Apple also apparently favors a spongy feel.

The trunk and branches are covered with thick red-brown bark, which has a spongy feel and is stringy-peeling in longitudinal strips.

Occasionally after an injury, blood collects and pools under the skin (hematoma), giving the skin a spongy, rubbery, lumpy feel.

The texture of raw pumpkins ranges from smooth and crisp to a more fibrous, spongy feel, but when roasted most samples contract to a similar firmness, like that of a lightly baked apple.

Many guitarist also prefer the Kahler system because of its smooth,"spongy" feel, as opposed to the more rigid trem bar action found on conventional fulcrum systems.

Rei Kawakubo's boiled-wool suits at Comme des Garçons had a soft, spongy feel - the opposite of a stuffed shirt - and her models were an intriguing blend of geek and ghoul.

Without peaks and valleys of sound the world had a stuffed, spongy feel, as though Maxwell's classical ether were a reality, could be sensed at the fingertips.

The straw on the floor of the hallway was at least a year old and the spongy feel of it under his leather sandals said there were several more layers covered up under the latest batch of decaying straw.

It had the spongy feel of a good, rich bread.

Deadwood and scrub littered the valley floor, decaying slowly in the dark ground, giving it an unpleasantly soft, spongy feel.