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adverb

on some occasions; at times; now and then.

Origin:
1520–30; sometime + -s¹

Can be confused: sometime, sometimes (see usage note at sometime).

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Sometimes is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Judges, lawyers and appellate courts feared that using two, sometimes three juries when more than one.

Sometimes the procession wends its way through the town, sometimes it covers only a short distance.

He is acclaimed for his advocacy of web standards, books and a sometimes prickly manner.

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Judges, lawyers and appellate courts feared that using two, sometimes three juries when more than one.

Sometimes the procession wends its way through the town, sometimes it covers only a short distance.

He is acclaimed for his advocacy of web standards, books and a sometimes prickly manner.

Sometimes survival means lying, stealing, or vanishing in place.

Sometimes logic itself can be the flaw in the ointment.

Sometimes these interviewees aren't well known, and sometimes they're famous.

The best vacation spot is sometimes in your own backyard.

And yet sometimes a piece of code is so elegant, so evolved, that it outlasts everything else.

Sometimes a successful art career springs from a few serendipitous occurrences.

Sometimes the ceremony lasts for hours, sometimes not.

The authors rightly decry the degree to which scientists have sometimes manufactured and exaggerated environmental uncertainties.

Sometimes it's the journey, sometimes it's the destination-and sometimes, it's both.

But during the tempered glow of crimson sunsets or through a veil of thin cloud, the eye can sometimes spy areas of darkness.

These permanent designs-sometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal-have served as.

Generally disease resistant, though foliage is sometimes disfigured by a small looper caterpillar.

Sometimes the relentless march of progress hits a wall.

Sometimes the interruption can be productive, sometimes it's disruptive and annoying.

Sometimes these strategies involve co-operation, sometimes not.

Still, their best efforts at blending in sometimes fail.

Narrowly defined, headache is pain in the head or face, and sometimes also includes pain in the upper neck.

British contemporary art is sometimes mistaken for garbage-literally.

Shrubs that grow from a framework of branches can sometimes be transformed into small trees.

Sometimes a moment of beauty takes a mundane experience into transcendence.

Sometimes junior faculty will grandstand and jockey for position in the inappropriate context of an interview or job talk.

Such experiments are stressful and sometimes painful for animals, and expensive and time-consuming for.

Sometimes the best defense isn't a good offense-it's a good diet.

But the combined impact of these sometimes competing forces has.

Barley sugar is also called barley candy or barley sugar candy, although sometimes a distinction is made.

Sometimes you want to live large, sometimes you need to live thrifty.

Browsing the list makes for some interesting reading, and reveals the sometimes unusual and unlikely selections.

And that, you tell them, is why sometimes one should paraphrase and sometimes one should quote leopard:.

What we're looking at is a common phenomenon sometimes called semantic inflation.

Outside, where cattle usually graze, human bones sometimes come unearthed after heavy.

Although sound cannot be heard in space, it can sometimes be seen.

It is sometimes translated as heartiness or mouthfulness and describes compounds in food that don't.

To customize your salad to your meals--sometimes piquant, sometimes mellow--grow different greens separately.

Sometimes claymation is used to create engaging and detailed characters who seem, in some ways, more alive than living creatures.

Sometimes you may try to limit a speaker who is taking up too much time but find that the speaker ignores you.

Sometimes they were seen as a curse-an unwanted burden on a family's resources.

They tend to hug the continent, thumping along, sometimes even grounding themselves in a new place.

New experiments show how ant colonies don't fall prey to irrational choices as humans sometimes do.

The line between exhibition space and viewer space is sometimes clear and sometimes not.

Tree is usually trunkless but sometimes has a short trunk.

But wind has its own risk characteristics: sometimes it doesn't blow, sometimes it blows enough to roast.

Sometimes you won't hear back until the whole search is concluded.

Power will remain concentrated within the large ruling families, although relations within these families are sometimes fractious.

But they sometimes disappear for weeks, diving more than a mile down and resting in the chilly deep for a spell.

Why, he wondered, did the coffee sometimes spill and sometimes.

Sometimes old photographs hold their secrets for years.

Ceanothus sometimes get aphids and whiteflies, but these are easy to control.

Doctors sometimes confuse families by asking their permission to turn off the ventilator.

As the program changes and grows, the screens sometimes change.

Ask about it abroad, though, and you sometimes get a different.

Other longitude lines are sometimes referred to as meridians.

Eyes lose their flexibility with age, sometimes making it difficult to shift focus from near to far or vice versa.

Our copy went on and on, often taking detours from the main narrative to explore esoteric and sometimes quite complex matters.

Preserving summer-ripe fruits sometimes demands more time than anyone can spare.

Sometimes you need a book, but you don't necessarily want to buy it.

Undergraduate business programs sometimes struggle to make the humanities and.

Sometimes those priorities are made explicit: in a company's formal mission statement.

But sometimes it takes such drastic action to change the direction of your life.

Sometimes scientists get it wrong and have to revise the conventional wisdom they helped create.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it's also sometimes worth a few words of explanation.

Impressive, sometimes colorful, flower stalk emerges from the rosette's center looking something like.

Sometimes natural selection gets a helping hand from humans.

Sometimes a specific topic is announced, and sometimes the discussion is completely open.

It sometimes seems as if the financial crisis has touched every aspect of my time at business school.

The seaweed can sometimes be found on rocks above the water.

And it is sometimes harder to concentrate and maintain attention.

The world of frogs is sometimes a weird and wacky place.

Cooking directly over a live flame is primal and sometimes unpredictable, and every master of the grill.

But sometimes there's enough room left over for chip engineers to insert a little.

Sometimes funny, often snarky, they were mostly surprisingly harsh.

Sometimes it refers to activities or sets of activities that cut across organisational units.

Then someone else sometimes went to the left, sometimes went to the right, sometimes did a kind of a zig-zag course.

Recent decades have seen a revival of interest in civic culture, sometimes called social capital or civic.

Burtynsky sometimes uses telephoto lenses to compress the foreground and get the viewer to the heart of the matter.

Simply put, sometimes potatoes flower and fruit, and sometimes they don't.

Games with hand-made pieces and quality parts are sometimes easy to find.

Sometimes dismissed as nerdy or anachronistic, college presidents' bow ties are anything but.

Because the book traces multiple families across the best part of a century, it is sometimes hard to follow.

Sometimes fires are deliberately set in selected areas.

But sometimes all that studying is for naught when a test or a big performance rolls around and you choke.

Sometimes the dough is lightly flavored with lemon zest.

M edium-size to large shrubs, sometimes treelike, usually with spreading habit and angular or zigzag branches.

Sometimes he takes things apart and can't put them back together.

Sometimes there are simpler articles on ecological, zoological or behavioural studies to be found in the major journals.

Sometimes he bandages a couple of fingers together to stave off carpal tunnel syndrome.

Sometimes gazelles can zig and zag out of reach and outlast their often short-winded pursuers.

Mostly this feels much the same as the phantom limbs of amputees-an illusion, from which sensations sometimes emanate.

Then, too, nature sometimes takes its own unpredictable course toward desiccation:.

Long, slender, sometimes branched clusters of bell-shaped.

Students sometimes confuse grades with learning and learning with grades.

It is getting worse and worse, sometimes while writing, often while speaking.

People don't react well to stress and sometimes they lose control.

Pilot whales are extremely social animals, living in pods that sometimes contain hundreds of individuals.

Sometimes it's easy to tell when a romantic relationship is about to take a dive.

Coral reefs are created by corals and also by some other organisms-sometimes sponges, sometimes stony seaweeds.

Sometimes you'll even see a white, salty deposit on the soil surface.

Young herbivorous mammals sometimes populate their guts with the appropriate digestive bacteria by eating.

Data is nothing without visualization, and sometimes a bar chart won't do.

As a writer you sometimes get nervous that you've let your commitment to a story run away with your judgment.

Sometimes people who discovered dinosaurs had no idea what they had found.

Sometimes you have to go backward before you can clearly see how to move forward.

Treehugger's daily interactions with his sometimes hapless spouse.

Sometimes the threads of one's experience cross over in unexpected ways.

Sometimes planted at woodland edge or in sunny border.

Sometimes it is a vastly different committee, and they might not be aware of your first application.

Chard stems are sometimes discarded because they're so much tougher than the leaves.

Try an auto dealer, one of the larger ones--they sometimes have good deals on longer-term rentals.

The showy flowers are normally brilliant red but sometimes pink or even pale orange.

Arctic hares are sometimes loners but they can also be found in groups of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of individuals.

Sometimes a leaf, shell, or foot leaves an imprint in soft earth.

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World English Dictionary

sometimes (ˈsʌmˌtaɪmz)

—*adv*
1.	now and then; from time to time; occasionally
2.	obsolete formerly; sometime

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