Example sentences for: nan

How can you use “nan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Book -- A Prayer for the Dying , by Stewart O'Nan.

  • See March Comments at 100 comment of Nan Schivone and Phyllis Holmen, Georgia Legal Services Program).

  • Thus Abigail to Nab, Ambrose to Nam, Anne to Nan or Nancy, Edward to Ned, Eleanor or Helen to Nell, Humphrey to Nump , Isaac to Nykin, Isabel to Nib, Obadiah to Nobs , and Oliver to Noll .

  • These nicknames originated as possessives, since Middle English words beginning with a vowel or silent h took the possessive mine instead of my ; so instead of my Anne, people said mine Anne, which was reinterpreted as my Nan, just as the animal once called an eft or an ewt is now known as a newt.

  • See March Comments at 32 (comment of Bill Beardall, Texas Rural Legal Aid); March Comments at 62-63 (comment of James F. Schmidt, Farmworker Legal Services of New York); March Comments at 99 (comment of Nan Schivone and Phyllis Holmen, Georgia Legal Services Program); March Comments at 107 (comment of Robert Salzman, Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York, Charlotte Sibley and Patricia C. Kakalec, Farmworker Law Project); March Comments at 127 (comment of Shelley Latin, Virginia Farmworkers Legal Assistance Project); March Comments at 226-28 (comment of Melissa A. Pershing, Legal Services of North Carolina); March Comments at 158 (comment of Michael Wyatt, Texas Rural Legal Aid, et.


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