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[ UK /sˈʌmta‍ɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈsəmˌtaɪm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. belonging to some prior time
    the once capital of the state
    her quondam lover
    our former glory
    erstwhile friend
ADVERB
  1. at some indefinite or unstated time
    everything has to end sometime
    It was to be printed sometime later
    let's get together sometime

How To Use sometime In A Sentence

  • It's good to have a cry sometimes.
  • He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
  • The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
  • Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
  • They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • Nor do I deny that they sometimes abuse their power and are unfair to individuals.
  • Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
  • If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
  • He's not the fastest player on the books and occasionally he can be a bit casual and sometimes gets caught in possession.
  • Katherine spoke softly, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes in a rush, with a great deal more emotional inflection than the voice she uses when acting the cool professional.
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