Moistening this with a little sponge, he prepared to affix it to the letter.

"The little sponge on the headset came off," he said later, the finger thick with a white bandage.

He called me his little sponge because I was always at matches two hours before anyone else, practising.

She'd clutch her little sponge and say, "When I was little, my parents wanted me to be a boy."

The three of us soaked up knowledge like little sponges, believing in our isolation that this was quite usual.

But you have a lot more fun when you're a little sponge in a great big ocean.

I can't believe I thought he was just an innocent little sponge wearing tight shorts.

I mean, they're so young and everything, like little sponges ready to soak up everything they can.

At work, she says, "I was like a little sponge, soaking up all the information and tucking it away for future reference."

Children are like little sponges that seem to be able to absorb languages very quickly.