How to use "how" in a sentence

As I start cycling, I wonder how quickly I can get to the start of the trail.

Stop thinking about how bad the problem is, Aron

I have no idea how long I will be here

But how?

I wonder how long I'll be able to survive with the water I have left, only two-thirds of a litre

After telling them how much I love them, there is only one more thing to say

I tell her how proud I am of her and send her my love and best wishes.

I have no idea how long anyone can survive on urine alone

"But how will we leave the Nautilus?"

"But how?"

"Who cares how? Now's our chance

I did not understand how such things could be there.

'But how? I have to eat or drink something, but the question is - what?'

So how can I have some more?'

'If you're an idiot,' he said, angrily, 'how do you know how to do that?'

They taught me how to shoot guns, throw hand grenades, and move along the ground on my stomach.

He showed me how to catch shrimps with the net, and it was so easy that an idiot was able to do it!

She looked at him and said, 'I won't get you anything - not as much as a glass of warm river-water, you pig!' Then she looked at me and said, 'And how many babies have you killed today, you big ape?'

I told her how I felt - I was sorry about the girl, and I didn't want to play in the group without her

Like I said before, Big Sam taught me how to play chess when I was in the jungle

'Mom wrote and told me about your shrimp business, and how rich you were.'

At first Mr Slinkton did not know how to react

'Think how stupid you really are!' Beckwith continued

But he had only arrived in England the year before, so how could he know the area as well as the Ripper? And is it possible that Jack the Ripper changed from savagely killing prostitutes to poisoning barmaids?

Fantine felt desperate; she did not know how to obtain such a large sum of money

Fantine smiled, and began to talk dreamily about her future life with her daughter, and how happy they would be together

I don't know how we would manage without the occasional rich and generous traveller like yourself

That child, for instance - you've no idea how much she costs

He would be able to climb the wall on his own, but how could he carry Cosette? Suddenly, he had an idea

My warm-hearted neighbour, I have heard of how you kindly paid my rent for me six months ago

'Books!' she said, and then added with pride, 'I know how to read and write

When he sees how miserable we are, he'll give us a lot of money, you'll see.'

Marius told his grandfather all about Cosette and how much he loved her

It's no use trying to move me, but I'll tell you how you can treat my wound better than any doctor

He sat for a long time listening to the sound of distant gunfire in the city, wondering how to get his revenge, when suddenly he heard footsteps

He did not know what part of the city he was passing under or how far he had come

Through the bars, Valjean could see daylight, the river, a narrow riverbank - but how could he get out?

I try to be good to him, and this is how he rewards me!'

He could not understand why nobody could tell him how he had been saved

Most of all, however, he thought about Cosette, and how he could find her again.

Having been a mayor, he knew how to solve an awkward problem: the question of Cosette's real family He told everybody that he was not her father, but her guardian

'Do you realize, Monsieur, how brave this man was? He rescued me from the field of battle and carried me through the sewers of Paris

The stranger explained in great detail how he used to work for the government in foreign countries and that, now he was retired, he wanted to move to South America with his wife and daughter

Marius and Cosette both did their best to raise Valjean's spirits, to show him how much they loved and needed him, to fill him with the strength and the desire to live again

That is how God balances things out

One day her mother made some cakes and said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, because she has been very ill

She was greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her nightclothes, and said to her, "Grandmother, what big arms you have!"

And Gerry understands better than most people exactly how true that is.

how?"

"Mrs Heath," one says, "how good to see you again

"And these, Eleanor, well, how to describe them..

"No, I can't, I must find the captain: he promised to tell me all about the new people on board today; you know how I must know who I am sailing with." She looks at the men

For the summer perhaps." Then she is quiet, and the three men think how polite and gentle she seems

"Normally, yes," says Eleanor, and all three men notice how her smile fades a little, "but she has a plan for that

"Court reporter" sounds good; it sounds important, and that is exactly how he describes it to any girl that asks

You know now that the window to the spare room is open, and you know this is how the burglar entered.

Then you see Sophie, in her normal place at the top of the stairs, and you see how near the burglar is

But after a few minutes he realises how tired he is, and he thinks that maybe he can close his eyes for a moment and even rest his head against the grille.

That's how this works, isn't it?"

So how did it all go wrong?

Look at how beautiful it is

"Of course lad, but I need to show you how first."

"But I know how."

"Yeah, I saw how in films and on television."

"Ha, well, I need to show you how to do it safely, so we need to go up to the old Abertreweren forest."

Junior looks a bit happier now, and for twenty minutes Owen talks to him about how to hold the gun and how to walk with it, while his son listens carefully and asks sensible questions that show a real interest

And for a while they walk, and he is happy about how carefully Junior holds the gun and how he listens and does exactly what he should

Do you understand that, Jimmy? Do you know how many kids like you come into my casino? No? Hundreds, thousands

I don't know how, but I know!"

"But, Mr Wynn, how did you know he cheated? We didn't see anything on the cameras," Clive asks.

For a moment she thinks about how quiet the platform is, and how normally she has to fight to get on the train in the evening.

"I know, sick, isn't it? I mean, how many is that now?" asks another.

Because the Oil Wars left the city short of energy, everyone has a small chip buried under the skin on their wrists, which measures how many units of energy they use

The little chip under her skin lit up for a second, showing how many energy units she had left

She didn't know how Cham could afford it, but he was always so kind and generous - it would be rude to ask

"For how long?"

She remembered how quiet he'd been with their friends

Gran was always talking about how she'd lived by the ocean when she was a child.

"Did the woman say how you could contact her?"

But I don't know how he can afford something like that."

That was how Sala and her family were able to live in their rooftop apartment.

how would it work?" she asked

"If we were both in a pod, how would we be together?"

"Well, we're going to have a pod experience together, right? Then we'll know how it feels

Maybe this was how it felt to go on a real journey, she thought

All the reasons she'd given to Cham ran through her mind, but how could she explain them to Niki? It was really complicated.

Cham's dad Tian knew how to fix the old equipment: that was his job

This was how it would be, for two whole years..

Sala couldn't believe how much her life was suddenly changing, but she didn't try to discuss it with Cham

"Your grandmother told you how she and her brother used the fruit to play tricks on people

"So, how did Eston's note arrive?"

"But why? Why would they do that? And how could they know that wild roses mean so much to Gran?"

This world, the city with its wrist chips and simulators, was the only one they knew, but Gran often talked about life before the Oil Wars - how they used to walk freely in the forests, grow flowers and fruit, sing songs around fires on the beach, and travel to wonderful places

I can't believe how fresh the air is and the sky is just..." At last, he paused for a second.

he's fine." Sala described how enthusiastic he'd been, but she didn't mention his warning

That's how you've been taught to think."

Now that she was here, how was she going to say what she needed to?

We learn a lot about how the government looks after us

They make you realize how lucky we are

"But how -"

"But how have they persuaded him to think like that?" asked Sala

they're teaching him all about obedience and how wonderful the government is

During the Oil Wars, they had to train us how to keep our minds strong, in case we were caught by people who wanted to change the way we thought."

Sala smiled at her little brother, thinking how innocent he looked

they taught you how to protect your mind

"You don't know how much this means to me."

I remember how I ran down the stairs because the lift was too slow

When he saw me, he would smile and say, 'Well, how is the companion this morning? Where would you like to go?'

'You are so young, I don't know how to speak to you

Maxim had told me how hard Frank Crawley worked for Manderley

She asked me how I had met Maxim

I told her about Mrs Van Hopper and how surprised she had been.

This is how I thought life at Manderley would be.

'I was telling her about how we met

He told me what a good agent he was and how he loved Manderley.

I knew now how much Mrs Danvers hated me.

'Well, my dear, how are you?' she said

Everyone will say how charming I am

Hundreds of them were brought in from the garden and Mrs Danvers knew exactly how to arrange them

I wondered how long Maxim would be

And that's how she was when she grew up

I don't know how to tell him.'

I remember how she looked at me before she died

They said how everyone had loved Rebecca

'Mr de Winter, I want to find out exactly how your late wife died

He could not know how much Maxim had told me

'Can you tell us how Mrs de Winter spent that last day in London? Did she keep a diary?' asked Colonel Julyan.

That was how it had been during the last months of their life together

But Tina Evans was sympathetic; she knew how important the slot machines were to Vivienne, and she wasn't upset if Vivienne occasionally had to reschedule her visit.

As she was mopping the last corner of the kitchen floor, as she was thinking about how dreary life would be without her friends and her slot machines, she heard a sound in another part of the house

But how was that possible? How in the name of God could there be ice here, in a well-heated house and on a night when the outside temperature was at least twenty degrees above the freezing point?

Regardless of how convincingly and earnestly she described these bizarre events, no one would believe her

Several times, she encountered Elliot Stryker, and he seemed genuinely interested in learning how the splashy stage effects had been achieved

After their fourth encounter, she lost track of how long they were together

"Eat takeout food at two hundred miles an hour in the Batmobile, and no matter how messy it gets - just hose off later."

As she listed her blessings, Tina was astonished at how much difference one year could make in a life

Indeed, she couldn't see how anything could go wrong.

Tina wasn't sure how to begin

You don't know how to begin

"I understand how you feel." His smile changed; it was smug now.

Now she couldn't imagine how or why she had ever cared.

If you know how

She inspected her face in the rearview mirror to see how much damage the crying jag had done

If she needed to know how much money each of these people earned in a year, the computer could tell her

Although the hotel collected this data with, for the most part, the customers' happiness in mind, Tina wondered how pleased these people would be to learn that the Golden Pyramid maintained fat dossiers on them.

She scanned the list of VIP customers who hadn't attended the opening of Magyck! Using a red pencil, she circled those names that were followed by anniversary dates, trying to ascertain how large a promotion she was proposing

Suddenly she was aware of how alone she was

But how could any stranger so easily gain entrance to both her house and the hotel computer? Didn't he, after all, have to be someone she knew?

But how could he possibly make the air grow so cold so fast?

"Did she tell you how it happened?"

All they know is how

No one in his right mind would take boys as young as twelve into the deepest parts of the Sierras, no matter how well prepared, supplied, and trained they were, no matter how strong, no matter how many big brothers were there to look out for them."

killed." The bitterness in her voice dismayed her because it revealed how little she had healed

I understand how hard it must be never to know why."

"But I don't see how he could make the terminal switch itself on."

"I'm just trying to think how best to phrase what's on my mind

She hesitated, trying to hear how it was going to sound before she said it, wondering if she really believed it enough even to give voice to it

Oh, I know how it is."

After so many months of sorrow, how good it felt to be sharing an evening with an attractive and amusing man.

I'll be back in five minutes, and then you'll see how a true culinary genius operates."

Tina stayed the night with Elliot, and he realized that he had forgotten how pleasant it could be to share his bed with someone for whom he truly cared

She had told him about the dreams, but he hadn't realized, until now, how terrible they were

"Can you at least tell me how you're leaning?"

"Never mind how we know

I know how it works - the rules, the moves

"So how can an agency that doesn't exist go to court for a subpoena? Get serious, Mr

If this was what Danny had read before going to bed at night, how had he been able to sleep so well? He'd always been a deep, unmoving sleeper, never troubled by bad dreams.

Elliot wondered how Tom would have reacted if they had shrieked into his garage in an old battered Chevy.

But once more, incredibly, he was being hunted, and he wondered how long he could survive.

No matter who was searching for them, no matter how large the organization pitted against them, this city was too big to harbor danger for them in every nook and crevice

"Is that likely? I mean, how could they be sure he'd win the election?"

"Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson's first local election was fixed? The guy said he was just trying to clear his conscience after all those years

I'm pretty sure we can find a reporter who'll go with that much and write a story about how a bunch of nameless, faceless people want to keep us from reopening Danny's grave, how maybe something truly strange lies at the bottom of the Sierra tragedy

The only thing in doubt is how he died."

"Then how do you explain it?"

Most of the questions were concerned with how much Tina knew about the true nature of the Sierra accident, how much she had told Elliot, how much she had told Michael, and with how many people she had discussed it

Chilled, Tina said, "But how much could the kids have seen? You're the one who said security was easy to maintain when one of these installations is located in the wilderness

"But how are we supposed to get it? From where? From whom?"

"If we can use the Cessna, how soon would we get to Reno?"

They didn't realize how lucky they were

"What are you talking about? Did you see what I saw in there? Did you hear the jukebox? I don't see how that could have cheered you up

But how do you figure Danny's alive? That doesn't necessarily follow."

I don't know how long they think they can keep him bottled up like this

I don't know how..

"Then how come he suddenly has all these amazing powers?"

I don't know." A flood of unreasonable anger washed through her: "Christ, how could I know the answer to that?"

He knows how the game is played

And maybe he wouldn't have known how to handle Vince

"That's a bit sloppy of him," Kennebeck said, "considering how clever he's been so far."

"So how do we get that information?"

how can he help us? How can he guarantee our safety?"

If I see many more inanimate objects dancing around, I'm going to start believing in everything, no matter how freaky."

Elliot was not sure when Tina slipped under the hypnotist's spell, and he had no idea how this smooth mesmerism was accomplished

Do you know how to use snowshoes? It can't be that hard."

Based on what you said happened in it, I don't see how you reach the conclusion that Danny's going to help us get into the installation

Elliot knew how disoriented Billy was feeling, and he felt sorry for the man.

I don't care how much of a hurry you're in

I just have to know how you did that trick with the drapes, the roses

Entering the formidable mountains, they had become aware of how soon darkness would settle over the sheltered valleys and ravines, and they had discussed the wisdom of proceeding

"That's exactly how it strikes me

God knows how far they cut back into the rock

"We're sure to encounter at least a couple of security men, no matter how clever Danny is

"Then I can tell you how he came to be here."

For almost two months, they've been reinfecting his body over and over again, letting the virus wear him down, trying to discover how many times he can lick it before it finally licks him

She was overwhelmed with the joy of seeing him again but also with fear when she realized how hideously wasted he was.

But he hugged her very hard, and again she was surprised by how much strength he could still summon from his devastated body

Putting one hand on the boy's back to press him against her, she discovered how shockingly spindly he was each rib and vertebra so prominent that she seemed to be holding a skeleton

"Right now I just want to know how the hell Danny wound up in this place."

The Chinese tested it on God knows how many political prisoners

"Bollinger knew how fast Wuhan-400 claims its victims, and he just panicked

When I wondered aloud how any vehicle could negotiate this surface, my question was not understood

One thing I am sure of: my brother's wife certainly did not know how to set and operate this hammer.'

She confessed to the murder of her husband and proved easily that she knew how to work the steam hammer

'My dear Commissaire, how can there be any doubt?'

'But how do you explain her attitude towards her little boy?' I asked

I could imagine how eagerly he would question the boy.

how did you recognize it?'

She refused to say why, or how she had got my brother to put his head under it.

Helene, as I have said, had shown the commissaire that she knew how to operate the steam hammer

'Because I must and will know how and why my brother died,' I said.

But I still don't understand how it is possible.'

'I must be able to explain how and why it works.'

And Mary will describe how you waved the knife in a violent manner, won't you, Mary?'

I wondered how Lettice would get on with Dr Stone's secretary

I said the things to her that it was my duty to say, remembering all the time how that morning I had said that a world without Colonel Protheroe would be a better place.

You don't know how Anne suffers

'Oh, how I would like some excitement,' Griselda said

As we walked over to Old Hall, I told Melchett and Haydock how I had seen Redding and Mrs Protheroe kissing in the studio

'Don't you think it would be a good idea if Mary was taught how to cook?'

'I called to tell you how sorry I was that such a death has happened in the vicarage

He left unwillingly, as though he had more to say but didn't know how to say it

Lawrence Redding told how he had found the body, and admitted that the pistol belonged to him.

I described how I had found the body.

'You don't know how grateful I am to you

But you made us both see how wrong it would be.'

I hoped it would get her into trouble.' I told her that I would return the earring to Anne and say nothing about how I had found it.

I told her how Miss Cram had behaved at the police station

'But how did you know Hawes was ill?'

I explained about the telephone call and how I had thought I recognized Hawes' voice

And that was how she wanted it.

I needed to tell her how badly the anonymous letter had upset me

'And how naughty of you, Mr Clement.' She got up

And before we criticize them for thinking in this way, we must remember how badly we have treated not only the animals of this planet, but also other people

I remember how I sat there in the blackness, not suspecting the meaning of the tiny light I had seen and all the trouble that it would cause me

For a moment, perhaps, I could not clearly understand how I came there

When I saw how white her face was, I began to comfort her and myself by repeating all that Ogilvy had told me about the impossibility of Martians capturing the Earth.

'New attempts have been made to signal, but without success,' was how the evening papers later described it

Many people, though, did not realize how serious the situation was

As my brother began to realize how serious the situation was, he returned quickly to his room, put all the money he had - about ten pounds - into his pockets and went out again into the streets.

You can imagine, too, how they watched as the blackness rose into the sky

That day the refugees began to realize how much they needed food

People who have never seen these things can hardly understand how alive they looked.

This idea seems horrible to us, but at the same time I think we should remember how disgusting our meat-eating habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.

It filled me with terror to think how quickly that great change had come

That's how I see it.'

And if I'm not mistaken, you'll show how strong you are too

But not all of us can live like animals, and that's how we'll have to live

'In fact, it may not be so difficult to learn how their fighting- machines work

I remember how bright that day seemed as I went sadly back to the little house in Woking - how busy the streets were, and how full of life

But then I noticed how ill the people looked and how many of them still wore old and dirty clothes

I remembered how I could not concentrate that morning, hardly a month before, and how I had stopped work to get my newspaper from the newsboy

I remembered how I went to the garden gate as he came past, and how I had listened to his odd story of 'Men from Mars'.

I can only regret now, as I finish my story, how little I can help with the many questions which are still unanswered

I explained to George and William Harris how I felt in the morning

William Harris told us how he felt when he went to bed

Then George stood up, and told us how he felt at night.

Harris said, 'Oh, how boring! In the country everyone goes to bed at eight o'clock

'You don't know how to put up a tent! We'll never put up this tent,' you say.

'You donkey! I Why can't you be careful with things? Why don't you go and get dressed on the river bank? People like you don't know how to live on a boat!'

I tried to tell him how funny it was, but he didn't understand

And I wonder how James will see these problems.

'Well, I'm sorry but it's how the good God made me.' 'Mm

'And how is my darling today?'

'Eh, and how were the shoes?'

She kissed my hand and said, 'I'll always wear white! It'll help me to remember how kind you've been to me!' Poor little soul!'"

She spoke of how kind Mother had been to her and said that she wanted to die and be buried beside Mother

And even though they are opposed, and even though I will be victorious, I want Miss Halcombe to know how much I admire her diary and that nothing in it contributed to my victory and her failure.

I then went to Lady Glyde's room to see how she was

To show you how thankful I am, I will tell you what you want to know: that gentleman's secret and mine

Before I married him, I had worked for Major Donthorne of Varneck Hall, and I had seen how rich ladies lived

It does not matter what gender or race you are, or how rich you are - you have the same rights

They learned things they needed for family life, like how to cook.

When she came back five years later, at twenty years old, she could speak good French and knew how to cook, but she also knew chemistry.

It was about how strong the suffragettes were.

They fight to be different from how some men want to see them, and from other women.

But our gender is made by our society As we grow, society teaches us how to act like women

She learned that the young girls she looked after were already worried about how their bodies looked

In the West, doctors could help women to choose how many children they had

She worked for the International Red Cross and taught doctors how to use X-rays.

Her work helped other scientists discover how DNA is made.

In a letter to her husband, George Putnam, during her last flight, she showed how brave she was

Today, Wally Funk has thousands of flight hours, and she has taught over 3,000 students how to fly

She also learned how to jump from an aeroplane with a parachute

Alyssa told women to write about sexism and harassment on social media to show how big the problem was

''This is how I punish dishonest people,'' says Zorro.