Dictionary entry

Sometimes

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Some″times′ (?), adv. [Sometime + adverbial ending -s, as in -wards.] 1. Formerly; sometime.

That fair and warlike form

In which the majesty of buried Denmark

Did sometimes march. Shak.

2. At times; at intervals; not always; now and then; occasionally.

It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor.

Sometimes... sometimes, at certain times... at certain other times; as, sometimes he is earnest, sometimes he is frivolous.