Dick Marr is drinking again--and when he soaks it up he gets discontented over old times, you know.
To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
Glue soaks into the pores of pieces of wood and gradually hardens.
Ink spilled on a plain board soaks in, but on a varnished desk it can be easily wiped off.
The rain soaks into the ground or runs off in rivulets, and sooner or later it is once more evaporated.
Little by little, however, the water all soaks too deep into the ground for the plants to get it.
Rain runs off a tar roof in droplets, while on shingles it soaks in somewhat and spreads.
Seeping through the mantle of waste, ground water soaks into the pores and crevices of the underlying rock.
We have traced the history of that portion of the rainfall which soaks into the ground; let us now return to that part which washes along the surface and is known as the run-off.
In wet seasons these constant losses are more than made good by fresh supplies from that part of the rainfall which soaks into the ground, and the ground-water surface rises.
After 4 to 8 days, according to the weather, the peat has lost so much water, which, rapidlysoaks off through the sand, that its surface begins to crack.
It is said that this water soaks into the ground within a few rods and that just beyond are large, dry rooms, well adapted for habitation, which formerly contained many evidences of aboriginal occupation.
In the pit thus formed water stands after every rain until it soaks away.
Capillary water is water which is drawn by capillary force or soaks into the spaces between the soil particles and covers these particles with a thin film of moisture.
Pour water in the upper ends of the tubes until it soaks through and drips from the lower end (Fig.
This is moisture which is drawn by capillary force or soaks into the spaces between the soil particles and covers each particle with a thin film of moisture.
The element thus introduced has spread and is spreading throughout the Soudan, as water soaks into a dry sponge.
Where the water laps the sand and soaks into the banks there grows an avenue of vegetation which seems very beautiful and luxuriant by contrast with what lies beyond.
It is a great absorbent and soaks up much of the urine that, were straw used instead, would be likely to pass off into the drains.
That which soaksinto the ground is the most valuable because it remains on the earth longest and is the purest.
When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers.
Water which soaks into the ground moves slowly downward and after a longer or shorter journey, meets with a non-porous layer of rock through which it cannot pass, and which effectually hinders its downward passage.
Several soaks were found opportunely when the water-bags were becoming dangerously flat, and our progress continued uneventfully for over a week, but then the formation of the land-surface began to change rapidly for the worse.
This operation being finished, he takes the paper intended to receive the impression, soaks it with soap-water, and lays it moist upon the copper-plate.
The point of this may be inserted into the sore, and care taken that the weak acid penetrates into the very bottom, and thoroughly soaks all the diseased parts.
Any method of cleaning windows by dashing quantities of water on the panes, breaks the putty, loosens the glass, spoils the paint on the woodwork and soaks the wood itself with water.
Cold water softens and dissolves into itself some of the protein substances, and also soaks out the nourishing qualities of carbohydrates.
It is pleasant to cheat the public; but the pleasure soaks down through the conscience, leaving tuberculous affection there, or bacteria; or at any rate some microscopic affliction.
How many quarters he soaks in a week is nothing, and cannot be anything to me.
In the same way, when waste passes from the muscles or the skin into the blood, it, too, soaks through the thin walls of the tiniest blood tubes, called capillaries.
Every considerable addition to its water wells up, and soaks its very surface; and that which is added after it is already brim full, must flow off over the surface, or lie in puddles upon it.
The ooze water,—that whichsoaks out from adjoining land,—is subject to all the objections which hold against spring water, and should be rigidly excluded.
Some of itsoaks into the rocks, but the greater part is evaporated into the dry air.
It was not made in these rocks, but has soaked into them just as water soaks into a brick.
They do this by planting in little patches at the mouth of a gully where at the time of rain the flood water is led away into furrows and depressions so that it thoroughly soaks the ground in which the corn is planted.
In this the trees are planted and every rain sends more earth and soaks that which has collected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soaks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
