How to Use fan out in a Sentence

fan out

phrasal verb

• And then for esports, there is the numbers, like the 700 million esports fans out there at this point in time, right?
  — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
• The facility is built on a wooden barge with cabins fanning out along boardwalks from the main building.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2024
• Every once in a while, a special team comes to comb a specific area of the kibbutz, with investigators fanning out to search the ground.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
• The last of the season’s sweetest tomatoes came fanned out with thin slivers of peppery onion lashed with a brisk red wine vinaigrette and scent of basil ($28).
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• Most years, fishing crews fan out in boats along the California coast to catch fall-run chinook, the most numerous variety.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
• But ahead, the group abandoned the queue and fanned out.
  — Elizabeth Hewitt, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023
• In those days, even winning wasn’t enough to bring the fans out.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Roots should fan out wide rather than grow in a circle.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Above it, the Oasis pool deck fans out over six acres of outdoor space.
  — Brad Japhe, TIME, 25 July 2024
• The bodice was all about the sparkles before fanning out into a tulle skirt.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 15 July 2024
• Rangers and others fanned out to search in the gathering dusk.
  — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• But there is one way Smith believes the Orioles can get even more fans out to the yard in the future.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2024
• But about halfway through cooking, the potatoes start to fan out.
  — Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• It was made complete with a ruching effect at the midpoint of her waist that fanned out on the dress' skirt.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
• As Taveras got to the stop and tried to fan out the train of her dress, she could be seen pushing the security guard’s arm away.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
• Of course, there are lots of good fans out there who cheer and otherwise keep quiet.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2024
• Instead of tucking the ends under, leave them to fan out slightly and tie the bundle with a piece of twine.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2024
• No one is immune from fanning out over the Olympics, not even Taylor Swift.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024
• Trust me there is no football fan out there that wants their team to have a mediocre season.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• In that stretch, the Warriors hustled back on defense, starting from the nail and fanning out from there.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The group quickly divided into small teams and fanned out to cover the broad area.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 July 2024
• Even before the flashing lights of the rides and games fan out in front of you, the scents of sugar and barbecue smoke smack you headlong.
  — Jenna Schnuer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• In dusty fields and orchards, other forces fanned out to search for militants on foot.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
• Road-tripping through Wyoming and Montana made a country music fan out of me.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
• Some were made with prisms that fan out the starlight, creating what's known as stellar spectra.
  — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
• Poker experts then fan out to each table to deal a few hands for the attendees.
  — Time, 24 July 2023
• The exhibit fans out around a structure that replicates the form of a Buddhist stupa.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• North American tour that brought fans out of the house for one of the first, and most outrageous, post-pandemic tours.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 June 2023
• The aim is to make new fans out of people like Mr. Norton or, ideally, his grandson.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• Minaj burst onto the scene in 2010 with a bubblegum pink wig to match her ultra-tall platforms and a mauve dress that fanned out around her.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024