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How to use damp in a sentence

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I prefer plastic ends to metal because the metal ones tend to rust if they get damp.
She stepped into the bathroom, still damp from the steam of the hot shower, and a waft of rose scent filled her nostrils.
The wall plate supporting the ground floor structure was not isolated from the damp walls and was, itself, damp.
Garlic Mustard, sometimes known as Jack-by-the-Hedge, is a common perennial. It is often found in hedgerows and likes damp woodland.
Heavy infestations of acarid mites indicate that storage conditions are too damp or dusty.
Anyway, we eventually got the very damp wood burning and enough heat in the fire to produce tea and jaffles.
The bag was beginning to lose its resistance, and so the box was a little warped where the damp had seeped through.
Once you've established that the car runs acceptably, try all electric functions to make sure they haven't been affected by damp.
While the paint is still damp, I drop blobs of brown paint onto the wet wash, creating a random spotted pattern.
If washable paper you may be able to wipe off with a sudsy sponge, followed by damp sponge.
If the sheets have cooled, throw a damp washcloth in the dryer and resume drying for 10 more minutes.
There is no shower on the space shuttle, and so astronauts use a damp sponge or washcloth and soaps that do not need to be rinsed off.
The house smelt of damp, the baths were old-fashioned and there wasn't an endless supply of hot water.
Seals and seams are known to be less than watertight, and many divers make do with damp suits rather than drysuits.
Turning back, I let Charles lead the way, laughing along with him and feeling the chilly wind on my damp skin.
Finally, the quires of pages are bound between two wooden covers and the spine is tied with damp leather.
Cloud and water vapour may tend to damp down the effects of increased greenhouse gases, or they may act to magnify such effects.
Last week's cold snap will exacerbate problems, making flat batteries, frozen radiators and damp electrical systems all the more likely.
The Inspectorate's report required rusty radiators, flaking paint, brittle water pipes, damp and floor defects to be fixed within three months.
It is inside the green cells of spinach leaves and the damp flesh of apples.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Over the stockings he wore boots of cordwain fastened on the inside, as a protection against damp.
Such damp spots in the paper crush in the calendering and make blackened areas in the paper.
In asphalting damp places, such as cellars and foundations, a brick invert is always laid in asphalt beneath the concrete.
And what will you do with this damp abode of fogs, which, if I mistake not, must adjoin the dining-hall?
So, admitting Mudfog to be damp, we distinctly state that it is salubrious.
In the more damp and marshy places the bottom is covered with marsh trefoil, carex, smooth equisetum, and rush.
The day was warm and damp, a day of scirocco, frequent at Milan in the early autumn.
A strong smell of lime, wet earth and damp masonry was blown into Orsino's nostrils by the scirocco wind.
The small fingers, used to the drudgery of a fisherwoman's life, lifted the damp hair from the high forehead.
A sheet of damp paper was laid on it and the back of the paper was carefully rubbed with a dabber or burnisher.
Two species of Leopard's Bane are occasionally to be seen in damp woods and thickets, especially near villages.
They were putting on outer clothes from the store-room to protect them from the dirt and damp.
They have got you now and you're all damp and drippy, and your best girl is having one hysteric after another.
The chart room of the Gaston de Paris was a pleasant change from the dark and damp of the bridge.
The damp snow packed on Blondey's hoofs, so that he was walking on snowballs.
The nave of the chapel is in tolerably good preservation, but the apsis has suffered severely from damp.
It was raw and damp as we rowed into the estuary at sunrise in search of the seals.
In earlier forms it was used as a footrest to keep the feet from the damp or draughty rush floor.
A damp, foetid smell, suggestive of the rottenness of decay, assailed my nostrils and made me sneeze.
In the damp climate of western Carolina such an interior is fusty, or even wet.
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