clammy
Example Sentences
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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
This evolutionary gift adds a clammy disquiet to the eye-jacked livestock, which never rests and is constantly evaluating its captors and fellow captives.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 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
It is drizzling down the heels of my shoes and is getting clammy.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing clammy
The Cay
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