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)
Yet, somehow, somewhen, one would have to settle accounts with him!
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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