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View synonyms for sometimes

sometimes

[ suhm-tahymz ]

adverb

  1. on some occasions; at times; now and then.


sometimes

/ ˈsʌmˌtaɪmz /

adverb

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sometimes1

First recorded in 1520–30; sometime + -s 1

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Example Sentences

To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.

The motives were most always harmless, and only sometimes ethically questionable.

Freedom of speech, then, is sometimes not worth the trouble that comes with it.

It upsets me because I used to really, and still do sometimes, love the articles Salon writes.

Sometimes, a tech glitch means you are prevented from looking at other users.

Sometimes it comes in literal sobriety, sometimes in derisive travesti, sometimes in tragic aggravation.

Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.

The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.

It, or a similar bacillus, is sometimes found in the sputum of gangrene of the lung.

Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

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