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Example sentences for: meaning
How can you use “meaning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
This heading has layers of meaning that can be peeled off like the skins of an onion.
If meaning is to emerge without ambiguity from a language like English, largely uninflected and having many homonyms and homophones, writers must be able to recognize not just the Parts of Speech but also those peripatetic words that wander from one category to another.
A week later, Dan Rather observed that Clinton's verbal gymnastics about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky ("It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is") had made people suspicious of how Clinton was "parsing" his words about Kosovo.
Since the mid-'80s, a subtler but arguably more insidious form of revisionism has come from such reputable German scholars as Ernest Nolte and the late Andreas Hillgruber, both leading participants in the Historikerstreit , a quarrel among German historians over the uniqueness and meaning of the Holocaust.
More often than not, we in Britain do not know what they mean, whilst foreigners from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Beijing seem to know exactly their meaning and history.