bath sponge

American  

noun

1. any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.

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Example Sentences

She said the authorities asked her to bring back a glass or bath sponge or something that might have his DNA on it to potentially help identify him later.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2021

I broke out, feeling as if a hand had squeezed my heart like a bath sponge.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

I therfore went to my bathroom and filled my bath sponge with water, and threw it threw the transom in the direction of my father's bed.

From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

I arrived out of breath, my brow richly embroidered with crystal beads, just in time to find Bailey squeezing his bath sponge preparatory to packing it, in a yawning kitbag already full.

From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

Footnote 71: This does not mean mushroom, still less bath sponge, as the Dean understood it; it is the Bavarian word Schwaim, pronounced Schwam, "The Floating Shadow."

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav