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How to use dank in a sentence

28 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Dank means dark, damp and humid. Example: “The dank cave was chilly and spooky.”

Examples of dank by meaning

adjectiveDark, damp and humid.

  • The dank cave was chilly and spooky.
  • It's a world away from the dank and uninviting St Pancras that British Rail wanted to tear down in the 1960s.2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69

adjectiveMoist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent.

  • That was dank bud.

adjectiveExpounding right-wing views in a cool way; based.

  • His house organ Breitbart and a host of Trump-right websites and news outlets sang praises to his dank genius.2018, January 5, Rick Wilson, “Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other”, in The Daily Beast
  • One thing that always brings me joy at this time of year is to spot a really dank meme.2025 May 2, Stephen Collins, “What to look for in Spring with Kemi Badenoch”, in The Guardian

nounDankness; a dark, moist and usually unpleasant atmosphere.

  • You ain't thinking of getting rid of the dank, are you, Moe?1995, Greg Daniels, Bart Sells His Soul (The Simpsons)
  • Out of curiosity I follow him down into the dank of the basement.2002, Wendel Messer, The Sink: The Last Days of Driving, Wendel Messer, →ISBN
  • Now, though, there was a sound that seemed quite out of place there in the dank of the forest.2006 July 4, Michele Baxter, The Chronicles of Serendipus: The Tale of the Secret Keeper, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 77

nounStrong, high-quality cannabis.

  • Smoking mids will get you about three times higher than shwag, and same for dank—it'll be about six times higher than smoking some mids.2015, Scott Jacques, Richard Wright, Code of the Suburb, page 9

More sentences with dank

  • You will have to venture beyond the normiesphere to find the dankest memes.From the entry normiesphere
  • It was another dank toothache of a day, barely qualifying in its chromatic dullness for ‘grey’.2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 247. From the entry vibeless
  • A dank duochrome prevailed, matte silver and green-black, curled fog strangling the pines.2018, Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman, A Measure of Darkness. From the entry duochrome
  • You know, on a proper nutritional pyramid, dank chronic is the bottom floor.2018, Robia Rashid, “Ernest Shackleton's Rules for Survival” (10:38 from the start), in Ken Whittingham, director, Atypical, season 2…. From the entry dank chronic
  • If you ever catch a glimpse of this rare pepe, you will meme dank for eternity.2016 March 28, Hannah Hunt, “Teen of the Week”, in The Tilghman Bell, volume 92, number 8, Pacudah, Ky.: Paducah Tilghman High School…. From the entry rare pepe
  • They fill the room with a strong scent, covering up any dank smell preexisting.2015 May 4, Randall Scott, “Chapter Four - Getting Started”, in The Complete Guide to Cannabis, Randall Scott. From the entry sploof
  • A dank smell of cigarette smoke and beer had won out over schpritzes of Lysol air freshener.2001, Paul Gordon, Van Gogh's Last Painting and Other Stories from the Edge, page 91. From the entry schpritz
  • I inhaled deeply the dank, boletic smell around the woody fungus.1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, page 164. From the entry boletic
  • Here we recognise the dreary, dank, desolate, overgrown, hemlocky complex at once.1969, John Jones, “To Ripen or to Wither?”, in John Keats’s Dream of Truth, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, Inc., →ISBN, section IV…. From the entry hemlocky
  • This was a cramped space, not much bigger than a closet, with an angled ceiling and an unshiftable dank smell.2008 March 9, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times. From the entry unshiftable
  • It is a dank, deep, miserable graveyardy sort of a chill, the prison cold, and does not shift easily.2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry graveyardy
  • Dank lank growth and then the smells of intensive farming.1992, Mairi Hedderwick, Highland Journey: A Sketching Tour of Scotland: Retracing the Steps of Victorian Artist John T. Reid, Edinburgh…. From the entry stalkily
  • It turned the surrounding terrain into a dank bloodscape, full of crimson and evanescent forms like uncomprehended murders .1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, Sienna Cameron. From the entry bloodscape
  • It was the dank smell of the earth turning leaves and needles to rich soil, a beautiful rotting boletic smell that meant mushrooms.2016, Gina Ochsner, The Hidden Letters of Velta B., page 90. From the entry boletic
  • The summery G&T somehow loses its clink-clink-fizz perfection as an after-work sharpener and just seems to rub our noses in the dank gloom ahead.2015 October 22, Kate Hawkings, “Drink: make mine a gin, but hold the tonic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry sharpener
  • Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain: A Novel, Atlantic Monthly Press, page 219. From the entry breedy
  • The pier, in whose dank shadows she and boys whose names she has forgotten drank dry martini straight from the bottle, long after Thomas had disappeared.2013, Lezanne Clannachan, chapter 22, in Jellybird, Orion Books, published 2014, →ISBN. From the entry dry martini
  • The forehold was a store for sails, warps and other gear and its floor covered a dank space known as the dill room where imperishable stores were stowed.2002, John Leather, “The Ketch”, in The Gaff Rig Handbook: History, Design, Techniques, Developments, 2nd edition, London: Adlard Coles…. From the entry forehold
  • Dank meme communities love making fun of fidget spinners, especially because spinners are associated with autistic kids, a favorite target for mockery in “edgy” online spaces like 4chan and Reddit.2017, Jay Hathaway (25 May 2017), Are fidget spinners white supremacist now?, Daily Dot (retrieved 2017-11-09; archived from the original…. From the entry edgy

Meaning of dank

  1. adjective Dark, damp and humid.
  2. adjective Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent.
  3. adjective Great, awesome.

Full definition of dank

Questions about dank in a sentence

How do you use dank in a sentence?
Dank is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “The dank cave was chilly and spooky.”
What is a short sentence with dank?
“That was dank bud.”
What does dank mean?
Dank means dark, damp and humid.

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