Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. At times; now and then.
- adv. Obsolete At some previous time; formerly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- At times; now and then: as, I am sometimes at leisure; sometimes he plays Hamlet, and sometimes Othello.
- At one time; at or for a certain time in the past; formerly; once; sometime.
- Same as sometime.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. obsolete Formerly; sometime.
- adv. At times; at intervals; not always; now and then; occasionally.
- adj. obsolete Former; sometime.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always
Etymologies
- From some + times. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She sometimes wants to mock oldsters for acting young and sometimes to help them do so.”
“LINDENSCHMIED (_from this point on incessantly casting furtive glances sometimes at_ ANDREW, _sometimes at the gun_).”
“«modo ... modo», _now ... now, sometimes ... sometimes_”
“Don't you think that perhaps sometimes success may be -- I don't say it always is -- as high-minded as failure, that a hard-won victory may be as honourable as defeat, that achievement may _sometimes_ be the result not of chance or interest, but of unremitting toil?”
“And sometimes "-- she crossed her crop and looked around at him reflectively --" _sometimes_, do you know, I am almost afraid that you are so very, very good, that perhaps you are becoming almost goody-good. ”
“It must come sometimes -- _all_ chindrel is c'oss _sometimes_, "she added complacently.”
“In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, investors are overly concerned at the possibility of so-called black swan events, said O'Neill, using a term sometimes used to describe unlikely occurrences with severe consequences.”
“Backlog" is a term sometimes used loosely in the industry and may not represent firm orders at all, he said.”
“I get to say her name sometimes dozens of times a day as I engage in the mission of The Sylvia Center.”
The Huffington Post: Liz Neumark: Still Talking After Seven Years
“Meghan McCain sometimes is critical of the republican party, stone her, stone her to death!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sometimes’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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uhhhhhh!
uh!, sometimes, i just cant stand..., but we all know t..., and that i tell a..., and no matter how..., i like you, i like you alot, and i want to be ..., but i know you do..., but truth is im w..., youve changed so ... and 39 more...
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shaking
i want so despera..., to be in love, sometimes, i want to believe..., i know im not eve..., and he thinks he ..., but i want to be ..., and im tired of d..., he says things bu..., i know hes a liar, im not stupid, but i am lonely and 14 more...
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Answers
Life is full of tests and challenges--with our busy schedules, it can be hard to find the time to study. Are you a student bombarded by a pop quiz? A witness testifying about that industrial accide...
true, false, All of the above., None of the above., D, C, B, A, 42, Not to my recolle..., children's laughter, a dentist's drill and 26 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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#1
Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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loinfruit's Words
buddy, hungry, hug, want, you, i, mommy, school, ballet, sign, sign language, language and 170 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
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Tunie: Mark Rothko Song
A sad song by Dar Williams, from her album The Honesty Room.
The blue it speaks so full
It's like the beauty one can barely stand
Or too much things dropped in your ...pedestrians, kind, wash away, desperate, uptown, coffee, foot in the grave, folks, suicide, museum, powers, cost and 29 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sometimes.
frangarnes A veces, de vez en cuando Oct 19, 2007