How to Use spongy in a Sentence

spongy

adjective

• Bold spices, lush sauces and lots of sour and spongy carbs.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2022
• The front of the skull has thick, spongy bone that acts as a shock absorber.
  — National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
• Three spongy slabs of white bread are perfect wraps for the filets.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• The pastry is soft and spongy and the creamy filling is, well, so good.
  — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022
• Monkshood and dwarf willow grow thick and spongy over the road.
  — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
• Take this spongy, furry leaf to the stream and rub it between your hands.
  — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
• Odile would put these spongy rings in my hair to form a base, and then apply pieces on top.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
• Three folding chairs were spaced 6 feet apart on the spongy soil in front of the grave — one for each of Tessie’s children.
  — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 13 Apr. 2020
• The spongy yellow bread bleeds down into the white filling; the filling squirts out the sides.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
• Instead, his crop is the spongy blue-gray fungus growing on the corn cobs.
  — Jordan Nutting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2020
• Snow that fell earlier in the week has been shoveled off to leave the surface spongy and soft.
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2019
• This terrace of spongy ground above the rainforest is home to trees that Dr. Seuss might have dreamed up.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022
• The ground was spongy and uneven where the earth had healed over earlier deposits of garbage.
  — Seth Harp, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• The exterior is crusty, but the inside is soft and spongy.
  — Betty Chavarria, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• Bringing wood from home can spread eggs of spongy moths or other pests.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
• The six-inch spongy, mesh cushion is contoured to fit your behind.
  — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2020
• And all three showed signs of poor health: spongy, porous bone in the vaults of their skulls and the tops of their eye sockets, called cribra orbitalia.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 May 2020
• The line goes slack when the jig hits bottom, three turns of the reel, a twitch of the rod, and then an electric peck and 30 seconds of fun on the spongy rod and 4-pound-test.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 20 Feb. 2020
• British cannonballs bounced off the trees' spongy bark and the invaders couldn't get onshore.
  — Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
• The spongy bog lands — known as muskeg — dot the landscape beside expansive lakes and rivers.
  — Morgan Krakow, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• Roasting citrus may seem at odds with the bright fruit that’s mostly juice, spongy pulp and waxy rind.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
• Fatty, spongy organs such as the brain, which is about 75 percent water, are among the first to go.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2020
• But some of your baby pumpkins are getting spongy and gross!
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 23 Aug. 2018
• Nobody wants their cake soggy or their ice cream spongy.
  — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 1 May 2018
• In these ecosystems, peat builds up as spongy dark soil that’s sometimes referred to as sod or turf.
  — Julie Loisel, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
• By far, the most common cause of spongy turf is too good of care that promotes excessive growth.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2021
• Crumpets are small, round griddled breads that are thin with a spongy texture.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2021
• That process, plus the addition of miso, resulted in a bun that was soft, spongy and sturdy.
  — Jenn Harris Senior Food Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• The seating is topped with thick, spongy cushions that are offered in four colors: beige, blue, gray, and red.
  — Daria Smith, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2022
• Green and spongy, glacier mice are not really rodents at all.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024