somewhen

[ suhm-hwen, -wen ]

/ ˈsʌmˌʰwɛn, -ˌwɛn /

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adverb Archaic.

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Origin of somewhen

1250–1300; Middle English sumwhanne;see some, when

Words nearby somewhen

something tells me, sometime, sometimes, someway, somewhat, somewhen, somewhere, somewhere along the line, somewheres, somewhile, somewhither

How to use somewhen in a sentence

Apollonius was born75 at Tyana, a city in the south of Cappadocia, somewhen in the early years of the Christian era.
Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D.|George Robert Stowe Mead
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.
A Wanderer in Holland|E. V. Lucas
And the poet avows his confidence that somewhen Good will praise God unisonous with Power.
The Browning Cyclopdia|Edward Berdoe
But your mind does, and it's like you wake up in somebody else's body, drawn to him like a magnet, somebody else—somewhen else.
My Shipmate--Columbus|Stephen Wilder

Yet, somehow, somewhen, one would have to settle accounts with him!
Kipps|H. G. Wells

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