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Example sentences for "somebody"

Lexicographically close words:
sombrous; somdel; somdy; some; somebodies; someday; somedeal; somedimes; someding; somedings
  1. Along the barque's side ran a narrow line of blue paint, signifying that the vessel was in mourning, that somebody belonging to captain or owner was lately dead.

  2. If you can't find time to darn 'em, I'm not going to school till somebody can.

  3. I didn't take 'en for a sperat, but for somebody come to see mother.

  4. Why, somebody has sheared all of Trip's hair off, except a tuft on the end of his tail, which looks like a swab.

  5. She had the spirit of her father, and added, "He is a traitor and a robber, and I hope somebody will shoot him.

  6. The girls were huddled in groups on one side of the room, and the boys on the other, all shy, timid, and waiting for somebody to break the ice.

  7. She went to bed wondering what had become of him, and fearing that somebody had killed or stolen him.

  8. But if there were any reason for supposing that somebody else was the real author, I think I am in a condition to say that, whoever it was, it was not Bacon.

  9. Yes, I'm dead sure of that; but Frank, there's somebody else with him!

  10. Somebody pinch me," he said, looking at the boys almost helplessly.

  11. I think there was mention of somebody bein' surrounded, miss.

  12. Guy Oscard pushed back his chair and rose at once, as if there were somebody waiting in the hall to see him.

  13. Of course, somebody else could have come down for the quinine.

  14. Wait a bit; it wasn't that; it was somebody else.

  15. It was just like tinder, as somebody has said--I think it was Burns--catched fire in an instant.

  16. The king must hae taken him for somebody else--and he was foolish to run for it.

  17. Somebody missed his road, I should think," said Mr Tankardew.

  18. It would be rude of me to take a piece of fruit out of my mouth and throw it into somebody else's mouth, but anyone may throw his poisonous breath and smoke into my mouth and I have no defense.

  19. The evil has become so common that whenever you go abroad you are compelled to breathe the contents of somebody else's month.

  20. Add ten fresh mouths; and as, by the supposition, there was only exactly enough before, somebody must go on short rations.

  21. Will not somebody pay a share of the produce in kind, or in money, for the privilege of cultivating the first royalties for that of working the second; and a like equivalent for that of erecting a mill on the third?

  22. Not only when the shoes are commenced, but while they are being made, and until they are either used by the shoemaker himself or are purchased by somebody else; that is, exchanged for a portion of another man's capital.

  23. The [207] Atlantis society might have been a heaven upon earth, the whole nation might have consisted of just men, needing no repentance, and yet somebody must starve.

  24. I want to speak to somebody before the inquiry begins.

  25. Later on somebody told him of Tarudant, a city in Morocco in which no Christian had ever set foot.

  26. Would you have any objection to somebody else going to him?

  27. Then you have a perfect right to sell it to somebody else," put in Mr. Carter quickly.

  28. Somebody had said that we had plenty of Dominicans already in the Southern States.

  29. Now is the time to ask your friends for seed and roots, and to tell somebody they ought to see about the garden.

  30. I think it's very ill bred to stare as he does sometimes, when somebody has made a remark.

  31. None of them contradict me, and one day when somebody asked, "Which of his pictures do you prefer?

  32. Somebody unfortunately tipped over a bottle of claret that stood upon the table, (I am sure I don't know how it got there, though Mr. P.

  33. How I did hope that somebody would come to ask me.

  34. Mrs. Spinner thought somebody must be dying or dead when she saw Jimmy come dashing up to the house in such haste, and hurried out to ask the news.

  35. Somebody else driving a heap hard, Dick," said the Texan.

  36. I don't see why somebody hasn't exposed them long before this.

  37. Partner, we know somebody was here a short time ago, for we heard the galoot groan and yell.

  38. Somebody has visitors in the house, I judge.

  39. Few people who do not know me will understand, I think, how much I get of the mood of a friend who is engaged in oral conversation with somebody else.

  40. Somebody remarks Morello's outline there is wrongly traced, His hue mistaken; what of that?

  41. Somebody I know 80 Hopes one day for reputation Thro' his poetry that's--Oh, All so learned and so wise And deserving of a prize!

  42. He said he would send somebody for it then.

  43. Was that somebody there outside the window?

  44. Somebody is coming upstairs," said Durtal, hearing the creaking of shoes in the tower.

  45. Somebody had deloused Villon and shown that the Grosse Margot of the ballade was not a woman but an inn sign.

  46. Adieu, Monsieur, be assured that I consider you a somebody in a century of nobodies.

  47. Somebody hailing us," said Hunter, who was on guard.

  48. At the end of the three years Marjory played him a sad trick by suddenly marrying somebody else.

  49. After a little while of silence, he said he thought somebody might read a prayer.

  50. It is far easier to be somebody else on the stage, with the aid of wig and grease paint, than to appear as one's self.

  51. Indeed," replied Fred, "somebody must have tied you!

  52. I am back here to sell this play to somebody & dont want to waste time.

  53. He followed this with a play, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in which he scratched the carpet and was somebody else!

  54. The maiden and the inmates of the house detected that there was somebody in the house, but they could not see him, despite their repeated efforts.

  55. Harry waited an hour and grew so drowsy that at last he actually did drop off, to be suddenly awakened by hearing somebody give a loud cough.

  56. It is not impossible that I may strike somebody I know.

  57. Somebody must have been watching them, for now somebody had bolted that door on the other side.

  58. Tommy (viciously)--Well, I did till somebody came in and said he looked like me.

  59. I was looking over the tops of the ferns, wondering who'd make the first move when suddenly somebody came up against me so strong that I was nearly knocked over, and a great deal more scared than I'd be willing to admit.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somebody" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    being; bloke; body; brass; cat; celebrity; chap; character; constellation; cove; creature; customer; cynosure; dignitary; dignity; duck; elder; father; fellow; figure; galaxy; great; guy; hand; head; hero; heroine; homo; human; idol; immortal; individual; interests; joker; legend; life; lion; luminary; magnate; man; mortal; name; nose; notability; notable; one; party; person; personage; personality; power; sachem; somebody; someone; something; soul; star; top; worthy


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    somebody else; somebody ought; somebody said