Example sentences for: sometime

How can you use “sometime” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WSJ reports that Newt Gingrich, in an obvious bid to plug holes in the C-SPAN spring schedule (that damned yellow bus has to go in the shop for a tune-up sometime), is poised to launch investigations into White House and DNC activities that could involve fully half of the House's committees.

  • Gardeners who really have it together place their orders early, sometime between June and August, while the rest of us scramble in the fall.

  • First the right-wingers attack the Nobel committee for giving the Lit Prize to a commie--all the while admitting that he might in fact be a good writer (presumably they'll get around to reading him sometime, if they can ever get through that big, fat Tom Wolfe book).

  • Rather than sell some of his copper at a loss, he chose to play double or nothing, trying to repeat his initial success by driving prices ever higher; since a market corner is necessarily a sometime thing, his unwillingness to let go led to disaster.

  • I don't think you can blame Brazilian politicians: How well would our own Congress perform if told that taxes must be raised and spending slashed in the midst of a recession, with no clear reward except a possible reduction in speculative pressure, maybe, sometime in the future?


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