How to Use or something in a Sentence
or something
idiomatic phrase-
Love… or something else, is in the air in the Kelce household!
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
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Give me a hug, sit down and have a bite to eat with me or something.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2024
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When James came back, Jeff had been in the band for 10 years or something.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2025
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Maybe Dave Grohl wants to start a side project or something.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
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That’s just like coffee grounds in the sink or something.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 July 2024
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That’s just like coffee grounds in the sink or something.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
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Just give one of the Dakotas one more vote or something.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2024
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That's a go for a nighttime drive type of song or something.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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This was done in the order of 36 hours or something to that effect.
—CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024
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This wasn't a crime of passion, or something like that.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
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Good guy runs it—his name is Dave or Mike or something.
—Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
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Blame it on the coffee or something stronger, but Noah was on 1.5 speed this evening.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
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Jax might come over and try to pick him up and take him to the park or take him to a Sky Zone or something like that.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
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Like, allowing the fame to get to my head or something like that.
—Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
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Joy and Austin's like, one of their kid’s birthday thing or something.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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This record has a lot of tones that remind me of the Pretenders or Tune-Yards or something.
—Ryan Reed, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
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Looking for more help with your game, or something for a loved one?
—Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 7 Aug. 2025
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Someone, or something, had pruned a large portion of the tree.
—Ryan Bradley, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
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Why not just open a Chase account or something like that?
—Time, 9 July 2023
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And the Voyager team deserves an Olympic medal or something like that.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
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So the whole thing looks like a tornado went through or something like that.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
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Why does the time change at 2 a.m. instead of, like, midnight or 5 a.m. or something?
—Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2024
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My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something.
—Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
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But should that choice be the Ramblas itself, or something like it?
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
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There's a, uh, like a little culvert or something.
—Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026
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In Scrapper that would have had to have been a GIF or something.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
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Lucy is trying to play the game or something.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
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Jaden Smith doesn't want to talk about Ye… or footwear… or something.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Feb. 2026
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Like a kid without their blanket or something.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 14 Feb. 2026
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He was laid off for no reason, such as smoking backstage or something like that.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
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