somewhen
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of somewhen
Example Sentences
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The death of Mikhail Gorbachev feels like a news item in one of those stories — a discordant detail in the background to alert us that somehow, somewhen, something went wrong.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
Technically my secondary education took place in the 1990s, but really it happened somewhere else, or rather somewhen else.
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2014
But somehow, somewhen, he always got her to dance.
From Time Magazine Archive
They may have done this somewhen between 1600 B.C. and 1300 B.C.; there are no Egyptian records of Moses nor of Canaan at this time to help out the story.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Would it not be an act of mere common sense to say—These scratches have been made by the sharp points of other stones which have rubbed against the pebbles somewhere, and somewhen, with great force?
From Town Geology by Kingsley, Charles
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