How to Use somebody in a Sentence
somebody
noun
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Just to have somebody in front of me like her pushes me.
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Rick Armstrong,
Aurora Beacon-News,
12 May 2018
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Mannery tried to close and lock the shop's doors, but somebody punched him and a fight broke out.
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Maya Eliahou and David Williams,
CNN,
6 June 2018
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Our player has to get the header and the ball falls to somebody else and there is no call.
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Jake Shapiro,
The Denver Post,
20 July 2019
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Thomas had lived in his house for months when somebody asked where the microwave was.
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Michael Rosenberg,
SI.com,
5 June 2018
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When somebody mistreats you, go out of your way to be kind.
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Perri Ormont Blumberg,
Southern Living,
4 Sep. 2019
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And his wife needs to be where somebody can help, and that’s probably the case with him.
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Carlos Monarrez,
Detroit Free Press,
2 Mar. 2020
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But there was one round where Cash and Alhabash had to pay somebody $1,000.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
27 Dec. 2018
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Look, as Rich said, somebody in this space is going to break out.
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NBC News,
31 Dec. 2017
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At one point somebody made a bracelet out of chicken bones.
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Hilary Cadigan,
Bon Appetit,
14 June 2018
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For somebody to say no to that this time and then all the media and everybody.
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Karen Mizoguchi,
PEOPLE.com,
30 Mar. 2018
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What’s more valuable, $75 or somebody who’s stoked on your work and has a kind word to say about you?
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Gregory Thomas,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Mar. 2020
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That’s the kind of thing somebody would’ve found and put in without thinking, Does this go or not?
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Shoko Wagner,
House Beautiful,
18 Nov. 2019
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There will be somebody who will make a smart comment about it.
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Time,
9 Feb. 2018
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The freshness of going with somebody like this is great.
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Michael Granberry,
Dallas News,
10 Feb. 2020
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At some point somebody is going to be left holding the bag.
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Edward McKinley,
kansascity,
5 July 2018
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This isn’t what somebody who wanted to build the perfect virus would have picked.
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National Geographic,
26 Mar. 2020
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That somebody will be either the 49ers or Packers in two weeks.
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oregonlive,
20 Jan. 2020
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That’s a football dynasty, and somebody’s got to get them at some point.
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Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
9 Nov. 2019
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Any awareness that this was somebody on the radar already or no?
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NBC News,
4 Aug. 2019
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When somebody dies at home, the corpse joins a long waiting list for removal.
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The Economist,
8 Apr. 2020
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And then to somebody else’s ears and into their bodies.
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Madeleine Kearns,
National Review,
30 Aug. 2019
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And talking to somebody does not mean sending them a link to a survey.
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Leigh Gallagher,
Fortune,
22 Dec. 2017
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Every couple of months, somebody’s driving up to the light and revving the engine.
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Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
5 July 2018
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But even with entry papers, somebody in France had to put them up.
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Lucian Perkins,
Smithsonian,
27 June 2018
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He got tackled one time, somebody landed on it and tweaked it again.
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Robert Avery,
Houston Chronicle,
16 Nov. 2019
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Yes, if somebody gets a little bit out of control, if an area gets too hot.
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Michael Cabanatuan,
SFChronicle.com,
13 Mar. 2020
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Shouldn’t somebody have caught this issue before the sale?
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 July 2019
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There’s got to be a better way besides picking up a gun and killing somebody.
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Samantha Melamed,
Philly.com,
13 July 2018
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Near the yogurt somebody had discarded two packs of bone-in lamb loin chops.
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Sunset Magazine,
26 Mar. 2020
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Now Perez is the No. 3 starter, somebody the Sox will be counting on to help prop up the rest of their rotation, which is very much a work in progress.
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Peter Abraham,
BostonGlobe.com,
3 Mar. 2020
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