Example sentences for: nan

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

  • 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.

  • Eder says the prose has "so much that is implicit and hollowed out, so much emptiness between the sentences, that the reader is called upon to enter, invent and rearrange," and with "a shivery economy of means and a dreadful lavishness of effect, Mr. O'Nan advances the horror on parallel tracks."

  • See March Comments at 12 (comment of Anita Soucy); March Comments at 23 (comment of Robert J. Willis, Attorney at Law); March Comments at 100 (comment of Nan Schivone and Phyllis Holmen, Georgia Legal Services Program); March Comments at 108-109 (comment of Robert Salzman, Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York, and Charlotte Sibley and Patricia C. Kakalec, Farmworker Law Project); March Comments at 128 (comment of Shelley Latin, Virginia Farmworkers Legal Assistance Project); March Comments at 229-30 (comment of Melissa A. Pershing, Legal Services of North Carolina); March Testimony at 63-64 (testimony of Mary Lee Hall, Legal Services of North Carolina); March Testimony at 134-135 (testimony of Michael Carlin).

  • See March Comments at 20 (comment of Robert J. Willis, Attorney at Law); March Comments at 32 (comment of Bill Beardall, Texas Rural Legal Aid); March Comments at 99 (comment of Nan Schivone and Phyllis Holmen, Georgia Legal Services Program); March Comment 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 159 (comment of Michael Wyatt, Texas Rural Legal Aid, et.

  • "When kids are playing hockey or basketball," says Nan Streeter, manager of Utah's reproductive health program, "it's hard for them to get involved in risky behavior."


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