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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
somehow
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
somehow managed
▪ We somehow managed to persuade him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
▪ It's as though the show had become somehow more spectacular.
▪ What sounded at the time like the ultimate novelty music has somehow become part of the national consciousness.
▪ He had somehow become separate, beyond our reach.
▪ Some first-time eaters may become alarmed as this happens, thinking they have somehow become the victim of a time-lapse photography gag.
▪ And they all somehow became a union again, or became a union for the first time.
feel
▪ He somehow felt safe, locked into his seat, as if no harm would come to him if he stayed like that.
▪ Riven felt somehow that it was fitting - Jenny's facsimile had come ahead of them.
▪ My reprieve could make me somehow feel quite snubbed.
▪ Most people feel somehow embarrassed talking about it in depth.
▪ He felt somehow responsible for the way she was behaving, as if he should have spotted it sooner, caught on sooner.
▪ He felt somehow different and shut his eyes again to try to discover the cause.
find
▪ Or has she somehow found reinforcement?
▪ There was another mysterious Macintosh called Jonathan, but that also somehow found itself by the wayside.
▪ Senior civil servants somehow find time from the burdens of office to sit around deliberating over who really deserves what.
▪ We somehow found the ferry, and bought passage.
▪ Of course, she should have somehow found the nerve to divorce him ages ago.
get
▪ Your time and my time ... well they've somehow got all mixed up.
▪ And worse, I think he somehow got the message across to you.
▪ She was absorbedly prodding the aged melon, which she had somehow got hold of.
▪ Further, if blacks somehow got elected to political office, they must be mobbed and displaced.
▪ Her credentials, if she could call them that, had somehow got about.
▪ The day after, George Leonard from the Trib somehow got the number of the cabin and asked me for a comment.
▪ The girl looked very rumpled and the boy was having trouble with his fly which had somehow got jammed.
▪ Obviously the past year I somehow got on the downward spiral at work.
make
▪ Individual properties have sometimes been made somehow dependent on general properties by these philosophers, but that is nothing to the point.
▪ This great, black, maverick dog had somehow made him feel twenty years younger.
▪ As if saying you want to spend the rest of your life with the same person somehow makes you a flawed bore.
▪ A deluge of medals somehow makes the effort look more meaningful, no matter how little valor accompanies it.
▪ He must now somehow make sense of the anti-democratic whirlwind that he was mainly responsible for sowing.
▪ They stayed in a refugee camp for awhile, then somehow made their way to the United States.
▪ Just talking to you somehow makes me feel better.
▪ The aim is to keep stars from freezing before the microphones or endorsing a cause that somehow makes them look bad.
manage
▪ Yuan had somehow managed to reach the cover of the side of the lifeboat, but now he rejoined the others.
▪ He said there were constitutional problems with the bill, variations of which somehow manage to exist in 36 other states.
▪ If Pickles really does love you, maybe the pater would give her a decent allowance and you'd manage somehow.
▪ She is somehow managing to get herself fouled by just about everyone on the Washington team.
▪ Her elastic voice easily negotiated some truly devious melodies, somehow managing to sound joyful and heartbroken at the same time.
▪ So after Joey takes off, I somehow manage to complete the four miles.
▪ On four separate occasions when the problems involved finance, Willi had somehow managed to wheedle an emergency sum from the Gemeinderat.
▪ And I marvel at how two conflicting philosophies could shoot out in opposite directions and then somehow manage to connect.
seem
▪ He somehow seemed familiar with the jokes that the young were making and used their slang.
▪ And it somehow seemed perfectly coordinated with the stadium, the ground, early evening and the four of us.
▪ But in these surroundings the whole effect seems somehow natural.
▪ He had never done this before, but it somehow seemed appropriate to be naked at this moment.
▪ His thin face was yellowish-white and his whole body seemed somehow diminished.
▪ And in turn, their fashion photography somehow seems elevated, more substantial because it was created by bona fide artistes.
▪ Under the present circumstances, it seemed somehow tactless.
▪ His assurance seemed somehow to release her: her work was finished, she felt, and now she could go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Somehow I had a feeling you were going to say that.
▪ Somehow they managed to climb in through the bathroom window.
▪ I'll find out her address somehow or other.
▪ The newspaper had somehow got hold of some secret government papers.
▪ There's a bus strike, but I'm sure Ian will get here somehow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And nobody would pay anything to anyone unless they could get it back somehow.
▪ And, oddly enough, this growing uneasiness somehow affected my work for the better.
▪ Eels come into it somehow, but not in a way that can be described in a family newspaper.
▪ Fon somehow understood that the ancient rhythms of the words soothed Katherine as much as the message behind them.
▪ It was all right, somehow, his being dead.
▪ Something strange had happened; the caddie bus had somehow taken on a life of its own.
▪ There was somehow a smell of sulphur in the air now and Rohmer's eyes seemed to be glittering in triumph.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somehow

Somehow \Some"how`\ (s[u^]m"hou`), adv. In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.

By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length.
--Cheyne.

Note: The indefiniteness of somehow is emphasized by the addition of or other.

Although youngest of the familly, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.
--Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
somehow

1660s, "in some way not yet known," from some + how. First attested in phrase somehow or other.

Wiktionary
somehow

adv. In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.

WordNet
somehow

  1. adv. in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means; "they managed somehow"; "he expected somehow to discover a woman who would love him"; "he tried to make is someway acceptable" [syn: someway, someways, in some way, in some manner]

  2. for some unspecified reason; "It doesn't seem fair somehow"; "he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it"; "for some reason they didn't seem to match" [syn: for some reason]

Wikipedia
Somehow

Somehow may refer to:

  • "Somehow", a song by The Vapors from the 1980 album New Clear Days
  • "Somehow", a song by Drake Bell from the 2006 album It's Only Time
  • "Somehow", a song by Joss Stone from the 2011 album LP1

Usage examples of "somehow".

Her bare foot dragged across it, abrading the skin and producing a burning pain that somehow seemed far worse than any of the aches and stings emanating from the other injuries Mrs.

Jonas and Luke Westman and Hawley Antrim, who was somehow a cousin of theirs and related to Aby Dale.

They all had guns drawn and with all the commotion, somehow Adeem had escaped.

The android had felt that his responses were inadequate, and yet Adin seemed somehow comforted-as much so as a man could be who had been so often betrayed by fate.

A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal.

And somehow it decreases the aging of your heart, arteries, and immune systems.

But somehow her agoraphobia intensified when she was not only in a new place, but a new place in the dark.

The only way to water the crops was to somehow extract enough moisture from the airsome was available, but difficult to isolate, especially with very small natural temperature changes in the Maracandan atmosphere.

Somehow, he promised himself, he would find Carrie Alameda, when she returned from this war, and see her again.

Somehow I was certain the clue lay somewhere among the carefully pasted-in pieces Alsa had written.

This being had somehow been involved in changing his own shape, something that Ancar could not do, and had only seen Hulda do once.

Somehow, the temporal energy from the anomaly caused the fetal tissue to revert to an earlier stage of development.

Church of the Apocrypha to locate this Brother Titus and find out if he is coincidence or part of it somehow.

There was an Armiger, the rust red of his helm and the black of his cloak seeming somehow dusty, even at that distance.

The only things that pegged him as an aged retiree were his work-gnarled, leathery, slightly arthritic, somehow ancient hands .