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Use mean in a sentence

Sentences starting with mean

Mean while we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. [7]
Mean cuss. [9]

Sentences ending with mean

Let the inquiring youth read the whole Introduction, and he will see what they mean. [3]
She didn't know your name--Miss Hylda Maryon, I mean. [11]
May I ask you what you mean? [11]
I will show you what I mean. [5]
Then what do you mean? [5]
Is that what you mean? [5]
From Cap Rouge, you mean? [11]
You knew him, you can understand what I mean. [10]
If she had written Science and Health, the oldest man in the world would not be able to tell with certainty what any passage in it was intended to mean. [5]
Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]

Short sentences using mean

I didn't mean you were. [8]
I mean if you approve. [5]
However, we mean well. [5]
I mean what we were. [9]
It did mean war. [9]
I didn't mean to. [9]
Do you mean to say--? [9]
What does all this mean? [2]
But what did this mean? [10]
And what did this mean? [10]

Sentences containing mean two or more times

A good deal, which in colder regions is ascribed to mean dispositions, belongs really to mean temperature. [6]
If that ain't what y' mean, what do y' mean? [6]
Dick was pondering what these words might mean, and still more what the presence of Mr Brass might mean, when Mrs Quilp came hurrying down stairs, declaring that the rooms above were empty. [12]
I don't mean to say that the person didn't pass here before you came, and I don't mean to say you saw him, but some one did pass, that I know. [5]
He didn't mean to hurt us, you could see that; just as we don't mean to insult a brick when we disparage it; a brick's emotions are nothing to us; it never occurs to us to think whether it has any or not. [5]
I don't mean to fret, I don't mean to worry; and I don't, once a month, do I, dear? [5]
In speaking of the "dissatisfaction" of men who yet mean to do no wrong, etc., I mean no special application of what I said to the Whigs of Morgan, or of Morgan & Scott. [7]
Then there are some words which mean one thing when you emphasize the first syllable, but mean something very different if you throw the emphasis on the last syllable. [5]
The long and short of it is, that as surely as I mean to save Paula, I mean to go forth to meet Amru, and if you refuse to go with me I will set out alone and try whether Gibbus the hunchback. [10]
Somebody has to reverse that decision, since it is made, and we mean to reverse it, and we mean to do it peaceably. [7]

More example sentences with the word mean in them

You don't mean you're trying to arrest me again, after letting me go? [11]
Still, if in your own clear judgment you can renew the attack successfully, I do not mean to restrain you. [7]
I don't mean your friend, Humphrey Crewe--it's anything to get office with him. [9]
I suppose, with your extraordinary radical views, you mean that she might have remained here and married George. [9]
We trust our young friend will take these remarks in good part, for we mean them solely for his benefit. [5]
I will tell you, so far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
But by 'happiness' you, mean something more than the complacency and contentment which clothing and food might bring, and the removal of the economic fear,--and even the restoration of self-respect. [9]
I don't mean you, Lucy, or Laureston," she added to her sister, Mrs. Grey. [9]
The consequences for you, I mean, which you do not seem to have taken into account. [9]
When I visit you, as you say I shall, I mean to indoctrinate Maurice with sound views on that subject. [6]
I will tell you, as far as I am authorized to speak for the Opposition, what we mean to do with you. [7]
You mean that you would rather keep out of the way of the man you prayed for, so long as he is well. [10]
When you say you will do a thing 'directly,' you mean 'immediately'; in the American language--generally speaking--the word signifies 'after a little. [5]
I have told you what we mean to do. [7]
Let me show you what I mean to do once we've Salem free from danger. [11]
If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
Why, I wrote you twice to ask you what you could mean by Sid being here. [5]
How mean of you to deny him! [9]
I mean, if you talk, won't people notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's; and mightn't it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead, but maybe after all was hid all this time under another name? [5]
Well, just as you say, but I wished to be fair and liberal there's nothing mean about me. [5]
But how did you say it?--I mean the manner of it. [5]
I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
Is that what you mean, sir? [9]
I know what you mean, and you are quite right. [11]
And what do you mean when you say you were in that mob? [9]
I am sure you mean well, but are you quite certain that you know how to execute such a trust as this? [12]
I don't believe you mean to try to astonish us when you come back to spend your summers here. [6]
But certainly, if you mean that, I will leave the basket of roses, and go to her alone. [10]
Oh, I know you mean it playfully," she hurriedly added, "but--but it does not sound right to me. [11]
Tell me what you mean by all that. [6]
Had the lady you mean a large semi-circular scar just under the hair, exactly in the middle of her forehead? [10]
Oh, come now, you may be a Gipsy, but that doesn't mean that you're an Egyptian or an Arab. [11]
When it reaches you it will mean that there is a hitch in my machine-enterprise--a hitch so serious as to make it take to itself the aspect of a dissolved dream. [5]
I says: "Tom, you don't mean it. [5]
And yet when you come to think, there is no real difference between a conscience and an anvil--I mean for comfort. [5]
I wonder how you are, and if you have changed--I mean in appearance. [11]
Arrived in New York, Col. Jack said: "I've heard tell of carriages all my life, and now I mean to have a ride in one; I don't care what it costs. [5]
He's a thousand years old, which is about as old-fashioned as I mean, and as wise, and as plain to read as though you'd write the letters of words as big as a date-palm. [11]
The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
I did you wrong, yet I did not mean to ruin your life, and you should know that. [11]
To surrender now would mean destruction. [9]
He blindly felt working in the man before him a powerful mind, more powerful because it faced the truth unflinchingly; but he knew that this did not mean calm acceptance of the consequences. [11]
What did his words mean, and what was the firing outside? [10]
But the Three Words are not the Great Secret I mean. [6]
You mean you won't kill him? [13]
You are a wonderful creature, the most wonderful in the world--you and your other half together --Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. [5]
The smiles of woman, in the mean time, encouraged the young poet to smite the lyre. [6]
It is different with me: I speak only what I truly mean. [11]
It has brought with it to me a new spirit, a spirit with a scorn for things base and mean. [9]
She felt angered with herself that he could rouse her temper by such small mean irony. [11]
Hadrian was trembling with fury, he doubled his first as he lifted it in Pollux's face, and going close up to him asked in a threatening tone: "What do you mean by that? [10]
She turned about with a startled or wondering look in her face and said, "What do you mean by that? [5]
And finally I wished to tell you that henceforth I do not mean to aid in any way any enterprise in Grenoble. [9]
I suppose he will prove a superfluity, but I have got him on my hands, and I mean that he shall be as little in the way as possible. [6]
I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent. [6]
We drift apart, Wilberforce and I--well, I mean Wilberforce as a type. [11]
He had been wicked --not mean. [11]
The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. [6]
You will understand whom I mean. [9]
It's only we who turn up the ground, where nothing grows and everything decays, who think of such things as these--who think of them properly, I mean. [12]
I mean those who give themselves up to the unction of the reform. [4]
Perhaps, after a while, you may come to feel differently --I didn't mean to startle you," she heard him reply gently. [9]
His companion mean while laid his hand to his ear, and listened. [10]
The Greek words which Langethal wrote in my album, and which mean "Be truthful in love," were beginning to be as natural to me as abhorrence of cowardice and falsehood had long been. [10]
And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
In the letter which he wrote her on her thirtieth birthday we realize something of what she had come to mean in his life. [5]
The pleading glance which Els had cast at her must have pierced her soft heart, for her bosom suddenly heaved violently and, struggling to repress her sobs, she gasped, "I know you mean kindly, but I am not made of stone or iron either. [10]
Does that mean, when you've made all you want, you'll give up to Carnac what isn't yours but his? [11]
But you know when they mean 'Change cars,' they say Umsteigen. [5]
I perfectly understand what you mean. [5]
But I see what you mean. [11]
I don't see what you mean, and you are damned officious. [11]
Do you understand what I mean? [10]
But you know what I mean. [8]
I will explain what I mean. [5]
I'll tell you what I mean. [4]
Let me explain what I mean, so that my readers may think for themselves a little, before they accuse me of hasty expressions. [6]
I can't say what I mean, and I think we'd better not talk about it. [4]
I mean here what he says about the fixing of the Rio Grande as her boundary in her old constitution (not her State constitution), about forming Congressional districts, counties, etc. [7]
But tell me, what do you mean by your cry: Roland, my fore man? [10]
Bearding the Spaniards-- what did he mean by that? [11]
Those things sound well, but they are shadowy and indefinite, like troy weight and avoirdupois; nobody knows what they mean. [5]
I know her well, and mean, with your kind help, to save her from the consequences which her foolish adventure might have brought upon her. [6]
One of our well meaning reptiles--I mean relic-hunters--had crawled up there and was trying to break a "specimen" from the face of this the most majestic creation the hand of man has wrought. [5]
If you mean well by monsieur, your knowledge and your riches should help him on his way. [11]
He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner. [5]
Mother knew the way; and as we--she, I mean, and Dada and myself. [10]
Interchanged in any way you please it cannot be made to mean anything different from what it means when put in any other way. [5]
My friend that was--I call him my friend, though he ruined me and ruined others,--didn't mean to, but he did just the same,--he came to a bad end. [11]
This fact it was, which more than anything else, convinced me that by plan and plot I was purposely made powerless in Mr. Winters' hands, and that he did not mean to allow me that advantage of being afoot, which he possessed. [5]
For if there was one thing he knew of Kathleen, it was that she could not do a mean thing. [11]
Her mean vanity was lost behind the pale sincerity of her face--she was sincere at last. [11]
Well, dear, I was kind, but I didn't mean it. [5]
Such a personage was fawned upon in Arthur's realm and reverently looked up to by everybody, even though his dispositions were as mean as his intelligence, and his morals as base as his lineage. [5]
But if there was anything wrong in the way she spoke, or if you didn't feel like she had any right to question you up as if we suspected you of anything mean, I want you to say so. [8]
She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must try to not do it any more. [5]
If you can wait till then--I mean without discomfort, without inconvenience--it will be a large accommodation to me; but I will not allow you to do this favor if it will discommode you. [5]
But with a voice strangely calm, she said, "You mean Adrian Fellowes? [11]
M. Annie Alexandra Victoria Stephenson, what do you mean? [5]
It was the very weather that makes our home summers the perfection of climatic luxury; I mean, when you are out in the wood or by the sea. [5]

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