Sentences with damp
damp
D d - Her hair was still damp.
- There was damp everywhere and the entire building was in need of rewiring.
- These are common in shady or damp areas and while they won't damage the pavers, they will cause them to become slippery.
- Transfer to a lightly oiled bowl, brush the dough with oil to coat lightly and cover with a damp cloth.
- Hillsden damped a hand towel and laid it across her forehead. [VERB noun]
- To damp one's ardour
- Despite consultants warning the Latrobe City Council that the damp forest habitat is virtually irreplaceable in a region largely cleared.
- To damp your tender hopes - Mark Akenside Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug - Francis Bacon How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! - Sir John Lubbock The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. - Thomas Babington Macaulay Hollow rollers damp vibration. - [1]
- damp weather; a damp towel.
- The welcoming committee gave them a rather damp reception.
- damp that goes through your warmest clothes.
- A series of failures damped her enthusiasm.
- To damp a furnace.