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
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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Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
Season five, which will presumably arrive sometime next year, will be The Witcher’s last, and fans of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher books will remember Nimue from The Lady of the Lake, the final novel chronologically.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
They were not allowed to stay in private homes — annoying for sometime Paris resident Serena Williams — but could eat out at Paris restaurants.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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Adverb
According to a 2015 Time Magazine story, the tradition of benign pranks began sometime in the 1930s and 1940s in the United States, brought on perhaps as a way to defuse the tensions of economic devastation and the pain of war.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
Season five, which will presumably arrive sometime next year, will be The Witcher’s last, and fans of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher books will remember Nimue from The Lady of the Lake, the final novel chronologically.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Donald had a new lady called Marla Maples, who was a sometime actress, putting it delicately.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
They were not allowed to stay in private homes — annoying for sometime Paris resident Serena Williams — but could eat out at Paris restaurants.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sometime. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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