sometimes
IPA: sʌmtˈaɪmz
adjective
- (obsolete) Former; sometime.
adverb
- On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
- (obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.
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Examples of "sometimes" in Sentences
- So he is pacifist sometimes and warmonger sometimes.
- «modo ... modo», _now ... now, sometimes ... sometimes_
- He was sometimes regarded as dissolute, sometimes as insane.
- He's sometimes funny, often smarmy, and always condescending.
- Sometimes it was manlike, and sometimes it was merely a fish.
- Sometimes, the robber was overcome, and sometimes the laborer.
- But sometimes it was manlike, and sometimes it was merely a fish.
- She often acts childish and immature, and is sometimes an airhead.
- Sometimes there's friction, sometimes there's all around amicability.
- Sometimes the extrapolation of data is accurate and sometimes it is not.
- It must come sometimes -- _all_ chindrel is c'oss _sometimes_, "she added complacently.
- She sometimes wants to mock oldsters for acting young and sometimes to help them do so.
- They are persistent, pertinacious, sometimes impudent, and often quick witted and amusing.
- I get to say her name sometimes dozens of times a day as I engage in the mission of The Sylvia Center.
- "Backlog" is a term sometimes used loosely in the industry and may not represent firm orders at all, he said.
- LINDENSCHMIED (_from this point on incessantly casting furtive glances sometimes at_ ANDREW, _sometimes at the gun_).
- And sometimes "-- she crossed her crop and looked around at him reflectively --" _sometimes_, do you know, I am almost afraid that you are so very, very good, that perhaps you are becoming almost goody-good. "
- In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, investors are overly concerned at the possibility of so-called black swan events, said O'Neill, using a term sometimes used to describe unlikely occurrences with severe consequences.
- Don't you think that perhaps sometimes success may be -- I don't say it always is -- as high-minded as failure, that a hard-won victory may be as honourable as defeat, that achievement may _sometimes_ be the result not of chance or interest, but of unremitting toil?
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