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 Leinster, Murray