SPONGE in a Sentence

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For SPONGE, below is one of 32 sentences:
He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPONGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sponge
 n.  soaking up; small absorbent contraceptive pad, used for bathing or cleaning
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  I returned, sought the sponge on the washstand, the salts in my drawer, and once more retraced my steps.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  Mr. Rochester put the now bloody sponge into my hand, and I proceeded to use it as he had done.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  I'll go down and get some fresh water and sponge you off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  That's Mammy gettin the water to sponge off the young Misses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She seized the rouge sponge, daubed her cheeks, scratched at her lips with the vermilion pencil until they stung, tore open her collar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  A sponge has no more partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
8  It appears to me that if my boots need a sponge, your stockings and shoes stand in equal need of a brush.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
9  With one hand she was supporting the fat baby that lay floating and sprawling on its back, while with the other she squeezed the sponge over him.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
10  And he let her shave him or sponge all his body as if he were a child, really as if he were a child.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  If there was one thing that he hated it was a sponge.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
12  I should have exuded tears like a wet sponge.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VI
13  There was no sign of Prissy so she went back upstairs, sponged Melanie's perspiring body and combed out her long dark hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  Scarlett sponged her face in silence but fear was gnawing at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Saturate your sponge with water until it can't hold any more.
2  Capable of holding 100 times its own weight in water, the structural sponge is realized by adding a hardening agent, which creates a shell on the surface.
3  When I licked the sponge holes on the base of her anterior skull plate, it was the translator hanging on her chest that said, "Stop that tickles".
4  Give it a sponge with a damp cloth - that will remove the blood stains.
5  You should try to sponge out the memory of the accident.
6  His mind was like a sponge, ready to absorb anything.
7  Given the right environment, children are like sponges and will soak up information.
8  Marine sponges have a long fossil record.