How to Use anyways in a Sentence

anyways

adverb
  • Who does that guy think he is anyways?
  • You're late. Anyways, at least you showed up.
  • Who says an awards show has to be about a flashy dress anyways?
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 11 May 2021
  • The driver of a black sedan turned right anyways and parked next to the crime scene.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2019
  • Feel the fear and do it anyways because the fear won’t just go away on its own.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The people who are here today, well most of them anyways, get that.
    — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2021
  • But anyways, by the end of it all, there's a much bigger picture.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • But who goes to barbecue spots for french fries anyways?
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The lottery is kind of a crapshoot anyways.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • So anyways, the journey of the jackets!
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Sonora leaves the house anyways, stomps the paper bag into the ground.
    — T Kira Madden, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • And yeah, during the challenge, you’re not allowed to use firearms anyways.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Once again, Williams was covered well, and once again, Williams made the play anyways.
    — Giana Han, al, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The scandal would blow through and, and people who were gonna go back to the game were gonna go back to the game anyways.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But why do so many people care about seeing the Mona Lisa, anyways?
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Why not work over the weekend—and do weekends even matter anymore anyways?
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 26 Mar. 2020
  • The charcoal steak was a little overdone, but a lot more palatable anyways.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 21 May 2024
  • The tree will be better off in downtown Louisville anyways, Kaelin added.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2022
  • One option, which is likely, is the Fuel would play to their strengths anyways.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The 90s to me were the greatest decade ever anyways from music to hoops to films.
    — Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And that's what's going to impact all of that sort of Tony Award stuff anyways.
    — Dave Quinn, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Cleveland said that wouldn’t be the way to go about recruiting Zhuric, anyways.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • On this October night, Prescott’s was that sort of place, anyways.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • But no serious sports fan listens to that nonsense anyways.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Why have a huge payroll when more than half of the teams are qualifying for the playoffs anyways?
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020
  • This cemented the style as a spring 2023 must-have look — in our book, anyways.
    — Erin Johnson, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • There aren’t that many ways around it, Smith acknowledged that and tried anyways, and that’s to be admired.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
  • FedEx has no exposure to Amazon, but its shares went down hard anyways.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Health and fashion haven’t always been girlfriends anyways; in fact, there have been times when some of the hottest trends were woeful.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 6 Dec. 2021
  • By contrast, the bark – which comes from trees that have already been cut down for their wood anyways – simply has to get a shot of magnetite.
    — New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2026

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