dampish

Example Sentences

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The weight of a dampish plot hangs on the young mother's efforts to get away from baby long enough for an occasional hour of fun in the evenings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sample of the dampish dialogue: Diver Quinn, parrying a marriage proposal by Suzan�"Think of what our kids might be like, full of bends and nitro bubbles."

From Time Magazine Archive

He followed her through the narrow, dampish alley at the side of the house.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Just so; nice place, but lonesome and dampish.

From New National Fourth Reader by Barnes, Charles J.

Scrambling through hedges, constant walking over stony ways, beds on dampish soil--these things told upon his garments; they soon began to drop away from him in shreds.

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard