What's the difference between anybody and everybody?

Anybody


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
  • (n.) A person of consideration or standing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
  • (2) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (3) There are Christians coming from Syria, it doesn’t matter who it is, we would help anybody.
  • (4) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (5) It's possible to go out and about, and not talk to anybody apart from the person you purchase goods from."
  • (6) It was difficult to engage anybody in conversation.
  • (7) The spokeperson said of Blair's role as the Middle East envoy: "The truth, and anybody who knows anything about the situation in respect of Palestine knows this, is that transformational change is impossible unless it goes hand in hand with a political process.
  • (8) He is an Anglican bishop who has shown his moral strength to the world better than anybody.
  • (9) Jews when they get successful, they will help their people, and some of the African Americans – maybe I'll get in trouble again – they don't want to help anybody," he said.
  • (10) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (11) Scotland Yard and the Press Complaints Commission also found no evidence of the involvement in hacking of anybody at the paper other than Goodman.
  • (12) It's not anybody's fault, but it does need to change."
  • (13) Anybody who wants to take O-levels, in the fourth year, and has parents who can afford it, must go to Soroti.
  • (14) When did anybody ever cry out in wonder at the sight of a new radio or television set?
  • (15) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
  • (16) Then there was his finish – it came off his shin but did anybody in Wales really care how he scored?
  • (17) We will never allow teenage tearaways or anybody else to turn our town centres into no go areas at night times.
  • (18) But now it transpires that getting bombed by fighter jets in your own home is not part of anybody’s culture.
  • (19) I can't think of anybody who loved her job that much.
  • (20) Everybody went to their homes, they wouldn't talk to anybody, they were afraid of each other – because who knew who might turn the other in?

Everybody


Definition:

  • (n.) Every person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
  • (2) And Norris Cole hits a "good night everybody" three-pointer.
  • (3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (4) A statement from the club read: "Everybody at Sheffield United is extremely shocked and saddened to learn of the death of former player and manager Gary Speed.
  • (5) Take a stand in these days of social media and soon everybody knows.
  • (6) One team can be more difficult than another one, but when we were at Málaga, everybody wanted to play us, but we won the group.
  • (7) He says: "Everybody in Britain wants to be safe in their bed at night, but they don't want to build the submarines.
  • (8) Today everybody longs for cities that are not dominated by cars.” At 80 years of age, Schimmelpennink is still active – and still hopeful.
  • (9) Everybody has been shaken by the death of Ann Maguire and the notion that any teacher should lose their life in the classroom.
  • (10) Amy McGrath Everybody, apart from one 17-year-old, correctly answered the question, who is better looking: Ed Miliband or Ed Balls?
  • (11) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
  • (12) By 2008, recalls Brendan Kenalty, of customer base management, 2007-10: All the market research was saying, “Hey, everybody wants what they call candy bar phones,” which is the nonflip phone.
  • (13) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
  • (14) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
  • (15) Noonan said: We want to position the country to exit the bailout so we can put this phase of Irish history behind us and build the economy and build the country going forward for everybody’s future.
  • (16) Keane found themselves in that position in 2010, when their song Everybody's Changing was played at a Conservative party launch.
  • (17) Not everybody has the luxury of being able to earn 20% less, but I wager more people could than do now.
  • (18) After a while, the victims start to blame themselves for the abuse, too – after all, he’s so nice to everybody else.
  • (19) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
  • (20) Everybody wants to be part of something that has become a cultural phenomenon.” Jurassic World took $1.668bn earlier this year.

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