The phrase "a sponge of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that absorbs or soaks up a particular quality or substance, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "She was a sponge of knowledge, eagerly absorbing every lesson and piece of information presented to her."
Alternatives: "an absorber of" or "a collector of".
"It's a sponge of culture," said Mehdi Matin, 32, a Phalanstery member who is supervising the move to a new headquarters in Hamilton Heights in Upper Manhattan.
The negative plate of the tubular cell, which must match the electrical capacity of the positive plate to enable efficient chemical reaction to take place, is of a similar design to that of the flat plate positive, but the lattices in this case are filled with a sponge of pure lead.
On the other hand, the bottom layer looks like a sponge of 3-μm thickness consisted of chains of small particles.
The implant was constituted by a sponge of type I collagen and polyvinylpyrrolidone (Fibroquel; Aspid Laboratory, Mexico), embedded with 5 ml of demineralized bone powder (DBP) (Veterinary Transplant Services, Seattle, WA), 5 ml of dog platelet-rich plasma, 10,000 IU of bovine thrombin (Behring, Mexico), and 2.5 ml of 10% calcium cloride (14.7 mg).
After a postgraduate year at The Hotchkiss School (Conn)., Kumin arrived in North Baltimore in 1995, a "sponge" of a freshman sold on assistant coach Dave Pietramala's passion.
Fox is therefore a genre-bender personified, being more than one thing, by being a sponge of the various cultures which mix, blend and reemerge as something new and yet, distinctly unique and Mancunian.
Ms. Sugg has a saying: "Make like a sponge!" On one of the last days of our senior English course, a classmate brought in a pack of sponges.
Still, she was something of a sponge for all the angst and argument engulfing her generation.
"Be a sponge for the sort of knowledge that will make you wealthy," he says.
You no longer have time to be walked all over when you're always in the driver's seat and being observed by a little sponge of a human.
So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
