(a.) Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.
(a.) A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man.
(a.) Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.
(a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence.
(a.) Considerable in number or quality.
(a.) Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.
(a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.
Example Sentences:
Somehow
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) And if the Brexit vote was somehow not respected by Westminster, Le Pen could be bolstered in her outrage.
(2) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
(3) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(4) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
(5) Normal biomarkers are inherently unsuitable in a positive search for disorder; instead one must either use abnormal markers or be prepared to search negatively, i.e., to look for and somehow validate the rare absence of a normal marker.
(6) The science, he reminds us, is clear, and he wants to somehow rebuild a national consensus.
(7) Expecting defeat, but somehow clutching on to hope … Well, Frank [Skinner] and David [Baddiel] wrote that part of the lyrics, but the reason I got them in after the FA asked me to write a song was that I thought it was only worth making if it reflected how it feels to be a football fan.
(8) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
(9) As Labour has no real polices that I can divine, the idea of making it less testosterone-driven somehow interested me.
(10) Moreover, the distinct dissimilarities of neural connections between rodents and primates indicate that the rodent's hippocampal formation might somehow have an undeveloped neural system of memory, or a different memory system from that of primates.
(11) Somehow, despite all this, the Obama administration thinks it can “destroy” Isis, though, as the Post noted , the US government has not been able to destroy al-Qaida or any terrorist group in the last decade “through two wars, thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of covert operations around the world.” The only question now is how far this Forever War against Isis goes.
(12) There is a normal version of David, but I've seen him before he goes on stage and he somehow has the ability to will himself into something magnetic and incandescent.
(13) Somehow, it seemed inevitable that a man called Keane would have the final say.
(14) The left back, one of Argentina's few hits at this World Cup, somehow gets to the ball, and pulls it into the centre.
(15) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(16) "Somehow, Hayley and Roy developed a chemistry nobody – certainly no one on the show, and certainly not me or David [Neilson, who plays Roy] – dreamed of."
(17) If you've somehow missed the multi-million-selling series turned mini-series turned musical by the Scissor Sisters let me tell you how very jealous of you I am.
(18) However, despite repeated questions from reporters, Earnest did not rule out Obama approving fast-track without TAA if that combination somehow made it through procedural hurdles in the Senate.
(19) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(20) It has somehow managed to escape the curse of Murdoch, who partly owns it.