spongy
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It is black and slimy, white and fuzzy, or green and spongy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
In forests, peat is an accumulation of spongy, highly flammable, carbon-rich material formed over time through the decomposition of plant matter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
"The discovery indicates that perhaps the first sponges were spongy but not glassy," Xiao said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
“If a city can’t handle a flood, that means it’s not spongy enough,” Yu said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
I land with a wet thunk onto a spongy surface.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
For years, most researchers agreed that sponges were the sister group of the first animals, suggesting a simpler, spongier forebear.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
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
