Used in a Sentence

somebody

How to use somebody in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for somebody.

Editorial note

My margins on these TVs keep going down, so somebody's gotta pay.

Examples15
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of somebody gathered in one view.

noun

a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for somebody.

Example sentences

1

My margins on these TVs keep going down, so somebody's gotta pay.

2

You can look at somebody's average and it gives you a sense of what sort of things they're posting.

3

As a developer, you are coding stuff that's important to somebody or they wouldn't be paying you to do it.

4

Then why would somebody running a large corporation hire more people than they thought would be needed to meet consumer demand?

5

Besides the obvious problem that there's no easy way to type the darned things when somebody hand-edits the file.

6

Maybe somebody can explain this better to me -- but if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings?

7

" Maybe somebody can explain this better to me -- but if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings?

8

Then there are those who get access to information, but refuse to post about it for fear of pissing somebody off, just as boring and probably worse than the first type.

9

This is really unfortunate and I'm sure nobody at Google really meant to do this, but...."This is the same way you'd criticize a king, somebody you are beholden to.

10

You have to become very aggressive now; it's not like a regular job where somebody else is doing the marketing and management for you and setting a schedule.

11

Never hit a plateau in pay, but nonetheless, I've found the best way to ratchet up is to change jobs which has been sad, but true - I've left some pretty decent jobs because somebody else was willing to pay more.

12

By the way, I don't know about anybody else, but for the first time I can think of, I'm seriously concerned about the consequences of posting support for somebody like this online.

13

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” -- Buckminster Fuller

14

How we got to the point of being able to even tender is another story that involves somebody in our organization sleeping with somebody at the government organization.

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I know that Amit is a very important person in the technical community, but please remember that everyone who needs a donor is the most important person in the world to somebody -- a parent, a sibling, a child or a best friend.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use somebody in a sentence?

My margins on these TVs keep going down, so somebody's gotta pay.

What does somebody mean?

a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

What part of speech is somebody?

somebody is commonly used as noun.