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The early September sun made the crowd look sweaty and the speakers wan.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Our mother did reappear, looking wan and smiling bravely, and we had to pretend that she was fine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

When we drove by the family home, I tasted her cabbage omelet and the gong wan that she made from scratch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

But this show is too slight, too wan, to bear the weight of analytical dissection.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

It did not sing, but sat mournfully silent, its feathers ruffled and wan.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

But if the orchestrations, by Mr. Kitt and Michael Starobin, are atypically wan, Mr. Kitt’s lyrics are even wanner.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2019

When she was out in the drizzle, however, Her Majesty's smile grew wanner and wanner, and sometimes disappeared.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says one Bostonian who knows her well: "There isn't anyone wanner or dearer, when she's feeling good."

From Time Magazine Archive

Carl's entrances into the Coliseum may have been slightly louder, but Edwin's were appreciably wanner.

From Time Magazine Archive

A makeshift signal flag—a red knitted leg wanner of the sort worn by dancers— was knotted to the end of an alder branch by the vehicle's rear exit.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Their conduct merits our wannest esteem; and I beg leave to add, that I think the public will do well to make them a handsome gratuity.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

In many a laboured scene of the wannest humour and of the most affecting passion I have seen the best actors disconcerted, while these buzzing muscatos have been fluttering round their eyes and ears.

From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

She was dressed in her grey uniform and sheltered under her cape the thinnest, wannest mite of humanity that ever the Club had seen outside of the streets of a city slum.

From Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

I cannot conclude this relation without expressing my wannest thanks to Lord Stirling, for the full patronage I received from him in every stage of the enterprize.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

Owen's heart beat with honest pride as he stepped down from the platform and walked side by side with his giant opponent,—still his wannest friend.

From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding

Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and wanned the room indifferently.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Not precisely royal fare, but nourishing; it tasted good enough and wanned the belly.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Around noon, when the air had wanned, Frightful gave the little eyas the last bites of the rat.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

She had never met him until to-day, and yet her heart wanned toward him more and more.

From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Once the imagination is stirred and the emotions wanned by this instruction, an immediate and natural outlet in expression must be found if these lessons are to fulfill their end.

From How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods by George Herbert Betts

It was a French sportwriter just wanning up to the famed Tour de France, the month-long bicycle race that attracts the world's largest crowds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stark Young takes a view of art which is wanning to those tired of abstruse and cerebral esthetics.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had a slim chance of wanning its fight.

From Time Magazine Archive

“So I work for a relief agency,” she said, wanning up.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The Proclaimers are just wanning up on that misery-to-happiness song—the follow-up to “Five Hundred Miles.”

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak