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Example sentences for "how can"

  • How can I," answered the spinning-wheel, "seeing that my band is undone?

  • How can we proceed on our long journey without them?

  • How can I feel otherwise than flattered by your notice in any way?

  • How can it say so, when it is blooming in the front room like a little rose in a demnition flower-pot?

  • Good gracious, Nicholas, my dear, how CAN you be so ridiculous!

  • How can I, if her husband fails in controlling her?

  • But, mon Dieu, tell me, how can I do otherwise?

  • But, doctor, you see me already so grieved--how can I introduce into my house so much scandal, after so much sorrow?

  • How can a young man live upon 5,000 francs a month?

  • How can I be respectful, Sir, when you forget to take your hat off?

  • How can I, when the mere idea of you, married and settled, is so irresistibly funny that I can't keep sober!

  • How can I be afraid when you have been so kind to Father?

  • I don't throw you off--indeed, how can I?

  • Oh, how can it be, that you care for me, and so suddenly!

  • Oh, how can you do such a thing; that is if you really mean it!

  • If I have lost, how can I be as if I had won?

  • O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?

  • Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

  • How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

  • How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore?

  • If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  • How can I be otherwise than proud of it at any time!

  • O dear, dear father, how can you, can you, do it!

  • How can you, seeing him there all at once, dear love, and not gradually, as I have done!

  • How can you be such a fool as to provoke him!

  • What she really said was-- 'Oh, how CAN you!

  • How can we possibly prevent their getting to Maidstone?

  • If I haven't got it," he shouted, "how can I pay it?

  • Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

  • How can I ever be anything but sick, at this life?

  • If you made him up out of the whole cloth, as it were, and there was no such Person, how can there be such a Person?

  • How can I care for food, mother, when the Sea looks like a dying ople?

  • And if such is the Case, how can I go on with my Life?

  • How can I anser when I don't understand you?

  • How can I write a Comedy when a play must always end in a catastrofe?

  • How can he remember well his ignorance--which his growth requires--who has so often to use his knowledge?

  • How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it?

  • How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?

  • Such has been the constant progress of the human mind in regard to physical phenomena and the creations of genius: how can it be otherwise with the facts of conscience and the rules of human conduct?

  • Not being a proprietor, how can it transmit property?

  • This being so, how can we presume to talk of the inequality of laborers?

  • How can I pay you, when I can get no work?

  • How can a right to the land be based upon a difference in the quality of the land?

  • How can it be otherwise, when a system prevails which whirls families and scatters their members, as the wind whirls and scatters the leaves of autumn?

  • How can there be a reason for preserving such things when it means our own ruin?

  • How can we, during this time when the city still stands grandly before us, bring about conditions under which it will perish?

  • How can one, using utensils and heat and seasonings, make it possible to eat things which one cannot ordinarily eat?

  • How can I assume indifference when this thing is imposed upon every moment of my day?

  • How can I say, "I will not let you in," when it is already there?

  • How can I lay my sporran by, An' sit me doun at hame, Wi'oot a Hieland philabeg Or hyphenated name?

  • How can I leave the marmalade An' bonnets o' Dundee?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "how can" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beautiful view; chipped flint; first vice; governor appointed; how could; how does; how far; how little; how many; how much; how she; how should; how the; how they; however humble; however little; however much; inches thick; kissed her; know what you are talking about; long residence; popular government; refined sugar; small cord; wilt thou; you look