During the American Revolutionary War their spongy wood helped stop the British cannonballs.

The blade collided with the notched rim and clung for an instant, held by the spongy wood.

Its roots produce a soft and spongy wood that is used for floats, razor straps, and the inner soles of shoes.

With an expert twist of his wrist, he ripped away a section of spongy wood.

Frantically he thrust his arm in again and searched the depths of the hidden space, fe ling nothing but the spongy, rotten wood.

The spongy wood consists of sheets of fiber that are collected from dead or living trees, dried in the sun and sold for thatch.

The soft, spongy wood of the cupola floor was blackened and charred.

The cavity was twenty feet in diameter and unfurnished except for the sleeping bench Unarc had hacked into the spongy wood of one side.

On top, screwed into the gray and spongy old wood, was a rusty red ringbolt.

The soft spongy wood was used for making shields, and the bark as a fibre.