dankness

Example Sentences

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High polish is out; a resourceful and sometimes hedonistic spirit, as well as frankness and dankness, are in, occasionally in ways that verge on counterculture cliché.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

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

“There’s a dankness and gloom about this festival,” one attendee told the New York Times as he waited for the ferry at Yarmouth.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2020

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

From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019

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