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How to use pan in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Pan means a wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking. Example: “He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.”

Examples of pan by meaning

nounStrong adverse criticism.

  • The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed.1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10

nounA human face, a mug.

  • "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121
  • Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again.1993, William S. Burroughs, edited by Oliver Harris, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, page 92

nounThe part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.

  • flash in the pan

verbTo disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.).

  • Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.2022 May 17, Tiffany Hsu, “All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verb(of a camera) To turn horizontally.

  • Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief.2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security...

nounA sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.

  • For instance, in the film Dances with Wolves, a pan of an uninhabited landscape contrasts the gruesome beginning footage that depicts the carnage of war.2013, Monle Lee, Carla Johnson, Principles of Advertising: A Global Perspective, page 197

verbTo join or fit together; to unite.

  • The plants can either be sold individually in the 3 inch pots as Valentine favors , or several may be panned together in larger pots1963, Grower Talks

adjectivePansexual or panromantic.

  • When she publicly acknowledged that she is pan, it educated citizens near and far on what that sexuality meant and the importance of being proud of who you are.2012 December 28, Anna Waugh, “Texas got a pansexual legislator”, in Dallas Voice, volume 29, number 33, page 9
  • A similar experience is shared by individuals who identify their sexuality as pan, bi or queer.2013, Megan Hertner, "Understanding Gender and Sexuality", Grapevine (Huron University College), December 2013, page 19

More sentences with pan

  • He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.From the entry hot
  • The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.From the entry coat
  • Too bad this cheese likes to stick to the pan and ruin the whole meal.From the entry like
  • Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.From the entry mince
  • He used the fond to make a classic French pan sauce.From the entry fond
  • I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon.From the entry crackle
  • I sizzled the bacon for a few minutes in the pan.From the entry sizzle
  • My hopes for a white Christmas didn't pan out this year.From the entry pan out
  • The concept turned out to be merely a flash in the pan and is no longer used.From the entry flash in the pan
  • Paul disdained pan and scan DVD releases, always holding out for the widescreen special editions.From the entry pan and scan
  • The new chef reorganized the space where we keep the pots, pans, and other kitchenware.From the entry kitchenware
  • After baking and cooling, tip the cake out of its pan.From the entry tip out
  • Don’t use the steel wool on this pan; you’ll strip off the Teflon coating.From the entry steel wool
  • We've got pots, pans, the food and cooking utensils—the whole ball of wax.From the entry whole ball of wax
  • Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.From the entry shallow
  • I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.From the entry clash
  • He scoured the burnt food from the pan.From the entry scour
  • Strain the stock and return it to the pan.From the entry return
  • We heard the sizzle of the onions hitting the pan.From the entry sizzle
  • We'll see what pans out from the arbitration process.From the entry pan out
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:flash in the pan.From the entry flash in the pan
  • In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch.From the entry pan and scan
  • The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.From the entry go down the pan
  • The cakes have started to come away from the pan.From the entry come away
  • I've been panning for gold for two years, and this tiny speck is all I have to show for it.From the entry have something to show for something
  • A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.From the entry stick
  • Give the pan a thorough clean.From the entry clean
  • A sheet of that new silicon stuff is as good as a sheet of tinfoil to keep food from sticking in the baking pan.From the entry sheet
  • Boil some water in a pan.From the entry boil
  • The bacon frizzled in the pan.From the entry frizzle

Meaning of pan

  1. noun A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  2. noun The contents of such a receptacle.
  3. noun A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.

Full definition of pan

Questions about pan in a sentence

How do you use pan in a sentence?
Pan is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.”
What is a short sentence with pan?
“flash in the pan”
What does pan mean?
Pan means a wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pan (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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