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
Synonyms
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2024
Advertisement When the pump station delayed by the flooding is completed, the system is expected to be able to reach full capacity sometime late in 2027.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
The session followed an initial protest on April 8 after a student, identified by some on social media as a member of the nursing program, posted a video containing racist comments against the Black community on Yik Yak sometime in March.
—Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2024
The latest estimates expect the next halving to occur sometime late Friday or early Saturday.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2024
And Lamar will presumably come back with his own full track sometime soon.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2024
Earlier this week, county elections officials said Price’s opponents had gathered enough valid signatures to force a recall election sometime later this year.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
The beacon light on top of the water tower near 84th and National went out sometime in mid-March, according to Karyn Rittenhouse, water systems manager for the City of West Allis.
—Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
According to police, Liddell was released sometime before 10 p.m. Monday.
—The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 29 Mar. 2024
In his book, Etchells picks through much of the literature on screen time, including studies from Haidt and his sometime collaborator, psychologist Jean Twenge, whose work on the link between smartphones and mental health in young people has been extremely influential.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024
Along with the message came a radar image, tracking a storm system that is descending from the Gulf of Alaska and expected to drop rain in the region by sometime Wednesday night.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
The second factor is that the ETFs arrived just before the 4th Bitcoin Halving event, expected sometime mid-April.
—Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
Beginning his career on stage, McCourt worked in nearly every medium, including serving as a sometime host of New York radio programs.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
Barnum Brown by Lowell Dingus and Mark A. Norell (University of California Press)
These paleontologists write a rollicking recollection of Brown, a globe-trotting adventurer, sometime spy, and great dinosaur hunter who was the first to unearth T. rex.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
Colin Greenwood—Radiohead bassist and sometime Cave touring bandmate—and guitarist Luis Almau are billed as additional performers on the LP.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2024
Minimalism, as practiced by the likes of Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Richard Serra — her then partner, and a sometime collaborator — was ascendant; with her mirrors, masks and costumes, Jonas consciously rejected the imperatives of the day.
—Susan Dominus Emiliano Granado, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Adverb
An opening date has yet to be announced, but Folia is expected to open sometime this summer in June or July.
—Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2024
Advertisement When the pump station delayed by the flooding is completed, the system is expected to be able to reach full capacity sometime late in 2027.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
The session followed an initial protest on April 8 after a student, identified by some on social media as a member of the nursing program, posted a video containing racist comments against the Black community on Yik Yak sometime in March.
—Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2024
The latest estimates expect the next halving to occur sometime late Friday or early Saturday.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2024
And Lamar will presumably come back with his own full track sometime soon.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2024
Earlier this week, county elections officials said Price’s opponents had gathered enough valid signatures to force a recall election sometime later this year.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
The beacon light on top of the water tower near 84th and National went out sometime in mid-March, according to Karyn Rittenhouse, water systems manager for the City of West Allis.
—Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2024
According to police, Liddell was released sometime before 10 p.m. Monday.
—The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
Adjective
The sometime collaborator of Oneohtrix Point Never and FKA twigs switches from prepared to acoustic piano on Moves in the Field, using a modern player piano, the Yamaha Disklavier, to write melodies too intricate for human hands.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 29 Mar. 2024
In his book, Etchells picks through much of the literature on screen time, including studies from Haidt and his sometime collaborator, psychologist Jean Twenge, whose work on the link between smartphones and mental health in young people has been extremely influential.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024
Along with the message came a radar image, tracking a storm system that is descending from the Gulf of Alaska and expected to drop rain in the region by sometime Wednesday night.
—Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
The second factor is that the ETFs arrived just before the 4th Bitcoin Halving event, expected sometime mid-April.
—Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
Beginning his career on stage, McCourt worked in nearly every medium, including serving as a sometime host of New York radio programs.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2024
Barnum Brown by Lowell Dingus and Mark A. Norell (University of California Press)
These paleontologists write a rollicking recollection of Brown, a globe-trotting adventurer, sometime spy, and great dinosaur hunter who was the first to unearth T. rex.
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
Colin Greenwood—Radiohead bassist and sometime Cave touring bandmate—and guitarist Luis Almau are billed as additional performers on the LP.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2024
Minimalism, as practiced by the likes of Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Richard Serra — her then partner, and a sometime collaborator — was ascendant; with her mirrors, masks and costumes, Jonas consciously rejected the imperatives of the day.
—Susan Dominus Emiliano Granado, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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