SOMEONE in a Sentence

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For SOMEONE, below is one of 405 sentences:
Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though oppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOMEONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
someone
 pron.  some person; somebody
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 Feodor 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 Feodor 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 Feodor 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 Feodor 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 Feodor 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 Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
7  I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor 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)
16  Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention,is to stop giving them yours.
17  I don't need someone who sees the good in me.
18  Just because someone doesn't love you as you wish, it doesn't mean you're not loved with all his/her being.
19  In order to do something you've never done, you have to become someone you've never been.
20  Happiness is to find someone who can give you warm and share your life together.
21  No matter how tough the life is, you will eventually find someone who'd make you willing to stay with.
22  The job needs someone with a good track record in investment.
23  We're looking for someone with a proven track record in selling advertising.
24  Friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
25  If someone is strong enough to bring you down,show them you are strong enough to get up.
26  Employers usually decide within five minutes whether someone is suitable for the job.
27  I heard someone walk down the stairway.
28  I want someone afraid of losing me.
29  The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
30  We were in an impossible situation - whatever we did, someone would be upset.