FAN in a Sentence

Learn FAN 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.

196 example sentences for FAN, such as:

1. She was stalked by an obsessed fan.
2. Five main roads fan out from the village.
3. The fan whirred in the corner of the room.
4. Abruptly she snatched the fan from his hand.
5. The singer says her dad is her number one fan.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fan
 v.  strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
 n.  an enthusiastic devotee of sports
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the other and stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Enraptured at this evidence of her affection, he grabbed up her fan and plied it so enthusiastically her hair began to blow about untidily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  He picked up her black fan from the counter and began fanning her solicitously, too solicitously, his face grave but his eyes still dancing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  She looked up at him and saw that his mouth was pulled down at the corners in mock sympathy, even while he swished the fan.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Abruptly she snatched the fan from his hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She said nothing, still looking down at her fan.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  She tossed her head and sped out of the booth, tapping her heels like castanets, snapping open her black silk fan to its widest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Renew their bandages, wash their faces, pat up their pillows and fan them, and they fell in love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  They swarmed on Melanie despite the fan Scarlett kept in constant motion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  The tiny clawlike hands folded over the fan were yellow and waxy as a dead person's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
11  Scarlett, who had been rocking and fanning herself with a turkey tail fan, stopped abruptly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
12  Mrs. Pontellier reached over for a palm-leaf fan that lay on the porch and began to fan herself, while Robert sent between his lips light puffs from his cigarette.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In II
13  Mrs. Pontellier flew for the cologne water and a fan.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
14  She bathed Madame Ratignolle's face with cologne, while Robert plied the fan with unnecessary vigor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
15  Madame Ratignolle removed her veil, wiped her face with a rather delicate handkerchief, and fanned herself with the fan which she always carried suspended somewhere about her person by a long, narrow ribbon.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
16  She was stalked by an obsessed fan.
17  The fan whirred in the corner of the room.
18  The bathroom is ventilated by means of an extractor fan.
19  The blind touched the elephant's ear and said that it was just like a huge fan.
20  The actress is asking the court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery.
21  From her bedroom she could hear the factory's extractor fan.
22  The new range of engines all had a generic problem with their fan blades.
23  I don't want to be here when the shit hits the fan.
24  They're always taking the piss out of him because he's a Barry Manilow fan.
25  The singer says her dad is her number one fan.
26  She prefers to answer any fan mail herself for a more personal touch.
27  I wouldn't have classed you as a Shakespeare fan.
28  The famous film star employed three people to answer her fan mail.
29  During the afternoon, hot winds fan the flames.
30  Five main roads fan out from the village.