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Sentence Examples She suffers from an extreme form of hemangioma, which causes a spongy eruption of the skin. It commonly appears as a spongy mass because of the three-dimensional meshwork. Bake in a bain-marie in the oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until slightly puffed-up and spongy. White blood cells are produced by the bone marrow, the soft spongy centre of bones. The stage was marvellously decorated to look like a shabby pub with its bar stools, spongy seats, Guinness mirrors and jukebox. The meshwork of the outer shell appears to be a spongy layer and finely interwoven. Leaf mesophyll is differentiated into palisade and spongy parenchyma, epidermis is already formed. Within spongy layers of sea ice, microscopic algae bloom in profusion as sunlight floods in from above. The bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis, has a spongy pulp that when dried is the source of the glucosidal drug colocynth. The disease causes these tubercles to become yellow and spongy and coughing fits causes them to be spat out by the sufferer. Roxie began uncapping a mauve colored lip gloss, sliding the small spongy tip across her lips. Bone marrow is a spongy tissue inside certain bones of the body that produces blood cells. In some cases the use of chemical texturizers may cause color treated tresses to become brittle, spongy or break off. Prions deposit plaque that kills brain cells, leaving spongy holes in the brain. Tony, an avid collector of spongy penguins given out at various Linux events, now thinks computers were created by penguins, or vice versa. They wanted to disentangle themselves from the soft, spongy webs that had grown around them and the way they went about it was very silly. On the ground, climbing fern creates tough, spongy mats that can easily smother grasses, low-growing shrubs, and small trees. They have a spongy quality without precise texture and there is a sense that one can penetrate more or less deeply into them. Chinchilla cloth is a heavy, spongy woolen overcoat fabric with a long nap that has been rubbed into a curly, nubby finish. We have finished the Saltines and the instant oatmeal and even the spongy graham crackers left over from before summer. Show More Sentences The sporophytes also develop opercula, peristomes, continuous columella, and a spongy layer between the amphithecium and the spore mass. The bits of cellophane still attached provide an interesting textural contrast to the spongy dough and stringy cheese. She called the ugly fat water snakes her little chickabiddies, and let them crawl and sprawl about on her spongy bosom. Like all the short bones, those of the tarsus are composed of a mass of spongy tissue surrounded by a thin and papyraceous layer of compact. At the end of this pregnancy period, the egg is laid fairly painlessly, thanks to the spongy and slightly compressible shell. The pair split up, Det Supt Higgins heading into Brandsby wood across the spongy forest floor strewn with pine needles and fallen branches. At the centre of Ethiopian food is injera, a giant spongy pancake that's used instead of utensils. It looked quite fishy, but no fish I know wobbles back and forth in spongy fashion when you try to cut it. The spongy fabric is loose and tetrahedral, with rather irregular pores in size and shape. Lambsdown is a heavy knit fabric that has a spongy fleeced nap on one side. A spongy or corky material fills the base of the perigynia in these and related Carex species. The trees have two to four inch thick trunks of corklike material which was very soft and spongy inside with a green colored bark on the outside. The brown, fluted seeds are found inside a round spongy fruit that grows in clusters on the bush. I am much more likely to turn to the soda bread, or maybe the spongy, airy focaccia. The wool fibers have crimps or curls which create pockets and gives the wool a spongy feel and creates insulation for the wearer. The underlying bone is spongy too resulting in a smooth frictionless joint. During such movement, oil molecules diffused into the cytoplasm of both palisade and spongy cells. There are delicate, glistening gyoza and spongy Chinese-style buns stuffed to order with cucumbers and more of that juicy shredded pork. They should be able to play on any surface, from the dust bowl of Ahmedabad to the zippy track at Durban to the spongy drop-ins at Hamilton. Its skin was like spongy neoprene rubber, the stuff wetsuits are made from, and its eyes were just so peedie for such a big animal. Show More Sentences While the sauce for the chicken korma was mild and creamy, the texture of the meat, I'm sorry to say, was unpleasantly chewy and spongy. The finest recipes omit the semolina, giving an extra spongy result. She ran across the spongy ground, her feet sinking and sliding in the mud. Forested slopes of lodgepole pine and subalpine fir give way to aspen-clad foothills and rolling sagebrush steppes that have the spongy look of muskeg, but two shades lighter. Barb, the very nice nurse, stroked my hair while I squeezed a spongy ball. The half-circle of bread gets squeezed open to become a pocket like a huge, spongy pita. But last fall it seemed as if the spongy, sickly-sweet confections would disappear from the face of the earth. The tenderloin is rare when soft and spongy, and it becomes firmer as it reaches medium to well done. A spongy, Dijon-colored city of algae and microscopic creatures that floats on the surface, periphyton cleanses the Everglades of excess nutrients and pollutants. I take a really soft, spongy ball, and I toss it to the first girl. What's more, the fern can form tough, spongy mats on the ground. So of course, we cut people up, we find organs, we cut them up, and there are veins, and wobbly bits, and spongy parts that go squelch when you poke them. Vertebral discs cushion the spine, like spongy coasters between each vertebra that protect bones from banging against each other while one is running or jumping. Frozen shrimp is spongy and dry in texture, with a bit of an aftertaste. Some vascular plants have also developed succulence, a condition in which the tissues are spongy and swollen for storing water, as in cacti and agaves. The so-called oak apple, a round, spongy, fruitlike object about 2.5 to 5 cm in diameter, is caused by the larvae of the gall wasp Biorhiza pallida. The spongy degeneration in the brain stem and spinal cord, especially in the reticular formation, has been found to relate closely to learning and memory deficits. If your lawn feels soft and spongy, chances are you've got thatch. Sure, you might be able to cook up some of the simmered stews, but the centrepiece of the meal, a giant spongy pancake called injera, is something of a mystery. Mad cow disease, known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy in animals, eventually causes a spongy deterioration of the brain. Show More Sentences In the older parts of the roots, a modified spongy epidermis, called velamen, has the function to absorb humidity. In some orchids, the velamen includes spongy and fibrous bodies near the passage cells, called tilosomes. Depending on the species, an erection may be fueled by blood flow into vascular, spongy tissue or by muscular action. Cancellous bone also known as trabecular or spongy bone tissue is the internal tissue of the skeletal bone and is an open cell porous network. As the antler grows it is covered in thick velvet, filled with blood vessels and spongy in texture. The leaves were formerly used in diarrhea, and the spongy pith of the stem for the removal of tapeworm. Typical dishes include samoosas, soup made with bulgar, and shafoot, a soft spongy bread covered in yoghurt. The stem is hollow in the upper portion but towards the bulb is more solid and filled with a spongy material. Inside are layers of cancellus bone, which are spongy and softer than cortical bone. Spicy curries and other traditional Ethiopian dishes, usually served family-style, are scooped up with pieces of spongy injera bread. This produces a spongy mass of iron called a bloom, which then has to be consolidated with a hammer. Recent high winds have littered our forest floor with oak galls, which now look and feel like spongy, green grapes. The outer mesocarp is formed of spongy parenchyma with druses and collateral vascular bundles. As a result, the properties of ductile cast iron are that of a spongy steel without the stress concentration effects that flakes of graphite would produce. The calipers might be Brembo, but judging by the spongy pedal feel and vague biting point, the rest of the system, seems to come right off a 1976 Chrysler New Yorker. These helicine arteries empty into blood spaces in this spongy tissue. It is a soft, spongy, amorphous dark brown material containing sugars, fiber, coagulated colloids including wax, apart from containing albuminoids, organic salts, etc. It's a South African favourite called chocolate malva pudding, a spongy, caramalised thing laid on custard and topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. In odontocetes, the complex is surrounded by spongy tissue filled with air spaces, while in mysticetes, it is integrated into the skull as with land mammals. Examples from Classical Literature The loaves will be found to rise well in the oven, to be more light and spongy, and also whiter than bread in the common way. The stem is shorter than the diameter of the cap, smooth, white, and solid or spongy. They are hardest and most solid on their surfaces, and hollow, or spongy, inside. Benbax ceiba, a large tree with spongy, light wood, that has immense bunches of purple flowers. The stuff was spongy and sticky and clingy, and he had now sunk deep into it up to his stomach. At the same time beneath the perichondrium osteoblasts are developed which also begin to give rise to spongy bone. The lungs towards their posterior margins and bases were dark, but still spongy and crepitant. When salivation has been induced, serum is poured out, and the texture of the gums is loosened and rendered spongy. Its walls are sacculated, almost spongy in lepidosiren and Protopterus, so as to give increase to the respiratory surface. It causes a thinning of the cortex of the shafts and of the trabeculae of the spongy portions of the long and short bones. In scurvy the mouth and gums inflame and ulcerate, the latter becoming swollen, spongy, and of a bluish-red color. The spongy middle plate must, like the diploe of the skull, have served to deaden the vibrations of a blow dealt from the outside. By the asthenic and emaciated general condition and the peculiar puffy, spongy state of the gums. Differs from the preceding in the ellipsoidal form of both medullary shells, and in the finer structure of the spongy framework. Plumage generally compact, the feathers with thick spongy shaft, and destitute of plumule. It presents on section a layer of articular cartilage on the convex aspect and a variable thickness of spongy bone beneath this. Bone may be compact, or loose and spongy in character, when it is known as cancellous bone. Internally the rootstock is whitish and of a spongy texture. This is due to the action between the spongy lead and the electrolyte. Its thick spongy stem, being reduced to charcoal, takes fire like amadou. Show More Sentences The spongy lead may be bulged, or the positives may be buckled. In Glaucium and Eschscholtzia the dissepiment is of a spongy nature. Beneath the tip of the rod the stone became spongy and flaked away. At the negative plate, we have pure spongy lead, and the grid. The track that was parched and spongy has now become soft and slippery. Lungs are a pair of spongy tissues present in the thoracic cavity responsible for gaseous exchange from the surrounding environment. There were four protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the thumb should have been. From the old and sprouting nuts she took the solid, spongy centres and turned them into salads. Wood soft, that of the roots light and spongy and used for corks. Between each of the vertebrae in the spine is a spongy disc. A little beyond the ruins about the smashed handling-machine I came upon the red weed again, and found the Regent's Canal, a spongy mass of dark-red vegetation. Our bones went spongy with Beri-Beri, and cuts would often turn ulcerous. Galls are woody at first, later spongy or corky in appearance. Find more words! 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