spongelike
- a word derived from sponge.
Example Sentences
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If comb jellies, with a nervous system and muscles, are the deepest branch on the animal tree, then early animals may have not been simple and spongelike.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
They processed niobium oxide into a spongelike form, made up of nanoscale tendrils shot through with micron-size pores.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2022
The researchers first modeled spongelike environments on a computer and found that varying chamber sizes would allow many different bacterial strains to thrive.
From Scientific American ● May 27, 2022
Dr. Amber Nolan points to a particularly shriveled, spongelike tip dangling from a section of the temporal lobe.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022
The spongelike carpet underneath the forest holds the water until it has had time to soak into the earth from which it later emerges as springs.
From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
