The "room" turned out to be the very cold and dank basement of the house.

The drum turned, and daylight seeped into the dank basement.

She is determined to be an artist, and she shuts herself up in the dank basement, trying to paint.

He shut the door behind him, descending the steps to a dank basement.

Then he spent about a hundred hours a week down here in this dank, dark, junk-filled basement.

All too often the housing is the dank basement or back room of the restaurant or massage parlor where they work.

Something charged the air in the cold, dank basement and made her cringe.

Their dank little basement, crammed with last year's mildewing clothes, has no more space.

By the 1890s it too had become overcrowded forcing some classes to meet in the dank basement and even in private homes.

If it smells like a dank basement, chances are the wine is corky.