[ UK /dˈæŋk/ ]
[ US /ˈdæŋk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. unpleasantly cool and humid
    a clammy handshake
    a dank cellar
    clammy weather
    dank rain forests
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How To Use dank In A Sentence

  • J.C. nodded and I followed him down into the dark dankness of Zacharis' unfinished basement. The Dog Catcher
  • Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat. Cold Mountain
  • British summers mean we get rain, wind, sun, snow and frost all in the same week but our winters are just so glum, no blizzards just unrelenting dankness.
  • It dawned today dankly raining, but by mid morning and my coffee pilgrimage there was sunlight, intermittently, and a warming breeze from the south.
  • The moist eastern slopes of the Andes tumble to dank, humid, jungle lowlands whose rivers are the highways for transportation.
  • Hinter diesem Gedanken, der ein wenig misanthropisch vorkommen mag, hört man deutlich den milden und klugen Humor, der Ihr ganzes schriftstellerisches Werk durchströmt. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 - Presentation Speech
  • The pictures also show the dank, dark conditions the miners endured for two months. The Sun
  • How about figuring out what the trip tik is supposed to be for the 3 remaining years so the rest of us can get somewhere other than this dank and dark place you have us stuck in now. CNN Poll: Obama approval under 50 percent
  • Place it somewhere cool and bright and out of the sun, but not in some cold, dank corner with no air passing round it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only down the side of this trickled moisture which had stained the stone with encrusta - tions and given life to some strange and ominous-looking growths pallidly yellow and dankly gray in the globe light. Flight in Yiktor
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