dankness

Example Sentences

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High polish is out; a resourceful and sometimes hedonistic spirit, as well as frankness and dankness, are in, occasionally in ways that verge on counterculture cliché.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

But still not impossible: On the advice of a shrink — OK, several shrinks — we began preparing a covered porch space at the house a month ago for the coming season of dankness.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2020

“There’s a dankness and gloom about this festival,” one attendee told the New York Times as he waited for the ferry at Yarmouth.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2020

Liz dried her eyes and took in a deep breath of dankness and car exhaust.

From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019

Tears welled in his eyes as the boulder door rolled shut, sealing him once again in the stinky torch- lit dankness of the Cyclops’s cave.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan