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Example sentences for "someone"

Lexicographically close words:
somedings; somefin; somefing; somehow; somen; somepin; someplace; somepody; somer; somera
  1. Goldenlocks had heard in her sleep the great, rough, gruff voice of the Great, Huge Bear, and the middle voice of the Middle Bear, but it was only as if she had heard someone speaking in a dream.

  2. Is not this, someone will say, only the Religio Medici over again?

  3. Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

  4. Some day, the temptation will come to you; someone will test you.

  5. Someone seemed to think it would burn if fire were applied to it.

  6. The illustration here presented has been employed in various forms, but is given with the hope that it may, at Easter, help someone to a clearer conception of the reward which awaits the faithful.

  7. Well, then, on this Cradle Roll day, I am sure we would all like to get a letter from someone who cares for us, and so, I will first draw the envelope and then see if there is a message in it for us.

  8. And the reason you like to get them is that you know, then, that someone thinks of you and cares for you.

  9. He saw at the time of the impending Revolutionary war the need of someone to go to England to intercede in the interests of the colonies; and so, when the choice fell upon him, he did not shirk the responsibility.

  10. Someone has said that the night of life is the dawn of peace.

  11. On the second day someone spread the rumor that 2,000 more cacos were coming into Port-au-Prince, and as it took some time to prove the report false, there was great excitement throughout the town.

  12. The bandits are with a few exceptions utterly ignorant and unable to lead an attack unless inspired and led by someone who has lived in the towns and developed some intelligence.

  13. Someone had heard that La Hire was at the moment holding a parley with the English commander.

  14. Finally someone was roused to shame and remorse at the piteous sight; he was washed, shaved, and decently clothed.

  15. We still could award it to someone else," Eklund said.

  16. But the wise Author knew that someone would say "How does this apply to the 1598 Quarto published twenty-six years before the great Cryptographic book appeared?

  17. Presently someone produces a neat home-made cigarette case, and before selecting a cigar or a cigarette for his own consumption offers it to all the males present, who accept of his generosity.

  18. He characterizes a foolish man as someone who neither asks for advise nor accepts it.

  19. This model is often seen when someone realizes a job needs doing, and does it without being told to do it.

  20. It has been said that a raised voice with someone older than five is usually inappropriate.

  21. The preferred order for gather facts is based on the order of reliability: library research, asking someone knowledgeable, and brainstorming.

  22. He further characterizes the foolish man as someone who is scornful, divisive, quarrelsome, and mocking of other's efforts with cynicism and sarcasm.

  23. Someone has said that "no flowers typify the beautiful more strongly than those of the primrose which, though showy, are delicate and seem inclined to retire to the shade of the plant's leaves.

  24. I can't go and apologize to someone for making fun of her as soon as her back is turned, can I?

  25. I am glad to meet someone who has seen my brother recently.

  26. Perhaps, though, someone else beside myself knows something, and I'll be glad to join, and will try to like it when my toes are stepped on.

  27. Stiffner and Box-o'-Tricks were down, two others were holding Barcoo back, and someone had pinned Awful Example by the shoulders from behind.

  28. Someone said that that country was only fit to carry sheep.

  29. Someone had turned his horse loose at the rear and had been standing by the back door for the last five minutes.

  30. I gave 'em half a crows each and told them to tell their mother that someone would come when the sun went down.

  31. Just as Australia was fading from view, someone looked through a glass, and said in a sad, tired kind of voice that he could just see the place where the Dunbar was wrecked.

  32. So I'll shear his sheep and make a few pounds, and he'll be glad and all the more eager to keep me on, so's to always have someone to shear his sheep.

  33. She wanted someone to relieve her bursting heart to; she couldn't wait till she got home.

  34. It is doubtful whether a passenger boat ever cleared Sydney Heads since the wild night of that famous wreck without someone pointing to the wrong part of the cliffs, and remarking: "That's where the Dunbar was wrecked.

  35. Lawson explains the term as referring to someone who turns up at a station at sundown, just in time for "tea" i.

  36. Presently someone said: "There's the Devil.

  37. It would be a rare treat to talk with someone who had seen our dear folks at home.

  38. When he awoke, there was someone knocking at his cabin door.

  39. He had confided his secrets to someone else.

  40. Now that I am blind, I need someone to see for me, to tell me about things I wish to know, and also about things that strike them also.

  41. Every moment she feared that someone would come and catch them and she be arrested with them.

  42. And, on the other hand, as none of the girls in the room knew who the new lodger for the night had been, neither would they bother about her; it might very well be someone who had decided to find a lodging elsewhere.

  43. There is someone who knows what I did after I left the room I used at Mother Françoise's," she said quietly.

  44. If they saw her standing outside the doors, someone would see her and call her in.

  45. Before reaching the scene Perrine had to stop several times for fear of running someone down.

  46. It is not built by the town, but someone has had it built to the memory of one whom they have lost.

  47. So that you can pass it on someone else, eh?

  48. He told me he wanted someone to be with him whom he could trust.

  49. After she had taken the eggs she wondered where she could cook them; naturally this could not be done in the cabin for the slightest wreath of smoke which would emerge from it would indicate to anyone who saw it that someone was living there.

  50. He told me then that he intended to have that girl up at the chateau with him because there was someone trying to tempt her to tell something that she should not tell.

  51. I may as well tell you that for a long time I have wanted someone intelligent to be near me, one who is discreet and whom I can trust.

  52. But keep close to me, or someone may tread on you; and beware of the Cat.

  53. Someone punched the coals into flame, and the bowl of fruit was passed round.

  54. Someone else suggested dressing up as a plumber or gas-man, and going there to fix some imaginary leak.

  55. It is possible, as I have never been off the place before," answered Jos; "but still I am never surprised at meeting someone who knows me.

  56. Someone has cut her adrift, and we've a better chance for our lives than I thought for.

  57. By the bye, you've been pretty successful, and I'll give you an acting order to command the Romp till someone is appointed from home.

  58. I couldn't understand myself, my motives, so how could I expect someone else to understand?

  59. She was going to marry someone about whom she knew absolutely nothing.

  60. She had just come away from the States, trying to make up her mind about someone dear, whom she didn't want to hurt, and she wanted a breather.

  61. The Scotch seared my throat and tasted bitter; someone must have poured salt in it.

  62. And then to our amazement we heard, from somewhere in the dark recesses of the hall where the faint light of Hogvardt's lantern did not reach, a low but distinct groan, as of someone in pain.

  63. Now someone in the circle caught sight of me.

  64. Now for the defence," said the Swallow briskly; "there ought to be someone for that.

  65. You understand, it would be awkward, someone might overhear what was said.

  66. Of course someone must know where it is, but the difficulty is to find the right one to ask.

  67. If only someone could find me worth caring for!

  68. She lifted the latch of the churchyard gate,--and walking slowly with bent head between the rows of little hillocks where, under every soft green quilt of grass lay someone sleeping, she entered the sacred building.

  69. If I am, it will need someone braver than you are to tame me!

  70. He married someone else and had a family.

  71. Someone else came on the scene at the critical moment, and did for me what I should certainly have done for myself had I been left to it.

  72. We hear someone say that he prefers an outdoor hobby, but surely the microscope, if used intelligently, will take us out of doors.

  73. He found his mother singing, his father in a genial mood, so he concluded that the greatest thing in the world to make a whole family happy was to do something kind for someone else.

  74. She also waited for someone to say something about her plans, but no one said a word, so after waiting all evening Kate decided that they would ask before they learned anything from her.

  75. Someone may have paid them and taken the land.

  76. I wish someone admired me as much as you do your mother, Adam," said Kate.

  77. The only way she could imagine herself enduring it at all was to think of the promised farm, and when she began to think of that on Jardine terms, she saw that it would mean to sit down and tell someone else what she wanted done.

  78. He decided it would not do for at least a week yet; possibly he could raise the subject casually with someone down town who would know, so that he need never ask her at all.

  79. And when you have all refused, I am going to the neighbours, until I find someone who will loan me the money I need.

  80. Then steps crossed the room, someone knelt beside her, put an arm around her and said: "Kate, why are you crying?

  81. Kate was desperately in need of human companionship in that instant, herself, someone who could speak, and sin, and suffer, and repent.

  82. All my life I've worked like a towhead to help earn two hundred acres of land for someone else.

  83. All right," answered Cal, who had watched over him during the night and came in at that moment after someone to take his place in the sickroom.

  84. Someone will find a nice little pair of yellow satin shoes under the window-curtains in the ballroom when the cleaning up is done after the fetes.

  85. Someone said to the Duke, "It is very fine, but not an anthem like our 'God Save the Queen.

  86. Various people came in to tea, as they always do here on Sunday afternoon, and someone said the marriage was certainly decided and would be announced after the 27th, which was to have been the wedding-day last year.

  87. I was very comfortable last night in my little blue room, and had been sleeping quietly, when I seemed to divine that someone had come in.

  88. Someone has come from one of the Grand Dukes, Michel, I think, to see the big horses.

  89. If someone else could take the part (which was impossible at such short notice) she would send all her daughter's dress, which was very handsome, or Bianca would come and look the part and Thenard do the talking from the coulisses.

  90. Now someone has gone to get a drum--they think the sudden noise may make them all look in the same direction for a moment.

  91. After dinner someone played on the piano, and he and Mary Thornton danced a little, showing us some of the figures of the mazurka.

  92. He heard someone asking me the other day if I had been yet to see the Queen.


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