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How to use the word meanings in a Sentence?

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To me, a friend is someone who's got your back, not everybody in sports is going to be your friend. Tom Brady's my friend why? Because I'm a good football player. He needs me to play football. People have different meanings of what friendship is.

Antonio Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of people think I like bugs – actually it’s the complete opposite, i’m afraid of bugs, I hate bugs. But it has multiple meanings, that’s why I put them all over my body.

Michael Amoia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Brady is the general manager. He’s the guy my agent made the contract with, he’s the middleman and politician. I talked to Tom, and he knows I’m not going to play, to me, a friend is someone who’s got your back. Not everybody in sports is going to be your friend. Tom Brady’s my friend. Why? Because I’m a good player. He needs me to play football. People have different meanings of what friendship is.

Antonio Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

***(C)(P) I WILL SAY THIS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY:-I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THE CONTEXT AND MEANINGS BEHIND EVERY REGGAE SONGS MADE BY BOB MARLEY, PETER , BUNNY, AND OTHERS FROM OUR TRENCH TOWN REGGAE FAMILY.NO ONE ELSE CAN SAY THAT.I SHARED MANY OF MY LYRICAL TEACHINGS WITH THEM AND LIVED THE EXPERIENCES. WHO WOULD DARE TO CONTEST ME?

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

A lot of people have different meanings for what they mean when they say 'defund the police'.

Muriel Bowser

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To write is easy, while writing for publication seems a tough task to be performed well. Writing down the emotions that you truly feel beautifies the spirit of writing and enlightens the reader; on the contrary, overloading your thoughts with heavy words- having no senses at all but carrying multi-dimensional meanings with them- for the one and only sake of publication perishes the fabric of writing.

Baba Faiz

added by baba_f
4 years ago

Were not the first country to find itself in this situation with China and the Chinese practice seems to be to avoid in the early stages of these kinds of standoffs, to avoid higher level meanings, i have sought repeatedly a meeting with the Wang Yi, the foreign minister, my counterpart. Thus far that meeting hasnt happened. But if Chinese officials are listening to us today, let me repeat that I would be very, very keen to meet with Minister Wang Yi or to speak with him over the phone at the earliest opportunity.

Chrystia Freeland

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I am really the only living one today from those early trench town days who can tell the world the exact meanings of every word, phrases, in the lyrics of the original songs by bob marley, peter tosh. you would have to know what I know, and have spent the times in reasonings with the trench town crew to be able to say in truth what I have just said. not even their families can counter that.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I don't think denuclearization has different meanings for South and North Korea. The North is expressing a will for a complete denuclearization, they have not attached any conditions that the U.S. cannot accept, such as the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. All they are talking about is the end of hostile policies against North Korea, followed by a guarantee of security.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Monuments are seen as permanent, sort of monolithic structures, but inherently their meanings change over time, and really the removal of these monuments was not so much about monuments in general, but about the kind of values that we as a society want to promote.

Jackson Gilman-Forlini

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek. Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:-- A word is but a breath of passing air.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

After a while, I had a selection of like 20 masks with different significances and meanings, and I just tried to begin to play with that, i took the masks and when I met people, I made an appointment with them and I tried to explain to them: 'Do you mind if I take a picture (of you) with this mask? Because I think that the meaning of this mask is a little bit similar to your life, to your profile.'.

Photographer Selim Harbi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For Scrabble, there is a dictionary of words without their meanings, it's most likely that he's wired differently; he doesn't even study the pages word by word. He can look at a page full of words and absorb them all.

Liz Fagerlund

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's an exhibition that explores this item that is very common to most people, everyone has a pair of sneakers, but this show kind of explores its history from the 19th century through today and how it's become this kind of iconic form of footwear that has so many different meanings.

Lisa Small

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I will definitely work more with this subject because it has so many layers, it's quite visual with the animals, and it also has many more deeper meanings, it brings up many questions.

Photographer Helge Skodvin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A writer draws a road map where readers walk with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I've seen some before and it's like 'The Da Vinci Code,' where only the kids hold the true meanings (and most of the time they're fairly innocuous).

Katie Greer

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Philip Roth

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Octavio Paz

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Non-political conclusion- Egypt: Those days following the catastroph 25th of January, my philosophy about the abstract meanings of humanity and life have been amended, that I observed how much of hideous dirt exists deep inside the Egyptian individuals, that such days immensly braught it up to the surface..

The wise Pharoah Moe

added by anonymous
11 years ago

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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