Example Sentences

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You can think, within two seconds, of stories of nobodies who became somebodies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"Somebody or somebodies know where this came from and how it got there," Mr Tobin said.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2024

Taking shots at the Compton native and his reputation, Cole’s “7 Minute Drills” proves that now there’s technically two somebodies doing the dissin’.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2024

Morocco, to its further credit beyond all the credit it has earned here, coped with that by playing like somebodies who found themselves belonging here.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022

Not any more than certain other somebodies should ignore him!

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel