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

Its paint peeled, and its original wooden floors turned spongy.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 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

She stepped over spongy leaves and moss, into the woods where the sparrows sang nesting songs in delicate relays.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich