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Example sentences for: meanings

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

For this reason, writers produce a mild shock-effect by distorting their forms or making over their meanings.
This usage muddies the distinction between two perfectly good words with their own meanings, and I see no justification for it.
One consequence of this relation is the fact that though can and must have very different meanings, cannot and must not are synonymous.
Purists who insist that the only proper meanings of words are their original, etymological senses should know, by that token, that women cannot testify or give testimony and that men cannot become hysterical .
This seems like a simple statement, what the linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin termed a constative utterance: a base level of communication, with no metaphor or secondary meanings attached.