How to use "meaning" in a sentence

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

And this will be the day - this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

Jean Valjean listened as she described the view from the room that would be his, the beauty of the garden, the singing of the birds, but he was listening more to the music of her voice than to the meaning of her words

Belatedly, as she pressed her fingertips to the words on the chalkboard, the possible meaning of them struck her

All of his life, for reasons he had never been able to fully ascertain, he had been fascinated by death, intrigued by the form and nature and possibilities of it, enthralled by the study and theory of its meaning

"When we were running operations against the drug lords down in Colombia," Morgan said, "they called me 'Bats,' meaning I had bats in the belfry." He laughed.

For as long as he could remember, he had been fascinated with death, with the mechanics and the meaning of it, and he had longed to know what it was like on the other side - without, of course, wishing to commit himself to a one-way journey there

'You took the pistol meaning to shoot your husband?'

'No - meaning to shoot myself

I picked it up - and recognized it as my pistol! And I just thought Anne must have taken it, meaning to shoot herself because she was so unhappy

I remember how I sat there in the blackness, not suspecting the meaning of the tiny light I had seen and all the trouble that it would cause me

If I had really understood the meaning of all the things I had seen, I would have gone back to join my wife in Leatherhead immediately

At the time we could not understand these things, but later I learnt the meaning of these frightening black hills