How to Use how in a Sentence

how

adverb
Definition of hownext
Synonyms for hownext
  • How will we pay for the trip?
  • How and where did you meet him?
  • How do you know that?
  • How could you have known?
  • How did you find us?
  • How did you happen to move here?
  • How shall I address the President?
  • The question of how much to leave your kids has been with us since the Ice Age.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Want a better idea of how much the stress of the game can affect your heart?
    — The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2022
  • This is a race to watch to see how much of a leash Trump has put on himself.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • At the end, Simpson made clear how much the case had impressed him.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
  • At the end, there is a listing of how many come from each school and are on each NFL team.
    — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Just imagine if one of the three was not there, how many the two other ones would have.
    — Howard Fendrich, ajc, 24 Sep. 2022
  • And how many people are still on those lists and do airlines share the names among them?
    — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Cowell asked Swiss how she's been coping since the tragedy.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • The highlight of the lead-up to this movie was getting to glimpse at just how much Malek looked like Mercury.
    — Ale Russian, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
  • And the biggest question is, how did Democrats fail to catch any of this during the election?
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But in the past, the county has had little oversight on how the system runs.
    — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • It’s at least notable how some size did cause problems.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2022
  • There are plenty of ideas about how to make Medicaid work for the poor Americans it's meant to serve.
    — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The dad, who doesn't spend much time on social media, was shocked at how much attention the gesture got.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
  • This being your first feature, how did the actual shoot go?
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022
  • But don’t discount how much the committee might be impressed by blowouts of LSU and Kentucky.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Details of how the rebate program will work still need to be figured out.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
  • One thing everyone picked up on was how much alike the father-son duo looked when posing side-by-side.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 7 Oct. 2022
  • No matter how much the landscape changes with super conferences, the Irish stand as the pearl of the sport that no conference has yet to reel in.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Who’s going to learn how to make dhansak, our spice mixes, the patra ni makhi and coconut chutneys and dahi puris?
    — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2023
  • There’s no clarity yet on how much time Garland will miss.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The Department of Defense has not released how much the renaming will cost.
    — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.
    — Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 7 Dec. 2022

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