nobody home


No one is paying attention, as in She threw the ball right past him, yelling “Nobody home!”

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How to use nobody home in a sentence

  • nobody home, Jerry chirped; house shut up, and old man skipped to town.

  • One night early in October he had come home from the games parlor and, finding nobody home, had gone immediately to sleep.

    Starman's Quest | Robert Silverberg
  • It is that scabby baby on the third floor, fallen out of bed again, with nobody home to pick him up.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • Take the ordinary small suburban house, with nobody home and everything supposed to be tightly locked up.

    In Jeopardy | Van Tassel Sutphen
  • "nobody home at The Dreamerie—" He took her face in his calloused hands, drew her to him.

    Kindred of the Dust | Peter B. Kyne