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Example sentences for "but somehow"

  • She was so evidently overcome with a spasm of shyness that Midget was sorry for her, but somehow it made her feel shy, herself, and the two little girls sat there, looking at each other, without saying a word.

  • I don't know exactly,--but somehow I'm not so awfully pleased to have Gladys come.

  • I always had it in mind to buy me a range," answered Amelia reservedly, "but somehow we never got to it.

  • But somehow I thought there was something between you and me that couldn't be outlived.

  • Amelia thought he should have invented something, and he confessed that he had invented many things, but somehow failed in getting them on the market.

  • Ten years ago Mrs. Light disappeared, and has not since been seen in Rome, except for a few days last winter, when she passed through on her way to Naples.

  • He will really do great things," she asked, "the very greatest?

  • If that 's not a customer, it ought to be.

  • But somehow, I feel very happy; I feel as if I had improved.

  • I am tired to death of myself; I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

  • Albinia thought of knocking and calling at the door, but somehow it seemed impossible, and she decided on promenading past his window to show that she was ready for him.

  • I never perhaps shall know fully how it is, but somehow, as a matter of fact, I am on the whole cheerful, and always busy and calm in mind.

  • I used to make it up by sitting up and getting up very early indeed; but somehow I feel fit for nothing but sleeping and eating now.

  • But somehow a cut and dried teaching machine of a man, however methodical, and good, and conscientious, won't do.

  • I wish I could tell you all I feel about it, but somehow I can't get the words.

  • I ought to feel very grateful, but somehow I just feel rotten.

  • But somehow I can't help feeling I was right.

  • Charlton was vexed and confused, but somehow it did not come into his head to pick a quarrel with his host, in spite of his irritation.

  • He was all that I had supposed, and a great deal more, but somehow he hadn't been in the room three minutes before I didn't care at all for all the things I had thought would trouble me.

  • Fleda only wished he would have taken Hugh too, but somehow he never did.

  • But somehow at that moment they looked terribly experienced.

  • But somehow, with the passing of the years, she had learnt to pay some attention to the imp within her, though there were moments when she defied him.

  • But somehow I am almost glad she didn't fall to the Cafe Royal.

  • When she had made the big bedroom dark, and had stretched her long body out between the sheets of Irish linen, she felt terrifically tired, tired in body and spirit, but somehow not in mind.

  • I knew the voice at once, but somehow I couldn't place it.

  • But somehow a man that's born and bred a gentleman will always be different from other men to the end of the world.

  • Warrigal would have known us however we might have been altered, but somehow he never turned his head our way.

  • We expected he'd start at 20 to 1, but somehow it leaked out that he was entered by old Jacob Benton, and that acted as a damper on the layers of the odds.

  • Well, I have; but somehow I fancy this man was different.

  • He took out his pipe, but somehow it wouldn't light.

  • But somehow we never seem to think we are fools as well!

  • But somehow I have never thought of you as being likely to develop political aspirations, Krebs," I said.

  • It's damned clever, but somehow it looks to me all wrong.

  • But somehow I don't seem to get along with them easily--I'm not myself, they make me shy.

  • The yaps that listen to him don't understand him, but somehow he gets under their skins.

  • But somehow it seems a pity that you quit, for Mrs. T.

  • I have one article already finished, but somehow it doesn't seem as proper a chapter to close with as the one already in your hands.

  • The newspaper praises bestowed upon the "Innocents Abroad" were large and generous, but somehow I hadn't confidence in the critical judgement of the parties who furnished them.

  • I do not reverence Mr. Emerson less, but somehow I could approach him easier.

  • Oughtn't to have done it, of course, but somehow, when he started making an ass of me and I knew you were looking on.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but somehow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but alas; but before; but especially; but found; but having; but her eyes were; but look; but much; but must; but not being able; but nothing; but now; but one; but she could not; but sometimes; but the greater part; but the greatest part; but they were not; but those; but very; but when they came; but which; but without; but you; never looked; than ever