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Meanings of spongelike in английском

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

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Usage of spongelike in английском
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It gave him a spongelike mentality when it came to music.
Life
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Was he really thinking of God's Church, or was he quenching the thirst of a spongelike curiosity?
The Illustrated Man
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A hand that feels both spongelike and bony flaps onto his cheek and crawls up his face.
Black house
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The result is a brown, brittle, spongelike bean, with the holes in the sponge filled with carbon dioxide.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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The bottom of the valley was soggy with water, which the thick moss held, spongelike, close to the surface.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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One end of it seemed soft, porous, and spongelike-almostcrumbly-likebone that had been sucked of all its juices.
Existence
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The CRT reductions were greater in eyes with DME type subretinal detachment than in those with spongelike swelling and cystoid macular edema.
Pubmed
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The room had been sealed for centuries, dry as a bone, despite the proximity of the Grand Canal and the spongelike foundations of the city.
The chamber of ten
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This recipe will give you a brittle spongelike toffee made from sugar, filled with air bubbles that'll make it a great treat for the kids.
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Spongelike through the time