Example sentences for: meaning

How can you use “meaning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is more than likely that at least some of the male humans using them are innocently unaware of the true meaning of a word or words they perhaps use daily.

  • Eventually ramrod became personified, taking on the added meaning of `one marked by rigidity, stiffness, and severity,' even though the original ramrods, which were straight, were rather flexible.

  • If we consider body , for example, which corresponds to the amount of alcohol and dissolved solids in the wine, we find neutral words like light and heavy , but more evaluatively loaded words, like thin or coarse , meaning `too light' or `too heavy' respectively.

  • “In the Queen's Parlor” specifically refers to Hammett's use of gunsel and describes him as meaning it in the “catamite” sense.

  • But in my more than 70 years of speaking, reading and listening to Yiddish, I have never heard that word (or read it); also I've never heard any German-speaking person use it and say that it derives from Kies meaning small round stones (gravel).


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