sometime

[some·time]

The adverb sometime means "at a time that's not known or specified." So if you promise to take your friend out for pizza sometime, you're being vague about exactly when it's going to happen.

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At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

Adverb
at some indefinite or unstated time; "let''s get together sometime"; "everything has to end sometime"; "It was to be printed sometime later"


adv.
At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

adv.
At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

adv.
At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime.

a.
Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.


Sometime

Some"time` , adv. 1. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
2. At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion.
3. At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.

Sometime

Some"time` , a. Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Our sometime sister, now our queen.
Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized.

At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

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Usage Examples

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

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Other Usage Examples

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.

You've got to grow up sometime.

Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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