Synonyms
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
Recent Examples on the Web
Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
But if Neon loves its stars, its heart lies with the nobodies.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
For the second year in a row, there’s no Power Five nonconference opponent, just two relative nobodies plus a FCS gimme in North Carolina Central.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
Yes, White was Doc’s college roomie and Billy’s a skilled surgeon, but their shared trailer home/office and willingness to take any work tossed their way initially suggests that these two were basically nobodies orbiting Doc’s super-science mediocrity.
—Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
As other creative industries disintegrated, Hollywood promised not just an escape hatch but a ladder to career advancement, as former nobodies like Severance creator Dan Erickson saw their pilot scripts pulled from slush piles and given full-season orders.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
The wildly successful algorithm serves videos to multitudes of people who might not otherwise view them, propelling nobodies to stardom and turning small businesses into profit machines.
—Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
That film, a terrific one, told of how Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane scraped together a Basic Economy roster of promising nobodies through the use of sabermetric analysis.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
Chiefly, there's Tara (Wednesday's deadpan Jenna Ortega in an underwritten role), enrolled at fictional Blackmore University, her overprotective older sister, Sam (Melissa Barrera), busy ruining Tara's first year away from home, plus a clutch of chatty over-explainers and fresh nobodies.
—Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
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Noun
Those names hardly belong to nobodies, as Ruth Wisse pointed out in a review for Commentary.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
But if Neon loves its stars, its heart lies with the nobodies.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2023
For the second year in a row, there’s no Power Five nonconference opponent, just two relative nobodies plus a FCS gimme in North Carolina Central.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
Yes, White was Doc’s college roomie and Billy’s a skilled surgeon, but their shared trailer home/office and willingness to take any work tossed their way initially suggests that these two were basically nobodies orbiting Doc’s super-science mediocrity.
—Mat Olson, Vulture, 19 July 2023
As other creative industries disintegrated, Hollywood promised not just an escape hatch but a ladder to career advancement, as former nobodies like Severance creator Dan Erickson saw their pilot scripts pulled from slush piles and given full-season orders.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
The wildly successful algorithm serves videos to multitudes of people who might not otherwise view them, propelling nobodies to stardom and turning small businesses into profit machines.
—Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
That film, a terrific one, told of how Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane scraped together a Basic Economy roster of promising nobodies through the use of sabermetric analysis.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
Chiefly, there's Tara (Wednesday's deadpan Jenna Ortega in an underwritten role), enrolled at fictional Blackmore University, her overprotective older sister, Sam (Melissa Barrera), busy ruining Tara's first year away from home, plus a clutch of chatty over-explainers and fresh nobodies.
—Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
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“Nobody.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nobody. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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Kids Definition
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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