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• s  easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
• s  like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed

• Built from a blend of compost, mulch and spongelike materials that hold water more effectively than regular soil, the low-maintenance garden of 20,000 plantings is intended to .
• They poked their fingers into the spongelike walls of Harold Paris' Pantomina llluma, a "feelies" room containing $10,000 worth of molded, twisted and flat rubber and .
• On one point the flesh sculptors were unanimous: what plastic surgery needs is a spongelike substance that will stay soft indefinitely.

• spongy
• squashy
• squishy

Quotes

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• Eric von Schmidt in Newsday
  With that spongelike mind of his, he remembered almost all of them when he got back to New York,von Schmidt told the newspaper.