Sentences with phrase «as a sponge»

This allows for a deeper, healthier root system and builds organic matter in the soil, which acts as a sponge for available moisture.

I have three different brands of acrylic paint and have tried using a brush as well as a sponge brush.

I have three different brands of acrylic paint and have tried using a brush as well as a sponge brush.

Your baby is a little toddler now and also doubles as a sponge.

Think of your puppy's brain during these 28 days as a sponge, supple and ready to absorb and incorporate new experiences.

It is easier to think of the continent as a sponge floating in water.

When you speak or post I'll try my best to act as a sponge.

Get as creative as you want and try new techniques, such as sponge painting or using unique paintbrushes.

The potatoes had acted as sponges for god - knows - how - much salt runoff from that bird.

Long thought of as sponges that suck in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, tropical forests may actually be a source of emissions.

coconut flour has a very unique quality to it — it acts as a sponge absorbing liquid, so its not something that can be easily substituted.

They called for sewage treatment mechanisms to keep waste from tainting the East River during floods and permeable surfaces that could act as a sponge when the area gets deluged.

Every other method ranks below these, including Withdrawal (4.0), Female condom (5.0), Diaphragm (6.0), Periodic abstinence (calendar)(9.0), the Sponge (9.0 - 20.0, depending on whether the woman using it has had a child in the past), Cervical cap (9.0 - 26.0, with the same caveat as the Sponge), and Spermicides (18.0).

The three dazzling and authentic historic rooms — the dining room from Kirtlington Park, the tapestry room from Croome Court and the dining room from Lansdowne House — will remain in modified form, with the Kirtlington room losing irrelevant furnishings as well as the sponged paint characteristic of the 1980s.

Much as a sponge absorbs liquids, bodies absorb gases through the process of respiration.

These visceral paintings — where velvet is drenched in sea water, or tablecloths are doused in paint and used as sponges on visibly patched tarpaulins — embody an alternative, iconoclastic approach to «the sacred cloth,» shared with the aforementioned American forbears, as well as kindred spirits Francis Picabia, Yves Klein, Alberto Burri, and Sigmar Polke, to name but a few.

As the ice began to melt the land started to rebound, just as the sponge recovers shape when the metal disc is removed.

Has enough been done for the exiles, for the unemployed and the homeless, and for the return of war prisoners that communism might not be drawn into Germany as a sponge draws in water, despite the present rejection of it in Western Germany?

Mocha chocolate Bundt cake gets its wow factor from the distinctive shape of the tin as the sponge recipe is actually very easy

Think of babies as sponges trying to «soak» up an exciting new world full of interesting and fascinating sights, sounds, smells, and touches.

Circular RNA's function in saliva is not entirely understood, although it does serve as a sponge for tiny RNA molecules called microRNAs, which bind to it.

The extraction of water and heat from the porous sandstone causes it to contract, much as a sponge shrinks when it dries out.

Although not nearly as graceful as sponging dolphins, «which are really elegant in their moves,» Patterson says, the human sponger nonetheless managed to scare up a hidden prey fish every 9 minutes.

Dunn compared the genomes of 71 animal species and found that the common ancestor of all the animals on the planet may not have been as simple as a sponge, as previously thought.

The London clay surrounding many tunnels used to act as a sponge soaking up heat, but now it has become saturated, unable to remove any excess warmth.

If so, the closest living relatives are the choanoflagellates, which are heterotrophic, single - called eukaryotes having the same structure as some sponge cells.

Think of these helpful fungi as sponges, soaking up toxins, much as other types of fungi thrive on decaying material.

Think of SHBG as a sponge that soaks up excess hormones.

Think of your skin as a sponge: once it's plumped up with water, everything else absorbs more easily.

I got to be honest though, I've lost faith in GTS (admittedly a big thing to say as a sponge for racing games).

«In effect a literary layer cake with an e-novel through which the reader shuffles as the cream, the Lulzlit site as the sponge, and the activities of its seven writers on Twitter as the jam.

I feel helpless as a sponge!!

Think of the covering of the eye as a sponge cake.

Either way, a reef tank should look like a living reef, and this may include such elements as sponges, gorgonians, tunicates, corals, snails, crabs, shrimp, macro-algae — and last, but not least, fish.

While some of these are reef safe, others eat such items as sponges, Aiptasia, soft coral and flat worms, and many are poisonous if consumed by other animals.

I was baffled at the details of the different steps and sucked up all the information as a sponge (or should I say fresh cheese?).

Putting the ultramarine color aside, this artist also introduced ideas such as sponge sculptures, living paintbrushes, fire paintings and other conceptual works, as well as some of the most original performance acts ever assembled.

Joe is a genderless character, who appears in Haliti's artistic work in a multitude of forms: Whether as a sponge with self - adhesive wiggle eyes or a two - legged sculpture in curved steel — Joe spooks through Haliti's exhibitions, embodying an (artist --RRB- individual under the pressure of neo-liberal living and working conditions, constant self - renewal, (re --RRB- presentation and productivity.

For example, while policy makers have been debating the value of forests and farmland as a sponge for some human - generated carbon dioxide, the budget for a federal program monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide with instruments on aircraft and tall radio towers has remained at $ 1.4 million a year over the last nine years.

Every other method ranks below these, including Withdrawal (4.0), Female condom (5.0), Diaphragm (6.0), Periodic abstinence (calendar)(9.0), the Sponge (9.0 - 20.0, depending on whether the woman using it has had a child in the past), Cervical cap (9.0 - 26.0, with the same caveat as the Sponge),

Thanks to the natural and living matter of sponges, I was able to make portraits of the «readers» of my monochromes, which, after having seen and traveled into the blue of my paintings, returned from them completely impregnated with sensibility, just as the sponges» (Y. Klein, «Notes on certain works exhibited at Galerie Colette Allendy», ibid., New York, 2007, pp. 22 - 23).

They act as sponges when it comes to gases in the atmosphere, retaining large levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (methane and nitrous oxide).

Other version such as sponges, cervical caps, or diaphragms can be used, but their effectiveness is lessened in women who have recently given birth.

«That's what we've demonstrated is happening: The walls of these chambers act as a sponge for the vapors and compete with the particles for these vapors.»

Oceans will continue to act as a sponge for carbon dioxide, and surface temperatures will rise around the world.

I think it's the perfect ingredient for this creamy dessert because it acts as a sponge and takes on the flavors you pair it with, so you can taste the heros of this dessert: chocolate and naturally sweet California Raisins.