Maya Moore

Any time you have an opportunity to do something for the first time, it's super exciting, and I just want to soak up everything, and each experience... just to say that you've represented your country at the Olympics, it's such a rare opportunity.

American Athlete

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

American Musician

T.J. Dillashaw

As long as you're willing to soak up information and learn from anyone who is worth learning from, that helps you out so much. I can become a new fighter, I can learn new tricks, I can improve my game.

American Mixed Martial Artist

FKA twigs

I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

British Musician

George Hill

I try to instill in the guys to work hard, be humble, be blessed, stay in the gym, be a sponge and soak as much intelligence as a young player and embrace it.

Rob Sheffield

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

American Journalist

Trombone Shorty

Life would be pretty boring if I didn't explore. It's about letting my ears take me on an adventure to soak in everything I can.

John Legend

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

Jane Levy

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

American Actress

Mariska Hargitay

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

Use 'soak' when something is entirely in liquid, not just partly wet.

Complete Immersion

'Soak' often refers to a step in preparing food, like softening beans.

Preparation Process

In figurative contexts, 'soak' can mean to enjoy an experience fully.

Figurative Enjoyment

'Soak up' is sometimes used to describe absorbing qualities like knowledge or culture.

Absorb Qualities

'Soak' as in overcharging means demanding an unfairly high price.

Charge Excessively

Use this meaning of 'soak' when complaining about high prices.

Consumer Complaint

Use 'soak' for letting things sit in liquid to loosen dirt or stains.

Cleaning Technique

'Soak' can be used when liquids are used to soften something.

Softening Effect

 a social species that gets smart by being around other smart people we come out of the womb with this remarkable ability to soak up information from our parents from our peers from our siblings even occasionally from our teachers cities play to that advantage and as the world has gotten more complex the need for the face-to-face contact that

It’s time to embrace our...

 And hemoglobin acts as a molecular sponge to soak up the oxygen in your lungs and then carry it to other parts of the body. I was very much inspired by this image many years ago, and I wondered whether we could use computer graphics to represent the molecular world. What would it look like? And that's how I really began. So let's begin.

Drew Berry: Animations...

 that's a pretty compelling sign of life. Or, what if, instead of a structure that passively soaked up all the star's energy, like a plant, an alien civilization built one that actively sucked the energy out of the star like a hummingbird. Frighteningly enough, we've observed super dense celestial bodies

Is there a limit to...

 These lines are the characteristic fingerprints of atoms. Each type of atom in the solar atmosphere soaks up light at specific wavelengths, and the amount of absorption depends on how many of these atoms there are. So by observing how much light is missing at these characteristic wavelengths,

How do we study the...

 trawling online. It can come from a sentence someone said or a single word heard on television. Cartoonists are like sponges; they soak up people, places, mannerisms, clothing, and behavior. Sometimes they might jot them down in a little black book that they carry around with them.

Inside a cartoonist's...

 by soaking up the membrane-damaging toxins. The fluid mosaic is what makes all the functions of life possible. Without a cell membrane, there could be no cells, and without cells, there would be no bacteria, no parasites, no fungi, no animals,

Cell membranes are way...

 stretching all four miles from coast to coast. Pipes from inside the city could fill it at the first sight of the enemy, and a short wall protected archers who could fire at the soaked soldiers trying to swim across.

The city of walls:...

 once the cloth is completely soaked the process of hydration begins and the plastic casing can be removed at this point there's a window of around five hours for the canvas to be raised into

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 and I don't think he understands what's going on, but he is sure soaking in it. And I wonder what he's soaking in. Is he picking up on the themes of courage and perseverance and loyalty?

How movies teach manhood...

 Oh, just a bit more. Somebody help me. Please. Oh, I can't believe I'm soaking wet again. Twice in one day. Why is it always me?