SATURATE in a Sentence

Learn SATURATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

23 example sentences for SATURATE, such as:

1. The bobbins are saturated in hot paraffin wax.
2. Fish oils are less saturated than animal fats.
3. Butter and cream contain a lot of saturated fats.
4. Our culture is saturated with television and advertising.
5. Reforms have led to the saturation of the market with goods.

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 Meanings and Examples of SATURATE
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saturate
 v.  soak, fill, or load to capacity; cause to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
Classic Sentence:
1  His left arm, rudely bandaged in a shawl, hung heavy and useless at his side; the bandage was saturated with blood.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
3  Venn now bethought himself of his clothes, which were saturated with water to the weight of lead.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
4  I therefore directed my attention at once to the garden path, which was saturated with recent rain, and would certainly show any footmarks.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
5  The bobbins are saturated in hot paraffin wax.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  He took a mouthful, drew it up, saturated his palate with it and then spat it forth into the grate.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
7  To her amazement she found that some "quite nice" people were saturated with Wells, and that this accessibility to ideas was the secret of their niceness.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor the thoughtful man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
9  Marius' blandishments, all saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
10  As he spoke, Thenardier extracted from the envelope two copies of newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
11  The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an earth saturated by autumn rains.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
12  The saturated road no longer absorbed the water, which ran along the ruts in streams.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIII
13  I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
Example Sentence:
1  Fish oils are less saturated than animal fats.
2  Butter and cream contain a lot of saturated fats.
3  Our culture is saturated with television and advertising.
4  Diets that are high in saturated fat and cholesterol tend to clog up our arteries, thereby reducing the blood flow to our hearts and brains.
5  Low and middle income countries are suffering from the condition, as they substitute fiber intake for a much higher consumption of saturated fats and sugar.
6  Most of the meals are relatively high in fiber and low in saturated animal fat.
7  It recommends eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy and limiting fewer foods that are high in saturated fat, added sugars, cholesterol, salt.
8  The company's sales are now close to saturation in many western countries.
9  Reforms have led to the saturation of the market with goods.
10  Indeed for the Zimbabwe press this explains "the saturation coverage on the demise of his namesake", and they have been reminding us that tourism and hunting are "mired in elitism".