How to Use sometime in a Sentence

sometime

1 of 2 adverb
Definition of sometimenext
Synonyms for sometimenext
  • The book was written sometime around the turn of the century.
  • A burglar broke in sometime during the night.
  • It's likely to happen sometime soon.
  • We should get together sometime.
  • She will return from her trip sometime in December.
  • But sometime in the last five minutes the teenager had slipped away into the scrub.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The move is expected to take place sometime in Spring 2025.
    — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Those looking to beat the crowds should plan a trip to Cancun sometime in the summer or fall.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2023
  • In July, Vista Outdoor said plans to make the split sometime in 2023 are still on track.
    — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
  • So now, Gaetz said the motion to vacate will come sometime this week.
    — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The thefts happened sometime around the first week of January and the boxes were later found in St. Paul.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Hisense is expected to be released sometime in 2024.
    — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The couple met while working at Second City in Chicago sometime in the mid-'90s.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 5 May 2023
  • Gurriel suffered a hand/wrist injury sometime around the All-Star break last year.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023
  • Judge is far from healed; that won’t happen until sometime in the winter.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • That would mean if the court takes up the case, a final decision would come out sometime before the Supreme Court’s term wraps up in June 2024.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The next installment will hit screens sometime in 2024, with the first two seasons now streaming on Disney+.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Now, the flight isn’t scheduled until sometime next year — at the earliest.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Japan plans to release the wastewater sometime this summer.
    — Jake Kwon, CNN, 9 July 2023
  • We would still be married at St. Mary's Cathedral, sometime in the near future.
    — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The employee who designed it left the job sometime after.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
  • Plot details are being kept secret but this one is said to be set sometime in the future.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • According to People, they wed sometime before the start of 2024.
    — Glamour, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Still, Amazon aims to make a version of the chat mode available to all users of Amazon speakers sometime this year.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The first eight-episode season will premiere on Netflix sometime in 2024.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Construction is set to begin sometime before the end of 2024.
    — Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • That suggests the pact expires sometime in early or mid-2024.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The latest Companion Pass promotion comes on the heels of Southwest’s plans to start red-eye flights sometime in the next two years.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The winners will be announced in late April, and the ceremony will take place in Cleveland sometime later in the year.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The landfill will conduct a new waste analysis study sometime this fiscal year, Cantu said.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
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sometime

2 of 2 adjective
  • The hero now calls a 2007 Chevrolet Malibu his sometime home.
    — Dallas News, 24 June 2022
  • Arias was sentenced to life in prison for the 2008 murder of her sometime lover Travis Alexander.
    — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Nobody connects the dots, but Bea is a sometime customer of Dan’s son.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
  • They're supposed to go on sale sometime mid-year at an undisclosed price.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2021
  • Among them was her on-again, off-again husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her sometime bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Arias was charged in the 2008 murder of her sometime lover Travis Alexander, who was found stabbed, shot and with his throat slit in the bathroom of his Mesa house.
    — Michael Kiefer, azcentral, 30 May 2018
  • She was convicted of murder in the 2008 death of her sometime-boyfriend Travis Alexander at his Mesa home.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The other two are expected to turn themselves in sometime Tuesday, the chief said.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Lyman Creel, a lobsterman, and his wife, Grace, have a son and a daughter, Wren, who is David's sometime girlfriend.
    — Dan Cryer, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The son of a Memphis undertaker, Smith was a sometime barber who loved to tinker.
    — Erika Larsen, National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Most of the actress’s scenes as a hooker with a head for news are with Foxx, Yo-Yo’s sometime pimp and constant verbal sparring partner.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • In the wake of the Great Recession, and the flowering of alternate musical media, new CDs now are a more sometime thing.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The injuries to the couple indicate that Charles Williams, 52, shot his wife and then himself sometime overnight Friday, police said.
    — Katie Park, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
  • This kind of meta humor is the lifeblood of The New Pope, its sometime absurdity often excused by the addition of a note of the surreal.
    — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The roof caved in sometime Sunday afternoon, Leith said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Kassa Overall, a Seattle drummer and sometime rapper, straddles the rhythmic realms of jazz and hip-hop with poise (Jan. 15).
    — Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Harvey is expected to make landfall sometime Friday (Aug. 25) on the Texas coast.
    — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Fyodor and Timo, who are both mixed-race, are a sometime couple, the former a butcher, the latter a logician and pianist.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Poverty marked his childhood, and the city's crime boss is a family friend and his father's sometime employer.
    — Jenni Laidman, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
  • The incident took place sometime Wednesday morning in the 7900 block of South Bishop Street, according to police.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • In the 148-post saga, the narrator, a waitress and sometime stripper, meets a fellow exotic dancer named Jessica.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 29 June 2021
  • When Earn goes out with Van (Zazie Beetz), his friend, his sometime lover and the mother of his child, the movie theater refuses to accept a $100 bill from him but takes one from the middle-aged white man behind him in line.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The winner will be revealed sometime March 14 through March 20, depending on how many finals games are necessary.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • After returning from his mission in the desert, the magistrate has a precipitous fall, and his sometime fiefdom starts to decline along with him.
    — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Pumphrey is a Baltimore artist, sometime teacher at the school and an open-water ultramarathon swimmer.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Nixon is also a sometime politician and education activist who challenged Andrew Cuomo in the 2018 governor’s race and maybe sort of pushed him to the left on a few issues?
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 25 June 2021
  • The Stonewall has also become a sometime political campaign stop.
    — CBS News, 27 June 2019
  • Kathy McKeon served as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant (and sometime nanny) during a time of great change for the former first lady.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The cause was complications of a series of strokes, said Brian Cullman, a friend and sometime collaborator.
    — William Grimes, New York Times, 31 May 2017

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