Example Sentences

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Her family has been meaning to relocate to Nigeria for a while but has not done so earlier because of the children's education.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025

Patrons flock to her immediately at Nyum Bai, a small Cambodian restaurant in Oakland she has been meaning to try.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2019

Max has been meaning to escape Amabel, but she tracks him down.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Probably not, but the poet has been meaning to check out Miami anyway—and free verse is really, really hard.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017

She has other questions but she decides they are best saved for someone else to whom she has been meaning to pay a visit.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern