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
Examples of sometime in a Sentence
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
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Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 30 Apr. 2026
The first-generation of Porsche’s popular SUV is set to go out of production sometime this summer despite its continued success.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2026
Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
Schnabel — who watched the film near the front of the theater while sitting with pal Tom Waits, the musician and sometime actor who lives in Sonoma County — addressed the walkouts immediately as the post-film discussion moderated by Sundance Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez began.
—G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
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Adverb
The new filing will restart the clock, which leaves a likely timeline for rejection or approval by the Surface Transportation Board sometime next year — if the board accepts the application as complete within the next month.
—Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 30 Apr. 2026
The first-generation of Porsche’s popular SUV is set to go out of production sometime this summer despite its continued success.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Serpell is also a sometime film critic for the Review, contributing considerations of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, and a bravura essay about Émile Zola and the movie Zola.
—Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
Schnabel — who watched the film near the front of the theater while sitting with pal Tom Waits, the musician and sometime actor who lives in Sonoma County — addressed the walkouts immediately as the post-film discussion moderated by Sundance Film Festival Director Eugene Hernandez began.
—G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Sometime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sometime. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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