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Example sentences for "she meant"

  • As for keeping her back, you couldn't do it if she meant to go.

  • She meant well, poor darling, but it was a bad shot.

  • She meant to tell them as soon as ever Reggie'd gone.

  • She meant to be impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be.

  • She had no clear plan of action, except that, once in the settlement, she meant to look for Liff Hyatt, and get him to take her to her mother.

  • She wanted it for her baby: she meant it, in some mysterious way, to be a link between Harney's child and its unknown father.

  • She meant to take out of the drawer her roll of lace and the library register, and go straight to Miss Hatchard to announce her resignation.

  • She wouldn't give in, this oldest lady in the world, she meant to knit till she fell into the grave.

  • She meant to tell him nothing, meant to keep up that lighthearted look--which didn't deceive him a bit!

  • She meant neither to eat nor drink; only to sleep, if she could.

  • As she meant, the sly little devil, slipping away for her bit of fun.

  • As if she meant to eat the man," the Mayoress said afterwards, in the shadow of that threatened roof.

  • And at the thought of Agnes Pringle's outraged astonishment if she were to meet her husband now, before she had toned him down, as she meant to do.

  • She meant, merely, that she would be more economical with experience.

  • She meant to speak to Eddie about him later.

  • She meant to superintend these preparations herself and to have it all fixed as daintily as possible.

  • If the ladies would consent to put the little girl in her charge, she meant to bring her immediately home with her.

  • She meant to tell Apollonie how to fit up her cottage for Leonore and Salo, who, she hoped, would spend his holidays there, too.

  • She meant perhaps, why should her sister's strength be taken for granted?

  • She meant, suppose that Mrs. Prichard denies your claim to be her son, what proof shall I produce?

  • She stopped, and looked at me as if she meant to defy me and run back.

  • Before supper she got up and dressed herself, laughing and tittering; she meant to go down-stairs to surprise the family.

  • She meant to let him help, not because she wanted to get rich, but because she really knew what had influenced him, and suspected that he was not as strong as he thought.

  • She meant to search the country he had traveled for the silver vein; and then, if she was persuaded it could not be found, she would have paid her debt and be free to lead the life that others led.

  • It looked is if she meant to use her new authority.

  • She meant to work fast to-day and get all the letters written before five if possible.

  • She did not know just what she meant to say, nor what she would do if Sidney Graham were not in the office,--and it was hardly probable he would be there yet if he had only arrived home the day before.

  • She knew, of course, she meant to give that back.

  • She had her work in the world, and to it she meant to stick.

  • Mrs. Carnaby smiled, and the smile grew to a laugh; but she would not explain what she meant by it.

  • She meant to drive me mad, and she succeeded--curse her!

  • I think she would put your name on it if she meant it for ye," said Katy.

  • It was while handling these volumes that Linda shifted several of the books written by her father, to separate them from those with which she meant to part.

  • She meant to offer her plans in this competition.

  • She meant to keep it in water till it faded, and then she would press it between the first page and the binding of her parchment missal.

  • If he were there, she meant to show him that she could be more indifferent than he; if he were not, she would show herself that she did not care enough even to look for him.

  • She meant to show him that she was still in earnest, he supposed.

  • She meant to break his stubborn spirit--to arouse in him, if possible, a violent aversion to her presence.

  • The pendulum swung the other way now--she meant to leave Alaska with the least possible delay.

  • Thwarted though her other attempts had been, she meant to try again.

  • She meant to exercise that faculty as soon as opportunity presented itself.

  • She had spoken meaningly, as if she meant to give him a hint.

  • She meant to hide her real feelings if she could, but as she had been angry when he left it was better that he should think her angry now.

  • It sounded as if she meant to applaud him as well as show her satisfaction with the consequences of his exploit.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she meant" 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:
    fire under; judicial power; mucous membrane; rock garden; she added; she appeared; she began; she begged; she came; she had never known; she might have been; she moved; she observed; she reflected; she retorted; she sat; she sobbed; she went; she would have been; shed blood; sheet metal; shell burst; shell fish; shell shock; sherry wine; sweet corn