clammy
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“In the ‘morning’ the air is thick; it hangs in a clammy, damp mass that you can all but grasp with your hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Past the double glass doors, Maria Pascual, an employee, sat in front of a computer, her forehead clammy from the warmth.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025
"I woke on Wednesday morning not feeling too good. I was clammy and there was a tightness in my chest."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
Writing in his column in The Sunday Times, the 64-year-old said he had symptoms of feeling "clammy", a "tightness" in his chest, and "pins and needles" in his left arm after returning from a holiday.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
And then, as she stood there, listening—a cold, clammy hand touched her throat—a wet hand, smelling of the sea....
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
Nothing could be clammier, but, still, you can sense the film slithering toward a dead end.
From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2017
They put their hands into their pockets, and my hand kept growing clammier all the time.
From The Promised Land by Antin, Mary
No books of mine on stall or counter stand, To tempt Tigellius' or some clammier hand, Nor read I save to friends, and that when pressed, Not to chance auditor or casual guest.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John
But there's one thing that chills my blood clammier than even the cold weather, and that is the thought of that whale follerin' us.
From The Great Stone of Sardis by Stockton, Frank Richard
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The Cay
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