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Meanings of fan out in English

Catalan
estendre's
Spanish
diseminar

To move outward (e.g. soldiers).

        estendre's
        Usage of fan out in English
        1
        Settlers fan out and stake claims to property on the best servers.
        Wired
        2
        Automated search and rescue vehicles will fan out to find lost hikers.
        Wired
        3
        He tossed four at once, letting them fan out across the room.
        Chaosbound
        4
        One of them signals with his hand and the rest fan out.
        Angelfall
        5
        Several rings of stone and brick buildings fan out from the North Plaza.
        Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
        6
        The two men fan out and continue to move toward him.
        Chinatown
        7
        So you can see how they kind of fan out, right?
        Wired
        8
        My hunch proves right when the shadows fan out, surrounding me.
        Angelfall
        9
        His troops began to fan out in a circle around me.
        Monster Hunter Vendetta
        10
        He holds it up by the spine and lets the leaves fan out.
        Wolf hall
        11
        The men skid to a stop and fan out around me.
        World After
        12
        The rest of us fan out through the crowd, looking for our man.
        Soon I will be invincible
        13
        Slowly and silently, the bowmen began to fan out through the low trees.
        Watcher of the Dead
        14
        They fan out, searching in the heather, a helicopter above them.
        The Irish Times
        15
        Here, technicolor washes fan out in all directions and the silence is overpowering.
        Climbing Magazine
        16
        He felt blood rush into his face and fan out on his cheeks.
        Under the dome: a novel
        This collocation consists of:
        Translations for fan out
        Fan out through the time
        Fan out across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common