dank

Example Sentences

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Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

More than 1.4 million people visit each year, walking through the dank cell blocks and taking in exhibits on the Native American occupation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

Most often, though, it is like a cold, dank cellar…..

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024

He sits in a dank cell in England while he fights extradition to the U.S.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024

It registered on me after a time that the mine was not the cold, dank, ugly place I’d always imagined it to be.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam