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"Sponge" in a Sentence (24 examples)
Please sponge the mess up off the table.
The boxing match was completely one-sided, one pug was so badly mauled that his manager had to throw in the sponge.
A sponge absorbs water.
A sponge absorbs liquids.
Sponge absorbs water so it is convenient for shading water-colours and such.
Many people think that sponge cake is difficult to bake, but if you use enough eggs, nothing can really go wrong.
The brioche is like the bastard child of sponge cake and bread, but its taste is peerless.
The brioche is like the bastard child of sponge cake and bread, but its feeling under the tongue is the best under the heavens.
I saw the sponge in the sink.
Do you use a sponge when you take a bath?
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She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.
For this reason, we need to think of our children as sponges of information and watch their sources carefully. We also need to always model appropriate behaviour, as we are a constant source of new information.
The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.
The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that spunges upon other Peoples Trenchers.
You can’t go on spunging upon the women.
He has been sponging off his friends for a month now.
“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
July 17 1735, Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Ornery I am an utter stranger to the persons and places, except when half a score come to sponge on me every Sunday evening
to sponge a breakfast
How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money?
Lett the eyes which have looked on Idols, sponge out their unlawfull acts
Why do dolphins sponge instead of foraging in a more "normal" way?
Sponging is worth thinking about in some detail because it illustrates many of the challenges and sources of controversy in studying social learning and culture in wild cetaceans.
Moreover, the females that do it seem to "sponge" relentlessly throughout the day, hunting more than other females and more than male spongers too.
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