sponging

Example Sentences

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Generative AI is developing so quickly that soon the large-language models sponging up information on the internet will run out of content to feed on.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

There’s a lot of scraping and sponging involved.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2023

But for a while after seeing your video, I was sponging down my milk cartons in bleach.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2020

She’d go through five tubes a week, sponging it onto 12 to 15 pairs of shoes — a process known in ballet circles as pancaking.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2018

I’ve always felt it is an unforgivable thing to dump yourself on friends and then just stay on and on, sponging on their hospitality.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall