Sentence examples for tendency to absorb from inspiring English sources
Television has a tendency to absorb feelings faster than it assimilates facts.
This was not easily accomplished: because of its tendency to absorb, the charcoal altered the chemistry of the latex when the two were mixed.
He acknowledged they were not perfect but insisted that every phone manufacturer had problems with antenna design and interaction with the body's tendency to absorb the phone signal.
It contracts a good deal on cooling and has a tendency to absorb gases and thereby become porous, blistered, and weak.
That could be cut through breeding programmes and less gassy diets.Black carbon is a particular problem in the Arctic and the Himalayan glaciers; it melts snow and ice and thus increases the tendency to absorb heat from the sun.
"As a business, gaming has a tendency to absorb disposable income, especially from the poor," said Kumar P. Barve, a Gaithersburg Democrat who is majority leader of the House of Delegates in Maryland, where the House has voted to study Mr. Ehrlich's proposal for slot machines at tracks.
People have a tendency to selectively absorb facts that confirm their worldview, and ignore those that don't — what psychologists call "confirmation bias".
This tendency for bioplastics to absorb water may result in plastic with lower elasticity as the moisture content may alter the elastic modulus of the resulting plastic.
Under optimum soil conditions, pesticides with a higher DT50 and a moderate to a high solubility, have the tendency to be absorbed by roots of crops growing in the field and subsequent crops in crop rotations (Doan Ngoc et al. 2015; Hwang et al. 2015; Kucharski et al. 2012).
"Overcommitment" measures a person's motivational pattern of coping with demands characterized by a tendency to be absorbed in work excessively.
OPAHs have higher molecular weights and lower vapor pressures than their parent PAHs [ 13], and thus, they have a higher tendency to be absorbed to PM in the atmosphere compared to their parent PAHs [ 14].
