SOMEHOW in a Sentence

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For SOMEHOW, below is one of 236 sentences:
There was contempt in his manner as in his eyes, contempt overlaid with an air of courtesy that somehow burlesqued their own manners.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOMEHOW
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somehow
 ad.  in one way or another; in some way not yet known; by some means
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The atmosphere had somehow changed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Slattery's constant childbearing, seldom furnished enough to feed her flock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Then somehow she would maneuver to get a few minutes alone with him, away from the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  But somehow, unbidden, she had a feeling of respect for Rhett Butler for refusing to marry a girl who was a fool.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  There was contempt in his manner as in his eyes, contempt overlaid with an air of courtesy that somehow burlesqued their own manners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  His knowledge of her secret gave him an advantage over her that was exasperating, so she would have to change that by putting him at a disadvantage somehow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  She looked about the hall at the familiar faces, so assured of success, so brave, so devoted, and somehow a cold little chill set in at her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  But somehow it was easier to bear the thought of Ashley belonging to some one else when he was far away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  When the war was over, everything would be settled, somehow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  Once she would have thought this omission a mortal sin but, somehow, staying away from church did not seem so sinful now as it formerly had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  She knew she should feel sorry for Melanie, but somehow she could not muster a spark of sympathy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  He was jeering at her and, somehow, she knew he was jeering at himself too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Tell her she's got to fix the cow up somehow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  She would stay at Tara and keep it, somehow, keep her father and her sisters, Melanie and Ashley's child, the negroes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  She not only begrudged them every mouthful they ate but she was on tenterhooks lest they discover somehow that Pork had slaughtered one of the shoats the day before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  I'm laughing somehow or other.
2  Don't worry, we'll get the money back somehow.
3  We've got to change the present system in which high court judges are regarded as somehow untouchable.
4  Despite the decay the mosque somehow retained a profound grandeur.
5  He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.
6  I don't know exactly how we'll manage it, but we will, somehow.
7  We'll manage somehow, you and me.
8  This is exhausting work, but I manage to keep going somehow.
9  Maybe we could glue it together somehow or other.
10  Watercolour still seems somehow to be the poor relation of oil painting.
11  The program has somehow corrupted the system files.
12  I just wish someday and somehow,We can be back together, Together well stay,Always and forever.
13  We must stop him from seeing her somehow.
14  I thought she looked somehow older, weighed down by all her new responsibilities.
15  The thing must be done somehow today, no matter what method you choose.