What's the difference between anybody and somebody?

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?

Somebody


Definition:

  • (n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
  • (n.) A person of consideration or importance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
  • (2) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (3) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
  • (4) "It is very easy to see somebody get killed over this issue," Marijuana Industry Group Director Michael Elliott testified last month.
  • (5) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
  • (6) Yes, if it helps kill the idea that autism is somebody's "fault".
  • (7) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
  • (8) "Offers came in at $2m (£1.2m), somebody offered $5m (£3m) yesterday," he recently told Billboard .
  • (9) The shockwave felt like somebody hit me in the gut," he said.
  • (10) Sonali thought, “Whoever those people are, at least I have helped somebody.” Sonali could not say what her clients paid for her surrogacy.
  • (11) If somebody on a work experience placement or internship is a worker under NMW (national minimum wage) legislation, then they are entitled to the minimum wage."
  • (12) It’s because somebody wants to leave and because somebody brings the perfect offer for Chelsea to accept.
  • (13) They said, ‘We’ll help you find somebody to adopt your baby.’ They had signs and pictures up at that gestational age.
  • (14) If somebody who has participated in fighting in a foreign civil war returns to Australia, they can be arrested, they could be charged with an offence which carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 25 years.
  • (15) "If what you're looking for is somebody who understands of the inner working of the banking system domestically, but at the same time its interconnections globally, and what has to be done globally, I think you've got a very, very strong person," said Martin.
  • (16) They won't get somebody prominent because then the community won't co-operate.
  • (17) Given a certain somebody gave millions of cancer sufferers false hope by insisting his seven Tour de France wins were the result of a medical miracle rather than the most sophisticated doping programme ever seen in sport, it is hard to keep the faith.
  • (18) They are exceptional powers because they allow the police to apply to detain somebody without charge for up to 14 days, and in circumstances where the nature and reason of their detention is also a secret.
  • (19) If somebody in the community couldn’t access a library because the doors were too narrow for their wheelchair, we’d bring that service to them.
  • (20) More importantly, though, don’t make this just a question about dates or feelings, about what somebody did or didn’t read and what its effect on them was.