Significados de dry sponge em inglês

Susan listened and absorbed as a dry sponge dropped into a pail of water.

His solution was to send an Inspector to wait at the spot with a dry sponge.

You might as well wring a dry sponge.

I clean the board with the dry sponge.

As time came off the clock, you started to feel the Pies were twisting a dry sponge.

The element thus introduced has spread and is spreading throughout the Soudan, as water soaks into a dry sponge.

Behind my eyes the dry sponge of a wine hangover was dulling both my eyesight and my brain synapses.

I turned to face the window, and like a bone- dry sponge soaking up water, my body absorbed the clear boundless sky.

He picked up a half dry sponge which was lying in an auto wash pail and hurled it at Townsend Ripley.

When she spoke, her voice poured through him, and against his iron will, he soaked her up like a dry sponge.

Porous foods have the structure of sponges, and like a wet versus a dry sponge, they can be elastic or brittle.

As they watched they saw the fire-or what had appeared to be fire-being drawn into the Job's Mask like liquid into a dry sponge.

His life hitherto had been like some dry sponge, dusty and crackling; now it was plunged in the waters of three seas, all incomparably sweet.

"Thompson soaks up mechanical theory and practice as a dry sponge soaks up water."

'I was dreaming,' she said, trying to force the memories back as though she was squeezing a near- dry sponge.