dank

Example Sentences

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“God it’s cold and dank here! Wish I was still a pet in your family!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

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

She adds: "It's dark, it's dank… it's perfect. And this just became another one of those opportunities for us to embrace and say, 'let's go'."

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

Clustered in a dank, darkened corridor offstage, members of the chorus drew themselves up, preparing to burst into song.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

A smell of human waste, yes, and the dank mist, but beneath it the glorious living smell that he had smelled in the woods, and in the breath of the unicorn.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell