How To Use Sponge In A Sentence

We were like sponges; we absorbed knowledge eagerly after the ten-year void.
I dont know what these people keep talking about I bought sham wow and it SUCKS it just pushed the liquid around and did NOT absorb it at all, its a piece of crap use real car shammies, paper towels, sponges, or regular dishrags and you'd get way better results. Undefined
Mosely constructed a level three Menger sponge—in other words, a sponge after three iterations of cube removal figure F. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
Have a cool shower bath or a sponge bath when the temperature is high.
CJD results in the brain literally being turned into sponge-like, hole-filled tissue (the reason the disease is also known as spongiform encephalopathy). Organic Consumers Association News Headlines

The vagina and its neighbors, including the following: vagina, hymen, urethral sponge, fornix (part of the vagina), cervix, os (part of the cervix), and pubococcygeus (PC) muscle. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
Marine sponges are an essential and highly diverse component of marine benthic communities, ranging from the euryhaline estuarine, to intertidal, to the deep-sea.
Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
And we have studies looking at organisms from sponges to sharks, looking at the food chain, both on the bottom of the ocean and also on the extreme layer of - a very thin layer called the neuston, the very surface of the ocean. Assessing The BP Spill's Impact
In budding, aggregates of cells differentiate into small sponges that are released superficially or expelled through the oscula.
Eating in means busing your tray to a windowless back room outfitted with children's school chairs and communal tables pushed up against sponge-painted walls.
Once inside we had the opportunity to gaze out onto the reef past a thick pelmet of black gorgonians and a window box of orange elephant ear sponges.
After you untack your horse, use water (warm water, if it is available) to sponge off the areas that have become sweaty - the saddle area, chest, and behind the tail are the areas where your horse is most likely to sweat.
If your child's temperature rises, sponge her down gently with tepid water.
All sorts of casseroles, stews and braised dishes work well cooked in just one pot, but you can also consider soup for starters and steamed or baked sponge pudding afterwards.
I sit on my grandmother's knee eating sponge cake warm from the oven.
Open incisions are packed with sterile, saline-soaked laparotomy sponges and then covered with sterile drapes.
This sponge doesn't soak up water very well.
We sponged down the walls to get the worst of the dirt off.
However, passive organic matter acts much like a sponge, holding a lot of water.
Today, thanks to overfishing and synthetic sponge manufacture, only five local boats operate. Times, Sunday Times
Spoon the marmalade over the bready sponge, covering the whole surface, and then pile the meringue on top. Times, Sunday Times
Cassata cake, sometimes called cannoli cake in the U.S., combines layers of sponge cake with a chocolate - and fruit-studded filling, all covered with a thick frosting and garnished with candy or fruit. The Daily News - News
It's hard to do justice to the succulence of the pears in light frangipane sponge, encased in triumphant, well-fired, crunchy pastry.
Apply a thin layer with a brush on the long sides of the pink and plain sponge strips. Times, Sunday Times
The nurse sponged up the blood from the wound.
She gave the floor a vigorous sponge all over.
The spicules are some crutch-like, others spined or echinated, while the deep-sea sponges appear to grow long thick spicules, which attach the sponge to the ground by means of grapnel-like ends. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
Using a damp cloth, I carefully sponged the days-old sweat from her body while Blood Thorn sat to one side, a beautifully carved trencher in his lap, spooning food to her by the bite. Fire The Sky
Sponges and corals grew on rises in this sea, forming reefs that divided up parts of this sea into isolated lagoons.
MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
To prevent water spots, blot dry with a chamois or a damp cellulose sponge.
Dumping shampoo and conditioner on my head, I squirted some shower gel on a sponge and scrubbed the grime off my body.
This will make the sponge nice and moist. The Sun
It is a typical Catalan affair: a lobster and rice stew, cuttlefish black in their own ink, grilled prawns, bread rubbed with tomato and drizzled with oil, and, to finish, a Cadaqués speciality, "taps" - sweet, very light plain sponge cakes bought from a patisserie around the headland that morning. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
But would anyone turn up their nose at a wedge of fresh home-baked Victoria sponge, sandwiched with a generous splodge of farmhouse strawberry jam and dairy cream?
Some organisms, including sponges, barnacles, and encrusting coralline algae, can, however, survive overgrowth, without apparent damage, for indeterminate periods of time or may even benefit from being overgrown.
When the University of California, Berkeley announced this fall it was cutting funding for its venerable 118-year-old baseball team, the program was a money-sucking sponge that drew few fans and even fewer sponsors to its no-frills campus ballyard. The Cal Baseball Resurrection
Below the ocean surface lies an even greater diversity of life, replete with corals, sponges and barnacles, as well as icefish and toothfish (sea bass) - two commercially important and overfished species.
Sponges make up 70% of their diet with the rest of their diet consisting of gorgonian polyps, other invertebrates, and algae. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
Turtles, green and hawksbill, still browse among the sponges and coral of the reefs.
We have precursors: modern choanoflagellates show that protists can find selective advantage in transient assemblies, colonial organisms show the virtues of more permanent arrangements, and creatures like sponges exhibit cooperativity and specialization in internal function. Planet Atheism
dendriform sponges
It passes through a sponge where mechanical and biological filtration takes place, and is then passed back on to the water.
Spoon sponge mix between pudding basins. The Sun
When she was out of the room her mother laid down her sponge and sighed, her hands aching and the soap wrinkling her skin.
We filled pots to cook pasta with and to heat up for sponge baths. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the corridors should be lined with those people who race out with cold wet sponges during marathons? Times, Sunday Times
Spread half the mascarpone cream on top of the sponge fingers. Times, Sunday Times
Men once more donned their pinnies in the kitchen when 15 of them were challenged to make Victoria sponges in the cake baking category.
Rossiter in this autumn of 1917 was extremely interested in certain crucial experiments he was making with spiculum in sponge-cells; with scleroblasts, "mason-cells," osteoblasts, and "consciousness" in bone-cells. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
The cake was a delicious creation of sponge, cream and fruit.
Some of the best known bioeroders are large organisms such as parrotfish and sponges, but much of the bioerosion occurs at the microscopic scale by organisms such as algae and fungi. Coral reef
The ancient sponges provided much of the backbone of the undersea reef structures.
The nasal tampon, drawing experience from the advantages of synthetic sponge is chemically pure (vinylic polymer), biocompatible, anallergic and non cytotoxic
She ate scones thick with butter and newly made strawberry jam, victoria sponge, eccles cakes, potted meat sandwiches, ginger parkin. THE GOLDEN LION
Place the final layer of sponge on the top and dust with icing sugar. The Sun
More than one billion germs can grow in a damp sponge after just one day of use. The Sun
He's like a sponge for knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
Get rid of the water in the tank by flushing, then bail out the water that is in the bowl using a plunger to force the rest of the water into the bowl, then mop it up with sponges.
Sprinkle the crumble mixture over the sponge, then add a scattering of almonds. The Sun
Do not overbake the sponge or it will be difficult to roll up. Times, Sunday Times
The free-swimming larva settles and undergoes metamorphosis into a juvenile sponge.
I stripped and hopped in, taking my shampoo, conditioner, body wash, toothbrush and paste and sponge with me.
‘Oh, you know,’ Jesse said, ‘cleaning bedpans, giving patients sponge baths.’
This was typical Red Sea diving, rich with corals and sponges and teeming with fish, one coral head housing a couple of morays that had been there for more than 11 years.
It's more likely, however, that you will vow to defend heavy sponge cake and good old-fashioned unironic jam. Times, Sunday Times
This dive is better in the deeper section, where large gorgonian seafans stretch out into the current, surrounded by large numbers of fish, corals, invertebrates, and some huge barrel sponges.
Most warm-season grasses develop thatch, a spongelike layer of roots, runners, and grass blades just above the soil surface.
In comparison to known species of the genus, Rhopalocoelia bachuensis, is a relatively larger and broader obconical sponge.
Common brick is like a sponge, absorbing water and wicking moisture to the chimney interior.
The other side was covered in soapy sponge which he proceeded to jab into my left eye without warning.
Most major food shops sell really buttery plain sponge cakes.
Then, she put in two puddings, and two spoons along with two pieces of chocolate sponge cake and called it good.
Making up the bed begins with offering a bedpan and includes a sponge bath and a change of clothes, so both the patient and the bedsheets start out fresh and clean with every change. Marki Flannery: 40 Steps to Making a Bed... And Other Lessons in Caregiving
More than one billion germs can grow in a damp sponge after just one day of use. The Sun
If the surface seemed a bit bumpy or uneven, they used a small wet sponge to carefully smooth the clay's surface.
Carmen forgave him, but she did not forget, and in the meanwhile she was absorbing information like a sponge. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
There are beautiful branching deep-sea corals in yellow, brown and white, also deep sponges, cutthroat eels, rattail fish, red crabs, luminescent purple shimmering squid and other life abundant amidst the marine snow, organic detritus falling from above. David Helvarg: 9/11 From 200 miles Out at Sea
Lapebie P, Renard E, Bezac C, Boury-Esnault N, et al. (2008) NK homeobox genes with choanocyte-specific expression in homoscleromorph sponges. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
You could, of course make your own sponge cake for this simple ice cream dessert.
You haven't lived until you see a sponge inhaling and exhaling clouds of phosphorescent trace chemicals.
The message from the Committee is if you watch the picture please pay up and don't be a sponger.
Finally, polish the tiles with soapy water and a rag or sponge to remove the dried-on film of grout.
Sandwich the two halves of the sponge together with cream.
Put newspaper on the floor, find a big bib, and stand by with sponges.
I zoom round the other divers seeking good camera angles, lining up divers with outcrops of coral and sponges, then flitting on to catch shoals of grunts and jacks and all the usual reef fish.
The applicator is a brush (which I happen to prefer over sponge tip!) and not only does it impart a high shine, it is pigmented too. My Women Stuff
It passes through a sponge where mechanical and biological filtration takes place, and is then passed back on to the water.
Sponges have an internal skeleton composed of needle-like elements called spicules, which can be composed of calcium carbonate, opaline silica, or fibres of the scleroprotein spongin.
Some species also form internal buds, called gemmules, which can survive extremely unfavorable conditions that cause the rest of the sponge to die.
Once he had been sponged and dressed by silent attendants, Hakida had lead him to a carriage and ushered him inside, then on the bumpy ride to the Vistula Temple beneath black clouds informed him of what he was to do.
But the specialized life history and ecology of sponge-dwelling shrimps foster long-term occupation of specific nest sites by multigenerational family groups.
Starr's basic method for the past couple of years has been to pour acrylic paint - many gallons of it - directly into a variety of big, industrial sponges.
But the head should be rubbed by the sponge until it is quite dry; the extremities should be protected from cold, as also the head and the rest of the body; and a man should not be washed immediately after he has taken a draught of ptisan or a drink; neither should he take ptisan as a drink immediately after the bath. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
The sponges are large, obconical to conical-cylindrical, with dermal surface marked by irregular, horizontal, annulations or nodes and closely spaced, thin, longitudinal ridges.
Be a sponge - absorb as much inspiration as you can from watching other artists perform.
The correct consistency of the cake is a light sponge on top with a wet custard below. Times, Sunday Times
Line the walls of a cake tin with sponge fingers. The East India Company Book of Coffee
The Flonker carries a 2-3 foot long stick (or Driveller) on the end of which is a beer sodden sponge (or dwile). Lily Bevan: Dwyle Flunking, Cheese Rolling & Face Gurning ... Halloween Alternatives From the UK
Please use the sponge applicator provided.
The subdued hues of the soft corals and sponges and the shimmering fish flirting along the reef edge made a stunning spectacle.
A vanilla sponge with a hint of rosewater; a shallow almond torte with domes of apricot peeking through the crust; a blueberry battercake or perhaps a Swiss roll with a filling of cream rippled with crushed raspberries. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
When I was younger, my mum used to feed the pink and yellow sponge cake to me on a weekly basis. Times, Sunday Times
Sydney - A flat-faced frogfish with a psychedelic pattern and a "killer" carnivorous sponge are among the top 10 new species discovered in 2009, according to a committee of international scientists. News24 Top Stories
I cleaned and scrubbed, washed and purified, showered and bathed and sponged and splashed.
Managers from the branch sat in the stocks outside being pelted with wet sponges, and firefighters turned up with a hose to give them a soaking.
Spread the lemon curd onto another sponge and sandwich on top. Times, Sunday Times
There were dense walls of soft corals, sponges, anemones and hydroids, nudibranchs, creepy-crawlies and lots of fish.
Dirt, weeds and sawdust adhere to the paint, forming porous cavities and rough, spongelike surfaces.
Barbara declared afterwards, was magnificent, and plodded her way through bread sponges flavoured with soup, assuring the distressed cook that it was really quite remarkable "potage," and that she had never tasted anything like it before -- all of which, of course, was perfectly true. Barbara in Brittany
Hiding in a red sponge I found a little blenny which modelled for me like a professional.
The early Cambrian fossil record is characterized by unique skeletal assemblages that include the spongelike archaeocyathans and a number of mostly problematic small skeletal elements, known collectively as small shelly fossils.
He survived on a diet of custard and sponge cake. Times, Sunday Times
No distinct difference was perceptible; certainly none in the degree of incurvation; but the incurvation round the bits of sponge lasted rather longer, as might perhaps have been expected from the sponge remaining damp and supplying nitrogenous matter for a longer time. Insectivorous Plants
Predatory snails, including Oyster Drills, whelks, sponges, especially the Boring Sponges, and fish all find oysters a tasty treat.
Although no scientific studies are available to support these claims, clinicians report that thin layers of slough or fibrin buildup on the wound bed can be covered with a selective enzymatic debriding agent prior to sponge application.
Theres another hill, though, at the edge of town, called the Midlands, where new housing developments are continually springing up; not-there, and then there, like those toy sponges that are paper flat until you put them in water. The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
Reef gardens are embellished with scarlet and orange staircase sponges and feathery gorgonian fans with their bright yellow branches. Brenda Peterson: Gulf Oil Spill Meets Dead Zone: What Lies Beneath
Mrs Martin was a widow and a washerwoman, and had a ne'er-do-well brother, a fisherman, who frequently "sponged" upon her. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea
When you're ready to make the jam, rinse and clean your jars with soap and water and a sponge.
The Gogo reef was a different kind of reef, no symbiosis between polyp and algae, more a community of sponges and sea mosses that formed hard skeletons.
For this manicure you will need a wedge makeup sponge, a palette, and a glitter polish.
Behind that is a deep balfour retractor, which is used on belly cases and in the front are some various hemostatic clamps, probably sponge tips and allises. These Cakes Are Not Wrecks (But They Play Them on TV)
Keep a bucket of soapy water and a second sponge to clean the exterior window sill.
The 32-year-old Iraqi-American actress calls herself a ‘sponge’, listening, soaking up and regurgitating stories.
Like the corals and sponges, many of these fish are long-lived and slow to mature.
The other main component I use is an ordinary household sponge, or synthetic sponge.
Jade and Pearl shapes natural sea sponges to fit a woman's body, absorbing flow and likewise averting the dilemma of throwaways, synthetic fibers and bleaching.
One pint each milk and emptins liquid yeast, laid into flour, in sponge; next morning add one pound butter melted, not hot, and knead into as much flour as will with another pint of warmed milk, be of a sufficient consistence to make soft—some melt the butter in the milk. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Apply a thin layer with a brush on the long sides of the pink and plain sponge strips. Times, Sunday Times
For a stronger flavour, sprinkle the sponge biscuits with orange juice and extra Cointreau.
You may as well wear sponges for shoes. The Sun
Pupils queued up to pay to chuck wet sponges at their teachers and all the money raised went to Comic Relief.
Muttering under his breath, he gets a sponge from the kitchen and starts mopping up the wine from the table before it can spill onto the floor.
Bright green jewel anemones grow out of orange sponges, and anemones are squeezed into oval shapes by the competition.
While taking his customary siesta one afternoon, a wild young fellow -- one of his noble poor relations, who "sponged" at the castle -- happened to pass along a corridor outside of the very hall where his Highness was snoring. Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home
They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all creation, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he met a cad with a pipe. Finnegans Wake
Gently she sponged the sweat from his brow, half hoping the coolness might revive him.
You should try to sponge out the memory of the accident.
Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living in the Weddell Sea provide new insights into the evolution of ocean life. May 16th, 2007
Use sponge applicator to custom blend and apply makeup Wear daily.
The species is represented in our collections by small anthaspidellid sponges that range from stalked individuals that expand upward as broadly to steeply obconical forms, to more rare simple branched forms.
Then, dip the sponge into the glaze and then blot off all extra paint with newspaper or paper towels.
Known as the sponge test, it involves swallowing a capsule attached to a piece of string. Times, Sunday Times
The colors can be mixed together or left separate ... it can be applied with a watercolor brush, stipple brush or stamping sponge and works great with pigment inks (think craft ink pads), embossing or VersaMark Inks. It can also be mixed with Lumiere (another former Stampin 'Up product) for a cool shimmery effect. Outsmarting technology...
I threw my spongebag with too much force into the suitcase. Whip Hand
I remember writing on a slate and rubbing it off with a sponge, and learning to write using what was called a copybook.
The PVC based cloth is spongeable making it easy to maintain.
Dab out excess water on a paper towel and twist sponge as you apply the color to the page.
One way of removing built up floor wax manually, is to mix detergent and ammonia with water and apply to the floor with a mop or sponge.
Althouse: "He is the one with the 'L' on his pyjamas and spongebag. "He is the one with the 'L' on his pyjamas and spongebag."
Do not soak them; mushrooms absorb water like sponges.
I'm talking about soap, detergent, sponges, mops, dusters, disinfectant wipes, and so on.
A cowfish, a triggerfish, the harlequin Picasso fish, a drifting sponge—all these lives were being lived out, every day, as they always had been. The Shell Collector : Stories
Exterior walls are gridded and perforated, resembling 3 - D graph paper or the cells of a sponge.
Dumping shampoo and conditioner on my head, I squirted some shower gel on a sponge and scrubbed the grime off my body.
It's a light coffee mousse over a dark, rich coffee gelatin with a bit of genoise sponge cake at the bottom.
The cake should be a light sponge on top with a wet custard below. Times, Sunday Times
Some crabs actively seek anemones and sponges as epibionts that may be used for camouflage, and in some cases, as an emergency meal.
The blood stains have been sponged out of the floor.
Although women in the 19th century, when Sanger was born, practiced contraception through various means -- sponges, pessaries and coitus interruptus among them -- none were particularly effective. The pill: Making motherhood better for 50 years
Perhaps the corridors should be lined with those people who race out with cold wet sponges during marathons? Times, Sunday Times
Amid the coral and sponge branches you will find hamlets, basslets, parrotfish and moray eels.
That huge sums could be diverted to those in genuine need - not least the mentally ill - if the spongers were stopped seems to fall on deaf ears.
In Australia, bottlenose dolphins place sponges over their snouts as protection from the spines of stonefish and stingrays as they forage over shallow seabeds.
I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally cov - ered it over with cotton wadding and carbolized bandages. Sole Music
These zooxanthellae may be found in many marine invertebrates, including sponges, corals, jellyfish, and flatworms, as well as within protists, such as ciliates, foraminiferans, and colonial radiolarians.
Sponge the glass, then clean with a dry cloth.
Â It has foam sponge-like bristles and the head is split so it fits right over the rim of a wine glass. Mary Orlin: 12 Wine-Inspired Holiday Gifts
While they did include some of my favorites like the new king of kiddie toons, SpongeBob, Homer, Beavis and Butthead and Cartman, they included some questionable choices and left off the cream of the crop.
A Coast Guardsman, wanting to memorialize his role in fighting the spill, asked for a tattoo of SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoon character, standing knee-deep in oil. Adrift in oil, then money
And that's too bad, because an apathetic teacher sucks all the air out of the room, transforming the sponge-like brains of enthusiastic students into bored and lumpen rocks. Linda Flanagan: Why Bad Teachers Are Good for Kids
These micro-organisms are found in just a few pieces of amber among the thousands that have been studied, but show a remarkable diversity: unicellular algae, mainly diatoms found in large numbers, traces of animal plankton, such as radiolaria and a foraminifer, spiny skeletons of sponges and of echinoderms. Signs of the Times
Soon I was looking at vivid red sponges in the overhangs at the base of the reef, along with peacock worms and the squirrelfish which have successfully invaded the eastern Mediterranean from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal.
Maybe a little comfort sponge pud afterwards? Times, Sunday Times
Juices from these foods land on your countertops and you use sponges and dishcloths to clean up the bacteria.
Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes or until the sponge turns golden and feels slightly springy when pressed. Times, Sunday Times
Elephant ear coral, fan corals and huge barrel sponges all made a fairytale seascape.
In the cookery section, you can bring along those apple tarts, sponge flans, cheese cake, fruit loaves, brown scones, white scones, brown bread, white bread and jams.
The walls were covered in sponges and a few anemones but the beauty of the cave lay in its long, narrow shape.
You will often find other forms of polyzoa in clear ponds and mill-pools; sometimes you would suppose you were looking at a mass of sponge, as in the case of Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
SPONGE stresses the parasitic laziness, dependence, and opportunism of the cadger a shiftless sponge, always looking for a handout. Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
The "balling" of this sponge into three loaves is a task that occupies from ten to fifteen minutes. The Iron Puddler
They brought the incubator in and as soon as Ty cut her umbilical cord, and they sponged her off a bit, then took her away.
We cannot see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth. No to the Nazis
When the boys got spongelike, they went and transformers the movie up the atmosphere greasily the padova and thirstily benzenoid to me to flooring me how uncontested they were. Rational Review
Between 1859 and 1866, he worked on many "invertebrate" groups, including radiolarians, poriferans (sponges) and annelids (segmented worms).
She painted and stencilled, and stippled and sponged and gilded until the house became a jewel. Times, Sunday Times
The rattle of a pudding bowl in the steamer ensures that, two hours later, you have a glorious coconut and jam sponge pudding that evokes childhood.
She looked down and reluctantly sponged off her hands.
Solitary in nature, the trunkfish blows water out of its mouth to expose prey such as mollusks, crustaceans, worms, and sponges.
The nurse sponged up the blood from the wound.
The equipment need only be a sponge filter, air pump and heaterstat.
Maggie is quite horrifyingly selfish and happy to sponge off Ella while she susses out the situation.
- After pressing: Tile edges are fettled and in the case of plastic-pressed products press seams are cut and sponged. 8. Finishing and quality control
It's easy to color, virtually as long-lasting as horsehide - I know of plenty of 50-year-old cowhide holsters still serviceable - but soaks up water like a sponge if unfinished.
Arrowroot, a major cash crop, is used in desserts, including arrowroot sponge cake and arrowroot custard.
MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
All papers are spongeable and have a moderate light fastness.

How To Use Sponge In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):