dank
Example Sentences
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“God it’s cold and dank here! Wish I was still a pet in your family!”
A smell of human waste, yes, and the dank mist, but beneath it the glorious living smell that he had smelled in the woods, and in the breath of the unicorn.
From Literature
The bounding wolf flew past her and knocked her flat on her back, with a whoosh of hot wolf breath and dank fur smell.
From Literature
As far as she knew, the wise old founder had never had to flee actors dressed as pirates by crawling through a dank, dark tunnel into the British Museum after hours.
From Literature
Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
