ANYHOW in a Sentence

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For ANYHOW, below is one of 46 sentences:
And anyhow, if the man had been a lieutenant in the army in India for four or five years, he must be more or less presentable.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANYHOW
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anyhow
 ad.  in any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  anyhow it ain't Zeena, because she ain't got the time.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  You know mighty well you're going to end up giving them your darlings anyhow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  "It was no place for you, anyhow," he agreed, so suffused and immersed in the light of her full gaze that he found himself being drawn into strange depths of intimacy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  When I nodded, she pulled my hair and told me I knew too much, anyhow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
5  The babies come along pretty fast, so it look like it be hard to move, anyhow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
6  It could not move faster anyhow, on account of the state of the streets.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  "You couldn't be it anyhow," said Scully, abruptly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
8  He 's a goner anyhow in about five minutes--yeh kin see that.'
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  Now, I'd like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into these woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  I wish I could be good; but my heart burns, and can't be reconciled, anyhow.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Here I am, Mrs. Gradgrind, anyhow, and nobody to thank for my being here, but myself.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
12  She wondered very much about him; he seemed so unlike a game-keeper, so unlike a working-man anyhow; although he had something in common with the local people.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  In the wood, anyhow, she was determined not to argue.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  And anyhow, if the man had been a lieutenant in the army in India for four or five years, he must be more or less presentable.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  He wasn't such a fool as this swarming holidaying lot, anyhow.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  He told me not to buy it, but I bought it anyhow.
2  Mother certainly won't let him stay with her and anyhow he wouldn't.
3  He looked a complete mess - dressed anyhow with hair sticking up on end.
4  The scandal could damage her reputation but the press reported it anyhow.
5  I couldn't think of the name of that man anyhow.