Meant in sentence

2718 examples of Meant in a sentence

I admit the sight of the leash would excite me, but only because it meant I was about to smell things you had never touched.

Actually, your Honor, the Roman people had overthrown their kings centuries before to establish a republic, a government meant to serve the people, not the privilege of a ruling family.

So if this theory were true then it meant that light as it passed the sun should actually be bent around it.

When he collected these finches, he threw them in a bag and he had no idea what they meant.

And by that he meant it's organized because they do it collectively, they do it as a group, and skepticism, because they do it from a position of distrust.

So these speakers are meant to emulate that.

So let me show you one instrument we've created, one of many, and this instrument is called "Twilight," and it's meant to go with this metaphor of pulling a sound out of the ground.

I didn't know what these ones and zeros meant.

This meant that one employee was responsible for 180 inhabitants, which was really unique in the world.

In nearly every speech, the Stasi minister gave the order to find out who is who, which meant who thinks what.

I spent so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to, told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience because I still had to figure out being my own, so sometimes I just wouldn't say anything, appeasing ignorance with my silence, unaware that validation doesn't need words to endorse its existence.

The rest of us are meant to feel like amateurs in the sense of suckers.

But it meant the most to Jeannie.

And two years after this photo was taken, she passed away, and I attended her wake, and nothing could have prepared me for what I saw there, because next to her casket was this painting, and her husband told me it meant so much to her that I had acknowledged her hard work, I had validated what she did.

The exhibition was meant to be a way to have children think of doing ... you know when they do homeworks at home?

Well the sound that we looked forward to was the click of the door closing, which meant he'd gone and would not come back.

And what he meant was, you as a child of a Jamaican immigrant are being watched to see which way you turn, to see whether you conform to the host nation's stereotype of you, of being feckless, work-shy, destined for a life of crime.

And if it meant that we would now return to 30 years of silence, my father would say, "If it's so, then it's so."

I first heard this when I was a kid, and I loved it, but I had no idea what it meant.

My work is not meant to hide the scars of war, but to show the full frame of unseen stories of Gazans.

He actually meant to quote John Adams' defense of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials that facts are stubborn things.

The final one is interesting, because the term "refrigerator mother" was actually the original hypothesis for the cause of autism, and that meant somebody who was cold and unloving.

Now, using a cutting-edge piece of technology that's not really meant for the oceans is not always easy.

And within these conversations, I started hearing the connections between the businesses and the people, and how laws that were meant to protect them were being underused, while gross and illegal punitive measures were overused.

Which I used to think meant Not Entirely Dead.

Because of its sheer size, it was meant to be lording over lesser plants, so God didn't like this arrogance, uprooted it, and planted it upside down, hence its particular shape.

This alternative was conveniently lobbied by big building companies, because it meant 42 million dollars in contracts, and was also politically preferred, because it required no land expropriation.

It meant that the women would stop receiving an income that they really needed.

First of all, this is meant to be voluntary and not mandatory, and second of all, I'm American and I'm already here.

I understood what her directives meant so well, but I was a physician.

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