Sentence examples for dry sponge from inspiring English sources
It's the difference between a dry sponge and a wet sponge.
Victoria Sponge Named after Queen Victoria, who favoured a slice of the dry sponge with afternoon tea.
Nearby you can see one of those "loaves," a wizened rectangle like a small, dry sponge that weighs only 125 grams.
Since the 16th century, the city has pumped water from deep wells to satisfy its thirst, causing the clays beneath the surface to sink as water is sucked from them, rather like a dry sponge.
"You need to sleep before learning, to prepare your brain, like a dry sponge, to absorb new information," said the lead investigator, Matthew P. Walker, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.
A couple of months ago, I said that a dry sponge can only soak up so much water.
His streamlined screenplays, which have no embellishments or explanations, are not studio-executive-friendly. "They're dry sponges waiting for the water of performance," Sidney Lumet says.
Take a bite and look inside: There isn't the dry sponge-like texture of reconstituted powdered garbanzo; there is, instead, all kinds of little chunks of things — beans, vegetables, herbs.
And while the client was hoping to have the labels removed, cleaned, then put back on, Skura is instead recommending a less aggressive approach that will leave the labels as is, and extract the dirt with dry sponges.
The dry sponges were compressed at a speed of 0.1 mm/min at room temperature.
Weekly non-drug medical supply costs (needles, alcohol sponges, dry sponges, and bandages) represented less than 1% of drug costs for all devices.
