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Example sentences for "somebody else"

  • I will get Earl Douglass, or somebody else, to play second fiddle, but I will have but one head on the farm, and I will try what mine is worth.

  • Oakum Head then rose, and announced as an entirely new idea, the mention of which profound novelty might be naturally expected to startle her unprepared hearers, that she would be very thankful to be got into a place, or got abroad.

  • And I'm sure I'd be very thankful to be got into a place, or got abroad,' said the Chief.

  • After it was given out, we all rose, but everybody left it to somebody else to begin.

  • Though unconscious of Straudenheim, she was conscious of somebody else--of me?

  • I feel as if it had belonged to somebody else.

  • No; it might be somebody else's business, but most decidedly it was not his.

  • Whether it was his own spirit or somebody else's did not definitely appear; but now and again it broke loose altogether, and then, when people complimented him on the brilliance of his appearance that week, he smiled inscrutably.

  • Become the slave of myself instead of the slave of somebody else!

  • The president knows that it is money fraudulently got, that really belongs to somebody else; and the gambler would feel that if the president takes it, he cannot think very disapprovingly of the manner in which it was acquired.

  • When it is small, as compared with the same ingredient in somebody else, there is still enough of it for all the purposes of examination.

  • The man entering the employ of a bank, a manufacturing concern, a corporation of any sort, in whatever capacity, enters to do the will of somebody else.

  • As quickly as I drop it in token of my surrender to Somebody else, a prize crew is sent aboard to take possession, and assume control.

  • A yoke in action has both sides occupied, and as surely as I bow down My head and slip it into the bow on one side--I know there is Somebody else on the other side.

  • Somebody else living in us, with a capital S for that Somebody, looking out of our eyes, giving His beauty to our faces, and His winningness to our personality.

  • It had better be done by somebody else, Dan'l,' said Mrs. Gummidge.

  • Why worry about the contents of somebody else's noddle, in which you can be nothing but an intruder, when you may arrive at a better result, with absolute certainty, by confining your activities to your own?

  • Well, you had better go and be somebody else's office-boy.

  • My sole aim is to insist that every man shall perfect his machine to the best of his powers, not to the best of somebody else's powers.

  • Sir Norman, with gloomy sternness, "and there will be somebody else coming to take possession shortly.

  • She is gone, at all events; no doubt about that--and if you have not carried her off, somebody else has.

  • My dear,' said the Reverend Frank aside to his good little wife, 'I think I will leave it to somebody else.

  • Then it would almost seem, dear,' said Bella quaintly, 'as if there must be somebody else?

  • Somebody else happened to be the guest of the evening, and somebody else took Lady Morley in to dinner.

  • I passionately longed to be somebody else; and yet I never met anybody else I could have borne to be for a moment.

  • If he could drive a profitable trade, it mattered little how he did it; and if somebody else lost as much as he gained by the bargain, that was not his business; every one must look out for himself.

  • Why could n't he borrow a gun of somebody else?

  • To convince the jury that he was not to be believed, the opposing counsel then told them that he had once pawned a watch belonging to somebody else.

  • As it was useless to tackle Sir Jasper Nicolls (whom she held responsible for the upset to her plans) she sought counsel of somebody else.

  • Somebody else, however (perhaps a more careful observer), is emphatic that she "went off with three carts full of trunks.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somebody else" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aerial warfare; domestic state; facing the; farm lands; first minister; five men; five thousand; gaol fever; give another; got out; hoarse whisper; meaning smile; representative species; saith also; somebody else; somebody ought; somebody said; such manner; thou gavest; thought they; touched upon; universal human; vocal music; what should