The searchers spread out into a fan-shaped formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands] Reference

A huge pasture-ground ran up fan-shaped to the living snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

The pattern of movement here is a great fan-shaped movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003] Reference

He returned holding a fan-shaped growth that was dark purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dread Companion]

The first alcove held a fat bird with a beautiful fan-shaped tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harpy Thyme]

A great, fan-shaped muscle, called the pectoralis major, lies on the chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Each canyon's thick, fan-shaped sedimentary deposit is called an abyssal fans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiography of the ocean basins] Reference

There was a fan-shaped light over the door, and the place was very still and gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference

Light almost pierced the thin swift waves as they raced fan-shaped over the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

The cap is nearly semicircular in shape, sometimes fan-shaped and rounded in front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

She pulled out a merino round gown with a fan-shaped silk insert in the bodice front.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Gamble]

Two windows in the front are of Charles I. 's date, and have quaint fan-shaped lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

'There is a crenellated embroidered fan-shaped piece of material which goes with this.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

He spread his beautiful fan-shaped tail, and would not be driven from the starting-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference

A stiff feather-crest rose over head and neck, white edged with black like the fan-shaped tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Their Return]

Well, it is also alive and has that well-known Paragon form, five fan-shaped shoots above the graft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

It was much like a great hand extended from the hills; two fingers, parted, formed a fan-shaped valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

A wide river cut through the heights and gave birth to a fan-shaped delta thickly covered with vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

An alluvial fan is a large fan-shaped deposit of sediment on which a braided stream flows over (Figure 9).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fluvial landforms] Reference

A wide river cut through the heights and gave birth to a 'fan-shaped delta thickly covered with vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born]

We entered the big fan-shaped lecture hall; rows of gray cloth seats sloped sharply to a wooden lecture pit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

The windwagon hit the water hard, sending up a fan-shaped shower of water that sprayed higher than the mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

By midday, the gas also carries dust, which by evening has fallen on the surface in long fan-shaped patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Mars, spring is a time for gushing gas geysers.] Reference

The bull-necked man tugged at his beard, spread fan-shaped across his chest, and eyed Conan with speculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Unconquered]

On the sledge journeys the dogs were harnessed in a fan-shaped group to the traces, and were never run tandem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference

Delta, a fan-shaped area of rich, arable land where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

These eruptions can be so strong that the falling dirt creates fan-shaped patterns extending hundreds of yards meters.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Mars, spring is a time for gushing gas geysers.] Reference

The apple was the body, the tail was fan-shaped, made of tooth picks covered with small dark raisins pushed down over them.    From Wordnik.com.  [EllynAnne Geisel: Naked Tabletop No Need for Tailspin] Reference

Tremendous fan-shaped shafts of opalescent fire shot toward the zenith and like search-lights moved to and fro across the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

The end of the gulch flattened, broadened into a fan-shaped jumble of shallow and dry rivulets opening onto the flat of the mesa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spellsong War]

On either hand the dense undergrowth of great, flower-covered bushes and curving fan-shaped palms, restricted the view to a few yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Girl] Reference

The elephant's great fan-shaped ears bent forward to listen, and he lowered Tippoo till he hung swinging at the end of the huge proboscis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

Immense fan-shaped, thunderous-looking clouds would come rolling up, billow upon billow, travelling at great speed and accompanied by terrific wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference