Sponge in a sentence as a noun

"Often buoyant, the beads can soak up toxins like a sponge.

This is a well-known feature of the sponge construction.

I have been the victim of sponge learning for many years now, HN being part of it for about a year.

I think the guy got a $300K investment.$300K for the idea for a friggin smiley-face sponge?

If you have ever washed a car in the cold, you know that you need more than a ******* soap sprayer and a sponge.

I find it depressing how sites like that sponge value off of actual content creators.

If I told you that I had an idea to make a dish-washing sponge in the shape of a smiley face you, more than likely, would walk away laughing.

This gives rise to a common crypto protocol flaw called a "length extension attack".Unlike MD, Keccak uses a design called a "sponge function".

Sponge in a sentence as a verb

We later discovered that the common kitchen sponge works equally well as a construction material.

As someone who has spent time in the far north:Walking on tundra is like walking on a head of cabbage that is sitting on a four-inch sponge that is floating in four inches of water. The cabbage heads are all about eight inches apart.

When you step on them, they are going to twist in some unknown direction and slide your foot onto the sponge, or into the four inches of water. The really bad tundra, known as bottom, is about eight inches deep and is sitting on top of sucking mud.

A bone marrow biopsy that includes cutting a hole in the hip bone, and getting to center of the bone and extracting a sample of the sponge like tissue.

When energy propagates across such a compressible structure, it acts like a foam sponge--it deadens the vibrations.

It seems as if real estate has mutated into this hungry sponge that sucks up all surplus economic vitality from any region that experiences success.

Ah, but how can you possibly know whether the average person is innately stupid and incurious or whether school makes them that way?Anyone who spends time with small children knows that before they reach school age, they are all absurdly curious about the world, and they absorb information like a sponge.

Sponge definitions

noun

a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used

noun

someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

noun

a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

See also: leech parasite sponger

noun

primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

See also: poriferan parazoan

verb

wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

verb

ask for and get free; be a parasite

See also: mooch cadge grub

verb

erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard

verb

soak up with a sponge

verb

gather sponges, in the ocean