How could a creature in a female form see me caress thee, and steal thee from my arms!
With such a keen perception of the delicacies of sentiment, with an imagination invigorated by the exercise of genius, how could he sink into the grossness of sensuality!
Then came the question, how could he ask Denys, the monk-hater, to stay longer?
Gerard, who had got alive into that chest scarce five minutes ago, how could he be dead?
How could he tell her that he declined the benefice she had got him, and declined it for the sake of that which at his age she had despised and sacrificed so lightly?
How could I go home and look her in the face, did I let thee die, and by the very death thou savedst her from?
How could I remember, then, the night when I first saw you, and when I went out of the room because you looked at me so attentively?
She yielded to the entreaty--how could she do otherwise!
How could I see as clearly as I ever saw in the daytime in my most alert moment, hear every step and garment rustle, scent the perfume of hair, and feel warm breath strike my face?
How could I explain where I got it and I wonder if she would take it.
O my old north country, my old river - the river of my innocence, the old country of my hopes - how could I endure to look on you now?
O how could I face the world, how could I endure myself, if I preferred my happiness to your honour?
How could you be better to me, or nearer to me then, than you are in this, or anything?
Oh, all you happy over the earth, That night, how could I sleep?
And I, so certain and so friended, How could I cloud, or how distress, The heaven of your unconsciousness?
Most foul, -- how could I see you while I kissed you?
My eager feet shall find you again, Though the sullen years and the mark of pain Have changed you wholly; for I shall know (How could I forget having loved you so?
How could he hope to find this unfortunate girl, who had abandoned her home thirty years previously, to fly, no one knew where, or with whom?
How could he compel her to speak now that she was on her guard?
How could I know so little of myself, when I sent my Duenna to forbid your coming more under my lattice?
How could you, Madam, be so inattentive in reading the last chapter?
Then, dear Sir, how could my uncle Toby resist it?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "how could" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
