How to Use of means in a Sentence

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  • An assessment of how Eli Broad fits in among L.A. men of means who tried to shape the city.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
  • The Brants’ version of Mount Vernon changed the way people of means wanted to live.
    — Town & Country, 3 May 2023
  • The Brants’ version of Mount Vernon changed the way people of means wanted to live.
    — Town & Country, 3 May 2023
  • The devices then alert the person through a variety of means, to change their posture.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Now imagine that rich man being mean to you AND having plenty of means to ruin your life.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • Now imagine that rich man being mean to you AND having plenty of means to ruin your life.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • The juveniles admitted to stealing the Jeep and were charged with theft of means of transportation.
    — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Privileged people of means like me will always be able to get abortions.
    — SELF, 2 June 2022
  • Right now, there’s a situation where no one can get any food or any water or anything, even people of means, even those that are well-to-do.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Time’s Up began with the best intentions, with women of means pledging their money to stop the predation.
    — Melissa Silverstein, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Hu could not fathom how someone like O’Loughlin—a man of means and privilege—had come to believe outrageous lies.
    — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
  • These revamps appeal thoroughly to the ideal customer of the modern lifestyle brand: the person of means, and in that way the paradigm has not shifted.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The threat actor uses a variety of means to compromise its victims.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
  • With its relatively lenient visa requirements, the Bahamas now draws migrants of means from around the world, from as far away as China, Cameroon and Iraq.
    — Hannah Dormido, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But while many parents of means splurged for babysitters, hunted down drop-in day-care spots, or queued up for private-pay day camps, most free offerings stood empty.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Very few people of means these days—people who travel and wear awesome outfits and post about it online—actually seem to have any taste.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Sep. 2022
  • This is testament to their generosity not only of spirit but also of means and resources.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Russia was an aristocratic society and there were people of means who would get together to talk about the ideas of the Enlightenment.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • According to the police department, the two teens were charged with theft of means of transportation, and the vehicle was returned to Kotsur with all of his possessions inside.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Some Democrats also seemed open to some form of means testing, calibrating the amount of student loan debt forgiven based on a borrowers’ income.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The swiftness of the invasion, and Ukraine’s lack of means to resist it, forced Ukrainians into adopting small, hobbyist-grade drones for missions they were never designed to carry out.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Even those lucky enough to have parents of means taking an interest to try to fill the vacuum (think of those Minnesota students) do not see the effect entirely offset.
    — Seth Mandel, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Metrick also surmises that many people of means are hooked on luxury.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • My personal attempts to resolve such problems, and the discovery of means to do it, provided the motivation for writing this book.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • For too long they have been considered unromantic and pessimistic; a document foisted on a bride by a man of means who cares more about his assets than her happiness.
    — Ginger Gentile, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • But these writers were all white, able-bodied, unencumbered men of means who bore me no similarity.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • With great size comes great decorative responsibility, and men of means rose to the occasion.
    — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Large biometric systems have emerged in recent years as a way for governments to create databases of people who can be identified for a variety of means.
    — NBC News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • There currently exist, by many accounts, a plethora of means to cook a chicken that do not involve gallivanting around national park land and risking life and limb.
    — Sunset Magazine, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Incursions can be launched by a variety of means, including something as simple as an employee clicking a phishing link in an email.
    — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023

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