What's the difference between anybody and whoever?

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?

Whoever


Definition:

  • (pron.) Whatever person; any person who; be or she who; any one who; as, he shall be punished, whoever he may be.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) Whoever is Tory leader then may breathe a sigh of relief.
  • (3) Yet Leveson proposes giving his new board the power "to hear complaints whoever they come from", including from "a representative group affected by the alleged breach" of an as-yet-unwritten code.
  • (4) Sonali thought, “Whoever those people are, at least I have helped somebody.” Sonali could not say what her clients paid for her surrogacy.
  • (5) Malaysia's foreign minister Anifah Aman added that whoever was responsible should be brought to book regardless of nationality.
  • (6) If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight,” said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang.“The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped.” “As a woman in a very male-dominated society, the theory goes, she might be reluctant to push herself forward publicly straight away, preferring instead to bide her time while governing from behind the scenes.” However, Everard says though it is “not impossible” that Kim Yo-jong has stepped up to the leadership, “it is as hard to disprove this theory as it is to find anything to support it”.
  • (7) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
  • (8) Whoever wins the job will have to manage their peers from within the club – a tough task for any manager.
  • (9) His lieutenants have floated the possibility that whoever takes over our roads could get them on 100-year leases – which would just be transferring a public asset to some private-sector oligarch.
  • (10) "It still wasn't enough to satisfy whoever killed those journalists."
  • (11) Pandora’s box is officially open.” North Korea consistently denied any involvement in the Sony hack, but has now offered to help find “whoever” was responsible – using the occasion to attack the US.
  • (12) A semi-structured questionnaire was designed, tested and applied to the housewife or whoever performed this role within the family.
  • (13) There’s a prize of about £7,000 for whoever writes the winning song, so maybe next time I’m in the studio I’ll stay behind for a bit and submit one to the parliament of Switzerland .
  • (14) Read more By not doing so, the theory is, and by bequeathing the responsibility to whoever succeeds him, Cameron has handed the next prime minister a poisoned chalice.
  • (15) Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party.
  • (16) George Galloway and moral repugnance in the same sentence: whoever would have thought it?
  • (17) There have been dozens of inundations in the course of the world's history, and whoever wrote this bit of the Bible had probably experienced one.
  • (18) A few years back, a survey of 3,000 11-year-olds revealed that nine out of 10 parents swear in front of their children, and the average kid heard six different expletives per week (whoever said profanity was bad for your vocabulary?).
  • (19) Whoever was in charge of promoting that coat, stick a fork in yourself because you're done.
  • (20) As joint partners both companies will ultimately benefit equally, however running the gross revenues through one balance sheet would benefit the top-line figures of whoever handles the sales – assuming the format is picked up internationally.