Sentence examples for could be mean from inspiring English sources
They learned that friends could be mean as well as kind, and that life was not always fair.
When we were kids, my father had within him a well of anger that could be mean and bullying.
I could be mean and point out Soho Farmhouse's slight holiday camp feel (with yoga sessions instead of knobbly knees contests, of course – though there is crazy golf).
What they meant by this phrase was not merely that cops could be mean, but that capitalism had declared war on blue-collar prosperity itself.
One fifth-grade classmate, Mariah Campbell, recalled other students making fun of Mr. Harris-Moore's dirty clothing and said he could be mean to classmates.
Once, when Sam was being harassed by boys at school, the principal told them that Sam needed to choose one gender or the other, because kids could be mean.
Personally, I can't understand how anyone could be mean-spirited enough to object.
The singular quality of the series always seemed to be the everyday fallibility of the characters; they could be mean-spirited, selfish, territorial, and gluttonous (they're bears after all), but by the end of each book, they would redeem themselves — restored to their better selves by the steadying influence of trusty humanist values and good cheer.
His "Butcher" (1974) wields a knife that could be meant for us.
I just don't understand what could be meant by "another act, which sustains".
