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UK
/sˈʌmtaɪm/
]
[ US /ˈsəmˌtaɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈsəmˌtaɪm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
belonging to some prior time
the once capital of the state
her quondam lover
our former glory
erstwhile friend
ADVERB
-
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech