How to Use dank in a Sentence

dank

adjective

• The amount of time spent in a dank strip club has gone way up.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
• In front of the houses stretched a dank lawn strewn with leaves.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2020
• The hazy golden ale is a touch fruity and just a bit dank—but in a good way.
  — Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 10 June 2019
• Before man sat around and stared at the TV or dank memes, man stared at fire.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 30 June 2017
• The bottom line is this: Masks protect you and your dank squad.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2020
• The tunnels are dark — most of the network, save for the entrances, is out of the reach of sunlight — and dank.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• Of course, the gesture was not made without the troglodytes crawling up from the dark, dank holes.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 2 Feb. 2018
• Each time a match went out, the dank smell of the place—tarry and rotten—settled on them like the whole foul weight of the past.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• Wind roaring through the trees was thick with the dank scent of lake water turning over.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
• When the two meet in a dank sewer pipe, a baby fatberg is born.
  — Erika Engelhaupt, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2017
• When the two meet in a dank sewer pipe, a baby fatberg is born.
  — National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2017
• The walls are dank with green slime, and grey pockmarked mortar bulges from between the wet bricks.
  — Longreads, 15 June 2018
• The clay had felt dank and solid in my hand; its weight meant something, somehow.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• But the Black collectors were forced to ride the bus or walk home in their dank clothes covered in flecks of trash and maggots.
  — Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• Everything from hazy and dank IPAs, 10-year-old bourbons, crisp ales, fruity and smooth ciders, to red and white wines.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• Iris is stuck painting little faces in a dank doll shop owned by a mad old woman.
  — Ron Charles, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The monastery, painted a bright white with a cheerful red trim, was dank and nearly pitch-black inside.
  — Teddy Minford, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2022
• The huge cultural change since the 1970s is that now it’s consumed at home on video and the Web, not in steamy movie theaters and dank peep-show booths.
  — Esther Inglis-Arkell, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2017
• The cold calls go out, hundreds a day, from a dank basement in the redwood hills south of San Francisco.
  — Sabrina Willmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Slums sprouted like mushrooms in a dank labyrinth of streets where the height of fancy plumbing was a top-floor window to piss out of.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2018
• The aforementioned rich history of the team is almost nowhere to be found amidst the dank concourse and the sparse, prison-like lighting.
  — Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The lo-fi pixel-art graphics sell the dank, eerie loneliness of this setting.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• Shipboard conditions for sailors could be cold and dank.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
• For two years, the U.S. military had allowed millions of pieces of mail from the home front to pile up in dank warehouses.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• This was no dank, dark church basement with rickety double-decker bunks and a stale odor.
  — David Fink, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2024
• But the second image might be more perplexing to those who have not spent the last four years in the dank, dark basement of the Internet.
  — Nina Jankowicz, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2021
• The small lavatory, with its dank odor, is decked out with bloody images of Putin and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• Most of this final episode is set in a dark, dank Collin County courtroom in McKinney in 1980.
  — Dallas News, 10 May 2022
• Now the room is host to an Owens + Crawley water-safe light installation that bathes the dank walls in colors.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2021
• She was stripped naked and left with nothing but a blanket and a roll of toilet paper in a dank windowless room.
  — Saida Grundy, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024