sponge on
Example Sentences
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"We'd be given smelling salts, sponge on the neck, back out and play," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
Their mouths are “almost like if you had a pool noodle with a sponge on the end,” Andy Gloss, an evolutionary biologist at New York University, said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
At Madison’s studio, she found something beautiful to put her sponge on and much more.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
“To me, the sponge on it is just easier to scrub a dirty floor with,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
‘Then if he comes back you’ll let him stay here and sponge on you just as long as he pleases—like it was before?’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
