Sentence examples for meant why from inspiring English sources

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I meant, why don't any babies work?

And that smell of damp earth and bruised grass, a lonely, yearning sort of smell that meant, Why don't you come back, you will come back, you know you will".

When I told her I had trouble finding pants that fit, she responded, "Why should you have to shop for one body part?" She meant, Why should you have to do all your shopping to accommodate one difficult body part?

It seems to cry out for a comma that would turn the two words into an expression of Americans' apparent exhaustion with political dynasties: "Why, Jeb?" Clearly, the Super Pac meant "why Jeb?" in the sense of "why should Iowans vote for Jeb?".

What else could his words have possibly meant: "Why have you forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46).

It meant "why are you better than me?" from some women.

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I mean, why not?

I mean, why bother?

"Lemn" means "why"?

I mean, why Mexico?

"I mean, why leave?

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