Why, tucked down in that damp moss, your flowers will keep fresh for hours; while a bunch from a city flower-seller's stock withers as soon as it is taken out of water.
You are much obliged," she answered gravely, mixing her pronouns in her haste to slip the coin inside her damp mitten.
We'll have to damp down most of the fires, because we can't run too many firemen, but I think we ought to knock four or five knots out of her in ordinary weather.
He handed his superior officer a damp but undamaged little packet of papers.
Do you think a young lady of my pretensions can stop at home in a damp house in Warwickshire and cut bread-and-butter for little schoolboys?
At the end of the lime-tree avenue is a broken-nosed damp Faun, with a marble panpipe, who pipes to the spirit ditties which I believe never had any tune.
Lady Anne, and Lady Kew and her granddaughter, and the Baronet and his wife, and my Lord Highgate and Sir George Tufto attended the dinner; but it was rather a damp entertainment.
Carefully keeping to the damp ground that bordered the little creek, she worked her way around the huge rock, and drew up in amazement.
There was little under-brush and the horse followed easily along the creek, where here and there, in the softer soil of damp places, the girl could see the hoof marks of the rider who had crossed the divide.
Well, you see, there is the risk of the things being lost or stolen on the way home, or being ruined by damp before they are wanted again.
The heat is stifling in there, and though we are working in our shirt-sleeves we are just as damp as if we had been thrown into a pond.
Night had come, and a thick and damp mist had covered the city.
Nor did he think that her elegant and well-curved feet, encased in small high-heeled boots, would mould themselves in the damp earth of the lawn, and thus leave against him a proof clearer than the day.
He drew his hand across it; thrust a damp and gloomy face between the foliage towards his master.
Recollecting, she could feel distinctly in her knees the creepy dampas the moisture of the marshy ground penetrated her skirts, bending over the twisted face.
He soon heard them talking, too, for the sound of voices carried far in the damp air.
Since by expansion and shrinking of the timber produced by damp and dryness such floors often crack, and once cracked their divisions gradually produce dust and an ugly effect.
The final result of the two cylinders of damp clay that is a and b will be the pyramidal figures below c and d.
And the dry portion will break away readily from the damp portion because the damp part not shrinking in the same proportion does not cohere and follow the movement of the part which dries continuously.
And Polly, with the tears still damp upon her cheeks, pranced excitedly up and down the room.
The weather was perfect, the air heavy with the pungent odor ofdamp fir trees, the lake placid, beautiful, glorious.
She hated to damp their ardour, but she knew what the village would think of such gifts.
The burning sun on the fells had sucked him up; but the damp heat of the woody crag sucked him up still more; and the perspiration ran out of the ends of his fingers and toes, and washed him cleaner than he had been for a whole year.
Her lips twitched, but she replied with firm sweetness: "The Bishop says that all, or nearly all, old houses are apt to be damp in winter.
There was a strong smell of damp earth, and the turf of the wide spreading lawns looked spongy.
All the windows of the drawing-room looked into Hyde Park, on to the damp grass, the leafless trees, the untenanted spaces of autumn.
It lay low, in a somewhat damp spot close to the river, faced north, and had no particular view.
Matters took an unexpected turn, however, for the poor lad had caught cold by sleeping on damp straw in the empty house, and was confined to bed with a sharp attack of rheumatism.
After all, it was disappointing, as bare and empty as the others, with torn paper hanging in strips from the damp walls.
Next to my tailor, except for a Chinese laundry with a damp celestial smell, is a delicatessen shop with a pleasant sound of French across the counter.
They think it a merit to go tripping across the damp grass to inspect their gardens.
In real life I have remarked that it is frequently damp and rheumatic, and most hated by those who know it best.
Mr. Merrywinkle’s leaving home to go to business on a dampor wet morning is a very elaborate affair.
It’s quite a mistake to suppose that damp is unwholesome: plants thrive best in damp situations, and why shouldn’t men?
The thick damp mist hung over the town like a huge gauze curtain.
Perhaps the box would suit the gentleman better,’ suggested a very damp lawyer’s clerk, in a pink shirt, and a smirking countenance.
Several other minor causes, too, united to damp the ardour of the dramatis personae.
It is getting dreadfully damp down there; and I cannot keep the guns bright and the floors dry.
I soon forget that dampwinter morning, when we all had such hope at the office.
It's damp after rain, and it's hot after sun, and it's icy after frost.
A nasty, infected thing, to be sure, damp and filthy from Ned's handling.
The young wife returned to Adrian's bedside, thinking anxiously of the speedy death of many comrades of the dear boy, whose damp hand rested in hers.
He may need them on the water in the damp autumn weather.
The Count got into the vehicle, a half-open coach, smelling of damp leather and mould.
Lato started up, his heart beating, his brow dampwith moisture.
One had need to have come from Bohemia, not to go directly home, in such cold, damp weather as we had; but we wanted to get value from our expensive trip.
The tall pines crowd closer and closer on either side of the road; the strip of moon-lit sky grows narrower overhead; the damp odour of decaying vegetation poisons the air.
The air was damp and laden with a fragrance so sweet as to be almost sickening.
Then, her eyes growing accustomed to the obscurity, she put out her hand and felt her way along the empty seats, with their damp musty shrouds.
Moses sat opposite to her, with his coat off, and his heavy black curls more wavy and glossy than ever, as the exercise made them damp with perspiration.
Arbutus, fragrant with its clean, wholesome odors, gave forth its thousand dewy pink blossoms, and the trailing Linnea borealis hung its pendent twin bells round every mossy stump and old rock damp with green forest mould.
Yet as he lay pressing his face against the cool, green grass, and clutching the soft, damp moss with his hands, it was not sorrow or pain he felt, but only a bitter longing for revenge.
And he went up into the gloomy glens, up and up, till the lowland grew blue beneath his feet, and the clouds drove damp about his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "damp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
