SOMETIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sometimes mean? 

• SOMETIMES (adverb)
  The adverb SOMETIMES has 1 sense:

1. on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always

  Familiarity information: SOMETIMES used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOMETIMES (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On certain occasions or in certain cases but not always

Context example:

sometimes they come for a month; at other times for six months

 Context examples 

Yes, and I’ve had warnings of this for the last three days; by spells, my right side seemed going to sleep, sometimes arm or hand, sometimes leg or foot.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You have a look of his sometimes.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

No, I don't—oh, dear, no!—but I hear people talking about money being such a temptation, and I sometimes wish you were poor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sometimes it was the bone that broke, sometimes his teeth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Beginning in May 2012, the telescope began watching the star, sometimes daily.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)

Infection-fighting chemicals released into the blood can sometimes trigger widespread, damaging inflammation.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

Perhaps I may sometimes have felt that Harriet would not forget what was due—or rather what would be kind by me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I found it so useful sometimes, that I always make a study of the time-tables now.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sometimes it can also cause infection in other organs and spread throughout the body.

(Aspergillosis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

—Only, sometimes you must ask me, like this time.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)