| In this group, the cortex of the os sacrum was destroyed and had a spongelike rather than compact appearance. |
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| Most warm-season grasses develop thatch, a spongelike layer of roots, runners, and grass blades just above the soil surface. |
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| Dirt, weeds and sawdust adhere to the paint, forming porous cavities and rough, spongelike surfaces. |
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| Its tree and plant roots, its dead leaves and topsoil, hold a great deal of water in their spongelike mass. |
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| Zucker is spongelike in his ability to soak up information, and he is learning quickly. |
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| Gangue remains in the spongelike product, known as direct-reduced iron, or DRI, and must be removed in a subsequent steelmaking process. |
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| Farm cattle had been fed there for many years with animal fodder from the ground sheep corpses, which had suffered from scrapy, a spongelike brain damage. |
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| The boxwork may be spongelike, triangular, pyramidal, diamondlike, or irregular in shape and may be coloured various shades of ochre and orange through dark brown. |
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| Over the centuries the decomposing remnants of plants form giant peat domes some 10 to 25 kilometers in diameter, spongelike cushions that rises several metres above sea level. |
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