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How to use clammy in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Clammy means cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms. Example: “His hands were clammy from fright.”

Examples of clammy by meaning

adjectiveCold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.

  • His hands were clammy from fright.
  • It was cold and clammy, a deadlike feeling.2010 December, Sharon Orsack, “Chapter One”, in Bobby & Me: A Novel, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN, page 9

More sentences with clammy

  • Fabrics made of unabsorbent fibers feel clammy in cold weather and sticky in hot weather.1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry unabsorbent
  • His hands were clammy, his feet seemed to have grown larger and taken root.1919, Christopher Morley, “Aubrey Goes to the movies, and Wishes He Knew More German”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.…. From the entry complot
  • The sand and air under the boardwalk was cool and clammy, and there were smells of sea things and picnic garbage.1945, J. D. Salinger, “Elaine”, in Story, volume 26, page 45. From the entry retreatful
  • Her lips were clammy, but in her rheumy eyes there still burned the light of a vague desire.1929, Robert Dean Frisbie, The Book of Puka-Puka, London: Eland Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry rheumy
  • Their complexion was lustreless and clammy, although Aunt Evelyn's odd man had given them all the energy of his elbow.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 86. From the entry odd man
  • Folks gobbled this book up because it packed intricate puzzles, propulsive plotwork, clammy paranoia, cheeky irreligiousness and armchair globetrotting into one teasingly easy-to-read brain snack.2009 June 20, Geoff Pevere, “The Century So Far: Books”, in Toronto Star. From the entry plotwork
  • It will help you to sleep tonight if you have aches and pains, or cold clammy dreams about dead contes and contessas,” he teased.1986, Heather Graham Pozzessere, The Di Medici Bride, Silhouette Intimate Moments, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry conte
  • The wisping mists of cold that scarved the tubes grew more dense, more active, until the whole room was clammy with their breath.1982, Ardath Mayhar, chapter 3, in Runes of the Lyre, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry scarve
  • But deep inside his clammy right hand, which was clutching a handful of shiny black horse hair that had been woven into the back of Daphne's unsteady head.2012, F.W. Brooks, The Tithes of March: A Novel by F.W. Brooks, →ISBN. From the entry spew
  • But a clammy feeling soon dampened his enthusiasm, and he looked down to find his fine white suit streaked with violet where the ianthinas had discharged their ink.1949, Ray Smith Bassler, Shelled creatures and geological history. From the entry ianthina
  • He went over to it, held it in his hands awhile, feeling its coolness, smelling the clammy slaver of the lather in which the brush was stuck.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry slaver

Meaning of clammy

  1. adjective Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
  2. adjective The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.

Full definition of clammy

Questions about clammy in a sentence

How do you use clammy in a sentence?
Clammy is used as an adjective. For example: “His hands were clammy from fright.”
What is a short sentence with clammy?
“His hands were clammy from fright.”
What does clammy mean?
Clammy means cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.

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