How to use how in a sentence
40 example sentences · adverb, conjunction, interjection
How means to what degree or extent. Example: “How often do you practice?”
Examples of how by meaning
adverbTo what degree or extent.
- How often do you practice?
- The gauge indicated how hot the oven was.
- How soon can I see the doctor?
adverbBy what means.
- How do you solve this puzzle? –Sorry, I can't remember how.
- How else can we get this finished?
- She showed him how to do it.
adverbWith overtones of why, for what reason.
- How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!
adverbIn what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
- How are you fixed for money?
- How did you vote in the last election?
- How do you like it here?
adverbWith what meaning or effect.
- How the stock market interprets events has real consequences.
- Sackville, "how am I to take this, sir?" said he severely.1906, Gibbons Stamp Weekly, page 110
adverbBy what title or what name.
- "How art thou called?1907, Edward Byles Cowell, The Jātaka: Or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, page 44
adverbIn what state or condition.
- How are you?
- How was your vacation?
- How's the new apartment? — The new apartment is great!2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
adverbIn the manner in which.
- I said it exactly how he said it.
More sentences with how
- I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.From the entry word
- I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.From the entry pond
- He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.From the entry head
- How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?From the entry head
- I don’t know all the theoretical abracadabra about how it works, I’m only its pilot.From the entry abracadabra
- What's the English for 'à peu près'? It depends: how is it being used?From the entry english
- No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.From the entry the
- I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.From the entry number
- How were they to know the whole exercise was a ruse?From the entry be
- How to measure marketing? Use these key metrics for measuring marketing effectiveness.From the entry metric
- Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen.From the entry metadata
- Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.From the entry send
- I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.From the entry last
- This doesn't map to my understanding of how things should work.From the entry map
- If more drivers knew how to zipper, the accident would not have disrupted traffic so much.From the entry zipper
- They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.From the entry at
- How are we all tonight? Have we got our happy faces on?From the entry our
- How are we feeling this morning, Mrs Miggins? Have we taken our tablets yet?From the entry our
- Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.From the entry vowel
- He gave us a comparative example to illustrate how the human mind works.From the entry comparative
- How do you want to angle this when we talk to the client?From the entry angle
- How often did she visit him? — Twice that I saw.From the entry that
- It's time Dad learned (how) to change the oil in the car.From the entry learn
Meaning of how
- adverb To what degree or extent.
- adverb In what manner.
- adverb By what means.
Questions about how in a sentence
- How do you use how in a sentence?
- How is used as an adverb, conjunction and interjection. For example: “How often do you practice?”
- What is a short sentence with how?
- “How are you?”
- What does how mean?
- How means to what degree or extent.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: how (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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