How to Use spongy in a Sentence

spongy

adjective

• 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
• 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
• When the prion was injected into the brains of mice, the brains became spongy and riddled with holes, the telltale signs of prion disease.
  — Amber Angelle, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2010

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024