dankness

Example Sentences

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That may be a charitable description of the hold-your-hat winds and zip-up-your-puffy-jacket evenings in the city, when the dankness of the fog can make it feel colder than the official temperature readings.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2022

But still not impossible: On the advice of a shrink — OK, several shrinks — we began preparing a covered porch space at the house a month ago for the coming season of dankness.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2020

Liz dried her eyes and took in a deep breath of dankness and car exhaust.

From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019

Most commercial extracts don’t come in degrees of dankness or pungency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016

The huts were closer together here, and close to the edge of the woods, so that they were shaded by trees and smelled of dankness and rot.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry