MEANT in a Sentence

Learn MEANT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
260 example sentences for MEANT, such as:
1. Not everything is meant to be.
2. It is not clear to us what you meant.
3. They really meant everything they said and did.
4. If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings.
5. To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He forgot what else he had meant to say and pressed her against him so closely that he seemed to feel her warmth in his veins.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  As soon as the sledge was loaded he meant to send Jotham back to the farm and hurry on foot into the village to buy the glue for the pickle-dish.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  "If you meant to engage a girl you ought to have told me before you started," he said.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  She had taken everything else from him; and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the others.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  She meant what she said, for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chief subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  That was all the road meant now--a road to Ashley and the beautiful white-columned house that crowned the hill like a Greek Temple.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  He had been drinking and wore the arrogant looking-for-a-fight expression that she knew from experience meant trouble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  For the first time, she realized dimly what Gerald had meant when he said that the love of the land was in her blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  That meant four mornings a week in the sweltering, stinking hospital with her hair tied up in a towel and a hot apron covering her from neck to feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  They really meant everything they said and did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  That was the kind of remark all men made, but when he said it it seemed to her that he meant just the opposite.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  All that passion meant to her was servitude to inexplicable male madness, unshared by females, a painful and embarrassing process that led inevitably to the still more painful process of childbirth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  But to Scarlett, newly emerged from the chrysalis of widowhood, all the war meant was a time of gaiety and excitement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  I asked McKeown if the reunion was meant to achieve closure.
2  Not everything is meant to be.
3  I meant it to be an informal discussion, but it didn't turn out as I intended.
4  If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings.
5  No, what I meant was we need to use cheaper materials.
6  The loss of my watch meant that I had to buy a new one.
7  Her experience meant that she had a big advantage over her opponent.
8  He seems to have been meant for the Church from an early age.
9  It is not clear to us what you meant.
10  The choice was meant to create an impression of party unity.
11  The report fails to define what is meant by the term 'key issues'.
12  Lack of discipline at home meant that many pupils found it difficult to settle in to the ordered environment of the school.
13  If two people are meant to be together, eventually they'll find their way back.
14  If two people are meant to be together,eventually they will find their way back.
15  Injuries meant that the Dutch team was below strength for the final.