anyhow

Example Sentences

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Most people can focus only for three or four hours at a stretch, anyhow, so trying to work for eight solid hours isn’t really an effective use of your attention span.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Fulham will have Alex Iwobi, Samuel Chukwueze and Calvin Bassey back from the Africa Cup of Nations, and I am not reading too much into their last-gasp defeat at Leeds last week anyhow.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

The purpose of abolition is, in part, accountability for the crimes its agents and administrators have committed, but it would be a worthy and necessary goal anyhow.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2026

In reality, we can’t just swap bodies to find out — but love beckons us to try anyhow.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Well anyhow, folks who think God’s will jest has to do with sufferin’ and dyin’, they done missed the whole point.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns