dank
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It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
Many seats, located behind thick steel girders, have obstructed views and the stadium can feel dark and dank on cold Liverpool nights.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
These are the thoughts running through my mind at 3:30 a.m. in a dank basement on a dance floor my friends and I love to live on.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
It’s cold and dank, with piles of pelts that I’m guessing haven’t seen the light of day in years.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Typically, it takes samples from early-90s hip-hop and deploys distorting techniques such as chopped and screwed – the song-stretching fad that peaked in 2009 – to create a darker, danker sound.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2017
Most discussions about human differences remain stuck in myth, pseudo-science and the danker parts of the psyche.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same sort of fungi can still be found sprouting palely in the darker, danker corners of A.F. of L. For instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even if you lived on a hill just above the Bottoms, it seemed lower and danker than the meanest hut on a graded street.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The dripping tombstone that blocked Priscilla's window grew danker and blacker as the day went by.
From The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth
During the dankest days of the pandemic lockdowns, Dana Loesch needed something to occupy herself.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2021
It simply takes this premise to its dankest and most outrageous ends, yielding a version of politics that is, in its way, darker than anything you see on “House of Cards.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2017
Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney have been together for more than a decade and have slowly climbed from the dirtiest, dankest of basements and clubs to headline theaters and, now, stadiums.
From Chicago Tribune ● Sep. 19, 2014
I haven’t seen every stinker ever produced, so I can’t categorically confirm that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark belongs in the dankest subbasement of the American musical theater.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2013
From sheer weariness they slept at times, in chill discomfort and dankest wretchedness, just where they sat or lay.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
Vocabulary lists containing dank
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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