Somehow Meaning
/ˈsʌmhaʊ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advIn one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means
Sentence Examples
I've got to get some money somehow to repay the bank loan.
We will get through the jungle somehow.
We must stop him from seeing her somehow.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The lost hiker found his way back to the camp ____ after three days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Despite the many challenges, she managed to finish the project on time ____, much to everyone's relief.
Word Origin & History
From some + how.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations."
— 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"Have I not loathed to live again and said
It would have been far better to be dead,
And yet somehow, I know not why,
Remained afraid to die!"
— 1895, William Dean Howells, Mortality:
"Although youngest of the family, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others."
— 1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The lost hiker found his way back to the camp ____ after three days.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Despite the many challenges, she managed to finish the project on time ____, much to everyone's relief.