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
- Same as sometime.
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adv. On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always. [from 16th c.]
- adv. On a certain occasion in the past; once. [16th-17th c.]
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Formerly; sometime.
- adv. At times; at intervals; not always; now and then; occasionally.
- adj. Former; sometime.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always
Examples
“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.”
“I get to say her name sometimes dozens of times a day as I engage in the mission of The Sylvia Center.”
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“The blue hairs" is a phrase sometimes used by Christian publishers to refer to the conservative Christians who own the Christian bookstores in which the publishers want and need to sell their books.”
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“Meghan McCain sometimes is critical of the republican party, stone her, stone her to death!”
“The man who had nicknamed himself “never-my-belly-against-a-desk” a nickname sometimes repeated derisively by field workers exasperated by his on-the-spot micromanaging watched impotently as enticing field projects crossed his desk, reduced to memos, invoices, arid progress reports, and columns of figures on the printed page.”
“You don't even need to get past the title sometimes:”
“This feature explains the title sometimes given to this mass, Missa cunctorum plasmator summus.”
“Waymire, supra, 114 F.3d at 650–52, whereas in tort cases the term sometimes denotes little more than gross negligence.”
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“Apparently the term sometimes has a bit of a negative connotation in Japan, so don't sling the word around, unless you are sure of yourself.”
“In archaic usage, the term sometimes referred to misfortune or calamity, and it certainly seemed to me to be exactly that when first the spots began to appear on the flawlessly butter-soft skin of my baby.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sometimes’.
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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 135 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone has to list them.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about adverbs here.
Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2238 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 23 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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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 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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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 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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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 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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#1
Words I Like
abide, sashay, microbial, scented, nature, amorphous, unknown, imagine, photogenic, soft, silken, history and 188 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...
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Vaguesswork
Things held by a weaselspeaker. (Katigans without the madeupicals.)
obfuscation, obtuse, apparatus, element, it, existence, information, point, substance, stuff, sometimes, person and 47 more...
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time zones
time zone, transient, hitherto, now, meanwhile, hereafter, henceforth, forthwith, ere, while, hebdomadally, sometimes and 9 more...
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Mogeltron
Miscellaneous idiolect that could be used to assemble a Whichbe simulator.
point of skew, character as fate, doubt for doubt, story of my life, cumulative effect, default settings, reasonable, or tr..., take care, relative proportion, is that so, cognitive bias, and whatnot and 41 more...
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