Absorbent

Buy me a package of absorbent cotton.

This towel is very absorbent.

My towels are fresh-smelling and absorbent.

These towels are very absorbent.

This towel is absorbent.

These towels are very, very absorbent.

Is the cloth particularly absorbent?

Is that cloth particularly absorbent?

This cloth is unusually absorbent.

It's an absorbent fabric.

Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.

In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.