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How to use somewhere in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb, noun

Somewhere means in an uncertain or unspecified location. Example: “I must have left my glasses somewhere.”

Examples of somewhere by meaning

adverbIn an uncertain or unspecified location.

  • I must have left my glasses somewhere.
  • I've hidden candy somewhere in this room.

adverbTo an uncertain or unspecified location.

  • He plans to go somewhere warm for his vacation.
  • I have to go somewhere at lunch. Can I meet you at 2?

adverbAt some unspecified point.

  • I don't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere between 200 and 300.

nounUnspecified or unknown (unlocated) place or location.

  • A courting owl hoots in the somewheres of the night and another answers its call further off.2008, Bill Watkins, The Once and Future Celt, page 283
  • This is essentialised place: a somewhere that is nowhere and yet everywhere.2015 November 1, Clare Brennan, “The Oresteia review – strong performances at odds with the setting”, in The Observer

More sentences with somewhere

  • I can’t find my reading glasses, but they must be somewhere about the house.From the entry about
  • I had my keys just a minute ago, so they must be about somewhere.From the entry about
  • A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.From the entry say
  • I see it as essential that there should be somewhere to park.From the entry see
  • We could go to the shore next week, or somewhere else if that's not your speed.From the entry speed
  • I want to buy one that costs somewhere between forty and fifty dollars.From the entry between
  • I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.From the entry bob
  • His face rings a bell. I wonder if I know him from somewhere.From the entry ring a bell
  • The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.From the entry disadvantage
  • You wouldn't believe the fun and games I had trying to find somewhere to park.From the entry fun and games
  • A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.From the entry dite
  • I can't remember where I left my keys, but they normally pop up somewhere.From the entry pop up
  • The next time you come to my town, we should meet up somewhere.From the entry meet up
  • I know that aliens are there, somewhere.From the entry there
  • Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.From the entry bound
  • I left my keys somewhere around here.From the entry around
  • He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere.From the entry chisel
  • You'll reunite later, somewhere in the afterlife.From the entry afterlife
  • Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too.From the entry buckle up
  • I always score somewhere in the 90s on this test.From the entry 90s
  • I don't get to see Jim much since he moved. Now he lives somewhere out in East Overshoe.From the entry East Overshoe
  • Why are you marooning me on a desert island? It's probably full of guano. Can't I go somewhere nice?From the entry desert island
  • Perhaps somewhere among the uncounted stars in the sky there might be lurking a distant planet eerily similar to our own.From the entry uncounted
  • I’ve got some scissors knocking around somewhere in the kitchen.From the entry knock around
  • I'm sure that pencil sharpener is lying around somewhere.From the entry lie around
  • I plan to publish my novel somewhere down the way.From the entry down the way
  • Can we go somewhere more private?From the entry private
  • I've got it on file somewhere.From the entry on file
  • My parents were on their way to Santa Fe but made a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in the Navajo Nation.From the entry Navajo Nation
  • The country would be much better off, in his opinion, if "those people" (the term he used in his speech) just went somewhere and shut up.From the entry those people
  • We were frustrated that our seeming innocent choice for a team name was rejected by the game. Apparently somewhere in the name is a word that the algorithm doesn’t like.From the entry like
  • “But for your tenacity,” one wrote, “he’d be somewhere ruining another child’s life.”2026 March 1, Benjamin Weiser, Matthew Goldstein, Mike Baker, “Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little”, in The New…. From the entry but for
  • I got the impression he’d been in the military somewhere in his past.2022, Ben Aaronovitch, Winter’s Gifts, Orion Fiction, page 62. From the entry leo

Meaning of somewhere

  1. adverb In an uncertain or unspecified location.
  2. adverb To an uncertain or unspecified location.
  3. adverb At some unspecified point.

Full definition of somewhere

Questions about somewhere in a sentence

How do you use somewhere in a sentence?
Somewhere is used as an adverb and noun. For example: “I must have left my glasses somewhere.”
What is a short sentence with somewhere?
“Can we go somewhere more private?”
What does somewhere mean?
Somewhere means in an uncertain or unspecified location.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: somewhere (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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