(1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
(2) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
(3) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
(4) I got quite emotional when I finished the book because I thought…" He lets the sentence hang and looks out of the window at the murky drizzle of a dank November evening.
(5) Come on Man City, you know you want him ..." Danke schon, dear readers, and auf wiedersehen.
(6) The men work on nearby construction sites, while the women spend their days in the dank, artificially lit alleys, stripping wire for copper and selling trinkets from closet-sized stalls.
(7) Danke!”) It rubs hard against an England fan’s sensibilities; to say nothing of an England Jewish-from-refugee-stock fan’s sensibilities.
(8) With the dank, fetid winds of manmade climate change blowing our way and worries over Russian military ambitions there has been much talk of Armageddon.
(9) Players of Philipp Lahm’s remarkable stature cannot be replaced; square pegs and round holes come to mind, but even during a period of some transition, these are the world champions – and in case anybody was forgetting, the players were greeted by a mosaic at one end of the ground reading “Danke” when they made their way on to the pitch.
(10) 8.00pm BST How far into the dank confines of the House Republican brain would you like to climb?
(11) Make no mistake about it: I was touched that 14 people would bother to come watch me in a dank, dark cave on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
(12) "Danke" says one in his native language in St Peter's Square.
(13) A severely mentally retarded girl is presented, with symptoms as described by Pitt, Rogers, and Danks (pre- and postnatal growth retardation, and unusual facies).
(14) She is played by Marion Bailey , and it is no exaggeration to say that when she arrives on screen, it is as if a column of soothing sunlight has fallen upon a dank meadow.
(15) From the look of recent production stills (grim pedestrian subways, dank council estates, McKay looking haunted): really not that easy.
(16) If you're a large corporation looking to wring the UK government for every penny it has and then some, these are the places you look – away from the main traffic of public discourse, in the dank side streets, where careers get lost and battles become too dirty to yield a clear victor – probation, adult social care, prisons, tagging, court interpretation.
(17) We showed previously that nuclear extracts from teniposide (VM-26)-resistant sublines of the human leukemic cell line, CCRF-CEM, exhibited decreased DNA topoisomerase II activity and ability to form drug-stabilized covalent protein-DNA complexes (Danks et al., Biochemistry 27:8861-8869; 1988).
(18) Most of the lines resemble atypical MDR cells (Danks et al., 1987; Beck et al., 1987).
(19) From the movies, you’d think Manhattan to be riddled with dank, dangerous, trash-strewn back-alleys, complete with rusting fire escapes and crumbling, graffiti-covered brick walls.
(20) European stock markets are inching higher on a dank morning in London, with traders warmed by the news that China's trade surplus swelled to its highest level in almost five years.
Dink
Definition:
(a.) Trim; neat.
(v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.
Example Sentences:
(1) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(2) Just recently a complaint has been filed against two intellectuals – Robert Koptas, the editor of the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose previous editor Hrant Dink was assassinated, and Ümit Kivanç, leftist-liberal journalist – because one citizen complained that the words they uttered on TV were "insulting", adding "clearly they must be Armenians".
(3) When the French government proposed applying a similar law to the Armenian genocide as it does to the Shoah, Dink said he would fly to Paris in order to break the law, believing, as I do, that strict regulation about what people can and cannot say eventually diminishes us all.
(4) In between, Andrea Pirlo had dinked the most extraordinary pitch-wedge of a shot into Hart's goal and that moment really encapsulated the difference in class between the teams.
(5) It didn't though and the alert Lungu got to the ball and dinked it back across goal from the right.
(6) In 2007, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who received death threats because of his comments about the killings of Armenians by Turks in 1915, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
(7) That or he's annoyed because his team-mates aren't getting into decent positions so he can dink the ball their way.
(8) Some sharp interplay on the left of the penalty area leads to a dinked ball into the box from Henry towards Hoilett.
(9) He plays the ball wide to Gonzalo Higuain, whose attempted dink into the six-yard box is headed clear by Thiago Silva.
(10) Fortunately for Moyes, Watmore possessed sufficient drive to unhinge that backline courtesy of a startling change of pace and deftly dinked ball which prefaced Van Aanholt sending a half-volley looping into the net.
(11) Dink's murder provoked an angry statement from the Federation of French-Armenians, that "Turkey has killed Hrant Dink".
(12) Chelsea went to sleep and allowed Liverpool to take it quickly to Henderson, who dinked a lovely ball into the box, where Sakho looped a header towards goal from 12 yards out.
(13) 8.22pm GMT 36 min: Kagawa dinks and dribbles down the right and into the area.
(14) 51 min: Claudio Morel dinks a through ball towards the corner-flag for Nelson Valdez to chase.
(15) Ronaldo and Simao break quickly and it ends up with Deco dinking a lovely cross from the left that Leidson heads right at the keeper.
(16) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
(17) Creditably, McLeod retained sufficient poise to nonchalantly extend his right foot and dink the ball over the advancing Mannone.
(18) Muamba dinked a deft reverse pass to Cattermole, who slipped a dainty ball behind the German defence in anticipation of a surge by Walcott.
(19) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
(20) 66 min: Jinking down the inside right channel, Arjen Robben skips past two defenders, prods the ball past Pepe and dances around the full-back to try to dink the ball over the onrushing Casillas.