How to Use nobody in a Sentence

nobody

noun

• He was a nobody in high school.
• At the same time, nobody seems to know what to do about it.
  — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
• If Dixon makes the catch, Boyd has nobody on with two outs.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2019
• But nobody — not even the Dream Killer — could kill the Aquarius dream.
  — National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
• For now, nobody knows what New Delhi is up to in the state.
  — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 4 Aug. 2019
• And nobody can say when -- or even if -- that day might come.
  — CBS News, 25 July 2019
• By the Grace of God the alarm 🚨 went off after that and yippy hoorah nobody got hurt 🙏🏼.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2020
• Point is, ain’t nobody got time for the same old stale workout.
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 4 June 2019
• Even though the brand is 160 years old, nobody here in the States had really heard of it.
  — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2018
• To see a global plan for acts that nobody else could see.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2019
• That's the day Alaka'i envisions: when a Skai flies by and nobody looks up.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2019
• Or, at least, nobody’s stuck with it long enough to force adoption.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 10 Jan. 2019
• That Bryce Walker is dead and nobody knows who killed him.
  — Chelsea Greenwood Lassman, Teen Vogue, 29 Aug. 2019
• This is grief that feels like the death of a loved one but nobody else understands your grief.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2020
• This is a sort of a fatal wound that nobody could escape its fate.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
• That's the way it's set up and nobody shows much interest in wanting to change it.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 19 June 2019
• Here’s a little known fact that nobody talks about with the 1919 World Series,’’ Braig said.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 23 Oct. 2019
• But on your fourth run later that day, or the next day, nobody notices you.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2020
• On the weekends, a couple of them will drive past now and then, just to make sure nobody has broken in.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
• The meetings are usually at lunchtime, but nobody comes for the food.
  — Corinne Purtill, Quartz at Work, 5 June 2019
• He walk around here, don’t talk to nobody, just walk in here, survey, and write something like that.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 5 May 2020
• If a home had neither (and most places had neither), then nobody was there . . .
  — Ted Conover, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• That was baked in from the beginning: nobody in this book is going to catch a break for a long time, or at all.
  — Ryan Chapman, Longreads, 28 Aug. 2019
• There is nobody in the state of Wisconsin who could contest that shot.
  — jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• The people born and raised here always know there’s a chance for hard times, but nobody is deterred.
  — Eric Sondheimercolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• As a blind makeup lover, there was nobody to teach me [how to apply makeup].
  — Karina Hoshikawa, Allure, 2 Apr. 2019
• But nobody expected this team to be a title contender in the first year of Rosas’ reign.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2019
• If the most powerful man in the most powerful country on the face of the planet cannot speak truth to the PRC, nobody else will.
  — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 14 Apr. 2020
• But nobody at Maserati is going to tell you this is supposed to be a hooligan machine.
  — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2020
• They were all sent on their way and advised that there was no occupancy permit on file and nobody should be in the building.
  — cleveland, 15 May 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024