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

• Four-inch-long, heavy-duty needles puncture the bone repeatedly in order to tap into the marrow, which comes out as a bright red spongy fluid.
• Stod King and Zo Elliott wrote a song and when they did their act in Boston, the other Zets stopped pounding with their beer mugs, stopped moulding spongy biscuit-insides to pelt .
• The house specialty is that sublime Sri Lankan staple, the hoppera wafer-thin, bowl-shaped pancake with a crisp surround and soft spongy center.

• squashy
• squishy
• spongelike

News & Articles

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• Go ahead, overcook that eggplant
  In its natural state, eggplant is tough, spongy and bitter — pretty vile, all in all. Generally, vegetables (especially ones with a reputation for being vile) do not benefit from overcooking — think fetid Brussels sprouts, gray peas, floppy asparagus. Eggplant is the opposite: Its unpleasantness is directly correlated with how undercooked it is. I would rather go hungry than eat a grill-marked ...
  June 18, 2013 - The Columbian

Quotes

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• Sir Alex Ferguson in USA Today
  Yesterday it looked spongy and dead and difficult to move the ball about on it,Ferguson said. "What I didn't want was to go into extra time with my strongest squad. So we had to go with the bold decision of playing the younger ones. This...
• Graham Henry in WalesOnline
  The only rugby they can play other than this is club football and guys are more suspect playing club football than they are on these good grounds because they often play on grounds which are very wet and spongy,he said. "Tom's got a foot...
• Michael Mukasey in The Carpetbagger Report
  He is a particular idol of mine for his clear writing and complete disdain for cant,Judge Mukasey told a reporter for The Financial Times in 1989, not long after becoming a judge. "I try to recognize when some spongy abstraction is trying...