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How to use someday in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Someday means sometime; at some unspecified time in the future. Example: “They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.”

More sentences with someday

  • They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.From the entry see
  • Who knows? Maybe someday he'll finish writing his book and make lots of money selling it.From the entry who knows
  • They left a knockout in the panel for running extra wires someday.From the entry knockout
  • Someday I'm going to clean up my act and start researching more carefully.From the entry clean up one's act
  • We hope someday she and her mother will come to terms on the matter.From the entry come to terms
  • She waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Mister Right.From the entry Mister Right
  • He began saving all the money he could, with an eye towards someday buying a house.From the entry with an eye towards
  • He waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Miss Right.From the entry Miss Right
  • I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.From the entry prohibitive
  • Person A: That guy might get his comeuppance someday. Person B: From your mouth to God's ears.From the entry from someone's mouth to God's ears
  • Come down to my place someday and have lunch.From the entry come down to
  • It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.From the entry underfoot
  • Someday I'll get around to organizing this mess.From the entry get around to
  • Even though he doesn't really know how to use them, he keeps the tools around, figuring they might come in handy someday.From the entry come in handy
  • The HoF is a character many have wanted to see return someday.2024 October 16, Sapphic_Copper, Reddit. From the entry hof
  • They look fun and I kinda want to try one someday.2021 August 27, u/Justsomedinosaur_, “What happened to fur piles at furry conventions? I haven't seen anything about them in a while.”, in…. From the entry furpile
  • Someday, there would be long rows of children learning to doodle.2017, Kirthi Jayakumar, chapter 1, in The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble, New Delhi: Readomania…. From the entry Dimashq
  • You never know, I might show up to challenge you someday.2014, 0:47 from the start, in Smash Bros. - Reggie's Message to Fans - Evo 2014, spoken by Reggie Fils-Aimé, IGN, via YouTube, archived…. From the entry john
  • And if he someday turned old and mean, he would miss himself.2013, Alan Dean Foster, Carnivores of Light and Darkness, →ISBN. From the entry miss oneself
  • Still, it's been a dream of mine to someday write a book.2009 August 10, Robert Deeter, chapter 8, in Bullseye: Journal of a Black Hawk Pilot, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry bucket list
  • The corporation he will someday inherit—growing, churning—won't work as a one-man band.2007 December 9, Peter Preston, “Challenges for the rising son”, in The Observer, UK. From the entry one-man band
  • And if voice-activated control isn't enough, we could someday use telekinesis to control lights with our thoughts.2006, Richard Cadena, Automated Lighting, page 434. From the entry telekinesis
  • I take comfort knowing someday this is all gonna be a real nice shopping complex.2005 February 16, “Outlaws” (0:35:00 from the start), in Lost, spoken by James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway). From the entry automall
  • Someday I'll thank her in person with a big hug instead of only a cyberhug.2003, Dana Carpender, How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet and Lost 40 Pounds. From the entry cyberhug
  • Someday, I may achieve your state of asshood, oh master of the hindquarters.2002 March 11, NEtRENCHERPRIME, “You guys are all fools”, in alt.flame.jesus.christ (Usenet), retrieved 11 Jun 2022. From the entry asshood
  • Our website is not yet online, but it will be someday.2000, Teemu Lahti, “We need a graphician”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet). From the entry graphician
  • Maybe someday the old and the young will live together and work together.1983, Lawrence Bush, “1906”, in Bessie, New York, N.Y.: Seaview/Putnam, →ISBN, part 1, page 56. From the entry youth is wasted on the young
  • But someday before I cash in, I hope to make it in the straw.1974, Charles Bukowski, “Purple as an Iris”, in Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions and general tales of ordinary madness, page 414. From the entry cash in
  • Someday, my art would adorn every corner of Dimashq.2017, Kirthi Jayakumar, chapter 1, in The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble, New Delhi: Readomania…. From the entry Dimashq
  • "I, a military man, who might just someday enter politics.2014, Magdalena Zyzak, “In which Odolechka is Introduced to the Automobile, a Technology hitherto Largely in the Domain of Rumor”, in The…. From the entry mussitate
  • Someday, he's gonna come apologizing to me and I'll be the bigger man and let him have 'em.2014, Barry Lyga, Lucky Day: An I Hunt Killers Novella, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry be the bigger man
  • But the idea of driving with Jim was that someday I'd be able to drive other places, with other people.2014, Annie Cardi, The Chance You Won't Return, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry automobilery
  • Then again, Mama thought I would be marrying Zeb— best friend since babydom—someday, which showed how much she knew.2012, Molly Harper -, Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors. From the entry babydom
  • A Belieber is sustained by the hope of someday being followed by, and receiving a direct message from Justin on Twitter.2010 August 13th (3:21pm), “Twitchell” (user name), alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet newsgroup), “Inside the Weird World of Justin Bieber…. From the entry belieber
  • It's ranked near the top on my list of things I want to do someday, my "bucket list," if you will.2009 August 10, Robert Deeter, chapter 8, in Bullseye: Journal of a Black Hawk Pilot, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry bucket list
  • There is a common misconception that gay men, for instance, are naturally effeminate and may someday wish to transsex their bodies.2009, Andrea Bloomgarden, Rosemary B. Mennuti, Psychotherapist Revealed, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry transsex
  • “SOMEDAY,” Hitchcock told me, “there will be three-dimensional wall Video screens, and Dial M for Murder will come into its own.2008, Charlotte Chandler, It's Only a Movie. From the entry flattie
  • Also I learned from the pirs (holy men) and mullahs that someday the entire world will be converted to Islam.2003, Ibn Warraq, Leaving Islam, Prometheus Books, page 241. From the entry pir
  • Don't know why, but I'm convinced that someday I'll fall down a flight of stairs and hurt myself badly.2001 August 16, Leigh Butler, “TAN: Phobias (was Re: TAN: Summer Reading recommendations)”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet). From the entry climacophobia
  • Someday we will kick America, and it cannot run away, because it is tied up by our noose.2001 [1958 September], Chen Jian, quoting Mao Zedong, “Beijing and the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1958”, in Mao's China and the Cold War…. From the entry Dongding

Meaning of someday

  1. adverb Sometime; at some unspecified time in the future.

Full definition of someday

Questions about someday in a sentence

How do you use someday in a sentence?
Someday is used as an adverb. For example: “They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.”
What is a short sentence with someday?
“Someday I'll get around to organizing this mess.”
What does someday mean?
Someday means sometime; at some unspecified time in the future.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: someday (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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