How to use someone in a sentence
40 example sentences · pronoun, noun
Someone means one or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity. Example: “Can someone help me, please?”
Examples of someone by meaning
pronounOne or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
- Can someone help me, please?
- Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
nounA partially specified but unnamed person.
- Do you need a gift for that special someone?
- His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with the someones who say it and hear it—and not even with the someones whose beings are in conflict about beings in their being.2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 213
- Or rather, to someone.2010, Michael E Kanell, Michael E. Kanell, Mike Kimel, Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the...
nounAn important person.
- He thinks he has become someone.
More sentences with someone
- I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.From the entry pie
- The professor stopped her lecture abruptly when she noticed someone fall off their seat.From the entry abruptly
- The cinema is a popular place to take someone on a date.From the entry date
- I can't open the file because someone else is editing it.From the entry open
- You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.From the entry drug
- Don’t just talk at someone; really listen to what they have to say.From the entry at
- I left my camera on the train, but luckily enough someone handed it in to lost property.From the entry enough
- Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.From the entry read
- If someone comes and asks for the ticket, just give it to them.From the entry them
- I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.From the entry sit
- Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.From the entry tell
- I would have been here on time, but a certain someone lost the car keys!From the entry certain
- If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.From the entry plate
- If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.From the entry guts
- It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.From the entry count
- Quit purposely drilling out the time hoping that someone else will do your chores.From the entry drill
- We need to send someone to represent us at the bargaining table.From the entry table
- Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.From the entry trap
- It's the principle of the thing; I won't do business with someone I can't trust.From the entry principle
- How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?From the entry pervert
- She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.From the entry gob
- You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the teeth.From the entry harm
- Someone must have leaked it to our competitors that the new product will be out soon.From the entry leak
- When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.From the entry spare
- It irks me doing all this work and have someone wreck it.From the entry irk
- He is 67 in chronological age, but has the mind and body of someone 55.From the entry chronological
- I was eldered for directly responding to someone else's message in meeting for worship.From the entry elder
- Never gesture at someone using your middle finger: it may be perceived as an insult.From the entry gesture
- Have you ever seen someone pack away five hot dogs in one sitting?From the entry pack away
- I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.From the entry comprehend
- Someone really needs to go put the kibosh on that noisy party.From the entry put the kibosh on
- Someone will invariably nitpick about any spelling error posted to the forums.From the entry nitpick
- Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.From the entry instruct
- It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.From the entry let the cat out of the bag
Meaning of someone
- pronoun One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
- noun A partially specified but unnamed person.
- noun An important person.
Questions about someone in a sentence
- How do you use someone in a sentence?
- Someone is used as a pronoun and noun. For example: “Can someone help me, please?”
- What is a short sentence with someone?
- “Or rather, to someone.”
- What does someone mean?
- Someone means one or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: someone (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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