SOMETIME in a Sentence

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For SOMETIME, below is one of 26 sentences:
Then sometime when he comes back to Misselthwaite I shall just walk into his study and say 'Here I am; I am like any other boy.'

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 Meanings and Examples of SOMETIME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sometime
 ad.  at some indefinite or unstated time
 a.  belonging to some prior time
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  But Scarlett must have known he was going to marry Miss Melly sometime.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  There had been a Thirteenth Amendment ratified sometime before or maybe it had been the Sixteenth Amendment but what ratification meant she had no idea.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  She decided that sometime she really must go out of her way to pass Hicks's shop and see this freak.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  I DO NOT REMEMBER our arrival at my grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive of nearly twenty miles with heavy work-horses.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
5  He reported that the coroner would reach the Shimerdas' sometime that afternoon, but the missionary priest was at the other end of his parish, a hundred miles away, and the trains were not running.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
6  'I'll come sometime, but Mrs. Harling don't like to have me run much,' she said evasively.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
7  Let's go to a show together sometime.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
8  The speaker whom he addressed was our sometime friend Marks, who, with that valuable perseverance which characterized him, had come on to Sandusky, seeking whom he might devour.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  She had heard it twice now, and sometime she would find out.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  If I were to live, this place would sometime belong to me.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  "Us'll have him out here sometime for sure," said Dickon.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  Then sometime when he comes back to Misselthwaite I shall just walk into his study and say 'Here I am; I am like any other boy.'
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  This too sometime we shall haply remember with delight.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
14  From them sometime in the rolling years the Romans were to arise indeed; from them were to be rulers who, renewing the blood of Teucer, should hold sea and land in universal lordship.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
15  A land of vast plains lies apart, the home of Mavors, in Thracian tillage, and sometime under warrior Lycurgus' reign; friendly of old to Troy, and their gods in alliance while our fortune lasted.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
Example Sentence:
1  Drop across and have coffee sometime.
2  I'd like to fix up a meeting with you next week sometime.
3  Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.
4  We really should meet sometime soon to discuss the details.
5  It will happen sometime and somewhere.
6  We'll take a vacation sometime in September.
7  A European satellite that mapped Earth's gravitational field in exquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days.