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

Good Gentlemen; You seem to have a snuffing in your head Sir, A parlous snuffing, but this same dampish air— 2 A dampish air indeed.

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country by Beaumont, Francis

These ant-hills, I am persuaded, supply a foundation to certain tufts of low trees which spring up in dampish places where the spring fires have less sweep.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various