How to Use spongy in a Sentence

spongy

adjective
  • The fruit has a spongy texture.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Three spongy slabs of white bread are perfect wraps for the filets.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Their spongy, reddish bark can grow to 2 feet thick.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • One group passed out huggies, the spongy things that keep beer cans cold.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • The front of the skull has thick, spongy bone that acts as a shock absorber.
    — National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • And despite its flat look, the brownie was soft and spongy.
    — Aisha Muharrar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Monkshood and dwarf willow grow thick and spongy over the road.
    — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Bringing wood from home can spread eggs of spongy moths or other pests.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2022
  • Take this spongy, furry leaf to the stream and rub it between your hands.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The pastry is soft and spongy and the creamy filling is, well, so good.
    — Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • That’s when its flesh is mostly likely to be both spongy and bitter.
    — Susan Russo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Green and spongy, glacier mice are not really rodents at all.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2020
  • Their taste matches their smell, and the fruit is red all the way through—no tough spongy centers.
    — Brad Leone, Bon Appetit, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The six-inch spongy, mesh cushion is contoured to fit your behind.
    — Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Instead, his crop is the spongy blue-gray fungus growing on the corn cobs.
    — Jordan Nutting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Except that now, despite the new pads all around, the brake pedal still feels spongy and low.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Roasting citrus may seem at odds with the bright fruit that’s mostly juice, spongy pulp and waxy rind.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
  • But over the past week, this picturesque stretch of land was marred by yellow, spongy clumps that washed ashore in droves.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
  • An hour and a half later, Kamara tweezes out a chunk of rough, spongy bone.
    — Sophia Li, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Snow that fell earlier in the week has been shoveled off to leave the surface spongy and soft.
    — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The ground was spongy and uneven where the earth had healed over earlier deposits of garbage.
    — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Red bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside bones that produces all types of blood cells.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The bog itself is little more than a spongy carpet of moss, with a few sad trees poking out.
    — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The spongy yellow bread bleeds down into the white filling; the filling squirts out the sides.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
  • 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
  • Builders scraped away spongy peat and replaced it with gravel to throw up buildings and parking lots.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
  • Happy Easter, and hope your weekend’s not too spongy.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The roomy fit and spongy, zero-drop ride felt best on mellow trails with predictable footfalls.
    — Justin Nyberg, Outside Online, 14 May 2015

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