sponginess

IPA: spˈʌndʒinʌs

Examples of "sponginess" in Sentences

My skull can sense the ugly sponginess of my brain.
The subtle flavor of olive oil is a nice surprise, as is the slight sponginess.
The frozen vessels had lost their sponginess, no longer sprung back after she touched them.
Simon might be able to compensate for the sponginess of the breasts with skilful cooking but I couldn't.
Midway through the intense fire fight, resources were ordered to discontinue ventilation efforts because of the noticed "sponginess" of the roof.
Taken as a whole, the loaf should have a certain sponginess, which is known as its elasticity, and which is evidenced by the way in which the loaf acts when it is pressed slightly out of shape.
Aloha suddenly became palpable and thus much more real — the odd sponginess of the cold wet earth, neither clayey nor sandy; the frail stringy resistance of the webby brown biofilms before he plucked them off his trouser legs or jacket sleeves.
I remembered there's a long history of people in high-pressure jobs using stimulants when their brains lost their sponginess: Anthony Eden was taking Benzedrine all through the Suez Crisis, and Jean-Paul Sartre wrote several of his novels while pumped on mescaline.