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How to use the word meant in a Sentence?

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We were very very lucky children! I pray that our future generations have as much fun, in whatever way! We should at least try to leave enough water, greenery, forests .. simple means of human sustenance .. if for no other reason but to repay Nature's debt on all of us..who enjoyed nature's charity to the hilt selfishly..when it was meant for ALL human beings including children of the future ..

Rooma Mehra

added by karlhartmann_1
11 months ago

You’ll hear from Ms. Carroll herself, she’ll testify about the allegations and how Donald Trump responded with vicious lies meant to destroy her.

Shawn Crowley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

AI companies using copyrighted works to train their models to create similar works is exactly the type of behavior the copyright office and courts should explicitly ban. Original art is meant to be protected by law, not works created by machines that used the original art to create new work.

Karl Fowlkes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was a real sense of, if we don’t do it now, the moment could slip away, everyone was focused on immediate peace and stability, not long-term politics. That meant the deal wasn’t perfect, but it did bring stability.

Paul Bew

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do n’t know how to go on, how I ’m here, how to move on without my baby girl. She meant everything to me, all I want is justice – justice for my baby girl.

Manuela Sahagun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We really talked about the woman, and who she was, and what she meant really to the whole world, he is the king, but, you know, no one should forget he lost his mother, and Prince William lost a grandmother, and sometimes we tend to forget the really human piece there, and the sorrow they have to bear – and how they have to grieve in public. But … they seem to be doing OK.

Jill Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m meant to be sexy, low-budget, bad wig, bad hat. I look like Deputy Dawg.

Hugh Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Dude, it’s okay. I came to see you, we hung out on the couch and talked about absolutely everything and supported each other and just had a lovely time. That was really memorable for me, and that really meant a lot.

London Hollie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It meant a lot to me too, that’s the ultimate compliment of being welcomed into London Hollie family.

London Hollie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was meant to be.

Hollie Savitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We hung out on the couch and talked about absolutely everything and supported each other and just had a lovely time. That was really memorable for me, and that really meant a lot.

Hollie Savitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not meant to be a medication to take off your last five or 10 pounds to get ready for an event or something like that. It’s not for use of three or four weeks, when we think about weight management, we’re thinking about the next 25 years of someone’s life.

Disha Narang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Behind Story, what you would find is an ecosystem of hundreds of hospitality workers who depend on the club for their livelihoods, enforcement of the ordinance meant unemployment for these people. Story is in business and we are confident that Story will prevail in Court.

Sean Burstyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Hong Kong BNO scheme is an interesting case study of what can happen if there is political will, there are 12 welcome centers across the country and a really good support package which costs relatively little, including help with English language. And most importantly they just didn’t politicize it. All this has meant that 144,000 Hong Kongers have come here with little to no fuss, integrated quickly and there have been minimal issues.

Sam Goodman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I will happily testify to the truth of the Board under oath: That it was a working group meant to curb disinformation that endangered Americans’ safety, and that — because of the Republican Party’s irresponsible lies about it — our democracy is less secure.

Nina Jankowicz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My playing fields were comprised of a black and white universe – cold/hot, light/dark, heaven/hell, right/wrong – this, my guide, my birthright. Something was buried in the back of my soul – the signs were all there but no one knew, no one could tell so when I eventually went over the edge, it was meant to be a lesson learned.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

It started off as a nightmare, but then it turned out to be – holy moly – this is what I was meant to do.

Raul Rodriguez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that she is the first Black woman to hold the position means a lot to us. It gives us hope for the future, when you look at the US Department of Agriculture and you look at all of the actions we have suffered as Black people trying to get the programs that should have been available to everyone, to access them and feel that they were being implemented fairly – to actually have someone in the second position … really helping to oversee that and have a voice in places we don’t normally get a chance to be in, just to me meant a lot.

Shirley Sherrod

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Not to get the pills from him anymore, and instead I asked him to shoot me, i meant for him to shoot me so I would be gone.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that our traditional methodologies were developed for people with White skin meant that these nurse practitioners could not detect reported abuse accurately, there is a better methodology out there for women with dark skin pigmentation and we need to distribute it throughout the country so that there’s no excuse to not use the right equipment for the right women.

Nancy La Vigne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was known to walk among the people, he reached out to gang members; he reached out to the homeless; he reached out to the transients. He was the help of the helpless and the hope of the hopeless, and he knew that serving God meant serving man, especially the most vulnerable in our society.

Janice Hahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You think of all the legends and great players to play in this game and in all honesty, records are meant to be broken.

Jayson Tatum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It means the world, you think of all the legends and great players to play in this game and in all honesty, records are meant to be broken.

Jayson Tatum

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He just reached back and held my hand and I took it, which would be unusual for me. It was just meant to be. I mean, it was – it is – very strange, but it was definitely meant to be.

Graham Kidner Vickie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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