How to Use how so in a Sentence

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  • Well, that leads us to tone, and how so many moments on the show can feel like two things at once.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2022
  • After the circus, Pen had asked Thomas about the clowns—about how so many of them could fit in one small car.
    Kate Dicamillo, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • After the circus, Pen had asked Thomas about the clowns—about how so many of them could fit in one small car.
    Kate Dicamillo, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • This behavior explains how so many trap-jaw heads turn up in their nests in the wild.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The event highlighted how so many things are covered during the war.
    Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
  • There has been much handwringing in the West in recent years about how so many got China, and Xi, so wrong.
    Richard McGregor, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2019
  • At 95, that’s how so many things in her life feel, including her art: still new, after all this time.
    Francesca Paris, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The best answer might lie not in the evolution of dining itself, but in how so much else in culture has changed.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Oil and gas is how so many of our people went from poor Cajuns and Creoles to wealthy Americans.
    Andy Horowitz, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This is most evident in how so many cannabis brands market to and acquire customers.
    Harrison Wise, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2023
  • He became absorbed by the question of how so many people came to support the ideas of someone like Adolf Hitler, and how they might be taught to resist such influence.
    Grace Browne, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Was there also a bit of trying to show how so often in today's society, women are not believed?
    Andrea Cuttler, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Oct. 2022
  • E-commerce is the future of commerce, the future of shopping, at the forefront of how so many media businesses operate.
    Good Housekeeping, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But what Katia has done here is gone deep into what happened, who was involved, and how so many things went wrong — but then, ultimately, were also made right.
    Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 10 May 2022
  • The first game examined the role of archetypes in various cultures, how so many stories often travel similar paths.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The fact that the directors lean heavily on TikTok stylistics and faux-phone recordings for a lot of their numbers makes sense on the page, since that’s how so much musical content gets created and consumed these days.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But they’re hampered by a lack of information about how so many secrets ended up in insecure locations.
    WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
  • What’s interesting is how so many Arkansas fans focused on a voter who didn’t vote for their team rather than celebrating those who ranked the Razorbacks No. 16 in the nation.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • What's also fascinating about the Ravens' quarterback room is how so many of the people in it come from different places but with similar life experiences.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • One of the mysteries of its wild success is how so many readers could tolerate the book’s excess of adjectives, punctuation, profanity, and slang.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • Schor’s book, a best seller and classic of its genre, may very well be the origin story for how so many people otherwise uninvolved in medieval history came to know and share this particular factoid.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 6 May 2022
  • The long, torturous nightmare of government overreach, which is how so many aggrieved passengers viewed the mandate effecting public transportation, has come to an end.
    Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
  • And, therein lies the problem with how so many people – generally young straight women – are using attachment theory.
    Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 17 Oct. 2023
  • And, therein lies the problem with how so many people – generally young straight women – are using attachment theory.
    Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 6 June 2022
  • What doesn’t make sense is how so many investors seemed to magically presage this news, bidding up Cerevel’s stock starting Monday morning and continuing all the way into yesterday’s close.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Authorities have closed the bar, amid questions of how so many underage teenagers could have gathered in an establishment selling alcohol after midnight on June 26.
    Mogomotsi Magome, ajc, 5 July 2022
  • Mutations develop spontaneously as a virus replicates and spreads, but scientists are now trying to understand how so many mutations arose in Omicron in such a seemingly short space of time.
    Sarah Wild, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Real-life clothes with distinct street-style energy—a rare concept given how so many fashion personalities over 50 or 60 on Instagram present themselves.
    Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2021
  • And he was broadly pressed about his past comments about the importance of protecting classified information, as well as how so many of his former administration officials are now critical of him.
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 20 June 2023
  • With Congress currently lacking the, well, intelligence needed to fully understand how so much classified material landed in the wrong places, bipartisan confusion abounds.
    WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023

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