Sentence examples for told meaning from inspiring English sources

Something had got at him, she was told (meaning some animal), after the body was washed ashore.

She believed "nothing could be worse" than being told meaning could only be found in a certain thing – like work – and then having that source of meaning taken away.

Denmark's Only Exorcist Is Rather Busy.

A federal appeals court in California has issued a temporary stay reversing Judge Virginia Phillips's worldwide injunction against Don't Ask Don't Tell — meaning that, once again, openly gay service members are not welcome.

"You don't have to go through with this," Leda tells him, meaning to tell him of the grade change, but finishing, "Karl isn't worth it.

"It's mad people gathered at this shop," Straw told me, meaning the place was crowded.

"She had her affair," Martin had told Julia, meaning his wife.

The buildings were called gecekondu, Demirbaş told me, meaning "built in the night".

"I kicked the tires," Schweitzer, a Democrat, told The Associated Press, meaning he had mulled the idea.

More than 7 in 10 haven't told anyone, meaning that many are suffering in silence.

"Forty-five seconds," he told Lovey, meaning the breast milk and the microwave.