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Plural of sponge

regular plural

The plural of sponge is sponges.

Forms of sponge

Singularsponge /spʌnd͡ʒ/
Pluralsponges
Countablecountable and uncountable

Sponges in a sentence

  • For this reason, we need to think of our children as sponges of information and watch their sources carefully.2014, Phoeve Hutchison, Are You Listening? Life Is Talking to You!, page 145
  • The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6
  • Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.From the entry porous
  • Put things where you will use them: sponges next to the sink, knives next to the cutting board, and so on.From the entry and so on
  • Liam studies giant sea sponges, some of them two meters tall; a man could crawl within them.2011, Prism International, volume 50, page 19. From the entry pitroom

Meaning of sponge

  1. noun Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
  2. noun A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
  3. noun The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.

Full definition of sponge

Questions about the plural of sponge

What is the plural of sponge?
The plural of sponge is sponges.
Is sponge countable?
Sponge is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sponge (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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