It felt as if I were setting my right foot into soft mud or a sponge.
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As the answers became less obvious (is a sponge living?), his brain had to bring on more circuitry.
The same physical properties that make polyurethane good for riding waves also make it a heck of a sponge.
That was like putting a Sponge Bob band-aid on a gaping surgical wound.
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From the 1950s, in many European, Asian and Latin American countries, it functioned as a sponge to sop up unemployment.
After cooling down and receiving a sponge bath, Orb was loaded onto a van headed to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
"If you see a brush mark or a knife mark, a sponge or a rag, you are not succeeding, " he said.
"Teaching young people is always a joy and in Callum's case he absorbed all the knowledge like a sponge, " he added.
Existing ultracapacitors get their extra surface area by using electrodes coated with carbon and etched to produce holes, rather like a sponge.
As plastic is a petroleum based product these small particles act as persistent organic polluters, which means that they form a sponge attracting toxins such as insecticides and pesticides.
According to scientists from a smattering of institutions, the atomic-scale chickenwire material has the ability to absorb light effectively -- much like a sponge -- over a broad range of wavelengths.
The cost drops 30% on a Mediterranean hand-painted dinner plate if you get a painter to use a sponge cut in the shape of a leaf instead of laboring over brush strokes.
"I found him wonderful, and a sponge, who took in everything about the trio, " Pressler says, adding that there was something in Hope that reminded him of his younger self in those early years.
The diatom skeletons of which the mineral is composed are able to soak up huge quantities of oily materials such as lanolin and nitroglycerine, in the same way that a sponge soaks up water.
Working with Yale University neurologist Stephen Strittmatter, who cloned the Nogo gene, Biogen Idec has created a counterinsurgency protein that acts as a sponge to soak up copies of Nogo and other growth-blocking proteins in the spinal cord before they can bind to the receptor.
He's a bit of a sponge, and with the efficient nature of an L.A. movie exec for whom time is money, he has created a system of outsourcing learning, arranging meetings with intellectuals in which they download their wares into his brain as one might schedule a massage or a haircut.
This cover acts as a giant sponge, absorbing rainfall and reducing polluted storm-water runoff.
Leah and McGuffin were washing his car and horsing around with a wet sponge.
The tax breaks could act like a giant sponge to soak up income that would otherwise be taxed.
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Water soaking will loosen them and like a new sponge, once in water it is never the same.
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To emphasize the vessel's underbelly, Lycett highlights it with a harmonizing pink-cream glaze enriched with a subtle sponge-daubing of additional gold.
The players describe him as a "sponge" and call him Coach Joe, even though he is not allowed to do any coaching.
The plastic also acts as a chemical sponge absorbing some of the worst pollutants in the sea and increasing its toxicity when swallowed.
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The result is, in effect, a liquid sponge, and means the mixture can be stored indefinitely, like ordinary diesel, without risk of separation.
Deep gouges show how fearsome those paws can be - even if the bear in the clearing is currently using his to tear into a Victoria sponge.
People can still water their gardens with a watering can and wash their vehicles using a bucket and sponge, which use a fraction of the amount of water that a hosepipe or sprinkler does.
Criminologists say that fear of crime often acts as a psychological sponge absorbing other anxieties that are hard to enunciate, such as concern over rapid social change, immigration, deteriorating values, fraying communities and so forth.
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They should let the bleach sit for 15 minutes before using a mop or sponge to clean up.
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