noun
definition
A partially specified but unnamed person.
example
Do you need a gift for that special someone?
definition
An important person
example
He thinks he has become someone.
pronoun
definition
Some person.
example
Can someone help me, please?
Examples of someone in a Sentence
Someone knocked at the door.
It's good to have someone to talk to.
I'll send someone at once.
Someone knocked on the door and when she answered it, a man brought in their luggage.
Besides, after he inherited, he could always put someone in charge of the estate.
I don't deserve someone like you.
Someone wants you on the phone.
I heard someone was staying with you.
Some day maybe I will find someone like Alex.
Jonathan rarely asked for anything and the idea of having someone in the house playing music was appealing.
Alex thinks someone spiked his punch.
Once someone from church came by to see if she needed help.
She could drive, if someone would simply tell her where they were.
Occasionally he glanced behind him, as if searching for someone, or something, that might be watching.
Was the man capable of thinking of someone other than himself?
Maybe what I needed was someone to kick me to my feet.
Again someone shouted, "Stretchers!"
I need someone to take care of Tammy and help Mom with the house and garden.
She feared to look round, it seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the dark corner.
They were paying someone to create it and then paying someone to carry it.
If someone notices that she gets a headache when she eats MSG—or artichokes, or grasshoppers—that first-person, anecdotal experience will shape her nutritional philosophy.
That meant for every pound someone made, he owed more than a pound in taxes.
By whoever invited all these other people - I suppose because she was someone I knew.
Someone from the church or clinic must have been by and brought it for Alex.
What would inspire someone to chisel their name into a rock so far from civilization?
He felt ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else's place here beside Helene.
Someone obligingly took the dish from Bagration (or he would, it seemed, have held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his attention to the verses.
Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching what was going on in the passage.
She was lounging on the bed reading a magazine when someone knocked on the door.
Her first thought was that it was a puppy someone had dropped off.
I think you still need someone here, but you're definitely getting better.
Did it ever occur to you that I came out here to see someone else?
Someone was walking down the hall toward them.
He was talking to someone in Boston.
A cannon ball killed someone behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dolokhov with blood.
If you weren't concerned about your own life, you might have thought about your chances of taking someone else with you.
If I could use your phone, Mrs. Giddon, I'll see if I can find someone to come get me.
It was as if she were talking about someone she didn't know.
You're the kind of woman he needs - someone who will stand up to him and yet understand his moods.
Reminds me of someone else I know.
He needs someone to look after his house while he's working the ranch.
I don't want to start over as someone else in a new place.
Hey, someone has to discover penicillin—it might as well be me.
I can vouch for myself but going out on the limb for someone else is a whole different ball game.
Someone claiming to be 'the illusive psychic' has gone public.
People out there want to kill someone with Howie's ability.
Someone went to a lot of trouble to set this up.
If someone got hurt, it would be my ass.
He opened the door and spoke quietly to someone.
Sure. Is it someone your family knew?