Example sentences for: meaning

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

  • In from the coast ranges of mountains, tiers as they were known in Tasmania and later South Australia--in both cases a specific use of a word meaning line or series--supplied an impediment just as, on a more local scale, flat implied a usable river plain, gully or razorback an obstruction to land use or to movement.

  • It's the same desktop-detective approach that Rosenbaum brings to his triumphantly idiosyncratic weekly column for the New York Observer , as he burrows through such issues as the meaning of Bob Dylan's latest lyrics or the inexplicable popularity of Seinfeld . He asks--as Seinfeld might--what was the deal with Hitler?

  • The comedian Sid Caesar used to utter gibberish that sounded like Japanese or German without meaning anything in any language.

  • And I have noticed that it is no easier to find one word in Spanish that means schedule than it is to explain to a Spanish speaker the range of meaning in schedule in addition to that of timetable .

  • Even if you’re not an archaeology buff who wants to understand the meaning of every stone, it’s worth at least an hour or two to stand among the debris of an empire and wonder whether Fifth Avenue, Piccadilly, the Champs-Elysées, or Red Square will look any better 2,000 years from now.


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