PAN in a Sentence

Learn PAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
63 example sentences for PAN, such as:
1. Oh hell, I've burned the pan.
2. Fill a pan half full of water.
3. I have never heard her pan anyone.
4. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
5. I clash the pan down on the stone floor.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PAN
pan
 v.  criticize harshly; wash in pan; cook in pan
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  She was bending over a pan on the stove; but at the sound of his step she turned with a start and sprang to him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  She saw that except for the peas and a pan of corn pone there was no other food being prepared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  They laughed together over the fact that the stove did not draw, over the slipperiness of fish in the pan.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Frances said, when she told grandmother and me about this scene, that every pan and plate and cup on the shelves trembled when her mother walked out of the kitchen.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: X
5  In front was a big pan which caught these creatures, and two more women who seized them as fast as they appeared and twisted them into links.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  By her side sat a woman with a bright tin pan in her lap, into which she was carefully sorting some dried peaches.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  When we come around, you turn your back; and then whatever we've put in the pan, don't you let on you see it at all.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI.
8  So she left the pan on the fire and took a large jug and went into the cellar and tapped the ale cask.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
9  These odors escaped from two deep dishes which were covered and placed on a stove, and from a copper pan placed in an old iron pot.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
10  It was, indeed, Peppino who was preparing to mount guard as comfortably as possible by seating himself opposite to the door, and placing between his legs an earthen pan, containing chick-pease stewed with bacon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare.
11  Near the pan he also placed a pretty little basket of Villetri grapes and a flask of Orvieto.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare.
12  Then she ran her hand over the sunk books in the wall on the landing, as if they were pan pipes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
13  Clym had by this time lit a small fire, and despatched Susan Nunsuch for a frying pan.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
14  Susan now arrived with the frying pan, when the live adder was killed and the heads of the three taken off.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
15  The remainders, being cut into lengths and split open, were tossed into the pan, which began hissing and crackling over the fire.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque.
2  I have never heard her pan anyone.
3  Remove the pan from the heat and continue to stir the sauce.
4  Fill a pan half full of water.
5  Out of the frying pan into the fire.
6  I dropped a pan of boiling water and scalded my leg.
7  Oh hell, I've burned the pan.
8  Swirl a little oil around the frying pan.
9  He needed to prove that his success was not just a flash in the pan.
10  Remove the turkey from the pan and drain off the excess fat.
11  Immediately remove the pan from the heat.
12  I clash the pan down on the stone floor.
13  Place the roll in the prepared loaf pan, making sure the seam is on the bottom.
14  People dig or pan for gold or diamonds, risking their lives in shallow mines which frequently collapse.
15  When they are tender, strain the soup into a clean pan through a fine wire sieve.