dank

Example Sentences

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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

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

To someone living outside these dank walls, the changes might seem small.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

He sits in a dank cell in England while he fights extradition to the U.S.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024

The cellar, she gathers, is merely a dank hole in the ground.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr