somehow
adverb
some·how
ˈsəm-ˌhau̇ 
: in one way or another not known or designated : by some means
we'll manage somehow
Examples of somehow in a Sentence
She somehow managed to find her earring in the sand.
It will all work out somehow.
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The player is ecstatic, yet has to now return to their camp without somehow alerting the others to their discovery.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Nov. 2025
The Stevenson whose view of life was somehow debunked by widespread suffering was unrecognizable to those who knew him and his work best.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
But when a filmmaker puts his most dismal vision for our collective future onscreen, we’re somehow supposed to pretend these terrible premonitions could never have occurred to little old us, instead hailing them as a feat of imaginative brilliance.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
Jake Lacy had to get through the intensity of filming All Her Fault somehow.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Nov. 2025
The Stevenson whose view of life was somehow debunked by widespread suffering was unrecognizable to those who knew him and his work best.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
But when a filmmaker puts his most dismal vision for our collective future onscreen, we’re somehow supposed to pretend these terrible premonitions could never have occurred to little old us, instead hailing them as a feat of imaginative brilliance.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
Jake Lacy had to get through the intensity of filming All Her Fault somehow.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for somehow
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“Somehow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/somehow. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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somehow
adverb
some·how
-ˌhau̇
: in one way or another
we'll manage somehow
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