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sometimes Adverb

— Things that happen sometimes only happen at certain times, or on certain occasions, but not every time. The bus sometimes arrives late, especially if it is raining. Sometimes the shop has low prices on a Tuesday. I go swimming sometimes, if I have nothing else to do.

sometimes

— adverb on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always sometimes she wished she were back in England sometimes her photography is breathtaking sometimes they come for a month; at other times for six months

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occasionally at times now and then from time to time sometime several times every so often once in a while periodically perhaps often now and again ever some once on occasion formerly at time ago when weather various time sometimes … sometimes something someday some time seldom rarely on occasions not too often maybe many a time intermittently infrequently in times in some cases hour here and there frequently every now and then eventually

Topics sometimes topics

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Sometimes

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sometimes occasionally every so often once in a while at times now and again now and then from time to time

Grammar Part of speech Pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

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

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Simple sentences

There are sometimes blizzards in Kanazawa.

Sometimes I doubt your intelligence.

Sometimes I run out of money.

Seven is sometimes considered a lucky number.

She sometimes hesitates before answering.

She sometimes goes into a mood of depression.

Sometimes I go, sometimes I don't.

My dog sometimes eats grass.

Sometimes, size does matter.

Sometimes we don't do things we want to do so that others won't know we want to do them.

Tom sometimes wears a hat.

Sometimes he can be a strange guy.

Sometimes I can't help showing emotions.

Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.

Sometimes he has difficulties with being articulate about his views.

He sometimes has trouble expressing his opinions.

Sometimes Spenser cares so much about Trang that he leads her to believe he is being overprotective.

Sometimes hockey players get so competitive that fights break out.

The rich sometimes despise the poor.

Do you sometimes go abroad on your holidays?

Sometimes everything goes wrong.

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

Destiny is sometimes cruel.

Left alone, I sometimes feel like crying.

Sometimes I can't hold my emotions.

Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.

We should sometimes expose our bodies to the sun.

I like English so much, but sometimes it is very difficult for me.

In English class, sometimes we sit in a circle to talk about a book we are reading.

Movie subtitles

It's just he sometimes makes things up when he doesn't know what else to say.

Sometimes I think it was actually Samwise that did everything.

Um, when you go to sleep at night, do you sometimes feel a power stirring inside you?

They come around sometimes, make sure the shipments get through with no hassles.

Sometimes I think we'd make more of a difference without the badge.

I mean, sometimes I hate my small boobs.

Sometimes I feel like my dad wishes I was exactly like my older brother, but that might just be because we have the same name, and they only decided to have another kid after first Neal died in a car accident.

I love being married. It's just sometimes I miss the single life.

Sometimes the best way to handle things is the mature, non-paintball approach.

And sometimes that's great.

Sometimes it's the only time when parties can get together.

The thing is, lads, sometimes in life we're told to do things and we don't.

Sometimes cheering people on from the sidelines doesn't help.

At times of great happiness, Nurse Gilbert, it is sometimes as well to remember that others may be ploughing a less congenial path.

Some must sometimes love 2 women equally.

Sometimes I envy the fate of colonist women.

Sometimes guilt.

My house is the most chaotic, loudest place ever and sometimes I look around and I feel devastatingly alone.

The Captain is a moral man. Sometimes he finds it trying.

Sometimes it's so beautiful that I just lie there, listening.

They catch up with them, and sometimes they don't.

Sometimes on Sundays.

Sometimes they take the form of wolves, but generally of bats.

Sometimes I have me doubts about you.

And sometimes I even have my doubts about you.

Sometimes before supper.

Sometimes calomel.

Yes. It still bothers me sometimes.

Every night after school, me, Mickey, and Pork Chop are making sandwiches for, like, two solid hours, sometimes three.

They play dirty, which is why sometimes it seems like it's damned near impossible for rule-abiding kids to win.

HUH. SOMETIMES THE, UH, PROCEDURE PRODUCES A FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT RESPONSE.

It's just sometimes I miss the single life.

Sometimes moms just come through.

Sometimes I feel as if my love was only a dream.

Do you know that it sometimes requires years to bring the pear and the alligator together?

There's a train once a week and sometimes twice a day.

News and current affairs

Science fiction sometimes limits rather than expands our sense of what is possible.

Sometimes, more folkloric details come into play, broadening the members of this cabal to include the Illuminati, the Freemasons, Rhodes Scholars, or, as always, the Jews.

A war of memories, in turn, may sometimes lead to a violent conflict in the future.

However, it is sometimes repressed that the massive use of force had been necessary to achieve that result.

Sometimes even army and police vehicles are involved.

Sun Tzu and other Chinese military theorists long ago counseled that doing nothing is sometimes the best way to win in the end.

Sometimes, when there is electricity, I watch television and see how people live in other places.

Sometimes the same company operates on both sides of the divide.

American states like California spend about as much on prisons as on higher education - and sometimes more.

Machiavelli may be correct, but we sometimes forget that the opposite of love is not fear, but hatred.

Sometimes they respect the adviser's wisdom and insights (fairly rare in diplomacy).

Sometimes reason does prevail.

It thus sometimes achieved indirectly what could not be done directly: the leveraging of American influence to promote human rights.

Necessity sometimes dictates that risks be accepted, as Britain did in 1939.

Despite the sometimes downright pornographic on-screen writhing of Bollywood starlets, India is still a deeply conservative society.

In the process, conspiracy theories are pulled from the margins of public discourse, where they were generally consigned in the past, and sometimes into the very heart of politics.

While accurate attribution of the ultimate source of a cyber attack is sometimes difficult, the determination does not have to be airtight.

Detentions and deportations take place under sometimes terrible conditions.

It is not just that the assistance of odious governments is sometimes essential; it is also that there is nothing more difficult than remaking the internal workings of other societies.

Sometimes, I am sorry that I am from Gaza.

It is sometimes tempting to let intractable conflicts fester, and there are some situations where other countries can play the mediator's role more effectively.

With the right growth strategy, far-reaching change can come within a person's lifetime - sometimes more than once.

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