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    Usa "soaking up" in una frase

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    soaking up


    1. Whether it was the preparation of a new meal, or a more efficient method to perform an already familiar task, they were like sponges soaking up the attentions and instructions of their parents and Great-uncle


    2. Dotted around were people, some with their trouser legs rolled up or skirts hitched up above their knees; couples soaking up the sun together or rolled in an intimate embrace


    3. She was Queen of the Fireplace, stretching out in front of the glass window and soaking up the warmth the gas flames gave off


    4. Amonas looked around him, soaking up his surroundings


    5. He slowly rotated in place, soaking up the power and taking in the panoramic view of dozens of volcanoes extending to the horizon in all directions


    6. Judah and Moshe contented themselves for a good part of the early morning soaking up the


    7. and while soaking up the heavenly coolness I listened to Harry as he explained how, yes, he


    8. Me and the boys slithered our way to the desert, all the while soaking up the heat of the sun


    9. He revels in each new experience, soaking up the smells, flavors, and sensations as though he were a sponge


    10. His thoughts were in Florida, lying on a lounge chair on the sands of South Beach – a cosmo in one hand and Jonathan’s hand in the other, soaking up the blistering Florida sun

    11. soaking up the sun like a sponge with his coffee cup resting on his


    12. Do you know what he did with his summers off from the Academy while the rest of you were soaking up the sun in the tropics with half naked members of the opposite sex? ”


    13. She was looking forward to having a lazy day on the beach, soaking up some of the sunshine, which had continued all through the month of September


    14. He moans into my mouth as I hold onto his face, soaking up the passion


    15. I am reminded of the sitcom Cheers! where Bob was similar to the Norm character, the one who spent most of his day sitting in the bar, soaking up beers


    16. " Mitchell rested his fatigued head into her shoulder, soaking up her empathetic energy


    17. She sat on its deck, soaking up the sun and smelling the bowers of roses


    18. She is NOT soaking up rays on a beach, she's six foot under someplace


    19. fighting and was resting in a remote vil age hut, soaking up his aches and pains


    20. red hot fire, soaking up its heat, and basking in the glow

    21. characteristics, but instead I’m soaking up the minute details of his


    22. soaking up what he would consider wasteful energy


    23. soaking up his words, but it hadn’t moved me to the point of where I


    24. It was a splendid weekend with the Germans soaking up the incredible South African


    25. It was amazing, Charlie thought as he walked around, soaking up the atmosphere


    26. She spit sand into the air and it whipped and twirled away in a whirling dervish toward a crumpled roll of carpeting lying in the middle of the sand, its rich red, gold and Mediterranean blue colors soaking up the hot afternoon sun


    27. She leaned back into the cedar-colored, studded-leather booth and concentrated on soaking up the ambience of the dimly lit bar located in the basement of one of Sydney’s oldest hotels


    28. “Problem is,” she finally said, “half my stores are soaking up Lynch's brain matter in there, which means I'll not be able to give what I had going its full justice


    29. But that should not put off the visitor, or even the local, from soaking up all that is good about this great city


    30. another wait when the gels were all soaking up

    31. Thinking they are somehow soaking up culture… That this is somehow putting them in touch with their own past,… putting them in touch with their own history


    32. Not too many people ever seemed interested in having me around, except maybe my mother, so I had stayed, soaking up the freely given attention


    33. the chaise in her bikini, soaking up the sun


    34. hand, hand in hand, our balanced bodies set to the motion of the ocean's intent, soaking up


    35. Roy and I spent the following week soaking up the river country till our pores oozed of it,


    36. bare breasted and soaking up the sun in his helm chair while I gave Becky a lesson in


    37. In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking,—of brooding about in a high-shouldered reluctant style,—of taking out his great horn-handled jackknife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food,—of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins,—of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it,—in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be


    38. He had wandered the steaming city, marveling at the sight of huge ships making their way up the Mississippi above street level, eating huge platters full of cheap shrimp and crab, digging into steaming bowls of gumbo and jambalaya, soaking up the rhythms and the howl of the jazz and the blues that coursed through the streets of the French Quarter on warm, silky nights scented with jasmine and bourbon


    39. Richard’s first beat back home was the Village, and when there was no news to report—no strike on the docks, no murders, no robberies to go pestering Larry Pulaski about—he spent hours in the jazz clubs, soaking up the between-sets patter of the musicians who came down from Harlem to play


    40. Toilet paper everywhere, soaking up water

    41. Libby must have marinated in anxious stomach acid for nine months, soaking up all that worry


    42. George spent the rest of the class like a sponge, soaking up knowledge


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