spongy

Modifying Another Word

• very: We spread out and walked across a treeless plain on a very spongy area.
• slightly: They have quite a mild mushroom flavor but a texture which stays slightly spongy, a bit like French toast.
• not: It's perfect - not spongy in the least.
• rather: I did find the breaking rather spongy, tho.
• quite: The clutch pedal itself, isnt taut, its quite a lot of play there, quite spongy.

Modifies a noun

• texture: Some colonies are soft with a spongy texture, some are like ferns, some form huge luscious quill feather shapes.
• bone: As bone loss occurs in spongy bone, the thick plates and rods become very thin and the continuity of structure is lost.
• tissue: Bone Marrow: The soft, spongy tissue found in the center of most bones where all blood cells are produced.
• mass: The bloom was a spongy mass of malleable iron whose cracks were filled with slag.
• material: The amazing grace snugly up against spongy modeling material.
• brake: Spongy brake pedal - air in brake system or system leak.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: The tunneling activity of the larvae can cause the turf to feel spongy underfoot.
• become: All these diseases resulted in parts of the brain becoming spongy the nerve cells replaced by holes.