Sentence examples for but meaning from inspiring English sources

For Mitchell, Homer's famous epithets can obscure what he calls the "meaning": " 'Flashing-helmeted Hector,' " he writes, "means no more than 'Hector.' " But "meaning" isn't the point.

This is obviously a big deal for its citizens and for those who sympathized with its struggle for self-determination, but meaning no disrespect, it seems like a good time to ask: what does it mean to become a country?

"Mine!," Ms. Ludwig said, laughing but meaning it.

This is not to do with ornament, but meaning.

Conservatives across the world are not only stealing the left's rhetoric, but meaning it.

In either place, she tries to grab their attention by explaining how language changes but meaning remains accessible through performance.

But expressing, meaning what?

But support — meaning dollars — has been frustratingly scant.

But, without meaning to, sometimes he goes too far.

Mystery is a lack not of information but of meaning.

Meaning, literally, to raise water, but really meaning to bring water to a boil.