spongy
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During winter, when trees and shrubs have lost their leaves, the insects' oothecae, brown, spongy egg cases measuring about 2 to 3 cm, become easy to spot on branches.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
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
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
The dirt of the path was spongy and pungent with yesterday’s rain.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Among the efforts to make the city spongier — and therefore less dependent on imported water — is the Safe Clean Water Program, which L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Defrosted, it expels most of its water, allowing it to soak up sauce and take on a spongier, meatier texture that's sandwich-worthy.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2023
Farther down, ferns grew spongier leaves that were damp to the touch.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
My insides felt like the roof of my mouth, but warmer and spongier.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2019
Hip-hop has never seen a spongier musician than Drake, just one of the reasons that he’s among music’s most divisive stars.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2017
When a church supper was toward, she was always called upon for her wonderful mayonnaise dressing, or her angel-food cake,—sure to be the lightest and spongiest in any assemblage of cakes.
From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather
