were meaning
- past progressive of mean.
Example Sentences
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Spiders painted all white or all black were less attractive to insects than unpainted spiders or ones painted the same color they already were, meaning that looking like bird droppings was key to the deception.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
That proved true regardless of how much a family earned or how educated the parents were, meaning low-income children can possess the same verbal abilities as their more well-off peers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2018
Moreover, insists a Pentagon official, "we knew where all their planes were," meaning that they could have been destroyed on the ground if that had been deemed necessary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cela date de Petersburg when she and I were meaning to found a magazine there.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Make as if you were meaning to go into Camp at Halle.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Carlyle, Thomas
