saturate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with saturate, each labelled with its topic.

• Let the warm sponge sit in syrup long enough to saturate it, then chill the cake before anyone cuts a slice.

  Cooking

• Two days of rain saturated the hillside, and by Thursday the water had nowhere left to go but downhill.

  Environment

• Four coffee chains saturated the same six blocks, and within a year two of them had closed their doors.

  Business

• Keep stirring salt into the warm water until you saturate it, and the next spoonful will settle unmoved on the bottom.

  Science

• Watercolorists saturate the paper with clean water first, so the pigment blooms softly instead of leaving hard edges.

  Art

• One viral video can saturate the campus network, and every other download slows to a crawl until it passes.

  Technology

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• aerosol
• stabilised
• labouring
• affective
• laboured
• confining
• appreciable
• constrain
• substituting
• diffuse
• axiom
• aggregated