fog bank

American  

noun

1. a stratum of fog as seen from a distance.

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fog bank British  

noun

1. a distinct mass of fog, esp at sea

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Etymology

Origin of fog bank

First recorded in 1650–60

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Example Sentences

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fog bank

His answer was lucid as a fog bank and inspiring as a stalk of celery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025

But this isn’t a legally enforceable standard—it’s a verbal fog bank.

From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2023

WINTHROP, Okanogan County — On the worst days, and there have been many, one can see nothing but white — a hot, suffocating fog bank that smells of burning wood and blots out the sun.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

The fog bank grew taller, like accumulating wealth, then broke up into twisting wraithlike ribbons as it was buffeted and caressed by currents.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018

What is meant to sound like an antislavery argument transforms itself in midpassage into a verbal fog bank that descends over the entire subject like a cloud.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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