: unpleasantly moist or wet
a dank basement
dankly
adverb
dankness
noun
Examples of dank in a Sentence
vegetables tended to go bad quickly in the dank cellar
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The setting is a dank New England mansion circa 1954.
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Kirk Ellis, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners.
—Air Mail, 2 May 2026
Wearing a surgical mask to hold off the dank air, Reyes chose a bike and, before going to work on its components, performed the last rite for its former life.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Coffee makers can get very dank and moldy.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
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Kirk Ellis, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners.
—Air Mail, 2 May 2026
Wearing a surgical mask to hold off the dank air, Reyes chose a bike and, before going to work on its components, performed the last rite for its former life.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Coffee makers can get very dank and moldy.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for dank
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“Dank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dank. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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