sometimes
on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always
How often you will meet it
Rank 447 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 45,523 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.022% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adverb
- on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always sometimes she wished she were back in Englandsometimes her photography is breathtaking
sometimes in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Sometimes I can't quite make him out.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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Very little children have sometimes done remarkable work in the plays.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Sometimes the new endings turned out to be better than the old one.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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He thought of other things sometimes as he sat before the wood fire in his old Morris chair.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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It will sometimes happen to him to get invited--really invited--to an actual country house where genuine sport is carried on.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1