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How to use san in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

San means an Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ), originally used in some dialects instead of sigma. Example: “San Francisco, eh? That's funny, I was there just the other day.”

Examples of san by meaning

nounA sanatorium.

  • She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San."1940, Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School
  • ‘I was in the san for ten months before the war.1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 122
  • The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.2005, Dan Soucoup, Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick, page 137

More sentences with san

  • San Francisco, eh? That's funny, I was there just the other day.From the entry the other day
  • San Francisco was a very crunchy town.From the entry crunchy
  • San Luis Reservoir is the largest offstream reservoir in the United States, receiving most of its water from the California Aqueduct.From the entry offstream
  • San Jose then had the best commercial art department in the state; Stanford's was mediocre in comparison.2018 August 7, Francine Falk-Allen, Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability—A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry in comparison
  • San Manuel and the neighboring towns around Mount Banahao, in Laguna, are famous for lanzones.2010, Leoncio V. Gregana, Into the Change of Time: The Nurse, page 55. From the entry lanzon
  • San Diego still has trouble making up its mind as to which it wants to be—a hash-slinger or a gourmet chef.2008 June 17, Nick Canepa, “Tiger, Torrey triumph”, in San Diego Union-Tribune, retrieved 05 Dec 2010, page A1. From the entry hash slinger
  • San Antonio has always been viewed as the weak sister of the big regional centers of Houston and Dallas.1991 May 20, Larry Reibstein, “A Mexican Miracle?”, in Newsweek. From the entry weak sister
  • San Jose Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson successfully underwent surgery to fix a muscle tear in his left forearm, according to the team.2022 January 25, The Athletic Staff, “Sharks’ Erik Karlsson has surgery on left forearm; to be reevaluated in March”, in The New York Times. From the entry Erik
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 — This should have been a feel-good event, part of a fanfest weekend being staged by the San Francisco Giants .2007 January 20, Carol Pogash, “Giant Does Not Blame Bonds for Link to Positive Drug Test”, in New York Times. From the entry fanfest
  • There is a strong probability that the violets of the san Paolo Bible were roduced by a mixture of folium and album.1981, Joachim E. Gaehde, The Painters of the Carolingian Bible Manuscript of San Paolo Fuori Le Mura in Rome, page 80. From the entry folium
  • San Francisco is a city built on hills that look, to the driver of an ailing vintage VW, like they go straight up endlessly.1980 February 16, Nancy Walker, “You Can Go Home Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, archived from the original on 05 Aug…. From the entry pull away

Meaning of san

  1. noun An Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ), originally used in some dialects instead of sigma.
  2. noun A sanatorium.

Full definition of san

Questions about san in a sentence

How do you use san in a sentence?
San is used as a noun. For example: “San Francisco, eh? That's funny, I was there just the other day.”
What is a short sentence with san?
“San Francisco was a very crunchy town.”
What does san mean?
San means an Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ), originally used in some dialects instead of sigma.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: san (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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