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Lastly, everyone asks, ‘Why so many sponges? Can’t you just use the same two?’ the answer is no. There’s a difference between a ‘dipped sponge’ and a soaked sponge. The dipped sponge is dry in the center and will just be coated with the mix. The soaked sponge has been sitting in the mix and will work like a dryer sheet. – Cary Colón	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As long as the softener is diluted with water and the sponge is fully squeezed it will not stain your clothing. – Cary Colón	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’m not too sure if they are actually called sponge crabs, but we have always called them that, they seem to carve out a piece of sponge which is loose fitting on their backs. We only usually get one every year or two, but this summer we have had five already. I don't know if the increase is down to global warming, but I am now trying to find out how far they have spread. – Ian Jepson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Cotton traps moisture like a sponge. But silk is breathable. Its thinner than cotton and dries really fast, the ongoing hypothesis is that coronavirus is transmitted through respiratory droplets. – Patrick Guerra	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They told us Laurent Simons is like a sponge. – Laurent Simons	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males. – Simon Allen	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Hes a sponge, he picks it up. He sees how people are playing him and guarding him and he makes the right play every time. Thats whats great about him he doesnt force anything. Everything is going to be the right play. Hes going to make the right reads. Hes like a quarterback out there. – Paul Millsap	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Raw meat carries bacteria and then if you throw it on the cutting board and use a towel or sponge to dry that off, it could pick that up, cutting boards and table tops used for food prep are of concern and need to be cleaned regularly and dried. – Paul Dawson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's a unique tissue that's only present in the penis, when you get an erection, blood flows into the corpus cavernosa, and it fills up like a sponge. – Rajveer Purohit	Found on CNN 6 years ago
We are in an environment of mixed signal, inconsistencies and the markets are being driven by a lack of a positive theme, troubles in European banks and weak oil prices, we've been setting up for squeezing of the sponge. It's time to take some profits from the markets. – Andre Bakhos	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It’s part of this culture, I think, where everyone’s just looking to get ahead so fast and so furiously that they forget to enjoy the ride, look for inflection points that they can improve their career, be a sponge, find mentors, things like that, we coach them to be patient, and we coach them that they’re winning, and we coach them to be a sponge and look for these inflections points. – Chris Cabrera	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. – Joseph Rickaby	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Lastly, everyone asks, ‘Why so many sponges? Can’t you just use the same two?’ the answer is no. There’s a difference between a ‘dipped sponge’ and a soaked sponge. The dipped sponge is dry in the center and will just be coated with the mix. The soaked sponge has been sitting in the mix and will work like a dryer sheet.

– Cary Colón

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As long as the softener is diluted with water and the sponge is fully squeezed it will not stain your clothing.

– Cary Colón

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m not too sure if they are actually called sponge crabs, but we have always called them that, they seem to carve out a piece of sponge which is loose fitting on their backs. We only usually get one every year or two, but this summer we have had five already. I don't know if the increase is down to global warming, but I am now trying to find out how far they have spread.

– Ian Jepson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Cotton traps moisture like a sponge. But silk is breathable. Its thinner than cotton and dries really fast, the ongoing hypothesis is that coronavirus is transmitted through respiratory droplets.

– Patrick Guerra

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They told us Laurent Simons is like a sponge.

– Laurent Simons

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males.

– Simon Allen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Hes a sponge, he picks it up. He sees how people are playing him and guarding him and he makes the right play every time. Thats whats great about him he doesnt force anything. Everything is going to be the right play. Hes going to make the right reads. Hes like a quarterback out there.

– Paul Millsap

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Raw meat carries bacteria and then if you throw it on the cutting board and use a towel or sponge to dry that off, it could pick that up, cutting boards and table tops used for food prep are of concern and need to be cleaned regularly and dried.

– Paul Dawson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's a unique tissue that's only present in the penis, when you get an erection, blood flows into the corpus cavernosa, and it fills up like a sponge.

– Rajveer Purohit

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We are in an environment of mixed signal, inconsistencies and the markets are being driven by a lack of a positive theme, troubles in European banks and weak oil prices, we've been setting up for squeezing of the sponge. It's time to take some profits from the markets.

– Andre Bakhos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s part of this culture, I think, where everyone’s just looking to get ahead so fast and so furiously that they forget to enjoy the ride, look for inflection points that they can improve their career, be a sponge, find mentors, things like that, we coach them to be patient, and we coach them that they’re winning, and we coach them to be a sponge and look for these inflections points.

– Chris Cabrera

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

– Joseph Rickaby

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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