- occasionally rather than all of the time
- Sometimes I go by car.
- He sometimes writes to me.
- I like to be on my own sometimes.
- The skiing season runs from October to late April, and sometimes even into May.
- the group of artists and poets sometimes called the New York School
- I sometimes think we should never have moved here.
- It sometimes seemed as if he didn't care about her at all.
- Spelt, sometimes referred to as Speltz, is a type of wheat.
- I sometimes feel frustrated with the lack of time.
Extra ExamplesTopics Timea1- It is sometimes difficult to know where to begin.
- It was the cafe where he sometimes had lunch.
- Sometimes I look at him and wonder what is going on in his mind.
- National boundaries have changed, sometimes dramatically, over the last hundred years.
- She sometimes goes away at weekends.
- Sometimes I think we'll never see each other again.
- They played tennis and golf and sometimes went swimming.
- They sometimes use a helicopter to get around.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySometimes is used with these adjectives:- fatal
- occur
- refer
- think
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