osmosisin a sentence
- "It's osmosis.† (source)
- I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself.† (source)
- Money osmosis, you might call it.† (source)
- We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening trudging on in our osmosis masks and thick, rubber-soled boots, sweating under layers of leathery gamma-cloth.† (source)
- Leigh Anne was now making it her personal responsibility to introduce him to the most basic facts of life, the sort of things any normal person would have learned by osmosis.† (source)
- It made her wonder what it would be like to hear all these stories from the wounded and the stunned; if you couldn't help but absorb them by osmosis.† (source)
- COLE'S TRANSFORMATION WAS a striking example of the cultural osmosis taking place in and around Clarkston.† (source)
- Do books perform some kind of magical osmosis on a child's brain?† (source)
- Then I reached up, nonchalantly, and brushed at one of my teeth, hoping that somehow she would subconsciously pick up on this, like osmosis, and get the hint.† (source)
- You join the gang by osmosis.† (source)
- I learned through osmosis and now it's your turn.† (source)
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- We were in the school library, and it was like she was able to extract information from the computer by osmosis, practically.† (source)
- He's Gone for Over an Hour Between doorbell rings and candy grabs, I roam room to room, sitting in chairs, straightening photos, opening drawers and touching their contents, trying to absorb Lawler by osmosis.† (source)
- Now don't ask me how I know all this, I think it's like osmosis—like where you just absorb information without knowing it.† (source)
- There was a single window, through which dust particles flowed freely, as if by osmosis.† (source)
- Supply books and by a miraculous process of osmosis, the oyster-pickers will become Shakespearean scholars.† (source)
- She tossed an osmosis mask at me and donned her own.† (source)
- I nod and sip at lukewarm water through the slipstrip of my osmosis mask.† (source)
- Siri was grinning under her osmosis mask.† (source)
- I wore osmosis gloves with killing trim.† (source)
- I nod and sip at lukewarm water through the slipstrip of my osmosis mask.† (source)
- Siri did not lift the osmosis mask to answer.† (source)
- Any help he gave Claude would only advance his brainless theory of osmosis, but Edgar wasn't sure Claude wouldn't take a wild guess, and he couldn't stand the idea of the dogs being used clumsily.† (source)
- Tuk and I huddle in the hot cave of our tent, osmosis masks filtering enough cool oxygen out of the superheated, smoky air to allow us to breathe.† (source)
- They wore caps and osmosis masks.† (source)
- Tuk and I huddle in the hot cave of our tent, osmosis masks filtering enough c°°! oxygen out of the superheated, smoky air to allow us to breathe.† (source)
- I absorb by osmosis.† (source)
- It seemed that he had invaded her life by osmosis: she'd find his shirt mixed in with her laundry; she'd smell his shampoo on her pillowcase; she would pick up the phone, thinking to call him, and he'd already be on the line.† (source)
- It has the twenty-ninth and thirtieth stories of the McGurk Building, and the roof is devoted to its animal house and to tiled walks along which (above a world of stenographers and bookkeepers and earnest gentlemen who desire to sell Better-bilt Garments to the golden dons of the Argentine) saunter rapt scientists dreaming of osmosis in Spirogyra.† (source)
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