How to Use sometime in a Sentence

sometime

1 of 2 adverb

• The book was written sometime around the turn of the century.
• A burglar broke in sometime during the night.
• It's likely to happen sometime soon.
• We should get together sometime.
• She will return from her trip sometime in December.
• These lots should be ready for builders sometime in next year’s first half.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
• So that’ll happen sometime in the next month or so.
  — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• My hope is that maybe sometime, somewhere.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
• Mythos is set to close sometime in 2027.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
• The Hulu app will get shut down sometime next year.
  — PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
• The Hulu app will get shut down sometime next year.
  — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• The film opens sometime in the late 1990s.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
• It is expect to open sometime in the coming year.
  — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
• Walsh hopes to have a grand opening for the theater sometime this fall.
  — Ryan P. C. Trimble, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
• The season will wrap sometime in May.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2026
• And sometime in the next two weeks that goal should be realized again.
  — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
• It's gotta stop sometime, and people gotta stop losing their lives.
  — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 28 June 2026
• But the dogs returned sometime later and killed a cat.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
• They are slated to reopen sometime in the spring.
  — Ella Gonzales april 1, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
• That deli is expected to open sometime this year.
  — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
• The trip should take place sometime around the end of May, the outlet adds.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
• Its final service will be sometime next week.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
• The work there could end sometime in Fall 2026.
  — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 15 Feb. 2026
• Melissa hopes to see her daughter back on the court sometime in May.
  — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026
• Please keep an eye out for the next Times subscriber hike, which will be sometime in the spring.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• It’s slated to release sometime this year.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
• Most state court judges will go up for reelection sometime in the near future.
  — Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• So now, Gaetz said the motion to vacate will come sometime this week.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2023
• Qualcomm expects the first of those to be out sometime in the summer.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
• But sometime in the last five minutes the teenager had slipped away into the scrub.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 30 Aug. 2023

sometime

2 of 2 adjective

• They're supposed to go on sale sometime mid-year at an undisclosed price.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2021
• Nobody connects the dots, but Bea is a sometime customer of Dan’s son.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
• Those two little words, your place, offer a first big hint as to the sometime-couple’s current status.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
• The other two are expected to turn themselves in sometime Tuesday, the chief said.
  — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2023
• The hero now calls a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu his sometime home.
  — Dallas News, 24 June 2022
• Poverty marked his childhood, and the city's crime boss is a family friend and his father's sometime employer.
  — Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• However, a cold front rolls in sometime Friday afternoon-evening, which leads to a changeover from rain to a wintry mix.
  — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
• Among them was her on-again, off-again husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her sometime bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2020
• Hamid had an eye toward bringing on another partner who’d be his counterpart, sounding board, and sometime foil.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2026
• Helders, thirty-seven, is a sometime boxer; his drumming has a pugilistic quality.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• If necessary, Game 3 would be sometime Monday.
  — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 3 June 2026
• The son of a Memphis undertaker, Smith was a sometime barber who loved to tinker.
  — Erika Larsen, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
• Arias was sentenced to life in prison for the 2008 murder of her sometime lover Travis Alexander.
  — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
• Marx was a sometime journalist, which, as everybody knows, is not a real job, and Engels was the son of a rich mill owner.
  — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
• Beckett is her sometime-ally although her obsession with solving the murder worries him.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
• The Stonewall has also become a sometime political campaign stop.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2019
• Donald had a new lady called Marla Maples, who was a sometime actress, putting it delicately.
  — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
• Pumphrey is a Baltimore artist, sometime teacher at the school and an open-water ultramarathon swimmer.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Fyodor and Timo, who are both mixed-race, are a sometime couple, the former a butcher, the latter a logician and pianist.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• After returning from his mission in the desert, the magistrate has a precipitous fall, and his sometime fiefdom starts to decline along with him.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
• Most of the actress’s scenes as a hooker with a head for news are with Foxx, Yo-Yo’s sometime pimp and constant verbal sparring partner.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• She was convicted of murder in the 2008 death of her sometime-boyfriend Travis Alexander at his Mesa home.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
• Lyman Creel, a lobsterman, and his wife, Grace, have a son and a daughter, Wren, who is David's sometime girlfriend.
  — Dan Cryer, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• The soft, romantic look of a boho dress can bring a levity to an all black outfit which is a nice break from the sometime cumbersome stylings of wearing a single color head-to-toe.
  — Shelby Comroe, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
• Thus, for all of Friday’s heat, for all this season’s sometime stickiness, summer is showing subtle signs that its lease, as the poet once had it, may not be endless.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
• Among the travelling group was Penny Cuthbertson, a friend of Lucian’s and his sometime subject.
  — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• And, perhaps fellow sometime fans note, this is not unlike the destroying of the inescapably cursed Horcruxes that are the focus of the series’ finale.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
• But in real patients, chronic pain often comes with anxiety, depression, and sometime side effects from medication.
  — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2025
• The cause was complications of a series of strokes, said Brian Cullman, a friend and sometime collaborator.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• In the 148-post saga, the narrator, a waitress and sometime stripper, meets a fellow exotic dancer named Jessica.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 29 June 2021