meant

Example Sentences

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Every visit meant more than 24 hours waiting in a corridor.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

That includes Starship, a 407-foot rocket meant to be eventually be fully reusable and to launch every hour.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

BATTAMBANG, Cambodia—Giving tiny loans to shoestring entrepreneurs was meant to be capitalism’s cure for global poverty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Messi and Mbappé’s outperformance meant big payouts—at Flutter’s expense.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

“Scared of what it meant… that… that you couldn’t be ushered into the Afterlife right away,” Clare said, which was a true statement, however incomplete.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman