How to Use spongy in a Sentence

spongy

adjective
Definition of spongynext
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  • Bold spices, lush sauces and lots of sour and spongy carbs.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The front of the skull has thick, spongy bone that acts as a shock absorber.
    — National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Three spongy slabs of white bread are perfect wraps for the filets.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The pastry is soft and spongy and the creamy filling is, well, so good.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • One group passed out huggies, the spongy things that keep beer cans cold.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • Monkshood and dwarf willow grow thick and spongy over the road.
    — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Take this spongy, furry leaf to the stream and rub it between your hands.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Odile would put these spongy rings in my hair to form a base, and then apply pieces on top.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Their taste matches their smell, and the fruit is red all the way through—no tough spongy centers.
    — Brad Leone, Bon Appetit, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Their taste matches their smell, and the fruit is red all the way through—no tough spongy centers.
    — Brad Leone, Bon Appetit, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Three folding chairs were spaced 6 feet apart on the spongy soil in front of the grave — one for each of Tessie’s children.
    — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The spongy yellow bread bleeds down into the white filling; the filling squirts out the sides.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
  • Healthy wood won't yield, damaged wood will feel spongy.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2017
  • Except that now, despite the new pads all around, the brake pedal still feels spongy and low.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Instead, his crop is the spongy blue-gray fungus growing on the corn cobs.
    — Jordan Nutting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Like how the wet and rotting leaves on the ground in the ravine where Jeremy plays turn everything spongy.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
  • But over the past week, this picturesque stretch of land was marred by yellow, spongy clumps that washed ashore in droves.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
  • Snow that fell earlier in the week has been shoveled off to leave the surface spongy and soft.
    — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2019
  • This terrace of spongy ground above the rainforest is home to trees that Dr. Seuss might have dreamed up.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022
  • The ground was spongy and uneven where the earth had healed over earlier deposits of garbage.
    — Seth Harp, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The exterior is crusty, but the inside is soft and spongy.
    — Betty Chavarria, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Bringing wood from home can spread eggs of spongy moths or other pests.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
  • The six-inch spongy, mesh cushion is contoured to fit your behind.
    — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2020
  • And all three showed signs of poor health: spongy, porous bone in the vaults of their skulls and the tops of their eye sockets, called cribra orbitalia.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 May 2020
  • At one stop, the Alaska scientists led Brown and his wife out on the spongy mat of tundra plants.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The line goes slack when the jig hits bottom, three turns of the reel, a twitch of the rod, and then an electric peck and 30 seconds of fun on the spongy rod and 4-pound-test.
    — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
  • That’s when its flesh is mostly likely to be both spongy and bitter.
    — Susan Russo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • British cannonballs bounced off the trees' spongy bark and the invaders couldn't get onshore.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The spongy bog lands — known as muskeg — dot the landscape beside expansive lakes and rivers.
    — Morgan Krakow, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
  • Step 1: Make the Stave Because green wood is too spongy to launch a fast arrow and dead wood breaks when bent, the ideal stave for a self bow is carefully seasoned.
    — Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023

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