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Example sentences for "matter how"

  • He has always shown a degree of unselfishness and an amount of business tact, coupled with a clear judgment, that has kept the school in good condition no matter how long I have been absent from it.

  • During this time he has borne the school upon his heart night and day, and is never so happy as when he is performing some service, no matter how humble, for it.

  • If there was one legitimate hope that was yet left untried, no matter how forlorn it was, I would try it.

  • The creek had eroded deep into the little gully, and no matter how hot it was on the baking, shimmering levels of the ranches above, down here one always found one's self enveloped in an odorous, moist coolness.

  • No matter how much we improve the land, or how much it increases in value, they have got to stick by their agreement on the basis of two-fifty per acre.

  • He allows no question, no matter how complicated or vexatious, to disturb him.

  • No matter how much in sympathy with our main aim, he could not sacrifice a possession so dear to his constituency as the State College of Agriculture.

  • Its effect is to give to the best and brightest young men, no matter how poor, just the chance they need; and not as a matter of charity, but as a matter of wise policy.

  • But if I entered into still closer intercourse with the poor man, then my doubts as to how much to give increased also; and, no matter how much I gave, the poor man grew ever more sullen and discontented.

  • No matter how prosperous a man might be, he could not be certain that his children would never want for bread.

  • When we came into the courtyard, I held back, of course, for the honour is entirely individual, and is never extended to any other, no matter how worthy he may be.

  • But whatever the garden may have been, and no matter how it was guarded, it is a most lovely place.

  • He evidently looked fatherly, no matter how he felt.

  • He observed mournfully that the vigour which had always recharged itself, no matter how recklessly he had drawn upon it, was beginning to protest.

  • No matter how much we draw against the account she always has a little more for us.

  • The dotted line represents the aviator's line of flight, and it will be seen that no matter how he twists and turns he is always within the danger zone while flying over hostile territory.

  • In other words, the theory prevails that an aerial fleet, no matter how efficient, would be rendered ineffective for the simple reason that it would be the initial object of the besieger's attack.

  • It don't matter how much; enough to live on.

  • No matter how incidentally or naturally I endeavoured to form my little wife's mind, I could not help seeing that she always had an instinctive perception of what I was about, and became a prey to the keenest apprehensions.

  • If only it would blow out of her heart this sickening sense that all was over, no matter how he might pretend to love her out of pity!

  • To bring life into the worlds in these days, no matter how, ought to make anyone happy.

  • No matter how, where, when the prime national necessity is now the growth of potatoes.

  • No matter how hungry he may be, he will turn his back on a baited trap, even when the trap is so cunningly hidden that he cannot see it.

  • No matter how carefully a trapper hides a trap, Glutton will find it and steal the bait without getting caught.

  • He hunts and kills just for the love of it, and no one, no matter how big he is, can do anything more awful than that.

  • Machines can within certain limits beget machines of any class, no matter how different to themselves.

  • My hosts were as engrossed with me as ever; they never took their eyes off me, following every action that I did, no matter how trifling, and each looking towards the other for his opinion at every touch and turn.

  • Then he changed into a dog and bit the calves of my legs, and no matter how fast I ran he still followed me, and instead of barking, talked and reviled me.

  • A reveller, no matter how rich, would have compromised her forever, and would have made the marriage of her daughter quite doubtful.

  • Whatever the boys dared her to do she instantly attempted, no matter how dangerous it might be, and they were never tired of testing her courage.

  • In my room; but, dear, you'll be very kind to him, no matter how gruff he seems.

  • I cannot adequately analyse his game because his first principle is to put back the ball no matter how, and this he carries into excellent effect.

  • He is never beaten until the last point is played, and he is always dangerous, no matter how great a lead you hold over him.

  • Clever, charming, just and always full of the most delightful humour, Hardy was an ideal Captain who kept his team in the best of spirits no matter how badly we might have been playing or how depressing appeared our outlook.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matter how" 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:
    dozen people; eighty years; giving him; good bargain; half cents; has already been said; lighter shade; made possible; make something; matter and; matter how; matter itself; matter much; matter what; matter where; matter whether; mattered little; matters not; matters pertaining; matters were; more favorable; neuter verb; prominent part; relative abundance; then add; two and