Example sentences for: nan

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

  • Rhonda Lipkin (Maryland), Victor Geminiani (Hawaii), Nan Heald (Maine) and Mike Genz (LSC) presented this session.

  • Last year alone, the agency aided more than 14,000 people, according to Nan Heald, who has been with Pine Tree Legal since 1985 and directed it since 1990.

  • See March Comments at 101 (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.


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