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Example sentences for "mean when"

  • And what did He mean when, in the midst of the solemnities of that last prayer, He said, 'Glorify Thou Me with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was'?

  • What did He mean when He said, 'I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me'?

  • What did He mean when He said, 'What and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where He was before'?

  • What did He mean when He said, 'No man hath ascended up into heaven save He which came down from heaven'?

  • What do we mean when we say the Sacrament which contains the Body and Blood?

  • What do we mean when we say God is "infinitely perfect"?

  • What do we mean when we say Christ rose "glorious" from the dead?

  • This is how we are led to regard these two spaces as identical; or better, this is what we mean when we say that they are identical.

  • The question should therefore be understood as follows: What do I mean when I say the object B is at the same point that the object A occupied just now?

  • That is not what we mean when we refer moral judgements to the Reason.

  • But what do we mean when we say that things are right or wrong whether I think them so or not, that the Moral Law exists outside me and independently of my thinking about it?

  • Let us endeavour to see plainly what we mean when we use the word justice, and whether we mean what we ought to mean when we use it--especially with reference to God.

  • No, for power could not make him what we mean when we say God.

  • What do I mean when I say the true Christian is happy?

  • This is what I mean when I speak of "zeal" in religion.

  • What do I mean when I speak of a true Christian?

  • What do I mean when I use the word "real.

  • All we mean when we say "the truth" is just to the best of your ability.

  • Do you know what I mean when I say "babushka"?

  • The answer to this supposed insuperable dilemma may be made by determining what we mean when we speak of knowing a thing.

  • What do you understand Small to mean when he says, "The last elements to which we can reduce the actions of human beings are units which we may conveniently name 'interests'"?

  • What do you understand Park to mean when he says, "Social institutions are not founded in similarities any more than they are founded in differences, but in relations, and in the mutual interdependence of the parts"?

  • I think I have said enough in Chapter II (section 10) about what we mean when we speak of psychology as a natural science and as an independent discipline.

  • But it is strange that he had neither sight nor sense of sin now, when he had such a sight and sense of his evil before; I mean when he was sick before.

  • But what then do we mean when we say, justification will stand with a state of imperfection?

  • And the secret of it is in cultivating love and truth and tenderness and care, those things which bring us into intimate connection with which we mean when we say, Be unselfish, and that in doing this we find our own souls.

  • And first I will say that which I mean when I use the word "God.

  • This, then, is what I mean when I say that we ought to be careful, and study and think in forming our religious ideals, and see that we do not identify our own unwillingness to think with the eternal and changeless law of God.

  • While we were talking about this, the elder children and I, the little boys were very quiet; but I was afraid it was all rather difficult for them, so I asked Leslie and Dick to tell me what we mean when we speak of the beginning of anything.

  • And now what do we mean when we talk of things being of different colours?

  • When I asked the children if they could tell me what we mean when we say that a thing reflects the light, Chrissie said he had often seen the red sunset reflected by the windows opposite, but he could not quite tell how to explain it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mean when" 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:
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