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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Richard Bishop, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Regardless of how rigorously fact-checked the stories may be (a Dunn Museum write-up about Blarney Island indicates the name change happened sometime around 1923, nearly a decade before the end of Prohibition), the tale shows some of the area’s storied past.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
Warner recurred on the NBC comedy as Andre, sometime husband to Brown’s Shirley.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 21 July 2025
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Adverb
Another autonomous truck developer, Kodiak Robotics plans to go public via a SPAC sometime during the second half of 2025.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Regardless of how rigorously fact-checked the stories may be (a Dunn Museum write-up about Blarney Island indicates the name change happened sometime around 1923, nearly a decade before the end of Prohibition), the tale shows some of the area’s storied past.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Trump is suing the newspaper owned by his sometime supporter Rupert Murdoch.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
Warner recurred on the NBC comedy as Andre, sometime husband to Brown’s Shirley.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 21 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for sometime
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sometime. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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