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how

The word "how" is a question word, to ask about the way something happens or the way people do things. How will we ever solve this problem? The word "how" is used to tell about the way something happens or the way people do things. I know how we can solve this problem? This is how to make this machine work. used to show that you feel strongly about something. How old he looks!

how

You use how to tell that something happens, is done, or is true. She told him how it wasn't fun anymore.

how

To what degree. In what manner. In what state. used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings

how

The means by which something is accomplished.

how

The manner or way that. in which way

how

(dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus. (dialectal) A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.)

how

A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.

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Simple sentences

How do you say that in Italian?
How many sandwiches are there left?
The seven questions that an engineer has to ask himself are: who, what, when, where, why, how and how much.
You'll learn how to do it sooner or later.
How often do you go abroad?
How can I feel relaxed, with you watching me like that?
How many people were present at the meeting?
I don't know how to reply to that question.
How many days a week do you go to school?
How often a week do you take a bath?
Show me how to do it, please.
Hi, Bill. How are you?
How many close friends do you have?
How long did you stay?
She's asking how that's possible.
I don't know how to demonstrate it, since it's too obvious!
How could I be a robot? Robots don't dream.
How do you find food in outer space?
Uh. How's that working?
How long does it take to get to the station?
It would be fun to see how things change over the years.
I wonder how long it's going to take.
How old are you?
How did you come up with this crazy idea?
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.

Movie subtitles

What the. How can this place be your territory?
How filthy!
How can that lady be my mom? how can that lady be my mom!
How, not one but two why would she abandon me!
But how'd he know where I live?
You know how much I worked to get that shirt?
How cute.
Aigoo, how disgusting.
So this is how Hot Room looks like.
How embarassing.
You look normal, but how sad.
Oh, how sad.
How can her life be like that?
More importantly, how did you survive?
How is your backbone?
Right. How's his intelligence look?
I made my contract with you. You told me how dangerous this power was.
How pathetic. we value ourselves above others.
It is how we are born.
He discovered moons around Jupiter and saw how these orbited around the planet in hours and days.
How did everything fit together?
But how could we get an impression of the entire Galaxy?
We asked Henk how he would proceed and he said that he would check it With Prof. Rosenfeld.
The Netherlands continue to play an important role in an area where new discoveries are still being made, new instruments are being developed and the frontiers of our know-how and knowledge are constantly being pushed out.
And we do not have the faintest idea how where that will lead.
How is that different from colonization?
So am I. How are you?
But look how many there are.
Now, how did you get involved with the PBJ trade?
How many sandwiches can you and your friends eat?
How's he going to find out?
Well, I was just trying to figure out how your brother's still getting PBJs into the yard even after Pork Chop got busted.
So how do you like working with Johnny?
And the thing is, it doesn't matter how many times kids get suspended.
And all that's going to happen to Johnny is he's going to miss a math quiz. How's that going to make him a better kid?
We're all really busted up about how things went down with Johnny. I know he's a friend of yours, but he's a friend of ours too.
See how that worked?
How much did you eat?
Youssef, that's not how it works in here.
How does that make you feel?
How is that fair?

News and current affairs

The extraordinary reception of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how keenly the consequences of the collapse of the left have been felt.
The world now wonders how many more of these non-human humans are there in how many places.
But all parts of a country's total debt and how it is financed are interconnected.
The dilemma facing US policymakers is how to stimulate growth while lowering the level of total debt.
How it is received may not only determine the state of Israel-Palestine negotiations for a considerable time to come, but Saudi Arabia's domestic peace as well.
So how will the world - first and foremost, the main nuclear powers - react to the Fukushima disaster?
America's business scandals showed how accounting rules can be bent and abused to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a company.
The Bush Administration, not to be left behind, has shown how public accounting rules can be bent so as to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a national economy.
Other IMF accounting practices, including how the capital expenditures of government-owned enterprises are treated, are also causing outrage.
And to understand how something works is also to begin to see ways to modify and even control it.
I trust that among the experts will be some who have pondered the underlying ethical question: how safe should we aim to be?
This is how citizens can be taken - and take themselves - seriously as documenters and investigators of our common situation.
The discussions before the crisis illustrated how little had been done to repair economic fundamentals.
One thing to be learned, if we didn't know this already, is how close racial sensitivities are to the surface of US life, despite the election of a black president.
Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy's impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country's Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
If the couple sizzled for cameras with Luxor and Petra as the backdrop, just imagine how hot things could get at the most romantic spot on Earth, the Taj Mahal.
Many people confuse these two aspects of the EU's legitimacy problem, and believe that somehow turnout in European elections can be increased by pointing out to people how good and important the EU is.