Example Sentences

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These Somebodies are seated in the audience and called onto the stage after God, unhappy with his creation, asks Death to retrieve humanity for an accounting of its dismaying conduct.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2022

For much of the past year, it did look as though the movement’s primary goal was to reduce men who had once been Somebodies to the status of Nobody.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018

Thousands of new Somebodies had to overcome the barrier of illiteracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presumably, the lesson of The Early Churchills is how Nobodies may become Somebodies if they have the right stuff in them.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will even go so far as to assert that in this odd country there was a huge number of Somebodies.

From A Double Story by MacDonald, George