Sentence examples for returned the sponge from inspiring English sources

When they returned the sponge was gone.

In spring or autumn when favourable conditions return, the gemmules germinate, their archaeocytes emerge through an opening (micropyle), the various cellular types differentiate, and a new sponge grows.

The relatively large encrusting sponge Lissodendoryx colombiensis is most common on rocky surfaces, but has extended its range into seagrass meadows by letting itself be surrounded or overgrown by seagrass sponges, which are distasteful to the local starfish and therefore protect Lissodendoryx against them; in return the seagrass sponges get higher positions away from the sea-floor sediment.

Check the area to make sure the stain is gone, rinse the sponge, and return to blot the soapy water and suds that have remained.

80 min: Pereirinha returns, utterly cured by the sponge.

Occasionally rapid single breaths or leaps without the sponge were observed before returning to the same spot, indicating that prey may burrow in the sand.

Outside the sanctuary, regulations say females with orange sponge can be kept; those further along to spawning, however, have dark-colored sponge and must be returned to the bay.

But when I returned to the scene of the crime with a bowl of soapy water and two sponges, her mood went from remorseful to resentful.

Nilsson disappeared to the dishwashing station and returned with a clean sponge.

After rinsing the sponge, gently wring it out before returning to the steel piece.

In return the rhodophyte partner benefits from the provision of nitrogen by the sponge, boosting algal growth rates in comparison to algae not in symbiosis [ 53].