How to Use somewhere in a Sentence

somewhere

1 of 2 adverb
  • She lives somewhere in the city.
  • The boy ran off somewhere.
  • Do you want to go somewhere else?
  • His house must be around here somewhere.
  • I've seen you somewhere before.
  • Put it somewhere your team can see it.
    John Winsor, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • That’s gonna be a meme somewhere.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • So those cuts have to come from somewhere.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Clement has to make this team somewhere.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Gotta be some ha-has in there somewhere.
    Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Or to drive them off somewhere else?
    Rebecca Van Laer september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • All those unloved cars have to go somewhere.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Gad is still in there, somewhere.
    Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 3 June 2026
  • Does that live somewhere in you still?
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a joke in here somewhere.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But somewhere down the line, the trend has to stop.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Cry wolf somewhere else, coach.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • There'll be one next week, next month, somewhere else.
    John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Would he be sent to Ecuador or somewhere else?
    Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Rain could prompt the Padres to send him somewhere else.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That demand means the gas has to come from somewhere.
    Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • But the power has to come from somewhere.
    Krys Fluker, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
  • My mind went a little bit somewhere else.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But for the city, money has to come from somewhere.
    Audrey Pham, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Use it to explore somewhere new, even close to home.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And then there was me, somewhere in the middle.
    Jeff Miller, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Those extra work hours need to come from somewhere.
    Jo Ilfeld, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s got to be a lesson in there somewhere.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • My take is somewhere in the middle.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 8 Jan. 2026

somewhere

2 of 2 noun
  • We looked for somewhere to park the car.
  • I know somewhere nice where we can eat.
  • Quite a few who grew for fiber this year are struggling to find somewhere for their hemp to land.
    Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Long flights feel noticeably more relaxing with somewhere to prop up tired feet.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026
  • Please stop giving viruses on their laptops trying to find somewhere to watch these 3pm games.
    SI.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The rest of the people in the city are trying to find somewhere to go to figure out how to get out of their situations.
    OregonLive.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • To see the Southern Delta Aquariids tonight, your best bet is to find somewhere that has a clear view of the sky.
    Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, 29 July 2019
  • Many are local retirees like Gold, happy to collect the modest pay, enjoy the free lunch, and have somewhere to be before noon.
    Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025
  • That kind of steady collaboration, built long before this moment, helped ensure families had somewhere to turn when the shutdown hit.
    Casey Castillo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The weather somewhere else Take a look at a weather map before the meal starts and find somewhere that usually gets a lot of snow that is expected to get a lot of snow.
    oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2019
  • But there were also hundreds of others who weren't select who are trying to find somewhere — anywhere — to latch onto a roster and continue chasing their dream.
    Jordan McPherson, miamiherald, 1 May 2018
  • Oil traders are on a desperate quest to find somewhere -- anywhere, really -- to store their crude as tanks from Texas to Siberia fill to capacity.
    Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
  • For author and owner Vincent McCaffrey, re-opening sometime, somewhere was always the plan.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • However, the space station will re-enter somewhere between the latitudes of 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south, based on its current orbital inclination.
    Elizabeth Howell, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Consider the fate of the $TRUMP meme coin, currently trading below its high of $39 and its low of somewhere south of the Ninth Circle of Hell.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • My friend Heidi Kramer, now 81, pitched up on Tinos in September 1980 as a young and fearless Swiss divorcée, looking for somewhere to settle.
    Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 May 2022
  • Even if Prescott doesn't totally recover from a shaky sophomore campaign, the Cowboys still could sign him to a contract that would carry an average annual cap-hit somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 million per season.
    Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 9 Mar. 2018
  • For many, finding accurate information about somewhere's accessibility is one of the most significant accessibility challenges.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Unfolding on a literal giant storybook of a set, with an aesthetic somewhere between Dalí and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Color Theories is a complete charmer, witty and whimsical in equal measure.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025

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