How to Use anyway in a Sentence

anyway

adverb
  • The road got worse, but they kept going anyway.
  • He's far from perfect, but she loves him anyway.
  • I didn't expect her to say “yes,” but I asked her anyway.
  • It makes no difference what we say. She's going to do what she wants anyway.
  • But Charles does that to me all the time with his shows anyway.
    Alex Kessler, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Valade, who shied away from the limelight, was drawn in anyway because of her actions.
    Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Metal hasn’t been under attack — not in the States, anyway.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • That wouldn’t be enough to get through the juggernaut of the top five teams in the East in the playoffs, anyway.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Even thrifting a denim maxi skirt would be a great way to get your hands on one since many of the newer ones out are modeled after vintage anyway.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Lewis acknowledged that the paper could be condemned for its decision but pressed forward anyway.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Among registered voters who think Trump is a fascist, 8% support him anyway.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The Pro Bowl quarterback wasn’t throwing at practice anyway.
    Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Even though Rogers did not have experience or formal training, Prince, impressed by her listening skills, hired her anyway.
    Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Delta had disabled automatic updates from CrowdStrike but this one reached its computers anyway, the airline said in the suit.
    Jordan Novet,leslie Josephs, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Elsewhere, China's economy — soft these days anyway — is less structurally tethered to oil as EVs rise.
    Ben Geman, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The look of the place, surrounded by a considerable acreage of parking lot, triggered my interest as well as a craving for fried catfish that is never far from the surface anyway.
    al, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Liabilities, in the way of external debt, were dispatched on the same basis, and Czechoslovakia had little of it anyway.
    Kieran Williams, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Meanwhile, whatever animus there was never extended to the on-court participants, anyway.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • They’ve been paid the vast bulk of their salary for the year anyway.
    Stephen Whyno, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And, so anyway, that was kind of the beginning of the idea.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • Half of the products that's pushed out there are all garbage anyway.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • But Barack came bounding in anyway, waving to the crowd as the strains of a U2 song played.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
  • What’s the deal with Chateau Marmont these days, anyway?
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Despite this, the pair went on a date anyway, and the rest is history.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Myles had not been a teenager for years, but he was stopped anyway.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But dozens of settlers blocked the road and stoned the procession anyway.
    Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • And the top 10% of earners got more than half that money anyway.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2023
  • With the top of the order due up to start the fifth, Melvin sent the rookie right-hander back out there, anyway.
    Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • What makes us — some of us, anyway — yearn for his presence?
    Paul Schrodt, Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • Powers can’t wait to tag along with Glover and rest of the Artemis II crew — in spirit, anyway.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023

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