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Synonyms & Antonyms for spongy
Synonyms
flabby, mushy, pulpy, soft, squashy, squishy, squooshy
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The warm octopus with fresh mozzarella—at first, a dubious pairing—works because the spongy textures of both are perked up by the lemon vinaigrette on which they are nestled. — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, "Jean-Georges’s Revisionist Tweaks at the Fulton," 19 July 2019 The spongy bog lands — known as muskeg — dot the landscape beside expansive lakes and rivers. — Morgan Krakow, Washington Post, "People have unknowingly come face to face with two teens on the lam in Canada, suspected of murder," 31 July 2019 The park tweaks the skyscraper’s formality with funky plantings, spongy blue-green play surfaces and rustic play areas. — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, "The dull blocks west of Navy Pier get an engaging park: Will it be loved to death?," 31 July 2019 The condiments somehow remain slicked to the rubbery dog, contained by a straining jacket of spongy bun, wrapped in napkins and stacked side by side in a box that also has room for a bag of chips and a drink. — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, "Flo’s hot dogs are a vacation in a bun," 23 July 2019 The spongy, hollow, honeycombed little weirdos are the Cadillacs (or the Teslas, depending on your generation) of mushrooms. — Allyson Reedy, The Know, "Extremely rare, coveted mushrooms that only appear after a wildfire are popping up in southern Colorado," 18 July 2019 All that exertion results in a floral, spongy-looking cloud that takes no effort to inhale. — Bill Addison, latimes.com, "Choose your own dining adventure at stunning new Auburn," 3 July 2019 Blue, which is non-iridescent, actually has three separate layers: an outer keratin covering, a spongy middle section and an interior layer of melanosomes, as National Geographic's Greshko notes. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "Scientists Identify Blue Hues in Fossilized Bird Feathers for the First Time," 28 June 2019 In a serene, spongy wetland in Voyageurs National Park, a remote quilt of forests and lakes that blankets northern Minnesota, Tom Gable is investigating a violent slaying. — Ben Goldfarb, National Geographic, "The secret lives of fish-eating, beaver-ambushing wolves of Minnesota," 21 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'spongy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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