What's the difference between somebody and someone?

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.

Someone


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (2) "But we develop a picture of someone from their previous engagements with us.
  • (3) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
  • (4) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
  • (5) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (6) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
  • (7) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (8) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
  • (9) Some people are lucky enough to have someone to look after them,” Leigh broods.
  • (10) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (13) In families with several cases, secondary cases (children infected in the home) had a relative mortality risk of 3.00 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.55-5.80) compared with index cases who caught infection from someone outside the home.
  • (14) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.
  • (15) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (16) Because of the high rates of employment of mothers, a large and increasing number of preschool children receive regular care from someone else.
  • (17) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.
  • (18) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
  • (19) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.
  • (20) The sense that someone else is running the show – bankers, Europe, multinationals – is no longer the province of the radical left.