Sentence examples for been damp from inspiring English sources
verb
To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; as, to damp cloth.
Other key years in the cycle have been damp squibs.
The rainy and overcast days have driven her indoors, she said, where it has been damp and cold.
As a result, with the glorious exception of Watergate, most of these investigations have been damp squibs.Improvements to be wished forIn this section Lessons for Thailand, et al Bigger NATO, safer world?
When a hard cricket ball strikes them, it will leave a dent until sometimes a pitch that has been damp all over will resemble the dimpled surface of a golf ball.
The pitch, a reddy-brown colour, which had been damp enough the day before the match to push a thumb into it, was still clammy and not fully hardened up.
Kodak thought that a nitrate print would have a 50-year lifespan but we're still discovering nitrate prints to this day that by strangely fortuitous circumstances have been kept at the right temperatures, haven't been damp or handled by people with sticky fingers.
My enthusiasm has been damped, to say the least.
