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Example sentences for "how they"

  • And there they stood, images of pale hollow-eyed despair, and oh how they looked on the bier, and envied those whom they had sent before them on the dark road they were going upon themselves!

  • And, saints in glory, how they tried to hold more, and more, and more o' yon stuff!

  • Ah me, how they went to my heart, those bare letters in a foreign land.

  • How they could be moved he knew, for so he had once been moved himself and practised moving others.

  • How they could so misunderstand me, passes comprehension.

  • The white sheete bleaching on the hedge, With hey the sweet birds, O how they sing: Doth set my pugging tooth an edge, For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King.

  • But I pray thee tell me this: has Fords wife, and Pages wife acquainted each other, how they loue me?

  • Looke ye how they change: Their cheekes are paper.

  • Looking at thy lovely little hands Makes me always wonder, sweetest maiden, How they so to wound me can be daring!

  • Looking at thy rosy luring lips Makes me always wonder, sweetest maiden, How they of a kiss e'er can be sparing!

  • I shall never cease to think of the sad tones of that sorrowful word Farewell, how they permeated through every core of my heart, how they clouded my eyes, and made me wish unutterable things which could never be.

  • I think they must have some confused idea of my Expedition; though, how they came to know that I was looking for any man I cannot conceive, because I never told a soul until I reached Unyanyembe.

  • As he was unable to give a clear account of how they came in his box, they were at once confiscated, and distributed among the most deserving of the Doctor's people.

  • But when they came downstairs the Park people were not in the room--the woollen garment was still on the table (how they plunged it into the chiffonier!

  • How they sit up patiently, and how eagerly they rush out to fetch cabs in the rain!

  • How they look, how they feel, how base it makes them all!

  • How they play on the old home roof and the thick tree-tops!

  • Therefore we are not to regard their persons, how they may be, but the will of God who has thus created and ordained.

  • Now they will see what glory the godly are possessed with; how they rest in Abraham's bosom, how they enjoy eternal glory, how they walk in their white robes, and are equal to the angels.

  • This also rebukes those that care not, so they worship, how they worship; how, where, or after what manner they worship God.

  • How they've frightened her; really, they are vile creatures!

  • How they've made the place smell I Drat 'em!

  • Look at them, how they've established themselves down here!

  • It is an awful thought of how they serve themselves and the world, how they can love one another, how they can be stirred to noble enthusiasm, and how little of all this ever comes to God.

  • How they show us the hollowness of our services, the self-indulgence of our lives, the coldness of our devotion, the cowardice of our faith!

  • Not so much by what they say, as by how they endure, are they to testify.

  • A strange picture; and a strange thing to think of, how they were so close to the great event in the world's history, and had to stare at it for three or four hours, and never saw anything!

  • How they cling to man and follow him around the world, and spring up wherever he sets his foot!

  • How they squeal, and chatter, and chirp, and trill, always in scattered troops of fifty or a hundred, filling the air with a fine sibilant chorus!

  • That is not how the Goncourts apprehend life, or how they conceive it should be rendered.

  • And every scene, even the finest, is thought of as a scene of talk, not as visible action; the writer hears his people speak, but does not see their faces or where or how they stand or move.

  • If that's how they want to run a government, that's how they have a right to run it.

  • This is going to be wonderful; this planet needs everything in the way of industrial equipment; this is how they're going to get it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "how they" 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:
    finding them; fur his horrd horrt; great comet; how are; how can; how does; how far; how many; how much; how often; how she; how should; how they; how you; however little; however much; however small; name appears; never even; often described; pale brownish; rather large; restore the; several other; small clump; when heated