Sometime
['sʌmtaɪm]
Definition
(adv.) at some indefinite or unstated time; 'let's get together sometime'; 'everything has to end sometime'; 'It was to be printed sometime later'.
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Definition
(adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
(adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.
(adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime.
(a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
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Examples
- But we'll have another play sometime that he can see. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Following it at a respectful distance, Riah passed into the bed-chamber, where a fire had been sometime lighted, and was burning briskly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For as the future will sometime be present, so the past was once present. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And I will carry him sometime. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A god could not have the cruel vanity of Dr. John, nor his sometime levity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And because I make jokes sometime: and you know how dangerous it is to make jokes even in joke? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Its strength has often been severely tested, as it has been sometime drawn up by ships' anchors, and considerably strained; but it has not been broken, and the insulation is almost perfect. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I wish you would tell me of it sometime, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For one may fix his attention during Sometime on any one object without looking farther. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The aide-de-camp must have arrived sometime while Jos and Rebecca were making their bargain together, or the latter was inspecting his purchase. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You ought to try it sometime. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I hope he truly will be, sometime. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thou wilt do that with a Mauser sometime which has no knurl on the bolt and it will fire. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But I thank thee, Joaqu韓, and I'll carry thee sometime. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We paid the heavy bill--about six cents--and said we would call around sometime when we had a week to spend, and finish the game. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We must go there sometime, won't we Papa? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I must talk to you sometime to see how you are in your mind. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Somebody will choke you with that sometime, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And the sometime greater to the sometime less, and the greater that is to be to the less that is to be? Plato. The Republic.
- But I will tell the _Ingl閟_ sometime. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Jo talks about the country where we hope to live sometime--the real country, she means, with pigs and chickens and haymaking. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I'll score it against ye, and sometime I'll have my pay out o' yer old black hide,--mind ye! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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