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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Dan Walters, Oc Register, 16 Dec. 2025
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Professional athletes, however, aren’t nobodies.
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Noun
Many of Newsom’s critics who breathlessly report on his evil plans (that the left-wing mainstream media supposedly cover up) are just nobodies who feign authority and are obviously fronting for right-wing organizations.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 16 Dec. 2025
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
Professional athletes, however, aren’t nobodies.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
More importantly, the narrative explores both sides of the conflict from the POV of grunts and 'nobodies' trying to navigate the post-Civil War state of the galaxy before the fighting stops.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Nobody.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nobody. Accessed 2 Jan. 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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