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

Whether he was faking it then or is faking it now is almost irrelevant anyhow.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2024

And if the pub isn’t there, they’ll just go home and wind one another up on the internet anyhow.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

I wanted to quit crying and shivering, but what did it matter, anyhow?

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns