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

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

Otherwise, the food product can end up greasy, spongy or just plain disgusting.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024

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