a sponge

A sponge is extremely thick and soft, lying in the middle of it as if buried by it.

He said, "The skin acts like a sponge. It's the last defense before anything enters the body. It evolved to soak up impurities. "

Light stains can be removed with a sponge damped in water or a mild soapy solution, or with a fine sandpaper.

Neil: A sponge soaks up the water all around it A sponger soaks up gifts, food and money without working.

The brain is acting a bit like a sponge; it can soak up new information and change to make room for it, a concept known as plasticity.

Lu Xun's grandfather once said: "Time like a sponge the water, as long as willing to squeeze, the total is still there. "

29Now there was a vessel set there full of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge full of vinegar and hyssop, put it to his mouth.

One C. O. wets Lincoln's forehead with a sponge while another places a metal halo on his head.

A sponge backrest and a sponge seat are provided in gaps between the screen back and the main body frame and the two wheeler carriers.

If there was one thing that he hated it was a sponge .

And immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he soaked it with vinegar and put it on a reed, and gave it to Him to drink.

In most toilets stood a bucket of salt water in which there was a stick with a sponge tied to one end.

A sponge just seems to soak it up and waste it. And it's too expensive for that!

Let us take in grace at every door. Let us drink it in as a sponge sucks up the water in which it lies.

No, you're not. You're not. And there's the funny visit to my grandma. At the old folks' home-- two women, a sponge bath and a bedpan .

Pour a little bit of the soda onto a sponge and wipe the counter down.

"I had an operation, " said a man to his friend, "and the doctor left a sponge in me. "

It is amazing to see the potential in students whose mind is like a sponge that is able to absorb much information.

Ultracapacitors also have two metal plates, but they are coated with a sponge-like, porous material known as activated carbon.

I was so curious that I came near to him and found out that a sponge tip was attached at the end of the stick, making it a brush.

The child is screwing water out of a sponge .

The researchers found the particular weave of the keratin enables it to act like a sponge, staying robust while absorbing water.

No one had more right than I to pass a sponge across the past.

like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed.

The main characters are a tube of toothpaste, a couple of toothbrushes and a sponge.

This one looks rather like a sponge: thousands of parallel channels perforate a thin wafer of silicon.

Expert advice: before eating, wash with a sponge or brush the outside of the protective wax peaches, or peeled consumption.

Basically , China should turn its urbanization into a sponge for global capital .

The firm used to be a sponge to soak up surplus east Indian labour.

It's like a sponge in water, is willing to squeeze as long as the total still at stake.

He placed the fabric under a microscope and found unusual-looking fibers, full of micro-holes 'like a sponge, ' he says.

I heard that you get vitamin D from sunshine, and that you soak it like a sponge.

Wash divided-lite windows with a sponge and a small squeegee.

The back of the films was polyaniline layer with irregular pores, while the face was polysulfone layer with a sponge-like structure.

But a sponge, which spends its adult life attached to a rock, has a swimming "childhood. "

Once sufficiently cooked down the mushrooms will absorb flavour like a sponge.

You can easily scrub away these unattractive rings by sprinkling salt onto a sponge and rubbing in little circles across the ring.

The surgeon would first apply a sponge over the cleaned wound and then cover it with a plastic seal.

If someone says something negative about you, don't be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass.

The closest living analogue might be a sponge.

Brother jie picked up a sponge and began cleaning the edges of the sink.

The outer layer of skin is made up of fibers woven in a three-dimensional pattern that acts like a sponge.

Manmohan Singh, prime minister, has described manufacturing as a "sponge" for surplus rural labour.

Chou is a sponge when it comes to music, absorbing styles and trends and then seamlessly incorporating them into his Oriental-flavored R&B.

Sheryl's really doing well at math. She soaks it up like a sponge.

Franklin we have to like a sponge absorbing useful knowledge.

The sand acts like a sponge and filters the water and slows evaporation.

In fact, a Pisces will soak up the sweet talk like a sponge soaks up water.

pour the wax onto a sponge or towel and rub the scratches and grimes repeatedly with it until they are removed.

Carmen's sharp young mind, hungry for knowledge, absorbed Zoe's teaching like a sponge .

I was all ears and soaked every word in like a sponge.

Your brain is like a sponge soaking up everything in its path good or bad.

Static deposited 15-20 minutes, wipe off mask with a sponge or towel, then rinse clean, and then to stop the daily skin care.

Compressible blanket: Multi-layer rubber blanket, one of which is a sponge like layer filled with air. It depresses when under pressure.

Whoops : An exclamation that translates roughly into "get a sponge . "

The one he thinks about most is No. 6, "Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around. "

In ancient Rome they used a sponge which was attached to a stick and then immersed into a container of salt water.

It is because feet sweat easily in summer and shoes will become hotbeds for bacteria without socks serving as a sponge.

She screwed water out of a sponge.

She used her loofah to scrub her skin. She used her dried, fiberous plant used as a sponge to scrub her skin.

Please clean it by a sponge dampened with detergent after uses, and store it after drying thoroughly.

They didn't want information or advice, just my presence, like a sponge to soak up what they'd been holding inside for years.

you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub.

This leaves a sponge made of metallic nickel.

Production of the sponge density, packing a sponge, sponge Processing.

COW: Well, he left a sponge inside me when he did my operation.

Full of blood erectile tissue of the cavernous cavity, like a sponge up water after a big principle of the same.

plate image by applying the ink with a sponge or cloth using a circular rubbing action while the plate is moistened.

A dab with a sponge won't remove the dirt, you will have to rub it.

Soldering stand with a sponge included .

Light stains can be removed with textile cleaner or a sponge damped in water or a mild soapy solution .

Waiting for a meal, a moray eel hides in a sponge.

We recommend that you take a sponge bath for the first two weeks. You must keep the wound dry.

One loads you down with saturated fat, and the other is a sponge for the liquid sugar we know as syrup.

Remove all food particles and other soil types that are visible on surfaces using a sponge, soap, and warm water.

We must, like a sponge absorbing water, as in learning insatiable.

I had spotted a small black shape that looked like a sponge.

When it is dropped into the hot fat the batter acts as a sponge absorbing the maximum amount of fat and so making it nice and juicy.

They have the heft of balsa wood. They are as porous as a sponge, brittle as a coffee mug dropped on the floor . . .

Time is like the water in a sponge; if you squeeze, you can always get some.

A cryptic teardrop crab seeks refuge inside a sponge near Bonaire Island in the Caribbean.

Our mind is a sponge; our heart is a stream. It is strange that most of us choose sucking rather than running.

resembling a sponge in having soft texture and compressibility.

I only had to pay her $1. 25. She bought me a sponge.

He scrubbed himself down with a sponge.

Putting fiber in your stomach is like eating a sponge; it soaks up surrounding water, making you feel fuller.

Have another one; you drink like a sponge.

The result is a universe that now looks like a sponge.

In addition, dry cardboard will absorb water-based ink, like a sponge.

James. 'I was a sponge absorbing the business.

James. 'I was a sponge absorbing the business.

That child soaks up new facts like a sponge!

You can see a scissor, you can see a sponge, two stones to sharpen the cutters.

The soil drank water like a sponge.

The boy soaks up new knowledge like a sponge.

He was a sponge for knowledge.

wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten.

Pour into running water, your hands or onto a sponge.

The Cracked. com article says there is a "sponge-like ability for money to absorb whatever it comes in contact with. " Ew.

I want to know if it is true that "Babies pick up languages like a sponge. "

She cleaned the table with a sponge.

A sponge from Australia's Great Barrier Reef was home to almost 3, 000 different types of bacteria.

He brought a sponge to absorb the water on the floor.

Big Sis then gives WG a sponge bath, which of course leads to some extra touching, kissing, then sex.

This yellow crust is a sponge, in thephylum Porifera.

A sponge absorbs water easily.

Our mind is a sponge; our heart is a stream.

We have to learn like a sponge, like useful things.

There's a sponge on the washstand .

Does she have a brain like a sponge?

The soft cushion (2) is a sponge cushion.

He left a sponge inside you?

Its nano-sized pores can not only collect pollutants like a sponge but they also act as air pockets.

Time is a sponge with water, as long as the hard squeeze, you can squeeze a lot of water.

I am cooking a sponge cake with jam filling.

There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week. H. W.

Time is like a sponge Lane as water is squeezed out, but more and more crowded .

To moisten, wipe, or clean with or as if with a sponge

I really feel myself like a 'sponge', learning and absorbing so many things since I came to Hong Kong.

To absorb with or as if with a sponge:

And these may include the use of any prefermented dough like a sponge, starter or Poolish

Traditional formulation can be used and it may include any pre-fermented dough like a sponge or Poolish

When you're young you absorb like a sponge in disguise

Consider a grease like a sponge

and the doctor left a sponge in me