How to pronounce "sponges:"

so it backs up in the lungs like a sponge getting wet.

is really design. Really good designers are like sponges:

They used things like aluminum foil, sticky notes, scissors, and sponges to prove that

Screw the paper towels. Let's go to a sponge.

plant and animal cells, or the cells in a sponge, soak up water.