Example Sentences

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If being accepted and belonging was assimilating, I was having none of that.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2021

His brother Eli worried that Kargbo was assimilating the worst part of American culture.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

At the same time, she was astonished at the avidity with which she was assimilating these hitherto unsuspected mysteries.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

Her occupation was of a twofold character, in that she was assimilating coffee and reading Truth.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram

He was assimilating something from this valley of gleams and shadows.

From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane