Definition of Dank
dank (noun) - cold moisture; unpleasant humidity
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How can dank be used in a sentence?
There's something kind of dank and nasty about "under the sink"....
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nullDoctors wheel a girl through what can only be described as a dank dungeon.
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nullWe ended up being put into a dank, nasty-ass holding cell that smelled like piss.
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nullYou'd think moles would talk about rot, mold, dank air and its effect on young moles.
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nullRemember when flat, uncomfortable inclining lifts were installed in dank, musty homes?
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nullShe's a very strategic player, and has strategically painted herself into a dank corner.
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nullFor long, snooker was a stodgy unpopular game for old men in tuxedos in dank smoky halls.
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nullSmall, dank, drenched in glowing blue light, the room is painted like the skin of a zebra.
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nullIt's a dank, dirty existence Uxbal has and everyone in his world is exploited one way or another.
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nullThose dank, dangerous razor-wired fortresses that now warehouse upward to three million poor Americans.
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nullNemtsov spent 40 hours sitting on his jacket in a dank 5-by-10-foot room with no windows, toilet or bed.
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nullThere came whispering up out of it, and a dank wet smell, as if there were running water a mile away below.
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nullActually to call it dank is a tad untrue - we were blessed with clear blue skies which lit up leaves, hips and haws.
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nullNo given aspect of my life is in any state more dire than "dank," though my commute to work this morning was miserable.
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nullSomething dark, dank and disturbingly familiar has saturated the airways, clogging reason and exacerbating racial anxiety and paranoia.
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nullAs soon as the three songs were finished, Stan/Paul quickly took off his guitar and led me out of the dark, dank, 15x15 sweatbox of a room.
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nullBut the compound subject is really equivalent to "the willow with its osiers dank," osiers being water-willows or their branches. ~dank~, damp: comp.
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nullI scramble to the barracks, peer in at low dank spaces where quarrymen slept and ate, two to a bed and four to a dark, earth-floored room under a poor and leaking roof.
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nullPractically everyone in Manhattan knows someone who knows someone who can alert them to a "friends and family" sample sale or get them into a fashion show in some dank warehouse.
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nullTable 7 (US/Marko Slavnic & Andrew McDonald): A simple argument between lovers dining in a Chinese restaurant is being listened to by an Asian man in a dank room full of those surveilling the diners.
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nullThe scent of jasmine fills the air in Southern California, flip flops get rescued from the dank depths of the closet and my dog's birthday lands on the 11th -- which means pupcakes, laughter and a rockin 'dog party on the roof.
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nullThe second excerpt (located at a separate URL) describes his encounter with a homeless man living in dank tunnel near the airport, who has fashioned himself an elevated bed that manages to stay above the water line even during major flooding.
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nullHowever, each time, we do the search to be thorough, and end up covering the same list of New Age and Wiccan stores in the area, most of which are located in one-story storefronts and strip malls, as opposed to hidden down dank alleys and forgotten byways.
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nullNesta Robert Marley: One need only speak his name to conjure up dank, dimly lit college dorm rooms where dreadlocked hippies try to sneak Thai sticks past watchful R. A.'s as the offbeat guitar of "One Love" or "Buffalo Soldier" or "Get Up Stand Up" churns.
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nullWhat we were witnessing was old-fashioned Headingley cricket, although it appeared to be overcast rather than one of those dank, gloomy days where the light meter is always only a twitch away from being out, and by the second session there was blue sky around.
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nullIf you're old enough, the very mention of Brother Dominic and Xerox, automatically calls to mind memories of the corpulent monk in the hollow dank monastery, carrying a bundle of manuscripts to a print copier salesperson with the mournful plea: ` ` Can you do a big job for me. ''?
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nullJust before the tour ended, the sky erupted with a crash of thunder and rain began pelting down -- leaving us with the unsavory options of biking through a downpour or staying in Karostas Cietums, whose unlit hallways and dank cells became no less creepy when illuminated by lightning.
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nullWith that saved money we can take vacations to the beach in the summer, go skiing in the winter, save more for college, and in general spend our money on things we value more than supporting a cute but dank and crusty old mom and pop store with often past-date dry goods and dairy products.
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nullNews at Eleven: But the metrical sprawl produces moments of real bathos; "a tragedy where I played a leading role myself" is far weaker than the equivalent lines in Surrey or Dryden, and the declining stars passage comes across as overwritten and too intent on provocative effect "dank," "sweeping".
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nullJ. Kenneth Blackwell, the former Secretary of State of Ohio whose administration of the 2004 election made Katherine Harris look like Mary Tyler Moore, is aggressively pushing to become the next chair of the Republican National Committee when its 168 members convene in 2009 to figure out how to pull their party out of the deep, dank hole they have dug themselves into.
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nullIt was delightful and satisfying to come into the spacious and cozy livingroom, filled with overstuffed easychairs and comfortable couches, warmed by the most efficient of centralheating systems or to use one of the perfectly appointed bathrooms whose every fixture was the best money could buy and recall the dank stone floors and walls leading up to a mammoth and -- from a thermal point of view -- perfectly useless fireplace flanked by the coatsofarms of deadandgone gentry who were content to shuffle out on inclement mornings to answer nature's calls in chilly outhouses.
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Tips for Using dank in a Sentence
You may have an easier time writing sentences with dank if you know what words are likely to come before or after it, or simply what words are often found in the same sentence.
Frequent Predecessors
Words that often come before dank in sentences. For example: "the dank" or "a dank"
- the
- a
- and
- of
- was
- in
- this
- that
- sei
- vielen
Frequent Successors
Words that often come after dank in sentences. For example: "dank and" or "dank ."
- and
- .
- air
- der
- smell
- with
- basement
- tarn
- ik
- verpflichtet
Associated Words
Words that aren't necessarily predecessors or successors, but are often found in the same sentence.
- stash
- meme
- tinder
- memes
- sie
- mich
- haus
- sei
- bernie
- skype
Alternate Definitions
- dank (noun) - water, in general
- dank (adjective) - damp; moist; humid; wet
- dank (noun) - a small silver coin current in persia
- dank (noun) - moisture; humidity; water
