Mean Sentence Examples
I didn't mean to scare you.
What do you mean by that?
I mean, one you have a chance of winning.
I mean, that they didn't feel this way all the time.
I don't mean to insult them.
But because it can be misused doesn't mean it cannot be used well.
I did not mean to hurt you.
Does that mean I'm supposed to change, or that what I'm wearing is considered casual?
I mean, there are different kinds of love.
I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable.
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No, I mean you're too trusting.
I don't mean to chase you out.
Ending war does not mean compromising values.
What do you mean, a woman like me?
AdvertisementI mean really serious?
I mean really big trouble.
You mean climb trees?
I didn't mean to hit you.
What do they mean to you?
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I don't know what I mean except I can't stop dreaming of little children, all hurt and bleeding and I don't want to see them because it hurts too much, but I can't block them out!
She didn't mean anything by it and she loves you, just not in that way and she was very drunk.
You don't mean him no harm, do you?
Just because I dropped at your feet whenever you called for five years doesn't mean I'll do it now.
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You mean violent and aggressive.
But that doesn't mean I believe in it as punishment.
I didn't mean to get her pregnant but we're both happy it happened.
But I mean, of course he will.
I mean, I wanted to protect him.
I mean, he always was a sweet talker.
What do you mean you're leaving?
You know what I mean.
I mean... he rode ahead so he could make arrangements before you arrived.
Oh, he's not mean.
I mean, there would be the cost of drapes, rugs, pictures and other things.
I mean, he isn't interested in women.
You mean you didn't know that, either?
I mean, he's a twenty eight year old man, for heavens' sake.
Does that mean we can't indulge in a little innocent affection now and then?
I mean, you did visit her the night before, and I thought maybe you two were...
I didn't mean to hurt you.
I noticed you were a good looking woman, if that's what you mean.
You mean the accident?
What do you mean?
I mean this stays with the five of us.
I don't mean to tell you anything.
I mean; I don't really know, do I?
No, I don't mean that.
It won't mean anything, Ben.
I mean; it's his mother.
You mean Reverend Will.
What do you mean you don't know?
The words would mean nothing to her at that point.
I mean it this time.
I mean nothing to you, like I meant nothing to her?
I mean, this time around, I guess.
You mean it's possessed?
I mean you humans … I guess you make it look simple.
I mean, you're in Hell maybe even being torn to pieces every day and you're being kind to me.
Naw. I don't mean that.
You mean the spot?
Just because Jake Weller has a pot belly doesn't mean all sheriffs are supposed to be fat.
You mean like us arguing the other night?
But that doesn't mean we didn't love each other or have a super twelve years together.
Do you mean The Lucky Pup?
Does this mean you're going to vote for me?
You mean finding them?
I mean, he could invent some story—like, blame me!
I mean, I couldn't leave Hell with any deity powers and um, basically only one of us left.
Building their relationship would mean easing into intimacy once more.
I didn't mean to break you.
I mean, you could probably have won.
Do you honestly believe you mean that little to me?
I mean, we grew up together, so we have a lot in common, but...
It was a mean thing to say, especially since he had been working so hard to help.
I mean he pulled my truck home the other day, but...
What do you mean crazy?
I mean, totally insane.
What do you mean? Isn't she a god? Goddess, I mean.
I mean, you look beautiful for a dead woman.
How is that working out... staying at his house, I mean?
He could have said he was angry and said things he didn't mean.
In the mean time, maybe if she stopped running, he'd stop chasing.
I mean, we're siccing the police after someone Howie saw in... a vision, for God's sake!
I mean, if you were willing.
I don't mean the four attempts on the one case.
Sorry fella, I didn't mean to spook you.
I didn't mean to but she's a great person and she makes me have feelings I didn't know existed.
I don't mean to pry, Howie, but can you tell me why she's estranged from her family and what are the complications she mentions?
You don't mean that, Martha.
When you say, 'most like me,' what do you mean?
I mean, it's one thing to hurt yourself but to hurt someone else is just wrong!
Doesn't mean we can't mess with whoever else we want.
I think you mean not as violent as I am.
I mean, I only want your blood.
And I'll start cooking lean and mean Dean specials.
I didn't mean for him to blow his brains out either!
She felt it again, a sense that this should mean more than it did.
I mean, if you had to choose between me and your world?
Does that mean the opposite?
I mean, you're about to find a way into the underworld.
But what did that mean?
The girl tapped his arm then held up three fingers, the sign she'd made to mean Wynn.
I mean, if she was going to try, she should have come back before the six months was up... right?
The fact that Lori said she didn't want Destiny when she was born didn't mean that she wasn't feeling bad about it now.
I didn't mean to make you feel unimportant.
Remember, being unconscious doesn't mean he can't hear what you say.
They said his pulse rate has increased over night, which might mean he is trying to wake up.
I didn't mean to get you out of bed.
His lack of response didn't mean he wasn't aware, and she didn't want to leave him worried that she might do such a thing – especially if he was unable to respond.
I mean, does he remember anything?
You mean tease him.
It had to mean something.
Ask what you mean to ask, Wynn.
I didn't mean … you're really trying … um, and doing your best.
People who say that mean the opposite.
You mean who was the price?
I don't remember being born, but I mean, I grew up in Indiana and moved to Atlanta for college and stayed after I graduated.
You mean the Gabriel tattoo?
Does this mean I won't now?
I mean, you can still help people like me.
Just because she knew there was a shadow society didn't mean everyone she ran into was part of it!
I mean, he killed Logan, Wynn.
You mean …I slept with a demon?
He stood in front of them and shouted, I mean you no harm.
I mean long term.
You don't mean that.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to.
I'm sorry, that was mean.
Jackson noted the two cars and held Elisabeth back a bit, whispering, "Does this mean I won't have to spend another interminable night in an empty bed?"
Then when we're here, you play stuff that doesn't mean anything to anyone, right Connor?
Oh Carmen, just because he's wealthy doesn't mean he's a preppie.
I mean, look at Alex and I. We're both short, and both Mom and Dad were average height.
Just because I'm small doesn't mean I'm inefficient.
I know what you mean, though.
Pretty words and fancy manners don't mean anything.
If you mean cold and muddy, no, but it isn't always this way.
It snowed again - and I mean snowed.
What do you mean; it isn't any of my business?
And I really mean that.
I didn't mean to be disrespectful.
He was quite the man with flowery statements, but did they mean anything?
The safe thing to do was to tell Katie where she was going, but the few minutes it would take might mean the life of the kid.
I didn't mean to be such a grump.
I mean - well, you have a good job...
Surely he didn't mean love in the romantic sense.
I didn't mean you weren't a man.
Just because you sacrificed your virtue for a few moments of pleasure doesn't mean I have tossed aside my innocence.
And just because Alex went out with Lori a few times a while back doesn't mean he's unfaithful to me.
I mean, you two, of all people.
No, I mean why do you feel you have no choice?
What did you mean when you said you had no choice?
It doesn't mean anything.
She wanted to show her Guardian what he'd come to mean to her, before she thought him dead.
I told no one the truth, because I feared what that would mean.
I mean, I know where I should go, but I …" "You're scared?"
What do you mean again?
I didn't mean to bring this upon you.
Be careful. I mean that. We'll figure out something.
You mean the assassin you sent to kill my mate?
They were mean to Mama, Toby said.
No, I mean, you aren't out of control. How is that?
Straight to Death. If what Gabe said was true, he was taking her to the only way out of the underworld. And yet, she feared what that would mean. Was she supposed to reason with Death?
I don't mean broken.
I mean, how are you not a traitor like Sasha or a cold jerk like Kris? How did you spend so long in Hell and still try to follow parts of the Code?
No, I need to know why. It might mean Mama is in more danger than I thought.
Pain streaked through her, the kind of pain with no physical source. Katie began to cry, unable to see an end to her ordeal that would mean she – or her baby – lived. She hugged her stomach and sobbed for the loss of Rhyn, her own life, their child's.
I mean, ask the trees.
Does that mean I have to go to another group home?
I don't mean stupid-simple, I mean...uncomplicated.
I don't mean to be harsh, but we'll have to replace him pretty damn soon and we've only got so much budget.
Just because it's fiction doesn't mean you can't learn from it.
You mean where Byrne drowned?
I mean, I don't know anything about March fourth but I know Jeff hasn't been sick for years and years.
I mean, you don't have to do anything—we can just sleep, if you want to.
Do you mean facial feature?
I don't mean to sound so negative about him.
I mean, you're going to be back there again to fix his supper.
But that doesn't mean I have to abandon them.
Maybe Mary was right – and yet, that would mean her parents had been wrong.
What did you mean when you said that we wouldn't be having that conversation if you could get me pregnant?
You don't mean protect.
I didn't mean to be so bold.
You mean everything to me.
Has he ever hit you — intentionally, I mean?
She didn't mean to sound so bitter.
I mean, check on her.
I mean, you need her.
Now you see what I mean about how he can be.
At first I thought Alfonso would have an opportunity to prepare for this – I mean, it wouldn't be like waking him up to tell him his parents had died in a plane crash.
I did not mean to bring shame on you papa.
Does that mean me too?
It was a mean thing to say.
In the mean time, I'll see that no one bothers you.
He didn't mean all those things he said either.
The mean annual rainfall during nine years (1899-1907) was nearly 92 in., about one-eighth of it being represented by snow.
On 21 referenda, io being questions of license, the ratio of actual to registered voters ranged on the latter from 57.00 to 75.38% (mean 67.15), and on other referenda from 75.6 3 t o 33.4 0 (mean 61.39), - the mean for all, 64.18.
At a time when the Cartesian system of vortices universally prevailed, he found it necessary to investigate that hypothesis, and in the course of his investigations he showed that the velocity of any stratum of the vortex is an arithmetical mean between the velocities of the strata which enclose it; and from this it evidently follows that the velocity of a filament of water moving in a pipe is an arithmetical mean between the velocities of the filaments which surround it.
In the most evident sense they mean everything.
I mean, I won't need anything, and if I do, I'll come to you.
You've never … I mean, I guess you didn't go through the same thing?
And yet, he feared what that fire might mean.
I don't care what happens to me, but I don't ever mean to do something that would make you get hurt.
You mean, after you sold her out to Talon?
I mean, it wasn't Jimmy.
I mean, how do you heal people, like step-by-step?
Watch the kid, and make sure nothing-- and I mean nothing-- leaves that place alive!
Doesn't mean they're easy.
I mean, I never tried.
I mean, he won't be coming back, just like Jule.
They meant little to her, but to Damian, they could mean something.
I mean, I might be able to seal the breach I made, if it doesn't get bigger and I can borrow Damian's power.
I mean, of me going.
It might mean nothing, but I wanted to tell you.
I hear they make a mean stew.
Just because we can't fight each other doesn't mean I must help you.
Jenn bit back a retort and left, unable to shake the sense he'd told her something he didn't mean for her to know.
What the hell does that mean?
What do you mean there's nothing wrong?
You mean, like an influx of vamps to Tucson?
You mean Dusty and Jule?
I mean, no one gets in without a reason.
I mean, this is temporary.
It doesn't mean we have to be this time around.
Does that mean I can feed them now?
Just because I haven't been anyplace else, doesn't mean that there is any place better.
He had always been hot headed, but never mean like he often was now.
You mean while I was gone.
And what did he mean, for once?
I didn't mean our house, but she needed help.
I didn't mean it that way.
Taking on an infant would mean a massive lifestyle change.
I mean, that's what I'd do.
Does that mean anything to you?
What I mean is that the world moves more slowly.
No. I mean it's not like that.
One kiss does not mean I'm in … I'm dehydrated!
What do you mean that far?
Damian's son would be the first White God born outside of the immortal world, and not even Jule dared to guess what that would mean for the White God's power.
We mean no lasting harm to humanity or to your family.
The Black God didn't give off any of the signs she knew would mean he was lying.
So you mean I wasn't the very last person to know?
Pregnant doesn't mean crippled.
If anyone, and I mean anyone, comes this way, you stab first, talk later.
I mean, they're still gone.
What do you mean she went to Vara?
Donald, this is Carmen Pulock ... umm, I mean ... what is your name now?
You see, this is what I mean.
No, I mean adopt one.
I didn't mean to offend.
I didn't mean you should go out and buy new clothes.
Do you mean flight arrangements?
I mean he seems preoccupied with something.
I didn't mean to … I know I broke my promise, but … sometimes things happen and we change our minds.
Now what is that supposed to mean?
You mean just you and me?
He does not mean it.
I didn't want you to think I was going to fight you on it and …" "Do you mean to tell me you didn't want a divorce?"
I lost my temper and said things I didn't mean.
What do you mean, too?
In the mean time, you'd better calm down.
The house, I mean.
Just because people are friendly doesn't mean you can let your guard down.
They don't mean to be nosy.
You mean in a creek?
You mean they have rattle snakes out here?
I mean, it'll make the bumps go away after a few days, and it'll stop itching right now.
Probably, but only because it would mean Denton was right.
What did he mean?
You mean you'd pass up a free dinner just because it was a woman who did the asking?
You mean in this town, or in Arkansas?
I didn't mean to make you mad.
I mean... my sleeping bag isn't the most comfortable bed, you know.
Do you mean you'd switch with me?
I mean, again you thought I was chasing you.
Megan, I didn't mean to...
He was working for Dad, but that didn't mean he couldn't be enjoying his work.
Just because it comes out of a spigot doesn't mean it's been treated.
I mean it's so far from our so-called civilized world.
Just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean the conversation has degenerated.
Is that supposed to mean something to me, or is it a pseudonym?
I mean, I figured that was your father with you and Denton.
I didn't mean them.
I mean, she likes animals.
I mean, what do you do?
I mean, your bedroom is more you.
I mean, he's got an incredible body, but … Oh, you're talking about sleeping with a different woman every night.
I don't know … I mean, I'm not sure I can do this.
I mean, he thought you were overweight, and you're clearly gorgeous, Ashley.
What do you mean someone like me?
Xander said no, but – " "What do you mean he said no?" she asked.
I didn't mean it that way! she rushed on, humiliated by the Freudian slip.
By blow up, do you mean literally or figuratively?
You mean no one else knows your history?
I mean, let's just go to the party.
You mean, the father of the girl you slept with Monday who won't stop calling you?
It doesn't mean what I saw you do, what I know you can do, is easy for me to accept.
I mean, I can't really go anywhere anyway.
But, further, every attempt to think clearly what those relations are, what we really mean, if we talk of a fixed order of events, forces upon us the necessity of thinking also that the different things which stand in relations or the different phases which follow each other cannot be merely externally strung together or moved about by some indefinable external power, in the form of some predestination or inexorable fate.
It is the chief health resort of the state, and its climate is one of the finest in Australia; it has a mean annual temperature of 58.6° F., and the summer heat is never excessive.
The mean depth is 189 ft., and the maximum 512 ft.
The western Mediterranean is cut off by a bank crossing the narrow strait between Sicily and Cape Bon, usually known as the Adventure Bank, on which the depth is nowhere 200 fathoms. The mean depth of the western basin is estimated at 881 fathoms, and the deepest sounding recorded is 2040 fathoms. In the eastern Mediterranean the mean depth is nearly the same as in the western basin.
The Sicilian-Ionian basin has a mean depth of 885 fathoms, and the Levant basin, 793 fathoms. Deep water is found close up to the coast of Sicily, Greece, Crete and the edge of the African plateau.
She hits the happy mean between the studied archaism of Courier's Daphnis et Cloe and the realistic patois of the later kailyard novel which for Southerners requires a glossary.
It is even somewhat precipitate to assume that a mean value deduced from a single year is fairly representative of average conditions.
The large difference between the means obtained at Potsdam and Kremsmtinster, as compared to the comparative similarity between the results for Kew and Karasjok, suggests that the mean value of the potential gradient may be much more dependent on local conditions than on difference of latitude.
In all cases the mean value for the 24 hours is taken as 100.
So again, in the case of the Paris curves, the absolute value of the diurnal range in summer was much greater for the Eiffel Tower than for the Bureau Central, but the mean voltage was 2150 at the former station and only 134 at the latter.
The first line gives the mean value of the potential gradient, the second the mean excess of the largest over the smallest hourly value on individual days.
The hourly values are derived from smoothed curves, the object being to get the mean ordinate for a 60-minute period.
It will be noticed that the difference between the greatest and least hourly values is, in all but three winter months, actually larger than the mean value of the potential gradient for the day; it bears to the range of the regular diurnal inequality a ratio varying from 2.0 in May to 3.6 in November.
In this table, unlike Table IV., amplitudes are all expressed as decimals of the mean value of the potential gradient for the corresponding season.
Linke's mean value for dV/dh at the ground was 125.
These will suffice to give a general idea of the mean values met with.
In the island of Juist, off the Friesland coast, from three weeks' observations they obtained only 5.2 as the mean.
On the other hand, at Altjoch, an Alpine station, from nine days' observations in July 1903 they obtained a mean of 137, the maximum being 224, and the minimum 92.
The same observer from four weeks' observations at Hammerfest got the considerably lower mean value 58, with a maximum of 252.
When the ground was covered by snow the mean value of A was only 42, as compared with 81 when there was no snow.
Equity here is defined to mean "any body of rules existing by the side of the original civil law, founded on distinct principles, and claiming incidentally to supersede the civil law in virtue of a superior sanctity inherent in those principles."
For very refined work, however, the irregularities in the reproduction of the reseau may be studied by comparing the measures of the original reseau with the mean of corresponding measures of a number of photographed copies of it.
The foregoing statements must not be taken to mean that concordats are in their nature perpetual, and that they cannot be broken or denounced.
Unfortunately, Descartes is too lordly a philosopher to explain distinctly what either understanding or will may mean.
His determinations of pitch by a weighted wire are not trustworthy; Ellis thinks they are not safe within four or five vibrations per second, but gives a mean pitch for this organ, when altered, of a' 395.2.
This lowering tendency towards the low church pitch, and the final adoption of the latter as a general mean pitch throughout the 18th century, was no doubt influenced by the introduction of the violin, which would not bear the high tension to which the lutes and viols had been strained.
Stein tuned Mozart's piano to a fork a' 421.6, and the Broadwood pianos used at the London Philharmonic Society in its first concerts (1813) were tuned to a fork c 2 506.8, which gives a mean tone a' 423.7.
Somewhat reluctantly it was accepted by Scottish Presbyterianism as a substitute for an older version with a greater variety of metre and music. "Old Hundred" and "Old 124th" mean the moth and 124th Psalms in that old book.
The mean annual rainfall (1861 to 1899) is 26 06 in.
It may mean the day which puts a stop to the week's work, but this is less likely.
This name shabattu was certainly applied to the 15th day of the month, and am nuh libbi could mean "day of rest in the middle," referring to the moon's pause at the full.
The land mass of Australia rises to a mean height much less than that of any other continent; and the chief mountain systems are parallel to, and not far from, the coast-line.
Taking the district generally, the difference between the mean Wales.
Cooma, with a mean summer temperature of 65.4°, and a mean winter temperature of 41.4°, may be taken as illustrative of the climate of the southern tableland, and Armidale of the northern.
The mean winter reading of the thermometer is 54.7, and accompanied as this is by clear skies and an absence of snow, the season is both pleasant and invigorating.
The rainfall of Melbourne averages 25.58 in., the mean number of rainy days being 131.
At Adelaide there are on an average 120 rainy days per annum, with a mean rainfall of 20.88 in.
The mean annual precipitation for the entire state is about 38.5 in.; more rain falls in summer than in any other season, and more falls in the southern section than in the northern.
Do you think,"he had said," that the spirits of such base, mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
The mean depth over this ridge is about 250 fathoms, and the maximum depth nowhere reaches 500 fathoms. The main basin of the Atlantic is thus cut off from the Arctic basin, with which the area north of the ridge has complete deep-water communication.
Mean Karstens, 2047 fathoms. If we include the enclosed depth, and seas, the North Atlantic has a mean depth of 1800 bottom fathoms. The South Atlantic has a mean depth of deposits.
The term came in time to mean " a beggar " and with that meaning has passed through Aramaic and Hebrew into many modern languages; but though the Code does not regard him as necessarily poor, he may have been landless.
The thermal G G detectors are especially useful for the purpose of quantitative measurements, because they indicate the true effective or square root of mean square value of the current or train of oscillations passing through the hot wire.
The mean value obtained was 112.469 (Ag =107.93).
The mean value 112.467 was obtained by Baxter, Hines and Frevert (ibid., 1906, 28, p. 770) by analysing cadmium bromide.
Hence this part of the country has a cold winter climate, so that while the mean summer temperature of Milan is higher than that of Sassari, and equal to that of Naples, and the extremes reached at Milan and Bologna are a good deal higher than those of Naples, the mean winter temperature of Turin is actually lower than that of Copenhagen.
Assuredly Butler did not mean to give him his right of speaking about moral evil and good when he waived the " high priori method of vindicating their real existence.
Another notice occurs in the story of Nicolo Conti (c. 1440), who explains the name to mean "Island of Gold," and speaks of a lake with peculiar virtues as existing in it.
This must not be taken to mean, however, that the medusa is derived from a sessile polyp; it must be regarded as a direct modification of the more ancient free actinula form, without primitively any intervening polyp-stage, such as has been introduced secondarily into the development of the Leptolinae and represents 'a revival, so to speak, of an ancestral form or larval stage, which has taken on a special role in the economy of the species.