pan

Example Sentences

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The way it panned out is very disappointing.

From BBC

I imagined a mountain of eggs, each of them sizzling in a little pan, gone like Mallons’ currach.

From Literature

“Well, he transferred himself right out of the frying pan and into a fire, didn’t he? Why go to the mountain if he was just going to attack it next? It makes no sense.”

From Literature

“I’m sorry about my ugly appearance,” a preteen Kaley said in a YouTube video played in court Thursday morning, urgently repeating, “I look so fat,” while panning the camera over her slender torso.

From Los Angeles Times

Leah later told a story in which the public hated Burr so much that he was pelted with “bricks, broken eggs, sticks, and tin pans” outside the courthouse.

From Literature