Sentence examples for it once meant from inspiring English sources

"It once meant something to somebody.

It once meant a chest, case or casket; that obsolete meaning is last recorded in 1677.

California may never be what it once was, or mean what it once meant.

It is populated largely by child-size men: an ideal conceit, allowing child readers to dream of manly deeds and adult readers to recall, however dimly, what it once meant to have a pulse that raced like a child's.

Perhaps the image was intended to symbolise fertility and abundance, but, whatever it once meant, it also remains an endearingly comical painting of infant abundance and an easily recognisable spoof of spoiled, petulant aristocrats.

For a long time, the man who'd changed his name to Yusuf Islam had completely disowned his artistic output as Cat Stevens — a confusing, dispiriting slap in the face to those it once meant a great deal to.

Many of these programs are just trash, and mom and dad don't realize that downloading and installing something, even if you only try it once, means it's a permanent resident on the PC.

My life was changed by the 56-year-old Margot Fonteyn, but there were people who could not bear to see her dancing anymore, just because it had once meant so much to them.

The criticism, if harsh, is understandable, given what Banana Kelly, which drew its memorable name from the curve of the Bronx street where it was born, once meant in the South Bronx.

Being young on Wall Street once meant having it all: style, smarts and too much money to spend wisely.

"Entrepreneurship once meant Silicon Valley; it meant America," Ms. Bayrasli, the New York-born daughter of Turkish immigrants to the United States, told me.