that was trying to free the hostages; he was absorbing the families' travel expenses; he was flying to foreign destinations himself.
If Angulo had been winning, the stoppage might have been viewed as a robbery, no matter how much punishment he was absorbing.
Having exhausted such literary models as Arthur Conan Doyle and Ray Bradbury, he was absorbing the influence of "probably too many writers to name" – among them Donald Barthelme, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Raymond Chandler, John Updike, Philip Roth and F Scott Fitzgerald.
