168 examples of clammy in sentences

what's this at his feetsoft, clammy, shining in the flaring light?

He crawled in and, searching out the remotest, blackest corner, hidden from all human eyes, and especially his own, he lay there clammy and wet all over, with an icy, sickening rend, like a wound, in the pit of his stomach.

He had returned from one of the debauches in which he so frequently indulged under the pretext of making a short business journey, and, still slightly intoxicated, with feverish, sunken eyes and clammy tongue, he was wearying the two women with his impudent, noisy falsehoods.

The Bravo reached forth and took the feeble member of his parent; it was clammy and cold.

The steam crawled out of the dank turf, and reeked off the flanks and nostrils of the shivering horses, and clung with clammy paws to frosted hats and dripping boughs.

In one was found the grinning head of an ape, in another the cloven foot of a goat, in a third the poison-fang of a snake, in a fourth the clammy fin of a fish.

The perspiration of Peaches turned clammy.

Tis something clammy,now,oh, tis sope!

What time is it, M'seur?" A clammy chill passed over Howland as he read the time.

He drew it outit was clammy.

I can sit outside it in the early morning, but as the sun gets up Autolycus summons the chuprassis, and they carry my table and writing-materials to the verandah of the Guest House, which has a cool, not to say clammy and tomb-like, atmosphere.

Clammy vapor drifted about the ship and big drops fell from the rigging and splashed upon the deck.

And against it a long time I leant my clammy brow, a sob aching in my poor throat, and she all mixed up in my head with the suspended hushed night, and with the elfin things in the air that made the silence so musically a-sound to the vacant ear-drum, and with the dripping splash in the cave.

Reach out your hand, I drop with clammy sweat, And lay it to my heart, and feel it beat.

It was shiny, slightly discoloured, suddenly clammy to the neck.

The gross, sensual mouth with its loose-hanging lips; the blotched and clammy skin; the pale, watery eyes with their inflamed rims and flabby pouches; the sunken chest, skinny neck and limbs; and the thin rasping voiceall cried aloud the shame of a misspent life.

November had been shrouded in clammy fogs, but no rain had fallen, and everybody began to have the restless feeling engendered by the usual summer drought in California prolonged beyond its appointed season.

His complexion, nevertheless, was more clammy and whey-like than ever.

I learned afterward that when the bookkeeper had reached in his desk to get a pen, a few days before, he had pulled out a cold, clammy, pickled pig's foot, on which was printed: "Beware!

A coward fear is grasping my heart with its clammy hands.

he cries, following me, and taking hold of my cold and clammy hands, while what lookswhat, at least, I should have once said lookedlike a great yearning fills his kind and handsome eyes; "we are not very happy, are we?

It was cold and clammy, and made me shiver, but I did not care to stand up and run the risk of being discovered by his sharp eyes.

At such times I could see his villainous face plainly, and, when the sulphur from the matches irritated his lungs, between the raspy cough that followed and the clammy mud in which I was lying, I confess I shivered harder than ever.

My clammy, muddy garments clung to me like sheets of ice.

Silvestro's clammy hand is on the locka worm-eaten door creaks on its hingeshe enters.

168 examples of  clammy  in sentences