Use somehow in a sentence
Sentences starting with somehow
- Somehow I most wish it was. [5]
- Somehow she felt wiser than he at that moment, wiser and stronger, though she scarcely defined the feeling to herself, though she knew that in the end her brain would yield to her heart in this. [11]
- Somehow her heart went out to him. [11]
- Somehow her heart was aching for him, she knew not why. [11]
- Somehow the commonplace, trivial interruption produced on both a strange, even startling effect. [11]
- Somehow the thing's tremendous possibilities thrilled her. [11]
- Somehow she seemed to him like a small bird on its first flight from the nest, or, as Patsy Kernaghan would have said, "a tame lamb loose in a zoolyogical gardin. [11]
- Somehow she seemed to be a part of that abstraction, that intoxication, in which he had just been drowning his accumulated anxieties. [11]
- Somehow or other they did not sound so dangerous coming from her lips as when they were uttered by the coarser people of the less rigorous denominations, or preached in the sermons of heretical clergymen. [6]
- Somehow or other, the rootlets, which are its tentacles, find out that there is a brook at a moderate distance from the trunk of the tree, and they make for it with all their might. [6]
Sentences ending with somehow
- I supposed he was going to bring you to book about old Lindau, somehow. [8]
- And it occurred to Victoria, as her eyes rested on his back, that she ought to be sorry for him--but wasn't, somehow. [9]
- I can't recall those names, somehow. [5]
- The solution of the problem of the rope for afterwards, but he had been sent there to hang a man, and a man he would hang somehow. [11]
- By and by the old gentleman said he never could seem to enjoy music somehow. [5]
- We'll be on the Hudson, you know, and we'll manage to make life bearable somehow. [9]
- It is certain that the inhabitants of all these towns held very loose ideas on the subject of brigandage: the poor fellows, they used to say, only robbed because they were hungry, and they must live somehow. [4]
- Abe would be terrible; but she was going East, not North, and when the time came she would face it and put things right somehow. [11]
- Life is wrong somehow. [4]
- So pap said somebody got to get ashore and get help somehow. [5]
Short sentences using somehow
- They seem somehow responsible. [4]
- People will have it somehow. [4]
- No matter, it is somehow. [5]
- I couldn't, somehow, for thinking. [5]
- It was very curious, somehow. [5]
- It does seem curious, somehow. [5]
- He somehow inspires curiosity. [9]
- It passed, somehow. [9]
- Somehow he knows--much. [13]
- She answered somehow. [13]
More example sentences with the word somehow in them
- I can't deny your instances, and yet I somehow feel that pretty much all you have been saying is in effect untrue. [4]
- I must see you, somehow, before you go. [5]
- Somehow, "I like you" and "I love you" got a little mixed, as they heard it. [6]
- But, pardon me, you seem somehow different from what you were at Fortress Monroe, or even at lovely Atlantic City," this with a rather forced laugh. [4]
- For somehow when you get at the bottom of most crimes--the small ones leastways--you find they weren't quite meant. [11]
- And somehow you--well, you fascinate me; I think that that is about the word. [5]
- At all events write me all about it, till I can somehow get it off my hands. [7]
- The casual reader would certainly conclude that the Somers Isles were somehow due to the providence of John Smith, when in fact he never even heard that Gates and Smith were shipwrecked there till he had returned to England, sent home from Virginia. [4]
- As expert a woodman as I am, I had somehow failed to notice this until my attention was called to it by a hog. [5]
- When I was with her I could always convince her; but, I remember, she told me once that, when I was away from her, she somehow felt that I didn't really love her. [11]
- It left her with a renewed sense of energy and restlessness, brought her nearer to high discoveries of mysterious joys which a voice out of the past called upon her to forego, a voice somehow identified with her father! [9]
- The ground was white with snow, and all the trees were bare except for a few frozen oak-leaves here and there, which shivered in the wind and somehow added to the desolation. [4]
- The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
- Somehow, the room where his mother had sat for so many years, and where he had last seen his father, John Grier, had a coldness of the tomb. [11]
- I managed, somehow, when the commotion had subsided, to regain my poise, and ended by uttering the conviction that the common sense of the community would repudiate the Citizens Union and all it stood for.... [9]
- Somehow, the day when he had seen Carnac and his mother at the political meeting had given him new emotions. [11]
- The others, too, were somehow fallen under the spell of this remarkable individuality. [9]
- I thought they were going to last always, but somehow I never was much of a prophet. [5]
- She felt extreme weariness, yet somehow it did not seem to be of her body. [13]
- And their appearance was something of a shock to her; they did not, somehow, "go with the house," and they dressed even more carelessly than Peter Erwin. [9]
- Would the tide--which was somehow within me--carry me out and out, in spite of all I could do? [9]
- These visions he was seeing were terribly true, but they somehow gave him no physical torture. [11]
- A new sense was opened up in her, and she felt somehow that the ultra-marine blue was not right, that the over-mantel had been spoiled, that the new walnut table was too noticeable, and that the American rocking-chair looked very common. [11]
- And, somehow, she was not stimulated, for the impression seemed to prevail that now Steele was disposed of. [4]
- But the doctor was not in a happy frame of mind, and seemed willing to forget the present in the past: things went wrong, somehow, and the time was out of joint with him. [6]
- A sharp suspicion was in her heart that somehow or other her father was responsible for this man's degradation and ruin. [11]
- Of course it was good enough journalism for a beginning; I knew that quite well, and yet it was somehow disappointing. [5]
- The long pilgrimage was ended, and somehow we seemed to feel glad of it. [5]
- At moments he was at once bewildered and inebriated by the rare delicacy of fabric of the woman whom he had somehow stumbled upon and possessed. [9]
- He said, "She was a perfect polyglot once, but somehow her palate got down. [5]
- Yet here, somehow, was a different case. [9]
- The warfare heretofore waged against the demon intemperance has somehow or other been erroneous. [7]
- His thin, nasal voice was somehow absurdly penetrating as he addressed the chair. [9]
- It was, indeed, very skillfully done, and yet it was a process from which I did not derive, somehow, much pleasure. [9]
- But, somehow, that very cheerless cheerfulness seemed to proclaim him superficial. [11]
- The delicate scales used by the assayers were inclosed in glass cases intended to be air-tight, and yet some of this dust was so impalpable and so invisibly fine that it would get in, somehow, and impair the accuracy of those scales. [5]
- Presently there grew up in him a vague kind of hope that, somehow, this symbol would bring him luck--that was the way he put it to himself. [11]
- She was so unconstrained and sincerely cordial, that it made that hero of the west feel somehow young, and very ill at ease. [5]
- His nerves were uncertain, but, strange to say, when (it was not often) any serious case of illness came under his hands, he was somehow able to pull himself together and do his task gallantly enough. [11]
- During the next twelve hours we had the general appearance, somehow, of being at a funeral, where every body was sorry the death had occurred, but glad it was over--where every body was smiling, and yet broken-hearted. [5]
- It's a long turn that has no lane at the end of it, as the proverb says, or somehow that way. [5]
- The wretch has tried all the ways he can think of to make us comprehend that Michael Angelo is only responsible for the creation of a part of the world, but somehow he has not succeeded yet. [5]
- I've heard it told by old Shearton at King's House, who speaks as if he'd stepped out of Shakespeare, and somehow I seem to hear him talking, and I tell it as he told it last year to the governor of the Company. [11]
- Mr. Sutton came to the conclusion that he had been condescending enough, that somehow he was gaining no merit in Mrs. Duncan's eyes by this kindness to a constituent. [9]
- Dryfoos seems, somehow, to take the poetry and the pleasure out of the thing. [8]
- I don't want to shock you, and I know how terribly you and father must feel, but I can see now, somehow, that I had to go through this experience, terrible as it was, to find myself. [9]
- We're always going to run down and see them, but I'm into so many operations, and they're not things a man feels like trusting to other people, and so somehow we keep putting it off. [5]
- Sometimes it seems to me, somehow, that there must be a difference between Parisian French and Quaker City French. [5]
- Or--the blood rushed to his face--or it might be that the Gipsy's presence here, this display of devilish antipathy, as though it were all part of the music, was due, somehow, to Fleda Druse. [11]
- Ditmar seemed somehow to have managed to infuse not only Orcutt, the superintendent, but the foremen and second hands and even the workers with a common spirit of pride and loyalty, of interest, of determination to carry off this matter triumphantly. [9]
- I don't seem to get at it, somehow, but there's something about you that is just as familiar to me as--" "Likely it might be his hat," murmured the Ass, with innocent, sympathetic interest. [5]
- Somehow, they seemed to feel, although no words expressed the thought, that for an instant they were in the presence of a wisdom greater than any wisdom of a man's smoking-room. [11]
- Although too late to electrify Densmore and Principal Haime with my scholarship, I was determined to go to college now, somehow, sometime. [9]
- She had begun to earn enough, and somehow a vista had been opened up--a vista whose end she could not see, alluring, enticing.... [9]
- That man tried to catch me; we escaped somehow or other; and now he is trying a new way. [5]
- I don't seem to care for it, somehow, when there ain't anybody to say I sha'n't go in. [5]
- Tom's always going to begin, but somehow he can't seem to find just the opening he likes. [5]
- Somehow, it seemed to "size" the country. [5]
- For the first time in my life I beheld him at a disadvantage; for I had, somehow, managed at length to force him out of position, and he was puzzled. [9]
- He had a thrill of pleasure at hearing their praises, but, somehow, of all the fresh experiences he had had in England, this, the weightiest, left him least elated. [11]
- And his overwhelming thought was of relief that he had somehow escaped. [9]
- Somehow, I never thought of--you--" "As religious," he supplied. [9]
- I do like those light-complected young fellows, with their fresh cheeks and their curly hair; somehow, curly hair doos set off anybody's face. [6]
- Somehow, up to this time, he had always thought that he would get well, and to-morrow he would probably think so again; but just for the moment he felt the real truth. [11]
- Is it not this same mighty, deep-seated power that somehow operates on the minds of men, exciting and stirring them up in every avenue of society,--in politics, in religion, in literature, in morals, in all the manifold relations of life? [7]
- All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. [7]
- I've come here this evening as your friend, without authority from anybody," he added significantly, "to see if this thing couldn't somehow be adjusted peaceably, for your sake as well as others'. [9]
- And we reckon this enlargement of nerve contact somehow a gain. [4]
- Ah, but one thing to do--only one thing to do--save her at any cost, somehow save her! [11]
- And you see, they're so poor, and old, and friendless, and--' But I was ashamed by that time, and shut him off, and somehow felt a new courage in me, and so I said, softly, 'We'll keep them--the Lord will provide. [5]
- Men laughed till there were tears in their eyes, and a keg of whisky was opened; but somehow Ida did not laugh. [11]
- But, somehow, as the years go on, I feel more like being an heir myself. [4]
- Could I see the wind which had now risen stronger, and drove a few cloud-scuds across the sky, filling the night, somehow, with a longing that was not altogether born of reminiscence? [4]
- Instead of being the simplest case in the world, it had somehow turned out to be an excessively knotty one. [5]
- The chair relieved the room of anything like commonness, and somehow was in sympathy with the simple surroundings, making for dignity and sweet quiet. [11]
- Perhaps one of the reasons why he chose Colonel Nicholls's house for her home, was a fear lest George Gering should so impress her that she might somehow change ere his return. [11]
- The shadows of the pines were blue and cold, but the tops of them were burnished with the cordial sun, and a glacier- field, somehow, took on a rose and violet light, reflected, maybe, from the soft-complexioned sky. [11]
- Somehow, he saw the other had a grip upon essentials lacking in himself; he had his tooth in the orange, as it were, and was sucking the juice of good profit from his labours. [11]
- Somehow, with all the opportunities, the suit of our friend did not advance beyond a certain point. [4]
- He had lost the old sense of comradeship, of easy equality; and he had the odd feeling of dealing with a new man, at once familiar and unfamiliar, who had somehow lifted himself out of the everyday element in which they heretofore had met. [9]
- And then, somehow, the note of mystic exaltation died away, to be succeeded by a period of realism. [9]
- He always regards the new plantations as somehow his own, and made in the light of his advice; and their mischances are usually due to the neglect of his counsel. [4]
- Somehow, every time the magic of fol-de-rol tried conclusions with the magic of science, the magic of fol-de-rol got left. [5]
- But somehow all the mad fancies of my youth come back. [11]
- There crept into the letter somehow a good deal about his daily life, linked, to be sure, with mention of places and people in which she had recently an interest. [4]
- I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn't make it work. [5]
- First there was the fact that Rudyard did not know, and might strongly disapprove; and secondly, somehow, she had got nearer to Stafford in the last few minutes than in all the previous hours since they had met again. [11]
- He had entered the court-room as James Gathorne Kerry, and he was leaving it as Shiel Crozier; and somehow James Gathorne Kerry had always been to himself a different man from Shiel Crozier, with different views, different feelings, if not different characteristics. [11]
- McGilveray knew by the corporal's voice that he was lying, and he also knew that, somehow, he had made a friend. [11]
- Peter, who was the complement of all who loved and served her, of Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom and Catherine, and who somehow embodied them all. [9]
- Above and beyond the city rose, overpowering, a very different city, somehow, than that her imagination had first drawn. [9]
- He had somehow the air of knowing everything--more than Mr. Plimpton did. [9]
- He was sure that, somehow, she had only come to know of it since the afternoon. [11]
- It perplexed me that there seemed to be behind Mrs. Falchion's present regard for Roscoe some weird expression of vengeance, as though somehow she had been wronged, and it was her duty to punish. [11]
- The Duchess realised that that temptation, which has come to so many disillusioned mortals, to end it all, to find quiet somehow, somewhere out in the dark, was upon her. [11]
- From the day that that dreary news came we had one scare after another, the marauders coming almost to our doors every now and then; so that we lived in ever-increasing apprehension, and yet were somehow mercifully spared from actual attack. [5]
- We may argue that such a man is a disturber of trade, of legitimate operations, of the fairest speculations, but when we see how uniform he is as a phenomenon, we begin to be convinced that he is somehow indispensable to the system itself. [4]
- Somehow, the thing that struck me most in the scene was a bunch of pines, solemn and quiet, their tops burnished by the afternoon light. [11]
- Somehow she felt that she would receive no help from her father or Pierre. [11]
- It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. [7]
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