sometimes
/ˈsʌm.taɪmz/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.28 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
Example Sentences
- "Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit."
- "It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and ill though of, and that we always bear it well, even when we deserve to be well spoken of : perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world."
- "We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day."
- "The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll."
- "In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery."
- "What art thou that vſurp’ſt this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maieſty of buried Denmarke / Did ſometimes march : By Heauen I charge thee ſpeake."
Etymology
From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”).
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Inflected Forms
sts. (alternative)