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    1. He doesn’t have a comeback, though, because “Dizzie” is Dizzie’s real name—her dad was a jazz fan


    2. Hamo sits as at a corner desk in front of an oscillating fan that rustles papers, a calender on the wall, etc


    3. The shit hits the fan one morning when I answer my doorbell to find Betty standing there, half annoyed and half gloating, as she sees me with a piece of toast in my hand


    4. "But it is a known fan out


    5. Most seem think it was just a fan, probably an innocent


    6. I'm a bit of a sci-fi fan so his YingolNeerie origins are interesting to me


    7. How delicious our goal looked from where we paused to fan ourselves desperate for the slightest breeze


    8. He spread his fingers in a fan, then folded his hands horizontally, laid his head on them and closed his eyes


    9. Once in the bathroom he slams the door shut on purpose, locks it and pulls the chord that powers up the heated lamp unit and the extractor fan


    10. The fan grinds through years of sticky dust and detritus, whining in complaint

    11. Before Andy could refute this suggestion, the shit really hit the fan


    12. off when the shit would finally hit the fan


    13. belongings, she was a big fan of Volleyball and loved to watch EastEnders


    14. tripped and besides, the fan blades at the ends of the shafts were too close together


    15. Collingston High, furnished with paintings and a gold-plated ceiling fan


    16. Harman looked around his empty office again, noticing that the ceiling fan


    17. A large fan shaped stained glass window topped it, causing the arched appearance she’d seen from the outside of the house


    18. The stained glass fan, cast a delicate pattern on the wooden floor, as the first rays of the lavender sky emerged over the blanketed hills


    19. The thought, was lost again to this world, as the brilliant orange ball, exploded across the pink and lavender sky, sending a fan shaped ray of light streaming in all directions


    20. Otto took off his Boer hat and used it as a fan

    21. Tom Tong lay awake watching the reflections of the dawn bounce off the ceiling fan


    22. This is one game where Arizona did not win but even as a loyal University of Arizona fan, I have to applaud Curt Gentry for that game


    23. that – whilst being a fan of the country in many respects –


    24. electric fan, but I refused the ventilator and


    25. It was quickly obvious that she wasn’t a fan


    26. She thought it was because she dressed like a Goth, and she wasn't a fan of judgmental people


    27. Showcase a Face-507 book Fan, congratulate a Twitter follower, customer of the week on your site


    28. To see a fan in your dream refers to the changes in your life


    29. In order to explain our inability in seeing spiritual beings, we can use the common analogy of a fan


    30. When the mechanical fan is static, we can clearly view and count the number of fan blades

    31. He had her whole life in his first five minutes with her; farmer’s daughter, college graduate, baseball fan, and a real looker


    32. He was a big fan of poetry, but it was


    33. told him you were a big fan of his


    34. With first place prizes being the best in golf, PGA tournaments have the most loyal fan base as any sport


    35. in the room like a fan running


    36. She had chosen to conceal her identity and heritage under a western name to increase her fan base in the UK


    37. Snapping his fingers a ceiling fan spun into life, causing a warm downdraft just enough to make the air move once more


    38. Many a time I sat in a Casspir waiting for the hail of bullets and (you know what) to hit the fan, and I would be comforted by someone chain smoking close by


    39. He was also waiting for the bullets and you know what else to hit the fan


    40. Listed company's tend to be the owners of nothing except their name and shares which may or may not be bulls-t when (not if) the fan hits (you know what)

    41. Were it not for this very special occasion, (The ―Scooter‖ was always a fan favorite), I would have passed up the ballgame


    42. Nevertheless, how much longer must the average fan see their season(s) high jacked by self-centered, lingering adolescents; many of whom don‘t appreciate the value of a hard earned dollar? I remember when it was only a game


    43. The bedroom light was off but the ceiling fan was going round and round on the slowest speed, murmuring in motion offering no reply to any of my questions


    44. In his mind, William imagined the clock spinning at the speed of a fan and the clouds overhead moving as fast as speeding automobiles on a busy highway


    45. As a sports fan who came of age in the sixties, I often ask myself, what have become of the Larry Czonka‘s or the Bill Riggins‘ or the Jerry West‘s or Rick Barry‘s, White Athletes who once dominated their respected sports? Is it conceivable that, in a day and age when the financial rewards are exceptionally high, (White‘s) have suddenly lost their competitive spark? Or could it be that many have fallen victim, in their own right, to stereotypical standards that seem to favor skill specific attributes like speed or vertical aptitude above other, less ―remarkable‖ qualities equally essential for performing on a higher level? Will such patterns eventually mandate the same type of protective status for Whites that are presently afforded to African Americans and other racial minorities competing in the public and private sectors? The latter is a stretch, granted


    46. It was extremely humid in there, with the inefficient ceiling suck-out fan moaning and groaning away on dry bearings


    47. With her body still steaming, she’d sprawl on her wide bed and allow the slowly rotating ceiling fan to hypnotically induce first dreams, then sleep


    48. The fan of the heater still blew warm air across me, but that would only last until the engine cooled


    49. Unlike Tara, she wasn’t much of a history fan


    50. Lyra gave a startled cry when the overhead lights suddenly came on and somewhere along the corridor, a large fan started up










































    1. It fanned its brilliantly plumed tail in pleasure when she obliged


    2. It ended where the wash ended and fanned out over dry sand looking across the basin floor at the encroaching dark


    3. This shared mingling of human substance gave me strength and, like a small bellows, fanned the flame of glowing anger that accompanied my slow investigation of the crime scene


    4. washed across the fanned out blue of a sunny afternoon


    5. and the flames of my success will be fanned


    6. fanned out beneath the cliffs, dotted with pine forests and


    7. The cool breeze in his chest fanned the embers of his inner fire and Dane felt power surge through him, tearing at his humanity, releasing Djgarr, the Dragon Lord of the North


    8. She fanned my face with a palm frond while her husband opened the goatskin of water and poured a cup


    9. The four troopers quickly fanned out into a covering formation and crouched close to the ground, each of them intently surveying the area around them while holding their rifles ready


    10. She slipped her fingers into the hair at the nape of his neck, her fingers plunging into the curly masses, which were fanned across the mat

    11. They scooped their wings, batting them madly and fanned their tails to drift slowly above the melee, tiny heads darting from side to side, scanning for the perfect morsel


    12. shock resounded, and the mourners fanned out to let the


    13. fanned white shells with red and charcoal pinstripes


    14. Government troops would have a column of vehicles, squads of men fanned out on the roadside, carriers


    15. splotched the walls, his teeth fanned the carpet


    16. He motioned with his free hand and half a dozen men fanned out two by two’s, going inside the rooms and halls on the west side of the monastery


    17. The wizard had fanned the fire severely, and he himself had let it burn


    18. Khevasiah fanned her nose with her hand and pushed Junya to the side


    19. Junya put his hand up and fanned it down in the direction of


    20. feathers of his wings, which fanned out around him, also threaded with stars, like

    21. We rushed over the bridge nearest to us and fanned out all over the city cutting down anyone who stood against us


    22. We fanned out to form a semicircle north of the town while the guide was sent in to tell the chieftain he would have to join the Khanate


    23. Suchix came over with the rest of our force and they fanned out to help tend our wounded


    24. Ignace came up in his own good time while the priests waited patiently and we fanned out around the town


    25. The others fanned out around us in a semicircle with spears at the ready but not yet pointed


    26. He nodded again and fanned his mouth


    27. Carmen lifted up her hair with one hand and fanned the back of her neck with the other


    28. Then the men poured across and fanned out to form a strong bridgehead


    29. 2 Then they made it into a heap; and, faint from heat and from thirst, they went under a shady tree, where the breeze fanned them to sleep


    30. Bandages around his head didn’t completely cover the deep purple bruising along his temple that fanned out to encircle his right eye

    31. The others quickly fanned out in response to his advice, while Moshe, easily identifying


    32. As the teams fanned out, first to the nearby villages, then to those farther afield, an explosive


    33. at its centre, and which then fanned out into a grid of resources


    34. fanned out to spend the rest of their lives to search for, and then


    35. them, hobbling over the thorns and sharp rocks as they fanned


    36. He stood on his two hind legs, his front legs placed on the trunk of a sacred oak tree, and his tail fanned out behind him


    37. The guil otine demons fanned out on either side of the accused


    38. Beatrice fanned her sensual eyelashes seeing the opportunity to explain things:


    39. As soon as he was in the air Why fanned his broken wings, flying ahead of the boat in a crooked, lilting manner, carrying the purple petal away with him


    40. But no matter how hard they fanned the flames the story never caught fire

    41. The blaze in his weird black eyes did not alter, and their expression filled her with fury, fanned by the sardonic smile that seemed carved upon his bearded lips


    42. Thousands of small grey objects shot out of the long spines, and under their own power, fanned out in every direction above the planet’s surface


    43. Thousands of drones shot out of the long spines, and fanned out in every direction above the planet’s surface


    44. ” The winged man fanned his wings


    45. Then the green lights stopped and it fanned out, scanning my face


    46. Suwanee’s squad of Marines fanned out around the bridge


    47. The four MMARV’s fanned out and advanced on the animals as they appeared from the forest


    48. ” He fanned the smoke out of his face


    49. Feltus fanned himself with his hat as if the lobby was excruciatingly warm; beads of perspiration had formed on his forehead, evidently from the long, arduous journey across the lobby


    50. Enormous sheets of flame, fanned by the mountain updraft engulfed both sides of the house, and now the back










































    1. Three hours later, Chief Evelyn Horcheese sat strapped into the command chair with 184 control conduits fanning out from the interface ports at her shoulders and pelvis


    2. Nlara obviously didn't want to chat, what was there left to say after the centuries they'd shared? Having Kalaz and Dencah back, along with Gardir, was fanning the current flare-up in her addiction to the hormone high


    3. More does, perhaps, in Great Britain than in any other country, though even there the great stocks which are in some places employed in farming, have generally been acquired by fanning, the trade, perhaps, in which, of all others, stock is commonly acquired most slowly


    4. “Anything would be a blessing,” I said, fanning my face with my hand


    5. He was tired, though Arawn was gaining strength from the ki’mera that continued to flow into Adem’s chest and his sheathed sword, mostly fanning around the hilt


    6. There were others in the corridors, some headed aft, towards engineering, others fanning out


    7. activists fanning the flames of racial grievance(s) for their own political reasons indicated elsewhere above


    8. (Read: Conservative Blacks!) Although it is not my intention to marginalize the organization‘s historical importance (or value) for peoples of color, its neo-radical, oftentimes racist agenda has long abandoned its intended purpose of advancing civil rights and equal opportunity in favor of consolidating a political power base in a manner that incorrectly defines the ―needs‖ of its ―constituents‖ by propagating the meanest forms of race-baiting that (otherwise) serve to advance political ambition by fanning artificial expectations that have lost much of their historical relevancy


    9. He laughed, taking a big bite, then fanning his hand in front of his mouth when it burnt his tongue


    10. She blew out air, fanning her face

    11. ignored the hash, fanning out


    12. “Oh my,” Al’s mother says, fanning her face with her hand


    13. She placed herself in a floating like position, her wings fanning rhythmically above the storage cell


    14. "I have found out what your ghost was," she said, with a grim smile, sitting down on a rocker and fanning herself


    15. that his growing army of admirers were all staring in his direction and not paying an ounce of interest to their partner’s conversation, some were even fanning themselves with the menu card


    16. I felt his breath fanning across my cheek


    17. ” She added fanning herself


    18. The force com�mander, an older lieutenant colonel with squint lines fanning from his eyes, told the assembled pilots that today's force of 16 Thuds, four flights of four, was going against the rail yards outside of the Thai Nguyen steel mill


    19. Fanning, President of the Navy League of the United States


    20. Fanning asserted the Coast Guard response was

    21. National NLUS President Fanning credited the Coast Guard with being the primary federal agency for maritime law enforcement and security, and said the naval service was chronically under staffed and underfunded, given its responsibility over “25,000 miles of coastline to patrol, 350 ports,” and thousands of “foreign flag ships, many of them carrying hazardous materials,” some of which come ”from countries identified by the U


    22. ” (Fanning, “Unanswered Questions,” Sea Power, August 2002, p


    23. fanning out in strange patterns that the downpour was grating


    24. shade of the trees, their leaves fanning out to catch the little bit


    25. from the backseats, fanning themselves while weak with laugher from their first experience in


    26. Several officers burst out of the security office fanning out as they approached Mark


    27. In the top of the gathering an oldster with raised fists and the missed expression of madness, was fanning the long and black sleeves of her blouse as a raven on the verge of detaching in flight


    28. I galloped up to a soft hill filled with golden ears, which in the distance was fanning its sprouts to the insistence of the wind


    29. My respiration paralyzed when I saw that Zoroastro, of a kick, was throwing Mariana towards the black cloud; I followed her with the look, while, lifted, the force of the wind was swinging her hair; she was fanning the arms in an effort to move away from the thundercloud


    30. Rory had removed the fainting man"s shirt and was fanning him with it

    31. Silently they set off across the stream and into the depths of the National Park, fanning out, but keeping in sight of each other, carefully avoiding trampling and disturbing


    32. She had maidens fanning her as the elephant carried her through the hot roadways


    33. “Yeah, unthinkable,” Angela mumbled, still fanning herself with the documents


    34. Carefully he took it up and blew upon it, fanning it into flame again


    35. This creeping chain of cars into the fanning out


    36. “The Rakai is fine, everyone,” Telkit said to the crowd, fanning his hands down to suppress the commotion


    37. When she went into the bedroom she found Petronila Iguarán there with the bothersome crinolines and the beaded jacket that she put on for formal visits, and she found Tran-quilina Maria Miniata Alacoque Buendía, her grand-mother, fanning herself with a peacock feather in her in-valid’s rocking chair, and her great-grandfather Aure-liano Arcadio Buendía, with his imitation dolman of the viceregal guard, and Aureliano Iguarán, her father, who had invented a prayer to make the worms shrivel up and drop off cows, and her timid mother, and her cousin with the pig’s tail, and José Arcadio Buendía, and her dead sons, all sitting in chairs lined up against the wall as if it were a wake and not a visit


    38. Mystics of the Christian Tradition by Steven Fanning


    39. * Mystics of the Christian Tradition, by Steven Fanning


    40. Mystics of the Christian Tradition, by Steven Fanning

    41. gazed longingly back to camp, fanning her pink face with both hands


    42. fanning the inside air out


    43. ” Scenes played through his mind, scenes of the trolls being afraid of this Horror, and he, Brumvack, cynically fanning those fears


    44. I was fanning myself with a book and a magazine covers in order to cool down from the burning hot temperature


    45. small in comparison to the bank of cirrus clouds fanning out over the


    46. Oh, my,” she said, fanning herself comically


    47. ’’ Said Queen Anne, who was fanning herself to chase the emotion that the ferocious show given by Nancy had brought her


    48. The desire to feed had grown overwhelming, and he had not been vampire long enough to learn how to control his urges, not with the looming Destiratu fanning his need for blood


    49. He started across the lot, head lowered against the wind-driven snow, and remembered when he, Connie, and the boys would spend hours in their backyard during snowstorms, plopping themselves onto the snow and fanning out snow angels, rolling up gigantic bottoms and abdomens and heads of snow for snowmen, stockpiling snow balls for their epic battles (David and Josh against Connie and Julian), and lying in their red plastic sleds while gazing up at the snow falling into their eyes, ending the snowy days by cooking hotdogs on the outside fireplace and making s’mores in semi-darkness, the light reflected off the snow from the fire and the moonlight providing all the illumination they needed


    50. The imminent darkness dims the flicker of hope his heart was fanning just moments ago










































    1. We have thirteen million fans


    2. Many fans have made the pilgrimage to his California home - he’s not hard to find, his address and phone number printed on every label


    3. Most people wanted photographs of beaded sweat on brown skin and slow turning ceiling fans in Bangkok, Phnom Penh or Vientiane


    4. They were all grateful when the huge fans turned off and slowly spun down


    5. Long before the fans stopped, a man in a service coverall sauntered down it at a quick pace


    6. Even that far below a dirty old burner like that, she was likely to pick up some damage to her flesh, unless they were still running on fans and thrusters when they passed over


    7. "The shuttle stays in the air when its going slow because it has powerful fans in it's wings which blow wind and keep them up by the force of that wind


    8. The fans are noisy


    9. She knew that from magazine pictures, a city with two rings of glass and grown towers, miles around, sweltering in the jungle, with lemphs running in cages turning big slow fans that hung from the ceilings


    10. They were hiding and guarding me from the fans and the assassins

    11. The fans, the press and all of those ex-footballer pundits on the television said that Terry was a legend in the making; that he was ten times the player Chazza had ever been


    12. The camp had won Mama many fans in the neighbourhood, Technically,


    13. pedestal fans conked off


    14. The fans whirred again


    15. The fans, the press and all of


    16. Titania and Hipolyta were also his biggest fans and when they were younger, his constant shadows


    17. “0 and 12 huh? They don’t call Cub fans the best in the world for nothing I


    18. fifty fans in attendance


    19. I wasn’t even aware that we really had fans


    20. entertainers who had exited with the fans stood around watching like students at a

    21. Five thousand-plus fans


    22. Even though we had our fans they paled in comparison to those


    23. The hometown fans couldn't have gotten any better a game in their life


    24. He wound up pitching a one hitter at Phoenix Giants Stadium in front of 10,000 screaming Arizona State fans and a few Arizona fans


    25. And it was an incredibly high wall with no fans behind it; was just an empty outfield wall with nobody sitting in the outfield


    26. "None from the fans struck your fancy for the sleep?" he asked


    27. conditioning, there were no fans, and James vomited non-


    28. They were pictured as bigger than today's floaters with open decks and enormous sausage balloons and horizontal fans to drive them, peddled by most of the troops aboard


    29. We knew from Alan's description that the starship flies by fans, so when it landed and shut itself off to let the ghost named Alfred carry Alan in, Klarrain drove the floater in low from the bushes and dropped a tarp over one of the fans


    30. I knew I'd be sucked into the blades of the shuttle's fans, I'd get some disease so preposterous I'd lie in a quaking pile rotting and seething with maggots

    31. Surprising for me is why the fans of the


    32. (Most of the fans won’t even bother to read the


    33. fans to admire them when they have not earned the admiration


    34. Seconds later the main lights flicked back into life and they heard the air conditioning fans start up again


    35. more mature golf fans


    36. and affordable to the fans of golf that have no qualms about the cost


    37. The Masters is a tournament founded by Bobby Jones and is highly respected by all golf fans


    38. Ladies golf has been around for sometime but the popularity has consistently grown and the association has not disappointed its fans


    39. It is highly unlikely anyone has seen the World Cup void of fans on any given year


    40. cheers of golf fans exude a respect for the game

    41. She blew kisses to her fans, but when she turned in Raven’s direction he looked away immediately


    42. Every time he showed her something deep or spiritual, he followed it up the next day by smirking at the cameras or flirting with fans


    43. He was angry at the fans who cheered from their homes, detached from the reality of the deaths


    44. He fought with fans and the press throughout his career


    45. I had no fans in the room


    46. endorsements, playing up to fans but not for the fans, not really, and highlight reels that burnish self-serving credentials, begs the question, how about the love for the game for its own sake that has (seemingly) become secondary to self-centered attitudes and inflated egos; where gamesmanship has superseded sportsmanship? Bizarre behavior, taunting and jeering an opponent, especially common in higher profiled sports, has (sadly) provided the modern athlete with a receptive audience


    47. observing a moment of silence honoring the victims of the World Trade Center, some of the fans in attendance set fire to the American Flag


    48. ” For extreme torture fans, “Butterfly” is one of the best ever written


    49. Care about your fans and they will care even more about you


    50. Delnagro‘s troubling column (―Anthem gets attention‖) questioning why players and fans attending professional sporting events should be required to stand during the playing of our National Anthem, despite conflicting ideological viewpoints, instead of being allowed to ―sit it out in peace‖, if that is their desire, underscores a disturbing tendency among a number of Americans who routinely take peace for granted













































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    Synonyms for "fan"

    fan buff devotee lover rooter sports fan winnow supporter follower amateur admirer aficionado blower ventilator

    "fan" definitions

    a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces


    an enthusiastic devotee of sports


    an ardent follower and admirer


    strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)


    make (an emotion) fiercer


    agitate the air


    blow away or off with a current of air