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The moments that we share with each other sometimes are the highlight of our day, our week or even our month.

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  1. adverb At times; now and then.
  2. adverb Obsolete At some previous time; formerly.

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  • I'd catch him watching me with a strange expression sometimes, and I figured he was waiting for me to abandon him like everyone else. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • But she has a problem finding the right word sometimes, and that gives her away I noticed. —  The Color of Her Panties
  • She had not only Rosamund and Edmund to calm down and then dress in their fairy costumes, but she also had on her hands the two delightful, ebullient little boys, Ganymede and Lucien, full of fun, laughing and chattering, sometimes in English, sometimes in French, and abounding with what she classified as the joys of spring. —  Lovers, Make Moan - Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 60
  • Our unofficial debut of the Chevy Volt touched a media nerve -- sometimes, the wrong ones ...... —  The Car Connection
  • We have Polish which is sometimes in Russian, sometimes in Linguistics. —  Stories from The Sun
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. from sometime + adverb suffix -s.
  2. from sometimes, adv.
 

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/ˈsəmtaɪmz/
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