Example sentences for: clammy

How can you use “clammy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Katz's basement sounds like a clammy and frightening place to work, but it's not the scariest place he knows, as he confided to New York magazine two months ago in a piece about his suburban community of Montclair, N.J.

  • Keats celebrates an autumn so deliciously warm that the bees have been fooled into thinking it is still summer: "Until they think warm days will never cease,/ For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells."

  • The ambience isn't as clammy as Fincher's in Seven , but it's dank enough, with eerie intimations of a demon lying in wait.

  • The ship is a clammy and morbid universe of its own, holding great masses of bombs and personnel, all tightly organized.

  • The shame is not so much the obvious absurdity as that such a reading, clutching at alien abstractions, finds no place to observe the perfect specificity of describing honeycombs as "clammy cells."


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