SOMEONE in a Sentence

Learn SOMEONE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
405 example sentences for SOMEONE, such as:
1. and then tears, someone repeated laughing.
2. Looks like someone's been rummaging around in my desk.
3. He could hear someone moving around in the room above.
4. He rang the bell and waited for someone to answer the door.
5. We're looking for someone with experience in administration.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SOMEONE
someone
 n.  a human being
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Well, these mortal insults, these jeers on the part of someone unknown, end at last in an enjoyment which sometimes reaches the highest degree of voluptuousness.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IV
2  But one day I heard someone shout his surname in the street as I was following him at a distance, as though I were tied to him--and so I learnt his surname.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
3  Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though oppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
4  After an unnaturally prolonged wheezing there followed a shrill, nasty, and as it were unexpectedly rapid, chime--as though someone were suddenly jumping forward.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
5  I am convinced that someone has wronged you, and that you are more sinned against than sinning.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
6  It was a letter to her from a medical student or someone of that sort--a very high-flown and flowery, but extremely respectful, love-letter.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
7  I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IX
8  Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of frigid politeness.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
9  And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the anteroom with him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
10  "England is done for," said he, scowling and pointing his finger at someone unseen.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
11  "They march splendidly," remarked someone in Bagration's suite.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
12  The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now increasing, seemed like someone's breathing.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
13  and then tears, someone repeated laughing.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
14  He felt ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else's place here beside Helene.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II
15  He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (195 in 14 pages)
1  I knew she wouldn't be able to resist pairing me off with someone.
2  There's a lot of contention about that issue - for every person firmly in favour, there's someone fiercely against it.
3  He could hear someone moving around in the room above.
4  He thought he saw someone lurking above the chamber during the address.
5  We're looking for someone with experience in administration.
6  When you really love someone, age, distance, height and weight are just numbers.
7  If you're going to rent out your house while you're abroad, you'll need someone to act as your agent here.
8  It's hard to find the good in someone when you've already found the best in someone else.
9  I know someone in the world is waiting for me, although I've no idea of who he is.
10  He rang the bell and waited for someone to answer the door.
11  We'd fade into someone at least one time in life,not for any result,company,ownership even love,just for meeting you in my most beautiful days.
12  When someone loves none, he will fall in love with anyone around him.
13  To keep someone around you is not love; love is to let the one you love go freely.
14  Looks like someone's been rummaging around in my desk.
15  In your life, there will at least one time that you forget yourself for someone, asking for no result, no company, no ownership nor love.