Example sentences for: wan

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

  • The cadenza that opens the concerto sounds wan and unassertive; its even more extravagant recapitulation tries harder while achieving less.

  • With a wan smile, he asks for the phone.

  • Joe Bananas, 23 Luard Road, is a Wan Chai mainstay for all-night partying.

  • The cover image--the president superimposed on a shadowy photo of Lewinsky--is wan.

  • In the romantic comedies of the '30s-- It Happened One Night , My Man Godfrey --the wan, indifferent upper-class beauty is humanized by her contact with ordinary working-class life, but those days are over.


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