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Example sentences for "somehow"

Lexicographically close words:
somedimes; someding; somedings; somefin; somefing; somen; someone; somepin; someplace; somepody
  1. The little ones were terrified, but not the bigger ones of us; for from top to toe (if it had a toe) it was covered with toys of every conceivable description, fastened on to it somehow or other.

  2. And somehow or other I did not hate those clear pools of light.

  3. They vanished under the window, but soon reappeared, having somehow climbed up the wall of the house; for they entered in perfect order by the window, as if melting through the transparency of the glass.

  4. He felt convinced that they were his subjects too, but that he must have overlooked them somehow at his late coronation--if indeed they had been present; for he could not recollect that he had seen anything just like them before.

  5. And somehow life seems a much more possible thing than it looked a week or two ago.

  6. This sort of reasoning somehow would not do.

  7. She was rather a tall girl, with a great deal of golden hair, arranged in some wonderful way of her own which somehow enhanced its volume without appearing loose or untidy.

  8. Yet when the sun rose upon him on the following morning he somehow did not feel as elate as he should have done.

  9. Of course; but somehow it sounded so loud and so near.

  10. I don't care much for going over to the Earles' at any time, but this time somehow or other, I detested it.

  11. But somehow I have an instinct that you will find him nothing of the sort.

  12. Somehow it all looked different now, as he stepped forth.

  13. Somehow the thought was distasteful to him, vaguely, indefinably so, but still distasteful.

  14. Somehow the crafty villain managed to slip the handcuffs off his wrists, at the same instant seizing the rifle of one of his guards, and then shoved the two men out with his feet.

  15. Nyoda was already glancing down the next page, which was written over with lines in blacker ink, and broader and heavier strokes of the pen, which seemed somehow to express grim satisfaction on the part of Uncle Jasper.

  16. She isn't killed," said a voice which sounded strangely familiar in Katherine's ears, a voice which somehow carried her back to Carver House and the library fire.

  17. Somehow the thought of hunger, and the idea of food, commonplace, familiar victuals which it connoted, dissipated the supernatural atmosphere of the place, and Katherine shook off her terror.

  18. Somehow or other when Joe dug me out from under the seat I had ahold of the little baby that had been in the seat in back of me.

  19. You see, Jimmy is really a very kind-hearted little fellow, and somehow he didn't like to think of what might happen to Old Mr. Toad.

  20. Somehow or other, the bridegroom must be made to use them with the betel, in spite of the warning of his mother, forbidding him to use them on any account.

  21. Somehow or other he was brought into the house of Baboo Aushotosh Dey for the purpose of giving the ladies an opportunity of seeing him.

  22. She also gets an extra piece of cloth at the Doorga Poojah festival, when the most wretched pauper, somehow or other, puts on new clothes.

  23. He has somehow or other come to think me a wag, and if I ask him to pass the butter, detects an occult joke, and laughs as much as is proper for a mate.

  24. Somehow we get our licenses early, mainly owing, I think, to the stalwart proportions and weighty muscles of the Little'un and O'Gaygun.

  25. The Norwegian rat, which centuries ago exterminated the aboriginal British rat, has somehow come over here with the Pakeha, and is rapidly rendering the kiore a thing of the past, while spreading through the land in its place.

  26. The reader who would authenticate the quotation, must not consult any other edition than that of 1697; for somehow or other the publisher of the last edition has omitted this remarkable part of the narrative.

  27. But somehow I never finish anything down here--and the sheep have been pretty bad lately.

  28. It was a fine large country, to be sure, and produced a lot of very necessary horse feed, but Chapuli shied when his feet struck the freshly sprinkled street, and somehow his master felt equally ill at ease.

  29. And when at last the wagon came in, bearing only Judge Ware and Lucy, somehow even Jeff's sore heart was touched by a sense of loss.

  30. He appended this last with an artless smile, quite lacking in bitterness, but somehow the boss herder felt himself discredited by the inquiry, as if he were consorting with thieves.

  31. And though the poor browbeaten Chihuahuanos understood not a word of English they felt somehow that they had been overzealous and shuffled back to their blankets, like watchdogs that had been rebuked.

  32. Like two souls haled from the world without a word of explanation or confession, Kitty and Lucy both sat down under duress to pen a last appeal to the little man who, despite his stern disregard, somehow held a place in their hearts.

  33. There was no running, no shouting, no gallant show of horsemanship, but somehow the right steers wandered over into the beef cut and stayed there.

  34. More than that, he felt vaguely that he himself was somehow involved in the discussion, the more so as Mr. Thomas balked absolutely at shaking hands with him.

  35. It was all very simple and natural, but somehow she had never thought of men in that light before.

  36. It was this which had inspired Bill Lightfoot to restrain his tongue when he was sore over his defeat; and even though Hardy confessed to being a rider, somehow no one ever thought of sawing off Spike Kennedy's "side winder" on him.

  37. But Minola somehow entered less cordially into them than she had done before, and Mr. Heron at last became ashamed of talking so much about himself.

  38. They told him quite a lot about them, and somehow he didn't seem quite satisfied.

  39. Truly the fourteenth century was a century of noise and adventure, and yet somehow or other in those days, so we are told, men had no nerves.

  40. Somehow or other the project had become known, and all Bruges had turned out to oppose it.

  41. Somehow or other they came into the hands of a baker of St. Omer, who later on sold them to an art collector in the neighbourhood.

  42. The burghers of Bruges have on more than one occasion been near losing their much-prized treasure, but somehow or other it has always come back to them.

  43. Somehow or other the Clauwaerts had got wind of the storm that was brewing, and as the first shrill cry of the tocsin clanged over the city, they flew to arms.

  44. This intrepid old man, when he found that all his efforts to calm the mob were unavailing, somehow or other procured a smith, and at the risk of his life stood over him whilst he broke open the lock of the Bouverie gate.

  45. Louis, who had been unhorsed at the commencement of the stampede, had somehow or other managed to remount, and along with some thirty or forty knights had the good fortune to reach his palace in safety.

  46. Somehow or other he had been drawn, in spite of himself, into the thick of battle, and now loudly cried to his friends to carry him out, but no man had pity on him, and he was presently trampled to death by his own comrades.

  47. I've tried hard to be good, but somehow I've made just such a mess of my life as I made of hulling the berries.

  48. Susanna, softly touching her shoulder, and wondering if she could somehow find a way to counsel the girl in her perplexity.

  49. I shall never be here again, perhaps, and somehow it seems to me as if you, Elder Gray, with your education and your gifts, ought to be leading a larger life than this.

  50. Somehow her virtues and gifts attracted the notice of Aidan, the holy Bishop of Lindisfarne, who was working with zeal and devotion to win the wild people of the north for Christ.

  51. Somehow communications with Henry still went on, and in 1485 he landed in Wales, and all men flocked to join him.

  52. We cannot explain what her voices were, but we know that she believed she heard them, and that somehow this simple peasant maid was taught how to save her king.

  53. Sim Howell and two other boys in their early teens had somehow obtained liquor, and had been picked up in a frightful condition on the public street by Constable Poley Cantor.

  54. Somehow the school teacher's talk--or was it Janice Day's scorn?

  55. Hence arises a vague notion that through the eye-gate, for example, a sort of picture of the external object somehow enters the mind.

  56. The falling glass was conceived as somehow causing bad weather.

  57. In brief, it means that any article which belongs, or has belonged, to any one, somehow retains a part of their personality.

  58. I have never since had a symptom of the disease, and somehow I can't help associating appendicitis with hospitalitis.

  59. But time slipped along and somehow I could not get started in on the road to happiness.

  60. The name seems somehow familiar," he said; "but I cannot quite place it.

  61. I know that there are all sorts of flaws in the stories he tells me, but somehow I never find them until after he has given me money and I’ve kissed him and made up.

  62. I only wish I could ask you to be bridesmaid for your pains; but Clarence has somehow gotten an idea that you are not a friend of his.

  63. And, yet they seem to be somehow connected in people’s minds.

  64. My eyes are tolerably good; but I confess I can see none of these things about you; you seem rather somehow to appear sad, though I trust I am wrong.

  65. He somehow scented the presence of spies at times when, I confess, I felt calm and reassured.

  66. I somehow felt all along some vague presage that evil was intended.

  67. But somehow or other, Harriet's presence prevented his approaching Robina.

  68. He could not understand her to-day, but, having chosen her, he felt somehow that it was his bounden duty to be as good as possible, and to think as kindly as possible about her.

  69. We'd manage somehow to leave him behind; there are lots of people at home to look after him.

  70. Well, that story has somehow come to an end, but another story has begun.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somehow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    incidentally; perchance; somehow