DANK in a Sentence

Learn DANK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for DANK, such as:

1. Their dank hair hung trailed over their brows.
2. Then it began to dawn upon me that the air was heavy, and dank, and cold.
3. People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life.
4. They're ten thousand miles away, hiding in dank caves and surrounded by hundreds people.

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dank
 a.  disagreeably damp or humid; cold moisture; unpleasant humidity
Classic Sentence:
1  Their dank hair hung trailed over their brows.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Then it began to dawn upon me that the air was heavy, and dank, and cold.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  It was indeed a paradise compared to the bleak forest, my former residence, the rain-dropping branches, and dank earth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the vault.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Example Sentence:
1  They're ten thousand miles away, hiding in dank caves and surrounded by hundreds people.
2  People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life.