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How To Use Somebody In A Sentence

  • Instead, go to the departure area of the airport and pick up a taxi that has just dropped somebody. Times, Sunday Times
  • Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
  • There is a moral crime of the highest order being committed, and somebody is morally responsible.
  • He needed somebody to trust in this morass of intrigue and double meaning that was called the royal court.
  • Sue always manages to upset somebody when we go out - she's a real liability.
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  • Somebody could come to serious harm and anyone doing it could suffer very serious health side-effects. The Sun
  • My family has not forgiven me yet, but perhaps if I make these, that will smooth things over! why so much baking soda? browning effect? because there's not that much molasses (acid). and it's only 4 cups flour. somebody enlighten me! oh and for your molasses question - depends if you want the stronger molasses flavor. robust is probably what is more commonly referred to as blackstrap molasses. the light stuff I think tastes too light for something like a ginger cookie, I think. and given there's only 1/2C of molasses in this recipe to go along with 2 C of regular sugar, I'd def say go for the robust. Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog
  • Somebody had bricked up all the doors and windows.
  • Git yo 'motherfuckin' ass some help before somebody beats you down like a bad dawg. Unclebob Diary Entry
  • If you want somebody to vouch for Mr. McEachern's non-burglariousness, I can do it. The Intrusion of Jimmy
  • We need somebody to take charge of the financial side.
  • So the theories are that perhaps somebody intentionally detonated this weapon in what's sometimes called fragging, an intentional effort to kill officers, and in this case, two officers. CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005
  • I wonder when somebody in gov will give the green light to Cape Drilling Rig. The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
  • We are so inured to the news, it's refreshing to have the conflict described by somebody who was there.
  • It could start with a leaky eavestrough that ices up somebody else's walkway. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. Oprah Winfrey 
  • Of course, he has to comport himself differently than the rest of us do when somebody makes an allegation against him.
  • `I heard somebody praying for my Jerusha,' the riverman said. GALILEE
  • All of which begs the question as to whether or not somebody SHOULD make a MMORPG based on the Wheel of Time series, though if they do I look forward to a variety of braid tugging and skirt smoothing emotes along with an "agelessness" slider in the character creation tool. The Ancient Gaming Noob
  • But the great thing about it is it does allow somebody to mark a target with what is called a firefly, which is -- it can be a light, a black light, which is not visible on the ground, but which is to somebody flying with night vision goggles. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Pentagon Holds Briefing on U.S. Military Bomb Accident in Kuwait - March 13, 2001
  • No one wants to employ somebody who bad-mouths their former employer.
  • As long as you are willing, please let me know what I can do for you. When you are unhappy and want to cry on somebody's shoulder, I will stand before you immediately.
  • During a recent conversation with somebody who is sticking to the term blessing, they said that the term inspiration sounds as though it only applies to the description of the process whereby one focuses on a person who has set a constructive encouraging example. Inspiration (���Blessings���) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission
  • So here you had the scenario, you've got a highjacker on the plane; he's got his passport in his pocket, or in his luggage, and they hit the building, and this enormous fireball erupts and this passport floats out of his pocket or whatever, and gets through the fireball without being singed, then it gets out of the building and falls to the ground where somebody can find it. Interview with David Ray Griffin on the Rob Kall Radio Show
  • Sue always manages to upset somebody when we go out - she's a real liability.
  • This morning somebody shouted out 'caiman' and alligators along the banks slithered into the water. Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)
  • ‘There is also the question of how long somebody should have been buried before we can consider removing or reburying their remains in this way,’ he said.
  • But in the end, if somebody has to say, yea or nay, I am that person.
  • Truly, somebody needs to post this stuff on everything from billboards to buses (and perhaps even urinal cakes) and post-haste. Jason Kitchen: When Pondering Life's Greatest Questions, Look no Further Than Yahoo!
  • Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. Jerry Seinfeld 
  • Did somebody make a decision that the board minutes shouldn't reflect the flavour or tenor of that board meeting?
  • And now they're still ski bums, says somebody out there.
  • Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors. The Claverings
  • The moment somebody thinks they've nailed the grand alchemy that makes Dali a genius somebody else came along and offers a new, kookier explanation. The Birth of Girma Dali
  • Somebody had text messaged me, ‘Merry Christmas,’ and that's when I got up.
  • I'd like to have dinner with somebody in Olympia who can recognize burnt umber. FOOLS GOLD
  • But that would be no different from somebody disinterring a 20-year-old volume of the Commonwealth Law Reports and recounting what happened in some case.
  • As somebody whose world is constantly reshaping itself, you'll enjoy this. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is the safe course to go to somebody who already has the title judge or do you look for a governor, do you go off the board? CNN Transcript May 3, 2009
  • ‘I was opposed to the early release because I couldn't believe somebody capable of doing that could change in only two years,’ said Mrs Murray.
  • Somewhere down the road, somebody got it into their head that kids won't watch it unless the themes are saccharine, the voices high and squawky, and there just happens to be some kind of jabbering animal wandering around. A review for INK
  • It wouldn't be right if I didn't wish happy birthday to somebody, now would it?
  • The banks were not at all keen to lend to somebody who actually seemed to need money.
  • In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle.
  • Sure wouldn’t he have looked a gipe picking a fight with somebody my size …? A WEE DRAP OF HOSPITALITY • by Oonah V Joslin
  • As she approached the local railway station at the end of her route, she was struck by somebody from behind, held in an armlock around her throat and dragged off towards nearby dense trees and undergrowth.
  • Somebody in the rackets gets a bullet in him, people holler gang war.
  • Somebody broke in last night and stole the PC and video.
  • I'm not sure if somebody my age is supposed to have an opinion about such things, but the Hervé 'refix' of 'Enter Sandman' by Metallica is brilliant. Archive 2008-09-01
  • If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach 
  • Then it's the middle of the night, I'm in a hospital room, somebody is breathing stertorously in the next bed behind a curtain, my brain feels like a horsehair sofa and my mouth tastes like I've eaten one.
  • If it had been a policeman, a social worker, a teacher, or anybody else for that matter, chinning somebody on television, would we have heard praise from the leader of the government?
  • It's nice to know that somebody appreciates what I do.
  • Anything that was seen to be unsafe, somebody stopped something for - stopped a ship from loading or discharging in order to have a look at it, examine it and modify it, or what have you.
  • On the first tee, he hit a shot off the heel and almost hit somebody's head in the gallery.
  • I've long suspected thet somebody livin 'right heah in the valley has been drivin' off cattle an 'dealin' with rustlers. To the Last Man
  • You know when your waiter at a restaurant tells you that you look like somebody really famous, and you're always secretly terrified they're going to say it's Gary Busey or a "heftier" version of Macauley Culkin? Archive 2009-09-01
  • Just because the visits are called unsupervised does not mean somebody won't be watching.
  • There's somebody waiting to see you.
  • Hey look on the bright side I'm sure somebody in attendance is capable of exorcisms. Obama meets with religious leaders behind closed doors
  • Somebody appears to have gone to an immense amount of trouble to assemble a ragbag of every kind of mumbo-jumbo and superstition; a great waste of time, in my opinion.
  • It is impossible to write an honest letter to somebody who may send it on to a third party.
  • We had a visit from somebody collecting for charity.
  • I just wanted to know if you think that maybe he's in cahoots with somebody, if he has somebody maybe working with him on the side.
  • The opportunity to knock somebody out quietly or take a hostage is not often present since enemies tend to rove in groups.
  • Dixie is already penning the next Use Somebody. The Sun
  • Consider, in this light, ‘to neck someone out of the room’ which is supposed to mean, ‘taking somebody by the scruff of the neck and ejecting from the company.’
  • The key to that is somebody with at least a strong, identifiable personality, coupled with street smarts and a clearly articulated vision.
  • Somebody get some matchsticks to prop them open, please!
  • My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. Sylvia Plath 
  • We just want somebody to give him a nice big hug. The Sun
  • It would be a concern if he didn't and somebody possessing his sublime skills is capable of producing something breathtaking. Times, Sunday Times
  • Somebody yelled and threw a can at the cab, hitting it on the rear bumper.
  • Somebody get a doctor! I think this woman's had a heart attack.
  • He had picked somebody he thought he could work with smoothly rather than somebody who might try to steal the credit.
  • You go through the different floors of that factory and come to where they are making big electrical generators and you see guards around with their rifles because Russia's bogey is that somebody is trying to copy them all the time and steal their secrets. Our Times Viewed From a World Perspective
  • Somebody tried to grab her handbag from her.
  • If you saw somebody drowning what would you do?
  • `They're like a couple of catatonic animals that somebody's experimented on,' Andy laughed. MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • Somebody you did not expect to meet again reappears with plans to share. The Sun
  • It is impossible to write an honest letter to somebody who may send it on to a third party.
  • If you were at a party and somebody was getting high, you didn't go running to a cop.
  • Does somebody who consents to a judgment have a prima facie right to costs, or not?
  • Somebody was so busy looking at the train indicator in the station this morning that they walked into me and kicked my ankle.
  • Somebody was dancing, waltzing round the town clock, and I thought - oh, the noise.
  • Somebody broke in last night and stole the PC and video.
  • Seth sighed and walked over to open the door, as somebody rang the bell.
  • Somebody in the know told me he's going to resign.
  • I wish I had brail e-mail ... but since I dont, somebody read this to Brutha Patterson, the Clintons have LOST their MOJO ... Paterson says Clinton frustrated, not desperate
  • What somebody had omitted to tell me, in the transition period, were all the changes that had happened. The Sun
  • Pay somebody back in his own coin. 
  • I hope it’s different this time, because a screwhead like Hayden clearly doesn’t belong anywhere near the CIA and I say this as somebody who’s never been particularly fond of the CIA in general. Firedoglake » Good On Ya
  • It was like listening to somebody trying to play a trombone at the bottom of a swimming pool, and meantime some bosthoon in black tights is skipping around the fountain tossing things into it.
  • Through him ripped: Yes, the enemy did have an emergency force hidden in a building near the square, and somebody in this room used a minicom to bring them. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
  • No. To me the idea that words or taunts can enrage somebody to kill and act out of anger, and our judicial system says that's okay, is barbaric.
  • How could somebody both scare your horse and try to drown you?
  • Somebody whispered that films like that were illegal.
  • Somebody has defaced one of city hall's famous murals and it must be replaced. The Sun
  • Claire decided that she must have fallen asleep at the party, and somebody had taken her home.
  • waaah waaah somebody call mandolin a waaaaahmbulance. what a repuke wussy. Think Progress » ThinkFast: December 26, 2006
  • Why was it necessary to know the security arrangements," Bizos asked, "unless somebody wanted to enter it in a ` skelm 'manner. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • I'm going to suggest somebody has a quiet word in her ear.
  • Many firms would rather hire somebody they have guanxi with than the best person available. Times, Sunday Times
  • They say somebody slit her throat.
  • I think we really do need a well-known patron to get our work recognised, preferably somebody who loves Labradors!
  • The coppers used to come around at first every time somebody stole a dame's purse but finally they gave it up.
  • Pay somebody back in his own coin. 
  • We just continued with a bit of banter and somebody kicked the machine. The Sun
  • Colour and sex are hardly relevant when appointing somebody to a job.
  • The anonymous call had offered up two names for the Jabelman murder: Iain MacPherson and Tommy somebody.
  • No one wants to employ somebody who bad-mouths their former employer.
  • I received two; one had been opened and read by somebody else, and one, as it afterwards turned out, had been burked at home before forwarding. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
  • I grabbed the knife to try and stop him, but somebody behind me hit me on the head with a bottle.
  • We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. 
  • It is normal practice to inform somebody if you want to leave early.
  • I'm certain that, at any moment, somebody's going to snap a clapperboard shut and shout: ‘Madrid - the movie - Scene 82, take 3.’
  • It would be unreasonable to expect somebody to come at such short notice.
  • A few days earlier somebody had rear-ended him.
  • We are looking for somebody with direct experience of this type of work.
  • Yup, publicist Howard Bragman (who helped scootch Chaz Bono and Meredith Baxter into the light of gay) is allegedly prepared to shoo a big-time Somebody into the homosphere, and we have no idea who it is. Queer Sighted
  • If you have someone like her, the other dancers can see that there is somebody whom they can emulate.
  • Somebody helped me mend the puncture.
  • There is somebody sitting in one of those overstuffed chairs reading Le Monde.
  • I found the cash box no problem - simply because somebody had locked it in the wrong drawer.
  • More specifically, somebody tipped off the Evening Standard, which made a freedom of information request, got a little list of undeleted expletives and set the storm raging. Row over MPs' expletives undeleted poses a question of standards
  • What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab?
  • Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  • Somebody objected and told him to get on with playing the piano. Times, Sunday Times
  • What is the specific legislation under which, if, a 15-year old boy heaves a brick in somebody's window and he has done it many times before, he might end up in detention?
  • Freddie & the Dreamers picked it up and did a George Formby version - [sings ‘If yer gotta make a fool of somebody’ like a scouse Formby].
  • If you're so short-staffed that all they can do is keep somebody dry and fed, they're not going to have time to give the person-centred care," she said, referring to an individualized approach. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. 
  • Many of us secretly harbor a suspicion that somebody somewhere really is finding both fun and fulfillment while being sexually promiscuous.
  • Even if you think, as I do, that these are both improvements, I don't think they are reason enough to replace someone who is clearly successful and performing well with somebody untried, just for the sake of it.
  • Even the name Sackers is just a label somebody pinned on them. The Three-Minute Universe
  • According to Alfred Harmsworth, founder of both the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, news is "what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; the rest is advertising".
  • The search engine bots would certainly have downloaded that meta-data and may have it stored in databases ready for somebody to just ask nicely.
  • I wouldn't call it a solo career," she says, before revealing that she was listening to a lot of Aaliyah and Whitney Houston before embarking on this dancier direction "I wanted a song that made me as happy as I Wanna Dance With Somebody". In bed with Beth Ditto
  • ‘He’ll be a Teviotdale tup tat ane, ’ said the chairman, ‘tat ’s for keeping ta crown o’ ta causeway tat gate; he’ll no gang far or he’ll get somebody to bell ta cat wi’ him. Chapter XXXVI
  • Everyone agrees that somebody, somewhere, ought to do something to shelter the public from this polluted deluge of information. Times, Sunday Times
  • He takes no responsibility and always blames somebody else. The Sun
  • DERSHOWITZ: I want one case where there has been a disbarment that is not a person denied admission to the bar, a disbarment from somebody who has no prior record, who has engaged in what you call lying at the deposition. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Should President Clinton Be Disbarred? - May 23, 2000
  • She is only the nominal chairman: the real work is done by somebody else.
  • Seems like for the CxP fiasco, the main folks involved are Cook, Hanley, and a somebody else (can't remember the name) maybe from JSC - like a software guy or something? Steve Cook Wants to Be The Next Deputy Center Director at Marshall - NASA Watch
  • ‘I get a real buzz out of the thought that you can help somebody by doing something like this,’ he said.
  • Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there.
  • I think much the same could be said for choosing somebody like Joe Whatshisface over the three millionaires currently vying to be our new Ruler.
  • Maybe we do a little shading of the truth in order to make a buck. Maybe we overvalue something or maybe we just don't tell somebody what's wrong with it when we're selling it to them.
  • Damn and blast, could somebody bring her back for me?
  • We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. 
  • This is soft sand and palm-trees music, to enjoy with somebody passing you a cocktail with little ice fragments plinking away in time to the song.
  • Somebody stole it of course, it's probably now a novelty ashtray on a coffee table in Spalding or somewhere. Archive 2007-07-01
  • Oh my gosh, somebody isn't going to get much sleep tonight!
  • It was like seeing a whole different side of somebody.
  • For example, somebody whom you just plumb don't like is naturally likely to be just as hard to like on the Interwebnet.
  • Did the last albums start with a desire to make an album for somebody who wouldn't buy it anyway?
  • No-one wants to give a chance to somebody who's not guaranteed to be perfect.
  • Somebody could have been killed.
  • Despite the Home Office's denials, Mr Brown has previously suggested that the Guardian Group has ‘got a clear steer from somebody on the inside’.
  • Somebody called out her name from below.
  • Though I'm a big fan of Nick, it's good to see somebody else occupying the space as well.
  • /[Page 394] /parlour is new-papered and painted, it should be done properly, and proper painting takes a prodigious time; but I will see somebody to-morrow, to speak at least concerning the outside. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Did somebody call my name?
  • 'Fore I thought, says I, ''Tis all worn out, Betsey,' says I; 'why on airth don't ye git somebody to git some o' your own wood an 'season it well so' twon't warp, same's mine done, an 'build ye a new one?' In Dark New England Days
  • If somebody, early some morning while it was still dark, awoke to ask the question: "Are you come to harry and spulzie my ha '?" it would most likely be Red Murdo who gave an insolent answer. The Black Colonel
  • I wanted to talk to somebody about God, and sometimes I'd imagine meeting with the priest in his dark office beyond the sacristy.
  • All he asked was that his grandson should "thrash" somebody, and he could not be made to understand that the modern drama of divorce is sometimes cast without a Lovelace. The Custom of the Country
  • You can teach somebody and school them to be an actor but to be a very good actor you must have stage presence and Des has been gifted with that.
  • If you're not willing to help me, I'll find somebody who will.
  • When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what? Sydney J. Harris 
  • Somebody already addressed this elsewhere stating that the alleged "creakiness" numbers were contrived & exaggerated & mitigated by vehicle processing activity. The NASA Administrator Guessing Game Continues - NASA Watch
  • After she hears that toilet bowl flush she had better hear the sound of somebody washing their hands - or else.
  • If they use less than their quota they can sell the remainder and if they emit more they can buy somebody's leftovers. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has therefore an opportunity for exercising in behalf of her dog that beautiful self-abnegation which is said to be a part of woman's nature, impelling her always to prefer that her laurels should be worn by somebody else. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
  • One's mantle falls on somebody.
  • Then maybe a small group would join hands in a circle in prayer and somebody would begin a decade of the rosary.
  • This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing.
  • We need somebody who is willing to listen and learn the tricks of the trade. Times, Sunday Times
  • I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
  • You told me yourself it was unheard of for somebody like you to have done all that lab work by yourself.
  • Will somebody for God's sake shut that alarm off.
  • When somebody died everything went on as usual, as if it had never happened.
  • It's very difficult to demote somebody who has been standing in during maternity leave.
  • Whilst we are deploying our resources to put out grass fires, somebody else in the county might need us more and their lives could be put in danger.
  • The neighborhood carpenter would improvise a coffin with wood that sometimes came off of somebody's wall or chicken coup.
  • He's somebody who strongly promotes anti-racism and equality.
  • First, get somebody behind center who can complete the forward pass with some regularity.
  • I mentioned the engagement as a mere matter of course to somebody, and though I mentioned it confidentially, it started this slander about Malcolm Cromarty and Cicely Farmond conspiring to murder -- to _murder_, Lilian! Simon
  • I mean the tele-movie used all the names of Christie's characters, but somebody, and I'm looking at you screenwriter Kevin Elyot, had the gall to change everything else. Are You Kidding Me? | The Stiletto Gang
  • The mist has cleared sufficiently for somebody to be buzzing overhead in a microlight. Times, Sunday Times
  • That is the trouble in a country awash with cheap technology: there is always somebody watching you. Times, Sunday Times
  • That must be somebody from the Ministry of Education.
  • As somebody once remarked, distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
  • A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. Oscar Wilde 
  • Somebody has to win, and it was as easy to believe that Pete Astor had been favoured by blind chance as by an extra-dimensional being.
  • One evening the club had met as usual, and Tom had mixed his first tumbler of potheen punch, after "the feast of shells" was over, when somebody happened to mention the name of Edmund Kean, with the remark that he had once played in a barn in that very town. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
  • I would never forgive myself if I walked away, leaving somebody else to try to sort it out.
  • They say somebody slit her throat.
  • To play somebody who has a kid and is quite chaotic and disorganised really appealed to me.
  • Somebody told me that if you hum next to a hermit crab, it brings it out - and it works. Times, Sunday Times

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