spongy
Example Sentences
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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
Following “Phantom Thread,” Manville scored the delightful titular role in 2022’s “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a warm, spongy slice of mom cinema.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024
The Mayo Clinic says it’s a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that occurs when white blood cells turn into cancer cells and build up in the spongy material of the marrow.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024
She boiled cassia pods to make a thin, unsatisfying soup, and roasted spongy, tasteless water-lily bulbs.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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