Sentence examples for silver means from inspiring English sources

The fact that it is pewter — not silver — means that it adorned a private's uniform, she said.

BSSCO's reliance on silver means that it may never be cheap enough to deal old-fashioned copper wires a knock-out blow.

Despite missing the gold, the silver means Williams is now a part of an elite group of athletes who have won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.

But in the combative sports arena, albeit on a level playing field, the exclusivity of survival – where one fit athlete's gain is invariably another's loss and where being the fastest, highest and strongest is all that matters, because gold is a hell of a lot more sexy than silver – means winners will pull rank on Boyle's celebration of reciprocal altruism.

"Silver means so much to me.

But his silver means he has now won two golds and five medals in all at London 2012.

Woods' silver meant Britain would have to settle for third place in the overall medals table behind China and Russia.

Rule changes since Beijing 2008, where Hoy won gold and Kenny silver, mean only one can be chosen in the event at London 2012 rather than both.

The ante mortem values were significantly higher in silver (mean 0.35, standard deviation (sd) 0.17) than in blue foxes (0.21, sd 0.06) (P = 0.02).

The two silvers mean that Great Britain remain on top of the European World Cup medal table.

The silver medal means a half-hour of television or computer a night, and the bronze means one hour.