Examples of wan in a Sentence
Adjective
She gave a wan laugh.
she looks a little wan after all that tiring work
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David Quammen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2020
The industrial lagers were flavorless, wan and dilute; craft beer, by contrast, would be rich, complex and delicious.
—Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
Lori Thomas, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The correct port to use on the router is often a different color or labeled as WAN, which stands for Wide-Area Network.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 4 July 2025
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Adjective
If the land in question has been converted from agricultural fields to golf-course acreage, the net impact of those other factors might actually be lessened, but that’s a wan exculpation.
—David Quammen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2020
The industrial lagers were flavorless, wan and dilute; craft beer, by contrast, would be rich, complex and delicious.
—Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
Noun
These providers launch private wireless networks in weeks, pivot from legacy multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) to cloud-native SD-WAN and remediate cybersecurity threats at the mobile edge, even before an alert.
—Lori Thomas, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The correct port to use on the router is often a different color or labeled as WAN, which stands for Wide-Area Network.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 4 July 2025
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“Wan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wan. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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