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- phrase
how will - phrase US, dialect, dated
will ,how about (as a proposal)
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Examples
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You also have to marvel at the rhythm of his language, watching how'll he'll shave an anticpated word here for a certain effect, add a word there for the sake of cadence.
Pity Him Afterward Ed Gorman 2009
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You also have to marvel at the rhythm of his language, watching how'll he'll shave an anticpated word here for a certain effect, add a word there for the sake of cadence.
PITY HIM AFTERWARD by Donald E. Westlake Ed Gorman 2009
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If I know you can't afford to kill me, how'll you scare me into giving it to you?
Never Yet Melted 2009
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You also have to marvel at the rhythm of his language, watching how'll he'll shave an anticpated word here for a certain effect, add a word there for the sake of cadence.
Pity Him Afterward* Ed Gorman 2007
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You also have to marvel at the rhythm of his language, watching how'll he'll shave an anticpated word here for a certain effect, add a word there for the sake of cadence.
Archive 2007-05-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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"I can't break out the frame, how'll I explain it?"
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"If the mill's not lissed in the phone hook, how'll our hustomers fine it?"
Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995
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"If I start believing you, then how'll I know when to stop?"
Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987
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They'd say, "No, if I join the union, I have three or four kids here, and the company'll fire me, and how'll I feed them?"
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"Now how'll we get back to Scoville?" cried one of Lettie's friends.
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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