Synonyms for sometimes
ˈsʌmˌtaɪmzsome·times

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1. sometimesadverb

   Synonyms:
   at one time or another, every so often, occasionally, from time to time, once in a while, at times

2. sometimesadverb

   former; sometime

   Thy sometimes brother's wife. Shakespeare.

   Synonyms:
   occasionally, once in a while, every so often, from time to time, at times, at one time or another

3. sometimesadverb

   On a certain occasion in the past; once.

   Synonyms:
   at times, from time to time, at one time or another, once in a while, every so often, occasionally

Princeton's WordNet

1. sometimesadverb

   on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always

   "sometimes she wished she were back in England"; "sometimes her photography is breathtaking"; "sometimes they come for a month; at other times for six months"

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1. sometimesadverb

   Synonyms:
   at intervals, now and then, occasionally

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1. List of paraphrases for "sometimes":

   occasionally, often, sometime

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How to say sometimes in sign language?

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How to use sometimes in a sentence?

1. Andres Meira:

   Until you live in one of these places you don't really understand the primitive fear of earthquakes, there are times when you can't sleep and sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night and make sure things aren't moving.

2. Olafur Eliasson:

   One of the main sources of inspiration was for me my childhood in Iceland where the harbor,... where I spent a lot of time as my father was a sailor, sometimes filled up with boats so you could cross the harbor by going from one deck to the next.

3. Armstrong Williams:

   He's soft-spoken and sometimes people confuse soft-spokenness with not being strong enough, ben Carson has learned that sometimes soft-spokenness is not enough.

4. David Bergstein:

   Too often the norm in a campaign is that voter protection staff come on the ground in September or even sometimes in October unfortunately, and they're sort of on-hand to triage issues that come up, on Election Day or leading up to Election Day, that model is not the best one to be utilizing particularly this cycle.

5. Tom Kelly:

   Sometimes we'll let that kind of questioning go a day or two.