[
US
/ˈsəm/
]
[ UK /sˈʌm/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
relatively many but unspecified in number
we did not meet again for some years
they were here for some weeks -
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
have some milk
some apples
some paper
some roses were still blooming
having some friends over -
remarkable
that was some party
she is some skier -
relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
he was still some distance away
we talked for some time
ADVERB
-
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
he's about 30 years old
lasted approximately an hour
I've had about all I can stand
roughly $3,000
some forty people came
20 or so people were at the party
holds 3 gallons, more or less
weighs around a hundred pounds
in just about a minute
we meet about once a month
How To Use some In A Sentence
- Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
- These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
- Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
- It's good to have a cry sometimes.
- Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
- A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
