Sentence examples for wan looking from inspiring English sources

LONDON, Aug. 12 — A color photograph of the Burmese artist Htein Lin on the day of his release from prison shows him stooped and wan, looking easily 20 years older than his real age.

As for their other friends, you will have to put up with whatever fate hurls at you but there will probably be a divorced man in his forties sporting newly grown, racy sideburns, a withered and wan looking young couple with a small baby and a childless pair of new lovers who keep yawning and disappearing to their room for a nap.

"It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". Obi-Wan looks incredulously at Solo, perhaps unmoved by the illogical boast.

They pull up to McMurtry's house, in the suburbs, and the door of the house opens and out comes McMurtry, a slight, slightly wan, kindly looking shy-looking guy, ambling out, with his little boy, his son, and Cassady opens the door of the bus so everybody can get off, and suddenly Stark Naked shrieks out: 'Frankie!

His neutrals don't have that wan look of an airline breakfast -- all egg white, light toast and oatmeal shades -- but give off a richer, lustier effect.

For bric-a-brac and bargains, head to "Cat Street" (Upper Lascar Row) in Sheung Wan and look for the shops with junk piled outside on the sidewalk.

And lest we think that it was much more romantic in earlier times, the ghosts of chorines past who materialize, garlanded in wan spotlights, look more like floozies than goddesses.

Favaretto has pinned the missive to a wan-looking tree that found itself stranded inside the fair when the giant temporary building was erected.

Knox, looking wan and dazed, exchanges chaste kisses with Sollecito, who rubs her arm consolingly.

At a union hall in garbage-strewn Gary, Mrs. Clinton began her early-evening speech looking wan.

She has an old world glamour and screen presence that leaves many of the rest of the characters here looking wan and one dimensional.