SOMETIMES in a Sentence

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For SOMETIMES, below is one of 180 sentences:
I saw my mother look at me sometimes, and then glance at the watchful Miss Murdstone, and than look down, or look away.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOMETIMES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sometimes
 ad.  on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always
Classic Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  He came, therefore, sometimes to see that I was not neglected, but his visits were short and with long intervals.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
2  The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  "He becomes very sentimental sometimes," explained Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  Perhaps I am, but I have a--almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
7  And yet, majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was for ever in it an essential character of plaintiveness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
8  There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  So mean is extremity, that I sometimes sent him to Hyde Park corner to see what o'clock it was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
10  Then, I began to go out as for training and practice: sometimes alone, sometimes with Herbert.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
11  He smoked his pipe as we went along, and sometimes stopped to clap me on the shoulder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
12  I saw my mother look at me sometimes, and then glance at the watchful Miss Murdstone, and than look down, or look away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
13  In the evening, sometimes, I went and sat with Peggotty in the kitchen.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
14  I shall see you sometimes, my dear old Peggotty, there.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
15  I sometimes have sick fancies," she went on, "and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
16  I sometimes wonder who's crazier, him or me.
17  Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
18  One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
19  This condition is sometimes termed RSI, or repetitive strain injury.
20  The principles of democracy are sometimes in conflict with political reality.
21  It is sometimes difficult to reconcile science and religion.
22  It's sometimes very difficult to draw a clear distinction between the meanings of different words.
23  Sometimes your dreams of achieving is a kind of happiness, sometimes the dream is also a kind of happiness.
24  Even innocuous substances can sometimes register a positive result in a drug test.
25  Fear or cold sometimes makes a person's teeth chatter.
26  I sometimes enjoy a pint of ale.
27  Seats, or sometimes entire tables, were reserved.
28  Doctors sometimes fall back on old cures.
29  The novel fan is always daydreaming and sometimes under the delusion that he becomes Napoleon.
30  It does sometimes help to know the nutritional content of foods.