(conj.) A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
(conj.) In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go.
(conj.) It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
(conj.) If; though. See An, conj.
Example Sentences:
Anyway
Definition:
(adv.) Alt. of Anyways
Example Sentences:
(1) But if they spurn it, Scotland can continue using sterling anyway.
(2) This is bad constitutional reform, but it is a reform anyway.
(3) Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing, because you've had it anyway."
(4) Having women in top jobs doesn't make any difference anyway If this were the case, why would some of the best brains, both male and female, in the government, including Sir Bob Kerslake , head of the civil service, be concerned about it?
(5) Many of them didn’t observe the requirements of JI on ‘additionality’ as they would probably have happened anyway, and I would even doubt the physical existence of some of these projects,” said Vladyslav Zhezherin, one of the report’s authors.
(6) Kuyt tries to smash a first-time sidefoot goalwards from the penalty spot, but doesn't connect properly, and Garay blocks anyway.
(7) Photograph: Vatican TV 4.21pm GMT Why does the pope choose a new name anyway?
(8) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
(9) Now the case is made that: given the information is collected anyway, why not use it in real time?
(10) Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick .
(11) However, the research shows that the great majority of free swimmers were swimming already, and would have paid to swim anyway.
(12) Oh, heavens no, it would be too depressing, and it was East German territory anyway.
(13) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
(14) Those who claim to do nothing, miss a basic point that renewable energy and all the things we need to do to stop this, are also good policy anyway.
(15) Anyway, he was showing us around and he was saying 'this is the Roosevelt Room – that would be where CJ and Josh [characters from the West Wing] would have been talking' and I thought why not say that's where this president or that president did this or that.
(16) "We have done it very cheaply anyway and are not performing for long, but I do know people who have been put off by the intensely commercial atmosphere of the fringe."
(17) Anyway, tallies of positive and negative pieces are a dangerous measure, as the Guardian should not be a fanzine for any side.
(18) "But lots of this data is held for a short period anyway - so the increased risk comes from being able to look back 12 months for this information."
(19) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
(20) There's a persuasive argument that politicians used R&R to justify policies they wanted to impose anyway.