Example Sentences

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The dead hand of the late Thorne Smith lies clammily on Author Langley's pages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Worst of all, you don’t even stay dry; the waterproofs keep out the rain but make you sweat so much that soon you are clammily sodden.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

She twitched her own shoulders fretfully under the silk that stuck clammily against her skin.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The Girl was sitting on the coaming of the hatch in a state of collapse, her wet garment clinging clammily about her, her head in her hands, her slender figure shaken with convulsive sobs.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John