Sentence examples for normal meaning from inspiring English sources

The word accent is often used interchangeably with stress, though some prosodists use accent to mean the emphasis that is determined by the normal meaning of the words while stress is used to mean metrical emphasis.

All was normal — meaning all was well.

By the ninth inning, though, things were back to normal, meaning the tension was boiling over.

This is surely government doublespeak: the normal meaning of enhance is to improve or intensify — not merely to increase.

Most parents will tell you they hope their children will be "normal," meaning they hope their children will behave and look pretty much like everybody else.

The company's administrators, Grant Thornton, said it would continue as normal, meaning employees would continue to have work, in the short term at least.

There is no authority that suggests that "intend" or "recklessly" ought to mean something from their normal meanings.

where R is the gas constant, D is the diffusion coefficient of the triiodide, l is the spacer thickness, and F and n have their normal meanings.

Living in a culture that devalues sensitivity and introversion as much as the U.S. means there are many pressures to be "normal" -- meaning extroverted, sociable and outgoing.

And some, determined to lead "normal" lives (meaning, largely, married lives), married.

Only 28 were of normal weight, meaning they had a body mass index below 25.