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Example sentences for "fan"

Lexicographically close words:
famoso; famous; famously; famulis; famulus; fanam; fanams; fanatic; fanatical; fanatically
  1. The same holds true of the fan that serves to draw the air through the radiator.

  2. A large fan is usually located directly behind the radiator, and as this serves to draw the air rapidly through the openings between the cells or tubes, cooling is greatly facilitated.

  3. The air is thus driven into the top trough, through each jacket, and into the lower trough, the farther termination of which is connected with the suction end of a fan included in the flywheel.

  4. The amount of air passing through is determined by the speed of the suction fan and the rapidity of travel of the car itself against the wind.

  5. This fan is generally attached to a bracket at the front of the motor, and is driven either by a belt or geared shaft.

  6. Fruits that shall swell in sunny June, And redden in the August noon, And drop, when gentle airs come by, That fan the blue September sky.

  7. There were saddened hearts in Mudville for a week or even more; There were muttered oaths and curses--every fan in town was sore.

  8. But in that throng of thousands there was not a single fan Who thought that Mudville had a chance; and with the setting sun Their hopes sank low--the rival team was leading "four to one.

  9. Some had very ingeniously fastened this important appendage to their fan made of an eagle's wing.

  10. In their hands they carry a fan of green willow twigs, and on their back a buffalo robe, the head of which, with the long hair on the forehead, hangs over the face.

  11. Now a couple swayed in a stationary boat on a motionless river: now at the topmost window of a pagoda, cambrick handkerchief and painted fan kept time to the tune.

  12. But she thinks he has--often, just because he picked up her fan once.

  13. It was a contemptible trick, but the fan had her initials on it, and as it was the only thing belonging to her of which I could possess myself, the temptation had been too great to resist.

  14. Did you see anything of a fan I left here?

  15. And when it came to that fan business I saw plainly that you must either immediately start for Europe or--" "Or what?

  16. Perhaps you may have noticed it somewhere--" Now, the morning before, I had taken that fan home with me.

  17. Here the said fan was so violently opened and closed by the young man's slender white fingers that the costly toy was in serious danger, while he went on half mocking.

  18. She was silent and leaned back in her seat, while her husband, standing by the table, took up the fan that was lying there and examined its arabesques with an appearance of much interest.

  19. He preserved the same careless, half-mocking tone in which he had spoken hitherto, but it concealed a feeling of suppressed irritation, and the fan he held in his hands met with decided ill-luck.

  20. She says she took a stick and covered it with green silk, then she laid sprays of cedar, fan shape, all over that, then in the centre she sewed the cape jessamines, all real close together.

  21. Yung Long slipped a little fan from his wide silken sleeves and opened it slowly.

  22. She was wearing one of those black evening gowns, and a feather fan was in easy reach of where she sat; and I noticed all at once that the string of pearls was dangling from the gas-jet above her head.

  23. The fan and its casing must be filled with water before it can start, so that if not drowned there must be a foot valve on the suction pipe.

  24. These planes were placed opposite a blast from a fan issuing from a wooden pipe 18 in.

  25. It is usual to reckon the difference of pressure at the inlet and outlet of a fan in inches of water-column.

  26. For a double-inlet fan of diameter D, the diameter of the inlets is D/2.

  27. If d is the diameter of the fan and t the width at the external circumference, then [pi]dt is the discharge area of the fan disk.

  28. The pressure p depends on the circumferential speed v of the fan disk-- p = 0.

  29. Hence if Q is given, the diameter of the fan should be:-- For t = 0.

  30. Roughly the pressure-head produced in a fan without means of utilizing the kinetic energy of discharge would be v^2/2g ft.

  31. The width t of the fan is generally from 0.

  32. Suppose a fan run at constant speed with different resistances and the compression pressure, discharge and brake horse-power measured.

  33. The fan may rotate in a vertical or horizontal plane and the water may enter on one or both sides of the fan.

  34. Her daughter lay asleep, with her face to the wall, her flowing hair spread in a fan against the pillow and her body curled up cozily.

  35. Sixteen and the color and odor of an ivory fan that has lain in frangipani.

  36. Suddenly he jerked her so that the breath jumped in a warm fan of it against her face.

  37. She turned away her head as her grandson drew near, and put up the turkey-wing fan to hide the smile which she could not control, when her gaze chanced to meet his as he looked on, a silent and interested spectator of the scene.

  38. Gordon exclaimed, taken quite off her guard; and dropping her turkey-wing fan in her start of amazement.

  39. She settled herself back in her wide, low chair, and began to wave the turkey-wing fan with one hand, turning the leaves of her novel with the other.

  40. Do not nod your head, or beat time with fan or foot while listening to music.

  41. Always take a fan with you on going to a place of public amusement.

  42. There are many persons who, professing never to use a fan themselves, seem to think that nobody can by any chance require one; and therefore they selfishly keep nothing of the sort in their rooms.

  43. It is a good practice to carry a pocket fan even in winter, in case you should chance to feel the heat more sensibly than any other lady in the room.

  44. But it is much easier and smoother to say simply, "Will you lend me your fan for a few minutes?

  45. This glow must naturally subside in a few minutes, if they would sit down and wait with a little patience, or else avail themselves of the fan which ought to be at hand in every room.

  46. These chilling blasts of doubt, indifference, and unbelief, only fan it into a warmer, steadier flame.

  47. Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

  48. The winnowing fan is not put into our hands.

  49. He shall soon come "who has His fan in His hand," and then the certainty about every one shall be known.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abettor; accelerator; addict; adherent; admirer; advocate; aerate; agitate; air; amateur; angel; annoy; apologist; appendage; arouse; attendant; audience; authority; auto; automobile; awake; awaken; backer; blow; blower; bomb; booster; branch; buff; bug; champion; chiller; collector; connoisseur; cooler; courtier; crank; critic; crutch; defender; delta; dependence; dependent; deploy; devotee; dilettante; disciple; disperse; driver; endorser; enrage; enthusiast; excite; expand; expert; exponent; extend; fan; fanatic; ferment; fiend; fire; flare; flop; flunky; fold; follower; following; foment; fork; freak; frenzy; frequenter; freshen; frisk; generator; groin; gyroscope; habitue; heat; henchman; hound; idolater; impassion; incense; incite; infatuate; inflame; infuriate; instigate; kindle; lover; madden; mainstay; maniac; move; muffler; nettle; nut; offshoot; open; overgrow; overrun; parasite; partisan; parts; patron; pique; promoter; prong; prop; propellant; protagonist; provoke; public; pundit; pursuer; rally; ramification; ramify; refresh; reliance; rotator; rotor; rouse; ruffle; satellite; savant; scholar; scour; screw; search; second; seconder; sectary; shadow; specialist; spectator; splay; sponsor; sprawl; spread; stalwart; standby; stem; stir; successor; support; supporter; sustainer; sympathizer; tail; technician; tickle; tout; trident; unfold; upholder; ventilate; ventilator; visitor; votary; wake; warm; wheel; whet; whiff; widen; wind; winnow; wishbone; worshiper; zealot


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fancied resemblance; fancied that; fancy ball; fancy dress; fancy shapes; fancy that; fancy work