English example sentences with "meant"

Learn how to use meant in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

Humans were never meant to live forever.

I meant no harm.

No offense was meant.

I meant you no harm.

If a player hit the tree with the ball, it meant that the crops would grow successfully.

I couldn't make out what he meant by 'megafeps'.

I just meant it as a joke.

That is not what I meant to say.

It was meant as a compliment, so I didn't want to tell him that he had missed the point.

I meant it as a joke.

The phrase is meant to insult people.

Only then did I realize what he meant.

The professor was unable to comprehend what I meant.

Those 4 degrees meant that 30 percent of the land area of the world was covered in ice.

What he meant by those words finally dawned on me.

This was meant as a joke.

This book is meant for children.

This watch is meant for you.

I thought that once I meant something.

Did I hurt your feelings? I meant no harm.

Edward looked Kathy in the eye and asked her if she really meant what she said.

I meant to have called on you.

You must have known what she meant.

Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.

I meant to have written to you.

The word meant "attendants."

Football originally meant "a game played with a ball on foot" - unlike a game played on horseback, such as polo.

It was only yesterday that I realized what she really meant.

This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'

I never meant to have you pay the bill.

I meant it to be used as a textbook.

I couldn't figure out what he meant.

I could not make out what he meant.

I meant to call her, but I forgot to.

I meant what I said.

I meant to have come.

I meant to have finished writing the paper.

The animal in the top left-hand corner is meant to be a dragon.

It was obvious to all that he meant it.

Nobody could tell what he meant by that.

It was clear what he meant to do.

When I told him I liked the picture, I really meant that.

He had no idea what these words meant.

After I asked him a question, what he meant was clarified.

She had enough sense to understand what he really meant.

What do you think he meant by that?

Even though it meant risking danger, he decided to go there.

He showed what he meant.

He was reluctant to reveal what he really meant.

It wasn't clear what she meant.

It was some time before I cottoned on to what she meant.

It was not clear what she really meant.

I don't know which doctor she meant.

She's meant to practice the piano for two hours.

She was too wise not to understand what you meant.

She may realize later on what I meant.

Her son meant everything to her.

They were listening to him, not understanding what he really meant.

The translator found it impossible to explain what he meant.

That's not what I meant. I'm not being sexist. Men and women are just different.

I know you think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realized that what you heard is not what I meant.

She may realize later what I meant.

The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest— Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. "Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival." Darwinism: That survivors survive.

Scissors are meant for cutting but can also be used to stab.

For the residents of Edo, the first bonito of the year was something that had to be bought, even if it meant borrowing money.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

I meant to look it up.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

I meant to thank you for your help.

The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.

I find it amazing that in the Slavic languages the word “sweet” originally meant “salty”!

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Did you understand what he meant?

The documentary is meant to raise consciousness about the plight of the poor.

He understood what her words meant straight away.

He understood what his words meant straight away.

Fortunately, everybody understood what this foreigner meant, knew I was only making a fool of myself, and laughed at me.

This meant they were too weak to cause more trouble.

It appeared that he meant what he said.

This meant Florida had to count the votes again.

Fewer workers meant fewer people with money to buy goods.

More tractors meant fewer horses and mules.

This letter was never meant to be sent.

This report is meant to explain my language learning experiences.

Don't be so hard on her. She meant well.

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.

I never meant to deceive you.

I've always wanted to know what that meant.

Rules are meant to be broken.

I hoped you would understand what I meant.

Tom did say that, but I don't think he really meant it.

Tom couldn't understand what the sign meant.

I wonder if Tom really meant what he said.

I doubt that Tom meant any harm.

Tom couldn't make Mary understand what he meant.

Tom couldn't figure out what Mary meant.

Tom understood exactly what Mary meant.

Tom said, "You can kiss your girlfriend goodbye if you don't kiss her goodbye," which meant, "If you don't kiss your girlfriend goodbye, then you'll never see her again."

Tom doesn't know what Mary meant.

Tom didn't understand what Mary really meant.

Tom didn't quite know what Mary meant.

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