How to Use ways and means in a Sentence

ways and means

plural noun
  • Jesus sacrificed his life to shame the ways and means of death.
    — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Very strong memories of thinking of the ways and means of getting rid of British rule.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2019
  • But where there’s strong political will, legislative ways and means will be found.
    — Larry Kudlow, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
  • On Friday, the ways and means committee sent the bill for a vote on the Senate floor.
    — Andrew Selsky, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Pension funds have to work on ways and means to invest through venture capital funds without undue risk.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But the third time might be the charm for MassPack, if the Senate ways and means language wins out.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But just as the nature of the attacks varies by locale, so do the ways and means of deterring them available to local communities.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
  • This sort of reëvaluation can happen when events disrupt your life’s habitual ways and means.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The council is expected to send the matter to its ways and means committee, which will host budget hearings and working sessions in the coming weeks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The indoor offerings complement the season by giving you ways and means of escape, through the viewpoint of someone else’s daydreams.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
  • Crockett is an astute observer of how things work in Baltimore, and the ways and means are not exactly what a civics book on government would tell you.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Fernandes Anderson is the chair of the council’s ways and means committee, which serves a central role in overseeing the budget process.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Not really — especially when Timberlake had the ways and means not to be driving under the influence.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The state administration committee approved the bill last week, forwarding it to the Senate ways and means committee.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • While Wilco broke new ground for rock and country music in its own ways and means, Trampled is clearing new trails for acoustic and jam-grass acts, redefining the sonics of the string-music world.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The ways and means of net neutrality can differ from one country to the other, taking into account specificities of local markets and organizations.
    — Sébastien Soriano, Slate Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Happily, the works and purpose of National Review Institute are here to address these matters, needing only the ways and means.
    — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The vote comes on the heels of what both the Mayor Jerome Prince and the city council described as a productive ways and means committee meeting where the matters were discussed in detail.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The proposal would take effect for next year’s budget process, meaning whomever Flynn selects as chair of the council’s ways and means committee will likely play a crucial role in guiding the body through the new process.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Mileak Harper, city controller, said the administration amended the ordinance as requested by the council during a ways and means committee meeting last week.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • What was once a relatively static process of lawmakers weighing the state’s ways and means has evolved into a more dynamic approach that, at its best, acknowledges the complexity of California’s challenges and its economy.
    — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
  • He was supposed to sit on a joint information technology committee and a joint ways and means subcommittee when the legislature convenes for its 2021 session Tuesday.
    — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Councilor Kenzie Bok, chairwoman of the council’s ways and means committee, emphasized that Boston needs a strong budget for the year ahead, given its economic recovery from the pandemic.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2021
  • In response, environmental groups, hitherto quiescent environmental professionals, and more — all Americans who care about the health of our country and our planet — still need to find new ways and means of mobilizing against it, and fast.
    — Christopher Sellers, Vox, 6 July 2018
  • Council President William Godwin, D-1st, said the ways and means committee meeting provided the detailed information about the plan council members were seeking.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Fortunately, astronomers have their ways and means of bypassing the Zone of Avoidance, and now, Kraan-Korteweg and her team have done just that to discover the true scale of the vast Vela Supercluster.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • Republicans on the House tax writing panel -- the ways and means committee -- will meet this week to discuss several issues, including tax reform, while the full Republican conference will hold a retreat Wednesday to do the same.
    — Deirdre Walsh, CNN, 25 Sep. 2017

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