spongy
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"The discovery indicates that perhaps the first sponges were spongy but not glassy," Xiao said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
Due to the water’s high mineral content, the fall’s boulders have developed a spongy texture that allows you to climb barefoot while water gushes over your feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
The result -- a spongy, tofu-textured mass -- is dried, turned out and delivered.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Its paint peeled, and its original wooden floors turned spongy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
Once inside, he and Sonia are given cups of Horlick’s, plates of syrupy, spongy rossogollas for which they have no appetite but which they dutifully eat.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Among the efforts to make the city spongier — and therefore less dependent on imported water — is the Safe Clean Water Program, which L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Don't use lowfat or nonfat milk, which would give the custard a blander flavor and spongier texture, with a higher risk of curdling.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2021
For years, most researchers agreed that sponges were the sister group of the first animals, suggesting a simpler, spongier forebear.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
My insides felt like the roof of my mouth, but warmer and spongier.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2019
Hip-hop has never seen a spongier musician than Drake, just one of the reasons that he’s among music’s most divisive stars.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2017
When a church supper was toward, she was always called upon for her wonderful mayonnaise dressing, or her angel-food cake,—sure to be the lightest and spongiest in any assemblage of cakes.
From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather
