In a sentence
Six example sentences with absorbing, each labelled with its topic.
The middle chapters are so absorbing that I missed my stop and rode four stations past the office.
Literature
It is a slow film, but the courtroom scenes are absorbing enough that nobody in the theater checked a phone.
Movies
The exhibit is small but absorbing, and visitors linger nearly an hour in front of a single unfinished sketch.
Art
The strategy game is so absorbing that players report looking up from the screen to find it already daylight.
Gaming
The overtime was absorbing enough that the concession stands emptied and the vendors came out to watch.
Basketball
The archive's letters are absorbing, and the researcher who came for one afternoon stayed the whole week.
History
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