1
: at some time in the future
I'll do it sometime.
2
: at some not specified or definitely known point of time
sometime last night
3
archaic
: in the past : formerly
4
archaic
: once in a while : occasionally
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Examples of sometime in a Sentence
Adverb
We should get together sometime.
It's likely to happen sometime soon.
She will return from her trip sometime in December.
A burglar broke in sometime during the night.
The book was written sometime around the turn of the century.
Adjective
a sometime athlete who's gotten awfully fat
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Tim Speier, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2024
At the commencement address for her boyfriend, 45 years ago, the then president of Bank of America told the graduates that by sometime in the 2020s the United States would be a minority-majority country.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
Here too the plot sends her character, the struggling actress and sometime lover of Dustin Hoffman’s cross-dressing soap star, up the river as needed.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
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Adverb
Information obtained from Dobson and the children indicated that sometime after 9 p.m. on Oct. 31, Aanerud began arguing with Dobson on the porch of the building where Dobson and her children resided, which is within 50 feet of the property owner’s residence.
—Tim Speier, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2024
At the commencement address for her boyfriend, 45 years ago, the then president of Bank of America told the graduates that by sometime in the 2020s the United States would be a minority-majority country.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
This is by design; his sometime advisor Steve Bannon advocated flooding the zone with, well, excrement, so that media couldn’t keep up.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
Here too the plot sends her character, the struggling actress and sometime lover of Dustin Hoffman’s cross-dressing soap star, up the river as needed.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sometime. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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