Example sentences for: sponges

How can you use “sponges” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These new immigrants made a living from cotton production and collecting sponges, but after several disastrous harvests and a fierce hurricane, a group of Abaconians left to create a sister community on Key West off the southern tip of Florida.

  • Moray eels and thousands of angel fish now live among the coral and sponges.

  • A hurricane in 1839 drowned some 300 sponge fishermen in the ‘mud’ off Andros, and a devastating fungus some 40 years later killed almost all the sponges.

  • There are so many tropical fish (angel fish, grouper, parrot fish, moray eels) and sponges that it can feel like swimming in an aquarium.

  • For example, a few of the lower animals (sponges, flatworms, etc. ) are listed when the "Animals" button is pressed, in addition to the Protostomia, Deuterostomia, and organisms nested within these groups (Arthropoda, chordates, vertebrates, Mammals, etc.; H-4A.


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