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Sometime   /sˈəmtˌaɪm/   Listen
Sometime

adverb
1.
At some indefinite or unstated time.  "Everything has to end sometime" , "It was to be printed sometime later"
adjective
1.
Belonging to some prior time.  Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam.  "Our former glory" , "The once capital of the state" , "Her quondam lover"






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"Sometime" Quotes from Famous Books



... linen bag into which to put his valuables. Hours and hours before there's any chance of starting you'll see the lucky ones lying very still, with a happy vacant look in their eyes and their absurd woollen caps stuck ready on their heads. Sometime, perhaps in the small hours of the morning, the stretcher-bearers, arrive—the stretcher-bearers who all down the lines of communication are forever carrying others towards blessedness and never going themselves. "At last," you whisper to yourself. You feel a glorious anticipation that you ...
— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson

... Harvard graduate by our name until Julian (Mr. Burroughs's son) graduated in 1901 from Harvard. My father's cousin, the Rev. John C. Burroughs, the first president of Chicago University, was graduated from Yale sometime in the ...
— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... arrangements at the Hotel uu Loiret, there is no such thing as opening one's room-door from the outside save with the key; and unless one thoroughly understands this handy peculiarity, and has his wits about him continually, he is morally certain, sometime when he is leaving his room, absent-mindedly to shut the door and leave the key inside. This is, of course, among the first things that happen to me, and it costs me half a franc and three hours of wretchedness ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... relished better; but it was there, and I have never experienced it anywhere else, not even at Miss Prue's. It seemed as if I were in a palace, with soft music and sweet odors about me; yet there was no music, and the only fragrance was from the tea. No, I can't tell what it was; but sometime— sometime, Molly, I hope ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry

... in my thoughts, for Josef. It will be such a wonderful place for him to rest in! He will want the first floor made into one room. And Nora and I will come there in the summer-time, when we're not singing. Perhaps you will come to visit us sometime, ...
— Katrine • Elinor Macartney Lane


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