Sentence examples for fanning off from inspiring English sources

One day, however, Mr. Clifford did spy a promising lump in the murk and was fanning off the silt until, he recalled, he stopped suddenly "an inch short" of hitting what turned out to be a deadly stone fish.

Northern European painters like van Eyck took their cues from this Byzantine icon, and from apocryphal sources like the Lentulus letter: "His hair is the color of a ripe hazelnut, parted on top in the manner of the Nazirites, and falling straight to the ears but curling further below, with blonde highlights and fanning off his shoulders".

In short, they were ripping fans off".

I switched the fan off, then the reading light.

At the final whistle, fans broke out in song, waving United's fans off with Oasis's "Wonderwall".

"Here's the thing: it definitely put some fans off, and annoyed them.

"The problem is that the Brooklyn fighters have frequently been put into horrible mismatches, and fights like that turn boxing fans off".

And though the infielders, as their names were chanted, waved the fans off as quickly as possible, the outfielders showed a bit more personality.

Toying with viewers' emotions and not treating those emotions with respect will turn the fans off, and they will in turn turn off their TV sets.

What looks like a radical and divisive political statement actually has the potential not to put fans off, but bring each group closer.

Because FVB mice are known to be visually impaired, special attention was given to use strong different sensorial cues (black and white stripes versus all white walls, fan on versus fan off, ethanol versus isopropanol scent, bar versus mesh grid floor).