Use nobody in a sentence
Sentences starting with nobody
- Nobody would suspect you then. [4]
- Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
- Nobody but just you and me--it ain't much of a display for the barkeeper. [5]
- Nobody sows it, yet who can uproot it when it is once here? [10]
- Nobody in the world can appreciate it higher than I do. [5]
- Nobody said a word for several minutes. [5]
- Nobody watched Elsie with a more searching eye than her cousin, Dick Venner. [6]
- Nobody would suspect who I was. [5]
- Nobody knew afterward whether the great speech that he had so gaily planned ever came to a natural end or not. [5]
- Nobody could sleep where that man--and his family--was. [5]
Sentences ending with nobody
- He had got up that joke all out of his own head, and never let on to nobody. [5]
- And if the truth be told, he was on the whole relieved that she was nobody. [9]
- But you were true to nothing--to nothing--to nobody. [11]
- Wonta came up to him softly, patted him on the head, and said: "Like Macavoy there is nobody. [11]
- It obliges nobody to follow me, and I trust it obliges me to follow nobody. [7]
- One has only to add the two columns up to see that the French house is bankrupt, that one-half of its property is already in the English sheriff's hands and the other half in nobody's--except those of irresponsible raiders and robbers confessing allegiance to nobody. [5]
- I crept up the dead water under the bank, and hadn't no accidents and didn't see nobody. [5]
- It was that story that made Mauritius known to the world, made the name familiar to everybody, the geographical position of it to nobody. [5]
- Sometimes I heard shots far away behind us; but Gordineer said it was my guess, for we saw nobody. [11]
- Then she said she'd forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody. [5]
Short sentences using nobody
- She said nobody was looking. [5]
- But nobody follered us. [13]
- Comprehensively speaking, nobody traveled. [5]
- Nobody is true to me. [12]
- Has nobody got thirteen cents? [6]
- No, nobody, says they. [5]
- Nobody can tell them anything. [5]
- Nobody ever wears Summer clothing. [5]
- Nobody is talking of her. [5]
- Nobody expects better of her. [5]
Sentences containing nobody two or more times
- Nobody to go to, nobody that k'yers for him--and all of us is so put to it for to get along and families so large. [5]
- Apparently nobody happened to want such a river, nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it; so, for a century and a half the Mississippi remained out of the market and undisturbed. [5]
- Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. [12]
- She wondered how the young people there liked it, or whether there were any young people there; perhaps nobody was young and nobody was old, but they were like mummies all of them--what an idea --two mummies making love to each other! [6]
- Taken sentence by sentence it asserts nothing against anybody or in favor of anybody, pleads for nobody, accuses nobody. [5]
- Thinks nobody can see through him, and there's nobody that can't. [11]
- I never has no difficulty with nobody, never says nothing about nobody, has nothing against nobody, and I reckon nobody has nothing against me. [4]
- Nobody noticed their nakedness before, perhaps; nobody can help noticing it now, the fig-leaf makes it so conspicuous. [5]
- No, sir, nobody knows;' and if he had added nobody cares, I believe honest would have been exactly in the right. [4]
- Nobody was disturbing it; nobody was interested in it; all the family's attempts to get attention to it had failed--except in the case of one of the trunks containing the dutiable goods. [5]
More example sentences with the word nobody in them
- If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
- Why, nobody but your own family, of course. [6]
- The difference between your friends the criminals and me is that probably nobody will ever be able to catch me out. [11]
- You are so young, that nobody would imagine you were entrusted with a secret mission. [10]
- Your friend's the young man from Witherden's office I think--yes--May we ne'er want a-- Nobody else at all, been, Mr Richard? [12]
- I must tell you, Doctor: if I should die, perhaps nobody else would tell you. [6]
- I don't want you to see them, nor your sisters, nor nobody in this town; if a neighbor was to ask how is your uncles this morning your face would tell something. [5]
- Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
- I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
- Pardon me, for you know that nobody cares more for you than I do,--I hope that you are happy in all your relations with this young friend of yours. [6]
- But I lay you ain't a-goin' to threaten nobody any more, Jim Turner. [5]
- Don't believe no wrong of nobody, not till y' must,--least of all of them that come o' the same folks, partly, and has lived with yo all their days. [6]
- Jim said nobody would know me, even in the daytime, hardly. [5]
- Nobody, I suppose, would doubt this story if the moose, quaffing deep draughts of red wine from silver tankards, and then throwing themselves back upon divans, and lazily puffing the fragrant Havana. [4]
- They said nobody would come to hear me, and I would make a humiliating failure of it. [5]
- Myrtle was contented with this statement, and asked no questions, and it was a perfectly understood thing that nobody alluded to the subject in her presence. [6]
- Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made Queen Margaret of Navarre or even the great Elizabeth of England hide behind a handkerchief, but nobody hid here, but only laughed --howled, you may say. [5]
- When the ferryboat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft. [5]
- I hope nobody will lift his hand against this noble creature to mutilate him in any way. [6]
- There's nobody here will harm you. [12]
- And so the whole family was as happy as birds, and nobody could be gratefuler and lovinger than what they was to Tom Sawyer; and the same to me, though I hadn't done nothing. [5]
- Nobody, he implied, who came to his house had ever exhibited the proper interest in Sid. [9]
- The question was, which way to retreat; but all were so flurried that nobody seemed to have even a guess to offer. [5]
- They made laws which nobody minded and which could not be executed. [5]
- Whether the questions which assail my young friend have risen in my reader's mind or not, he knows perfectly well that nobody can keep such questions from springing up in every young mind of any force or honesty. [6]
- Yes, that is where we got him--stretched on the wain, going to his death, poor chap, and nobody to say a good word for him. [5]
- At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
- Nobody knew exactly where it was, but there was no doubt that it had been inhabited. [4]
- Nobody ever sees when the vote is taken; there never is a formal vote. [6]
- Nobody really knew what her plans had been except Olive and Cyprian, who had observed a very kind silence about the whole matter. [6]
- I don't think we've given Miss Dryfoos a pleasure, but perhaps nobody could. [8]
- With folks goin' West, and all that, nobody seems to want it much. [9]
- Who these men were nobody knew. [2]
- The two men were eating a late breakfast; sitting opposite each other; nobody else around. [5]
- Of course we were all distracted in a moment--everybody was flying everywhere, and nobody doing anything worth anything. [5]
- After dinner I went below and took a seat in the stone-paved court, where the customary lemon-trees stand in the customary tubs, and said to myself, "Now this is comfort, comfort and repose, and nobody to disturb it; I do not know anybody in Milan. [5]
- Those things sound well, but they are shadowy and indefinite, like troy weight and avoirdupois; nobody knows what they mean. [5]
- Nobody gave her welcome, none pitied her. [5]
- He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner. [5]
- Nobody inquired whether we had any passports or not. [5]
- In my judgment we can elect nobody but General Taylor; and we cannot elect him without a nomination. [7]
- He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image. [5]
- Tom says it wasn't enough; but I said nobody wouldn't ever see the plates that Jim throwed out, because they'd fall in the dog-fennel and jimpson weeds under the window-hole--then we could tote them back and he could use them over again. [5]
- But mebbe it wasn't a close call!...I'll sit here in this corner where nobody can see me from the grove. [13]
- All this process was watched by the three spectators with absorbing interest, their heads bent together over Luigi's palm, and nobody disturbing the stillness with a word. [5]
- Ripton knew it was there, Camden Street knew it, and Mr. Vane's acquaintances throughout the State; but nobody ever spoke of it. [9]
- Nobody knew which was the higher office; so Lyman had to settle the matter by making the rank of both officers equal. [5]
- What the thing was that happened to him and his grandfather's old ram is a dark mystery to this day, for nobody has ever yet found out. [5]
- Well, as I was saying, we waited that morning till everybody was settled down to business, and nobody in sight around the yard; then Tom he carried the sack into the lean-to whilst I stood off a piece to keep watch. [5]
- He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either. [5]
- Fulkerson said it was not often the colonel found such a good listener; generally nobody listened but Mrs. Leighton, who thought his ideas were shocking, but honored him for holding them so conscientiously. [8]
- Every minute it was getting earlier now, and pretty soon some of them watchers would begin to stir, and I might get catched--catched with six thousand dollars in my hands that nobody hadn't hired me to take care of. [5]
- The whole air was full of a vague vast scheme which was to eventuate in filling Laura's pockets with millions of money; some had one idea of the scheme, and some another, but nobody had any exact knowledge upon the subject. [5]
- No other topic was discussed but the rich strike, and nobody thought or dreamed about anything else. [5]
- The other "bogus" was deep philosophical stuff, which we judged nobody ever read; so we kept a galley of it standing, and kept on slapping the same old batches of it in, every now and then, till it got dangerous. [5]
- Nobody believed there was any bear in the case; but everybody who could get a gun carried one; and we went into the woods armed with guns, pistols, pitchforks, and sticks, against all contingencies or surprises,--a crowd made up mostly of scoffers and jeerers. [4]
- But maybe it was altogether too delicate, for nobody ever perceived the satire part of it at all. [5]
- Tom said nobody warn't accusing him. [5]
- Only these: I want the well and the surroundings for the space of half a mile, entirely to myself from sunset to-day until I remove the ban--and nobody allowed to cross the ground but by my authority. [5]
- Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. [10]
- Nobody in the village, no student in the University, knew his history. [6]
- Nobody in the village approved of that murder, but of course no one said much about it. [5]
- We entertain different views upon political questions, but nobody is suffering anything. [7]
- Nobody could win victories that way. [5]
- It is a very plausible guess that nobody there or elsewhere was interested to know. [5]
- On the way up town these adventurers bought books on engineering, and suits of India-rubber, which they supposed they would need in a new and probably damp country, and many other things which nobody ever needed anywhere. [5]
- I mixed it up rather too much; and so all that description of the attitude, as a key to the humbuggery of the article, was entirely lost, for nobody but me ever discovered and comprehended the peculiar and suggestive position of the petrified man's hands. [5]
- Nobody need feel uncomfortable about the burglary, except the burglar; but see what a position for the other person's hostess. [11]
- His name was Turk, and I should have sold him if he had not been the kind of dog that nobody will buy. [4]
- Nobody knows the truth; everybody believes a falsehood; and all because of the ingenuity of Mr Brass's gentleman. [12]
- It is absolutely true that we shall have to fight nobody but these thirty thousand knights. [5]
- Most of us tried to fly, but some got crippled and nobody made a success of it. [5]
- He was a traveler, passing through; and he spoke to her gently, and, seeing nobody but me there to hear, said he was sorry for her. [5]
- I wandered about town questioning everybody, boring everybody, and finding out that nobody knew anything. [5]
- The bar'l left towards day, and nobody see it go. [5]
- Nobody else seemed to want to take the job, and so I took it, and I flatter myself that I made a pretty good job of it. [5]
- He didn't wish to trouble nobody, and if he had troubled anybody by what he said, he asked pardon, that was all. [12]
- I can't bear to think of you going away with nothing, with nobody, when here is something and somebody--somebody who would be good to you. [11]
- Nobody really seemed to think it otherwise than pretty; and this again was a triumph for Mrs. March, because it showed how inferior the New York taste was to the Boston taste in such matters. [8]
- Nobody attaches weight to the freaks of the Charlton Library, but when a man like Phelps speaks, the world gives attention. [5]
- She would like to talk with you, and her aunt wants to see you too; they think there's nobody like the 'old Doctor'. [6]
- Nobody seemed willing to take it up, and Mrs. Dryfoos went on, with an old woman's severity: "I say they ought to be all tarred and feathered and rode on a rail. [8]
- Nobody was able to stir or speak for a while, so paralyzing was the universal astonishment, so unbelievable the fact that the stake was actually standing there unoccupied and its prey gone. [5]
- Is he going to spend his life in maintaining a principle that nobody on earth opposes? [7]
- Ahniny looked round to see if anybody was near; she saw nobody, so of course it would do no good to "holler. [6]
- It is equivalent to saying that there is no moral law; or, if there is, nobody can define it. [9]
- Nobody had promised to say masses for her soul if she made this disposition of her property, or pledged the word of the Church that she should have plenary absolution. [6]
- Nobody seemed yet to realize what awaited the city. [2]
- Nobody ever dares to quarrel with him. [9]
- Still nobody seemed to perceive that the prince had done a thing unusual. [5]
- Yet nobody seemed to miss the connection. [9]
- Yet nobody seemed to mind it; and there was, indeed, a general air of social enjoyment and good feeling. [4]
- Nobody knows how to lift and support me so well. [10]
- But one has to learn to like the Virginia, nobody is born friendly to it. [5]
- Nobody will go to jail nowadays who thinks anything of himself. [4]
- If fees continue to increase as they have done in the past ten years in the great cities, like New York, nobody not a millionaire can afford to be sick. [4]
- So nobody goes to headquarters and reports insults of manner, insults of gesture, look, and so forth; and yet these are sometimes harder to bear than any words. [5]
- Everybody was trying to find out what his story was,--for a story, and a strange one, he must surely have,--and nobody had succeeded. [6]
- Nobody knew what to do with it; so it was sold at 15 a ton, to light fires with. [5]
- Nobody seems ever to do anything for you. [11]
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