How to Use somehow in a Sentence

somehow

adverb
  • It will all work out somehow.
  • She somehow managed to find her earring in the sand.
  • The ball hit on the left side of the rim and somehow dropped in.
    Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But somehow Cady falls in with the Plastics, the queen bees, the girls who rule the school.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Hanus somehow is able to show Jakub events in his life.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The darkest days of the year were made somehow even darker.
    Karen Kicak, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The mad barking of the dogs has somehow risen to an even more frenzied pitch.
    Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The stakes are high, yet somehow not worth holding your breath over.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • During the incident, one of the two men was also somehow shot in the back.
    CBS News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The list seems endless and yet is somehow still growing.
    WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023
  • In Phoenix, a high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit now somehow counts as a respite.
    Andrew Needham, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Or could Reeves imagine somehow reprising the role in a fifth John Wick movie?
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Was there a force at work that changed those other swing states but somehow skipped Ohio?
    Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • As both cars neared the Snow exit, the younger man’s Focus somehow rammed the Rio, forcing the Rio to turn sideways and stop.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 22 July 2023
  • Never mind that Lance is joining the team that draws the biggest spotlight in the NFL (still, somehow).
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In the final seconds, all but Lesniak, a beacon somehow, crouch at the front of the stage.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Your first album struck me as attached somehow to the time of the pandemic.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
  • For most of the film, Naya is camera-shy, somehow evading the hundreds of cameras that have been set up to view her.
    Sebastian Mulder, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
  • Navarro visits Rose to learn more about the idea of her dead husband Travis somehow leading her to the frozen corpses.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Some believed that Fridman and Khan planned the project as a Trojan horse to somehow push a pro-Putin agenda.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • And yet somehow both teams have just 13 total yards after two drives.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The world hasn’t forgotten the movie that somehow made Idris Elba look ugly.
    Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Whittington gets it to the right, reverses field and somehow picks up 3 yards.
    oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But the method has been honed by Scott, now 84, for years and somehow works for him, the cinematographer explains.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Schindler’s List and Jurassic Park (reminding us that Spielberg somehow dropped both of these gems the same year).
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The novelty of a former leader of the United States being called a felon has somehow worn off.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • All together, the clips are somehow sweet, mundane, and indulgent all at the same time.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, there’s as much action as there is explanation of the plot, yet somehow that doesn’t slow down the story.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • The writer-director Cristian Mungiu doesn’t pull any punches and yet, somehow, the movie is not a shrill polemic.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
  • However, my 6- and 8-year-old love it and take it to school every day, where all of their friends somehow also have Bitzees.
    Martin Cizmar, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023

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