How to use nobody in a sentence
40 example sentences · pronoun, noun
Nobody means not any person; the logical negation of somebody. Example: “I asked several people, but nobody knew how.”
Examples of nobody by meaning
pronounNot any person; the logical negation of somebody.
- I asked several people, but nobody knew how.
- As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.
- Nobody phoned, did they?
More sentences with nobody
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.From the entry accord
- The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object.From the entry secret
- Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.From the entry but
- The boat was torn to pieces in the storm, and nobody survived.From the entry storm
- Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!From the entry rabbit
- I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.From the entry somebody
- We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.From the entry pack
- Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.From the entry rant
- Jack did a good job of getting lost: nobody saw him for 4 years.From the entry get lost
- We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.From the entry particular
- I think he left the phone off the hook so that nobody would call him.From the entry off the hook
- Nobody has corrected the problem yet, so it's time to rattle their cage.From the entry rattle someone's cage
- Come to think of it, it's curious that nobody was there.From the entry come to think of it
- She told that story absorbingly, so nobody paid attention to anything else.From the entry absorbingly
- He can't go on vacation very often because there is nobody to fill in for him.From the entry fill in
- Nobody is allowed to contact me after 4pm. VIPs can call me on my home phone.From the entry vip
- I hope nobody was eavesdropping on our conversation last night, since it got so personal.From the entry eavesdrop
- Nobody thought they'd win, but the football team pulled out a victory.From the entry pull out
- I just read five attempts at episodic novels — has nobody heard of a plot anymore?From the entry episodic
- He submitted a job application on the off chance that nobody better would.From the entry off chance
- The error was glaringly obvious, yet nobody said anything about it.From the entry glaringly
- He's been hanging paper all over town: nobody wants to even talk to him any more.From the entry hang paper
- Nobody was home when I arrived, which was a bad sign.From the entry bad sign
- Lots of people have this hairstyle back home, nobody would even remark on it.From the entry remark on
- She took the last piece of cake, and nobody said boo.From the entry say boo
- Nobody had made profits of this size since the heady days of the stock-market boom.From the entry heady days
- Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.From the entry answer
- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.From the entry void
- Nobody better hurt any of my kids.From the entry better
- I went to his address but there was nobody there.From the entry address
- She gave an indefinite answer which nobody really understood.From the entry indefinite
- What's the use of a law that nobody follows?From the entry use
- It confused me when I went to the office and nobody was there, but then I realised it was Sunday.From the entry confuse
- Her mother never approves of any of her boyfriends. She thinks nobody is good enough for her little girl.From the entry approve
- The air was so foul nobody could breathe.From the entry foul
- Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.From the entry gooseberry
- We kept a lookout all night, but nobody came.From the entry lookout
Meaning of nobody
- pronoun Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
- noun A person dismissed as unimportant.
- noun Something that has no body or an especially small one.
Questions about nobody in a sentence
- How do you use nobody in a sentence?
- Nobody is used as a pronoun and noun. For example: “I asked several people, but nobody knew how.”
- What is a short sentence with nobody?
- “Nobody phoned, did they?”
- What does nobody mean?
- Nobody means not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nobody (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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