Adverb

(-)

On certain occasions, or in certain circumstances, but not always.

* (Jeremy Taylor)

It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.

*

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

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(obsolete) On a certain occasion in the past; once.

* (William Shakespeare)

That fair and warlike form / In which the majesty of buried Denmark / Did sometimes march.

* :

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

*, II.3.7:

they detract, scoffe, and raile (saith one), and bark at me on every side; but I, like that Albanian dog sometimes given to Alexander for a present, vindico me ab illis solo contemptu ; I lie still, and sleep, vindicate myself by contempt alone.

Adverb

(-)

At an occasional, infrequent, or irregular frequency

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Jon Smith , title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez.}}