(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.
Something
Definition:
(n.) Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
(n.) A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
(n.) A person or thing importance.
(adv.) In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(5) Mr Heine suggested: "It is saying something about CND, nuclear power, Chernobyl and Nagasaki."
(6) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(8) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(10) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(11) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(12) You might even arrive home with something tolerable for supper.
(13) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
(14) At least Depay departed having had a shot on target, something his manager will probably offer as proof United are improving.
(15) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
(16) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(17) 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.
(18) Over the years it has become something of a Westminster ritual.
(19) Women in their 20s Christina Wallace , Director, Startup Institute of New York I do think the women's movement is stalled – especially since it's just not something my generation really thinks about.
(20) "We have accomplished something that has never happened before," the 68-year-old said.