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Meanings of spongy in inglés

Easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility.

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Usage of spongy in inglés
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This gas bubbles up and makes the heavy dough spongy and light.
Mother Stories from the New Testament / A Book of the Best Stori...
2
The nose had become bulbous and spongy, the eyes watery and weak.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
3
A faint spongy spot of brightness gleamed through the grey roof overhead.
Letters from High Latitudes / Being Some Account of a Voyage in ...
4
The lungs are spongy and porous, and their tissues are very elastic.
The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath
5
Gilbert trudged through this spongy support, all but losing his balance occasionally.
Tom Slade's Double Dare
6
Their porous structure and spongy morphology make them attractive in orthopedic field.
Pubmed
7
Bonnie jammed the accelerator to the floor, but the pedal felt spongy.
The witch of agnesi
8
Half-decayed wood is good; spongy, moist, unpleasant stuff, a vegetable wet blanket.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
9
Joy sliced through the gooey icing and scooped up a spongy forkful.
Fiendish deeds
10
The other socket was filled with a mass of spongy brown-black tissue.
IT
11
We called it aguyape tachangu, or lung bread, from its spongy consistency.
Indian Boyhood
12
The buffalo had calmed and were grazing on the spongy, dung-spotted turf.
Genellan: planetfall
13
What is it about the spongy treat that makes it so popular?
The Irish Times
14
Like the walls, it was spongy and gave easily to her touch.
The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
15
Pinky put her cool, sweet fingers into the other woman's spongy clasp.
Half Portions
16
A few of the punctures had pale yellow spongy bone deep inside.
Speaking in Bones
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