wan
Example Sentences
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Our mother did reappear, looking wan and smiling bravely, and we had to pretend that she was fine.
“We watched them install it one night. It’s not like they talk to us or ask us for permission,” he said, a wan smile on his face.
From Los Angeles Times
“Our ultimate dream was to eat our favorite food before we died. One neighbor, I remember, he was craving a French fry — just one,” Ayoub said, a wan smile on his face at the memory.
From Los Angeles Times
Place a serpentine sofa in the middle of a room and you’ll instantly transform it from wan white box to theater-worthy.
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The terrific Beecham is saddled with a dismal hairdo and an even more dismal role, her character simply an object of wan yearning for the drowsy John.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
