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
• Coffee makers can get very dank and moldy.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Winters here are dank and dark enough anyway.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
• When the two meet in a dank sewer pipe, a baby fatberg is born.
  — National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2017
• Iris is stuck painting little faces in a dank doll shop owned by a mad old woman.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• Iris is stuck painting little faces in a dank doll shop owned by a mad old woman.
  — Ron Charles, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Wind roaring through the trees was thick with the dank scent of lake water turning over.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
• The clay had felt dank and solid in my hand; its weight meant something, somehow.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Before man sat around and stared at the TV or dank memes, man stared at fire.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 30 June 2017
• The walls are dank with green slime, and grey pockmarked mortar bulges from between the wet bricks.
  — Longreads, 15 June 2018
• Of course, the gesture was not made without the troglodytes crawling up from the dark, dank holes.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 2 Feb. 2018
• This was no dank, dark church basement with rickety double-decker bunks and a stale odor.
  — David Fink, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2024
• Five people could comfortably fit — and there were 43 of us crammed in a dank hole.
  — Lea Lane, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• 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 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
• The lo-fi pixel-art graphics sell the dank, eerie loneliness of this setting.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• 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
• Inmates packed within the dank cells would hang their few belongings in plastic bags and beg their guards for food.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
• His bad boy antics set in the dank, hot kitchens of hell makes one wonder how anyone survives even one service.
  — Karen Katz, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
• The pixel-art graphics sell the dank, eerie loneliness of this gameworld.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
• Groff is firmly part of that trend of thinking about Florida as dank and reckless.
  — Mark Athitakis, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Basements harbor even more humidity down below and can develop a dank smell from the growth of mold and mildew.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
• For those who still don’t know what a dank meme is, let the explaining by this 142-year-old newspaper begin.
  — Neenma Ebeledike, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024