How to Use anyhow in a Sentence

anyhow

adverb
  • What exactly did she mean by that anyhow?
  • It's OK if we don't go to the movie. I'm not that interested in seeing it anyhow.
  • Williams wasn’t an elite pass rusher, not yet anyhow.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Burrow might have rising to the top anyhow with his play this year.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • And what’s the big deal with Portillo’s anyhow, some have asked?
    Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Those who need a car to get to work in a reasonable length of time will drive anyhow.
    Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, 28 July 2019
  • But for now, anyhow, the Packers have the youngest team in the league.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Many more can pay their debt, but work in jobs that don’t require a degree anyhow.
    Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 14 June 2025
  • Green Bay has found a way to thrive in the postseason anyhow.
    Steve Megargee, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
  • My parents said no and my size-5 foot wouldn’t have fit into them anyhow.
    Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2017
  • But the models were already walking anyhow—might as well talk too.
    Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Why does my race need to have me as a credit, and what does an engineer look like anyhow?
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • To be fair, that’s probably what most people called it anyhow.
    Mike Shields, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2017
  • House rules Trusting people to work from home—some of the time, anyhow—is a win-win.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • That’s not to say it’s destined for the dustbin — this critic, anyhow, liked it very much.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • Both those guys get the majority of the reps anyhow throughout the week.
    Tom Green | [email protected], al, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.
    Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 7 May 2021
  • There isn’t a magic cure for quickly getting cannabis out of the system anyhow.
    Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian, 30 May 2017
  • To be honest, some rodents will simply power through and eat your bulbs anyhow.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Like Smith, Waddle is a threat to score anywhere, anyhow on the field.
    Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The struggle is what Popovich always enjoyed the most anyhow.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • By the way, what’s the air quality - container ship thing about anyhow?
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But Solomon was anyhow in possession of the portrait of the saint on the oval platter.
    Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Had it been locked, however, the gunman could have shot out the windows and accessed the door anyhow.
    Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
  • Juanita is skeptical of the story, but has agreed to host Dana anyhow.
    Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Hosmer was the first to go under — so goes the popular belief, anyhow.
    Maria Torres, kansascity, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Scroggins said the water supply to the fountains was shut off, though some schools added warning signs anyhow.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2017
  • Really, who wants to be photographed sprawled out deck-side or doggie paddling in the pool, anyhow?
    Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 20 May 2016
  • The hospital wants to discharge her, finding nothing wrong, and, at her age, what can be done anyhow?
    Virginia Chang, Scientific American, 19 June 2021
  • Putting an exception like that aside, anyhow, this is a singer/songwriter record in the classic sense.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025

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