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BNC: 7642 COCA: 4914

sometime

1 sometime /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/ adverb
1 sometime
/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
adverb
Learner's definition of SOMETIME
: at an unspecified time in the future在(将来)的某个时刻
: at an unspecified or unknown time in the past在(过去)的某个时刻
2 sometime /ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/ adjective
2 sometime
/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/
adjective
Learner's definition of SOMETIME
always used before a noun
formalused to say what someone or something was in the past以前的
USused to say what someone sometimes does or is有时的;偶尔的
BNC: 7642 COCA: 4914

sometime

1 of 2

adverb

some·​time ˈsəm-ˌtīm How to pronounce sometime (audio)
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

sometime

2 of 2

adjective

1
: having been formerly : former, late
2
: being so occasionally or in only some respects
a sometime father

Example Sentences

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 See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Adverb
Season packages tickets will go on sale to new subscribers in mid-October, and single tickets will become available to the general public sometime next year. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022 Netflix has said the 10-episode drama series will be released sometime this year but has not given an official debut date. Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022 The lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) will be the first big step toward establishing a base camp; it is scheduled to arrive on a mission sometime after Artemis III in 2025. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022 The video showed boxes being moved out of the storage room sometime around the contact from the Justice Department, people familiar with the tapes said. Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2022 His contempt finding would be issued sometime after that. Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2022 The man, identified only by his surname Seol, was grabbed from a Busan train station and locked up at Brothers sometime around 1974 and 1975. BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022 After two years of sailing—sometime around September 20, 2024—NEA Scout will finally catch up with its target asteroid, called 2020 GE. WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022 If so, that would put Stranger Things arriving sometime around late fall 2023. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 July 2022
Adjective
Folie à Deux, which references a delusion or mental illness shared by two people, also suggests that Joker may also team up with another supervillain – possibly his sometime-girlfriend Harley. Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2022 His defense lawyer, Walter Riehl, was the sometime leader of the Austrian Nazi Party. Jonathan Bate, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2022 But the true target was more likely her father, ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, a fringe figure on Russia’s political right and a sometime critic of President Vladimir Putin. Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2022 Folie à Deux, which references a delusion or mental illness shared by two people, also suggests that Joker may also team up with another supervillain – possibly his sometime-girlfriend Harley. Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2022 Folie à Deux, which references a delusion or mental illness shared by two people, also suggests that Joker may also team up with another supervillain – possibly his sometime-girlfriend Harley. Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2022 The title Joker: Folie à Deux, which references a delusion or mental illness shared by two people, also suggests that Joker may team up with another supervillain — possibly his sometime-girlfriend Harley Quinn, who may be played by Lady Gaga. Emma Becker, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2022 Thus, for all of Friday’s heat, for all this season’s sometime stickiness, summer is showing subtle signs that its lease, as the poet once had it, may not be endless. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2022 Records show that the title for this Beaux Arts mansion was transferred to Epstein from his sometime mentor and client Les Wexner in 1996 for $0. Leena Kim, Town & Country, 24 June 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

Adverb

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of sometime was in the 14th century
BNC: 7642 COCA: 4914

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