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

So every day I filled an old coffee can two or three times and watered around the roots of the bush, moistening the earth until it became spongy.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago