Absorbed by the shouting, I hadn't heard them come up.

The sound was muffled, as though absorbed by the very air itself.

I said, but he didn't answer, absorbed by the Indians' behavior.

People listening while half asleep, absorbing by night what they would soon think and believe the next day!

She could not speak, her attention absorbed by the runes on the floor.

The word was muffled, as if absorbed by the shadows.

Around the Giantship, every sound fell away, absorbed by fire.

He fixed his gaze as if absorbed by some matter or other in the minutes that lay before him.

It is not clear if the higher costs of imports would be passed on to Soviet consumers or absorbed by the state.

Sound, thought, movement, life, absorbed by the paintings of trauma and loss.