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
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
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
The United States is otherwise expected to run out of room to borrow sometime in August.
—Riley Beggin, USA Today, 18 June 2025
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 June 2025
Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz
as a federal penitentiary.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
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Adverb
But that was breached sometime overnight, when someone pried the plywood off a back window and broke the glass, making the home a crime scene for a second time, police said Wednesday.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
The United States is otherwise expected to run out of room to borrow sometime in August.
—Riley Beggin, USA Today, 18 June 2025
Adjective
That’s because her daughter and sometime musical companion Willow had cooked up her own homebrew tribute to the Great White Way.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 June 2025
Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz
as a federal penitentiary.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for sometime
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sometime. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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