Scipio fiddled with the string of his mask and looked at Prosper. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He divided the catfish we had caught and gave me my share on a small string. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his first major legislative defeat after a long string of triumphs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then I saw him looking at me, his kite string tied to a pole. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They strung up the guilty and, in the interest of prevention, a robust percentage of the innocent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The twenty-third string was a dud, costing us one minute. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

That was when, almost as if someone had pulled a string, my stomach and head stopped hurting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I'm surprised that the bow doesn't squeak on the strings as Lev pulls it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Syntax solves this problem by having adjacent strings of words stand for related sets of concepts, and by inserting one string inside another to stand for concepts that are parts of bigger concepts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He unwrapped a hollow wooden ball with a loop of string attached on one side. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s enough light for me to make out that he’s mounted his mother’s seashell and strung it on a red ribbon that looks like the very same one I wrapped around Guillermo’s note to Dearest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Smithers pulled out the string, holding it between a pudgy finger and thumb. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Another, wearing a string of bullets over a bare chest, paced nearby. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tug a string on the wall, and a woman appears from behind a panel. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Bach suite and the Shostakovich had both flown out of me like never before, like my fingers were just an extension of the strings and bow. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Debussy’s hanging chords, with the dampers kept away from the strings, represented a kind of return to nature, a move away from the more artificial sound of block chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Haggling over a twenty cent hame string to save fifteen cents, so they can give it to a bunch of Yankees that come in and pay maybe ten dollars for the privilege. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still saw the print in my textbooks as a red blur, still saw my baby brothers spirit strung together by narrow lines of blood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several strings of onions hung from the ceiling. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the citadel and in the city, Sarai and Lazlo each felt the tug of the other, like a string fixed between their hearts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And he looked up and watched the strings rush by as he became immersed in a cloud of them. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He flicked his wrist and the string circle swayed, missing the moon entirely. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your dad had to pull some ‘old baseball buddy’ strings with the doctor—who is apparently his college teammate—to get permission for us to be in here in the first place. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Their dirty blonde hair was frizzled out, like unraveling kite strings dragged through too many hands, but they didn’t seem to be concerned about what they looked like. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shrewd he was, this fellow who came round my father’s hall, showing a golden chain all strung with amber, a necklace. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The march was strung out through half a mile of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She tied a piece of string around Dismay’s neck and wove some long stems of lavender around and through it. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a string quartet on this track that makes my hair stand on end, and some of the melodies and harmonies are so rich, my eyes literally prickle with tears. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The deaths exist in my mind as a string of meaningless equations, and I stand frozen, unable to solve them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Vocalists, wind instruments, and bowed strings are usually not part of the rhythm section. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Diana Turbot’s mum screamed as a string of whopping pearls unstringed themselves and bounced under hundreds of feet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A little string went from one chicken leg to a nail in the wall. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I slashed down and the cables snapped like kite string. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But the string is in a knot—help me.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

With a deliberate plan, I set each of the strings just a hair out of tune with the others. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Spit strings dangled like cobwebs, and Grandpop’s smile was in the palm of his hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They would have their laundry strung between two saplings in a field of fireweed and dandelions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he hurriedly hooked down a long string of the sausages that were festooned across the shop. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

At last,when his legs were quite numb, she turned like a marionette with some of its strings cut and went back toward the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When Aileen and I walked by the dining hall and saw Gillian and her team stringing lights up under the portico, Aileen dropped the coat off her shoulders again and stared ahead. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In her right hand she held a glittering ball of thread—Ariadne’s string—but she popped it into a lion’s mouth at her waist and drew her curved swords. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A protein is created from twenty simple chemicals named amino acids—Methionine, Glycine, Leucine, and so forth—strung together in a chain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At the center of a small table is a wooden post at least two feet high with strings dangling from the top like a tree. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To be here now, alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to be the beneficiary of an extraordinary string of biological good fortune. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sheryl stretches out a bunch of flattened soda cans strung together. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He stowed the paper and string, shoved some driftwood into the stove, and blew on the lazy coals until they glowed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A long string of drool came out and dripped into the dust. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She set down her candle and tied another ball to the end of the string. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I remember when that was a hell of a lot of money to me, too. Keep the shoes. I swear, ain’t no strings attached.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Wherever he was, you’d see a string of them trailing him—and the ones with plenty of freckles were pretty sure to be Gilbreths. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms burned from holding the string taut, and the bow that had felt so light moments before now became heavy in her hands. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the end, in New York, Bobby Joe’s friend simply up and split with the smack, leaving Bobby Joe high, dry, and very strung out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around them were concrete posts strung with electrified barbed wire. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody had planted blue morning- glories below each of the four wide windows, and the vines of the blue flowers were climbing cotton strings that had been nailed to the window frames. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like squares and triangles, lines were number-shapes, so dividing a string into two parts was the same as taking a ratio of two numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon he could be seen returning on horseback, with his hunting dogs and his double-barreled shotgun and a string of rabbits hanging from his saddle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But there was the cross over his bed, and there on the workbench the little harp just as he had left it, waiting for the strings to be fastened to the keys. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I whittled another hook, but this time I cheated and used string to wind it together instead of bark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled over onto my back, reaching up to tap the raggedy dream catcher I’d bent out of branches and filled with vines for her so that it swung on its string. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Old Man sigked, holding up his bag full of red string. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a little cardboard tube attached to it, connected with thin white strings. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I recognize the charms: three pieces of ruby red sea glass, two four-leaf clovers in plastic, and a handful of sand-dollar birds, all strung together with black ratty leather. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Celia takes a step into the room, ducking to avoid the strings that hang from the ceiling. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Stuffing, mashed potatoes, string beans, cranberry sauce—all the side dishes. I hear turkey doesn’t have a lot of flavor.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On her head, she wore a floppy hat strung around with flowers. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

So Set had to settle for some spiders and snakes painted on the wall behind him, and a dry bone that hung on a string above his head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tie a washer to one end of string and tape other end to table. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He is about to hand the earphone to Jutta when—clear and unblemished, about halfway down the coil—he hears the quick, drastic strikes of a bow dashing across the strings of a violin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Find Ariadne’s string and prevent Luke from using it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“One of your retainers, you say? How did he thread the string without breaking the shell?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was tied around with three pieces of old string, each with a different knot in it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of odds and ends he thought would come in handy for an adventure—rubber bands, a compass, granola bars, coins, a squirt gun, a magnifying glass, plastic handcuffs, string, a whistle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And they also saw strewn about the heads of sundry birds, The heads of precious birds strung together, And some birds’ feet and bones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But that is only the latest in what has been an extraordinary string of experiences and careers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This basically makes a vibrating string of a new length, with a new fundamental. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He walked with a limp, and he had the ball that wounded him on a string around his neck. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His field of vision shrinks to a peephole, and he sees just a few adjacent words in the string at a time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The idea was that particles like the proton and the neutron could be regarded as waves on a string. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got a can of string beans last Friday.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Below, she saw a mosaic floor decorated with deer and fauns—maybe a room from an Ancient Roman villa, just stashed away under this modern basement along with the crates of string and plastic swords. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She gave Yishan a baffled look, but rolled the string off her wrist and handed it to him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I loosened my grip and tugged on the string, dipping and dodging the green kite. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When there was nothing left to move but myself, I walked to the end of our village and kept going, with a whole raft of children strung out behind me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had replaced the loose board and nailed it into place with big, long nails, and some fresh strands of barbed wire had been strung around the top. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no string and that threw him until he looked down at his tennis shoes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had sacks tied around their legs with string and ground sheets with holes in the middle for rain capes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“They are. But if you string together the first or last word of each game title…” He tapped the glass in front of the first box on the bottom shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She thought this exquisite; it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his words strung together in the best possible way. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each tiny sign was perfectly formed, with little flags and short tails at the ends of each stroke, resting on invisible horizontal strings like pins perched on a clothesline. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His yo-yo string had a knot fat as a mushroom. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew to put newspapers under the sheet and to tie off the cord with string. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Syntax, then, is an app that uses a tree of phrases to translate a web of thoughts into a string of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My nurse takes my left arm, bunching the wide sleeves of my night robe, and ties a red string around my bicep. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

If only they could gather up the strings and wind themselves nearer, nearer, until finally meeting in the middle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I turned our bucket upside down, sat on it, pulled a length of string from my pocket, and wove it into a fanciful pattern around my fingers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared down at the strings and thought about all the blessings that had accompanied them over the years. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He played a scale softly, and then plucked at a string. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The length of the string does not change. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When he gently placed his finger in the middle of the string and plucked again, he got another nice, clear note, this time one octave above the fundamental. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And on top of the tinsel, popcorn, strings of it, ropes of it, wrapping around the tree like a mummy. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Silently he drew the amulet string over his shoulder and loosened the loop from the horn handle of his great knife. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dangled it from the string, as if the key were just something she liked to play with. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But the string is also vibrating in halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, and so on, producing harmonics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Nhamo saw Crocodile Guts packing a string bag: He put in a pipe, fishing lines, and a reed flute she remembered him playing as he waited for fish to blunder into his net. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flew a short distance before a string she’d tied around its foot snapped taut and it hovered, caught in the air, like a dog straining at its lead. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Police officers strung ropes to keep back the crowd who came to the area to see Garfield off. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In my job, I knew that pure kindness, with no strings attached, was pretty rare. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

You stretch the string tight between your two hands, but you start by keeping it very short, only about three inches. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, I find the baseball game on TV while Dad puts away the stuff he bought, which turns out to be plums, chips, string cheese, and four packs of these yogurt drinks Mom likes. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It's as if this is a whole backyard, complete with a wide canopy, outdoor furniture, plants, and string of gold and silver Christmas lights that Darius turns on from some hidden spot. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

White strings of gulls drag over it like beads. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I plastered on a smile pretty as a string of pearls. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock in the morning, Manning left the apartment with six stacks of paper, tied together with string. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The string snapped tight with the weight of the devilfish. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up, and there were strings connecting a lot of the windows with clothes hanging on them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The spider’s silk support cables trembled like massive guitar strings and began to snap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The rod and reel were strung with a heavy line and thin steel cable for a leader. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

These weren’t typical hunters; the strings of bullets told me they were combatants, probably hungry and unpaid and setting traps for extra food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I fiddled with his ears as though they were the string pegs and then I playfully tickled him as he laughed softly. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children ate the chocolate from the ingots of gold and traded the heavenly paper among themselves for reed whistles and fishing string. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the curtain strung across my doorway, I catch a glimpse of a sky that looks as if it’s still undecided as to whether it’s night or morning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

To think that I pulled strings and called in favors just to meet him! Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Soon, some of them were writing on the envelopes, and others were cutting and curling pieces of tissue, gluing them into flower shapes, and stringing them together to form fluffy garlands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That is what happens when the player holds the string down with a finger, changing the vibrating length of the string and changing where the nodes are. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When the doctor was done, she gave the glove to a nurse, who rinsed it and pinned it back on the string. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I try, but it’s hard, very hard. As a king, you get into the habit. Sometimes I think I pass more time fixing strings than playing. But, there it is. You can’t have everything.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He let fly with a string of curses that would make a sailor blush, and stomped down the hallway and out of sight. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guys were pretty silent except for perfunctory replies to Isabelle’s string of inane chatter about which sorority she wanted to join. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

These phrases were then strung together in ways that made the letter seem more or less natural to a casual reader. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To his right runs a line of anti-invasion obstacles shaped like a child’s jacks, strung with razor wire, extending at least a mile down the shoreline. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then he robbed a string of banks and by misfortune he happened to shoot a bank guard and now was doing life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Papa, you’d better get them off before they start biting the pegs and strings off the fiddles,” said Bill. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a better idea? You’re dead either way, right? What are you going to do? Surrender? Let them call you a pirate and string you up?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Laura went to her and, soon enough, a string of negotiations followed: “Do you want this one, sweetheart? The yellow or the blue or the red? Which do you want?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Martin’s final bad omen happened that morning: A mob strung up a husband and wife who hid two colored boys in their barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There is another oddity about the suspicious answer string. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Some inventive rat had devised a fearsome weapon: chunks of iron grave-railings from the churchyard, strung to lengths of cord. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Life is a fragile thing, Percy. If the Fates will the string to be cut, there is little I can do. But I can try.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He called softly to Andrew and gave him a biscuit out of his own pocket, and while Andrew was munching it he tied Andrew’s tail to the fence with a piece of string. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He decided to carry the string along with him, leaving one end in charge of his father. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

A zero in a string of digits takes its meaning from some other digit to its left. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I ran the bow across the strings, and listened for the tuning. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fingers and strings made a careful conversation, as if their dance described the lines of an infatuation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Celaena’s arm trembled with effort as she pulled the string back a bit farther and fired. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I became impatient, stuck to the huge toll road that strings the northern border of Indiana, bypassed Elkhart and South Bend and Gary. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Laura and Mary hadn’t seen Pa’s finger make the string pop. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously, at some point Mr. Clutter had been tied there, strung up by his hands, and then cut down. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew the Old Man of the Moon had given us a string of destiny, one of the very strings he used to bind people together. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Papi and Lolo have strung the patio with red and green lights in the shape of chili peppers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“What a singular rabbit,” said an elderly lady with three strings of pearls wrapped around her neck. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

They are ancient paper lanterns, translucent, unlit, strung across the courtyard, too fragile to move — though when he sees Ralph, his father, still a brave man, tries to speak. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I eat all the tiny seeds inside the string beans first.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is made up of strings of shiny beads. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She handed one to me without milk, the string of the tea bag trailing over the side, and sat down at the table. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But that did not discourage him from running after us as though an invisible string existed between him and us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were sliced bread and steak and fried potatoes and gravy and string beans and spinach and a huge piece of chocolate cake. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I unpack Didu's suitcase of Hindu gods and goddesses and decide to display them near our grandfather's portrait, which just received a fresh string of chrysanthemums. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She loved to braid Rachel’s hair, but was suddenly ashamed that she had only string to bind it with. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Tie a piece of meat to a string. Hang it out in front of him. He’ll chase it for miles.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A member of the Non-European Unity Movement, Don had grown up in the diamond-mining area of Kimberley and was a rugged, fearless fellow who was also highly strung. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A barista calls out a string of orders. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She cut through the last strand, gave a tug, and the string fell off. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, there was a string of cactus petals flowing behind them, erasing them from the ground. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You will go with us. You may carry Ariadne’s string. It is a position of great honor.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The telegram started sliding up the kite string, against gravity. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Not once would I see a three-legged toad, though; you need strings of cash to bait them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would always have been Wife Number One and the Boss no matter how many wives he had, but she would rather be no wife than head of a string of wives. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I held the string out for him, his hand lifted from his pocket. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A ball of muddy strings, but without weight, fluffy but terrible in its malevolence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers couldn’t form chords on his guitar strings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I get it. I’m so good looking you can’t even string a sentence together.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The beat is in my sneakers, in my hands on the strings, in my voice through the speakers. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Templeton seized the string, passed it around the end of the pig’s tail, and tied two half hitches. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

First, you must have a piece of string. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A fourth try and he had it all but strung— when a stiffening in Odysseus made him check. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias turned his back upon the snowy owl and strode off with a string of taunts ringing in his ears. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Yishan shook his wrist to remove the string, and all watched as the released moon returned to its place in the limitless Heavenly Lake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I pulled my string of fish out of the water and showed ’em to him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He still held the string between the stumps of his fingers, and kept yanking at it as if the drumming was sweet to his ears. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many believed the attack was related to a string of racially charged conflicts and controversies at the school, most notably the hanging of nooses from a tree in the school’s main courtyard. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

First, she stuffed her backpack with the leftover spools of string. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We each took a handle of the basket and carried it to the clotheshorse, a rope strung between two wooden frames that we used for drying clothes and linens. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized how hungry I am until I smell the fried chicken, string beans, macaroni and cheese, and homemade dinner rolls. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had strung it with a tiny silver ball, which nestled between the two adinkras. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

These things were tied together with a bit of dirty string from the corset of a woman who had given birth to twins after only ten minutes of labor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the string is taut, it vibrates quickly, producing sound waves, if you pluck it, or rub it with a bow. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The pendant was a small fossil bone strung on rawhide. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Shagrat’s voice trailed off into a string of foul names and curses. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.15: When a finger holds the string down tightly, the finger becomes the new end of the vibrating part of the string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My father then took a piece of string and cinched the trousers at the waist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others squatted down to watch the ones that had lost wings crawl on the ground, to follow them as they held on to one another and moved like a black string, a mobile necklace. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She bought a string of Christmas tree lights and threaded them through the round fixtures, which she then hung in the bedroom. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had long strings of sky- blue turquoise in his ears, and silver rings on four fingers of each hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was standing behind the counter, his one hand resting on the cast-iron string holder. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He looked up from the June bug he had caught and tied to a string. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He grabs a pen tied to a string and hands it to Darius. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His long, white- blond hair hangs in dirty strings, and he doesn't even seem to notice that some of it is plastered across his face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For instance, imagine swinging a ball on a string around your head. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

One entire wall was dedicated to archery: wooden bows, arrows, spare strings. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, we stopped with three strings left and hoped we’d given the Colonel enough time. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He ventures forward, one paw on the string, then the other. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Olga is a petite middle-aged woman with silky black hair that touches her hips and a simple white rosary strung around her neck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Besides the food, he packed a torch, and his penknife, some sticking plaster, a pair of socks and a ball of string. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They belonged to Odysseus and no hand but his had ever strung the bow or used it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I breathe in a lot Of good fresh Saturday air And let my Fingers run like A wild crab Across the strings. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single father touched a boy from the second string even if it was his own son. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were in the air, artfully manipulating strings. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I really worry about the string beans,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But you can still help us. You have to! Give us Ariadne’s string so Luke can’t get it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd went wild over that, and the guitar player made a noise that sounded like he popped a string. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Aron came dashing around the house, carrying a cardboard box intricately tied with string in fancy bow knots. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lili tried to string together what she could remember of her son’s lines. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Lots of shoes, more than were ever needed, and strings of ties. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand rubbed her wrist, naked without Amah’s bracelet or even the red string. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sit with Helena on the bed, and we play the string game, though I’m the only one who sings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The little bag was made of faded green material, gathered at the top with a black string. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At home we’ve rigged up a walkie-talkie with two tin cans and a piece of string, which runs between our two bedroom windows and doesn’t work very well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, there’s no ball and no shoulder pads, and nothing in your way except the string across the finish line. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The strings holding them in place sometimes slipped outside the short sleeves of her well-pressed white shirts, and she had to turn her back to us in order to adjust them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was midway through Reaping when the third string broke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like a malefic kitten with a ball of string, she would tangle his emotions until he lost all distinction between love and hate, joy and sorrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She plucks the string, revealing a secret line of white skin that wraps around her neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

From then on his mother gave him a key, which he wore on a string around his neck. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Cole asked as he strung the coolers up in the tree away from the bears. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray robe had a string of beads around his neck and at the end of it was an ornament of polished wood. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The standing waves in a wind instrument are a little different from a vibrating string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you tie the stick on with the string, and then you can hold it longer while it burns.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And even that I only knew because the camp controllers had strung up pictures of his son, Clancy, all over camp as proof to us that we, too, could be reformed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The hallways were decorated for Halloween with orange-and-black crepe paper strung in sagging zigzags across the ceiling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the end, Dinath pulled enough strings to speed up his release and left after serving only four months of his two-year sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A factory stood on a hill to one side, the field below filled with flimsy buildings arranged in a square, fencing and razor wire strung around the perimeter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But I would rather not. You can see for yourself. I may be crazy. Of course Mr. Adam is strung so tight he may snap like a banjo string.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ron hastily fed the Extendable Ears back under the door and passed one of the strings to Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I let the spool roll in my left hand as I ran, felt the string cut my right hand again as it fed through. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Will you come to the ball and slap all the ladies you think are underdressed? Oh... lah! I’ve burst a stay string. Give me ... Cilia, fetch ...’ Cilia evidently knew what would be wanted. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And James Henry Trotter, holding on madly to one of the silk strings above the peach stem, told himself that this must surely be the end of everything at last. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It took me a month of studying the alphabet before I could string a word together.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a rough and unmelodious tongue, a string of rattling, guttural noises, and there seemed to be two speakers, one with a slightly lower, slower voice than the other. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He yelled a string of Thank Gods and Praise Gods. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

First Guitar was on in years, and pluck-weary, but its strings produced the purest sound with a sweet echo on the end. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A string of thoughts runs through my head like a song I can’t get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He put one of his hands near the top of the fiddle and began pulling at the strings with his other hand. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A thick cuff of white string bracelets circled his left wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“We have to find the workshop before Luke does. If Daedalus is alive, we convince him to help us* not Luke. If Ariadne’s string still exists, we make sure it never falls into Luke’s hands.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sounded the strings, one at a time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We nod, the strings attached to our heads twitching. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And she had decided to leave her body—to leave it for me—in a shadow version of our subdivision, where her first strings had broken. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It felt dry and old, and my fingers fumbled with the string. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In Jacob and Monod’s model, in contrast, bacterial genes were strung together for a reason. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a series of snorts strung together. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The string vibrating in halves produces the second harmonic; vibrating in thirds produces the third harmonic, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I mean, one minute you’d see her snapping string beans and cutting corn off the cob. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stooped down to her while she tied his black string tie. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could always feel my mother’s vibrating strings. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It is a string of destiny,” Dragon said as he tried again without success to cut the thread with his claw. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The three strings that joined them wound them ever nearer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Interspersed among the lively, whispery strings are little military outbursts from the horns. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear to string sentences into strands of thought, or to weave those strands into ideas. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the pen that was hanging on a string next to the sign-up sheet and wrote my name on a blank line. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Isa’s eyes followed Jessie as she walked slowly around the basement, running her fingers through thick, nubby carpets hung on the wall and gently touching delicate silver stars strung above. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The pull suddenly lessened and I was sure that he was gone, but the next instant I saw the string cutting the water in a wide circle. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn't help herself from imagining the notes of the plucking strings playing for dancing chickens. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Whoever that voice belongs to, she is pulling the strings; she is responsible for Eric’s leadership position; she is the one who wants me dead. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A cord is a string or cable, like the ones found in the human anatomy: spinal cord, umbilical cord, and vocal cords. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without knowing what I did, I set my fingers back to the strings and fell deep into myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Racks of yellow head scarves; strings of Egyptian beads. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Triumphant horns were quickly joined by a stirring string section. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Our work is but a string of serial identity. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not necessarily true,” Matthew says, pinching the string around his neck and then twisting it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Most astronomers, according to Curtis Peebles, expected little, particularly as the comet was not a coherent sphere but a string of twenty-one fragments. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I'll tie string to a tree and then unwind it, as far as I can go. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He had no hooks or string but if he could somehow lure them into the shallows—and make a spear, a small fish spear—he might be able to strike fast enough to get one. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I put the cannula in, I head over to the door, pulling on the blue latex gloves and wrapping the strings of the face mask around my ears. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I place it Between mv legs Like a cello And thump The strings. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, very very slowly, hand over hand, he began to come down the string. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as though a finger had plucked at some taut, almost breaking string, his whole body would shake with a sudden nervous start. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the hill where the cattle had disappeared, and fumbled untying the saddle strings; he pulled the bedroll loose and reached into the folds of the blankets. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The last string holding my heart in place is ready to snap. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With his tongue Mullet Fingers displayed the string that connected him to the bucket. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s me giving you another chance,” Ruby corrected, a string of the aforementioned saliva glistening between their lips when she drew back to speak. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He winds up his arm and throws the crab well beyond the reach of chicken on string. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The whole string can vibrate back and forth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The line was taut as a banjo string, and the merest tug would snap it on and blind the shivering quarry in a blaze of light. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That’s when my second pair of gloves, kindergarten string, safety pins and all, disappeared out of the closet at school. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrive at Gray’s Beach, I open my bag and pull out the chicken, some string, and scissors. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At that word, the old man nodded all at once, one nod, like a sad old puppet on strings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she took the eye-dropper from her pocket and squeezed two drops of croton oil on the string beans and stirred it in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I picked up the string. It got tangled with my foot. I sat on the fence to try to get it off, and it caught on the fence.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Abuela is waiting for us on the front patio, measuring tape already strung around her neck. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He had two strings of fish in his left hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And everything, save for occasional lengths of white silk ribbon strung like garlands, is made of ice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sloppy rows of expensive cars sparkled under the decorative lights strung from the palm trees that kept vigil over the yard. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A harp string snapped abruptly with a resounding twang. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Move one more step and I’ll put it there. Or maybe you rather watch me shoot another string half in two.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how hard I pulled, Ben’s hand just limply followed along, like the beer was the string and his hand the puppet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The news of Noah’s expulsion was the latest in a string of juicy gossip items that had gripped the Granger campus, but no one was particularly upset. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

So,” he said, “Before I leave you to the adulation of your peers, I have to ask. Where did you learn to do that? Play missing a string, I mean.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And attached to a pipe with a bit of shoelace tied to a piece of wire tied to a length of string — a grimy, coffee-splashed booklet, its edges soft with age. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this particular instance the medicine had proved ineffective; there wasn’t enough enamel left to hook a string on, and the prayers were being ignored because the Balancing Angel was blocking their passage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi pulled on the string and opened the paper to find a folded length of yellow fabric with a tiny pattern of white flowers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She reached up and took a string of keys from the top of the kitchen doorframe. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

There was a sink nearby, cracked and dry, and a string over the sink from which hung stained surgical gloves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What the—?”The man gave a startled shout followed by a string of curses. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened one of the drawers and took out a roll of white string and a pair of scissors. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Here’s what my dad said had happened: He was out bonefishing with two doctors from New Jersey when he spotted Derek Mays stringing a gill net near Little Rabbit Key. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are diagrams, numbers, lines and charts—strings of words with terminal punctuation at the end—some are periods, some question marks, and none of it makes sense. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I really can’t string him along like this anymore. Everyone knows he’s really into me, and I don’t want to hurt his feelings. I mean, he’s an okay guy. I hate lying to him.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A tall castle with a drawbridge that moved up and down, and a pulley with a string that hoisted soldiers up over the wall. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The one who easily handles and strings the bow and shoots through all twelve axes I shall marry, whoever he may be—then look my last on this my first love’s beautiful brimming house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own bowmen nocked arrows to their strings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He rose from his chair and put his stringed instrument on the shelf where he kept it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Back when my mom was on drugs. I saw her strung out in the park one day. She came up and tried to hug me. I ran off screaming.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That morning Laura had to stand still a long time while Ma unwound her hair from the cloth strings and combed it into long curls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in New York loved art and music so much, she said, that artists sold paintings right on the sidewalk next to string quartets playing Mozart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He holds a steaming mug with a tea bag string draped over the side. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny hole in the side and a tiny peg that fit in the hole, tied with string. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of my strings were worn badly enough to break. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were pounding their fists into the air and dragging rusty cans tied to strings. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Most evenings a meal was provided as well; otherwise, Min had given Tree-ear a string of coins to buy food as needed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I pictured him, trembling, his breath growing labored, until finally the string breaks ... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No one could find string for the finish, so a second- story mother dropped down a spool of bright pink thread. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bundles of herbs tied with tan string hung from the ceiling. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He ties each one and adds a string in one swift movement. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, slithering toward them like a twisting piece of black string, was a snake. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With the string in both hands, but still fastened to my wrist, I braced my feet on the slippery rock and leaned backwards. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he placed his finger randomly on the string, he seldom got a clear note. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When we finished, we said morning prayers in the living room, a string of short prayers punctuated by songs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had my own surround-sound system built with old car speakers I’d salvaged from the junkers Abel kept in the yard, and I strung them up around the room. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m not stringing you along. Look, it’s like you said. You talk to the police, everybody loses. You wait till Monday, everybody wins.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

With the help of the beaver, Constance bent the yew sapling against the Abbey wall and strung it to the right tension. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He was wandering around the desert, in a hundred and twenty degrees, in full Greek armor, babbling about string.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But, through the strings of the brass cone, the tune sounded even sadder, like a machine with a broken heart - the way Festus might sound if he could sing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was another string of nonsense words, then “Threw her body all around.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why do you not let the balloon go and hold it by the string? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then he tied the string around Pong's left wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His stomach swooped as he noticed one strand of the giant web vibrate like a plucked string, and then something large skittered down a tree to his immediate right. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She hissed a string of words I didn’t understand. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One rainy day back in second grade her mom was so strung out on drugs that she couldn’t unlock the door to let Fuchsia into their apartment after school. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. A. H— lowers Herr Thiessen to the ground, speaking a constant string of words over him in tones too low for anyone to overhear. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Some chose to brave nature’s fury: three men from the University of Berlin strung a pair of seven-hundred-yard steel cables between two Alpine peaks and waited for a thunderstorm. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I tipped my lute case onto its side and flipped it open so the sun could warm the new strings, helping them stretch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Assistant tied up the parcels, while Maia ran round him, pushing at the paper, giving a tug to the string to make sure that it was firmly knotted. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The royal orchestra marches in with stringed misens and violins and cellos, and the first waltz of the evening begins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She had looked at the young monk's left wrist as he'd walked away from her in the village, but it was completely covered with string bracelets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Yellow caution tape was strung in a wide perimeter around stairs descending underground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He holds the string up in one hand turns the rings so they wind and unwind in bright spinning flashes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped a little on the strings of the unfamiliar instrument, and Ben wandered off looking for notes once or twice, but it was nice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stella Armijo boarded up the shed door, caught and reimprisoned the goat, strung two barbed wire strands above the chicken wire, and released the goat again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One summer day, strung out from the blocks, I settled with relief into the special-watch chair and peered into the cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel stroked the fork now tied to his saddle strings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d do that, if I was going to be strung up to that there gallows as there is over there, directly afterwards. I’ll beat the shivers so far, I’ll bet you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not for a broken lute string and the chance of failure. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To make his story more believable, Powell carried a small package wrapped in paper and tied with string. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hat had two tassels on a knitted string that bounced as she stepped up onto the bus. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never made anything out of kite string and plastic swords, but it seemed easy, natural. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I jerked the string twice, our usual signal, and Hassan tossed the kite. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I used to believe that the expression “caught by the short hairs” meant a captive held with a depilatory string. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were certainly strings somewhere, though—easy as it seemed on the face of it—I wasn’t sure that this was where those particular strings led. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I watch the fringe disappear in the rearview mirror, distinct from the abandoned buildings around it only by that string of electric lights draped over the narrow street. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Whilst he was talking, strings of dark brownish slobber gathered up in the corners of his mouth and was getting stretched from his lower lip to his upper one with every word. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Ignatius spun the yo-yo downward, but the string snapped and it rattled across the floor and under the bed, where it landed on a pile of Big Chief tablets and old magazines. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the string also vibrates in halves, in thirds, fourths, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Our families are the strings family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion family.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Most grammatical rules are defined over trees, not strings, so this momentary tree-blindness can lead to pesky errors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘Nothing like thin wire or human hair strung on a limber stick would do?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

An empty trash can chained to a parking meter banged and rolled from side to side, and its lid, also chained, flipped and flapped in the wind like a kite on a short string. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t see any strings,” Håkon said, waving his fingers. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Each gasp seemed to be yanked out of her by an unseen hand jerking an unseen string. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could do organ, strings, trumpets, and drumbeats all at once. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time she tried to pull back on the string, she could feel the muscles of her neck and shoulder straining at the effort. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All you need is a tube to look through, a string, a weight, and something with degree markings. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Thursday afternoon, after the last serious arrow had been shot, they were allowed to fit one more nock to their strings and to shoot the arrow straight up into the air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Heads high! Like a golden string is attached to the top of your head!” one of the ladies keeps shouting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands up holding a string with broken egg yolk on the end. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

His pale hands shook, and the almanac he held looked like a puppet dancing without strings. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A string of fireflies flashed on the lawn, as though with kindred enthusiasm. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie on the bed holding the string cheese and the DVD with Mom’s words on it, just breathing. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bits of blueprints and novels and stationery, folded and cut and shaped into a flock of striped tents, all tied together with more string in black and white and red. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stand there for a minute, then stretch the stubby-pencil string over to the paper the way Dad did. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Miss Edmunds fiddled a minute with her guitar, talking as she tightened the strings to the jingling of her bracelets and the thrumming of chords. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It filled up the night and made music as though the branches of all the trees were being pulled across silver strings. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony knew she had recently accumulated a string of errors. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you calling me a communiss?” the policeman asked the old man while he tried to avoid the lashing of the lute string. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it makes you uncomfortable— He stopped me, wagged a finger, then hooked his glasses off his nose, letting them dangle on' the string around his neck. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor lifts his baton, and I'm invigorated hearing the familiar passages: the drone of the double bass as the heartrending introduction begins, the strings peeling away layers like birch bark. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It opened like a book in her hands, becoming two hoverboards, then each of those opened up, and then those, unfolding like a string of paper dolls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Words strung together without punctuation recall those murky murals Rolf Harris used to paint, where you kept tilting your head and wondering what it was. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Anya spied a doll tied around its waist with a string, bundles of wheat cut short and tied with festive bows, and several apples with simple pictures carved into the skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the labyrinth to where she was waiting. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A long piece of heavy string was tied to one end. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Film songs blared from amplifiers strung through trees. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Isolated victories can be won—even a string of victories—but in the absence of a fundamental shift in public consciousness, the system as a whole will remain intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Occasionally there was a flash of lightning below us which illuminated a string of thunderstorms. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday nights they played at a dance hall in nearby Blyn, where a farmer had turned, with the addition of some strings of electric lights, his chicken coop into Sequim’s most popular dance venue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In string theory, zero has been banished from the universe; there is no such thing as zero distance or zero time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Every step she took in the woods was one more bit of string left to time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was, of course, the end of her era, but with the death of a pet there's always that urge to string black crepe over an entire ten- or twenty-year period. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

While string theory might be mathematically consistent, and even beautiful, it is not yet science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Through barter and the generosity of a few friends, he soon owned a ragged collection of old stringed instruments—a mandolin, several guitars, an old ukulele, and two banjos. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Old-fashioned biplanes hung on strings from the ceiling, tilted at crazy angles like they were in the middle of a dogfight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The owner shouted back, “Left!” followed by a string of curses. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Aru could now make out long swords, axes, maces, and arrows with strung bows, all jutting from the tangle of teeth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When everyone is seated, Miss Larsen pulls a loop on a string and a colorful map of the world unfurls on the wall. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I didn’t touch it, he opened the box and withdrew a string of milky pearls. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Pythagorean fascination with whole-number ratios in musical harmonies seems clearly to be based on observation, or even experiment on the sounds issued from plucked strings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vendors hawked strings of Amber orbs the size of pomegranate seeds next to enormous ruby-red orbs big enough to cook soup for an army. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But ribbons cost money, and string bound the hair just as well. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They are simply mathematical constructs that make the mathematical operations in string theory work in the manner that they have to. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the clearing, he tied the string to the branch of a tree, with half a dozen knots. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In a span I was nearly as good with six strings as I had been with seven. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lightly touching the string in most places will result in no sound at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

After a while, clever tribesmen began to string number-words in a row to yield more numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Few voting-age blacks were prepared to challenge the white employers and landowners who held the purse strings in Dallas County. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d measured it off and marked it with stakes and string. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“One string and one iron spearhead,” said Captain Orlov, lifting two fingers. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out and touched on the strings. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The woman picked up a handful of gray strings and sorted through them, and then looked at Hazel thoughtfully. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I waited for Fate, the string puller, to dictate my movements. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t string up people practically on your front lawn, the same time every week, like church. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She is so careful in her movements, so precise— it reminds me of the Amity musicians plucking at banjo strings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Mom took it to the music store and they put new strings on and tuned it,” I say. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They throw as fast as they can, others pass them, the handles with the strings already pulled. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The emission or absorption of one particle by another corresponds to the dividing or joining together of strings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama pulled one more string, and the white in the mixture faded into a dull silver. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Triumphantly he held up the string to show us he had held on to the glider. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a bright white embroidered blouse and shoes made of black velvet with square toes and a dainty string tying them to her ankles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This includes vocalists, most wind instruments, and many string instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they attach razor blades to the sides of the kites and in a war of all against all try to cut each other’s strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A kite string led from his pursed lips to the handle of a large tin bucket a few feet away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I show her the loops near the waist for weapons and how to secure the waist ties and extra strings at the ankles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

How long could a can of chicken soup and a dented can of string beans last? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She combed strings of still-wet hair with her fingers and smiled weakly at herself in the mirror. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He cursed then, a string of abuse lasting what seemed to Isidore a full minute. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A thicket of spears were pointed towards the strangers; and some of the horsemen had bows in hand, and their arrows were already fitted to the string. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The earth shudders a second time as the force of my power sends Azaan flying high, as though he’s been pulled backward by an invisible string. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’d take warm and snug to strung up by priest killers any day,” said another. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Sweeping the cue under the balloon, I grab the string and pull the balloon out of the water, noticing a tug at the end as something on the bottom of the pool weighs it down. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A warm breeze blew around them, and water was dripping like strings of pearls from melting icicles. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I made it to the meeting spot, Chi-Roy and Miig were already there, each with a wild turkey strung up in the lower branches of a maple. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But the melody of a piece of music isn't just any string of notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I heard his muffled voice as he answered it and then a string of what I was certain were curses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pick it up and pop it into my mouth, but it jumps out again, as if it’s being controlled by a string and not just fumbled by my slippery fingers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chester flexed his legs, and as quickly as you could run your fingers up the strings of a harp, he had played the whole scale. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding that string, I felt as though I owned a piece of the sky. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Michael came and stood near her and watched her undo the string and tear away the brown paper. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Silently I pull out an arrow and string it on my bow. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Got a little piece of string I could borrow?” asked Wilbur. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He takes a string cheese for the road and doesn’t invite me to come with him. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He wears a necklace of a large piece of copper, and many strings of beads. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I strung three three- amp breakers in parallel. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was still clearheaded enough to hiss down to Joe: “Did you say you had string and rubber bands and Lego? And smoke bombs? I really want those smoke bombs! I’ve got a plan!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Felinia Tower had the skeleton of a person hanging against her living room wall, its bones all held in place with black strings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Curious, some of the older boys gathered around him as he started twisting pegs and plucking at strings to tune the instrument. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This time I didn’t hesitate, I stripped off the useless string and started to learn again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as I was big enough to hold the string, Mother took me out to the hill near our village where we could fly one of Fathers kites. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squirreled away in them I had string and wax, some dried apple, a tinderbox, a marble in a small leather sack, a pouch of salt, hook-needle and gut. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cotton spilled out of his jacket sleeves and pant cuffs before it was drawn back inside like a yo-yo on a string. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He sweated a little, twisting this way and that, and reaching his left arm round behind him, to try and unhitch the string. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I was only trying to call her in cranes and the string broke! My husband will kill me if I do not catch her again. He is so hasty and such a keen falconer.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana didn’t wear necklaces herself, but selected a turquoise one strung with antique Palestinian coins. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped my feet out of my flowery flats and carefully plucked at a string with one not quite steady toe. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Videotapes had been gouged publicly, the tapes ripped out and strung on fence posts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What do you think it is, stupid? It’s a string for my lute.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of Brother Fowles’s vouching for his character, Mother suspected these gifts from the chief were not without strings attached. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I could pull a few strings,” she conceded. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Over the samovar’s chimney, the waiter had draped a string festooned with bublitchki, small bagel-shaped rolls baked to a glossy sheen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Another string of articles popped up on the black-and-white screen, and Seven’s eyes opened wide as she read the first one. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is on a string and we are in the car, dong boy. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In ancient Greece, Pythagoras saw the peculiar behavior of waves that traveled up and down a plucked string—how certain notes were allowed and others were forbidden. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Behind them, there was a string of cactus petals carried by a wind that erased the lizard’s footprints. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

War preparations were already tightening the supplies of both commodities, but Loomis pulled strings, even yanked them, to get Lawrence what he needed at a preferential price. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She was muttering angrily in Polish and Yiddish, untying the strings from my wrists, her eyes darting toward the hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The money I earned in Kilvin’s shop was spent on essentials: ink, soap, lute strings ... the only other thing I could afford was pride. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If chromatin, as Morgan had suggested, was a string of beads, then proteins had to be the active component—the beads—while DNA was likely the string. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Laila pictured herself in a refugee camp, a stark field with thousands of sheets of plastic strung to makeshift poles flapping in the cold, stinging wind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

If she plucked the strings or used a bow. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Cut each string to a different length: short, medium, long. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The rest of you hold on to Silkworm so I don’t pull her over with me, and later on, if you feel three tugs on the string, start hauling me up again!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was brightly lit with electric bulbs—here the large sized ones, strung unshaded—and beneath them were rats at work everywhere. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the sunlight, telephone wires looked like glass strings high overhead, bushes glistened like cakes made of diamonds, starbursts of frost etched themselves against our windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Right,” I say, pulling at the loose strings on her flowered comforter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The rest of him was covered with all sorts of other boxes all strung together and painted black and covered with pasted-on ads out of papers and magazines. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A string quartet, and all the men in their elegant new officers’ uniforms. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I pictured a string, a bungee cord connecting me to the world from the small of my back. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as Milton saw the bridge strung like a giant, glittering harp over the river, panic seized his soul. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She loosened the string and unfolded the brown paper from a small radio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, I woke up with a string of drool connected from the corner of my mouth down to my chest, and some other show was on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finally my brothers let me hold the kite string for a moment. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She took out her camp necklace, strung with her dad’s college ring and a colorful clay bead for each year at Camp Half-Blood. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I weeded the bean patch and found a few hidden string beans for my efforts. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my arms through it and tied the strings in the front. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the sand, with her feet out straight in front, arranging short willow twigs into bundles, tying them with fluffy cotton string that she had twisted by hand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They would know the three leaders because each of them would wear a white handkerchief about the neck and a red string about the right wrist. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night our presence was recorded on the quipus, colored strings tied to a long branch of wood. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Like one with the attached strings that wrap around and tie it shut. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

But there was no way to untie the canoe and still hold on to the string. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard’s friend George Giannini, owner of a string of fine racehorses, thought he knew where Howard belonged. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secure the notch of an arrow to the string. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At most, if it is exceptionally hot, he ties a nylon string on an empty plastic bottle, wraps it around his arm, and fills the bottle with water when he can. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Similarly, a single piece of string can divide into two strings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was to shoot west until they hit a string of islands a trapper had shown him, and then bow northeast until the swamp dried up. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It seemed that the string of vessels passing through was endless,” an impatient Frear remembered. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Entertainers dressed as mythological creatures played pipes and strings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

One day, we were lying side by side on the hammock strung just inside the galeria. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant peach swayed gently from side to side as it floated along, and the hundreds of silky white strings going upward from its stem were beautiful in the moonlight. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

After that, night after night, we watched our sphere, ready to use the string at the first signs of breakage. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

All of that panting was meant to have us on a string. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He and his team cut roads, built bridges and telegraph stations, installed telegraph poles, and strung thousands of miles of telegraph lines. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She lets go of the bikini string and flicks the rim of his hat with two long fingers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The ropes that the Cloud-Men had been using for lowering the rainbow got tangled up with the silk strings that went up from the peach to the seagulls! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Black men, women, and sometimes even children strung up from trees. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And contrary to countless barroom conversations, the law of large numbers doesn’t imply the gambler’s fallacy: that a head is more likely after a string of tails. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a string of bells around one of his ankles and beat time with his foot as he played. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I look over at Brambleweft, who holds a string between her hands. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We think you should stay for three months, until the end of the school year. I’ll pull some strings and get you your diploma so you can enter colegio in the fall.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had smooth arms and small delicate hands that were quick against the strings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Centipede rushed over to the stem of the peach and took the silk string in his teeth and bit through it with one snap of his jaws. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

"You hold the string," he says, and then he gets down on his knees and shines the little flashlight through the grate. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie, who has been standing near the table, playing with his large red button at the end of a string, suddenly speaks out. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He puts away the long string of emeralds he was holding. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even when my father let out a string of interesting words, she looked at him and said, “Take it outside, Jaime. Maybe you can find a dog who'll appreciate that kind of language.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was a shortage of assistants in Camelot for the hanking, because there were so many people at it So Guenever began going with Lancelot to help him with the balls of string. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biff rocked himself in the chair and languidly plucked the strings of the mandolin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Cool. No strings attached or weirdness,” Hudson says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The rind was tied to a string, and the string hung around her neck. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cradled the instrument in one arm and, almost before his fingers touched the strings, a gentle melody, as beautiful as the curve of the harp itself, lifted like a voice singing without words. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Take a chicken’s foot, tie it with red string, spin it over your head three times, then burn it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sword made a screech, like the sound of a bow being drawn shakily over the strings of a violin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When you pluck the string without the bridge, you get a clear note, the tone known as the fundamental. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His attention seemed tied to her face by a taut string. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost feel our string sawing his. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge rose up over the river in a graceful parabola, its steel cables strung with red lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said Mrs. Joe, unwrapping herself with haste and excitement, and throwing her bonnet back on her shoulders where it hung by the strings, “if this boy ain’t grateful this night, he never will be!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Your gallant tales are worth all the harp strings in Prydain. And you, Taran and Doli, must promise to tell me more of your famous deeds. But first, I must find Lord Gwydion.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were the echoes of nostalgia I heard in the crying strings of wild geese winging south against a bleak, autumn sky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tied the shears to the head of her bed with a long string. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were her own consciousness spun out from her on long, invisible strings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The string he wears tied around his neck is in his mouth now, and he chews it absentmindedly. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There’s lights strung across the street downtown, and Santa Clauses hanging from the lamp posts. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He left them gifts—an ax, a knife, and a string of red beads. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

On each of her bare feet was a string of cowry shells and small bells that chimed as she moved towards me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“What a long, hard journey that will be! You'll need some nourishment,” she cried, handing Milo a small brown package, neatly wrapped and tied with string. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even more surprised when I took off my coat, stood on a blanket, untied my belt and sleeve strings, and let the kasha come spilling out. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I dropped the coils of string and unfastened the knife as I ran. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His whole being was gliding over the strings. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were empty and silent, stretching before him white and clean under the vanishing glow of a long string of street lamps. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You were hardly the angel. Your place was crawling with all those skinny girls. You didn’t want strings, remember?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the refrigerator, he took a bunch of string cheese sticks and two oranges. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s got this ball of string his girlfriend gave him, see. And he’s using it to find his way back out of the maze.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We got a tree and strung popcorn for it, and she had some friends from work over. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Interwoven in the red strings were thousands and thousands of small clay figures, each no longer than her finger; like a spider, in the exact center, sat the Old Man of the Moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

That string of numbers that just drifted across the two hundreds screen under the Star of David?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But Art3mis used her fame to pull a few strings, and she and I were both allowed to join the cast for that night’s show. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was steaming hot, and we enjoyed the string beans and white potatoes in the beef stew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every string I pulled made me more certain that I never, ever, want to be just a housewife! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Strands of tiny Violet orbs swayed overhead, strung between the rickety buildings. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“There was a string of cuco attacks in Boggs Ferry last month. Before that there hadn’t been a cuco sighting in years and years,” Tia said, and immediately covered her mouth. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I returned the string to Basel and continued to gaze upward. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It looked like a piece of chicken bone with gristle and string all on it and sticky and something black. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re just big bulbs in different colors, strung along the eaves above the front porch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Alexander’s string of victories only feeds his hunger to conquer all, to know all. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Normally a string player holds a string down very tightly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do objects fall through a rip in the fabric of space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if the scythe were pulling him with an invisible string. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Her black hair strung across her face like a wet net. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The motel is the kind we’re used to: a row of cottages, flimsily built, strung together with Christmas tree lights, yellow or blue or green. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tested the string the way Hassan and I used to, by holding it between my thumb and forefinger and pulling it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tore open my shirt and showed them the stringed scapular. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that particular flat-building and all the neighboring buildings, creaky shutters were closed and tied with petticoat strings to the window bars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We don’t know whether it occurred to its strummers to play more than one string simultaneously, like a chord, or whether they only picked out one-note-at-a-time tunes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His mother’s voice sounded tight and thin, like a guitar string about to break. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They glimpsed the centaur and his lady; she held a parasol and he a string market bag, and they were just another couple out for a stroll, buying vegetables for their supper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The older woman perches on a rickety stepstool to reach a string of garlic. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With one hand he held the string, and with the other he dipped into his pants pocket and pulled out his penknife. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A string, on the other hand, occupies a line in space at each moment of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Customs Officer II, who I had imagined stringing me up to the ceiling and interrogating me before he decided to let me go. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I pulled in half the string while he was moving toward the rocks, but soon had to let it out. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him live tries to tie the string of his trousers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Taped to the spine was a length of string on the end of which was a pencil. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Houses sprawled in every direction over bare terrain, with newly strung electrical wires crisscrossing overhead. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The man who faced the wall muttered a string of curses that echoed against the stones. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a string dangling from the ceiling, and a dozen naked bulbs flooded the large room with pools of yellow light. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pieces of string are so small that “colors” is only a manner of speaking. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered gull eggs on the cliff and Ramo speared a string of small fish in one of the tide pools. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The low howvi howi/i that sounded like a string bass imitating a bassoon meant something the dogs understood and executed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harp tensed and one string showed signs of giving way. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Jethro nodded and sat quietly staring into the fire for a long time, listening to the music of the strings until his eyes grew heavy and his shoulders began to droop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your pen was a pencil with two needles tied to the point with string. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petey pulled more paper from the tree trunks, the bushes, the flowers, whatever wasn’t strung up too high. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two bright eyes shone, and out through that hole that was no wider than a string bean came a weasel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Smith would be in an optimistic, relatively chatty mood, stringing several hundred words together in what the papers would call “a great moral victory for the reporters present.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me, Hassan held the spool, his hands already bloodied by the string. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma was still talking about the nice white man who didn’t have me arrested, whipped, or strung up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s good to know that I don’t need to change for others but to search for people who will take me as I am—without any strings attached! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His shirts were white, his collars high and stiff, and he affected narrow black string ties, like those which once were the badge for Southern senators. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Elena would remember that look on her mother’s face, that longing to bring the world closer to perfection—like turning the peg of a violin and bringing the string into tune. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Golden Hours grabbed her shoulders, and she sagged like a puppet whose strings had been cut. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Something has happened to the string,” the dragon gasped between heaves. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He opened it by burning the string with a lighted match. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Give it more string,’’he shouted to her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had cobwebs on it, too, strung in and out of the steering-wheel spokes, and over the metal hubs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the edge of a chair, near his bedroom window, running the bow over his violin’s strings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He strung the tent and Joyce crawled in first. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the spine of the Andes the empire set up a string of a dozen administrative centers that were like smaller versions of the capital. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even so, I kept worrying that one of the strings would come unravelled and a single balloon would sail off up into that cloudy sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel’s fingers danced across the strings of his lute. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “I hope a string didn’t bite her!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Not a day's ride from here, we found two Lannister scouts feeding die crows where the Freys had strung them up. Most of Lord Walder's strength remains massed at the Twins, though." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The same stories claim Mien’s own lute had eight strings in all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sticky, as if someone had pulled a string in his back, promptly answered, “To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive, or to otherwise render indistinct.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gruesome reports reached the farm concerning a posse that had strung up some colored troublemakers the previous night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She passed the string down, puff end first, and the three hooded women stared at it as if it were the most fascinating thing in the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“How on earth do you propose to get a loop of string around a seagull’s neck? I suppose you’re going to fly up there yourself and catch it!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his stringer from his pocket and strung the fish on it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I went back to my invisible string playing to keep my fingers limber for later. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is a magic string,” Da-Fu said in an awed voice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Alby picked at the string of his bow while he stared at the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was just like Luke’s, except Annabeth’s also had a big gold ring strung on it, like a college ring. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The bulbs dangle from a cord strung along the old streetlights. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You’re right, there’s no champagne,” Chandresh says, pushing aside a pile of empty brandy bottles as he lays out another string of sketches along the floor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I had some success with the strings of the lute, but my fingers fumbled on the keys of the virginal. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I watched him stride off to get the spear, a little boy with thin arms and legs like sticks, wearing a big string of sea- elephant teeth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry unlaced his shoe and pulled the broken string to even lengths so he could tie it in a bow again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were hidden under an empty pack of cigarettes, a long string of squares that looked more like candy than he thought they should. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He sat in the clear space between the bank and the first line of trees and bent a pine bough into a circle, tying it with a piece of wet string from the castle. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They might not see the strings attached to this, but there was one on every single bill Toby held. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I think we’re almost ready to put the stuff away now,” Roger says, giving the loose string one last firm tug. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Inside was a cracked ukulele strung with two violin strings, a guitar string, and a banjo string. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Not that we ever comment on what the radio brings us or on any other part of the world outside The Maids and its string of client houses. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I could wrap a bit of napkin around my finger since I don’t have any string. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And secretly, as Twig and Dari were cleaning up and getting back to their desks, I started my pendulum, swinging fast on its short string. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, his muscles stiffened as though a wire strung through his body had jerked him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In string theories, what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string, like waves on a vibrating kite string. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were shivering and coughing, but you started stringing beads while we sang out, “Bead necklaces, pretty bead necklaces!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the fact that we were so tired and strung out emotionally, but I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Arm found the loop of string with which the bag was tied. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A boy who remained at home tied to his mother’s apron strings was regarded as a sissy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished she plopped down onto her couch like a string puppet that had been cut loose. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had a string of girlfriends, even though his fingernails were so long that they curled. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally I tied strings to some of the abalone shells and hung them from poles. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, a combination of tried-and-tested reporting techniques enabled me to extract enough nuggets of hard fact to string together the whole scandalous story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The men looked up just as he shot the string half in two, dropping the cardboard lady to the floor at their feet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Bunny had allowed his greed to get the better of him, and was angry to discover that Henry’s largesse had strings attached. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We didn’t fight often, and when we did, it was typically over petty things, a string of pent-up aggravations that surfaced usually when one or both of us got overly fatigued or stressed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I took out my small pocketknife and cut the string. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even forgot to string the Christmas lights in front of the town hall. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to look at Hassan, but his head was downcast, his shoulders slumped, his finger twirling a loose string on the hem of his shirt. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sun Man pulled out his things: four sets of new clothes two pairs of new moccasins two strings of white shell beads Kaup’a’ta smiled when he saw these things “We’ll gamble all night,” he said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a Jacuzzi, and lounge chairs, and a crew that seems to be made exclusively of beautiful girls in string bikinis. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Helena wakes Max early, wanting to show him the string game I taught her, before he goes back to the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The hallways were decorated for Halloween with orange-and-black crepe paper strung in sagging zigzags across the ceiling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Adams’s string of bad luck or poor timing, call it what you will, persisted to the end. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

What emerged was a long, intricate string of meaningless gibberish. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A silver string had been threaded through it so it hung like a huge bead on a necklace. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Benny knew,” Isa said, avoiding Mrs. Castleman’s eyes as she twisted the pen around the string that attached it to the clipboard. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After you kill your birds, you skin them—you have to be good at skinning as well as at shooting—and you line them up on a string. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We said the Hail Marys together, Queenie and Violet moving strings of wooden beads through their fingers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To operate it, a stone is put in the strap; the ends of the strings are held and whirled above the head. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pirate ship looms along the shore, lit up with strings of lanterns that dangle in intervals to the top of its masts, the lights reflecting against the water in a sheet of glitter. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some just hold them—a tarnished flute, a mandolin missing three of eight terribly corroded strings. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Howard got on the telephone and pulled every string he had. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

These allegations embarrassed the government, and to combat them they brought in a string of outsiders meant to rebut these critical stories. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or did they string us along all those years to get our money? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So it’s not really a hand grenade? Pull the string and run like hell?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But still I made another string for my fishing spear, many hooks of abalone shell, and last of all earrings to match the necklace Tutok had given me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he tapped, Ron continued to try to hit on the correct password, muttering strings of random words under his breath. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the evenings we prayed for him in front of a faded picture of the Virgen de Guadalupe, which was tied with string to the canvas wall above the mattress. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was not finding something to bind it to; it was finding something to bind it with—twine, string, any kind of cord. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before leaving isorhythm, there is a footnote to be added about the way it is organised as strings of note values. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The system failed, failed all the way through the complication of mechanics and computers, burning each one down like the pop and sizzle of a string of Christmas lights, shuddered to ruin one by one. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I collect our offerings—the stubs of her SAT number 2 pencils and four broken guitar strings. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With two tugs on the strings he unties my hospital gown to expose my left leg, and then he draws lines into the back of my hip with something. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It had no straps, but he managed to tie it up with lengths of string, so that it would go over his shoulders. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And chess would give them both a way to kill time between their half cans of string beans and their half cans of corn. chapter 8 S^nda.^, The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Instead she showed me the silver whistle she had on a string around her neck. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She felt like a littlie again, jerked along by a minder on an invisible string. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A short man in a ruffled white shirt, black string tie, red sash, and black trousers came out finally to look at Lupita and Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The coroner rose, lifted his hand for silence and read a long string of words that Bigger could not understand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this was not quite the brilliant solution it might have seemed, since F# and Q> were still - to stringed instruments, singers and some brass players - separate notes, albeit just a short distance apart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And then Alex’s dad came to a complete stop, staring at the banner Alex made, strung across the living room wall. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Teece grasped the man’s suspenders like two harp strings, playing them now and again, contemptuously, snorting at the sky, pointing one bony finger straight at God. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man o’ War became a franchise of sorts for his owner, producing a long string of gifted runners whose winner’s circle visits made Riddle one of the most photographed men in sport. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small string at the upper end of the harp broke with a high-pitched tinkle and curled up like an ivy tendril. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going down after him!” cried James, grabbing the silk string as it started coming out of the Silkworm and tying the end of it around his waist. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Being with Jody and Mark and Cal was beginning to weigh on my nerves, like a dull wooden block on the strings of a piano. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Knowing Leonard, he’ll be sniffing around here till he finds someone he can string up, if you know what I mean.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She fiddled with the strings of her racket, straightening them the way players do on TV. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I’m playing in a string quartet at some professor’s house. What about next weekend?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several Gypsy men were on horseback, riding ahead of or behind their wagons or leading strings of mules and horses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The new crop of horses coming into the barn was a big one, and the stable string had to be culled. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Followed by a string of curses from George McNab that fried the cold morning like an egg. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I plucked at the snare’s tight rope, and it twanged like a guitar string. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three span later I was trying to play Waiting While it Rains when a second string broke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This task kept her busy throughout the day and demanded so much of her time that the family began to complain that all there ever was for dinner was old string beans and jellied quince. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bounce through a string of small green towns where pollarded trees line sleepy canals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The windows had no glass, just flaps of gunnysack strung up in a futile attempt to keep out the insects. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

My breasts are held back from total exposure by a few inches of string. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“The Labyrinth is treacherous. There is only one thing that saw me through: the love of a mortal girl. The string was only part of the answer. It was the princess who guided me.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We cross the bridge, which is now lit by white Christmas lights strung up throughout the courtyard. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed so American to her, flossing, that mechanical sliding of a string between teeth, inelegant and functional. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At sunset we saw a tiny string of dots creeping through a huge white shadow seven thousand feet below: a landboat caravan that had left Erhenrang a day ahead of us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s like his friends are tied to him with string because they run to him from all directions until they all end up in front of me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road wound away before them like a piece of string. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a sharp drop down, with only a thin cable strung between occasional posts to mark the edge of the road. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It stopped often to dance, wiggling this way and that, so that the string of beads around its waist swayed and rippled. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll spend too much time rosining her bow, and not enough tuning the strings. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to get beaten up or strung from a lamppost by my hair. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. Dried apple, pen and ink, a marble, string, wax ... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He did rattle, Jon could hear it; the bones were strung together loosely, so they clacked and clattered when he moved. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He moved his fingers on the strings, listening for the tone. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He held his forehead, letting loose a string of oaths. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each card had a hole punched in it, with a piece of string looped through the hole. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if I was mouthing individual words or bunches of them strung together like grapes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The cyclotron ran, “but it was held together with string and sealing wax, literally.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It even has a little golden key attached by a string of black velvet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the jockeys’ room he orchestrated a string of clever practical jokes, sequestered himself in corners to pore over literature, and mystified his fellow jocks with aphorisms from Omar Khayyam and “Old Waldo” Emerson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the first pluck of a kora string, and it reverberates through my entire body. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a white box tied with string, plus his over-the-shoulder bag. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had this remark passed his lips than a harp string snapped in two. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I string marigold garlands in the bazaar, madam,” I said. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did not answer, and I tied the string loosely round Jasper’s collar. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning, he skittered back up the giant web and tugged one of its strings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just talking to Fletcher in his shop provided enough grounds to string him up. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It held a bundle of dried violets tied with a white ribbon, a toy horse that had lost most of its string mane, and a lock of curling blond hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s too clumsy to use a possessive with an ing word—for instance, when you’d have to make a whole string of words possessive, not just one. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving at the train station back in 1906, the smiles they both smiled at the women with little children, strung like beads over suitcases, were touched with pity. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not remember the last time he had strung more than three hours of rest together. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By pulling the horses towards each other, with strings tied to the platform on which they stood, the knights could be made to tilt. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vibrating part of the string is shorter, and the whole set of sound waves it makes is shorter. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, he took the string from the astonished Robin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It waren’t nothing but a old sock that someone had jammed stuffing up inside the toe part and then tied string tight ’round and ’round the neck to turn it into a head. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He made motions like tying strings into bundles, then tacked them to the firmament above him in the same way garlands were hung at the festivals in Mologa. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You think we’re going to hold off the guards with wires and rubber bands and bits of string?” he asked incredulously. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The imaginary strings holding my heart in place start to snap. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Last, I slip on her black velvet shoes—which fit me perfectly—and tie the dainty strings around my ankles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bard, as lean as eyer, despite the huge amount he had eaten, repaired his harp strings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

One shoe was laced with a much-knotted shoe string, and the other with a bit of dirty twine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been grossed out by a string of dead ducks hanging in a window. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He paid because he had inherited from his mother a certain tightness through the purse strings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tuned a string or two, even though he’d only just set it down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With a large key he tightened the wooden peg holding the newly repaired harp string. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Chicho and Mark string the balloons together and Mark hangs them from the ceiling. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Next to him, a fat lady played with a string of wooden beads. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

You look like a puppet, when all the strings have gone loose.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

After the deer meat had been salted several days, Pa cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The finger becomes the new "end" of the string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He spent several days as if he were bewitched, softly repeating to himself a string of fearful conjectures without giving credit to his own understanding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Templeton untied his string and took it back to his home. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Grover’s leash was red — she thought, the red string, then she saw herself, being taught to play dead. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unlaced his strings and started again, skipping the second and fourth holes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strung up hammocks for everyone all through the forest, and you never heard a happier bunch of kids. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He undid the bit of string that held her braid and slid his fingers through the silky strands until it fell down over her shoulders. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got some hits but couldn’t string them together. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were strung with red and green electric lights because of the holidays. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Smiling, I brought out my lute and brushed my hands over the strings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You opened your bag and pulled out a long piece of string and knotted the end with a bead, so the rest wouldn’t fall off. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He got up, and began to retrace his steps, winding the string up again into a ball. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She had to figure out which string to pull to make her arms and legs move properly. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Groaning at the thought of all the stairs she now had to climb, she picked up her candle and yarn and hurried toward the comfort of higher ceilings, rolling up the string as she went. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s only 5:30 a.m. in California where she is, Bev’s texted a string of question marks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles, the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fontanel was sunken in, a telltale sign of dehydration, and her ribs and the small bones of her spine had been visible under her skin, like a string of beads. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was then that someone lighted the twenty-five-foot string of firecrackers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glare like lightning rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even though Papi didn’t live with us, he often came to see us and once showed up with strings of red and green electric bulbs, which we tacked around windows and doors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

With superb balance, he walked step by step along the string until he reached the cake. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He said a few words, which were strung together like beads, but one of them was polici'as. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a string of red tears appeared across the big man's throat, bright as a ruby necklace, and the blood gushed out of him, and Qhorin Halfhand fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He plays with the string on my sweatshirt. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

For example, a cryptogram that looked like a random string of letters might turn out to have more “V”s in it than anything else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Number Two sat at the computer and with quick, agile fingers, typed a string of commands. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The writer can see the links among the concepts in his internal web of knowledge, and has forgotten that a reader needs to build an orderly tree to decipher them from his string of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No one said that,” Matthew says, spitting out the string necklace. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Is the string running out yet? ” each asked over and over again. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Having no safe place now to leave his cup, he had tied the strings of the flannel bag to his belt. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to figure out how to string a frozen gryphon onto his necklace. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because science is based upon observation and experiment, some critics argue that string theory is not science but philosophy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Clutching a handmade cross of plastic beads on a string around his neck, he leaves his chair and moves frantically from one stranger to another in the hallway. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Centipede, bite through the first string,” James ordered. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I tied a string around the neck of the cloth, making a tea bag, then placed a kettle on the stove. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nation was laughing with them and dribbling the ball, which one of his friends had made out of plastic bags and string. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’d collected the dreams like bright beads on a string of nights that wound around her each day, every day until this one. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was pretty beaten-up from neglect and the strings were missing. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just as in the main tunnel, there was a string of bulbs along the ceiling that provided dim light. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What this technique does is eke out as many as possible of the sympathetic resonances, or harmonics, latent in the reverberating strings, thus imitating the natural harmonics found in plucked strings and struck metal bars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The trousers were cut up into pieces and then one of the men sat down on a rock and put them together again with white string. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s typing in a command, pressing his thumb to the screen for print recognition, speaking a string of letters and numbers in response to a prompt. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Fiona gnawed through it, which was disgusting since this string had actually passed through the cracks between my teeth on several occasions and, more recently, had floated in a pan of butter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

After supper he strung up a mosquito net around his cot and fell asleep in his clothes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Showed Helena how to sing while she threaded string around her fingers, making patterns that matched the song. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had scarce tied the strings of the portfolio, when, looking at his watch, he said abruptly— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The dangling lute string whipped him on the ear. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I will learn about frets and strings and how to turn on an amp. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Birds and bats and butterflies hang throughout the space as if held by strings, completely still. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You could’ve given me a warning that didn’t involve knocking me into a puddle,” I growled, swiping strings of mud from the seat of my pants. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They’re my favorites. Lauren likes the tomatoes best, because there are so many of them, but the string beans remind me of summer.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Folks had already brought over more cakes and pies, and platters of fried chicken and ham, and their good china bowls full of string beans, butterbeans, okra, and tomatoes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The anticipation of what he might find was strung tight in his belly; suddenly the tension snapped and hurled him into the empty room where the ticking of the clock behind the curtains had ceased. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Often he wakes up to find himself tied by his ears to a bedpost, or else he finds loops of string around them, to which are attached dead bugs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joyce Ann was lying on her bed screaming because she had yanked the string out of her talking doll and it was no longer talking. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Any of those cabs out there,” he said pointing to a string of parked cabs driven by white men. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He named a sum three times what I was paid for the stringing of marigolds. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The extra cops are now aligning themselves along two yellow tapes they string in the form of a corridor that leads from the street to the house just past where I am. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on, Rick! What’s your deal? All of a sudden, it’s like you care about this dumb play. Look at you, worried about how many strings there are on a thing of hay.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I race back to the bedroom and pull the string for Bree. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A herald gave a shapely cithern harp to Phemios, whom they compelled to sing—and what a storm he plucked upon the strings for prelude! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freddie’s tongue could still lash out any string of words that would slip around and bite me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

According to string theory, they are rolled up like little balls, too tiny to see. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

No one was abroad at this nearly midnight hour, and nothing was open except a string of desolately brilliant service stations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need perfect, just somewhere he could take Naomi without getting himself strung up for being with her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The outside looks like an enormous circus tent, painted with broad black-and-gold stripes that glitter under the strings of lights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the foreseeable future, banishing zero from the universe with string theory is a philosophical idea rather than a scientific one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then he took the bow and did his utmost to string it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This smarted a little, and Amarante croaked a string of feeble curses as he limped around in the road, amazed by what a flabby uncoordinated old geezer he had become. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We'd put 'em in the ground and run string around 'em, cutting our land up into six pieces. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izzi gestures to a low door with a curtain strung across it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When a string vibrates, the main pitch you hear is from the vibration of the whole string back and forth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A string player who wants a different note from a string holds the string tightly in a different place. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Big House was decorated with strings of red and yellow fireballs that warmed the porch but didn’t seem to catch anything on fire. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Each packet was held together with stout loops of string. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Both were long chains made of four components, called bases, strung together along a stringlike chain or backbone. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I take the chicken, wrapped in butcher’s paper and trussed with string. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these walking sticks are decorated with beaded strings and feathers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In these theories the basic objects are not particles, which occupy a single point of space, but things that have a length but no other dimension, like an infinitely thin piece of string. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed the smooth wood of the harp and how the strings were held with wooden pegs. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I tensed like violin strings tuned to the highest note. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On deck, soldiers banged sword against shield, while archers quietly strung their bows and pulled the first arrow from the quivers at their belts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The yard next door was decorated with gold-colored ribbons strung on tall bamboo stems. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The old man grinned at her and pulled out a heavy key that he wore on a string around his neck. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Chandresh cannot decipher any of it, cannot even tell if the marks are broken into words or simply continuous strings of motifs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I lifted up, over the cot, the tiny thin string holding me to my body stretching like chewing gum. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Matter waves are not so different from string waves. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And always there is someone offering sweeter drinks, someone promising to keep them on a silver string. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lift the string over the railing and drop the chicken into the pail. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t right for one body to own another or pull strings to make them jump. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I...I’ve been trying,” I said, and pulled a loose string on the hem of my dress. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

However, the strung iron bits soon proved to be a two-edged weapon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She asked him an endless string of wonderful questions, and Colin loved her for it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the advice is unhelpful because it is stated in terms of strings rather than trees. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The view from the window is of a series of rolling hills, and a row of hillside homes that light up at night like a string of Christmas lights. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He wore a new suit, blue, with broad, blue stripes, and carried, crooked under his arm, a brown-paper bundle tied with string. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Orléans archipelago is a string of islands stretching like a rose with a crooked stem out into the warm sea. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Puffy red lanterns hang high between buildings, strung like beads on a necklace. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Hearts, lips, navels, all their strings wound tight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She is moving in a slowly liquidy way as if her arms and legs were on long strings pulled by an invisible being. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

They wrap up the garbage in several layers of newspaper and tie it with string, and even so it drips onto the freshly waxed floor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His own hair was dark, pulled back into a neat queue, and tied with string. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a loop of silk string in his hands. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

After delivering the water home and snapping green beans into a big pot to steam with a cinnamon stick, Sitti took Liyana to meet a neighbor who was stringing orange beads on nylon thread. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had already set up the dreaded frame of branches and there were strings of hide nearby that she would use to tie the skin up tight so that it could be worked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I type in the password for today, a string of thirty-five jumbled letters, numbers, and symbols. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a big patio strung with Christmas lights and rainbow banners, and even though the patio’s empty, the parking lot is overflowing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Crucially, the harder you hit the key the harder the hammer hit the string, resulting potentially in different levels of volume for every note. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Pepettes arrived in their short skirts and letter jackets, their hair, usually so buoyant, falling in damp strings because of the rain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gripped the lute roughly and dragged his fingers across the strings with no thought for rhythm or tune. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had no rope, no string, and yet he had to have a way to hold the logs in a flat platform to keep them solid enough to carry Derek and him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

In his opening remarks, Tho referred to the Saigon government as an American “puppet,” one that could never stand without a foreign power holding its strings. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It came in the form of a string of distressed-looking men who began appearing at his door. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So to get rid of him she had him rob a string of banks and hide the money with her. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She looked like a crack head and most of the dudes hated it when a girl got her string cut loose from crack. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He led me down the stairs like a lamb on a string. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the lake a hundred or more ships, yachts, and launches lay at anchor with colored lights on their bows and booms and strung along their rigging. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was made from strings of the yucca bush and had a small opening at the top and hung down like a pouch. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She undoes the string on the chicken, and the glazed paper. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undeterred by his weight she fed the hens, gathered eggs, fetched water, then sat at the table stringing dried mushrooms. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these plucked instruments, rested on the lap and nestled against the body, with as few as six and as many as thirty-five strings, would grow innumerable further offshoots. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A string of words pop to mind, but I don’t want to get in trouble with his mother. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

An auxiliary cable strings out from the cigarette lighter, attached to an iPod. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Upon hearing or reading the string of words, the perceiver can work backwards, fitting them into a tree and recovering the links between the associated concepts. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The string's tighter than the one I use at home. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Percy strung it on his leather necklace with the strange beads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

New ways of stringing words and sentences together come into fashion and vanish again, but the underlying structure simply grows, enriches itself, expands. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought him a new set of guitar strings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The people sit around the table as if suspended, like props in a play, or puppets on strings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Didu gets up and goes over to the picture of our grandfather that hangs on the wall, which she keeps decorated with strings of fresh jasmine or marigolds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Either one would provide only the most tenuous sympathetic link to my lute string: one percent at best, perhaps only a tenth of that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have a candle, nor did she have a string to lead her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She kisses each twin on the forehead and later makes strings of folded paper cranes to hang above their cradle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had been strung up, chained by its wrists and ankles so it made a kind of giant X over the tunnel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Morgan’s work had pinpointed their location on chromosomes, where they were supposedly strung like beads on a wire. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But any wavelength that doesn't have a node at each end of the string, can't make a standing wave on the string. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“My family pulled some strings to get special permission. After Dylan, it’s really the least we could do.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith holds two strings of beads in his hand. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was a skinny white dude, who was a little strung out. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He made me sit down, and he tied the string of the new rubber apron tightly around my neck, and combed up my bush of hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By stringing the fiber along a gap in a stretch of wire—a bent paper clip worked marvelously—he hoped to diffract X-rays and obtain images. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re called bales, and Mr. Jackson said that the string is called twine.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons she sat in the kitchen with Lee and helped him to string beans or slip peas from their pods. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cara is surprisingly nimble—she moves over the rungs like she’s plucking banjo strings, touching each one only briefly before she moves to the next one. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Godel solution and the cosmic string space-time start out so distorted that travel into the past was always possible. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one hand she yanked the string out of my mouth, which really hurt because the key was about halfway down my throat. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, the melodic line of a piece of music is the string of notes that make up the melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Whereupon God cut his strings, and Joe sat down with a rude bump. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without that person knowing it, his string would go limp and he’d think that it had just snapped, but no, Sapo had cut it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I unraveled Martinez's bed and took the string outside, then taped it to the trailer hull along the path I planned to cut. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had one hand on a big camera strung around her neck, another on top of a collection can. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Overhead, strings of globe lights were looped around tall mirrors, bedposts, and the odd nonfunctional chandelier. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jim had found a use for it: as a trellis for his string beans. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We can only do a few shows a night, and all we need are the kittens and hoops and strings and things. Anyone who doesn’t really need a tent performs wherever there’s room.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Funny though, it’s for different reasons than it used to be when I was just a kid strung out on speed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other was the string of paper cranes that had been made by the students at Oakland High School. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For one thing, I was still strung out on herb. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the squat, buglike printing press, the trays of type, the strings on which printed sheets were hung to dry like clothes on a line. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern bowed her head low and grand over her plate of corn and string beans. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I pull a string on a nearby wall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Frank parked the car near a string of other vehicles. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s where I saw Jay strung out that time. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She spent a whole summer with the gray ball, the little ball of fur and string and hair always floating in the light near her but which she did not see because she never looked. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation is identical to entering the circus, even down to the scent of caramel lingering in the air, but there is something deeper beneath it, something heavy and ancient underlying the paper and string. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even the soundtrack chosen for this level is off-the-charts epic, full of orchestral strings and deep drums, sending my heart soaring. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No matter what the man played, a drowning sound warbled out from the piano’s strings and hammers. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The blind man stroked the strings and played two more chords. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You said . . . When the guy died, you said maybe all the strings inside him broke, and then you just said that about yourself, that the last string broke.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At first I’d thought it was strung shells with shriveled black seaweed, but it wasn’t — it was a chain of mummified fingernails, a black and curled strip of flesh dangling from the base of each. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he's in the studio, he “crows about everything” and can sit for hours with a bit of string or an old paintbrush. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now she knew why he had made a game of tying string around each of her fingers when she saw him the week before. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hers is thin as a string. And yours is perfect.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He crept down into his hole, pushed the goose egg out of the way, and returned with an old piece of dirty white string. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Crossing the Seine I saw a string of barges being towed empty down the current, riding high, the bargemen at the sweeps as they came toward the bridge. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wrap it around him like a skirt that skims his ankles and then secure it at the waist with a piece of string. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said to Pa, “Junior, there’s a right way to go about things and a wrong way. Wrong will get that gal strung up. Mark my words.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The jeepney’s draped with strings of bright triangle flags, the American flag, and the Philippine flag with its vibrant yellow sun. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Abuela is admiring the palm trees that are strung with white lights for the holiday. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We passed a man standing by the road, holding a suitcase tied up with string. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gently tugged at the knot until one end of the string was pulled out, forming a small lasso. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dried fluid was shot through with something that looked like string. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I load my sling and, twirling it above my head, let go of one string. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something had flicked her the way you’d flick a horse with the braided string popper on a buggy whip. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘A merry troop of fools we shall look! Will Haldir lead us all on a string, like many blind beggars with one dog? But I will be content, if only Legolas here shares my blindness.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This is the chief objection to string theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I carefully tiptoe inside, fumbling with the knot on the string to untie the balloon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He remembered a huge room, rather dark; and there were big wooden things with strings fastened to them, and lots of women standing round them—making blankets, Linda said. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy shucked off the sac and found his knife and cut the string. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A staff she gave him, and a leaky knapsack with no strap but a loop of string. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give it more string. It smells its home.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused again, pulled a string of hair behind her ear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Shanti cried, her words floating out in front of her in strings of black type. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The candy lady's small living room is filled with shelves and shelves of chocolate bars and gumdrops, Good & Plenty and Jujubes, Moon Pies and Necco Wafers, lollipops and long red licorice strings. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They all thought it was a shame the Beiderman reacted so strongly to stringed instruments, especially given Isa’s extraordinary progress over the last six years. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It’s not like Mother’s meddling, but a clean hope, without strings or hurt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He carries his musket and has not one, but two bandoleers of gunpowder strung across his chest. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As neighbors and family members clapped him on the back or tossed strings of flowers around his neck, Neel glanced at the sundari trees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could skin a bear, repair a watch, build a house, bake a cake, darn a sock, or catch a trout with a bent pin and a piece of string. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inmate started to reel the bird in, but I put my foot on the string. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had Annabeth really woven them into the string, or was it some kind of magic? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere in his essay, Greene does not hide the fact that many of his fellow physicists think that string theory and the multiverse are extravagant and unproven. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Or if they wanted, they would have allowed him to hang himself by his racket strings while under police custody.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's applied lipstick and eye pencil, twisted a dozen golden bangles on each wrist, strung two necklaces around her throat, and selected a pair of dangly earrings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Very deliberately, Kingshaw inserted his forefingers under the string, and pulled the satchel off his back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I used to string them on yarn and make necklaces.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

By the time he caught up with her, she had climbed a hillock and was stringing the bow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Then with her other hand she took her sharp “teacher only” pointy scissors and cut the string off the key and put the key in my T-shirt pocket. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two ovals were stitched together and attached to a piece of corset string. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tie one end of the string to the trappy part of the mousetrap. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mother’s jaw drops so far it hits her string of pearls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the man who held it saw that he had four rats, he pulled a draw string that closed it up. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from a string of repeated questions which remained unanswered, Emily’s letters were mostly about the evacuees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soon, I’m on the bed as she carefully cuts out the strings that were used to sew the fake hair into my cornrows. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was like, Okay, sure, fine, whatever swings your string, and she was all, Babycakes, you swing my string, which is a nice thing for someone to say to you, especially before you use mouthwash. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how she screamed and schemed, her husband refused to loosen his purse strings. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The banker pulled the purse strings of his mouth taut. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about Hailsham closing, and how it was like someone coming along with a pair of shears and snipping the balloon strings just where they entwined above the man’s fist. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strings of the violin, the part that made the sound, was the edge of his wing. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now that we were no longer stringing beads, I entertained Tanu after supper by reading Tagore’s poems aloud, although the older widows said I would have done better to read the sacred verses. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said this with a quick little shrug, her eyes still on the strings of her racket as she straightened them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The third plucked at strings stretched across a long-necked instrument made of wood. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could be as gay as his father, and suddenly in the middle it would be cut the way you would cut a violin string, and you could watch Tom go whirling into darkness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had been observed singing “White Christmas” and dragging a plastic disposable cup top around his cell with a string, calling it his “car.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the string in my back keeping me tied to the shore. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The half-glasses that he uses for reading are secured by a string around his neck. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After the training camp, his coach said that he was second string and that when he starts learning the system, he will be first string. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And when it found him, the string curled around Fred’s wrist. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather have the sun, but at least we still have some light,” Grandma said, using a tool to set the silver-headed arrow to the string of her undersized crossbow and pull it into position. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I had heard it all I was playing with the house key that was on a long string around my neck. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an almost overwhelming temptation to shout a string of filthy words at the top of his voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It’s the same feeling I get when Dad and I fly kites at the Cape, as if holding on to the string means that part of me is up there, way too high. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He groped for the string next to the door, but then he paused, startled. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers against the smooth wood, and then up the neck, and down the strings. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Running backward, making applesauce, doing jumping jacks, gargling, blowing bubbles, slicing garlic, making a house out of playing cards, stringing popcorn, organizing furniture, drawing mazes, and making pinatas.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The strings of yarn flew free, rising on the breeze. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For some reason I was starving, and I piled my plate with fried chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, okra. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was tan and wore a black bikini with a string around the neck. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had on his old black trousers and an old white shirt and string tie, and he was mad as heck. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Any number can be written as a string of zeros and ones; to Leibniz, this was the creation ex nihilo, the creation of the universe out of nothing more than God/1 and void/0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then the group moved as one machine, setting up the main camp, stringing the woods with traps and alarms. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He put the beautifully curved instrument on his shoulder, barely touched the strings, and a long, lovely melody filled the air. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Red was from North Carolina, absconding after the regulators strung up his wife and child. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nearly colorless hair hung in deadened strings over her shadowy, gaunt face. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He doesn't light a single candle or release one of the lanterns strung up in a line beside the entrance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Or it is a type of tiny potato that turns up in the market now and then, always sold in bunches that clump along the roots like knots on a string. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people had switched off all their lights for effect, or strung rubber bats in their windows. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The only way of making it softer was to lay felt against the strings - also either on or off - and there was no way of moving gradually from one state to the other. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that carried information in a coded and compressed form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ahead, there were more thick bushes, and he thought he ought not to go through them, in case of getting the string ripped on a branch. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Colin had never understood this before, but now thousands of strings were fluttering over and around and past him, and they were both tiny broken beams of light and endless, undulating waves. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Malik tugs at the strings of his hoodie. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The piece that completes the puzzle is string theory, according to which “the tally of possible universes stands at the almost incomprehensible 10500, a number so large it defies analogy.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I first started getting high, I would be strung out and I couldn’t sit still. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She tied a string around the cardboard box and said, “Carry it flat if your hands don’t get too cold. Then it’ll look mighty pretty when you fetch it to him.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hovering above these women, men and children tie strings of wet clothes from trees to tents, creating giant spiderwebs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I traced the string to a kid standing about thirty yards from us. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each of those nights, after applying cold cream and braiding her hair, which she tied up at the end with a black cotton string, she turned from me and wept; she missed her parents. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid picked up pieces of string, but bright colors and movements distracted her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think it will be you, do you, the boy who has survived by accident, and because Dumbledore was pulling the strings?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kainta teaches me how to peel the bark off the sapling, cut notches for the bowstring, and string it with strong gut. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it is,” the lion said, looking at the string. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Wayward strings of lightbulbs hang overhead, beyond which I can see the mirrored, upside-down version of the city hanging down toward us from the sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Captain Newport demonstrated the kneeling over and over again until he looked like a marionette on strings and people began to snicker. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She barked at Jessie Leibovitz, who had just broken her A string and was fishing in her case for a replacement. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Fantastic!” said Hermione, as Ron unraveled the long, flesh-colored strings and began to feed them toward the bottom of the door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever strings can be pulled, in other words, are being yanked. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of me is a chain-link fence with barbed wire strung along the top. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Players of both bowed and plucked strings generally find fingerings and tuning to be easier in sharp keys, while woodwind and brass players often find flat keys more comfortable and in tune. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He released her, and as he bowed his head at Amah, Pinmei saw that instead of the red string, the jade bracelet was on her wrist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I put on the longest string of beads, which were blue, and a pair of blue bracelets, which exactly fitted my wrists, and walked down the shore, admiring myself. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side was a short Vietnamese woman, her hair strung over her face, dejection in her eyes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I started to move my hand slowly, toward the tiny front pocket of my shorts, pulling the piece of silk string out of it without drawing too much attention to myself. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

On a string slung over his shoulder he had a brown cloth sack, which he handed to me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They acted as if they’d been friends forever, as if this visit wasn’t the first, but the latest in a string of regular trysts. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She put her head on her knees and tied knots in the strings of her tennis shoes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I should hate them and want to see them strung up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Tsalig, who was always looking out for me, I, too, started working for the brush maker, stringing bristles through a board to make brushes for the Germans. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

All went about their work with their faces tighter, as if the news of the emissary’s impending visit had pulled the string of village life taut. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Modeled after one made by the famous German painter Albrecht Dürer, and depicted in Vincent's art manuals, it’s an open rectangle made of wood, strung with horizontal and vertical threads to make a grid. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This year nothing is keeping me off the first string. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He tugs a string by the doorway and the movement reverberates throughout the room, the entire model circus sparkling as bits of metal catch the firelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Beside him, Minerva was now beginning to snore, her head slumped to a shoulder, a ball of string clutched in her hand. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was a white pastry box like any other, wrapped in white string. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It was the little ceramic monkey, still on its crude string. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She put Ralph down on the bed where her Dad and Mama slept and gave him a string of beads to play with. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even without trying I knew it wasn’t for the front door, because it didn’t match up with the key that I wear on a string around my neck to let myself in when nobody’s home. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The marionette strings are cut, and even her head looks wobbly on its post. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tiny little one-syllable explosions went off about the room like a string of Chinese firecrackers. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the string off my neck and put it around his neck. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The offer was tempting, but even on the off chance he'd actually come through with the money, there would certainly be strings attached. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She reached out for the smaller of the two strings, being careful not to brush his hand with hers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to weed the garden and then you’re going to string up the new chicken wire Dad bought to keep the rabbits out.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Along the way, it passed a small village strung out atop a sun­baked slope. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was tied with a string instead of plaited and I can still remember how sparkly white it looked in the sun. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Somehow, she incorporated a mechanical beauty queen wave, which exploded into a motion where she seemed to pull herself up by an invisible string. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

These islands are strung together much like beads on a necklace. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Quickly! Bite through that string, the one he’s coming down on!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a boy stringing a hose from the shed, un-loop-ing and wrestling the knots and kinks out of it as he went. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A string of especially perplexing breakdowns had bedeviled the lab that year, at a time when Lawrence was struggling to fill a mounting stack of orders for radioisotopes from all over the country. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It hung by a string from the ceiling just above where the robbers were sitting on the floor but, being dazed and dum-founded, they looked all around and didn’t see what he was talking about. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The next song is a string of all the golden words I’ve ever wished someone would tell me—I love you, I want you, I need you. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instruments that produce sound using strings are called chordophones, or simply strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“That’s how they made them years ago, before metal strings, before they knew how to brace a long neck. It’s incredible. There’s more careful engineering in that swan neck than in any three cathedrals.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He pulled the strings tight and slipped the purse around his neck, then sat holding the old Snitch and watching its wings flutter feebly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Muokelu exclaimed, fingering the plastic half of a yellow sun that she wore on a string around her neck. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To think that, to string those words together in my mind, was itself a source of hope. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The swallow swooped down with the slightest flick of the wrist or soared skyward with the tiniest jerk of the string. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The string beans obviously came from a can but someone had thrown in some slivered almonds; the sweet potatoes had marshmallows mixed in, and there was enough stuffing for everybody. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Round and around in swoopy anticlockwise loops I looped, a stone on the end of a string. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I passed the house and inconspicuously parked next door, just in front of their neighbor’s fence, away from the lights strung on trees and all around the dead man’s yard. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But even then, he made my mom stop the tape every fifteen minutes so he could ask long strings of questions. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tug pult the string and from the tree on the other side a bowie knife tied to a piece of cord swung down at the spot where the pouch had been setting. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Two wooden posts had been set into the ground at the corners of the buildings, barbed wire strung thick between them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So whatever you were thinking might have got ahold of Leah out there, snake or leopard, you couldn’t say anything out loud but string or spotted cloth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bryce set Edward on the floor and started pulling the strings attached to his feet, making him do a slow shuffle. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Sapo untied the string and started to fly the kite again. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

All the girls made friendship bracelets from plastic strings and colorful yarn, so I learned many ways of creating my own jewelry. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I whisper each word distinctly, like a string of knots in a rope I am clinging to. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When the sun rose, the red strings of the bridge melted into the sky and the bridge seemed to disappear, only showing itself again at night. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the adult caretakers from Pinyudu had managed to string a rope across the river, and boys who couldn’t swim were pulling themselves across. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It splattered over his white coat and down his chest, marking him with strings of red slime dappled with dark flecks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent Smith out to a little bullring track in Cheyenne with a string of runners. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The string disturbs the air molecules around it as it vibrates, producing sound waves in the air. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When the little kid left with his string good as new, she said, “Jeffrey, if I knew some way that would make it okay for you to stay, would you?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hung crookedly, almost like someone had tried to rip it down, only to have someone else come along and halfheartedly string it back up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Above the table were shelves full of bottles of seeds, and boxes of string, wire, and various kinds of powders. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A string of kisses a mile long melted together as his lips brushed her ears, her neck, her arms, her hair, and then got back to her mouth again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She trailed strands of leftover spider silk from her arms and legs like the strings of a marionette, but somehow, amazingly, none of the debris had hit her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Six harp strings broke at once, and the others strained so tautly they looked on the verge of snapping. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It included brass and wind instruments, percussion, and a whole gallimau&y of types of strings: plucked, stroked, strummed, keyed and bowed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The lid is like a wing of a bird ready to fly, propped up to show the golden strings that create the sound. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Their eyes lit up like a string of lights on Eid. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He sat down and lashed the sole of his shoe to its top with his black string tie, then walked across the homemade bridge. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held a metal bar to the strings of the neck and plucked the strings over the belly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had more than 15 on my string. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The string of cars trolled up Water Street through a bright spring day. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To draft a telegram, you wrote down the numbers for each character you wanted, and then you sent the string of numbers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Recently, the days of no contact have been stringing together into permanence. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Abenaki sent goods to Verrazzano on a rope strung from ship to shore, I said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A sling is a woven pouch attached to two strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And she stood there like a puppet strung up by a puppet master who had gone off to some other hobby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words have strung themselves together into rhymes and into a flow, and I let it all come tumbling out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Blackberry was fidgeting on and off the thwart, strung up, able to feel only too clearly all that Hazel felt himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swinging on the string this way, with his long bathrobe trailing around his ankles, he looked like a little old friar pulling the bellrope in an abbey. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The arrow’s feathers brushed against her gloved hand as she pulled back on the string. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She also gave her a string of real Dutch pearls. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I threw the blanket over the lines again, with the new girdle string going around the masthead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted Chinese lanterns strung from boats and bridges alike. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The whole way, I tug at my hoodie strings and wipe my palms along my jeans. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s two glue sticks tied together with string, and then the ends of the string are taped to the sides of the box, leaving the glue sticks hanging in the middle. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He reaches to part the strings of beads and stops, suddenly, and turns around. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To the side of the map, there are extra pins with strings. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, exhaled, and pulled on the string. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After slaughter, the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly, pried open, eviscerated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday we passed a line of men blinded by mustard gas—they stumbled along like a string of elephants, one man's hand on the next man's shoulder. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

While I attacked the blueberry sour strings, she ran her hand through my hair and demanded to know everything I hadn’t put in my letters. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Many on paper, tied with a ribbon or a string. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He held the flame to the string on the candle, and the string began to burn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was wearing a pale blue sweater and a string of pearls. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boats in the bay were part of it, and the string section of crickets in the baking grass, and the ice melting in our lemonade glasses. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I yank the strings and pull the fabric closed over my face. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Do we really need to string him along like this?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was that magic strung the days all together, like holly berries on a winter garland, into one long, ripe ruby afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted to swing die pick or kneel down with the string or shovel die gravel. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bending down, he touched it to the string, which of course wasn’t a string, but a fuse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Pull it and hear the drum beat,” said the wily man, holding out the string to Puli, and how could he resist it, who was only a child, when I myself was enchanted! Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight was the vote on Amendment S in Ravenskill, and if Seven’s theory was correct, there would be another string of cuco attacks—making this the perfect time for the Witchlings to strike. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like a fuse, or the string of a balloon. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a quick stroke across the strings of a violin, or like a harp that has been plucked suddenly. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five long chains of brightly colored prayer flags* were then strung radially from the pole above our tents to protect the camp from harm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She released us then and began fidgeting with the string of pearls around her neck. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She lays the axe in with the pile of wood and strings her scarf through the rope to make a handle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you asking if he’s close to endorsing, or if I know what strings need to be pulled to get him to endorse?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“In a second, Duke. Look. There’s something jiggly in the water. It’s like a flat rubber pull toy made out of clear gunk! It even has all sorts of strings to play with.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

With water siphoned off from the Los Angeles-bound aqueduct, a large farm was under cultivation just outside the camp, providing the mess halls with lettuce, corn, tomatoes, eggplant, string beans, horseradish, and cucumbers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice rose higher and higher like a balloon with the string let go. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He handed her the damp string bracelet, returned to its original size. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The bridge of a violin held up the strings at the end and some sound-holes had been carved on either side. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stood in the room, holding the string straps, thinking, I am going away, I am going away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It might have her face, but it was a phantasm—just a scrap of memory dancing on a string—and everything it said and did came from the dreamer’s own mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Like the piece of string out of a ham. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She tried to string these new words with the old ones in sentences, but she had no more success than a blind man threading beads. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She released the other soldiers, and they fell back into their slumber, puppets with their strings cut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was half finished, a wide gold collar formed of tiny chains strung with innumerable golden bees, each one delicately and imaginatively conceived, superbly wrought. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Out comes a flashlight, one of those small kinds that look sort of like a cigarette lighter, and also a spool of kite string. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of cheaply stringing dragonflies by the tail, we could fly expensive kites, the sky splendid in Chinese colors, distracting ghost eyes while the new people sneak in. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon and the children looked at her curiously as she waved the sheet of paper and the string before them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

To be fair, many people who couldn’t punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a small, slightly furry drawstring pouch with a long string, evidently intended to be worn around the neck. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We had prepared for one dud, bringing an extra string of firecrackers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I found some string in the cottage,” I said to the man. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She groped around in a waste-basket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looped the string first one way, then another. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother gave him a long metal spoon with which he gutted the interior until the last bits of string and seeds were gone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was no tune to it, but it possessed a curious twanging quality as of plucked strings. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A large woman, barely done tying her apron strings, goes running to the cabin John and Ann Laydon share with two other families. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He walked the string without a moment's hesitation. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

‘And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don’t want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The villagers who still practiced the old Slavist rituals would decorate birch trees, string up flowers and branches, and leave extra offerings for the rusalki. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His ears buzzed and he had to grip the saddle strings tightly to stay erect. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seven naked little pink creatures lay all wound up together with closed eyes and ears standing up and long whiskers sticking out and little pointed noses and tiny strings of tails. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Archers scrambled into the shallows, holding their bows high over their heads to keep the strings dry. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bryce played his harmonica and moved Edward’s strings, and Edward bowed and shuffled and swayed and people stopped to stare and point and laugh. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

There, resting on a mound of blanket rolls, is a silver sheath of arrows and a bow, already strung, just waiting to be engaged. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The discussion of each theme coheres not just because it is localized in a string of consecutive paragraphs but because it refers to the theme using a set of transparently related terms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everybody who had made money during the war moved as close as they could to the valley, and the white people were buying down river, cross river, stretching Medallion like two strings on the banks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Jay continues on merrily, adding a string of curse words I recognize from jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

His long, whiskery brows moved like strings on a marionette. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Pilate pulled a piece of string from Hagar’s bedspread and put it in her mouth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the speechless astonishment of seeing a hog stabbed through the heart, dipped into boiling water, scraped, split open, gutted, and strung up gaping and bloody. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bow drawn backwards and forwards across a string, or a handle mechanism that turned the edge of a wheel against a string, were the most common solutions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Pong shook his head and touched his string bracelets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Both schools of thought are castles in the air, connected to the ground by the thin strings of meagre archaeological remains and anthropological observations of present-day foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, as well as particles, which occupy a single point of space, and strings, which are lines, there were found to be other objects called p-branes, which occupied two- dimensional or higher-dimensional volumes in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a big old TV with a doily on the top, and an empty goldfish bowl, and piles of newspapers tied up neat with string, and a Bible on this little table by the TV. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a string of deadly subway accidents. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the greeny-looking clintonia flower bells became beautiful blue berries, but there were so few of those you could search the whole woods and not find enough to string a bracelet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not that a bunch of beads on a string is going to fix what happened, but it shows she cares. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A blue silk bag full of red strings lay open beside him, and Minli felt a shock run through her as she saw it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My hands went through the routine motions of stripping the broken string away while I fretted to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My sister’s pinky was dangling by a thin string of skin. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Aunt Docia pulled as hard as she could on Aunt Ruby’s corset strings, and then Aunt Docia hung on to the foot of the bed while Aunt Ruby pulled on hers. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the longest string of words he had uttered in months, but it suddenly dried up, as if he just couldn’t find any more to say. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair nets which kept them together were strung with pearls, and the kerchiefs were of Eastern silk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a stranger during those terrible days, like a sleepwalker going through the motions, like a puppet being maneuvered by invisible strings. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, right now you can buy fruit and all kinds of vegetables for two bits a lug. And in the winter you know what we pay for canned peaches and canned string beans.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll make him think that dam red tie is the latch string to hell, if he thinks he can run the woods with my niece. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the image, that of a young girl calmly drawing a sword toward her body, pulling the blade through a man’s neck as she might have pulled a string through cheese. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was some concern because things were being planted late in the season, but most of the vegetables had gotten a head start in a greenhouse: string beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cabbage, potatoes, broccoli. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had a basin where I would scrub my dolls’ clothes and hang them with tiny clothespins on the wash line Adele strung at my height next to the playhouse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On the chain were strung two safe-deposit keys, a gold watch with a fleur-de-lis pin, and a little steel tube with a ring on its top. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, we can’t change what happened, but if we can string together enough clues, we can prove that whatever nightmare has befallen us, we could have stopped it, if only we had been smart enough. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We two had no string of words that could tie us together. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, if the electron is a loop of string, the particle is no longer a singularity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I did not even cry for the boy who had learned to play a lute with six strings in the forest years ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She drew all the beads up to one end of the string. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At night she had seen the lamps shining in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, and at Christmas time the lights that his sons strung on a pine tree outside. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I took in some of the string. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When she opens those bright little eyes, it’s like plugging in a string of Christmas lights, isn’t it?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, let me hold the string, I say. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The thick rectangle was covered in grocer’s paper and tied with string. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the corners, on the stairs, ducking beneath the laundry strung on ropes from door to door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A cosmic string attached to the earth could accelerate it from 0 to 60 mph in 'Aoth of a second. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Funny how you an’ him string along together.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Line is twanging like the high string on a steel guitar as the fish rises up to the surface, pulling the skiff behind it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We shout at these drivers, a string of bad words, and they laugh at us. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In string theory different particles are really the same type of string, just wiggling in different ways. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He handed me a piece of paper rolled into a tube and tied with a bit of string. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was tall and skinny and looked like a giant string bean. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As a rule, young men wore it long on one side, in an equine mane, but cropped the other side short, which prevented it from getting tangled in their bow strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Winston undid the bit of string that held his overalls together. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Most were sucked backward like kites on strings, reeled back to the metal hand to watch as the sleigh, spinning slowly, scudded farther and farther out of their reach. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I told him about the chains strung across the portraits. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He found a loose string on his shirt and pulled at it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All Pearl could see was a string of numbers, but it meant something to Trip. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He finished with a chord from the strings and the last sounds shivered to silence in the cold air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He quickly discovered that strings have a peculiar, yet predictable, behavior. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He admired the sky lanterns that lit the streets, strung so cleverly that they looked as if they were floating. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A string of Buddhist prayer flags snapped furiously in the wind. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother’s large porcelain vases were strung with cobwebs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She examined the wooden ball and the soggy string with some distaste. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Centipede took one of the silk strings between his teeth and bit through it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He tied the string again, and flattened the knot, as well as he could, then swung the satchel on to his back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Before long, he was thumping around the house, thin as a string bean, swallowing buckets of food to regain the weight he’d lost. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the side of both fenders, Roberto installed six-inch chrome pipes in the three portals and strung tiny white lights underneath the car frame. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, we don’t need to trim the string to make the kite,” Minli said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

What is a string player doing when she plays "harmonics"? Why do some notes sound good together while other notes seem to clash with each other? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was electric cable, the heavy, black kind used for outdoor wiring and strung on telephone poles. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Usually after service we went down to the basement and had cake, fried or baked chicken, and string beans. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Coraline ambled across the meadow toward the old tennis court, dangling and swinging the black key on its piece of string as she walked. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Caesar strung up by the grinning mob; Caesar a brutalized mess on the floor of the slave catcher’s wagon, halfway back to Randall and the waiting punishments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were strung out on the south slope of a round lava rock hill, moving west along the fence line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The last text asks how I am, with a string of broken heart emojis. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In ancient music-making, pitch was fixed - defined - only by the length of your string or pipe, hence the need for a label like ‘A’ to denote the same sound made on different-shaped instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Merchants would string tiny white lights up over K Street, where they shone through the night as pretty as heaven. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had strings of sky blue turquoise strings of red coral in his ears. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wore his hair long, tied back with white cotton string in the old style the men used to wear. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room is lit by small, bright bulbs on strings, but the strings are so densely packed that a web of yellow and white covers the ceiling. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She had saved a string of duck bills, too, that she’d fill with hard sugar for a special treat. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ignatius lumbered over to the picket fence, abandoning the hopeless cause espoused by the wagon, and viewed the oil paintings and pastels and watercolors strung there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s kept that poor man strung along for years. May drizzled batter on the griddle in the shape of a big L. “This one’s yours,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I notice a good many of the strings are badly knotted. Has the weather got into them?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Quivers hanging from their belts, the foot archers arrayed themselves into three long lines, to east and west of the road, and stood calmly stringing their bows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Of course he had heard all the names the redbeard had just so pompously strung out. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are days I feel like I’m being held together by string. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The shop was perfectly quiet, save for the sound of the clock ticking on the wall and a fly caught in a spider’s web strung across a grimy windowpane. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pure speculation of course, but something had certainly broken my lute string, and I didn’t doubt for a second that Ambrose would try something of the sort. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The second woman looked intently at her portion of the string. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They eagerly scoop them up, frozen fingers struggling with the strings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Is that all? He’s lucky they haven’t had him strung up from the nearest tree” “I noticed something strange,” Comrade Pillai said as he peeled his banana. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the song had only seemed whole to me As I finished removing the broken string I gave it an idle look and all my thoughts fell to a jumble at my feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

El Viejo could hardly string a sentence together, and some of the time he sat in his room and screamed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin had learned how to tune it by tightening the strings and could play it a little. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Every time he patted the strings it seemed like something wide and heavy was walking by slow and easy. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As though invisible strings were tied to Snape’s wrists, neck, and knees, he was pulled into a standing position, head still lolling unpleasantly, like a grotesque puppet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Give that back,” I said, trading the chain for a bit of string. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle pointed up at the large, dark shapes of the glider models, turning on their strings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sad to say, Yunkai has no faith in your promises. They keep plucking the same string on the harp, about some envoy that your dragons set on fire.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It only took the old man about five minutes to get the strings in agreement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many have bells tied on strings around their necks, which chime when the animals slowly move their heads. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It literally just came out of me, this stupid string of words hurling from my mouth like vomit! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They then took turns jumping on the denuded box and became so absorbed in breaking it into bits that they forgot all about the string hanging out of the window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amah’s words echoed, untying and smoothing the knotted string of Pinmei’s voice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Baba would buy us each three identical kites and spools of glass string. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby walked closer, and then she could see it was not wire after all, but a length of silver-colored string, probably left over from a Christmas package. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

This time he led the way, for the bard admitted—after a number of harp strings had snapped—that he had not been able to keep all Medwyn’s directions in his head. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The streets were jammed with joyous throngs, and strung overhead were huge banners bearing Milo’s picture. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined broken legs strung up, arms in casts, lots of bandages. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Southside shops were featuring feeble wreaths and lights, made more feeble by the tacky Yuletide streamers and bells the city had strung up on the lampposts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the “subject” and “verb” that have to agree are defined by branches in the tree, not words in the string. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As the kite rose higher and higher, Minli watched the coil of string in her hand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn't go inside, he had to get out the ball of string and his penknife, to cut it with, and then tie the anorak on. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

With all the seagulls straining at the strings above... James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Morgan had visualized genes as “beads on a string,” but even Morgan had no idea what his description meant in material form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was full of good things to eat, with rare delicacies from other provinces and delicious items like dried duck gizzards strung up in its window. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she knotted the string and hung it around her neck. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He indicated a new length of wire strung between two new posts. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A heavily perfumed gentleman with long, oiled hair and a Vintic accent clapped me on the back and gave me a purse of money, “for new strings.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She felt as she had all the years before: a quivering inside, as though a string under her ribs had been plucked, and a rush of joy and sadness mixed together. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leo strung some wires across the mouth of the funnel. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“She might—I don’t know—if she tries to swallow the string, she might choke....” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was wearing faded jeans and a thin orange hoodie that made him stick out like that one dead bulb in a string of lit Christmas lights. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The way she moved, Hazel heard the yearning of strings. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I snipped the string excitedly, and tore off the dark brown paper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a string of titles too. Lord of the Rain- wood, Admiral of the Narrow Sea, Hand of the King.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

An older lady mouths prayers with a string of beads in her hand. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to stay focused on my coming calc exam, but I was starting to feel like maybe there was more string to the story. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like piano music with a few strings in the background. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we came home one evening and found the cats strung up by their tails from our front gate, gutted and skinned and bleeding out, their heads chopped off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I gave my kite to the wind, which took it with a hiss, and I thought of Blanca and let out more string. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The children had strung a few naked lightbulbs running on batteries throughout the large room, and even in their dim light you could see the plaster coming off the ceiling. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was swimming off from the cave and the reef toward some rocks that were about twice the length of the string away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a piece of rawhide string and patched up the trace chain, and Mama and Lisbeth used Jumper to drag up big dead logs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner they drank anisette and I was given the crunchy diamonds that formed in the sugarcane strings inside the bottles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had on a cream-colored suit, a wide-brimmed floppy hat, a black string tie, a silk vest, and narrow shoes that had weaving in the toes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow observed, with a wry amusement, that the bows of the stringed instruments, played by mechanical arms, never actually touched the strings, which were often loose or missing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Didn’t it go just around in a circle, like a ball on a string? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She pictured him in a tuxedo and top hat, pulling at their marionette strings. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As usual, Sefia was curled up in a hammock strung between two trees, eighty feet above the forest floor, with the canopy creaking and swaying above her and the mulchy ground far below. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bride wore so many jewels, she looked like one of the trees strung with strands of twinkling lights in the surrounding garden. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of steps into the room, ran into a string hanging from the ceiling, and pulled it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

About his muscular, brown throat Johnny could see a medal hung upon a string. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bows groaned as the archers on the mezzanine pulled their strings taut. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nearby, the packed lunches trade their pudding cups for string cheese. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Just fly it until the string runs out,” Da-Fu said, “then let go.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The string tightened on my wrist and, to lessen the shock, I leaped across the crevice in the direction the giant had taken. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of green vegetables in the chow yuk—string beans and pea pods, and also pieces of diced chicken. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His upper canines had never grown in, and the string of holistic dentists my parents had taken him to as a child had failed to notice until it was too late. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike Sal and Dean, I didn't have years to string out a trip. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He knew that soon it would either burst or the string would break, and his life would float away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You just kept stringing her along, and she kept waiting and waiting, doing nothing with her life.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was smaller and maybe quicker, but with his long arms and his strength, Jack could have strung me from a lamppost. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of a gong or cymbals will include overtones that aren't harmonics; that's why the gong's sound doesn't seem to have as definite a pitch as the vibrating string does. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Under his dark blue uniform he wears a plain black T-shirt and a black string around his throat. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Still, it could take her minutes to make out the meanings of some words, struggling through the pronunciation, testing each sound on the edge of her tongue before stringing them all together. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the brown landscape, like a dark stain, were three black old-fashioned cars and twelve army trucks strung out behind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first of what would become a string of academic successes for the Warner children, in the classroom and in competitions outside of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the string of woes provoked a crisis of legitimacy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He reached down and fingered the yellow stone hung around my neck on a string. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There are five gunshots, and my bow bounces on the strings as I flinch. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Now listen to the same phrase played by an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar with twelve steel strings34 and an acoustic guitar with six nylon strings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The second box had cracked open, and thousands of finely braided tampon strings were whipping past him, and past Hassan and Lindsey—blowing around and over them. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take them long to learn where the electric fence was strung. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a scowl and a blast of Russian, Mrs. Mirabov let go of the string connecting them. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I see Charlie, standing in the center of the kitchen, playing with his spinner, bright colored beads and rings threaded on a string. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This suggests that a long, unbroken string of blank answers was broken not by the student but by the teacher. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Add which had not been carefully mowed, the string became wound round thistles or tufts of gram, thus checking the hawk and doing damage to its training. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got strings out, right now. Wait till next year. Just wait. Then see where I’m marching. I wont need to tell you how I’m fixing it; I say, just wait and see, my boy.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bound his bedsheet in knots and strung it around his own neck. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one thematic string we have terms like criminals, criminal warfare, crime, fun, profit, gangs, mafias, thugs, mercenaries, troublemakers, preys on the weak, executioners, violence, desertion, flight, whim, opportunity, and run. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

You can’t just string these verbs together like beads in a necklace. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down with the box in my lap and untied the string. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We found our mother clenching the rope that had been hastily strung to keep the crowd back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Everything felt both huge and small, as if the plane were hanging from a string held by the hands of gods. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The entire Latin continent was represented, including the thin waist of Central America and all the islands that decorated it like a string of pearls. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Troyka wiggled his fingers around in an idiotic imitation of pulling strings. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Up flew the seagull with James paying out the silk string as it went. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

On nine of the fifteen tests, the six correct answers are preceded by another identical string, 3-a-l-2, which includes three of four incorrect answers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And then, instead of picking true notes on the strings, Cool Papa hit a few ghost notes, thumping his brass thumb ring against solid wood. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I lay it across his wheelchair and he traces his fingers across the strings. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a small drawing of a black bird in front of a bridge and ocean waves, and a short string of numbers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the pleasant, shady streets leading to the rowing course out in Griinau, strands of smaller flags with swastikas were strung from tree to tree. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If there was a God, He’d guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I’d cut loose my pain, my longing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The universe, he once thought, may well be made up of infinitesimal pieces of string, in thirty-two different colors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We formed a long line, each boy taking hold of another boy’s hand until we were stretched out like a long string of human beads. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I wonder," she said, "whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nielsen and I bring boxes filled with glass balls and china ornaments and ribbon and strings of sparkling beads up from the storage room in the cellar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It's a textile mill. These days we mostly make, uh, tampon strings.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was at the end of a tunnel with a rope strung across it; a sign hanging from the rope said, “Caved In. No Entry.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I let loose a string of curses—probably every one I’ve ever heard, plus a couple I make up right here on the spot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each box had five compartments, each compartment with a pigeon, a hatch and a string to open it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nearby, boys were fishing in the pile for metal using magnets on strings. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tall buildings strung with jewel-toned neon signs pierced the inky sky. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He looks at me quickly, in the middle of re-coiling a D string. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I took off running, my sneakers splash­ing rainwater from puddles, the hand clutching the kite end of the string held high above my head. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked up from the toilet, shifting on his knees, he saw a wealthy goblin woman draped in strings of pearls glaring at him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Mike laughed again, giving Chubs’s shoulder a squeeze before he hopped up the steps, ducking under a white sheet that had been strung up over the building’s small porch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like when you feel like the tinkling wind chimes at the beginning of a song or like the squeaking sound when fingers move across guitar strings. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

For example, on any string instrument, nobody can play lower than the note that the lowest string is tuned to. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“In the old days, Ariadne’s string guided Theseus out of the maze. It was a navigation instrument of some kind, invented by Daedalus. AndChris Rodriguez was mumbling about string.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

After trying for nearly half a day, I realized that three broken strings were too many. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her jewelry hangs there—slices of agate on long chains of raw crystal beads, collars set with moonstones, deep green bloodstones strung together, and an opal pendant, bright as fire in the sunlight. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I press down on the strings, not too hard, not too soft, “with purpose,” like Ty told us. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, when Pythagoras put the bridge at a place that did not divide the string into a simple ratio, the plucked notes did not meld well. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was walking slowly, holding a sort of wheel in his hands—a spool from which he was unwinding a long string behind him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He watched Sunny and ran his fingers over Ye’s strings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Just this perfect Now. after g’reenville #1 After the chicken is fried and wrapped in wax paper, tucked gently into cardboard shoe boxes and tied with string . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every day she came in with something different—a chain of SpongeBob Burger King toys strung around her neck; one asymmetrical, giant, red-plastic hoop earring; black clown circles on her cheeks. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She went to the board and broke Miguel’s string of letters into words. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Then he and his friend drove back to Fairfax, passing the strings of lightbulbs—the ’fraid lights, as they were called—that shivered in the wind. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s just some old key from our house. It’s part of my game. That’s why I’m carrying it around with me on this piece of string. Well, good-bye now.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Alex pictured row after row of dead string beans lined up in Yankee Stadium. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were low enough to pick like berries from a branch, and string onto the bracelet with her moon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yellow caution tape was strung in a wide perimeter around stairs descending underground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider now the answer strings from the students in two sixth-grade Chicago classrooms who took the identical math test. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The instant Webb broke the string, I regretted what I had done. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He plucked a biplane from its string and swept it across the battlefield, making airplane engine noises as he knocked down little German soldiers. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

First I thought nothing was going to happen, because I could see big blobs of fuel coming out of the engine and disappearing in the distance, like a string of snowballs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline let go of the string, and took a step back. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

At this, two strings of his harp snapped with a resounding twang. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures,” he tells Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Life was hard there, too; our da held and lost a string of jobs, none of which were enough to support us. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“No, listen, it’s just like you and Celia going out, right? No strings attached. Neither of us has any expectations. We’ll just hang out.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The skin would make a good pouch, and she remembered her mother once saying that the entrails could be dried and used as string. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione had just come in, wearing her dressing gown and carrying Crookshanks, who was looking very grumpy, with a string of tinsel tied around his neck. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My eyes were swimming: green, green, worm, string, rotten pod, green, green. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Aru didn’t think it was fair that only her magical item came with strings attached, but it wasn’t like she was in a position to refuse it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had a string bag hefted over his shoulder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The string beans and potato slice were easy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong presented the great string of firecrackers and the China lily bulbs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed him the key, even though I kept the string around my neck. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind that a deal struck with Cory would probably have major strings attached. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or you could twirl it into long strings and wrap it around your tongue. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the bead pouch out of my shirt and cut the string. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exhaled, letting out a string of Russian expletives. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A flock of birds dipped down, circled, swung up and out as though linked by invisible strings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later they spied the eagle soaring through the dusk on great blue-grey wings and Stonesnake unslung his bow, but the bird flew out of range before he could so much as string it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, he heard her voice from the study, shouting a long string of words that he could not make out and did not want to. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I glide onstage, imagining a golden string holding up my head. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A verb phrase is a string of words of any length which fills a particular slot in a tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Just to be safe, she tied a new ball of string to the end of her rope ladder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I set before you the bow of godlike Odysseus. He who strings the bow and shoots an arrow straight through twelve rings in a line, I will take as my husband.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And another came during the evening, so that they were compelled to study with their nerves being plucked like banjo strings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look for rusty hand trucks and hasty corner displays, and then down tenement alleys strung with fancy laundry and in the half-soaped windows of basement stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas decorations still hung on the walls, and a few strings of coloured fairy lights blinked on and off, like a secret code. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Other people are strung along the length of the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were always stockings and pink rayon knickers with holes in them hung on a string across the room to dry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They weren’t stringing him along, holding off a big surprise. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He smiled at her and held out a Gold orb dangling from a string. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The branch was too slender, and he didn’t have the sense to pull them in with the string. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the strings are threaded through long rows of paper cranes, all different colors and hiding their own secret messages. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The womenfolk had spent all day paring apples, threading them on strings preparing to dry them for the winter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of toppling to the ground next to the base it was once connected to, it hung diagonally in the air, as if on strings. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Something tiny, like a frayed string, flicked from its mouth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed now, but except for that, he looked more than ever like a marionette, a marionette flung carelessly into a corner, arms and legs every which way midst tangled strings. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way past beer gardens illuminated by bright strings of electric lights, full of people singing gaily, dancing polkas, and hoisting steins of beer in their direction. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You need to learn your letters before you can write. You need to learn the fingerings on the strings before you play and sing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mami had strung a nugget of coral and an onyx bead on a safety pin and attached it to Raymond’s baby shirt at birth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He leaned, he threw his chest out, he broke the string. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Some stringed instruments — guitar for example — can use a capo36 to play in higher keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the past few years physicists realized that the many competing varieties of string theory are actually, in a sense, the same thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Coraline took a piece of string from her toy box, and she strung the black key on the string. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reba put her hand down in the top of her dress and pulled out a diamond ring attached to a string. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fumbled with his hands to say ‘Darling Mary’ and then held to the small brass cross tied to his neck with a dirty string. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Though you can’t see it,” my mother said, “a red string around your ankle ties you to the person you’ll marry. He’s already been born, and he’s on the other end of the string.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the sea winds caught the glider and lifted it upward toward the sun, veering and soaring like a thing alive, pulling stubbornly at the string. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But obscurely, behind the scenes, was a white boss—a president, or board chairman, or some other title, pulling the real strings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these years he’d wanted friends, and now he discovered they came with strings attached. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought out a small wooden frame strung with thin rods on which were blue, red, yellow and green balls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leave me a string, Trotter, a thread, at least. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her magnificent white hair is tied up with what looks like a piece of dirty string. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She follows me to the dining table, where I pick up the phone and scan the endless string of identical texts. “212-555-0156.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a shot of the front steps of the school, yellow tape strung across the entrance. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Using magic was like playing a gusli: anyone could pick up the instrument and strum the strings, but only a talented or trained bard could make real music with it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She tied a string to the back of the chair, knotting it five times, and held the ball in her spare hand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The string pulled incredibly gently at the back of my neck, while the key floated just a tiny bit off my chest. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone spun around and stared at me, and Mrs. Maxy’s eyes bugged out because she knew she had cut the string. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but that’s not quite even. Yours wouldn’t have been risked if it had not been for me—me and my piece of string.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He parrots anything anyone tells him. Most of the time he can hardly string a sentence together.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Practice stringing them together in ways that make sense to you, but are different from what you've heard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She made two flannel bags, sewed a bud of garlic in each one, attached a clean corset string and made the children wear them around their necks under their shirts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strung ordinary sentences together and they came out sounding either like the most profane curses or like comical poetry. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop teasing me,” she said, but the red string did look nice, and her wrist somehow felt less bare. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The arguments of string theorists and cosmologists might be mathematically precise and at the same time be as useless as the philosophy of Pythagoras. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She pestered us for details of our own weddings: the jewels, the invitations, the scent of tuberoses strung over the nuptial bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the end of each one, a little bit of string poked out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Try stringing it up higher on your bars.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She deserved to hurl whatever was available, to keep us moving, to speak in counterpoint to the deadening strings of my pyrrhic feet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they have wax and crayons and string and so many things on the table that it is a bigga mess. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He knocked and waited what seemed like an interminable while until the door was opened with a tug on a string that ran from the door-knob to the top of the stairs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor jumped on Arthur and started pummeling him furiously, landing roundhouse blows to his head so fast that his arms were a blur, like the nylon strings on a Weed Whacker. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The string was long enough to allow each member of the feathery trio to step off the nest and get a bite to eat and a drink of water. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, from about 1994, people started discovering what are called dualities: different string theories and different ways of curling up the extra dimensions could lead to the same results in four dimensions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maribel works efficiently, tying the boxes of pastries firmly with string just as she was taught. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spider had strung a web between a wall and the bucket of waste. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Other people have money and things, but these are the pearls Roma women carry, these strings of names." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We string them onto the tree, our blue and orange birds, and Jamie kisses me on the side of the head. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Where was God when a kid had a question and looked to his friends in the streets for an answer because his father was locked up and his mother strung out? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He turned right, next, and went on as far as the string would take him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

June sliced her bow across the cello strings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The children wore their horns strung on cords around their necks. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We created Little A by halving the length of our stretched guitar string. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His fingers moved absentmindedly to the little pouch still strung around his neck, through which he could feel the jagged mirror fragment in which he had been sure he had seen Dumbledore’s eye. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

To salvage what she could of her standing as a teacher, Aunt Anne used to tell the audience before we went on stage that we had only recently shifted from the piano to stringed instruments. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last Billy brought an old cotton comforter from the saddle-room, and threw it over the pony’s back and tied it at neck and chest with string. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They thrum inside me at a comfortable pitch, plucking strings of my soul in places I haven’t tried to reach in a long time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man measured out a length of string and cut it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After realizing that I could neither make a string nor acquire a new one, I sat back down and began to learn to play with only six strings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she realized what I was doing, she took off the string of flowers and gave each of us a jasmine blossom. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The piano strings had been removed, and in their place were more books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She picked a long gray string out of the box. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Me and mine were here before the Manderlys. Like as not, my own forebears strung those entrails through the tree.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could have a look in the other direction, with the string.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The strong forces between the particles would correspond to pieces of string that went between other bits of string, as in a spider’s web. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the string was still around my neck, when she leaned in to look at the key, her face came incredibly close to my face. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded and took it carefully, running his fingertips over the heartwood, testing the strength of the string. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The golden skin of the peach had been torn open, and where a chunk of flesh was now missing, a sweet, sticky juice was dripping like crystal beads gliding off a string. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At the bridge’s center span, the severed hands of thieves and cutpurses hung like strings of onions from iron stanchions along the roadway. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And so does his laugh, and the passenger seat of his car, and his favorite hoodie, with the string lost in the laundry long ago. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I untied my string tie, twining the black silk ribbon around my fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Out of the formless stream of sad but horrible sounds, strings of words would now and again shape themselves: grim, hard, cold words, heartless and miserable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The inseparability of features had a material basis: the chromosome was a “string” along which certain genes were permanently strung. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“They go from the big boxes to those little white boxes there. Every little white box has five pigeons. Somebody pulls a string and a door opens and one pigeon flies out.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stretched the cord into the pantry, pulled the string on the single bare bulb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The old man ignored the passing horses and carriages, the silk brocade and the government seal, and simply continued reading a large book in his lap, placidly fingering a bag of red string beside him. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The centrioles, which hoist the microtubules on which chromosomes are strung for mitosis, are similar separate creatures; when not busy with mitosis, they become the basal bodies to which cilia are attached. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, he kick-started a craze for extravagant, Hallowe’en-style music, full of dark, deep, crashingly loud chords and abrasive strings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She could pull the fish traps back by means of a string. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Saturday night he took the chain off the piano strings and played something he had been remembering and practicing in the morning, something called “Moonlight,” a piece by Beethoven, Cotton Eye thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you can do that, I’ll give you a real prize: ten million each with no strings attached.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a great deal of effort, they looped the string of a rod around one of the sticks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could no longer use the string because it was wound around Rontu’s legs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he adds the string of curse words he likes to attach to it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There were always strings attached to his gifts. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even babies could catch a string of elemental magic and tug on it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He tucked the cookies into a net string shopping bag. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Like yesterday,” Roy went on, “when you tried to kill me in the janitor’s closet. Remember? You ended up getting whupped by a girl, stripped naked, and strung to a flagpole.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of several hundred spectators ringed the courtyard, which was illuminated by colorful strings of party lights. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I emerge from the kitchen with my head high, as though it’s attached to a golden string, the platter of mousse balanced on one upturned palm. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour later Mrs. Oakes walked up the driveway from her cottage, carrying a string bag with her working shoes and apron, and a little parcel of tidbits for the animals. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through a music room where a harp stood sternly apart from them, with never a jangle of strings to mark their footfalls. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 3.13: The fundamental pitch is produced by the whole string vibrating back and forth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the back of the ambulance, with Fiona, I had tried to imagine a string that wrapped around my hand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“So Luke is trying to find Ariadne’s string,” I said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were extra strings that led to the various rudders. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On one of our stops, I saw this news report. There was an Amber Alert, and they said G’ma was also being investigated for a string of jewelry thefts.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I stood right next to one man who was directing a particularly abusive string of epithets toward Mama. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that’s when, finally, I remembered what she said about the dead guy and the strings— and about herself and the strings. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Robin picked up the roll of string while I picked up the glider. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I planned to string wire to that spot and, with luck, plant a few more fence posts. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

One arm played strings in the air; the other was swathed against his chest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I moved my arm halfheartedly and produced a string of sick-looking circles. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the first time I had washed a body, I had vomited in the alley behind the tahara house until I was coughing up strings of burning bile. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mia’s back was still to them, the water rushing over her hands, but all four of the children saw it: a slight stiffening of her posture, as if a string had been tightened. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can see carts up ahead on the left, a whole string of ’em, pulled by oxen and by horses, disappearing round a bend. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had been confronted so suddenly with struggle that I could not pull all the strings of the situation together at once. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his sister were all long gray string now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I knew this was what he said because one of them stood in front of me and held up a string from my neck to my feet and across my shoulders. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a woman in a brown burqa carried a large clay pot on her shoulder, down a rutted path toward a string of mud houses. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton planned to learn how to play the guitar and how to tune the strings, hold the neck and body the way Cool Papa did, and eventually read music charts and play the notes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We make for the rear, pull wire cradles into the trench and leave bombs behind us with the strings pulled, which ensures us a fiery retreat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the year 1936 introduced a string of technical improvements yielding higher energies, higher currents, and unprecedented reliability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As with the popcorn, she strung each one onto the yarn. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was need of paraffin oil, nails, string, dog biscuits, and iron for the horses’ shoes, none of which could be produced on the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Wrapping strings around their fingers to remember things, that is. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

All he’d been able to get from Harvey was one of the cans of chicken soup and a badly dented can of string beans. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Out in the plaza they were stringing electric-light wires to light the plaza for the fiesta. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Only then did he reach down in his pants pockets, haul up an old leather pouch tied with a wax string and count out old green pennies that looked like junk too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d tried ribbons and string, but they always slipped out of her hair. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I did not look up from some beads I was stringing for a Thanksgiving program. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And Laura put her hands into her red mittens that hung by a red yarn string around her neck, while Ma lighted the candle in the lantern. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were either barefoot or their shoes were literally worn out from walking, the soles flapping, the uppers held on by string. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crosses his arms, then tugs at the string around his throat with his thumb. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He measured the road with a piece of string and looked at it and measured again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As she pounded the long, tough leaves with a club and rolled the fiber into string, she thought about the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Rishi was pretty sure was a life-size doll sat in a tree like she was watching the proceedings, her lips, hair, and dress glowing from the black lights strung in the tree branches. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

During a visit to Andre’s sport shop to have my racket strung, I told him that I was looking for a job. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I tie my shoes for school, my mind gets pulled away again: my brown shoelaces remind me of those leather strings wrapping the little brown book tight. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She wakes up in the morning and sees with perfect clarity a string of small, well-lit scenes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the back fence she’d strung a hammock between two palm trees that looked over a lazy canal. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His brachet, on a long string, was wound round him several times. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t really have to get that close or as high, all he had to do was get his kite with its blade edges to brush up against the string of the other kite. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was nothing but a few sticks and a little cork held together by string. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The introduction shows a page-wide photo of a forearm and hand squeezing pliers around a length of taut barbed wire strung beneath one of the towers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though, according to this book, no grammar existed with the Wyrdmarks: everything was just symbols that one had to string together. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“A plot against me. You're all in it, every one of you. Someone’s paid this half-wit, I tell you. Paid him to tell his string of dirty lies.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The gyro had widened; The Great Chain of Being had snapped like so many paper clips strung together by some drooling idiot; death, destruction, anarchy, progress, ambition, and self-improvement were to be Piers' new fate. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he can think about is Multi-State Amber Alert and under investigation and string of thefts. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The santero returns with the goat, its mouth and ears tied with string. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My name is like this floating blue string. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After finally getting the milk jug down into the bag, he tied the bright yellow plastic strings and quietly opened the back door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was tied up with string, and in grease pencil across the front was written: -Vri. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He mumbles to himself what he can remember of Celia’s instructions, the ones that are more complicated than finding books and tying strings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My shoulders felt tight, like they were attached to my body with strings that might snap any second. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a white string and held it up for Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head vehemently and a frantic string of Quichua words pours from her mouth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, you pull a string on them, and a bad record plays. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And all along the rooftop of the structure stood twelve-foot-tall steel posts, a picket line of uppercase Ys, each of them strung with razor wire. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He plucked what looked like a four-foot version of a string bean from a branch, split it lengthwise, and showed me flattened, shiny seeds arrayed along its length like teeth in a jaw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, every time I touch it, I’m careful to avoid the leather strings. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I had Hassan hold the string and sucked the blood dry, blotted my finger against my jeans. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The roof was a string of domes all made out of glass. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now irritation beyond reason swept them all, since they were nagged by fear that he could string it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team laid an electric cable along the floor throughout the building, strung with outlets, like a cord for Christmas-tree lights. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I strung pink and orange and yellow crepe paper in the trees to make it look fancy. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A silver crucifix on a string of beads. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably a lion’s mane because it had so many “strings,” which weren’t really strings or hairs or a tangled lion’s mane but lots and lots of tentacles. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She removes prayer beads from her dress pocket and wraps the string around her hands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She shut the door and put the string of keys back on top of the kitchen doorframe. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We step through an arc of red carnations and orange-yellow marigolds to a blur of jewel-toned silk saris and sparkly fairy lights strung in lazy zigzags across the walls. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The spool rolled in his palms, the tendons in his scarred wrists like rubab strings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We children slept in hammocks strung across the room, tied to the beams in sturdy knots that were done and undone daily. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to “encode” a radical change in human fate. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dunse kept his nose in a book all the time and couldn’t hit a baseball if you hung it on a string in front of his bat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Three silver beads, strung onto a short length of red thread, plopped carelessly on top of the rest of Zane’s loot in the suitcase. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Two arrows appeared nocked in his bow, the string fully drawn back. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I pulled on the string and returned every smile, but my mind was on the blue kite. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I got to string somebody up and he’s as good as any.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I expected to read strings and strings of words tapped out from her pencil onto the walls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilda said, and at last I felt I had touched a human string in the cat's cradle of her heart. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mirabov tightened her hold on both the string and the kite’s tail, and the kite went taut. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When it widened through a stand of old pines, the eighth graders looked behind and saw me, and they strung out to cover the whole path. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z