English example sentences with "someone"

Learn how to use someone in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says "yes" and "no".

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.

You don't marry someone you can live with — you marry the person whom you cannot live without.

The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword."

The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword."

Hold on, someone is knocking at my door.

If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.

Are you meeting someone here?

I'll find someone to fill in for you.

In my hurry I bumped into someone.

A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.

Strange to say, he met someone who was said to be dead.

I entered someone else's room by mistake.

Our company needs someone who is at home in advanced technology.

Scientists have been discovering new drugs, so there is always hope for someone in a coma.

It is difficult to relate to someone who has different values from you.

She screamed with horror as someone took hold of her arm.

A casual remark can hurt someone.

Reach out and touch someone.

I heard someone calling me from a distance.

I heard someone in the crowd outside the station call my name.

Someone who knows English well must have written this.

When we are with a person we don't want to be seen with, we often meet someone we know.

Is it right for a doctor to decide when someone should die?

If you can't come, send someone in your stead.

I've got to hang up now. Someone is waiting to use the phone.

Someone remarked that Mary was always late for meetings.

Bob was looking for someone to talk with.

Could you send someone up to make the bed?

This school was recommended to me by someone I asked to help me with the visa application process.

Someone stole my passport.

Every child needs someone to look up to and copy.

Someone stole my traveler's checks.

We'll have to take on someone to do Tom's work.

I wonder if you would kindly introduce us to someone.

People usually find it very difficult to break the ice when they meet someone extremely attractive for the first time.

Sometimes we lie to keep from hurting someone else's feelings.

Will you send someone to fix it as soon as possible?

Look, someone is calling you.

She was about to go to bed when someone knocked on the door.

Everyone seems to have a bone to pick with someone, but only a few people can be philosophical about it.

I want someone to talk to.

Someone is at the door.

To understand someone is to love someone.

To understand someone is to love someone.

You should not cut in when someone else is talking.

Someone will do that job.

It smells as though someone has been smoking in here.

Someone entered the room.

He heard someone calling for help.

Someone grabbed me from behind.

Someone seems to be calling me.

Someone hit me on the back.

Someone is at the front door.

Someone is calling you.

Someone must have taken my umbrella by mistake.

Someone has left a bag on the bench.

Someone is battering at the door.

Someone is tapping at the door.

He thought someone had put poison in his soup.

Someone has torn two pages out of this book.

Someone tried to poison our dog's food.

Someone must have left it there.

I'll arrange for someone to pick you up at your home.

When someone speaks with such rhetorical flourish, it starts to sound like they're lying.

Please have someone else do that.

Please have someone else do it.

One of them is an actor, who is going to pretend to murder someone.

That portrait reminds me of someone I knew a long time ago.

Every time the woman teacher passed the school yard, someone gave her the razz.

The girl noticed someone go out of the door.

I am sorry, but I have someone coming.

Someone is hiding in the corner.

What these acts said was that it was illegal to pay someone in anything other than coin of the realm.

Nothing is as terrible as losing someone you love in the world.

There must be someone behind this affair.

You will have to take on someone to do this work.

These words were spoken by someone who shall be nameless.

Well, I didn't buy them, but later someone brought three baby kittens to the Gorilla Foundation.

A good diplomat is a person who practises the technique of letting someone else let the cat out of the bag.

The chair is broken. You'd better get someone to fix it.

It is not good manners to laugh at someone when he makes mistakes.

The amount of time someone is willing to spend on something may communicate how important it is to him.

Someone called on you ten minutes ago.

It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says Yes and No.

She said, "It's not funny! How would you like it if someone did that to you - what would you do?"

We need someone who has some experience in administration.

It is needless to say that an experienced person will do better than someone without experience.

You may as well not keep a dog at all as leave it to someone else.

Someone stole my cash.

Can you page someone for me?

I'd like to page someone.

I think you should probably see someone from Purchasing.

The password is "Mountain". If someone says "Mountain", you reply "River".

I'll send someone up to help you now.

I heard someone call my name in the crowded bus.

Someone stepped on my toe in the crowded bus.

Someone called on her yesterday.

When I was in London last year, someone broke into my room and stole my wallet.

Last night someone broke into the small shop near my house.

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