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noun

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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How to use bath sponge in a sentence

Then I see all those couples quarreling in Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
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You can not see anything in there, until it magically emerges in the developing bath.
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Swift hopes that playing the victim, the perky sponge of “hate,” sells.
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It was now safely back in its cage, although the chancellor sometimes let it play in the bath, he said.
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Wikipedia has an entire entry on medicinal clays, though many are of the mud-bath variety.
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But some one, perhaps it was Robert, thought of a bath at that mystic hour and under that mystic moon.
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Aristide called on Madame Coquereau, who entertained him with sweet Frontignan wine, dry sponge cakes and conversation.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan, "Come and ask me about it to-morrow, because I'm going to wash."
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When partially exhausted the aluminum shutters are dipped into a bath of shellac.
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Enjoying the keen physical pleasure of it, he thought what a wholly delightful thing was a hot bath after a day's hard hunting.
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