Sentence examples for panned for from inspiring English sources

Contemporary American poetry is sometimes panned for being mundane.

Querrey was panned for his comments, but one of his likable traits is his candor.

Often panned for their Orwellian atmosphere, the superquadras now are among the city's most prized real estate.

Mr. Barzee, the lawyer for Mr. Goffer, instead described his client as a "gold miner" who panned for gold along the "river of gossip".

In 2002, he was part of a generation of American-born players widely panned for finishing sixth at the world championships in Indianapolis.

This book, by the British historian Timothy F. Garrard, explains how miners panned for gold dust at remote riverbanks, and then blacksmiths formed the nuggets.

Sarah Palin is being roundly panned for getting the pizza guy's name wrong the other night on her favorite cable network.

Dirt is brought up from holes and teen-agers sift through the earth with screens and then the gravel was taken to the water and panned for sapphires.

From the 1850s, as prospectors panned for gold, Mr. Bechtold said, the topsoil washed away, leaving limestone boulders and gravel where poison oak grew undisturbed.

She was praised in her first film, the high-trash 1964 biodrama "The Carpetbaggers," then panned for her second, the high-minded "Ship of Fools" (1965).

The Abbott government was panned for creating the position of wind commissioner to investigate claims of ill health resulting from infrasound.