Sentence examples for two possible meanings from inspiring English sources

A good pun should have at least two possible meanings – not zero.

What's worse, as nouns, three of them (May, axes and beat) have two possible meanings apiece.

Locke considers two possible meanings of this phrase.

Although contextual information may normally single out one reading, the verb is potentially ambiguous at both the lexical and constructional levels: one single form is mapped with two possible meanings.

The Hebrew word pesach has two possible meanings, both of which come into play.

There are two possible meanings for the term "switching" in a bistable system.

In her groundbreaking study, Nessa Coyle [ 11] described nine possible meanings of a wish to hasten death.

One possible meaning for "sociobiology", therefore, is that kind of work identified by Wilson in the non-human animal part of his book: methodologically adaptationist approaches to understanding the causes and nature of animal behavior.

Most of the islands of Scotland have been occupied by the speakers of at least four languages since the Iron Age, and many of the names of these islands have more than one possible meaning as a result.

The Hebrides have been occupied by the speakers of at least four languages since the Iron Age, and many of the names of these islands have more than one possible meaning as a result.

When syntax is changed within a sentence, there are two possible effects to the meaning of that sentence: (a) an alteration can leave the semantic import relatively constant or (b) alternation can signal a significant difference in semantic content and, thus, one structure is preferred.