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sometime
[suhm-tahym]
adverb
at some indefinite or indeterminate point of time.
He will arrive sometime next week.
at an indefinite future time.
Come to see me sometime.
Archaic.sometimes; on some occasions.
Archaic.at one time; formerly.
adjective
having been formerly; former.
The diplomat was a sometime professor of history at Oxford.
being so only at times or to some extent.
Traveling so much, he could never be more than a sometime husband.
that cannot be depended upon regarding affections or loyalties.
He was well rid of his sometime girlfriend.
sometime
/ ˈʌˌٲɪ /
adverb
at some unspecified point of time
adjective
(prenominal) having been at one time; former
the sometime President
(prenominal) occasional; infrequent
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Example Sentences
He told me you guys traded numbers and said you should write together sometime.
Both programs may have to be shored up fiscally sometime in the next decade to avoid benefit cuts; the budget bill will make that process harder.
Results are expected sometime in the next few days, officials said.
In the meantime, experts are studying the southernmost tip of the San Andreas fault, which hasn’t had an earthquake of 7 or larger since sometime between 1721 and 1731.
I started experimenting with homemade snack wraps sometime after McDonald’s phased them out — not out of some culinary calling, but pure necessity.
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