How to Use pane in a Sentence

pane

noun
Definition of panenext
  • The front and bottom glass panes of the front door were smashed in.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • Her nightgown was the shape of a cloud, against the square panes of green glass.
    — Silvina Ocampo, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
  • Like the river, the windows are sheathed in a pane of ice.
    — Stuart Dybek, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Dip a small foam roller in glass paint ($9, Walmart) and roll on the backs of the glass panes.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • There was a slight bump as his forehead touched the pane.
    — Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • With that, Howard took out his steel baton and smashed the glass pane on the door.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The man left the business and kicked open the door, shattering the glass pane.
    — cleveland, 7 Aug. 2020
  • In the melee, the glass pane of one of the doors broke, scattering glass across the marble.
    — Michael Ames, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Down the hill, past the barn, past the gate, up the lane, The house with bright candles in each window pane.
    — Leah Hall, Country Living, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Turn off the Edge Panel See that translucent pane on the right edge of your screen?
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Outside the big pane windows at the front of the store, the streets are deserted.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2020
  • The dining area has large windows, and one pane was open.
    — Amanda Watts, CNN, 8 July 2019
  • The old panes were knocked out long ago to make way for plain glass that would admit more light.
    — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Other panes were smeared with red paint hand prints, made to look like blood.
    — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2020
  • Matty’s paintball gun discharged in the house and broke a pane of glass.
    — D. S. Waldman, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Scroll all the way down the right-hand Editor pane to the Settings gear at the bottom, and click it.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The hub allows it all to be managed from a single pane of glass.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The labels will show up on the left-hand reading pane of your inbox.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Select a discord server from any of the Discord servers at the top left pane of the screen.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The wind howled through crevices and banged against quarter-inch, single-pane glass.
    — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Fix caulking around frames and glazing on panes for a like-new look.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
  • So Rolls figured out how to make the Sweptail’s roof out of a single pane of glass.
    — WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • The aseptic color charts, the matter-of-fact panes of glass and mirrors.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • As such even if one of the layers were to be dislodged, the other pane could withstand the stress.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The exterior is clad in gray walls with a flat roof, clean lines, and panes of glass.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Inside, the car has a rotating pane in the center of the dashboard.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 12 June 2019
  • The wind pushed out the bottom pane of an upstairs window and broke the top pane, spewing leaves all over the TV.
    — Morgan Womack and Staff Reports, The Courier-Journal, 26 June 2023
  • Moments later, rioters smashed one of the glass panes in the doors and opened them.
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Even when the doors are closed, the glass window panes allow light to stream freely between the two areas.
    — Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2024
  • There's no entry in the left pane with Collections and Catalog, and a Faces mode view would be nice to go along with the Map mode.
    — PCMAG, 30 May 2024

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