Wondering how to use Clammy in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as dank or wet.
Clammy in a sentence
Clammy meaning
- Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms.
- The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.
Using Clammy
- The main meaning on this page is: Cold and damp, usually referring to hands or palms. | The quality of normal skin signs, epidermis that is neither diaphoretic nor dry.
- Useful related words include: dank, wet.
- In the example corpus, clammy often appears in combinations such as: and clammy, clammy skin, the clammy.
Context around Clammy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clammy
- In this selection, "clammy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cold, cool, dark, skin, caves and discomfort stand out and add context to how "clammy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and cool clammy skin and are dark clammy and claustrophobic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clammy" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clammy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Do you enjoy living in dank, clammy humidity? (8 words)
There’s the Clammy, from local seafood restaurant chain Ivar’s. (11 words)
You get clammy and don’t know what to do first. (11 words)
At large gatherings it is important to watch for signs of an opioid overdose, including a person who is not moving, has slow or no breathing, is making gurgling sounds or snoring, has blue/purple lips and nails, or has cold and clammy skin. (44 words)
Dosunmu’s spaces are dark, clammy and claustrophobic, transforming both the apartment Kyra and her mother live in and Brooklyn itself into haunted houses, barren of joy and containing little else but ghosts and the distant remnants of possibility. (39 words)
Steve Rawlings, the inventor of Cool Embrace presents a groundbreaking solution, the world's first intra-blanket, designed to end sleepless nights plagued by night sweats and clammy discomfort. (29 words)
Do you enjoy living in dank, clammy humidity? (8 words)
Come, soar to yonder silent clouds, The other teems with peopled shrouds: We’ll fly the lightsome spectre crowds, Thou cloudy, clammy thing! (23 words)
Example sentences (17)
At large gatherings it is important to watch for signs of an opioid overdose, including a person who is not moving, has slow or no breathing, is making gurgling sounds or snoring, has blue/purple lips and nails, or has cold and clammy skin.
I want nothing more than to see them be returned to their cold, clammy caves, and holes in the ground.
Steve Rawlings, the inventor of Cool Embrace presents a groundbreaking solution, the world's first intra-blanket, designed to end sleepless nights plagued by night sweats and clammy discomfort.
In John Krasinski’s clammy-palmed horror film, humanity is in hiding, and one sound will send scavenging aliens right to the door.
The list goes as follows: heavy sweating, weakness, dizziness, headache, nausea and cool clammy skin.
But I’m going with this prickly 1960 evergreen in which two hired assassins wait for orders to kill in a clammy basement room.
Dosunmu’s spaces are dark, clammy and claustrophobic, transforming both the apartment Kyra and her mother live in and Brooklyn itself into haunted houses, barren of joy and containing little else but ghosts and the distant remnants of possibility.
He would wake up feeling clammy, a puddle of cold sweat collected at his sternum.
She took his face in her hands, trying not to panic at the frighteningly unnatural—even for a djinn—heat in his clammy skin.
There’s the Clammy, from local seafood restaurant chain Ivar’s.
You get clammy and don’t know what to do first.
A police officer who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to the Westminster attacker has told how Khalid Masood went "cold and clammy" after he was shot.
Do you enjoy living in dank, clammy humidity?
Heat exhaustion causes heavy sweating; cold, pale and clammy skin; a fast, weak pulse; nausea or vomiting; muscle cramps; tiredness or weakness; dizziness, headache and passing out.
The clammy palms, the dry mouth, the inordinate wait while you’re sat in reception.
Together with new general manager Brian Gutekunst, whose name sounds like the dirtiest possible German word, Beav now holds the entire Packers organization in his clammy hands.
Come, soar to yonder silent clouds, The other teems with peopled shrouds: We’ll fly the lightsome spectre crowds, Thou cloudy, clammy thing!
Common combinations with clammy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: