Meant in sentence

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But what he meant was that what we've done, really, is stamp collect there.

Scraping and re-scraping, painting and repainting: the work of an old house is never meant to be done.

He meant, of course, that they were able to create more options than the rivals.

So 25 years ago, environmental writer Bill McKibben said that because nature was a thing apart from man and because climate change meant that every centimeter of the Earth was altered by man, then nature was over.

We are, all of us on that floor, injecting ourselves into a narrative that meant something to us.

I think this is what Uncle Ibrahim meant when he said that was a project of peace and unity, because I really felt that people were coming together.

There were no easy answers, but El Cap meant enough to me that I would put in the work and find out.

I was slightly afraid to ask what type of miracles he meant, and he replied nonchalantly, "Coach, let me take the team to the church, and when we return, I guarantee that half of them will be able to see." (Laughter) Some of the guys laughed, but imagine being a blind person and someone says that to you.

It's how you learned what it meant to be a man or a woman, what it meant to behave yourself in public, what it meant to be a patriot and have good manners.

And Disney said, "Wait, that's not what we meant.

What we meant was, we don't have any Princess Leia merchandise yet, but we will."

Nothing that follows is meant to suggest that the gap between rich and poor is anything but profoundly immoral.

But they were told that success meant leaving the village behind and pursuing that iconic symbol of the American Dream, the white picket fence.

The nine units are all built to be different, different sizes, different shapes, but they're meant to be as green as possible.

Now, social dance is about community and connection; if you knew the steps, it meant you belonged to a group.

Blindness meant I would live an unremarkable life, small and sad, and likely alone.

But the campaign never meant to shame anyone.

It meant to let people speak and to make others listen.

The red dots meant that the paintings were sold and that I'd be able to pay my rent with painting.

I asked him what that meant, and he said, "Well, that's when you've stepped into adulthood, you're no longer a child, but you're not yet weighed down by the responsibilities of life."

So I just started to be with her, whatever that meant and whatever situation came up, just really listen to her.

It meant actually defining 481 terms which formed the basis of everything you need to know if you're going to organize a democratic election.

In an operation in Iraq, we saved 17 percent of the costs, and this meant that you had the ability to feed an additional 80,000 people.

And as we were going through the budget for the rollouts, we decided last minute to cut the purchase of 10,000 orange balloons, which we had meant to distribute to all staff worldwide.

Deah, Yusor and Razan were executed in a place that was meant to be safe: their home.

And what he meant by institutions were really just formal rules like a constitution, and informal constraints, like bribery.

For decades, that's a name that's meant that this has been the dominant image of a disease that can be as serious as this.

This meant that men could now get hysteria, but of course women were still the most susceptible.

And for me, the fact that he was queer meant that I could trust his courtship from the very beginning.

And this meant that we were able to commit to each other in a profoundly different way.

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