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

“If a city can’t handle a flood, that means it’s not spongy enough,” Yu said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 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

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