sop up

He couldn't get anything that would sop up oil and hold a light for half a minute.

She flung a towel down to sop up the tiny flood, and saw it swiftly crimson before her eyes.

I remember one of them used a slice of bread to sop up blood like gravy.

Like sponges they sop up the limited quantity of selling chances they happen to get.

And it's surprising ain't it, what a lot of information you can sop up when you do the sponge act in earnest?