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Example sentences for "anybody"

Lexicographically close words:
anxious; anxiously; anxiousness; any; anya; anye; anyfink; anyhow; anymore; anyone
  1. There's no sayin' where anybody sich as you describe him to be might hide hisself a day like this," he observed deliberately, his optic ranging the sunny landscape with approval.

  2. It belonged to them entirely--the most marvellous secret that anybody could possibly imagine.

  3. Each of the children treasured an adventure of its very own; an adventure-in-chief, that could not possibly have happened to anybody else in the world.

  4. You see, it's at the centre that it gets rather nasty--because anybody who gets there simply disappears and is never heard of again.

  5. He simply announced on the Exchange: 'Anybody who wishes to honour me is welcome!

  6. Ecclesiastes' reflected on death better than anybody else reflected on it, and said that a living dog is better than a dead lion.

  7. Never before did anybody awaken in me so warm and kindred a feeling as you have done.

  8. In his sickly, sharp voice was heard a threat to someone, and his eyes, unnoticed by anybody before, flashed like coals.

  9. Anybody will give you a crust of bread; and what else do you need in your freedom?

  10. He comes, indeed, nearer than anybody else on earth to the Hellenic ideal of the good citizen, of the free man in a free state.

  11. Considering how seldom I dream, and if I do dream, how seldom the dream concerns anybody else, it is difficult to account for this as a mere coincidence.

  12. Anyway, we were never allowed to be rude or careless to her, or to anybody else merely because they were well-loved relations.

  13. Men can live in the towns if they like, but in the towns anybody can get on who has money so he can buy things.

  14. You can't see the track of anybody in here.

  15. At least, we'll not worry about it yet, for worrying doesn't get anybody anything.

  16. The trade was to be kept up, with all its enormities, in order that there might be persons to consume the refuse fish from Newfoundland, which was too bad for anybody else to eat.

  17. Because if you tell anybody our names or anything about us, you know what we're going to do?

  18. Can't send anybody down because of the leopards.

  19. Why, there's oil in that cruet-stand at your elbow; and I don't believe anybody has touched it or thought of it for years.

  20. Courtesy, on the other hand, is a thing that anybody can understand, and Smith's manners were as courteous as they were unconventional.

  21. But anybody can go and see Bunting's boarding-house at Worthing.

  22. He never hit anybody because he was a good shot.

  23. Heaven only knows what an American girl may do when anybody says, 'You must not' to her.

  24. You don't seem to be astonishing anybody very much, Esmeralda!

  25. No, Miss Burnett, I never said a word to anybody about it," said Marcia, quite truthfully.

  26. We can dress in here after supper, and I'll spend the night with you, if anybody asks.

  27. I should think that when anybody had suffered as long as Danny has to spare you, it would make you want to spare him.

  28. Uncle Dan'l would rather have her know than anybody else.

  29. I hope they'll fill up before anybody comes this way to notice them.

  30. Probably she never would be happy again, no matter what anybody did to try to brighten her life.

  31. Richard stood up, as eager and excited as Captain Kidd always was when anybody said "Rats!

  32. If the Tishbite was going to do anybody any harm, it would be well to be prepared.

  33. Georgina found it easier to tell him her inmost feelings than anybody else in the world but Barby.

  34. She wondered if the closely-set lips she was studying could curve into a welcoming smile if anybody ran to meet him with happy outstretched arms.

  35. I could go anywhere you could, anybody descended from heroes like I am.

  36. If anybody in town had lost it there'd have been a notice put up in the post-office or the owner would have been around for you to cry it, Uncle Dan'l.

  37. You can do me one of the biggest favors I ever asked of anybody if you only will.

  38. Anybody with a bank full of money ought to be able to make happy times for the whole town.

  39. Besides, it's gold money, and anybody who loses that much would advertise for it in the papers.

  40. It never occurred to me to ask a little lass like you to stop and care for her, but you can do it better than anybody else, because Mother's so fond of you.

  41. Unknown to the king, or to anybody but Becasigue, he planned that, as soon as he was able, he would make his escape and pass the rest of his life alone in some solitary place.

  42. For some minutes no one could attend to anybody but the prince; but as soon as he revived the lady in waiting made herself heard.

  43. The boy had waited behind a clump of bushes to see what would happen, and by-and-by he noticed that the Stalo had laid a cunning trap in the path to the well, and that anybody who fell over it would roll into the water and drown there.

  44. So next day they arose as early as the birds and stole downstairs without anybody hearing them.

  45. I think anybody with sense would know it.

  46. Anybody ever tell you your eyes are pretty?

  47. Gosh," you say at last, "a night like this is enough to make anybody feel soft.

  48. If anybody tries to put anything over on you I want you to come and tell me about it.

  49. She: I always say if a woman isn't happy with her husband she ought to come right out and say so and get divorced or else not show anybody the way she feels.

  50. If you tell anybody I'll never speak to you again.

  51. She never told her mother, or indeed anybody else, what she had done.

  52. Now anybody who has ever served on a jury in a criminal case knows the effect that the testimony of a police officer has on three fourths-- and frequently four fourths,--of the jurors.

  53. He knows darned well if he kicks up a row, she'll quit and his wife couldn't get anybody in her place for love or money these days.

  54. The race on the pond has made us hungry, and Mother says she never knew anybody else's boys that had such capac'ties as hers.

  55. I shouldn't think anybody could thanksgive 'thout a gran'mother and gran'father.

  56. I'm sure he did, and he almost ran out of the room, and didn't say anything to anybody all day.

  57. I didn't tell anybody because I want to surprise them, and besides, let them think you came home because you got ready.

  58. Didn't see anybody with a horse last night or this morning, eh, John?

  59. Watts, we boys wonder how anybody can remember so much of the Bible.

  60. Anybody but mamma would have lost her head and roused the whole house.

  61. Nothing will induce me to give him up, and I shall never, never care for anybody else.

  62. Do you imagine for a moment that the Lord Mayor, or anybody else concerned, however remotely, will ever forget, or be allowed to forget, such an outrageous incident as this?

  63. At any rate, she loved Gilbert more than anything or anybody in the world.

  64. Don't give the letter to anybody but Mr. Peet himself.

  65. As to going myself, it happens to be the sort of thing I won't ask anybody to do for me, that's all.

  66. And you have to work so delicate getting it that you can't trust anybody else to do it?

  67. I don't know of anybody who deserves more credit than you two.

  68. Right beside the tracks there was a watch-box, shut up as if there wasn't anybody in it, but I could see the light coming out at the top.

  69. And tell them that I didn't think anybody could have been so stupid as they have been to believe in it.

  70. Anybody that likes to come t'ave anything at my expense is welcome.

  71. Before anybody could interfere she took a box from a locker, and, striking one, bent over the motionless George, and gazed at his tightly-closed eyes and open mouth in silence.

  72. You'd better not say anything about this to anybody else.

  73. I see it all now; there's never been anybody here.

  74. Hide 'em behind the cargo, an' if you hear anybody take the hatch off in the daytime, nip behind it yourself.

  75. If anybody asks you about these scratches, I got 'em in a row down Wapping--D'ye hear?

  76. Be interested in me still, because I'm not interested in anybody but you, except, of course, myself and my music.

  77. But look here, I vote we don't bother about anybody else in the world but ourselves for the rest of the afternoon.

  78. You won't tell anybody what I've told you?

  79. What's so absurd is that nobody can understand anybody else, let alone the universe.

  80. What people can't understand about me is that I could be keener than anybody about things schoolmasters and that kind don't think right or at any rate important.

  81. Nurse cried a good deal particularly at saying good-bye to Stella, whom she called her own girl whatever anybody might say.

  82. I don't think I could ever again speak to anybody I knew.

  83. In fact, Michael supposed that to excite notice was the worst sin anybody could possibly commit.

  84. Michael left Mrs. Carthew, rather undecided as to what exactly she thought of him or Alan or anybody else.

  85. I should think you'd frighten anybody except me.

  86. I don't suppose that there's anybody in London who could tell you more.

  87. Michael disliked being looked at by anybody or anything, and this bar had a persistent inquisitiveness which already worried him.

  88. You don't think you'll fall in love with anybody else?

  89. Do not try to copy anybody else's garden, as so many attempt to do.

  90. They are trees that anybody can grow, therefore trees for everybody.

  91. It was a thoroughly democratic assemblage; every one was there for sport, and nobody cared an ounce how he or anybody else was dressed.

  92. Anybody who knew Betsy Myers as well as old Elkanah Ogden did, would know she would have taken any orphan brought to her door, even if he were not recommended at all.

  93. Then if anybody was sick or died, or if the captain wanted him to, on any other occasion, he was always ready to read prayers.

  94. Anybody who knows how far a hundred dollars goes in the backwoods, in St. Lawrence County, will know that any settler would be glad to take a ward so recommended.

  95. I had already offered up stairs the largest reward to anybody who would bring it back which my scanty purse would pay.

  96. Get me a carriage and send me up a guide--anybody who can speak English and who is big enough to carry a sketch trap.

  97. I have no need of a William here--nor of anybody else.

  98. He was run off with a bunch three years ago, and this is the first trace anybody has ever got of 'em.

  99. He tried to look out, but observing without having anybody to listen to your observations, is dull work.

  100. What you can see, what anybody can see on a clear night when the Moon is full--only our friends had all the advantages of a closer view.


  101. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anybody" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anybody could; anybody else