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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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
None of these nobodies is performing like Grimes just yet, and until someone does Grier better get active trying to find a handful of veteran cornerbacks whom this team can call on, and sign to patch up the weakest unit on the team.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
And maybe that’s a metaphor for the way a lot of middle-class nobodies feel.
—Abigail Lee, Variety, 13 May 2025
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Noun
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
None of these nobodies is performing like Grimes just yet, and until someone does Grier better get active trying to find a handful of veteran cornerbacks whom this team can call on, and sign to patch up the weakest unit on the team.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
And maybe that’s a metaphor for the way a lot of middle-class nobodies feel.
—Abigail Lee, Variety, 13 May 2025
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“Nobody.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nobody. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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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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