All 50 Uses

however
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
(Edited)

...she looks as if she would have to get up and run away. In this crisis, however, she is saved by Marija Berczynskas, whom the muses suddenly visit.
Chpt 1

however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
Every one's share was different--and yet every one knew perfectly well what his share was, and strove to give a little more. Now, however, since they had come to the new country, all this was changing;
Chpt 1
It is now after midnight, however, and things are not as they were before.
Chpt 1
...they started up the street. Scarcely had they gone a block, however, before Jonas was heard to give a cry, and began pointing excitedly across the street.
Chpt 2
...the sky in the west turned blood-red, and the tops of the houses shone like fire. Jurgis and Ona were not thinking of the sunset, however—their backs were turned to it, and all their thoughts were of Packingtown, which they could see so plainly in the distance.
Chpt 2
In a minute or two, however, it began slowly to revolve, and then the men upon each side of it sprang to work.
Chpt 3
Before the carcass was admitted here, however, it had to pass a government inspector, who sat in the doorway and felt of the glands in the neck for tuberculosis.
Chpt 3
The carcass hung for a few minutes to bleed; there was no time lost, however, for there were several hanging in each line, and one was always ready.
Chpt 3
In the end, however, she had reaped her reward.
Chpt 4
All of this, however, did not chill their ardor as much as might have been expected, because of the volubility of the agent.
Chpt 4
So long as they paid, however, they had nothing to fear, the house was all theirs.
Chpt 4
Even so, however, they slept soundly—it was necessary for Teta Elzbieta to pound more than once on the at a quarter past five every morning.
Chpt 5
Generally, however, this harmless question would only make his fellow workingmen lose their tempers and call him a fool.
Chpt 5
Even so, however, she knew what was decent, and clung to her traditions with desperation.
Chpt 6
They had fooled the company, however, for her son was a skilled man, who made as high as a hundred dollars a month, and as he had had sense enough not to marry, they had been able to pay for the house.
Chpt 6
He had gone all to ruin with the drink, however, and lost his power; one of his sons, who was a good man, had kept him and the family up for a year or two, but then he had got sick with consumption.
Chpt 6
Jurgis lost his temper very little, however, all things considered.
Chpt 7
This did not always work out in practice, however, for there was pretty sure to be a friend who would treat you, and then you would have to treat him.
Chpt 7
On the way home, however, the shivering was apt to come on him again; and so he would have to stop once or twice to warm up against the cruel cold.
Chpt 7
There was no resisting the music of Tamoszius, however; even the children would sit awed and wondering, and the tears would run down Teta Elzbieta's cheeks.
Chpt 8
He never missed a meeting, however.
Chpt 8
Here, however, was a new religion—one that did touch him, that took hold of every fiber of him; and with all the zeal and fury of a convert he went out as a missionary.
Chpt 8
However, he went with the man, who picked up several other newly landed immigrants, Poles, Lithuanians, and Slovaks, and took them all outside, where stood a great four-horse tallyho coach, with fifteen or twenty men already in it.
Chpt 9

however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
It was said, too, that he had built his brick-kiln in the same way, and that the workmen were on the city payroll while they did it; however, one had to press closely to get these things out of the men, for it was not their business, and Mike Scully was a good man to stand in with.
Chpt 9

however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
Once, however, an ingenious stranger came and started to gather this filth in scows, to make lard out of; then the packers took the cue, and got out an injunction to stop him, and afterward gathered it themselves.
Chpt 9
Any day, however, one might see sharp-horned and shaggy-haired creatures running with the sheep and yet what a job you would have to get the public to believe that a good part of what it buys for lamb and mutton is really goat's flesh!
Chpt 9
Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms.
Chpt 9
It was not for long, however; for a month or two later a dreadful calamity fell upon Marija.
Chpt 10
However that might be, the known facts were that a few weeks before the factory closed, Marija had been cheated out of her pay for three hundred cans.
Chpt 10 *

however = in whatever way
In the end, however, Ona discovered that it was even worse than that.
Chpt 10

however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
He did not make so much, however, as he had the previous summer, for the packers took on more hands.
Chpt 11 *
The possession of vast wealth entails cares and responsibilities, however, as poor Marija found out.
Chpt 11
...telling her that the bank had fireproof vaults, and all its millions of dollars hidden safely away in them. However, one morning Marija took her usual detour, and, to her horror and dismay, saw a crowd of people in front of the bank, filling the avenue solid for half a block.
Chpt 11

however = nevertheless (used to connect contrasting ideas)
...he knew enough by this time to realize that it was not supposed to be right to sell your vote. However, as every one did it, and his refusal to join would not have made the slightest difference in the results, the idea of refusing would have seemed absurd, had it ever come into his head.
Chpt 11

however = but
When he came to walk home, however, he realized that it was hurting him a great deal; and in the morning his ankle was swollen out nearly double its size, and he could not get his foot into his shoe.
Chpt 11

however = though (used to connect contrasting ideas)
When they had gotten him to sleep, however, they sat by the kitchen fire and talked it over in frightened whispers.
Chpt 11
At the end of that time, however, he could contain himself no longer, and began trying to walk a little every day, laboring to persuade himself that he was better.
Chpt 12
This was never for very long, however, for when Ona began to cry, Jurgis could not stay angry.
Chpt 12
More probable, however, was the theory that Jonas had deserted them, and gone on the road, seeking happiness.
Chpt 12
Fortunately, however, they had already sold some papers, and came back with nearly as much as they started with.
Chpt 12
It needed more than the permission of the doctor, however, for when he showed up on the killing floor of Brown's, he was told by the foreman that it had not been possible to keep his job for him.
Chpt 12
This time, however, Jurgis did not have the same fine confidence, nor the same reason for it.
Chpt 12
The vast majority, however, were simply the worn-out parts of the great merciless packing machine; they had toiled there, and kept up with the pace, some of them for ten or twenty years, until finally the time had come when they could not keep up with it any more.
Chpt 12
Some had been frankly told that they were too old, that a sprier man was needed; others had given occasion, by some act of carelessness or incompetence; with most, however, the occasion had been the same as with Jurgis.
Chpt 12
Now, however, he was too ill to notice it—how the people in the car began to gasp and sputter, to put their handkerchiefs to their noses, and transfix him with furious glances.
Chpt 13
In the midst of the mist, however, the visitor would suddenly notice the tense set face, with the two wrinkles graven in the forehead, and the ghastly pallor of the cheeks; and then he would suddenly recollect that it was time he was going on.
Chpt 13
One day, however, he took the plunge, and drank up all that he had in his pockets, and went home half "piped," as the men phrase it.
Chpt 14
Then, however, he realized that there was no need of haste, that he had no idea where to go.
Chpt 15
In the morning, however, he was up and out nearly an hour before the usual time.
Chpt 15
Meantime, however, the ham-wrappers were working away, with some one else in charge of them.
Chpt 15

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(1) (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.
(2) (however as in: However much she tried...)
to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
(3) (however as in: However you do it, get it done!)
in whatever way
(4) (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?"

however in The Jungle, by Sinclair (Edited)

however
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
(Edited)