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

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 reveals a gutted warehouse with rickety metal stairs leading into a dark dank basement.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

Everything around was still dripping, and the air was as wet as a sodden sponge, full of the smells of dank vegetation, of rot, of earth crawling with worms.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman