What's the difference between anywhere and somewhere?

Anywhere


Definition:

  • (adv.) In any place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
  • (2) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (3) It also has one of the highest female university rates anywhere in the world.” The UAE-based Rotana hotels is planning to open a number of hotels in Iran, and France’s leading hotelier, Accor, is involved in at least two four-star hotels in the country.
  • (4) "We were the ones with the most over-indebted banks, the most over-indebted households and we had the biggest budget deficit of virtually any country, anywhere in the world.
  • (5) As a proportion of our workforce we have got more PhDs per head of population in Copeland than anywhere else in the UK.
  • (6) Oregon’s governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years, and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.
  • (7) "Unless we give people better content and better coverage, we ain't going anywhere.
  • (8) "Maybe that's why they can't afford anywhere bigger: because they're always late for work."
  • (9) Maintaining air links between cities as far apart as Inverness and London makes sense, but at the same time we must invest in improvements to our rail network and make it easy to use technology to do business from anywhere in Scotland.
  • (10) Yet Texas’s big cities are some of the most diverse in the nation, and last year 7,214 refugees were resettled in the state – more than anywhere else in the country .
  • (11) These results display the sensitivity of simple H-exchange measurements for finding and characterizing effects on structure and dynamics that may occur anywhere in the protein and help to define conditions for higher resolution approaches that can localize the changes observed.
  • (12) Angioleiomyomas are rare smooth-muscle tumors that occur anywhere in the body.
  • (13) A study of 425 patients demonstrated that a pyodestructive process, located anywhere, affects platelet functional properties, resulting in the first place, in disorders of spontaneous cell disaggregation.
  • (14) The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p ; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible.
  • (15) Big organisations, whether in the private, public or charitable sectors usually have independent internal audit before getting anywhere near the external auditors.
  • (16) As Llewellyn and others reached for their briefcases Ashdown roared that nobody was going anywhere.
  • (17) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
  • (18) In 1985, Omura, Y. discovered that, when specific molecules were placed anywhere in the close vicinity of the path of a light beam (laser), their molecular information, as well as information on electrical & magnetic fields, is transmitted bi-directionally along the path of this light beam.
  • (19) The "golden postcodes" of Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Mayfair and Chelsea, says one agent, "offer among the most desired places to live anywhere in the world".
  • (20) After 10 years in prison I feel safe pretty much anywhere,” he said.

Somewhere


Definition:

  • (adv.) In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For somewhere else, perhaps, the show was just about to begin.
  • (2) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
  • (3) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
  • (4) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
  • (5) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (6) All I know is that we have reached somewhere where they will not be shot."
  • (7) The application of this method is situated somewhere between the classic total laryngectomy and the conservative supraglottic, at times finding itself in natural opposition to the expanded supraglottic the lateral-front, the hemilaryngectomy, the crico-ioidopesia and the Serafini-type total laryngectomy.
  • (8) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
  • (9) It's brown, crusty and cratered, like somewhere Hubble may have sent back a photo of.
  • (10) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
  • (11) I thought he'd smash it somewhere near the corner and hope it would go through, and he's left‑footed.
  • (12) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
  • (13) And as they tell the current home secretary what she should be doing differently, they are, somewhere deep down, still asking themselves the same question about what went wrong for them.
  • (14) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
  • (15) Here, anyway, is what increasingly seems to be the future: slick corporate logos flashing from prisons, hospitals, schools, detention centres, defence facilities, police stations and more, and a cut-price society pitched somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Philip K Dick .
  • (16) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
  • (17) Maybe that’s because it’s somewhere that’s very present in my memory, yet somewhere that I can never visit again.
  • (18) As each microregion contains an unknown amount of embedding medium, this quantity generally lies indeterminately somewhere within the wide range between mmol of element per kg of hydrated tissue and mmol of element per kg of dehydrated tissue.
  • (19) The background was hotter on one side of the sky and cooler on the other: a "dipole" that meant our galaxy was moving at a phenomenal relative speed, which could only be explained if there was a huge undiscovered distant structure somewhere in space, such as a supercluster of galaxies, pulling it (this was found later and is called the "great attractor").
  • (20) The next stop towards freedom will be the capture of Matteo Messina Denaro, who tonight will go to sleep somewhere in western Sicily, possibly in Castelvetrano itself, exercising the same caution he has employed for two decades to stay one step ahead of the police.