Sentence examples for meant when they from inspiring English sources

'I never knew before what footballers meant when they said, "It hasn't really sunk in yet".

Is that what the showrunners meant when they said Jon Snow was dead?

He did not seem to understand what people meant when they spoke to him.

I never figured out what the school bullies meant when they called me 'Puppet head'.

Was that what they meant when they said flames had tongues?

I'd always wondered what people meant when they said a sea was "impossibly blue".

This, I take it, is what many readers meant when they said, in a tone of triumph, that science works.

She asked prosecutors what they meant when they asked Bonds if he ever took "anything" from Anderson.

It meant when they lost the ball after 57 minutes the old gold shirts could break at pace.

We wondered what newspapers meant when they said, "INSAT-4CR in orbit, DTH to get a boost".

I guessed this was what ­Baroness Warnock and other ­proponents of ­assisted dying meant when they talked about "easeful death".