How to Use sometime in a Sentence

sometime

1 of 2 adverb

• The book was written sometime around the turn of the century.
• A burglar broke in sometime during the night.
• It's likely to happen sometime soon.
• We should get together sometime.
• She will return from her trip sometime in December.
• But sometime in the last five minutes the teenager had slipped away into the scrub.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 30 Aug. 2023
• The move is expected to take place sometime in Spring 2025.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2024
• Those looking to beat the crowds should plan a trip to Cancun sometime in the summer or fall.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2023
• In July, Vista Outdoor said plans to make the split sometime in 2023 are still on track.
  — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• So now, Gaetz said the motion to vacate will come sometime this week.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2023
• The thefts happened sometime around the first week of January and the boxes were later found in St. Paul.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
• The Hisense is expected to be released sometime in 2024.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
• The couple met while working at Second City in Chicago sometime in the mid-'90s.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
• Gurriel suffered a hand/wrist injury sometime around the All-Star break last year.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023
• Judge is far from healed; that won’t happen until sometime in the winter.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
• That would mean if the court takes up the case, a final decision would come out sometime before the Supreme Court’s term wraps up in June 2024.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The next installment will hit screens sometime in 2024, with the first two seasons now streaming on Disney+.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• Now, the flight isn’t scheduled until sometime next year — at the earliest.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• Japan plans to release the wastewater sometime this summer.
  — Jake Kwon, CNN, 9 July 2023
• We would still be married at St. Mary's Cathedral, sometime in the near future.
  — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
• The employee who designed it left the job sometime after.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
• Plot details are being kept secret but this one is said to be set sometime in the future.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• According to People, they wed sometime before the start of 2024.
  — Glamour, 29 Feb. 2024
• Still, Amazon aims to make a version of the chat mode available to all users of Amazon speakers sometime this year.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The first eight-episode season will premiere on Netflix sometime in 2024.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
• Construction is set to begin sometime before the end of 2024.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• That suggests the pact expires sometime in early or mid-2024.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• The latest Companion Pass promotion comes on the heels of Southwest’s plans to start red-eye flights sometime in the next two years.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2024
• The winners will be announced in late April, and the ceremony will take place in Cleveland sometime later in the year.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2024
• That ruling is expected sometime before the end of June.
  — Cora Lewis and Adriana Morga, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2023

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sometime

2 of 2 adjective

• The hero now calls a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu his sometime home.
  — Dallas News, 24 June 2022
• Arias was sentenced to life in prison for the 2008 murder of her sometime lover Travis Alexander.
  — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
• Nobody connects the dots, but Bea is a sometime customer of Dan’s son.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
• They're supposed to go on sale sometime mid-year at an undisclosed price.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2021
• Among them was her on-again, off-again husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her sometime bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2020
• Arias was charged in the 2008 murder of her sometime lover Travis Alexander, who was found stabbed, shot and with his throat slit in the bathroom of his Mesa house.
  — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 30 May 2018
• She was convicted of murder in the 2008 death of her sometime-boyfriend Travis Alexander at his Mesa home.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
• The other two are expected to turn themselves in sometime Tuesday, the chief said.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 8 Aug. 2023
• Lyman Creel, a lobsterman, and his wife, Grace, have a son and a daughter, Wren, who is David's sometime girlfriend.
  — Dan Cryer, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• The son of a Memphis undertaker, Smith was a sometime barber who loved to tinker.
  — Erika Larsen, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
• Most of the actress’s scenes as a hooker with a head for news are with Foxx, Yo-Yo’s sometime pimp and constant verbal sparring partner.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• In the wake of the Great Recession, and the flowering of alternate musical media, new CDs now are a more sometime thing.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2020
• The injuries to the couple indicate that Charles Williams, 52, shot his wife and then himself sometime overnight Friday, police said.
  — Katie Park, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
• This kind of meta humor is the lifeblood of The New Pope, its sometime absurdity often excused by the addition of a note of the surreal.
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2020
• The roof caved in sometime Sunday afternoon, Leith said.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2021
• Kassa Overall, a Seattle drummer and sometime rapper, straddles the rhythmic realms of jazz and hip-hop with poise (Jan. 15).
  — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• Harvey is expected to make landfall sometime Friday (Aug. 25) on the Texas coast.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Fyodor and Timo, who are both mixed-race, are a sometime couple, the former a butcher, the latter a logician and pianist.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Poverty marked his childhood, and the city's crime boss is a family friend and his father's sometime employer.
  — Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• The incident took place sometime Wednesday morning in the 7900 block of South Bishop Street, according to police.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
• In the 148-post saga, the narrator, a waitress and sometime stripper, meets a fellow exotic dancer named Jessica.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 29 June 2021
• When Earn goes out with Van (Zazie Beetz), his friend, his sometime lover and the mother of his child, the movie theater refuses to accept a $100 bill from him but takes one from the middle-aged white man behind him in line.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• The winner will be revealed sometime March 14 through March 20, depending on how many finals games are necessary.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2024
• Thus, for all of Friday’s heat, for all this season’s sometime stickiness, summer is showing subtle signs that its lease, as the poet once had it, may not be endless.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
• After returning from his mission in the desert, the magistrate has a precipitous fall, and his sometime fiefdom starts to decline along with him.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
• Pumphrey is a Baltimore artist, sometime teacher at the school and an open-water ultramarathon swimmer.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Nixon is also a sometime politician and education activist who challenged Andrew Cuomo in the 2018 governor’s race and maybe sort of pushed him to the left on a few issues?
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 25 June 2021
• The Stonewall has also become a sometime political campaign stop.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2019
• Kathy McKeon served as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant (and sometime nanny) during a time of great change for the former first lady.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2017
• The cause was complications of a series of strokes, said Brian Cullman, a friend and sometime collaborator.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 31 May 2017

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