Anyone
['enɪwʌn] or ['ɛnɪ'wʌn]
Definition
(n.) One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]
Checker: Rudolph
Examples
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If it had been anyone else I'd have. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She's got such a soft heart, it will melt like butter in the sun if anyone looks sentimentlly at her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Now hold your shoulder straight, and take short steps, and don't shake hands if you are introduced to anyone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If anyone says that I attempted to stop your marriage by any but honest means, that person, too, does not speak the truth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Beth was too shy to enjoy society, and Jo too wrapped up in her to care for anyone else. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Anyone might stay there or take a train without being observed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Why should she hand it over to anyone else? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But anyone who makes the tariff the principal concern of statecraft is, I believe, mistaking the hedge for the house. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We know how little there is to tempt anyone to our humble abode. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Science was valid, art was valid, the poorest grubber in a laboratory was engaged in a real labor, anyone who had found expression in some beautiful object was truly centered. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr. Dick would not have relinquished his post of candle-bearer to anyone alive. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So then I promised to wait for him to the end of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But I see no traces of anyone else. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ask anyone what was done there, and see if they will dare to tell you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Had she lived, I would certainly never have married anyone else. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I can't love anyone else, and I'll never forget you, Jo, Never! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But no respect is due to anyone who sets out to reform the world by ignoring its quality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Now man might return to the stage-coach if that seemed to him the supreme goal of all his effort, just as anyone can follow Chesterton's advice to turn back the hands of the clock if he pleases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Wickham will soon be gone; and therefore it will not signify to anyone here what he really is. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was good practice, he said, and when the beginners improved, anyone would pay. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I appreciate your conduct in coming here before you spoke to anyone else, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a profound utterance as anyone can testify who reads, let us say, the Congressional Record. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I never meant it to be known to anyone. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- His Grace is never very friendly with anyone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Could anyone have got away through that door after the time that you heard the cry, Susan? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If anyone were forced to conceal himself in this room he must do it there, since the bed is too low and the wardrobe too shallow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The revolt against the service of our own mechanical habits is well known to anyone who has followed modern thought. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He has described what political science must be like, and anyone who has absorbed his insight has an intellectual groundwork for political observation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Rudolph