Example Sentences

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The setting is open and light, the exact opposite of the bank-vault dankness of last season’s Armory Show at the Javits Center.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

But still not impossible: On the advice of a shrink — OK, several shrinks — we began preparing a covered porch space at the house a month ago for the coming season of dankness.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2020

Liz dried her eyes and took in a deep breath of dankness and car exhaust.

From Nature • Dec. 17, 2019

Most commercial extracts don’t come in degrees of dankness or pungency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016

On the campus, students emerged from the mustiness of Suzzallo Library and the dankness of their rented rooms, blinked warily, and looked about for a place to stretch out on a patch of grass.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown