clammy
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The frenzied scenes around this clammy building eventually abated, only for Faye Rogers to spark more bedlam with a rampant gold in the 200m individual medley SM10.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“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
Symptoms of heat exhaustion include clammy skin, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fainting and muscle cramps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
Those opposing him can only take a clammy kind of pleasure in reminding them that this is what they voted for.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
I jerk away from his clammy touch, and he gives me a grin.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Nothing could be clammier, but, still, you can sense the film slithering toward a dead end.
From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2017
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 John Conington
They put their hands into their pockets, and my hand kept growing clammier all the time.
From The Promised Land by Mary Antin
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 Frank Richard Stockton
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The Cay
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And Then There Were None
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