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
The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
Waterhouse and Pattinson likely welcomed their child sometime last month, as the couple was first spotted walking with a stroller around LA toward the end of March.
—Glamour, 9 Apr. 2024
The tome, which was written sometime around 250 to 350 A.D., is expected to hit the auction block for $2.6 million to $3.8 million.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
The landfill will conduct a new waste analysis study sometime this fiscal year, Cantu said.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
Smith could also turn pro sometime this summer, perhaps around the time the Sharks hold their development camp after the NHL Draft.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2024
Sora is expected to launch sometime later this year.
—Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 5 Apr. 2024
Construction is set to begin sometime before the end of 2024.
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
The new ground-level terminal should be in service sometime in January.
—James A. Jones Jr., Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 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
According to police, Liddell was released sometime before 10 p.m. Monday.
—The Arizona Republic, 9 Apr. 2024
Waterhouse and Pattinson likely welcomed their child sometime last month, as the couple was first spotted walking with a stroller around LA toward the end of March.
—Glamour, 9 Apr. 2024
The tome, which was written sometime around 250 to 350 A.D., is expected to hit the auction block for $2.6 million to $3.8 million.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
The landfill will conduct a new waste analysis study sometime this fiscal year, Cantu said.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
Smith could also turn pro sometime this summer, perhaps around the time the Sharks hold their development camp after the NHL Draft.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2024
Sora is expected to launch sometime later this year.
—Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 5 Apr. 2024
Construction is set to begin sometime before the end of 2024.
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
The new ground-level terminal should be in service sometime in January.
—James A. Jones Jr., Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 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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