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somewhere along the line

somewhere along the line adverb: at some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.

Adverb

somewhere along the line

  1. (idiomatic) At some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.
    • [I]t was only a question of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered. […] "Somewhere along the line that check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars," he remarked.1913, Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 1, in Constance Dunlap
    • "I think it is quite obvious," he said, "that the current atomic-arms race can not go on forever. Somewhere along the line […] we will have acquired all the weapons we would possibly need."1952 September 29, “The Atom: Enough Bombs?”, in Time, retrieved 17 Jun 2019

Examples of somewhere along the line in a sentence

  • Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
  • Somewhere along the line, Christmas became the year's fattest festival.2004 December 5, Mimi Spencer, “Chanel bag. Tick. Fauchon chocs. Tick. Pata Negra ham. Tick.”, in The Guardian (UK), retrieved 17 Jun 2019:

Synonyms of somewhere along the line

Forms of somewhere along the line

alternative formsomewhere down the line

Questions about somewhere along the line

What does somewhere along the line mean?
Somewhere along the line means at some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.
How do you use somewhere along the line in a sentence?
Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
What part of speech is somewhere along the line?
Somewhere along the line is an adverb.

Words near somewhere along the line in the dictionary

  1. somewhatness
  2. somewhats
  3. somewhen
  4. somewhence
  5. somewhere
  6. somewhere along the line
  7. somewhere else
  8. somewhere over the rainbow
  9. somewhereness
  10. somewheres
  11. somewhile

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