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
  • Give me a hug, sit down and have a bite to eat with me or something.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Maybe Dave Grohl wants to start a side project or something.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2023
  • That’s just like coffee grounds in the sink or something.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • That’s just like coffee grounds in the sink or something.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 July 2024
  • Just give one of the Dakotas one more vote or something.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2024
  • This was done in the order of 36 hours or something to that effect.
    CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • This wasn't a crime of passion, or something like that.
    Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Good guy runs it—his name is Dave or Mike or something.
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Blame it on the coffee or something stronger, but Noah was on 1.5 speed this evening.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Like, allowing the fame to get to my head or something like that.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Joy and Austin's like, one of their kid’s birthday thing or something.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
  • This record has a lot of tones that remind me of the Pretenders or Tune-Yards or something.
    Ryan Reed, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Someone, or something, had pruned a large portion of the tree.
    Ryan Bradley, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Why not just open a Chase account or something like that?
    Time, 9 July 2023
  • And the Voyager team deserves an Olympic medal or something like that.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
  • So the whole thing looks like a tornado went through or something like that.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But should that choice be the Ramblas itself, or something like it?
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
  • The market caps so far are not that big, around $35 million or something like that .
    Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • And the release date for the record is going to be in November or something like that.
    Gen Handley, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • There's that moment when Daemon's going over to the tree, and then there's a guy with a deer head or something.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Look at me, getting tires changed right in front of my driveway, like the king of England or something!
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Be sure to go easy on your neck with a reclining chair or something to lay on, too; heavy is the head that watches the stars.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 5 May 2024
  • Who knows, maybe there will be a Somebody Somewhere movie in two years or something like that.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Maybe hold up your cellphone camera and take a click or something. ...
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In a show that may or may not be set in purgatory, or heaven, or something else entirely, a twin reveal raises the question, Is Merrill a vision of Max’s future or his path not taken?
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But is that future truly the utopian ideal, or something potentially darker?
    ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025

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