sometime

adverb some·time \ ˈsəm-ˌtīm \

|Updated on: 16 Aug 2018

Examples: sometime in a Sentence

Definition of sometime

1 archaic : in the past : formerly

2 archaic : once in a while : occasionally

3 : at some time in the future

I'll do it sometime

4 : at some not specified or definitely known point of time

sometime last night

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Examples of sometime in a Sentence

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.

Recent Examples of sometime from the Web

Elliott was seen at the gathering in the Chattahoochee National Forest sometime between July 1 and July 4, Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Facebook post.

— steve burns, ajc, "Man who attended Rainbow Family gathering in Georgia reported missing," 11 July 2018
Game of Thrones will return to HBO sometime in 2019.

— jamie ducharme, Time, "Maisie Williams Said Goodbye to Game of Thrones in a Very Game of Thrones Way," 7 July 2018
Founder Paul Bragg was born sometime between 1880 and 1895 in either Virginia or Indiana.

— kyle beechey, Bon Appetit, "The Mysterious Hippie Food Brand That's Never Let Me Down," 27 June 2018
Smith said people should be able to return to their homes sometime Monday.

— Fox News, "Fast-moving wildfire damages homes in north Florida," 25 June 2018
Sandoval said of Longoria who is expected to return sometime in July.

— ann killion, SFChronicle.com, "Sandoval’s return to Giants: From sentimental to genius," 22 June 2018
Many were released — some with GPS ankle bracelets to track their movements — and asked to return for a court date sometime in the future.

— New York Times, "How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families," 16 June 2018
But Amanda and her children returned sometime after that.

— robert a. cronkleton and joe robertson, kansascity, "Lives collide: Victims in car, Jeep shattered after flight from Independence police," 4 June 2018
That would put him on track to return to the club sometime on the next home stand.

— tom haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "White Sox 6, Brewers 1: String of winning series ends at six as bats go quiet in Chicago," 3 June 2018

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First Known Use of sometime

14th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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sometime Synonyms

Synonyms

eventually, finally, someday, sooner or later, ultimately, yet;

Near Antonyms

ne'er, never, nevermore;

forthwith, immediately, promptly, pronto, right away, right now, right off, straightaway, straightway;

Phrases

at last (or at long last), at length, in the end, in the fullness of time, in time;

sometime

adjective

Definition of sometime

1 : having been formerly : former, late

2 : being so occasionally or in only some respects

a sometime father

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Examples of sometime in a Sentence

a sometime athlete who's gotten awfully fat

Recent Examples of sometime from the Web

Fried, his sometime nemesis, had become assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia and continued to push vocal American support of Western-leaning governments in former Soviet states, Georgia in particular.

— keith gessen, New York Times, "The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio," 8 May 2018
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, "Jackie Kennedy's Personal Assistant Remembers the Day Bobby Kennedy Died," 26 Apr. 2017
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, "West Goshen couple dead in murder-suicide, police say," 4 June 2018
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, "Arizona Appeals Court rules against Jodi Arias' request for court secrecy," 30 May 2018
Lawyers are once again debating the fate of Mumia Abu-Jamal, now 64, the former Black Panther and sometime radio reporter serving a life sentence for the 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.

— aubrey nagle, Philly.com, "Comcast staffers report sexual harassment, Cosby jury explains verdict | Morning Newsletter," 1 May 2018
He's been a real estate agent, owned a liquor store, and invested in buying and developing property with his friend and sometime business partner Randy Schrimsher.

— lee roop, AL.com, "Tommy Battle runs for governor saying he'll sell Alabama as 'a smart place'," 26 Apr. 2018
The principal of Forest Park Elementary School was told of the posting sometime Wednesday, then told a school resource officer and contacted Portland Public Schools security, said Dave Northfield, a school district spokesman.

— everton bailey jr., OregonLive.com, "Portland school 'slaughterhouse' label on Google leads to extra police presence," 21 Mar. 2018
The intense relationship between dear friends and sometime lovers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West was not a scandal in their own households — the writers’ similarly free-thinking husbands were reportedly fine with it.

— jeremy d. goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, "Subverting gender in Lyric Stage’s sly ‘Orlando’," 27 Feb. 2018