somewhen

Example Sentences

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The death of Mikhail Gorbachev feels like a news item in one of those stories — a discordant detail in the background to alert us that somehow, somewhen, something went wrong.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022

Technically my secondary education took place in the 1990s, but really it happened somewhere else, or rather somewhen else.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2014

But somehow, somewhen, he always got her to dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another way is to assume an act of spontaneous generation, i.e. a transition somewhere and somewhen from absolutely non-living to absolutely living. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

They may have done this somewhen between 1600 B.C. and 1300 B.C.; there are no Egyptian records of Moses nor of Canaan at this time to help out the story.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)