Through and beyond them Marguerite gradually became aware of three walls of a narrow room, dank and grey, half covered with whitewash and half with greenish mildew!
Her cloak and dress, now mud-stained and dank with splashings of salt-water, attracted no one's attention.
Like hunted quarry seeking for shelter, sombre figures flattened themselves in the angles of the dank walls, as the noisy carousers drew nigh.
On the way back to Hampstead in the dank murkiness of the cab, Beatrice became confidential.
Since the previous day I regretted to find that the weather had undergone a complete change; the summit of Eryri was now enveloped in dark clouds, the morning was cold, and the air was dank and chilly.
Gladly do we now exchange the dank atmosphere of Saint Cyprian's cell, and the horrors which have detained us there so long, for balmy air, genial sunshine, and the boon companionship of Dick Turpin.
The western wind was wild anddank wi' foam, And all alone went she.
They lie in their lairs of dank spear-grass, Down in the gorge, where the prairie dips.
He had climbed down the slippery stairs through that dank couloir or funnel in the rock overhung with drooping maidenhair and ivy and umbrageous carobs.
Wandering about this dank and mournful pile of wreckage, he could understand why simple folks should dread to enter so ghoul-haunted a spot.
They crept against the tawny precipices, clinging to their pinnacles like shreds of pallid gauze, and nestling demurely among dankclefts where something of the mystery of night still lingered.
A mat of shadows crept over the flat salt marshes and through the dank yellowed grasses.
An odor that was not only of the damp, dank underbrush; an odor that, in its putridness, almost suffocated him.
He could see it lifting in a faint gray line, uncovering the reach of the flat salt marshes with their dank yellowed grasses; a thin silver net of it hung for a second between the sky and the earth, and was gone.
He stood quite still knowing that beneath its dank dribbling thickness, the sea churned wildly in its rising tide.
Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank 130 Soil to a plash?
It was as silent as the grave: the air was dank and chill and the trees dripped sorrowfully into the brimming ruts of the road.
The bedroom had an evil look and this, combined with the dank air from the canal, gave my thoughts a sombre tinge.
For presently it had come on to rain--a thick, dank rain, which wetted through all covering, yet fell soft as caressing on the skin.
The night wind came through the open door, dank and cold.
The dread white poppies are in his outstretched hand--the great, nodding white poppies which have come from the dank places and have never known the sun.
He gasped, struggled, and in a fervent outburst of thanksgiving regained the dank mound.
His first exclamation, on reaching the spot where I stood, was, "Dank Gott!
The various kinds of dirt that crusted the stone floor, which must have been left uncleaned for years, had mingled and intermingled until they became a thin layer of slime, which gave forth a dank odour.
The air was dank and musty, so that matches sputtered only feebly when struck, and the light from a taper was hardly strong enough to chase the darkness from the half of each small tank.
No paths exist, the place is desert, and over the dank mass of vegetation the moisture from the clouds of vapour thrown up by the falling water descends in never-ending rain.
Serpents and caw-caws and bats, screech-owls and crickets and adders-- These were the guides of that witch through the dank deeps of the forest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boggy; damp; dank; dewy; humid; marshy; moist; muggy; rainy; rank; steamy; sticky; swampy; tacky; wet
