damply
- 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
Darrell D'Silva is glittering and reptilian; Niall Ashdown ingratiates damply.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2013
He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils; his mouth was set as steel.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
