MEANS in a Sentence

Learn MEANS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for MEANS, such as:
1. To be beautiful means to be yourself.
2. Love means understanding, not agreement.
3. The quickest means of travel is by plane.
4. He is cogitating upon some means of revenge.
5. I am by no means assured of his regard for me.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MEANS
means
 a.  characterized by malice
 n.  an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I am by no means assured of his regard for me.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  Their means were as different as their objects, and equally suited to the advancement of each.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
3  Her manners were by no means so elegant as her sister's, but they were much more prepossessing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
4  The young ladies arrived: their appearance was by no means ungenteel or unfashionable.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
5  I would by no means speak disrespectfully of any relation of yours, madam.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
6  I cannot help thinking, in short, that means might have been found.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
7  You perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless Justine.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labours.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
10  On the whole, I by no means recognized the analysis, but thought it not worth disputing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
11  My conscience was not by any means comfortable about Biddy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
12  This course I decided on while I was yet groping about in the darkness for the means of getting a light.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
13  His attendance was by this means secured, and the rest followed in course.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50
14  She presently rose from her seat, and looked about the blighted room for the means of writing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
15  I replied that he would much oblige me by drinking it, if he thought he could do it safely, but by no means otherwise.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Love means understanding, not agreement.
2  Self-confidence means being relaxed enough to allow your lover their personal space.
3  Some people say that loneliness is shameful, but fashion is a means of resistance alone, this is fashion realm.
4  When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory.
5  The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it.
6  Humidity means the amount of moisture in the air.
7  A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
8  To be beautiful means to be yourself.
9  This is the sole means of access to the building.
10  We will use every possible means to achieve our objective.
11  The quickest means of travel is by plane.
12  Scientists are working to devise a means of storing this type of power.
13  He is cogitating upon some means of revenge.
14  The new law means video pirates can no longer cash in by selling illegal copies.
15  To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.