Example sentences for: someone

How can you use “someone” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A gallery in Geneva or Berlin can now sell artwork to someone who never leaves Iowa City.

  • Prudie sees from your e-mail address that you are female (unless, of course, you've hopped on someone else's machine) and believes that touching friends is mostly a feminine trait.

  • Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.

  • According to the OED , a wellerism is “a form of comparison in which a familiar saying or proverb is identified, often punningly, with what was said by someone in a specified but humorously inapposite situation.”

  • Granted, some locations are state regulated, but for those of us who are privately operated, the idea of someone being allowed to compete with us for free is insulting.


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