dank

Such minor miracles are everywhere in the history of horror, which has always been something of cinema’s dank basement, and its most fertile ground for low-fi creativity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Damon, Bernthal and up to 25 others crammed into the dank vessel and clung to its cross beams as cold water pumped in and the silo rocked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

These are the thoughts running through my mind at 3:30 a.m. in a dank basement on a dance floor my friends and I love to live on.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

She chose the portal on the right, for the other two were dank and unwelcoming, and this one seemed to be warm and pleasant.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Typically, it takes samples from early-90s hip-hop and deploys distorting techniques such as chopped and screwed – the song-stretching fad that peaked in 2009 – to create a darker, danker sound.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2017

The same sort of fungi can still be found sprouting palely in the darker, danker corners of A.F. of L. For instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most discussions about human differences remain stuck in myth, pseudo-science and the danker parts of the psyche.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even if you lived on a hill just above the Bottoms, it seemed lower and danker than the meanest hut on a graded street.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

In his later speculations, this author conceives that the termination ish forms the first degree of comparison; as, "Imperfect, dankish," Pos. dank, Comp. danker, Superl. dankest.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — a pair of boundlessly eager, profoundly unrepentant aspirants to the dankest depths of political chicanery — were watching television together the other day when something caught Burkman’s eye.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2019

It simply takes this premise to its dankest and most outrageous ends, yielding a version of politics that is, in its way, darker than anything you see on “House of Cards.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2017

The grimmest walk-up and the dankest trailer can be rendered more livable by the introduction of tinkling water, wild pachanga music, or soothing birdsong.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2015

Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney have been together for more than a decade and have slowly climbed from the dirtiest, dankest of basements and clubs to headline theaters and, now, stadiums.

From Chicago Tribune ● Sep. 19, 2014

Here the rivers were a stagnant marsh, with outlet hidden by dankest forest growth where the light of the sun never penetrated.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut