bath sponge

American  

noun

1. any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.

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Example Sentences

She said the authorities asked her to bring back a glass or bath sponge or something that might have his DNA on it to potentially help identify him later.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2021

Footnote 71: This does not mean mushroom, still less bath sponge, as the Dean understood it; it is the Bavarian word Schwaim, pronounced Schwam, "The Floating Shadow."

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

"The colour of a bath sponge," he said, and she pretended despair.

From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden

I also discovered a royal Sevres vase for him, worth a small fortune, but he preferred a bath sponge used by Louis XIV.

From The Net by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

The after-piece in Colonel Tempest's domestic drama began with tears, caused, I believe, in the first instance by a difference of opinion as to who was responsible for the earwigs in his bath sponge.

From Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary