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

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

Why bother with Google, where I was meaning to be, when there's so much help available via Twitter?

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2020

“I just thought,” he added, “if she was meaning any harm to Lyra, it might frighten her a bit.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman