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

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

Most often, though, it is like a cold, dank cellar…..

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024

For those who still don’t know what a dank meme is, let the explaining by this 142-year-old newspaper begin.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

There was an abandoned warehouse inside, a dark, dank sort of place where rats scuttled.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron