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

He had probably slipped it into the drawer where some of his clothes were, meaning to hand it to Val.

From Up in Ardmuirland by Barrett, Michael

We were meaning to send a formal invitation.

From The Odds And Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)