Sentence examples for means when applied from inspiring English sources

You may wonder what this odd English expression means when applied to your immediate surroundings.

Problem is, the officials and the farmers have yet to agree on exactly what "preserved" means when applied to farmland.

But it does depend on its knowing what "behind" means when applied to such an oddly shaped creature as a human.

Lorraine O'Grady's Landscape (Western Hemisphere) shows explicitly what blackness means when applied to the body and its features.

In his essay on Frost, Brodsky considered what the term "American" means when applied to poetry, and how it related to "a nearly total misconception of what Frost was all about".

What this might mean when applied to her own work, however, is something of a mystery: where most writers have methods, stances, principles, Didion has contradictions.

So what does that mean when applied to a town?

One might think, that is, that what one means when one applies the expression 'perfectly good' to some being is the same as what one means when one applies the expression 'absolutely perfect' to some being; to say that a being is perfectly good is just to say that it instantiates perfectly those features that make a being intrinsically good.

Write eight hundred impassioned words about whether "foodie" means anything when applied to you, other than that you are a grown woman who eats food.

That means that when applied to the skin they stay there, as opposed to steroids, which are more penetrating and can be absorbed into the bloodstream, potentially causing unwanted side effects.

This means that when applied in new subjects, the predictive performance of all three models is expected to deteriorate[ 25].