1.   But Mark had now become absorbed in an idea for a sermon that had suddenly come to him.

2.   Dad was obviously far too absorbed in his own difficulties to be interested in mine.

3.   He was absorbed in eating, and his blond, straight hair fell forward over his forehead.

4.   I was completely absorbed in my climbing.

5.   Instead I closed him out, continued without him and became absorbed in my old routine.

6.   One of the processes of digestion is to reduce food to a substance which can be absorbed in the bloodstream as sugar.

7.   She was absorbed in the primitive ritual of the hunt and work was erased from her mind.

8.   The protagonist is totally absorbed in watching the ethereal mechanism come to rest.

9.   They were completely absorbed in each other.