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  • Inside, a three-level bunk bed with blankets and sponge-rubber mattresses lined the inside wall.

    Animal Shadows Dirk van Nouhuys 2009

  • Inside, a three-level bunk bed with blankets and sponge-rubber mattresses lined the inside wall.

    Animal Shadows 2009

  • At the near end was a 2010 Volvo XC60, and at the far end, a couple of hundred feet farther along, was a sponge-rubber object vaguely similar to a small car.

    2009 New York Auto Show: Driving the Volvo XC60 with City Safety 2009

  • At the near end was a 2010 Volvo XC60, and at the far end, a couple of hundred feet farther along, was a sponge-rubber object vaguely similar to a small car.

    2009 New York Auto Show: Driving the Volvo XC60 with City Safety 2009

  • A floating line with a 9-foot, 4X leader tipped with a size 8 bluegill popper or sponge-rubber floating bug is your ticket to bluegill heaven.

    Spring Tactics for Big Bluegill from Field and Stream's John Merwin 2004

  • For simple cleaning purposes, or to efface the pencil lines when they are drawn very lightly, squares of sponge-rubber answer admirably, these being furnished by the dealers in drawing materials.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

  • Valdez, speaking from under a huge, sponge-rubber Portuguese top hat.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • Valdez, speaking from under a huge, sponge-rubber Portuguese top hat.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • Perry Clark, who grew up playing the sport, said that heat gives the sponge-rubber ball too much bounce.

    unknown title 2009

  • Light a fire in here,’ we say, and dry out those blankets and sponge-rubber mattresses.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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