Assertion: sponge | /r/HasProperty | sedentary
Facets:
value: like all other sponges
type: OTHER
value: for most of their life cycle
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Sponges, for example, are sedentary for most of their life cycle but do spend their larval stage as free-swimming animals.
text: Being sedentary animals, sponges cannot swim away from a predator, and they have little in the way of structural armament (some sponges have large defensive spicules).
text: Like all other sponges, they are sedentary filter feeders.