dank
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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 The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
More than 1.4 million people visit each year, walking through the dank cell blocks and taking in exhibits on the Native American occupation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
She adds: "It's dark, it's dank… it's perfect. And this just became another one of those opportunities for us to embrace and say, 'let's go'."
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024
He sits in a dank cell in England while he fights extradition to the U.S.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024
One of the curtains hung at a tilt below the pelmet, and though the windows were open, the air was dank, as though exhaled many times.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing dank
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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