sponging
- present participle of sponge.
Example Sentences
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Alice spends her days cleaning Lady Jemima’s stinky shoes, sponging her underwear and greasing her long blonde hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
There’s a lot of scraping and sponging involved.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023
I’ve got her stool and her bucket and her towel, and I’m sponging her off on a nightly basis, sending her back into the fray.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
She’d go through five tubes a week, sponging it onto 12 to 15 pairs of shoes — a process known in ballet circles as pancaking.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2018
Then, with a thrill of horror, he realized that someone was sponging his forehead in the dark.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
