How to Use sometimes in a Sentence

sometimes

adverb
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  • Sometimes I take the bus to work.
  • She works nine hours a day, sometimes more than that.
  • His jokes are funny, but sometimes he goes too far.
  • We all make mistakes sometimes.
  • The word is sometimes used figuratively.
  • He’s not used to the snow or the cold in the winter and sometimes brings Vaseline on the field for his lips.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But sometimes, the race plays out the way it’s expected to.
    — Time, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The hard-line approach has sometimes drawn rebukes from the bench.
    — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And because the nozzle on the bottle sometimes gets stuck, which is a pain.
    — Ysabel Yates, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Gilbert can sometimes get through to Gauff where her parents can’t.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
  • What happens sometimes, if a film doesn’t do well, people run for the hills.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The cold, grey days can sometimes dampen our spirits as the winter months stretch on.
    — Kat Romero, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
  • When pressed for the source of an assertion, AI sometimes cops to making things up.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Aug. 2023
  • His dark curls spill out of the bottom of his helmet and sometimes poke like pigtails out of vents on top.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Then there are those of us whose career, and sometimes our office, is outside in the fresh air.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Fact-checkers are too few, too slow and sometimes too biased to solve it alone.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Even in the vastness of space, sometimes things crash into each other.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The far greater press freedoms in Ukraine and in the West mean that Kyiv and its supporters sometimes struggle to speak with one voice.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Cats can sometimes get a bad rap for being aloof or not emotive.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Nader had spent the last two months working on the challenge for at least eight hours per day and sometimes up to 16 hours per day.
    — Will Henshall, TIME, 21 Oct. 2023
  • When the Fab Five lost, the news was met with an unspoken, and sometimes loudly spoken, glee.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That results in a flood of homework coming in at the last minute, or sometimes not at all, Lovdokken said.
    — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
  • He was later spotted at a campground, and would sometimes return to the house to wander.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Billie Eilish knows that great art sometimes comes from the darkest places.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Not only do the good guys win, but sometimes the bad guys turn around—like Big Julie—and become one of the heroes instead.
    — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 2 June 2023
  • My daughter has art, my youngest son goes to bed early, and sometimes my husband and I like to go out to dinner.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Those boards are filled with dozens, hundreds and sometimes thousands of photos and videos of children.
    — Jesselyn Cook, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Sunshine sometimes could be seen in the gaps and channels between the countless islands and islets of compact cloud, strewn across the sky.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • In a passing league, the answers are kind of evident sometimes.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Octopuses do not eat while brooding their eggs—a process that can sometimes take years in the cold, deep ocean.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024

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