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.
  • They’ve been paid the vast bulk of their salary for the year anyway.
    Stephen Whyno, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But Charles does that to me all the time with his shows anyway.
    Alex Kessler, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2023
  • John doesn’t care and tells Jamie to take care of it anyway.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 13 Nov. 2022
  • 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 the people who don’t have the blue will wear the yellow one anyway.
    Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The good news is that apple trees shed a fair amount of their apples anyway.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
  • Maybe there weren’t enough people there to get loud, anyway.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • That’s the sleight-of-hand premise Johnson begins with, anyway.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Ribeiro doesn't seem to need any help from anyone anyway.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 29 May 2024
  • The show had a lot of fun pitting Max against Harry, who acts like a spoiled child most of the time anyway, so that worked.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
  • Trible won anyway, and then was elected to the Senate in 1982.
    Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But a lot of people are complaining: Why is the race in March anyway?
    Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Which would just spoil all that tire-smoking fun anyway.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 17 July 2023
  • This suggests that the AI was in a sense groping for an answer, didn’t have one hanging around, and thus sought to come up with an answer anyway.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • In New York, the Guggenheim, which was closed for installation that day anyway, draped a huge black cloth on the facade of its building.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 Dec. 2024

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