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Example sentences for "mean the"

  • I shall take for example that branch of productive industry which is still at the present day the most generally followed in France, and in almost all the countries of the world--I mean the cultivation of the soil.

  • But the remarks I have just made on officers and soldiers are not applicable to a numerous class which in all armies fills the intermediate space between them--I mean the class of non-commissioned officers.

  • I mean the horrors of St. Bartholemew's day.

  • This also we know, I mean the season, how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep.

  • When he is once come (I mean the spirit of verity,) he will lead you into all truth.

  • This doubt arises also where Abulfeda speaks of Majgaria in the far north, "the capital of the country of the Madjgars, a Turk race" of pagan nomads, by whom he seems to mean the Bashkirs.

  • Kôlam in Tamil has not the meaning of pepper; it means 'beauty', and it is said also to mean the fruit of the jujuba.

  • The Course of my last Speculation led me insensibly into a Subject upon which I always meditate with great Delight, I mean the Immortality of the Soul.

  • I mean the Freedom of some Passages, which I should have overlook'd, if I had not observed that those Jests can raise the loudest Mirth, though they are painful to right Sense, and an Outrage upon Modesty.

  • But I must not omit the dearer Part of Mankind, I mean the Ladies, to take up a whole Paper upon Grievances which concern the Men only; but shall humbly propose, that we change Fools for an Experiment only.

  • I mean the behaviour of Paris, not the fondness of the lady; for all women love a man of spirit.

  • Intimately connected, Sir, with this topic, is another which has been brought into the debate; I mean the evil so much complained of, the exportation of specie.

  • I mean the pure, the disinterested, the patriotic JOHN JAY.

  • The gentleman has adverted to one, and that a most important one; I mean the navy.

  • A writer, who undertakes to render to the civilized world that service which was once performed by Edmund Burke, I mean the compiler of the English Annual Register, asks, by what authority this assembly could call itself a Congress.

  • I must now ask the indulgence of the committee to an important point in the discussion, I mean the declaration of the President in 1823.

  • I mean the knowledge of the nature of it, and as HELPS to retain it.

  • I mean the opera in which the two nuns slip out of the convent, and go to the ball.

  • For example, there is one element which must always tend to oligarchy--or rather to despotism; I mean the element of hurry.

  • I mean the presence in the past of huge ideals, unfulfilled and sometimes abandoned.

  • I mean the responsibility of affirming the truth of our human tradition and handing it on with a voice of authority, an unshaken voice.

  • I mean the passage in which Mansie tells us of a sudden glimpse which, in circumstances of mortal terror, he once had of the future.

  • I mean the influence of our own mental moods.

  • In common language the reverse of a thing is taken to mean the thing at the opposite end of the scale from it.

  • I mean the labour, when you have run in a race and been beaten, to resign your mind to the fact that you have been beaten, and to bear a kind feeling towards the man who beat you.

  • By a bold transition, by a subtle intellectual process, the thing supposed to be wrong in the animal's physical system was taken to mean the animal in whose physical system the thing was wrong.

  • By language I mean the product of this conceptualisation.

  • Except Sir Gilbert Elliot called The Laird of Stubs, I mean the same.

  • A person who cannot conceive that Scott wrote Except Sir Gilbert Elliot, called The laird of Stobs, I mean the same, will hold that Scott knew some ballad fragments, disjecta membra.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mean the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    life which; little gravy; little puss; little things; mean distance; mean temperature; mean the; mean time; mean when; meaning tone; means always; means clear the guilty; means confined; means inclined; means literally; means that; means the; means untried; meant originally; merciful unto; much salt; remember what; soon think; soup stock; thirteen years; yet been