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

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

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

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

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024

Olanna changed what was left of her British pounds and bought petrol from a man who led her into a dank outhouse with creamy-fat maggots crawling all over the floor.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie