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单词 sometime
释义
sometime1 adverbsometime2 adjective
sometimesome‧time1, ˈsome time /ˈsʌmtaɪm/ ●●● S2 adverb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • It's a long story. I'll tell you about it sometime.
  • The burglary must have happened sometime after 8:00.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He knows Spunk's going to have to have his name fixed sometime.
  • I could see myself just planning on going away for a weekend sometime and not planning on where until the last minute.
  • Ideally, Brown said, the city should host the Super Bowl in a new football stadium, sometime shortly after 1999.
  • Lucy, um, I wondered if you'd like to come over for dinner sometime, like tonight.
  • Navy officials say they are fixing the manning problems but expect the shortages of skilled sailors to continue until sometime in 1999.
  • One week, two week., three week, we walk in jungle, sometime up, sometime down.
  • Photographs from the 1870S showed such a bird on the courthouse fountain, but sometime during the 1920S it had disappeared.
  • Reform is overdue and will come - sometime.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· Well, he had to start sometime.· It started sometime in the high Middle Ages with the invention of harmony.· It started sometime in March, not long after Eric's arrival.
at a time in the future or in the past, although you do not know exactly whensometime around/in/during etc We’ll take a vacation sometime in September. Our house was built sometime around 1900.
sometime1 adverbsometime2 adjective
sometimesometime2 adjective [only before noun] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Downey's uncle is a sometime actor and screenwriter.
  • Duval spoke at the funeral of his friend and sometime rival.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After the accusation, they are worried-sick parents, small-town pariahs, amateur lawyers, sometime sleuths, etc.
  • Eventually he gained admission to the company and became a director and sometime governor.
  • He was a sometime master of hypnotism.
  • Nora and Delia, now a sometime writing team, escaped to New York.
  • The second volume, according to Duncombe, was edited by Isaac Hawkins Browne, a poet and sometime member of parliament.
1formal former:  Sir Richard Marsh, the sometime chairman of British Rail2American English used to say that someone does or has a particular job part of the time:  Grimm, a sometime delivery driver, lives with his elderly mother.
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