Sentence examples for means and when from inspiring English sources

"Everyone always has such a horrible image of what this school desegregation means and when I came to Yonkers everyone was getting all panicky about it," she said.

At the moment, if you look at the current account deficit, Australia lives beyond its means – and when I say Australia, I mean upper-middle-class people.

I believe that a man is quite entitled to keep a mistress providing that he chooses a social inferior within his financial means and, when he tires of her, helps her find a husband of her own class.

"We don't have the same means, and when there is a garage with the three Audis or Peugeots next to you, we have to be at the same level, even if it is just a GT car".

At first, I am too embarrassed to ask what this means, and when I learn that customers have to buy a whole bottle of vodka or rum for $300 rather than single cocktails, I am shocked.

It is estimated that around 15% of western babies cannot be soothed by ordinary means, and when babies display the bundle of symptoms casually classed as "colic", there may well be a physiological explanation.

"There is a lot of introspection about what does this mean and when does it end".

But Cesárea spoke of times to come and the teacher, to change the subject, asked her what times she meant and when they would be.

"Kids can be really mean, and when you move in the middle of sixth grade, you'd better get ready to take some shit".

We'll explain what they mean and when to use them.

For whom is that meant, and when does it happen?