Meant in sentence

2718 examples of Meant in a sentence

Pregnancies are meant to be happy and fulfilling moments in any woman's life.

He really meant it.

This is a touching slate meant for blind children.

I didn't know what those meant, neither did Dick or Sydney, for that matter.

The finished project is meant to be more than just a power station.

It's what's known as a bioluminescent burglar alarm, and just like the alarm on your car or your house, it's meant to cast unwanted attention onto the intruder, thereby either leading to his capture or scaring him away.

It's a scream for help; it's meant to attract attention.

We decided to use the Mechanical Turk for exactly what it was meant for, which is making money.

And we wanted to push the idea of the music video that was meant for the Web beyond the four-by-three or sixteen-by-nine window and try to make it play out and choreograph throughout the screen.

But it wasn't until I turned 30 that I really got what this meant.

The school where he graduated from with his master's had just offered him a teaching appointment, which meant not only a salary, but benefits for the first time in ages.

And because we shared our genetic information with Linda, she could see that Harriet and I shared a very rare type of mitochondrial DNA, haplotype K1a1b1a, which meant we were distantly related.

That meant it was metastasized from somewhere.

It meant that when I was given two and a half hours to take a test that anyone here would take in 50 minutes, I might score an F. This is a very, very low level in order to be kicked out of the health care system.

And in closing, I want to share the personal reason why this meant so much to me and changed the direction of my life.

My self became defined by otherness, which meant that, in that social world, I didn't really exist.

I thought I lacked substance, and the fact that I could feel others' meant that I had nothing of myself to feel.

Imagine Lady Liberty: the blindfolded woman holding the scale meant to symbolize the balance in our judicial system.

And that meant actually designing custom technology as opposed to just buying things off the shelf and putting them to use.

If you're a public-sector official, release the funds meant for that school or public health-care center instead of stealing it for your personal purposes.

And some of these are actually meant to mediate experiences.

In the 18th century, it became a verb, and it meant to swindle or ridicule or to make fun of someone.

This actually meant 21 days counting to potentially disease or death.

That meant watching fireworks on the Fourth of July, trick-or-treating on Halloween and putting presents under a tree at Christmas.

And I remember my very first patient in that series continued to tell me more history during what was meant to be the physical exam visit.

It was meant to keep athletes warm.

I think this was a time when my family really began to realize what disability meant to some people: fear.

Honestly, I didn't know what the word "sequelae" meant, so I went to the dictionary, and it meant "because of."

So it meant that if you were a scientist who wanted to work on the human genome, you had to agree to abide by these principles.

Separate has always meant unequal.

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