somebody
Example Sentences
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“Thick, warm ash fell and we couldn’t see again. This time there was no wind. It fell densely, like somebody pouring a bag of fine sand over your head.”
From Literature
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“That is a very adult thing to actually have that encounter where you return somebody’s belongings,” she says.
“This isn’t somebody that just wandered off,” Nanos reiterated Monday morning.
From Los Angeles Times
"It's legal and it's what the regulations say. But if somebody wants to entertain themselves by distraction, then everybody's free to do this."
From BBC
"But that wasn't actually the case. So on 12 January we rang Capita again and after four hours on hold we managed to speak to somebody. That request has never actually got through."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.