PAN in a Sentence

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63 example sentences for PAN, such as:

1. A television camera panned the stadium.
2. The camera panned slowly across the crowd.
3. Pots and pans were clattering in the kitchen.
4. The critics panned the film version of the novel.
5. The camera panned from her face to a middleaged man.

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 Meanings and Examples of PAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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 Mitche
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)
16  Top with pan drippings and garnish with a drizzle of good olive oil and a lemon wedge.
17  There couldn't anything wake them up all over, and make them happy all over, like a dog fight -- unless it might be putting turpentine on a stray dog and setting fire to him, or tying a tin pan to his tail and see him run himself to death.
18  Hoping for a rave review of his new show, the playwright was miserable when saw the critics pan it unanimously.
19  As each vegetable is done, return it to the roasting pan.
20  Pots and pans were clattering in the kitchen.
21  The clatter came from the kitchen where pans were being washed.
22  There was a little old piano, too, that had tin pans in it, I reckon, and nothing was ever so lovely as to hear the young ladies sing "The Last Link is Broken" and play "The Battle of Prague" on it.
23  If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
24  Avoid pans with a shiny, reflective base as the heat will be reflected back.
25  There's plenty of cupboard space in the kitchen for all your pots and pans.
26  Polite and open—even in the face of dogged criticism like the pans his Terminator re-quel has been collecting—he revealed that he didn't come to truly appreciate James Cameron's landmark sci-fier until he got the call to direct Genisys.
27  The critics panned the film version of the novel.
28  The camera panned from her face to a middleaged man.
29  The camera panned slowly across the crowd.
30  A television camera panned the stadium.