Definition of "somehow"

somehow

/ˈsʌmhaʊ/

adverb
not comparable
1. In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means
  Quotations
  It’s not by accident Edward wrote “The Goat,” “The Zoo Story” or “Seascape,” with its two lizards, Sarah and Leslie. In fact, in all of his plays the animal is pretty prominent, somehow or other.
  December 1, 2016, Tom Donaghy writing in The New York Times, Tender Side of Edward Albee
  Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  Have I not loathed to live again and saidIt would have been far better to be dead, And yet somehow, I know not why, Remained afraid to die!
  1895, William Dean Howells, Mortality
  Although youngest of the family, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others.
  1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy‎