All 50 Uses
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Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
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- As they drew nearer, however, his face shone through the gloom, hairless, snakelike, with slits for nostrils and gleaming red eyes whose pupils were vertical.
Chpt 1however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- Snape, however, looked calmly back into Voldemort's face and, after a moment or two, Voldemort's lipless mouth curved into something like a smile.
Chpt 1
- Voldemort, however, seemed to be speaking more to himself than to any of them, still addressing the unconscious body above him.
Chpt 1
- In a matter of months, however, Albus's own fame had begun to eclipse that of his father.
Chpt 2
- Though it was often predicted in later years that he was on the point of taking the job, however, he never had Ministerial ambitions.
Chpt 2
- However, it is quite wrong to suggest, as some have, that the brothers were not friends.
Chpt 2
- However, tragedy intervened.
Chpt 2
- However, he rarely spoke of his parents or of Ariana from then on, and his friends learned not to mention them.
Chpt 2
- It now dawned on Harry, however, that the cup of cold tea on which he had trodden that morning might not have been a booby trap at all.
Chpt 3
- He had but a split second's relief, however, as more curses streaked past him: The three Death Eaters were closing in.
Chpt 4
- He had barely stood up, however, when a door opened and Hagrid squeezed through it, his face covered in mud and blood, limping a little but miraculously alive.
Chpt 5
- After two days of nonstop cutlery cleaning, of color-matching favors, ribbons, and flowers, of degnoming the garden and helping Mrs. Weasley cook vast batches of canapes, however, Harry started to suspect her of a different motive.
Chpt 6
- However, he looked good-natured.
Chpt 6
- However, Scrimgeour did not seem to be listening.
Chpt 7
- Harry shrugged, Hermione, however, answered: Harry thought that answering questions correctly was such a deeply ingrained habit she could not suppress the urge.
Chpt 7
- Ron, however, gasped, pointing frantically from Harry to the Snitch and back again until he found his voice.
Chpt 7
- Ron, however, looked bemused by their surprise.
Chpt 7
- Before he had time to feel inside his mouth, however, his tongue had unraveled again.
Chpt 9
- After another quarter of an hour, however he was forced to conclude that the rest of his mother's letter was gone.
Chpt 10 *however = in whatever way
- However, the change in his tone seemed to have gained her approval: She smiled encouragingly.
Chpt 10however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, Kreacher did not return that morning or even that afternoon.
Chpt 11
- However, two cloaked men had appeared in the square outside number twelve, and they remained there into the night, gazing in the direction of the house that they could not see.
Chpt 11
- Halfway down the flight of stairs into the hall, however, he heard a tap on the front door, then metallic clicks and the grinding of the chain.
Chpt 11
- However, that is the point: They whisper.
Chpt 11
- Hermione, however, looked puzzled.
Chpt 11
- Mundungus scrambled up and pulled out his wand; Hermione, however, was too quick for him.
Chpt 11
- Nothing in the room, however, was more dramatically different than the house-elf who now came hurrying toward Harry, dressed in a snowy-white towel, his ear hair as clean and fluffy as cotton wool, Regulus's locket bouncing on his thin chest.
Chpt 12
- It was, however, reassuring to catch these glimpses of him, even if he did look very strained and anxious.
Chpt 12
- As he extinguished his wand, however, he was thinking not of Polyjuice Potion, Puking Pastilles, or the navy blue robes of Magical Maintenance; he thought of Gregorovitch the wandmaker, and how long he could hope to remain hidden while Voldemort sought him so determinedly.
Chpt 12
- She barely had time to enjoy the unexpected warmth, however, before Hermione's silent Stunning Spell hit her in the chest and she toppled over.
Chpt 12
- However, in the few moments it took for Ron to give a low groan and Harry to start crawling toward him, he realized that this was not the Forbidden Forest; The trees looked younger, they were more widely spaced, the ground clearer.
Chpt 14
- However, the Sneakoscope remained silent and still upon its point all day, and whether because of the protective enchantments and Muggle-repelling charms Hermione had spread around them, or because people rarely ventured this way, their patch of wood remained deserted, apart from occasional birds and squirrels.
Chpt 14
- This, however, did not go as planned.
Chpt 15
- Ron, however, had always been used to three delicious meals a day, courtesy of his mother or of the Hogwarts house-elves, and hunger made him both unreasonable and irascible.
Chpt 15
- However, Ron did not appear on the map and after a while Harry found himself taking it out simply to stare at Ginny's name in the girl's dormitory, wondering whether the intensity with which he gazed at it might break into her sleep, that she would somehow know he was thinking about her, hoping that she was all right.
Chpt 16
- However, he did let drop certain snippets.
Chpt 16
- Now, however, was not the moment to cast doubt on Hermione's theory, not when she was so surprisingly willing to fall in with Harry's dearest wish.
Chpt 16
- Halfway across the square, however, she stopped dead.
Chpt 16
- Even assuming that she was a witch, however, it was odd behavior to come out on a night this cold, simply to look at an old ruin.
Chpt 17
- Several years later, however, the author sent an owl to Albus at Hogwarts, having been favorably impressed by his paper on trans-species transformation in Transfiguration Today.
Chpt 18
- On one subject, however, Bathilda is well worth the effort I put into procuring Veritaserum, for she, and she alone, knows the full story of the best-kept secret of Albus Dumbledore's life.
Chpt 18
- As Grindelwald never extended his campaign of terror to Britain, however, the details of his rise to power are not widely known here.
Chpt 18
- Rather than channel his abilities into the attainment of awards and prizes, however, Gellert Grindelwald devoted himself to other pursuits.
Chpt 18
- However, the truth seems altogether more shocking.
Chpt 18
- However, there can be no doubt that Dumbledore delayed, for some five years of turmoil, fatalities, and disappearances, his attack upon Gellert Grindelwald.
Chpt 18
- The ground around the roots, however, was free of snow, and Harry could see no sign of footprints.
Chpt 19
- When Ron offered the sword, however, Harry shook his head.
Chpt 19
- Keen for them all to be friends again, however, he agreed; but when Ron gave Hermione a tentative smile, she stalked off and vanished behind her book once more.
Chpt 20
- Before Harry could speak, however, Hermione let out a small cry of shock.
Chpt 20
- However, these brothers were learned in the magical arts, and so they simply waved their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous water.
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(however as in: However, complications may...) though (or another expression that connects contrasting ideas)Based on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 exists, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrast and but.
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(2)
(however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
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(3)
(however as in: However you do it, get it done!) in whatever way
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and arguably incorrectly), however can be used to intensify the word how, as when one says "However did you find her?" Grammarians would suggest using two words for that usage: "How ever did you find her?"