Taken as a whole, the loaf should have a certain sponginess, which is known as its elasticity, and which is evidenced by the way in which the loaf acts when it is pressed slightly out of shape. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Midway through the intense fire fight, resources were ordered to discontinue ventilation efforts because of the noticed "sponginess" of the roof. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Aloha suddenly became palpable and thus much more real — the odd sponginess of the cold wet earth, neither clayey nor sandy; the frail stringy resistance of the webby brown biofilms before he plucked them off his trouser legs or jacket sleeves. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)
The frozen vessels had lost their sponginess, no longer sprung back after she touched them. ❋ Cortney McLellan (2010)
The subtle flavor of olive oil is a nice surprise, as is the slight sponginess. ❋ Mark Bittman (2010)
Simon might be able to compensate for the sponginess of the breasts with skilful cooking but I couldn't. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My skull can sense the ugly sponginess of my brain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I remembered there's a long history of people in high-pressure jobs using stimulants when their brains lost their sponginess: Anthony Eden was taking Benzedrine all through the Suez Crisis, and Jean-Paul Sartre wrote several of his novels while pumped on mescaline. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Note: This cake seems to morph over night from a slight tendency to sponginess, to a sunken, almost pressed intensity. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Richa said ... the sponginess of ur dhokla looks grrreat! ❋ Cardamom (2007)
I had not realized that meadows, for all of Blake's pastoral imagery, are not the smooth grassy fields of soft sponginess you necessarily want to go frolicking about in. ❋ Happy (2007)
I hooked my index finger upward an inch and a half, and I felt the rough, swollen sponginess I had been searching for: her G-spot. ❋ Blair Underwood With Tananarive Due (2007)
The 13-member commission to save the tower, which Burland headed, meticulously fed all the data it could into a computer, but the answer was always the same: if a tower built at that height of those materials on ground of just that sponginess were to lean as much as 5.4 degrees, the laws of physics demand that it come crashing down. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Delicate tasting, like a zucchini with punch and no sponginess. ❋ Unknown (2005)
One striking finding was that 41 percent of the adults had a pathological condition called porotic hyperostosis, an abnormal porosity or sponginess of the bones—especially those of the skull—which is typical of anemic malaria sufferers. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)
