The use of "how was" is to ask someone a question about something that happened or something they did in the past.
Here are the examples of the use of "how was":
- And, how was it, no, if they knocked it off.
- But how was the demand to call forth the supply?
- But how was this pluralism to be embodied in the electoral process?
- He was impressed by what he'd heard so far, but how was all this going to come about?
- How was he going to extricate himself from this situation?
- How was he going to turn the conversation round to the subject of poison?
- How was he to interpret these events?
- How was he to know that she was up to some sort of mischief?
- How was I lured to the law?
- How was I spending my time on peer relationships?
- How was I supposed to know she'd react like that? I'm not psychic!
- How was I supposed to know you were waiting for me?
- How was I to know that the file was confidential?
- How was it possible for Kant to produce such very different reactions?
- How was it that she went sailing, like a human version of their brass vase, out the bedroom window?
- How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease?
- How was it, she wondered, that he was so loving in the daytime and a different man in bed?
- How was it, then, that Masailand acquired its reputation for corrupting those sent to rule over it?
- How was lunch?
- How was she supposed to concentrate with that sprawling figure almost in her line of vision?
- How was that possible, a kite suspended in the air, without an anchor?
- How was the airplane ride?
- How was the ballet?
- How was the birthday party?
- How was the film?
- How was the investment?
- How was the letter worded ?
- How was the meeting?
- How was the movie?
- How was the play received?
- How was the proposal?
- How was the test?
- How was the vacation?
- How was work today?
- How was your day?
- How was your doctor's appointment?
- How was your flight?
- How was your meeting?
- How was your trip?
- How were holidays with the family?
- How were people acting after what happened?
- How were roads when you drove home?
- How were your parents?
- I just wanted to give her a surprise, how was I to know you'd already bought tickets?
- If the partners to the Alliance disagreed on matters of policy how was it possible to present a single manifesto?
- I've just got back from a trip to Rome.' 'So, how was it?'
- John How was a solid good preacher but not a magnet to multitudes.
- So tell me, how was it in Argentina?
- So, how was school today?