mean
verb (used with object)
to have in mind as one's purpose or intention.
was meaning
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past progressiveof mean.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"I never thought, 'One day I'm going to sell my trademark to Tesla'. If I was meaning to sell it to them, I would have bought just the word Tesla," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2024
Bobby Hundreds: I wanted to write the stories behind the T-shirts so that there was meaning and purpose behind the art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
He won't stop being who he always was, meaning an actor who takes on crowd-pleasing projects and a guy who calls himself an "anarchist, Marxist, ethical hedonist, nondiscriminatory empath, epistemological deconstructionist Texan."
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023
There was meaning in that metaphor, but I was simply too tired to pull it together.
From Slate ● May 28, 2022
And Daddy nodded his head like he knew what I was meaning.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
