wan

How to use wan in a sentence

Dig below the surface, though, and the broth, supposedly made with beef broth and cognac, has been wan eating both times I’ve tried it.

A vast assemblage of countless thousands of women, and boys, and wan and starving men, gathered in the streets of Paris.

Humanity shut its eyes in view of the hideous apparition of wan and haggard beggary and crime.

The colored woman came running, and with her Grace, who looked at the wan features of the soldier with piteous eyes.

Margaret lay, wan and exhausted, on the sofa—the doctor looked very melancholy and rather stern, and the others were silent.

Julie acknowledged this flattery by a wan little smile, and following Hester out of the 24 room, went in to see her father.

THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTH

She lay as still as if she were dead, her eyes shut, her wan face numbed into a fixed anguish of expression.

RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

When he looked up again the elder nurse had the baby in her arms; and there was a wan smile on Corydon's face.

She looks pretty white, though, and what the storybooks call 'wan,' I reckon.

It was in contrast to these officials that he painted the ideal times of Kings Wan and Woo.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985