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How to use meant in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word meant? Here are some examples.

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People who were supposed to be providing services could be breathtakingly rude to the customers they were meant to be serving.
Increased use of the motor car meant a general increase in the provision of garaging.
What it meant was the Party base was going to blow cold on him right up to the hearings.
The unanimous protests meant they were forced to reinstate the grog the following year, but I still haven't been back.
It's how we are meant to be, and sometimes the unapproachably perfect is best seen in our imperfect striving for it.
The tight budget, Azrul said, meant there were few midwives in many areas nationwide, leading to unassisted and dangerous births in many cases.
The drug, Paclitaxel, is meant to prevent restenosis, the narrowing of the arterial walls after a stent is inserted to unblock an artery.
Worryingly, children are viewing a lot of what is not meant for them, especially the sitcoms and soaps.
The gaping hole in the ship meant that much of the air was completely unbreathable so both men wore their helmets set to recycled air.
I meant to post this yesterday, but apathy repeatedly bludgeoned me over the head with a large fluffy pillow.
The win meant he has enough of a points advantage to be uncatchable for the rest of the season.
That has meant telling trade groups and industry lobbies in no uncertain terms not to hire Democrats.
His fists were clenching and unclenching and by then, Dante knew what that meant for him.
Kemino meant the question to sound worried, but it came out unconcerned and a bit shallow.
Longboards are designed for racing and are not really meant for skateparks.
In my view they are what can properly be meant, by the way, by evocative talk of the subconscious or the unconscious mind.
It is what monopoly legislation was meant to be about as uncontrolled domination by one participant in any market is undesirable.
The green and white speckled ones are meant to be eaten raw, like radishes, though they taste like uncooked dough to me.
Apart from their weight, driver comfort in those days usually meant a top coat, muffler and cap and you needed them, I assure you.
Being in the Rockies meant she could indulge her love of skiing, mountain biking and rugged living.
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Examples from Classical Literature
By this he meant that the usurpations of the Treasury Department should be brought to a stop.
He meant to make him one of his vassals when he returned to his own country.
She had borrowed the suit under pretence she meant to play in some mumming or rural masquerade.
If wild things were not meant for the wilds, the god, usan, would not have placed them there.
Its position shows it to be meant for a vestibule to the naos properly speaking.
That is not enough, for by Nature is meant God's will for the inanimate or non-moral creation.
It was unsporting, however, to go in confident of defeat, so she meant to do her best.
Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by mumbo jumbo?
He meant that the faces of many of the figures in the mural were still blank.
Urbana fully meant that his eyes should be opened just so soon as the mother's were closed.
He meant to look as uninvolved as the duke, but it was not quite within his power.
Scattergood was thinking, and to think, with him, meant so to unfetter his feet that he could wriggle his toes pleasurably.
It means what it meant to Orpheus when he followed Eurydice to the underworld.
There was now no doubt in their minds that the utensil was meant for its present use.
I only meant a square party, a mixed marriage mingling of our different little conjugials.
He had instantly thought that she meant that pekan was right there somewhere.
His comrade, perceiving how much he is pained, modifies what he meant to say.
Their presence on the propitiatory was meant to reveal the glory of the gospel.
It meant that though labor was relatively plentiful, much of it was unskilled.
What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash?
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