WAN in a Sentence
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35 example sentences for WAN, such as:
1. Everything looked wan at that hour.
2. They sat in wan silver moonlight that ghosted through the windows.
3. The twilight threw a wan light on his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows.
4. His face was wan and his expression distracted, his eyes darting from face to face.
5. The child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she had suffered less than her companion.
2. They sat in wan silver moonlight that ghosted through the windows.
3. The twilight threw a wan light on his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows.
4. His face was wan and his expression distracted, his eyes darting from face to face.
5. The child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she had suffered less than her companion.
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Meanings and Examples of WAN
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wan
a. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
a. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
Classic Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
2 All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays or by icy winds.
3 A wan ray of the December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the ceiling in long threads of light and shade.
4 The dormer window of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light.
5 The twilight threw a wan light on his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
6 At the same time, Thenardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise.
7 The light of the air-hole died out ten or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer.
8 The intermittent gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness.
9 Marius' blood-stained face appeared under the wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb.
10 The child was pale and wan, but her healthy arms and legs showed that she had suffered less than her companion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
11 Everything looked wan at that hour.
12 He walked just before her in the narrow path, swinging the hurricane lamp low, revealing the wet grass, the black shiny tree-roots like snakes, wan flowers.
13 Yet he could live alone, in the wan satisfaction of being alone, and raise pheasants to be shot ultimately by fat men after breakfast.
14 I have told you that she had only recently recovered from an illness, and was looking so wretchedly pale and wan that I remonstrated with her for being at work.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Context Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
15 The sea stretched away to the south-west, to rise into a sharp bright horizon against the wan sky.
Example Sentence:
1 They sat in wan silver moonlight that ghosted through the windows.
2 His face was wan and his expression distracted, his eyes darting from face to face.