Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fans
IPA transcription: [f'ænz]
Usage examples
  • One of her painted fans cost five thousand francs.
  • It is their ambition to become loud and loyal fans."
  • There was a couple of big wild-turkey-wing fans spread out behind those things.
  • A wild chase was going on in the depths, and where it passed the rushes bowed their sheaves and the flags their fans.
  • After it came four lines of Chinese girls, fanning the air with peacock fans on long staves, fans of white egret feathers, and ostrich plumes dyed a yellow gold.
  • I saw briarwood pipes with Shakespeare's face carved on the bowl, all for one-and-six; feather fans with advice to the players printed across the folds; the "Seven Ages" on handkerchiefs; and souvenir-spoons galore, all warranted Gorham's best.
  • Some of the booths are devoted to dolls; others to toys of various kinds; still others to birds in cages, goldfish in globes, queer chirping insects in wicker baskets, pretty ornaments for the hair, fans, candies, and cakes of all sorts, roasted beans and peanuts, and other things too numerous to mention.
  • In the zoophyte branch, class Alcyonaria, one finds the order Gorgonaria, which contains three groups: sea fans, isidian polyps, and coral polyps. It's in this last that precious coral belongs, an unusual substance that, at different times, has been classified in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms.