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How to use wan in a sentence

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Amy gave her a wan smile, and moved to stand beside her. her eyes were red from crying, and her armour was mangled in more than a few places.
Instead, our wars exposed the limits of our capability and cast a wan light on many of our cherished illusions.
Sunlight filtered upon their tired, wan faces and I knew I looked the same.
She leaned forward, elbows on knees and her head in the wan moonlight as she smiled.
The stones on the bottom of the brook were flat and greenish in the wan afternoon light.
Ellen suppressed another shudder and gave a wan smile that she hoped he would take to mean the week would be a long one for her.
With a wan smile, Delaney removed her license from her wallet and showed it to him.
I wasn't, though I probably just murmured something vague in reply, and I may have given a wan smile.
She gazes toward, but beyond the viewer with a slightly wan and wistful smile, as though she has a secret somewhere deep inside.
But he gives her a wan smile, the best he can manage under the circumstances.
She gave him a wan smile when she saw him, and lifted herself to a sitting position carefully.
Sighing wearily, Isabella shifted her gaze to her mother with a wan smile on her lips.
Allyson paused, listening to the soft melody, a shy smile spreading over her wan features.
She smiled a wan sort of smile, and glanced around at what should be the living room.
He glanced over his shoulders at his slightly meaner looking co-workers and offered Mary a wan smile.
John insisted on kissing them as well, bringing the first wan smiles to their faces after the events of the night.
No sooner has the dust settled in the wan place when there's more hoostering and foostering in the other place.
Winter is over, finito, and you are still as pale and wan as a custard donut.
West's American portraits, by contrast, offer little more than wan effigies of his fellow Pennsylvanians.
And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An' he calls on Cap Brice, that was wan iv th' youngest an' tastiest dhressers in th' whole crool an' devastatin' war.
Ye can't think of a jook bein' poor, but 'tis a fact that they'se many a wan iv thim that's carryin' th' banner at this minyit.
I putted two men fr'm Roscommon in wan day, an' they had to be took home on a dure.
He could watch the butterwort curving round the edges of its wan green foliage upon the captured limbs of fly or aphis.
Sit down and rest you, and tell us how they drest you, and how you wan awa.
Ivry wan to his taste as th' man said whin he dhrank out iv th' fire extinguisher.
All I ask is a block's start an' some wan holdin' th' polisman's coattails.
The correct English preterite, won, is still in use, but against it are arrayed wan and winned.
Sir Olof betrothed Ingalilla, and carried her home for the spousal, wearing a red gold crown and a wan cheek.
She was a good woman, dressed with bourgeois simplicity in keeping with her wan face furrowed by grief.
Annyways, wan iv yez has a man, an' th' other is spoken for, belike.
The wan light of early day came through the cracks in the planking.
Now as he rises he is seized with a coughing fit, and holds himself by his chair and turns away his wan and battered face until it passes.
A few fluoros cast wan puddles of luminance on the plastic flooring.
There was a light of wonder in her eyes and her lids trembled, and her otherwise wan little face was flushed.
The land lay in a wan apathy of suffering, dumb, hopeless, drear.
Some wan 'll say, 'Look at that gazabo settin' out there alone.
This cabalistic sun seems to tremble before the eye, and fills the wan cell with its mysterious radiance.
She was once more the pale, wan little child he had seen coming slowly up the garden path at Tredowen.
I have seen the white magic, and thot be enough for wan noight.
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