dank
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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
A dank, earthy odor hung in the air, as if mounds of fresh pencil shavings had been scattered over a newly excavated farm plot.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
It reveals a gutted warehouse with rickety metal stairs leading into a dark dank basement.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024
He sits in a dank cell in England while he fights extradition to the U.S.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024
‘My blood runs chill,’ said Gimli, but the others were silent, and his voice fell dead on the dank fir-needles at his feet.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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