How to Use nobody in a Sentence

nobody

noun
  • He was a nobody in high school.
  • And nobody can say when -- or even if -- that day might come.
    — CBS News, 25 July 2019
  • Point is, ain’t nobody got time for the same old stale workout.
    — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 4 June 2019
  • Or, at least, nobody’s stuck with it long enough to force adoption.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 10 Jan. 2019
  • This is a sort of a fatal wound that nobody could escape its fate.
    — National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • But on your fourth run later that day, or the next day, nobody notices you.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2020
  • That's the way it's set up and nobody shows much interest in wanting to change it.
    — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 19 June 2019
  • As a blind makeup lover, there was nobody to teach me [how to apply makeup].
    — Karina Hoshikawa, Allure, 2 Apr. 2019
  • The meetings are usually at lunchtime, but nobody comes for the food.
    — Corinne Purtill, Quartz at Work, 5 June 2019
  • The people born and raised here always know there’s a chance for hard times, but nobody is deterred.
    — Eric Sondheimercolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • On the weekends, a couple of them will drive past now and then, just to make sure nobody has broken in.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
  • There is nobody in the state of Wisconsin who could contest that shot.
    — jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • With social anxiety comes the feeling that nobody likes you or wants you around.
    — Love Letters.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The best time to eat raw vegetables is right now, but nobody can survive on crudité alone.
    — Aliza Abarbanel, Bon Appétit, 12 July 2019
  • Paredes said nobody was injured as a result of the branch falling.
    — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 11 June 2019
  • But nobody — not even the Dream Killer — could kill the Aquarius dream.
    — National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Dozens of warnings were issued this weekend but nobody has been fined yet, said Berry.
    — Andrea Perez Balderrama, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2019
  • The problem is that so many teams ranked closely together lost that there was nobody to move up to take their spot.
    — cleveland, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Don’t ask me why, and definitely don’t ask me who wants to be hugged and who doesn’t, because nobody asks.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The metal is workmanlike, but rock is supposed to be a show, and nobody does it better.
    — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But nobody at Maserati is going to tell you this is supposed to be a hooligan machine.
    — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 21 Apr. 2020
  • But nobody expected this team to be a title contender in the first year of Rosas’ reign.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Even though the brand is 160 years old, nobody here in the States had really heard of it.
    — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2018
  • Sure, nobody wants to live in filth; however, carving out the time to scrub and sweep your space is easier said than done.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • And no, nobody from the county will be showing up Monday morning to dig a 6-foot hole in your yard.
    — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 3 June 2019
  • And while nobody in the crowd went for a lingerie look, the dancers swinging from the ceiling added a dash of cabaret flair to the whimsical, alluring evening.
    — Vogue, 31 Oct. 2019
  • If the most powerful man in the most powerful country on the face of the planet cannot speak truth to the PRC, nobody else will.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Yvonne and Nick’s disastrous wedding dinner is the day the cast went from nobodies to actual practitioners of the reality-television arts and sciences.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • Despite the tragicomic instability and the rotating cast of nobodies temporarily tasked with running the country, when seen in macroeconomic terms, Peru appears to be doing just fine, thank you.
    — Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026

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