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

Darrell D'Silva is glittering and reptilian; Niall Ashdown ingratiates damply.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

In sneakers he passed beneath the twelve damply newspapered birdcages suspended from the rafters.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides