SOMEBODY in a Sentence

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223 example sentences for SOMEBODY, such as:
1. Believe somebody on his bare word.
2. Pay somebody back in his own coin.
3. Listen,somebody is beating at the door.
4. I can hear somebody moving about upstairs.
5. She used to sit waiting for somebody to knock.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SOMEBODY
somebody
 n.  a human being
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  Of course, he was the only boy his mother had and, after all, somebody had to be in the militia to protect the state.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Melly, honey, I knew you were doing it just to take up for me and, really, I was glad to see somebody take Dolly down a peg.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  "So there is somebody ter home," he said, slipping his pistol back into its holster and moving into the hall until he stood directly below her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Fact is, the way the Yankees have framed up that amnesty oath, can't nobody who was somebody before the war vote at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  There's always somebody who takes care of people who can't take care of themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  They haven't proved it yet but somebody killed this darky who had insulted a white woman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  However, it doesn't seem to bother the Yankees whether folks are guilty or not, so long as they can hang somebody.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  He's on your hands and he'll be on them, or on somebody's, till he dies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  I want somebody who's smart and energetic like Renny or Tommy Wellburn or Kells Whiting or one of the Simmons boys or--or any of that tribe.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  But she just had to talk to somebody so she went over to Miss Cathleen's and that damned white trash, Hilton, gave her a passel of new ideas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  I'm afraid somebody might recognize this carriage if I stayed here longer and that wouldn't do you no good.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
12  You could have been--if you'd been somebody else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  It's a relief to have somebody talk something besides crops.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Well, I do, when I get hold of somebody like you.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  She used to sit waiting for somebody to knock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  I can hear somebody moving about upstairs.
2  Remember, always learn to admit your mistakes that you've done, before somebody else exaggerates the story.
3  Pay somebody back in his own coin.
4  We must do something about that dead tree, it's only a matter of time before it falls down and maybe injures somebody.
5  Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier.
6  We are looking for somebody with direct experience of this type of work.
7  A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
8  Believe somebody on his bare word.
9  Let's see if somebody can rustle up a cup of coffee.
10  Listen,somebody is beating at the door.
11  It's very difficult to demote somebody who has been standing in during maternity leave.
12  She is only the nominal chairman: the real work is done by somebody else.
13  If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
14  If you were at a party and somebody was getting high, you didn't go running to a cop.
15  The last thing I'm going to do is run off with somebody's husband.