Pawlik said that – since the year 2000 – the giant barrel sponge population off the Florida coast has grown by more than 40%.(鮑里克說，在2000年來，福羅里達州沿海圓桶海綿的數量增長了40%多。)

Take your jacket off and I'll sponge it down with water.(把你的夾克脫下來，我要用海綿蘸上水把它擦一擦。)

If someone says something negative about you, don't be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass.(如有人說起你的是非，千萬別當一塊“海綿”，讓那些攻擊性的說話像水在玻璃上一般的流走。)

Put it on a wet sponge to clean crayon off a chalk board.(濕海綿上放些小蘇打可以擦掉黑板上的粉筆畫。)

So, I used to knock sponge balls off the wall till my mum got fed upwith it and got us a Swingball for the back garden.(那么，我過去經常對著墻打海綿球，直到我媽不耐煩了，給我們弄來了搖擺球，放在后院里。)

The spray-on-sponge-off technique is popular.(在噴上海綿過的技術很受歡迎。)

Old William usually manages to sponge a drink off somebody in the pub.(老威廉常常設法詐取酒客的錢。)

We tried to sponge the blood off my shirt.(我們試著把我襯衫上的血跡擦掉。)

He wiped off the table with a sponge.(他用一塊海綿擦了桌子。)

Shell soft film: cook, will be in the thin film eggshell soft paste in facial furrow place and cheeks, chin place, let it have dried off again, with soft sponge wiped dead skin of oily skin;(蛋殼軟膜：做菜時，將蛋殼內的軟薄膜粘貼在面部皺紋處以及臉頰、下巴部位，任其風干后再揭下來，用軟海綿擦去油性皮膚的死皮；)