Sentence examples for seldom mean that from inspiring English sources

These days, however, when we say that we fell down the rabbit hole, we seldom mean that we wound up somewhere psychedelically strange.

We may be shocked that, throughout Restoration comedy, women who say "no" seldom mean it.

"I don't want to go to school" seldom means just that.

"Intractable" means that, whatever the precise partitioning of causation may be (we seldom know), policy interventions can only tweak the difference at the margins.

Yet, at the same time, she had a miniaturist's eye, arguing that  bigger seldom meant more beautiful.

This wisdom reminds us that spirituality seldom means denouncing material possessions; it means acknowledging life just as it is, embracing it with grace and detachment and simply surrendering to the love in our hearts and the wisdom of our souls.

When the prisoners dance, it's seldom meant to allure.

If the executive's job pressures mean that an idea seldom gets a good hearing unless it is responsibly presented, then the unthrottled and irresponsible creative man is useless to the company.

While programmers seldom prove rigorous theorems about software, this obviously does not mean that they do not reason when designing and testing programs.

The staff seldom write down or read procedures for residents, but this does not mean that they do not communicate about the care they provide.

When Dorothy Parker quipped that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", she was referring to the idea that wearing spectacles must mean that you are smart.