Examples of nobody in a Sentence
Pronoun
Nobody could answer my question.
I guess I'll have to volunteer because it's clear nobody else will.
Noun
He was a nobody in high school.
tired of feeling like a nobody, she decided to launch her own business
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Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
Unlike some of his more strapping forebears (think Liam Neeson, Kevin Costner, or Aaron Eckhart), Odenkirk specializes in nobodies and normals: people one would not expect to be killing machines.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
After all, why listen to a podcast with two nobodies co-hosting when a listener can get an hour from a familiar celebrity.
—Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Seattle’s John Schneider and New England’s Eliot Wolf rose up from young nobodies to graduate from Green Bay Packers University, too.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
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Noun
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
Unlike some of his more strapping forebears (think Liam Neeson, Kevin Costner, or Aaron Eckhart), Odenkirk specializes in nobodies and normals: people one would not expect to be killing machines.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
After all, why listen to a podcast with two nobodies co-hosting when a listener can get an hour from a familiar celebrity.
—Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Seattle’s John Schneider and New England’s Eliot Wolf rose up from young nobodies to graduate from Green Bay Packers University, too.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Nobody.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nobody. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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nobody
1 of 2 pronoun
no·body
ˈnō-bəd-ē 
-ˌbäd-ē
: no person : not anybody
nobody lives in that house
nobody
2 of 2 noun
plural nobodies
: a person of no importance
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