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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



... be damned. Now den, let me see if you ab charity. Here, you see, I come to save all your soul from hell-fire; and hell-fire dam hot, I can tell you. Dere you all burn like coal, till you turn white powder, and den burn on till you come black again; and so you go on, burn, burn, sometime white, sometime black, for ebber and ebber. The debil never allow Sangoree to cool tongue. No, no cocoa-nut milk,—not a lilly drap of water; debil see you damned first. Suppose you ask, he poke um fire, and laugh. Well, den, ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... it sputters around on top of the water. There is so much sputtering that the experiment is dangerous; people have been blinded by the hot alkaline water spattering into their eyes. So you cannot try this until sometime when you take a regular ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
... pottery before men did; his nest is always a clay pot set in a little pile of straws. Sometime, get a Robin's nest after the bird is done with it; dry it well, put it on the fire very gently; leave it till all the straws are burned away, and then if it does not go to pieces, you will find you have ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... reservation had just wired that he was arriving that day. He was a gentleman of importance—it was indeed unfortunate—the management appreciated Mr. Briskow's patronage—they hoped he and his family would return to the Notch sometime. ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... all my fault, and I'm going to lose my job, and I wanted it more'n anyone in the village, because I haven't got anybody belonging to me, the way other folks have. All I wanted was to put aside money enough to get away from here sometime. D'you suppose if it hadn't been for that I'd have kept on sitting day after day ...
— Summer • Edith Wharton


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