How to Use somebody in a Sentence

somebody

noun

• Just to have somebody in front of me like her pushes me.
  — Rick Armstrong, Aurora Beacon-News, 12 May 2018
• Mannery tried to close and lock the shop's doors, but somebody punched him and a fight broke out.
  — Maya Eliahou and David Williams, CNN, 6 June 2018
• Our player has to get the header and the ball falls to somebody else and there is no call.
  — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 20 July 2019
• Thomas had lived in his house for months when somebody asked where the microwave was.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 5 June 2018
• When somebody mistreats you, go out of your way to be kind.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2019
• And his wife needs to be where somebody can help, and that’s probably the case with him.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2020
• But there was one round where Cash and Alhabash had to pay somebody $1,000.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2018
• Look, as Rich said, somebody in this space is going to break out.
  — NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
• At one point somebody made a bracelet out of chicken bones.
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 14 June 2018
• For somebody to say no to that this time and then all the media and everybody.
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• What’s more valuable, $75 or somebody who’s stoked on your work and has a kind word to say about you?
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2020
• That’s the kind of thing somebody would’ve found and put in without thinking, Does this go or not?
  — Shoko Wagner, House Beautiful, 18 Nov. 2019
• There will be somebody who will make a smart comment about it.
  — Time, 9 Feb. 2018
• The freshness of going with somebody like this is great.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2020
• At some point somebody is going to be left holding the bag.
  — Edward McKinley, kansascity, 5 July 2018
• This isn’t what somebody who wanted to build the perfect virus would have picked.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2020
• That somebody will be either the 49ers or Packers in two weeks.
  — oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2020
• That’s a football dynasty, and somebody’s got to get them at some point.
  — Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2019
• Any awareness that this was somebody on the radar already or no?
  — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2019
• When somebody dies at home, the corpse joins a long waiting list for removal.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• And then to somebody else’s ears and into their bodies.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• And talking to somebody does not mean sending them a link to a survey.
  — Leigh Gallagher, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
• Every couple of months, somebody’s driving up to the light and revving the engine.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 5 July 2018
• But even with entry papers, somebody in France had to put them up.
  — Lucian Perkins, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• He got tackled one time, somebody landed on it and tweaked it again.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2019
• Yes, if somebody gets a little bit out of control, if an area gets too hot.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 13 Mar. 2020
• Shouldn’t somebody have caught this issue before the sale?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2019
• There’s got to be a better way besides picking up a gun and killing somebody.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
• When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total, and that's the way it's got to be.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2020
• Whenever Italy’s lockdown ended, somebody might be able to haul away the boxes.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024