SOMEHOW

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means

Example:

he tried to make is someway acceptable

Synonyms:

somehow; someway; someways

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

For some unspecified reason

Example:

he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it

Classified under:

Adverbs

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Context examples:

He was small and very plainly dressed and the look of him, even at that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher’s inclination.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Somehow we gathered up a chair upon our way, and bounded on with it towards the street.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were but eight; yet, somehow, as they flocked in, they gave the impression of a much larger number.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is possible that the ethane ends up in the undersea crust, or that it somehow flows into the adjacent sea, Kraken Mare, but that will require further investigation.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

Somehow he had succeeded in retaining the tin bucket.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can get nothing to go upon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Along the way, this plasma somehow gets energized enough to strongly radiate light, forming two bright columns along the black hole’s axis of rotation.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

The accumulation of dense ring particles in one place suggests that some process either placed the particles there in the recent geologic past or the particles are somehow being confined there.

(At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others, NASA)

They suspected that the short, high frequency electrical waves seen in ripples may somehow be involved.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

Also, leave no candles burning in a room unattended. (I have a friend whose candle somehow popped across a room and burned down her entire apartment.)