spongelike
Example Sentences
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If comb jellies, with a nervous system and muscles, are the deepest branch on the animal tree, then early animals may have not been simple and spongelike.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
Ertürk’s team found that treating mouse bodies for 2 weeks with a chemical called beta-cyclodextrin dissolves cholesterol in the cell membrane, creating spongelike holes in the whole organism without damaging other parts of the tissues.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 25, 2023
The researchers first modeled spongelike environments on a computer and found that varying chamber sizes would allow many different bacterial strains to thrive.
From Scientific American ● May 27, 2022
They sip carbon dioxide out of the air, catching it in spongelike filters.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
Most of the land surface was strictly as it had been before the landing of men—impenetrable jungles of spongelike flora, dwelt in by a largely unknown useless fauna.
From The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster
