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How to use pane in a sentence

34 example sentences · noun, verb

Pane means an individual sheet of glass or other transparent material in a window, door, etc. Example: “We need doubling glazing as this window pane lets out lots of heat.”

Examples of pane by meaning

nounAn individual sheet of glass or other transparent material in a window, door, etc.

  • We need doubling glazing as this window pane lets out lots of heat.

nounA compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.

  • metal panes on an outhouse
  • An octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.

nounOne of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.

  • wooden panes of an insulation box

nounA set of postage stamps of the same kind, as part of a single (printed) sheet. An individual pane might be sent to a...

  • pane of stamps
  • These local stamps were all printed in large sheets of 240 stamps, arranged in four panes of sixty stamps each, ten rows of six1913, Alexander Joseph Sefi, The Postage Stamps of Malta

verbTo fit with panes.

  • For example, by paning the glass horizontally (putting a single horizontal slat through the middle of the window), it almost looks as if you installed two windows.1985, Edward M. Baras, The Symphony Book, page 91

More sentences with pane

  • The tree was swaying in the breeze and tapping on the window pane.From the entry tap
  • The glazer cut several panes from a large sheet of glass.From the entry sheet
  • A real diamond can easily scratch a pane of glass.From the entry scratch
  • Input Panel converted it to "cembalos" and displayed it in the Text Preview pane.2003, How To Do Everything with Your Tablet PC, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry word
  • Every biblioklept in Britain will be bashing in the panes of your French doors.1999, Julie Wallin Kaewert, Untitled: A Booklover's Mystery:, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry biblioklept
  • The panes are of black velvet, decorated like the doublet and showing off the violet taffeta.1988, Dora Liscia Bemporad, Il Costume nell'età del Rinascimento, page 298. From the entry pluderhose
  • When the spoggy flew in at the window and thumped against the pane, Father couldn't touch it.1978, Barbara Hanrahan, Where the Queens all Strayed, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry spoggy
  • Only the window panes could be broken, unless you had a blow-torch.1968, Gordon M. Williams, From Scenes Like These, William Morrow and Company, page 121. From the entry undesirable
  • Where nary a moth will ever come to smash its little dust on a Bonniface window pane.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 286. From the entry nary
  • With my back against my hulking bookshelf, I, now in ambedo, watched the rain drip-drop on the window pane.2021, Nishita Patil, MEET YOURSELF, SpotWrite Publications, page 12. From the entry ambedo
  • I use the SR Ware Iron Browser, always on Incognito, and set to remove all data when i close the pane.2009, Billy, “Adobe's Flash Player sets "supercookies"”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet). From the entry supercookie
  • She trailed a finger down the window, following drops of water as they splashed and wept down the pane.2008 April 29, Shana Abé, The Last Mermaid: A Novel, Bantam, →ISBN. From the entry shatter
  • An expensive lever lowered an accordion blind between the panes.2007, Gary Hansen, Wet Desert, WetDesert, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry accordion blind
  • The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door.2002, Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann. From the entry tock
  • Earl discovered a broken pane, an “escape exit,”, and they covered it with a splitting piece of Masonite.1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 385. From the entry masonite
  • The rain Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again As I brushed past, and gemmed the window pane.1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old. From the entry gem
  • You can also control the size of the list, whether the list is displayed horizontally or vertically in the results pane, and more.2012, Brian Knittel, Paul McFedries, Windows 8 In Depth. From the entry taskpad
  • This proved useful when she and Barnett lost the doorkey, as they were able to reach through the broken pane to pull back the spring-lock.1991, Paul Begg, Martin Fido, Keith Skinner, “Kelly, Mary Jane or Marie Jeanette”, in The Jack the Ripper A to Z, London: Headline…. From the entry doorkey
  • Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number…. From the entry suck
  • One pane of stained glass had been let in: a Madonna gazed out through the mosquito wire at the turkeys in the yard.1940, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in The Power and the Glory, Vintage, published 2001. From the entry mosquito wire
  • Creake, in accordance with some detail of his never-revealed plan, continued to shower missile after missile against the panes until even the unimpressionable Parkinson shivered.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry unimpressionable
  • It was a small house with big windows and many small panes and a bistro table and chairs sat on a patio next to the French doors.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 196. From the entry pool house
  • The dusty-pink replacement windows, although thoughtfully designed, have much larger panes and a machine-made character, in contrast to the craftlike work on the rest of the building.2008 March 2, Christopher Gray, “Crowning Achievements for Two Brother-Architects”, in New York Times. From the entry craftlike
  • It is drawn using solid panes of alternating tinctures, as in the field lozengy, but with the panes shaped like solid scales, rather than like the lozenges in lozengy.2002 August, Ailionóra inghean uí Mhurchadha (of Calontir), August 2002 - scaly vs papellony. From the entry papellony
  • He felt he was intruding, and hurried past the door with the coloured glass panes into the Book Room, which smelled mustily of old paper and worm-eaten wood.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 1. From the entry mustily
  • Marjorie caught it in her hand, where it lay palpitating distressedly; and thrusting her arm through a broken pane of glass, allowed the creature to escape.1922, Edith Lavell, The Girl Scouts' Good Turn. From the entry distressedly
  • So one by one the shops came into being, each exactly like all the others: bow windows divided up in old-fashioned style into many little panes; no Neon lights—“My God!1935, Howard Spring, Rachel Rosing, Stretford: Memories, published 2000, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry milkmaidy

Meaning of pane

  1. noun An individual sheet of glass or other transparent material in a window, door, etc.
  2. noun A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.
  3. noun A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.

Full definition of pane

Questions about pane in a sentence

How do you use pane in a sentence?
Pane is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We need doubling glazing as this window pane lets out lots of heat.”
What is a short sentence with pane?
“pane of stamps”
What does pane mean?
Pane means an individual sheet of glass or other transparent material in a window, door, etc.

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