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sometime Adverb

— You use sometime for a time in the future or the past that is unknown or undecided. We should get together sometime soon. He must have left sometime after the party started.

sometime Adjective

— A sometime editor, president, minister, etc. is someone who used to be in that position. Among those there that day was the sometime editor of the university paper and future editor of the uNew Statesman/u, John Lloyd. — A sometime actor, friend, teacher, etc. is someone who is not usually in that position. Ms. Smith was a teacher and sometime actor who appeared in many TV commercials.

sometime

— adverb at some indefinite or unstated time let's get together sometime everything has to end sometime It was to be printed sometime later — adjective (= erstwhile, former, quondam) belonging to some prior time erstwhile friend our former glory the once capital of the state her quondam lover

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sometime English » English

sometimes someday one day ever once occasionally former at times at some time whenever some time some day old now and then formerly erstwhile anytime sooner or later quondam onetime one-time eventually earlier ago yesteryear with time while somewhere somewhen past other day once in a while olden long ago in time in the future in due course gone future ex departed defunct at any time approximately anywhere about

Topics sometime topics

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States Time

Indefinite time

What words refer to an indefinite time?

when then sometime someday anytime onetime whenever approximate approximately

Grammar Part of speech Pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

What pronouns express indefinite reference of a time?

time period when sometime anytime every time never at no time each time whenever sometimes

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Simple sentences

Sometime I'll definitely visit France. I just don't know exactly when.

Call me sometime.

Write me sometime, OK?

I have a feeling that Masao may blow in sometime soon.

Come and visit us in Paris sometime soon.

I'll pay you a visit sometime.

I'll visit you sometime in the near future.

Let's hang him first, we will judge him later sometime!

I'd like to meet Tom sometime.

I'd like to have dinner with you sometime.

I'd love to hear you sing sometime.

Come to watch us play music sometime.

We should play squash together sometime.

I hope we'll see each other again sometime.

I hope to see you sometime.

I would like to see you again sometime.

John sometime goes overboard in drinking.

Let's meet sometime in the near future.

Movie subtitles

Um, heh, um, um, look, maybe, maybe sometime Elder Cunningham and I could, could talk to you, maybe tell you a little bit about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

Sometime I'd like to convince that general that what he's doing is wrong.

So why don't you carry a sword? will you go off on another journey sometime just like what you were on when you came here that time?

Uh, hey, um, do you want to come over sometime, just check out the new place?

Sometime mid-May.

I should come and see you sometime.

A magnificent man, whom you should meet sometime.

Sometime during the evening. I might be able to get the key out of her bag.

I'd like to hear the rest of it sometime.

I wonder if I could hear it sometime.

That's all right. Maybe you do as much for me sometime.

You must call on me sometime.

I'm gonna cut him open sometime and find out!

Sometime I'm gonna take one of you volunteers apart. and find out what makes you leave school and join the army.

I'll show it to you sometime.

You must come over and see us sometime.

I'll do that for you sometime.

You gotta grow up sometime.

But I may need a friend myself sometime.

I said we'd get together sometime, didn't I?

I'd be happy to have you call me sometime.

Well, I'll see you around sometime, I guess.

Come over and see us sometime.

Ask me for a favour sometime, will you?

I don't suppose you'd take some dictation from me sometime, would you?

Come up sometime?

You must try mine sometime.

Maybe sometime I go to Italy, and I'm practicing the language.

Maybe you do as much for me sometime.

You must call on me sometime. I was just about to.

Sometime, you'll pick the wrong filly. - Not a chance.

The doctor's coming up to see you sometime today.

Come on over and see us sometime.

News and current affairs

Sometime in the future, payments would rise, but borrowers were told, again, not to worry: house prices would rise faster, making it easy to refinance with another negative amortization loan.

An expectation that interest rates will be high sometime in the next decade should mean high interest rates on long-term bonds today.

I have no doubt that sometime later this century, one will be able to buy pocket professors - perhaps with holographic images - as easily as one can buy a pocket Kasparov chess computer today.

My sometime co-author Carmen Reinhart makes the same point, perhaps even more clearly.

Sometime in the next two years a human being will likely be cloned.

Monetary tightening is widely anticipated in the US, with the Federal Reserve having ended quantitative easing in October and likely to raise short-term interest rates sometime in the coming year.

The details are still anyone's guess, but the consensus view is that the EU will have many of the constitution's most important procedural mechanisms by sometime next year.

North Korea is perhaps the most noxious regime in the world today, and one can only hope that its cruel government collapses sometime soon.

The data also revealed that China would overtake the US as the world's largest economy in PPP terms sometime in 2014 - a shift that, according to our estimates, occurred on October 10th.

Sometime soon, the US is likely to rejoin these international discussions.

Sometime in the next twenty years, the relationship between human beings and the natural world is going to change, profoundly and forever.

Nobody knows how much oil is left and how much it will cost to extract, but the peak of global oil production will probably be reached sometime in the next quarter century, perhaps even in the next few years.

Chinese devaluation rumors abound and the most common view is that sometime next year one is inevitable.

If that rate can be sustained - and if the Chinese economy becomes and remains integrated enough for us to be able to speak of it as a single entity - China's labor productivity will be comparable to today's America sometime before 2050.

So I had vague thoughts that I might go into space sometime in 2011 - the year that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is (very) tentatively slated to go.

Sources within the US administration hint that President Barack Obama might announce the outlines of an Arab-Israeli settlement sometime later this year.

Irving Kristol, sometime editor of the magazine The Public Interest and one of the intellectual midwives of this idea, later wrote that he was interested not in whether it was true, but in whether it was useful.

Although it has been hampered by a wide range of computer problems and other technical difficulties, the program is likely to be operating by sometime in 2014.

That sometime means making hard choices of the type that the US and many other developed countries are facing now.

Sometime this year, China's GDP will exceed that of Japan (if it has not already done so).

The US was far from consistent or perfect in this process, sometime to murderous effect in places like Vietnam.

It may or may not fly, but it is arrestingly novel: if negotiations fail - so Fayyad says - sometime in 2011 the Palestinians should declare independence unilaterally.

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