wain

Example Sentences

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“Yuh wahn im dead eh?” one of Rebecca’s children accuses her when she hesitates to authorize the surgery that might prolong her husband’s life.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2018

"You wahn know who started it?" a man holding a pair of binoculars called from the window of a pawnshop.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

"Some folks don' lak wahn," he said amiably.

From Stories of the Foot-hills by Graham, Margaret Collier

"Yass, 'm; dey all meession grapes; dey mek var' good wahn."

From Stories of the Foot-hills by Graham, Margaret Collier

As Faust says, her only fault was a "kindly delusion,"—"ein guter wahn."

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret