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
To one who inquired as to the derivation of the phrase a poet unknown to me thus replied, somewhen in the reign of William IV.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.
At all events, somewhen or other—it may be the former period, but possibly the latter—the good time will come.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various
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