How to use "meant" in a sentence

This meant that they wouldn't do anything until late the following day.

And he meant it when he said that kind of thing

But that meant Gwinn was free to catch the ball, and he put us on the 15-yard line

The shooting was in front of us, which meant that the enemy soldiers were in between us and our men

And this meant that the enemy was able to come back and find us, so we had to get out fast.

He sent money every Monday to Thenardier, who was in prison, which meant that he had even less money for himself

Neither did he see, at the moment the soldier fired, a young boy dressed in rags jump in front of the gun and fall wounded as the bullet meant for Marius hit him in the hand.

Both ways meant certain death

The only thing he was sure of was that the light through the grilles far above his head was growing weaker, which meant that the sun was setting

It meant that she earned a regular salary, unlike Cham's parents, who were always worrying about money

Sala realized that for Gran, the rose fruit meant something real; it spoke of a world that Sala could only begin to imagine

I meant what I said." It was good to hear him say it again so clearly.

'Darling,' I said to Maxim when we were alone, 'I meant to tell you before, but I forgot

I did not know what Ben meant

I suddenly knew what Favell meant

'I don't know what she meant

In other years that date had meant nothing special

Which meant it had to be someone she didn't even know

As she drove across the intersection and into the entrance drive that led to the Golden Pyramid Hotel, Tina couldn't shake the creepy feeling that she was being watched by someone who meant to harm her

The number was 1001012, identified as the access for "Comps," which meant "complimentary guests," a euphemism for "big losers," who were never asked to pay their room charges or restaurant bills because they routinely dropped small fortunes in the casino.

They plugged it in and tried to get it to repeat what it had done earlier, but they had no luck; the machine behaved exactly as it was meant to behave.

On Sunrise Mountain most of the big, expensive houses featured natural landscaping - which meant rocks, colored stones, and artfully arranged cacti instead of grass, shrubs, and trees - in acknowledgment that man's grip on this portion of the desert was new and perhaps tenuous

But she stared into his dark, expressive eyes, and she knew that he'd meant every word he said.

He knew exactly what she meant, but he didn't want to think about it, because there was no way he could make sense of it

It meant her no harm

It's the way we were meant to be, so who's to say it isn't right?"

Because its existence must be kept secret, the organization was funded out of misdirected appropriations meant for other government agencies

"I'm still not convinced your dream meant what you think it did

No one yet had come out of the building to challenge them, which most likely meant that Danny had jinxed the video security system.

To Tamaguchi, that meant he was of no value at all..

Tina was too busy with Danny to think about what Carl Dombey had said, but Elliot knew what the scientist meant

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

As it turned out, "network-approved writers" meant pals of the network executive

'I didn't understand what he meant, and nothing happened for a few weeks, so I did not feel so worried

Then I saw that the hands of the clock pointed to a quarter to five, which meant that it was really half-past four, so I got up and went to the sitting room

I meant the call that got you out of the vicarage

Suddenly he said, 'I meant to tell you about your curate, Hawes

For a minute he hardly realized what this meant, and although the heat was great, he climbed down into the pit to see the cylinder more closely

Some did, but they needed time to realize what all the reports in the Sunday papers actually meant

Connie hadn't meant to start an argument

In her eyes, Mensar-Arthur and everything that went with him meant trouble for her sister and for her own feelings too

Anne turned to him and said, 'You're a miserable impostor.' She had no idea what it meant - she was just repeating my words - but Sir P was terrified

This meant that, when a black person caught the bus, they had to get on at the front of the bus to pay

This meant that the white people could sit down.

This meant that women had to go out to work because they needed to feed their children.

Factories were making lots of new things, and this meant there were new jobs for women