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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bath sponge

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 also discovered a royal Sevres vase for him, worth a small fortune, but he preferred a bath sponge used by Louis XIV.

From The Net by Rex Ellingwood Beach

The after-piece in Colonel Tempest's domestic drama began with tears, caused, I believe, in the first instance by a difference of opinion as to who was responsible for the earwigs in his bath sponge.

From Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley

The Captain's boy, who was fourteen, and kept his bath sponge in a rubber bag, and shaved now and then with the Captain's razor, retorted in kind.

From Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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 C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson