sometimes
on some occasions; at times; now and then.
Origin of sometimes
1Words that may be confused with sometimes
- sometime, sometimes
Words Nearby sometimes
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How to use sometimes in a sentence
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.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead | Luke O’Neil | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIt upsets me because I used to really, and still do sometimes, love the articles Salon writes.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTsometimes, 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.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanusometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinThe 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.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Toddsometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard Bastin
British Dictionary definitions for sometimes
/ (ˈsʌmˌtaɪmz) /
now and then; from time to time; occasionally
obsolete formerly; sometime
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