Meant in sentence

2718 examples of Meant in a sentence

So it actually meant something.

He suggested, "OK, if the stinging individuals are going to be the males ..." Then he got confused, because that would have meant the males were also taking care of the young in a colony, and he seemed to think that would be completely impossible.

But in that very same clinic, I met Theresa, a shy young woman who couldn't look me in the eyes, not because she couldn't see, but the appearance of the growth on her eyes called pterygium meant she'd lost her confidence, and with it, her place in her community.

For Theresa, it meant her place back in society, now with her own family and children.

And for Mama Jane, it wasn't just restoring her sight, it meant the opportunity to restore hope, to restore joy and to restore dignity.

I had absolutely no idea what she meant.

So, in New York, that meant "stop, question and frisk."

That meant really holding up the numbers as opposed to relationships.

And what he meant by that was that it is only human nature to have a human nature that is very much the product of the society in which people live.

Now, if I'm honest, I knew just what she meant.

The word "belief" itself originally meant to love, to prize, to hold dear.

It meant: "I commit myself.

And religious doctrines are meant to be summons to action; you only understand them when you put them into practice.

And "go and study it" was what he meant.

It's what is meant by overcoming the horror that we feel when we are under threat of our enemies, and beginning to appreciate the other.

It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on this earth, and you need to figure out what that thing is and devote your life to it.

Which meant a greater likelihood to get funded.

I think what he meant is that we treat prisoners as ghosts.

So many hours, so well meant, but ultimately so futile.

Now, even if you did not know what "fishmonger" meant, you can use some contextual clues.

By this, he meant that because the speed of light is finite, any signals detected from distant technologies will be telling us about their past by the time they reach us.

I kept seeing that shiny, pearly spot, and I couldn't understand what it meant.

So we stopped work for a while and sat down and cut 10,000 little sticks and glued them onto a model, just simply to confront ourselves with what that quantity actually meant.

We might not know what they meant, but the people of the time certainly did.

And it seemed really sad to think that my reading habits meant I would probably never encounter them.

And in this second generation, he got both yellow and green seeds, which meant the green trait had been hidden by the dominant yellow.

Said to the klutzy kid tripping into English class and spilling his books and pencil case all over the room, now that is just harsh and verbally ironic because what you said is not what you meant.

Verbal irony is where what is meant is the opposite of what is said, while sarcasm adds that little punch of attitude.

That meant that in early English, just like in German, inanimate objects had gender.

Being able to use words meant not just knowing their meaning but what gender they were, too.

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