What's the difference between anybody and nobody?

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?

Nobody


Definition:

  • (n.) No person; no one; not anybody.
  • (n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (2) I knocked for quite some time but there was nobody there.” A neighbour said the family had not been home for “a while”.
  • (3) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (4) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
  • (5) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
  • (6) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.
  • (7) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
  • (8) They are learning that education isn’t stimulating and nobody is listening to their needs.
  • (9) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
  • (10) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
  • (11) Nobody was surprised when the house agreed unanimously, or at least nem con, to get the whole matter investigated by Mr Bryant's committee.
  • (12) Quantitative easing, which nobody had heard of until it started happening, entered the language.
  • (13) Nobody said anything to me.” The victory was Villa’s second over Albion in five days.
  • (14) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
  • (15) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
  • (16) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
  • (17) Nobody's mobile phone bill should come to £230 in one month.
  • (18) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
  • (19) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
  • (20) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.