How do you use the word "sometime" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "sometime" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "sometime": I'll drop in on you sometime in the near future. Please come and see us sometime during the vacation.

Sometime Meaning

/ˈsʌmˌtaɪm/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

advAt an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.

advSometimes.

Sentence Examples

I'll drop in on you sometime in the near future.

Please come and see us sometime during the vacation.

I saw him sometime last summer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

old past former

Antonyms:

future present

CEFR Practice Quiz

We should find a time to meet ____ next week to discuss the project.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We should definitely meet for lunch ____ next week to catch up on each other's news and lives.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia." — 1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939, page 219:

"Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?" — 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

"Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state" — c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

"Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd" — 1832, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion: A Tragedy, in Five Acts:

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