damp
adjective
slightly wet; moist.
damply
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a word derived from
damp.
Example Sentences
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“The Delacorte just got the green light to be completely rebuilt,” he said in a nearby Italian restaurant, where we had retreated, damply.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
My rain jacket has soaked through and my sweater is damply clinging to my shoulders.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2018
"What a shame, then," he writes, "that the animation is so workaday and the final denouement so damply familiar."
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2015
As the storm damply spun itself out, the National Weather Service's storm warnings were downgraded to watches, then advisories, and ultimately were canceled.
From Reuters ● Mar. 6, 2013
From the rainy section of the forest, a third figure appeared: a gray-skinned woman whose hair clung damply to her face.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
