How to Use meaning in a Sentence

meaning

noun

• What is the meaning of life?
• I didn't understand the meaning of his remark.
• What is the precise meaning of this word in English?
• It's a story about the true meaning of Christmas.
• Don't distort her meaning by taking her words out of context.
• Literary critics disagree about the meanings of his poems.
• The word has both literal meanings and figurative meanings.
• One of the appeals of the song is how much depth there is to explore its meaning.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2023
• The colors of the transgender pride flag hold a lot of meaning.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 23 Mar. 2023
• Some of the tables have a special meaning at the restaurant.
  — AL.com, 3 June 2017
• Wasn’t that the meaning of a friendship stronger than the bones that held your gore and spirit?
  — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• Yet, each of you can rejoice in the beauty and true meaning of the season.
  — Columbia Flier, 12 Dec. 2017
• But a deeper lesson can be drawn about the meaning of the word public.
  — Curbed, 19 July 2023
• But most dark tourists seek meaning, not merely the deeply macabre.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2017
• This is the Yiddish, folksy meaning — a nice thing to do.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• And some get to work, trying to raise meaning from horror.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2023
• Watch Tzuyu explain the meaning of the song to Clarkson above.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2023
• The Boston Celtics added new meaning to stealing a win on the road.
  — For The Win, 19 Dec. 2017
• And while some of the meaning has been lost to time, certain petroglyphs can still be read.
  — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
• The genius is in the ways the songs both embrace and transcend their original meanings.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• A lot of the album's meaning, White says, can be found in its name.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 9 June 2017
• Sometimes the most ordinary acts add the most meaning and inspire the greatest smiles of all.
  — Health.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• It can be used not just to destroy meaning but to find it, create it, share it.
  — Hasan Altaf, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• Survivors of painful family loss or the loss of people close to them share the need to give meaning to that survival.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• This gives meaning to the unpacked fossils today, the researchers say in the paper.
  — Tess Joosse, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Green Border has a double meaning, as a place of beauty and a zone of death.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
• Will the film have sparkly costumes with hidden meanings?
  — Vulture, 15 May 2023
• Pence found some meaning in going back to his familiar look.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
• Its meaning will be contorted and confused and to some extent lost.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• Each of these ornaments holds a special meaning to me about that person.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024