| 单词 | strip |
| 例句 | Then he removed his jerkin, and took off his shirt, which he proceeded to tear into strips which he used to bind the sticks, as firmly as he could, about her injured leg. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There was a pile of a half dozen stripped new deads in front of the apartment building, with no guarantee they’d ever be removed, which meant dodging rats just to get through the door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Johnson looked up at Dongan and then started stripping the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go over to your strip and just get ready to fence. I’ll take care of it,” I said, and I meant it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “We can electrify that whole strip of floor,” bawled the Director in explanation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He sent a flurry of wires to Howard, extolling the superb racing strip, mild fall weather, and general beauty of New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Immie stripped down to her bathing suit and slid into the largest pool without a word. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She started coming to more of my international competitions and always had her phone available to take my calls when I needed a loving voice to remind me that I could triumph on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The first thing the Peacekeepers will do is to strip him of his weapons. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Not realizing I was watching her, she stripped her blue scrubs off and threw them at Dr. Begbie. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Sorry,” he said from his spot on the floor, surrounded by thin strips of paper stamped “Top Secret.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The towns where we preached were stripped bare of young men, with it still being wartime, and this fanned the fires of Nathan’s private torture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I instinctively reached for my phone, but the aliens had stripped me of everything but my festive turkey boxers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The strip of beach seemed to vanish within seconds, and the girls were calf-deep in the sea. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I snipped a couple of twigs off their apple tree and stripped off the leaves. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Under the lid Jon discovered three duck’s eggs fried in drippings, a strip of bacon, two sausages, a blood pudding, and half a loaf ? of bread still warm from the oven. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each step was lined with a dark strip, to stop people from slipping. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z In some of the cakes she had put strips of little red haws and spots of dried green plums, making flowers and patterns. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z That point would be marked by a gigantic thunderclap, after which Alvarez would haul his gangly frame into the tube to strip away the stalagmites and stalactites and buff the surface smooth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I look around at the dishes piled in the sink, the strips of beet peel staining a wooden cutting board, a saucepan half full of translucent cabbage, a roasting pan charred and waxed with grease. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Crosshatching a thick birch-bark cylinder, thin strips of leather held the skins in place at either end of the drum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Rishi crumpled up his strip and stuck it into the recycling bucket provided. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When I look over strips of green grass lining the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I’m strong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at a small strip of paper that she’d pulled out of her pocket. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She was binding the edges with strips of basswood bark and sinew. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I strip, climb in, water splashing onto the floor, leaving little pools that shake like beached fish. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Connelly, who had an aptitude for the cat-o’-nine-tails, would have stripped the meat off Calvin’s back if she hadn’t concocted his defense. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After such a long time at sea, my skin was like a hide and my hair was long, matted and as silky as a fly- catching strip. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The prince who relies entirely upon their words comes to ruin, finding himself stripped naked of other preparations. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They did not grow up like the children of the eighties and nineties, stripped of any semblance of family other than the constant presence of drugs and violence. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And despite the fact that I had been on fire on the strip, I was the one pulled. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The strip of pale skin on her fourth finger where her sweet sixteen ring had been. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They have recently appeared, replacing the strip of weedy field that used to be there before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the woods and the meadows have been stripped of disorderly life forms and forced into a uniform made of concrete. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no windows except for a thin strip above one of the bunks. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z On the second day of slowly rifling through Benton’s things, Cabot Searcy came upon a photo album labeled with a strip of masking tape and a black marker. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The guns arrived in narrow tin boxes and were packed in Cosmoline, a brownish substance the consistency of lard that had to be stripped away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Akhi and I had been training overtime, and I felt as ready as I ever had to get on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then the lord gave us a strip in the low field, and that was so far, it took half the day to get there, and I couldn’t keep up. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The cobs of the corn they had dried and eaten and they stripped the bark from trees and all over the countryside people were eating what grass they could find upon the wintry hills. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z With a sharp knife, she cut the roll into paper-thin strips, unwound the strips and hung them on a rack made of slender dowel sticks, which stood before the kitchen stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been allowed to watch the lab attendants, in gowns and gloves, strip eggs from what they called the breeder fish, anesthetized females. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After warming up with Candace, we sat together as long as we could before wishing each other luck and heading over to our respective strips. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A strip of land juts out into the marsh, and rising from it is a giant white wheel with dozens of red passenger cars dangling from it at regular intervals. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Moving at a pace not much faster than a mule, it plowed furrows along a strip of land a half a mile long. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was fourteen years old and its strips were battered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In a country that preaches the virtues of democracy, one could reasonably assume that being stripped of basic political rights would be treated by judges and court personnel as a serious matter indeed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A month or so after that, Cindy Sindy took the strip job at the club because I was drinking our rent. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And perhaps it was not evil I saw but merely the way of all hearts when fear has stripped off the husk of kind pretensions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He took out two long strips of white cloth and a roll of adhesive tape. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I strip down as strategically as I can,with my swimsuit half hiked up over my thighs and my skirt bunched up around my waist. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He wrapped the strip around it, and all the letters lined up horizontally. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The narrow strip of sky visible between the rooftops was as dark as if the sun were about to set. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Because Boukreev wasn’t breathing supplemental oxygen, he had apparently decided to strip his load down to the bare minimum to gain every possible advantage in the appallingly thin air. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He kicked at the door several times, each kick making it give slightly until he saw snow, sunshine, and an oblong strip of sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The little holes in that wall in the strip mall— maybe a map that plotted points with thumbtacks? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The procession waited on the grassy shore as Dany stripped and let her soiled clothing fall to the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ahead was nothing but a long strip of red soil. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The strip of sky was blue by day and black at night. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Squibbles tried to steal a few fabric strips to line his drey, the nest made of leaves and twigs high in one of my forked branches. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He was near to embarrassment because of the nakedness, and he knew how safe Cal was in his stripped honesty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z So when the coach would suggest that I was slacking off, I wouldn’t say much, I’d just get back on the strip and do my best. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The wrong color kid in the wrong color area, and the government could come in, strip your parents of custody, haul you off to an orphanage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She touched the end of the strip to a damp sponge, then, using the thumb and first two fingers of each hand as a rolling machine, she wound the paper on the wire. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were brought into a changing room and told to strip naked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Three guys had ripped bed sheets into strips and then braided them into a rope. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Ahead of us is the Hancock building, and beyond it, Lake Shore Drive, the lazy strip of pavement that I once flew over like a bird. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There was a ragged strip of grass bordering the street, and as Jake walked along the ground seemed to rise nearer to his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We loaded two cars and drove down the road that was screened with wet mats and the last of the sun came through in the breaks between the strips of mattings. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I tied her head down to the board with another strip of towel. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Blacks, most of whom did not work for Swift, coalesced in the narrow strip of land just east of the immigrants, forming the community that came to be known as the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z All I have left are Rue's roots and nuts, the boy's dried fruit, and one strip of beef. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z One of three strips was planted with barley; another, wheat. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Mandatory drug sentencing laws strip judges of their traditional role of considering all relevant circumstances in an effort to do justice in the individual case. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Those strips of towel were in no way keeping the wound clean. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re a few block from our house, just across the road from the strip mall that has El Caribe and the big Walgreens. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The strip twixt the road and the river ain’t getting any thicker and we can see each other as we go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But Austronesian languages are spoken in a narrow strip immediately on the north and southeast coasts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ghost/prophet/inspector/angel was gnawing some kind of plastic strip off her wrist. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There’s no choice but to strip him naked to get him clean, but I have to say this doesn’t make much of an impression on me anymore. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Soft yellow emergency fights come on, strips that run down the roof of the train. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Alex stripped off the pajamas and stood for five minutes under a jet of steaming water. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I looked around at all the scraps of comic strips littering the bed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “So Mama made him strip down naked right there in the yard.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “I really hope you’re the one who ordered the nude model, because the last house I went to let me strip down to my underwear before telling me they weren’t.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When the light turned green, I took a left and drove a minute up the strip, to the car wash. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Exhausted from hunting and my lack of sleep, I go back to my compartment to find it stripped bare, only to remember we’ve been moved because of Buttercup. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She munched a strip of dried kudu meat and choked down some of the horrid, tasteless water-lily bulbs as she made plans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was beautiful, a shiny line that led to the horizon, a strip of silver cutting through the cleanest gold. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “And tear something into strips for bandaging his head.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z This information comes from the laundry strips from several shirts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The grey walls, the blue bars, the strip searches, the showers behind bars watched by guards and cameras. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I had an old car I’d stripped and souped and painted silver—the Silver Ghost, I called it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A second parachute popped open a few minutes later and coasted down, like the first, directly in toward the clearing of the landing strip. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling accepted the bouquet of strips, extending one to look at the letters written on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Now I strip off my boots and socks and go barefoot up the bed of the stream. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z On the walls above the ironing boards were strips of thick, bright red paper with poems and sayings on them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Generous funds have been allotted to level die stripped and faded buildings that clutter the road from Medallion up to the golf course. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The Washington boys were bare chested, having stripped off their jerseys just before climbing into their boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He’d painted the kitchen walls the same dark olive green as the outside, and lined them with power strips and fly swatters. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A narrow strip of light falls into the room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z My legs, arms, torso, underarms, and parts of my eyebrows have been stripped of the Muff, leaving me like a plucked bird, ready for roasting. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The effect was to strip German Jews of their citizenship and all associated rights beginning in January of 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I bind her up using what's left of my shirt and some strips from her fatigues. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At one shop pilaus were being sold, mounds of saffron rice on buttered plantain leaves, glistening with ghee and garnished with red chillies and curling strips of fried onion. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been eyeing thin strips of sugar maple in a dreamy cream color to use for my floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z In fact, it’s doing exactly the opposite; when I leave their house I run home, can’t wait to strip my clothes off and get into the shower and w ash the baby smell off me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he stuffed one wadded strip of cloth into the space between the boards. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Aurelia, staring down into the arena, her eyes half blind with tears, saw the men who had been leading the camels stop the procession and strip the rugs and bridles from their backs and heads. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Everything of any value had been stripped away and only the rusting carcasses remained, heaped one on top of the other, waiting to be fed into the crusher. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z To the north and south, strips of land stretched out like arms enclosing the bay, and sitting in the mouth of the harbor, about a mile out, was an island with a stone fort. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’d like to tattoo it on my butt for him to read,” said Chacho, going back to the tangle of plastic strips on his table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A fat woman, chewing on her cheek and twirling a lanyard of keys, gives me a striped uniform and tells me to strip and to leave my old clothes on the stool. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In her cell, she stripped to the skin and dressed herself carefully, in two layers of smallclothes, warm stockings, and her cleanest tunic. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The force of the water was so great that it stripped the bark from nearby trees. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Ashamed that he had been handcuffed, stripped, caged, treated like an animal. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The camps stripped away our fathers’ dignity, and our once loving parents were suddenly in a rage over the littlest things. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Once freed, the captives stripped the dead guards of their weapons and darted up the steps with steel in hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Where it crosses the downs, the line is marked by Caesar’s Belt, a strip of woodland as straight as the road, narrow indeed but more than three miles long. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was trembling violently, but he propped up his left hand with his right while the man spread more ointment over the stumps and wound a strip of linen tightly around the hand. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Reek had tried to bite his own ring finger off once, to stop it hurting after they had stripped the skin from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inside, the rooms were almost empty—a large, once elegant country house stripped of all but a few mats, an altar in one comer of the first room, a funeral urn. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He had stripped off his wet outer clothes and sat in shirt and breeches, barefoot, collar open. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She pitched the ball and glove away and crouched down to eye him, one hand wrapped around a clutch of feathers she wore on a rawhide strip around her neck. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I grabbed several comic strips and headed out-of-doors, away from it all. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That was all he said; then he smiled and walked away, asking the other soldiers to strip us of our military equipment. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He’s about as far to my right as the land strip on my left. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon the fire was nibbling at this peaceful strip, igniting the fence that ran along Clark Street, as well as trees and shrubs and the furniture brought there for safety. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The Queen opened the coffer in the darkness and stood near the moonlit patch from the window, holding a strip of something in her hands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Aronstein flag painting was down and leaning against the wall, and my parents’ four-poster bed had been stripped bare. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Osha placed soft pads over the bites on the maester's forearm and bound them tight with long strips of linen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Try this white stuff,” Lina said, pointing to the white strip inside the lid of the box. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On the edge of her space, near the ashes, a pile of saplings stripped of their branches was arranged, as if someone had been preparing to help her rebuild. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard the zip of a fly and felt body parts—knees, elbows, shoulders—bumping against me as Fang started stripping off his jeans. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Dri and I stripped off our wet clothes to our underwear. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A strip of bright flowers lay in front of the house, blooming against the cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Taking up one strip at a time, she taped the cuffs of her gloves to the sleeves of her scrub shirt, running the tape around the cuff to make a seal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If only, right after that, she hadn’t found one of her small bushes stripped! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When one arm was pointing to the coast and the other was pointing in the direction the bird was taking, she cut off the remainder of the strip. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Asking to see my genes feels a little like asking me to strip down. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Pretty soon, stripped to my shorts, 1 was making my eager-to-join comments in the medical examination rooms—and everybody in the white coats that I saw had 4-F in his eyes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Every scrap of shelter and deceit was stripped away, and she stood naked, body and ghost and dæmon together, under the ferocity of Metatron’s gaze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The last thing I put up was the photo booth strip of me and Dad at Spins & Needles. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Since Fern had so little on her plate, Big Ma came around with the meat platter and dropped a piece of ham and a strip of bacon before her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A short distance away, at a week-old grave, some men were stripping the withered flowers from the wire frames of the floral pieces heaped on the grave. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He straightened his friend’s body, placed the other dog tag in Charlie’s mouth, and tied his mouth shut with a strip of cloth. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On our side of the pond there’s a strip of sandy beach, but the far side has a steep, scooped-out bank, tangled with bushes and the roots of trees. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I got up, pulled the trunk out from under the bed, and Chip situated it between the couch and the PlayStation 2 and started tearing off thin strips of duct tape. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z That chance to be plucked off the sidelines and sent into action motivated everyone on the team to work hard, because you never knew when Coach might decide to throw you on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Why is that?” inquired Matt, looking down at the tangle of plastic strips. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He stripped the leaves from it and gripped it tightly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The blind girl went to work in the dark, stripping the dead of boots and clothes and other possessions, emptying their purses and counting out their coins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He cut out the comic strips from the morning and evening papers and sent them to his friend each Sunday. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He found a small scrap of paper and tore it into strips, which he used to mark significant parts of the book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The salesman “ate it up,” and soon Perry, stripped of his denim trousers, was trying on a gloomy suit that the clerk considered “ideal for an informal ceremony.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I stripped it down to the seeds, then started on the next one. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t hide her smile, though, and neither could the other kids as they stripped off their masks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Ben and Mary Anne began to walk slowly to the northern end of the runway beside the wire fence that paralleled the strip. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She wished she could take them off, strip this weight from herself. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He wrapped the strip around it, and all the letters lined up horizontally. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Holding her aluminum tray, she moved from body to body, spreading maple-syrup-colored wax where it was needed with a flat wooden spoon, and pressing in strips of gauze before it hardened. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Nana had dumped two fried eggs, three strips of bacon, and hash browns at the bottom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z "Only one cup of wine, to help my courage. If they catch me now, they'll strip the skin off my back." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Cut ½-inch x 4-inch strips of tissue paper and fasten them to the tape inside the roll to form a tail. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In his chambers he stripped off his council silks and sat for a moment with the book while he waited for Jory to arrive. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Root, the new architecture stripped away incidental ornamentation. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A quarter mile ahead of them, the long rocky strip of land curved in and met the cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He thought again of the banner on the wall, all those strips of red, blue, and purple. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Corpses all, so savaged and decayed that it took her a moment to realize they had been stripped before they were hanged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All I can think about is how the Erudite stripped me of my watch and my shoes and led me to the bare table where they would take my life. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The largest jar had “Corn” written on a strip of masking tape. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He kept her voice in his head, repeating those words, again and again, as he stripped off his boots, his clothes, and finally his gloves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Tied, and stripped of its main and jib sails, the dinghy floated at a perfect right angle away from the far end of the pier. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I darted a look at the thin strip of sky visible overhead and saw it was purpling into twilight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My grandfather is young and nimble on his feet, stripped to the waist, a knife in one hand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z When the Professor was satisfied he called Arthur into the room, and bade him strip off his coat. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z This woman comes running into the doctor’s office, stripped to the waist— 8TH JUROR: That’s not what we’re sitting here for. 10TH JUROR: All right, then you tell me. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Koffi stared at her hands, still loosely wrapped in the bloodied strips of cloth Mama had torn from her own tunic to help her climb the vines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He stripped it off quickly, and threw it down. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She took another section of quilt and stripped the batting off, then ripped the yellow calico into strips and dunked them into the plaster. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I stripped down and he checked me from top to bottom. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z There was no answer, just the sound of the rain and the wind stripping the trees, filling the air with ragged yellow leaves. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He took charge, stripping away the right to strike and appointing Judge Samuel Alschuler as federal administrator to arbitrate all disputes between the packers and the union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I went straight to the sink and started stripping the onion. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps they had been stripped to ensure that they hadn’t stolen anything, and now, deemed clean, they were being sent away on a bus? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z From the open strip under the roof of this room yellow torchlight glowed, and Ranofer’s eyes fixed on it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When the trunk was finally stripped bare, I assumed it would have to stop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ash relinquished it, raising her finger to her mouth, and the huntress slid the blade under the rosy skin of the apple, peeling it off in a single smooth strip. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined a pair of shadows moving along the strip of sand where things came together but also separated. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, on the other side of Pacific Coast Highway, on the long strip of Huntington Beach, frustrated crowds waiting for desalination machines have begun to take notice of his truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Thick and matted like strips of carpet, but I always thought they looked pretty cool. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They stripped off their shirts, dragged them through the Hudson’s foul water, and put them back on, but that only seemed to make the humidity more unbearable. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The beach for blacks someone told me, was a strip of rock littered with seaweed and dead crabs some three miles from where I was staying. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Individual combat is a common theme; losers were formally stripped of their garments and forced to parade naked. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every feeling, and with the sense that they’d been stripped down to their essence, revealed for the first time in all their unspeakable beauty, their unbearable fragility. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a strip of cloth made of blue-striped fabric, frayed and faded. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Adam said, “I have a good strip. I cross the river to the other side. It’s a good piece.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He could see the advantage of a bigger landing strip. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the wallpaper had been ripped back in dirty, uneven strips. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z They handcuffed him, blindfolded him with a strip of black cloth, and pushed him into the backseat of the jeep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He is given his own office, with his name etched onto a strip of black plastic by the door. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The other guard tied Ayanna’s and my wrists in front of us with strips of cloth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But they might be monitoring me, so I open the bread and force myself to eat it strip by strip, chasing it with orange juice. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In my closet, piece by piece, I pry away parts of my heart, stripping off every picture, shredding them down, building little paper piles as the tape sticks to my nails. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He laid down a flat strip of dark red plasticine, following the colouring of strata on a map. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z My shirt was ruined, but when I stripped it off I was relieved by what I saw. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But the wardens moved him here after he spat in a guard’s face for no reason at all, after they stripped him and flogged him with koboko. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The guards responded by stripping them, spraying them with fire extinguishers, and throwing the leader of the rebellion into solitary confinement. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Inej kept her eyes averted, shuffling a stack of papers into a pile on the desk as Kaz stripped out of his vest and shirt. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Have I stripped Peeta of what little protection I could give him? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The soft blue light of evening gathered around his blond hair, stripping it of color. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I guess they want to catch us alive,” Grumman replied, stripping a branch of its leaves so he could use it as a walking stick, “and they’re waiting to see where we leave the forest.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “We got to strip them and bum them.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At sundown, when we got home, Mama and Rorra drove to the store while Papa, Roberto, Trampita, and I stripped to our underwear and bathed in a trough that was behind the house. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The pilot came down to land, but there was a herd of zebras on the strip. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I know that one of these buildings on the strip used to be the MGM Grand, which had a deadly fire a long time ago. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Yoren stripped him of his valuables before they threw the dirt on him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Four casinos down on the strip, Jule surveyed six restaurants until she found a place to order a coffee and chat up a lonely college student who was just starting work on the night shift. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Angela and I assumed our positions on opposite sides of the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He stripped it of branches, broke the trunk into two pieces, and used them to haul himself upright. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A sheet of paper sliced into strips, thin as matchsticks, woven to form a net. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was fortunate, she realized, that the garden had not been entirely stripped during her four days in the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark, narrow strips of ground between the stacks were clogged with the skeletons of abandoned cars and trucks, their gas tanks emptied and their exit routes blocked off long ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He limped to the window and watched the bright strip of grass and flowers beyond the wall. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees were smaller now, and the roads looked like strips of paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite her care, Javier’s skin turns sallow and thins until it looks as if she could strip it away in papery sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Oasis is an old boat, not built for passengers but for small industry, its hull rusted and its wooden siding peeling off of stripped nails. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Like a general who had been stripped of his stars, he limited his smile. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. But did you notice, along the bottom edge there’s a printed strip?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The red diagonal strips are thick as a barbershop’s pole. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I stripped the leaves from the stalks of motherleaf and ate one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He stripped off his clothes and waded directly into the cold water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We stood on the shore long enough to strip out of our surface clothes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He walks around the room, tearing off strips of paper and handing them out. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It lay in a strip from the foothills of the mountains to the banks of the Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Getting a sort of Ryan McGinley vibe. Either of you want to strip down and run around naked in the dark while I take your picture?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z You know how if a cow ain’t stripped proper she gets a swollen bag and sore tits? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He had simply run in a direct line from their holes to his own, passing on his way through the narrow strip of woodland that lay between. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Weylin ordered the man stripped naked and tied to the trunk of a dead tree. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The main path looked like an arm with the veins stripped out, long slashes where flooding had washed the gravel away. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I think of the fight I staved off on the Yankee Clipper that day, with the beefy, drunken soldier I made strip. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead, I saw a strip mall wavering in the bright distance. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The only thing I can think to do is strip off my pants and jump in the water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I tore a strip of my winding sheet and wrapped it around my bosom to flatten my breasts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Huge strips of sticking-plaster were strapped across my face to hold the nose in position. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I bite my lip as he unknots the bloody strips. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The air flowed in, rainwashed, under the strips of birchbark walls she had helped sew together yesterday. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In 1990, Gregarious Games moved into its first real office, located in a run-down strip mall in Columbus, Ohio. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Gregor quickly returned to the changing room and stripped off his sweaty clothes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I came out of the kitchen and stood for a moment staring down at the strip of gray carpet that ran the length of the hall. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Through a doorway, I catch a glimpse of Gale, stripped to the waist, perspiration streaming down his face as a doctor removes something from under his shoulder blade with a long pair of tweezers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He was stripped naked and romping in our drinking water again. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z In the woods, I find a pine tree and strip handfuls of fragrant needles from the boughs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Finally, he strips off his shirt and sits on it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She’s heavyset, with a furrowed brow and a soiled apron, and he’s got thin strips of hair across his bony head. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Here is John Lennon, in an interview after the Beatles disbanded, talking about the band’s performances at a Hamburg strip club called the Indra: We got better and got more confidence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Even from this distance, she could see the cuts and nicks on his scalp, and little strips of blond stubble in the places the razor had missed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I turned the corner from our apartment complex and walked a few blocks to the main strip, where all the restaurants and shops in Canal Grove were located. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My first week at Miss Celia’s, I scrub the house until there isn’t a dust rag or a stripped sheet or even a run stocking left to wipe with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Two more silent M.P.s were waiting at the landing strip. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Now they did strip off their shirts, for no other reason than to stay cool; their backs and ribs were marked where the fencing wire had whipped and stung them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Luckily, the machine had a rubber strip around its base and every time I bumped into a baseboard, the machine bounced back, giving me a slight jolt in protest. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Whenever he did, I shook inside but let my fingers fly over the potatoes, stripping off every centimeter of skin until they were clean, yellow, and unblemished. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She wore her head shaved—all but an inch-thick strip down the center of her scalp, which she left long and wove into a single braid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z More ambitious still, he hoped to use his influence on the English to make this new Patuxet the center of the Wampanoag confederation, thereby stripping the sachemship from Massasoit, who had held him captive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t go out on the strip overconfident, because I knew Cecilia would be a tough opponent and I had just proved in my last bout that the underdog can win. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z What if his name was forever stripped of all the wonderful memories that Moss had been gathering? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I stripped down to my panties and sleeveless top, but it was still too hot to move. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And his long face, stripped of its flesh, was still contorted in a silent scream. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z So any translation would have seemed wrong; her words would have been stripped of an essential meaning. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The abandoned train station next to the river is boarded up now, the red paint peeling off in giant strips. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then they let the fire go out, and Pa took all the strips and pieces of meat out of the hollow tree. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She took a couple with me looking straight on as she kissed my cheek, like in the old-timey photo-booth strips, but then she said, “Are you gonna kiss me back or what?” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z A wind from the shore caught the camouflage netting on the Athena Parthenos and stripped it away, sending the silvery cloth rippling across the Sound. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The land for growing crops was laid out in long, narrow strips. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I was there when Matthew described it to Caleb in painstaking detail earlier: a black box with a silver keypad, marked with a strip of blue tape with a model number written on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The following day Pollard stripped for his X rays. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I see is a ceiling like the ones in school: plaster tile rectangles spotted with holes and separated by thin metal strips. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z It feels like a lump of granite stuck in the gears of my brain and stripping them raw. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The wind blows my hair across my face, cutting my vision into strips, and I leave it there. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z On one strip ran the bottom half of her signature—no, her forged signature: Pearl’s name in her own handwriting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then it flew off into the trees, the red strip dangling from its beak like a long, bloody worm. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Thank you, baby,” she says, flipping the strips of bacon. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Mirren strips off her sundress and stands there in a bathing suit. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It had a number plate, like all the other lockers, but it was hidden behind strips of masking tape. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The other half was empty except for a copper strip serving as a target. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I want to strip and boil myself, but if she sees me naked, she’ll freak, and if I get in the shower wearing my robe, she’ll freak harder. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Hastily, she cut the remaining half of her caribou skin into four strips and a circle. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She bumped the old photographs hanging crooked on the walls, brushed the strips of torn paper aside, and came to a stop at the bottom. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Some of them were made of cloth and rubber, and many of them had a funny strip of plastic bristles to fasten them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I strip quickly and grab the bar of soap next to the sink. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Japan’s rising dominance and its sometimes touchy relations with its neighbors make it more important than ever to strip away persistent myths and to find answers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the Dauntless come closer, I see strips of blue fabric wrapped around their arms that can only signify their allegiance to Erudite. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z This time, I remember to take off my belt before I walk through the metal detector at the airport, so I avoid the humiliation of a second strip search from Officer Nut-grabber. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I admired the speed the entire Korean team seemed to have and how fearless the Russians were no matter who was on the other side of the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The paint is cracked and flaking off in long strips. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We were told to strip naked and leave our clothes where we stood. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He looks worse now—as if all the color has been stripped from his skin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “I’ll bet all the good stuff’s been stripped, though. Too good to leave lying there.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z When we were too tired to walk anymore we got slices of pizza and Cokes at a shack near the strip and sat on benches watching everybody walking around, doing their thing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The shed has a padlock joined onto an old metal strip. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “What did you do, go back the night he died and strip the place?” snarled Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I ain’t never heard the name Viola before,” I say after a while, looking only at the ground, only at my strip of mutton. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They each cut a dozen strips of raw stringy meat from the carcass to chew on as they rode, and left the rest for the shadowcats. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Probably the drawers hold any number of nightgowns, but I just strip off my shirt and pants and climb into bed in my underwear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He measured the short strip on the map with his fingers. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But a person who crossed the black water lost all caste; he was stripped of the connections that had defined him and his family for generations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The crocs took his left ear and a long strip of flesh with it going right down his left cheek. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It was dark, the only light coming from the narrow strip of blue sky high overhead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Zeitoun did so, in the company of a dozen other men, and with such numbers he did not fear strip searches or violence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Just as he stripped off its sheathing, a dark odor of lightning blew through the earth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Their pets—a dog named Franz, a cat named George Washington, and a house rabbit named Paganini—sprawled on the carpet, taking afternoon naps in a strip of sunlight. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We neared the end of my side of the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Syme had produced a strip of paper on which there was a long column of words, and was studying it with an ink pencil between his fingers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I strip off the fruit and mash it up in the broth pot with cold water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s a strip mall catty-corner to the school. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The lapels on his velvet jacket were as wide as landing strips. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The fallen logs with frayed strips of bark. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He drew away and stripped his pants off and laid them next to his shirt. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The smoke curled up from Miyax’s fire, and caribou strips shrank and dried. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z No one was coming, so she hurried around the bridge and slid down the embankment, tucking herself under the bridge where there was a little strip of dry land on the side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Through the large windows I see afternoon light winking in the side panels of the parked airplanes on the landing strip. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I slip out of my shoes, tiptoe quietly into the guest bathroom to strip off my wet clothes, and hang them over the shower rod. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z "That squid prince catches hold o' me, they'll strip it off my back with a whip." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She went to the mirror, and slowly, piece by piece, began to pull off her clothes in a private strip tease. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z On Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, just north of downtown, there was a strange paradise, seemingly built for the working parent, seemingly built for me: a standard, supremely American, got-it-all strip mall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The service road cut through industrial wasteland and dead-ended at a strip mall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Still, I put each pink-and-white strip of paper in my shoulder bag as souvenirs. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl tore a strip from the hem of her robe and began binding Taran’s wound. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Tiara’s ’do was short and spiky with a longer strip sticking up in the middle, warrior-style. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I was penniless, stripped of the power that even a few coins bestow. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt invincible on the strip, and for a long time I was. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z While our parents console themselves with spa treatments, I go out with my sister and walk along the strip, watching the Bellagio fountain show. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I found Arturo in the bathroom, stripping off his clothes, tiny crumbs of mushroom soil raining down to the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z To strip off like that—yes, her endearing attempt to seem eccentric, her stab at being bold had an exaggerated, homemade quality. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If you lose at strip poker, you forfeit your undies. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I spot a cluster of berry bushes and hurry to strip the fruit, to suck the sweet juices from the skins. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Where she saw a lonesome chair left like an orphan in a park strip facing the river that other Violet saw how the ice skim gave the railing’s black poles a weapony glint. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Walter would often go to extremes, stripping Edith naked and beating her until she writhed on the floor in pain while her children looked on fearfully. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She burned with shame twice a day when she stripped and got into her costume. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was September when they sailed smartly into Boston Harbor, every man an old salt, the Astrea stripped of her chafing gear and gleaming with fresh paint and varnish. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He could still see the impression of the plastic strips that dug into his skin. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The landing strip at Kasane was waterlogged and we came in at a drier strip several miles away in the middle of the bush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He would strip every conceivable frill out of Brown’s architecture to create “more of a factorylike building.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The butcher turned to plunge the body into a steaming pot, then deftly stripped the feathers off, wrapping the body in white paper. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I repeated the line about the strip- frisk and asked him to hand us his clothes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The thing looked like a little strip of grey cardboard. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z While two thralls lit his braziers, Theon stripped off his travel-stained clothing and dressed to meet his father. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Afterward the sailors stripped the dead corsairs of boots and belts and weapons, divvied up their purses, and yanked gemstones from their ears and rings from their fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She tied a strip around Aunt Elizabeth’s neck and tied the other end to her feet, behind. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Estha Mon!” he would call out, in his high, piping voice, frayed and fibrous now, like sugarcane stripped of its bark. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He put them on, and she tore a fresh tea towel into strips and bandaged him tightly again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She even came up with a strange strip of cloth with two bags at the front to contain Nhamo’s growing breasts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond this temporary weather stripping, there was little else he could do. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Can my own mother really want to strip all the color left in my skin? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z For four hours without a break I strip and remake beds, taking about four and a half minutes per queen-sized bed, which I could get down to three if there were any reason to. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I strip out of my old one and toss it onto the horse blanket in the corner. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Then she stripped down to her underpants and put on a pair of cutoff jeans and a T-shirt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z As we walked across the dirt landing strip to await a second flight into Kathmandu, Stuart, Caroline, and I were approached by three ashen-faced Japanese men. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed a piece of skin at the edge of the wound and pulled it up in a strip, sucking in a pained breath as he did. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Reggie was living in an apartment complex in a busy part of Salt Lake City, surrounded by commercial strips, chain restaurants, and retailers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Fatima crashed onto the sidewalk, the skin on her knees scraping off into stinging red strips. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He ripped his face off the sticky ropes, and it felt like someone had yanked strips of adhesive tape off his skin. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “First they make you strip and put this little gown on. It’s made of paper and all this cold air gets in. You freeze. Then they make you lie on this table, spread-eagled.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She was young—younger than Mrs. Coulter; and fair, with bright green eyes; and clad like all the witches in strips of black silk, but wearing no furs, no hood or mittens. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He climbed out of the car and looked at the strip of tarmac with thick bush on either side and thought of the people who did so much with so little. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside his chambers, he stripped off his sweat-stained silks and sluiced cold water over his head from the basin beside the bed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Some of the slave women quickly daubed her leg with mud and wrapped it tightly with strips of cloth ripped from their own dresses. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Bitter had painted the skin a brown that was stripped of any vibrance, so they looked dull and dead. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Fingers burning, I stripped the hot skin off potatoes in silence, swallowing hurt and resentment with the same outward resignation that Gladys manifested. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Then we played some game where we had to wrap ourselves in strips of crepe paper like Joseph’s coat of many colors and race around an obstacle course. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Odysseus clung to a single beam, like a jockey riding, meanwhile stripping Kalypso’s cloak away; then he slung round his chest the veil of Ino and plunged headfirst into the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Ear and Eye dragged him the last few feet across the cement strip that surrounded Vainona. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Squirrel had stripped down to her smallclothes, and was rooting through a carved cedar chest in search of something warmer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They unclipped the spool and rolled it over to where they’d set up their stripping operation near the oil tanker’s prow. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I still wasn’t tired, so I stripped the sheets off my bed and went over to the pink house and got a set of clean ones, careful to tiptoe around and not wake anybody up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Years of wind and no rain had finally stripped the valley down to dark gray clay, where only the bluish salt bush could grow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hands, well calloused from years of harvesting, were stripped of their toughness and became soft in the wash water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Counted the right number of strips on the disc that separated one song from the next. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The door shimmered when they pulled together, a vibration that traveled all the way up their arms, then it opened so suddenly with an unsticking feel—like tearing loose a strip of silent Velcro. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the quiet of her chambers, Dany stripped off her finery and donned a loose robe of purple silk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In my mind, I saw the executioner strip off the man’s shirt and lead him into the open yard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He toyed with the little red strip that opens the pack before slipping it back into his pocket. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I drive down the empty, sloped parking lot to the main strip and take the left into town. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z And then there is suddenly a plate with salty pork strips, which appear from nowhere. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Nhamo pressed on, watching the smudge grow into a definite strip of land. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Through events both arbitrary and conceived it so happened that one of his faces fell away, and then another, and another, until he revealed to me a final level that would not strip off. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never loved a strip of potato like this before. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Eumaios, taking flesh from every quarter, put lean strips on the fat of sacrifice, floured each one with barley meal, and cast it into the blaze. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Poet said once we crossed the ice, we could walk down the narrow strip of land to one of the ports. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Beneath an overpass a car had been stripped, tires gone, windshield shattered, all the chrome detailing peeled away, and the engine missing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t stop, and pretty soon she’d forced me to the far end of the strip until I literally fell backward to the floor. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The pent up horror, grief and humiliation of a lifetime—half a century—was being stripped from me.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She tore the red marriage cloth into three wide strips and folded them around grass from her bedding to make pads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They could have let him keep his cloak, Jon Snow thought, the one the wildling woman patched with strips of crimson silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For users, crack meant poverty—whole lives stripped down like a stolen car, the parts sold off to pay for their next hit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He listened as she busied herself with stripping out the rest of the copper. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Not really. People had plenty of time to strip the easy stuff.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If you strip the clause of its false clues—the words separating the subject and verb—you end up with who . . . played for high stakes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But US General Douglas MacArthur had stripped him of his divinity, so now he was a man, not a god. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z With no shame or recognition of how badly I could take this, my father said, “A strip club.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for rational Jam, the figure continued to blatantly prove her wrong, levering one arm out and reaching down to the floor for stability, the gold claws carving small strips from the hardwood. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But Thyon wouldn’t hear it, and finally Lazlo, with a frustrated sigh, stripped off his jacket and rolled up his sleeve. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then he tore a chicken strip in half with a grunt like the Hulk. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She stripped the clothes off Aziza, tried to find something to fan her with, settled for blowing on her until she became light-headed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z That was the origin of Buckland, a thickly inhabited strip between the river and the Old Forest, a sort of colony from the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the twenties and thirties the loggers had come, and they stripped the canyons below the rim and cut great clearings on the plateau slopes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Its tail dangled down so far, it looked like one of the flypaper strips that hung from her kitchen ceiling. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped against a strip of brick wall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Ma instructs us to strip off our clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cardan begins to strip off his shirt, showing an expanse of moon-pale skin and a back with a delicate tracery of faded scars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We just looked quietly back at him, and so he began taking off his clothes, stripping down to his underpants. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Back on the strip, she found a wig store and two clothing shops. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z On and on they flew, over countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscape like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Without bothering to examine the blood-caked cuts that she could see all over his head and shoulders, Mama started unwinding the strips of cloth from around his body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Vultures would find the bodies and strip them of their rotting flesh until only the bones remained. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the poorer newly arrived migrants preferred the more down-to-earth experience of smaller, unadorned storefront churches squeezed in among businesses on the commercial strips. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He gave me a nasty look and began stripping leaves from a spindly little bush. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Once again, Sohrab stripped himself completely, like it was totally normal for guys to be naked around each other. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I took off my shirt and tore it into strips. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Finding none, he took off his coat and shirt dicky, pulled his undershirt off over his head and dramatically ripped a strip of cloth from it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The lights were off at Muff and Bud’s, and low clouds covered the strip of sky between the houses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A strip of sky separated it from the lake, but it was most definitely a patch of land with trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I would be competing against some of the best fencers in the world, women I’d yet to face off against on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My father stripped an old dresser and repainted it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z She's seen most of mine, but I add the last couple of crackers and beef strips to the pile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She took a stick from the box and ran it across the rough strip. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “When I give you the signal, place the strips of paper on your tongues,” Mr. Landau says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had moved down to the lakeshore as well and had stripped down to hang his clothes to dry. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Enrique watches workers pull strips of meat from a vat, put them on large chopping blocks, and cut them up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It forbade Germany to place soldiers in the Rhineland, a wide strip of unprotected German land that bordered France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His emotions crash against mine, roiling into one, and he is undone in this moment, the reserved, distant, proper version of him stripped away to reveal the part that is unthinking and savage. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even his bones would disappear—this was part of Arthur’s warning—until somebody found them scattered among the stained newsprint on the floor, looking like strips of white confetti. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He wasn’t court-martialed, but he was stripped of his rank and confined to the base for six months. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He turns his horse this way and that, trying to find where exactly we are in our little strip of woods. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I pee out the extra water inside me and strip. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Older generations of pretties lived out in the suburbs, hidden by the hills, in rows of big houses separated by strips of private garden for their littlies to play in. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z After finding my pool number and strip assignment, I looked at which women from which country I was slated to fence and tried not to psych myself out. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Mercy demonstrated on two pieces of thin board to which were fastened strips of leather set with hooked wire teeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I cut off two thin strips to make jesses, or leg straps, for Frightful. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, the purple strip lighting of Pleiades Corporation lines the cockpit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Upon admission we were taken to an outdoor quadrangle and ordered to strip completely and line up against the wall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The children and their parents stared at the little grey strip lying in the drawer. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The priestess and die seneschal were happy to see her garbed in a tokar, a proper Meereenese lady for once, but what they really wanted was to strip her bare. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Men everywhere, of every color, stripped to the waist, labored in the sun. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They need to strip off their T-shirts and pants, and they’ll be ready to dive in. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He took a long strip off now, wondering if it would be a sin to open his window and lean out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He stripped off his shirt and his pants, then demanded mine. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll do the ceremony first, and as soon as everybody leaves you can crank up the machines— assuming they haven’t been stripped down to the axles by then.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be David’s home taken from him, his whole life stripped away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In Bible school, which I attended summers at the Church of the Master, I had learned to weave a lanyard out of plastic strips. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z During my first year on the national team, I was a workhorse who showed no mercy on the strip, but I was a lamb among my teammates, with the goal of forging friendships with them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The breath of the boys pulses out before them in a collective fleeting cloud that is stripped away quickly by the wind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Not much, but enough so the witnesses could make out a thin strip of blackness. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That had been Ged's advantage so far and he kept it; but the strip of seawater between him and the great grey talons did not seem much of an advantage, anymore. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She stripped down and eased into the waves. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But there were no airplanes anywhere, nor any evidence of a landing strip. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I owed much of my newfound self-confidence and knowledge, both on and off the fencing strip, to Akhi. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was a triangular lattice of metal strips held together with bolts. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Homesick?” asked Nat casually, his eyes on the blue strip of water. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He stripped me out of them, and into another pair, quick as a whip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In her place was a skull with empty sockets, a few strips of marble-colored skin clinging to its cheekbones, and a lock or two of moldy hair at its nape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Light crews like Nailer’s tore at the ship’s small fittings, stripping copper, brass, nickel, aluminum, and stainless steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she had braided her hair, using her hands to interweave the thick dark strands deftly, tying the end of the heavy plait with a leather strip. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up a new wire and a strip of paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When they came to the corner they looked round and saw that the path ran on over a level strip under the face of a low cliff overhung with trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was the first time that he had stripped himself naked in her presence. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, Kaede realized she was she was staring at Taisin, stripped to the waist, the medallion like a black eye hanging around her neck. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He had stripped to the skin and he and his room had been meticulously searched by the other three men. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He would not allow his family or legacy to be stripped from their land. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Tally took one last look around, taking in the ruins splayed out below them, the dark woods, the pearly strip of river stretching toward the glowing sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In the room over Mr. Charrington’s shop, when they could get there, Julia and Winston lay side by side on a stripped bed under the open window, naked for the sake of coolness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z After I got off the phone, I stripped down to T-shirt and boxers, emptied my garbage can into a drawer, and put the can next to the bed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Exhaustion and pain had stripped every other sensation away from me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The closest I came to seeing a dragon whole was when the old people cut away a small strip of bark on a pine that was over three thousand years old. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mixed in with the crumpled strips are pearly purple fragments of something that looks like it’s been broken. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Noah made a contest out of seeing who could pull off the longest strip. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling consisted of large rectangular panels set in a framework of metal strips, and the corner of the panel above the picture had lifted slightly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, Arachne finished the long strips of silk and braided them together. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge- shaped strips of fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper peeled away in little curly yellow strips like that stuff rich people throw on New Year’s Eve. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Rachel quickly went back to her side of the strip, and out of habit, I did the same. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There was a strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street, and when Baby reached it she stood still for a second and then turned a handspring. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He laid the strips of iron on the glowing coke. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ophie nodded and quickly stripped the bed, separating the sheets and blankets out just like Cook had shown her so they could be laundered later. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I flew so high that the beach looked just like a strip of blue paper set down beside a pane of green glass that was the sea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d found it in a trash bin behind the abandoned strip mall across the highway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The dirt strip in front of our apartment has wild dandelions. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z To develop your economy, you leveled your forests and carpeted the land with strip malls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Drawers in tables gaped, the bureau was stripped bare. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On the bus, kids who knew me sang that sultry song people sing when they’re pretending to strip. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z With the tree cover stripped from the uplands, rainfall would have sluiced faster and heavier into the creeks, increasing the chance of floods and mudslides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He began to race up and down the strip of front yard between the house and road, braying with an excitement that he couldn’t understand. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But this—here, on the table tonight—this was the extremely stripped down version of a Persian dinner. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Z glanced toward Rashid, who was kneeling next to a grid of metal strips he was fastening together with wire and twine. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The article doesn’t mention there being proof or if JonJon was arrested, but it does reiterate what the headline said: he was kicked out of his baseball league and stripped of the records he’d set. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He hung his helmet on a peg, stripped off his boots and coveralls, and got into the shower and started lathering up with Lava soap. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. McElroy had been showing us filmstrips about the barbarian hordes of Russia with records that gave little pings to let him know when he was supposed to advance the strip. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I walk into the bathroom and strip off my clothes and step under the hot-hot water, standing there until my skin turns red and the water heater gives out. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She cut four strips of rubber from the tire, then wrapped them around the crutch tops and grips and secured them with twine in silence. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He stripped off his shirt and trousers and laid his hat in the bottom of the canoe. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mom stripped off the top and tried on something else. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Leopold and Loeb, as they became known worldwide, had stripped their victim to mask his identity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There, a worker cut a strip off the edge, divided it into squares, and put each through a series of rigorous tests. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z So I let go of Gale and force myself to move deeper into the warehouse, to walk into the narrow strip between two rows of beds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There was the promise now of finding a hootch somewhere, or an abandoned pagoda, where they could strip down and wring out their fatigues and maybe start a hot fire. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They were wedge-shaped strips and he cut them from next to the backbone down to the edge of the belly. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily tore off a strip, and they headed back to their building as fast as they could go. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I used a type of cipher called the scytale. You take a vertical strip of paper like this, and you wrap it around a cylinder-shaped object.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I walked over to a young birch tree, cut off several long strips of bark, and brought them back to her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Cactus plant pinpricks of heat run over my face in vertical strips. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The teacher sat meekly behind his desk, a spectator stripped of the desire or power to make them behave. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sonia was so smooth and dominant on the strip that as I put on my mask, my last thought before turning on fight mode was to try to fence like her. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I felt as if I had been stripped naked in public. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As we left the parking lot and rolled past strip malls toward Grandpa Portman’s house, I began to worry about what we might find when we got there. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z With strips of burlap and com shucks, I padded the inside. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind Corporal Nettle’s head was a wide strip of deep blue sky and, etched against it, the ragged black edge of the cellar’s ruined ceiling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then she placed the flat rock over the seaweed and held it fast there with the leather strip wrapped tightly around her injured arm. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure crosses six evenly spaced friction strips on the kitchen tiles to reach the table; she follows a strand of twine he has threaded from the table to the toilet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I tried to capture some of her enthusiasm, bottle it up, and carry it with me on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She ate hers in less than a minute, and then fidgeted, swinging back and forth on her chair and plucking at the plastic strips of the woven seat while he finished his. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When everything else has been stripped away, the only options remaining are fight or flight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In time, the Americans managed to "strip" the cipher completely from a group of Soviet cables. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I was supposed to match negatives with their prints, just look at the picture and look for the same one on the negative strip, put it in the envelope, and do the next one. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is better certainly than putting money into a mud wall. But why not a piece of your uncle’s land? He is clamoring to sell that strip near to the western field we now have.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The moors their axes had stripped of trees glowed silver in the moonlight, and the yellow lights of peasant huts were like scattered jewels on the ravendark cloak of a king. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z By sunrise, the girls had built a stretcher by tying old pieces of wood and broken branches with torn strips of cloth from a pair of Juanita’s old shorts. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It makes fencing on the world circuit really tough, given that our personal coaches act as our advocates and voices on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “It is just leftover strips. And the fur is too short, no long hairs.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the strip of carpet my mother was already asleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The renovation had stripped the room of any memorabilia. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He tore it into narrow strips and tied them together to make a rope or tie-down about four feet long. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z There were passenger cars heading for the casinos and strip clubs in Windsor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I always came to practice ready to work, and my results on the strip reflected my efforts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Still wailing, the Penitentes rose to their feet, stripped off their upper garments and, with knotted whips, began to beat themselves, blow after blow. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Local residents see groups of migrants walking down dirt roads naked, stripped of everything. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She caught sight of a lone tree at the top, stripped bare of its leaves, and then she was rounding the hill and there was only more road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For a while it’s nothing different, the same expanse of sky, the same strip of highway, large liquor stores and fast-food chains on either side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The strip of stuff had not been placed well atop the wound, and I shifted it so that his belly would be better gripped. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The carcass now sank down, and they disjointed shoulder and thigh bone, wrapping them in fat, two layers, folded, with raw strips of flesh. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked downstairs, my legs feeling joint-free, like long strips of wood. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They could not return because the strip that they were opening as they went along would soon close up with a new vegetation that almost seemed to grow before their eyes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The strip of mud between the water and the bank narrowed, even though it was still low tide. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z She looked almost naked against the expanse of water, only those two little strips, one above, one below, separating her from Eden. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I stripped off my T-shirt and all my clothes. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He was shivering now, his teeth chattering horribly, and yet he continued to strip off until at last he stood there in his underwear, barefooted in the snow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Hamburg in those days did not have rock-and-roll music clubs. It had strip clubs,” says Philip Norman, who wrote the Beatles biography Shout! Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Weeds grew on either side of the road in summer, and a thin strip of green clung to life between the dusty tracks. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The silent sisters were stripping the dead men of their armor and clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I never in my life stripped a garden so fast, and my feet raced each other past the depot and the Cold Sassy tree and the nine houses between Grandpa’s house and ours. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He takes a long strip of colored paper and wraps it around my upper arm. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I wound them tight and tied the strips together so they couldn’t work loose. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing stood out, though: a button with a strip of tape across it marked dnt. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I strip off my sweaty clothes and fall back into bed, naked, and somehow find sleep again. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Whatever was eroding inside my father, withering his muscles and stripping his nerves, he viewed it as his own private challenge, as something to silently withstand. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She braided a long strip to tie around his head, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Two more people appeared where the man had been, but Mark could tell the strip of window was too small for a person to crawl through. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z On the job, let a girl be disobedient to the rules, and Mr. Edwards personally stripped her, gagged her, and horsewhipped her within an inch of her life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She took me to a small room and handed my papers to the doctor, who glanced at them and asked me to strip to my shorts. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The crew received a scant meal of hardtack, a strip of dried meat, and a half-pint of water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Mama ripped two strips from the hem of her tunic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And then he fell, the wings stripped away until he was just a boy in a climbing harness and a white tunic, his arms extended in a useless attempt to glide. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A squirrel had stripped the bark off a sapling at the foot of the meadow, leaving it gleaming white. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Working quickly, for she had only a few hours of daylight, she formed tear-shaped hoops out of the last two strips. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "But how did you deal with—" "With my little problem? Simple. The sun was shining earlier, and it didn't feel that cold, so I just stripped down to nothing and I went out." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Hector stripped his armor from him and casting his own aside, put it on. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Six or seven urchins ran over the green, stripping off clothing as they came. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She held it between her teeth while she used her knife to cut through the fabric of the pack itself and made a strip of the leather. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Harry could see a strip of gleaming yellow beneath its wrinkled black eyelid. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z We watched him mix up the white plaster and lay out strips. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas the buildings of Sumer and Assyria were covered with brilliant mosaics and splendid pictorial murals, the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She was shouting things we couldn’t understand, stripping pictures out of a photo album and throwing them into a suitcase. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z You won’t have to strip and wax the floors or wash the windows. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Jaax and Haines climbed into the supply van and pulled a plastic sheet across the van’s back door for privacy, and stripped naked, shivering in the cold. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I had to strip off my pillowcase and stuff the box down inside it and tie it closed with one of my hair ribbons. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What it comes down to,” the priest put out with cool rage, “is whether Piscine wants real religion—or myths from a cartoon strip.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Dill’s father strips off his white dress shirt, down to his undershirt. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Each pan had a small strip of blue tape on its edge with different writing in Sharpie. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Celia learns to cut the cane straight across at the base, strip its leaves with her machete, then chop it in even pieces for the gatherers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I fervently hoped Becky would chop off their heads and strip off their skins. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Around and around his foot and ankle, halfway up his shin, she wrapped the strips. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He watched the sail makers cutting heavy canvas into strips and sewing it back together again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A white strip of forehead, where his uniform cap kept off the sun, shone between his brown hair and his sunburned face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they saw the interplay of numerals—numbers stripped of their geometric significance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The tank was lit from above by a series of neon strips, but they were too high to reach. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His father’s eyes stripped him naked, and hated what they saw. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z A thin strip of Pleiades purple strip lighting in the shape of a door, just like the one at the back of the ship leading to the hold. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After parking in my driveway, we walked across the strip of grass that separated Margo’s house from mine, just as we had Saturday. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Then he tugged off one of his boots, stripped out the lining, and removed a tightly wrapped bundle of coins stuffed deep into the toe. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It left them and turned fierce, stripping leaves from trees and pulling the dirt from ancient earthen walls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z My orderly had cut paper into strips and tied the strips to a stick to make a brush that swished the flies away. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A few minutes earlier, we’d been on a busy road, driving through four-way intersections, past strip malls and fast-food restaurants, but as we neared the apartment building, all of that had given way. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I think it was called I See Your Naked Blood Naked'' Miss Ohio tossed bark peels into the fire. “The main girl has to strip down to her underwear to get away from the killer.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A little more than a decade after the end of the Seven Years’ War, the American Revolution began; the revolt would strip England of its richest colony. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The crows had stripped the flesh from the man’s face, and a feral dog had burrowed beneath his mail to get at his entrails. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No, there was only one Pikes, and he was a man stripped of his fantasies now, no place on Earth to go, no one to show off to. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z On my way back up the main strip toward my house, I stopped at a red light and heard the familiar buzzing of Charlie’s bike. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Crossing the short, bright strip before the door, she glanced in. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z So we ate and celebrated our success on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z After a few minutes of dipping pH strips in water and noting our observations on paper, Justin looked up. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The slate gray sea roiled, scraping the narrow strip of sand rhythmically, tugging at beach grass, digging and sucking loose the rocks at the shore's edge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She made him sit down on the rim of the pool, tore a strip from the loose part at the top of his tunic, and clumsily but carefully bound up the bite. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He stripped down to his underwear and then lay there on top of his bag with an open beer beside his pillow and a fresh wad of chewing tobacco tucked into his lower lip. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z On the strip winners and losers, enemy and friends were clearly defined. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z You take it away and it’s almost like you strip the identity of the people.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I forced myself to slow down as I tied the strip around Stef’s arm just above the wound. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It had stripped the paint off a portion of the metal floor. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her wagon and all its contents were burned, and the woman was stripped, tarred and feathered, and, along with her servant, run off. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “The lamp I am writing by is deer fat poured into a turtle shell with a strip of my old city trousers for a wick. “It snowed all day yesterday and today. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She had heard that there was a steep waterfall someplace, and fallen trees here and there that could easily smash the thin boards he was so carefully tying together with strips of bamboo. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When she was ready, she stripped off Windy’s T-shirt and stepped into the warm water, pulling the curtain closed behind her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Thin strips of moonlight filter through the slatted sides of the stock car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z For their clothing, they use “the closet”—a wire spring standing upright, from a mattress stripped of its ticking. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I strip off my scarf and hoodie down to my favorite tank top, go into the kitchen, and start a pot of water to boil. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Chicken strips, fries and a milkshake is about the best meal in the world. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Lickety-split, a boy hurtled to the pond, stripped to his underwear, and leaped into the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Lyra put some water on to boil, and Will took it up to the bathroom and stripped to wash from head to foot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheets on the old woman’s bed were stripped and replaced every Wednesday morning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Margo pointed to the strip of trees between SeaWorld’s endlessly gigantic parking lot and the black standing water of the moat. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The big boy was twisting plastic strips into sandals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I stripped down to my underwear, took off my wristwatch, and waded in. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Connor pointed to a cleared strip of forest where a stand of blue willows had been planted a year ago. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He filled the bathtub with hot water, and stripped off his shoe and sock. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Josh noticed a break between some trees that might have been a grass strip, but we couldn’t line up for it without any engine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z From the center was the chandelier, and from the chandelier a twisted strip of sheet was hanging down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The four cardboard flaps have been pushed back to reveal a tangle of shredded paper strips. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z At the other end, freestanding racks were hung with drying plants, cured leather, and what looked like strips of drakon jerky. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Before I stepped on the strip, I recited a quick prayer and reminded myself to fight to the end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The fire had burned down long since and there was no light but those strips and slants of dimness creeping across the circle, sketching out a face, a hand, a moveless back. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He has been stripped of everything but his underwear. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As strips of canvas fell away, they could finally see what was underneath. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z From the far end of the cafeteria, they heard a whoop and then guffaws of laughter as Hari got on the cafeteria table, stripped off his shirt, and twirled it around. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He stripped his clothes down to his shorts and wrung them out and hung them on some branches to dry. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He sighed and pushed away the stalk from which he had stripped the fruit. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We’re going to wrap Edna into a human burrito using plastic bags, then plaster her with two coats of paper strips. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Smith stripped him of his blankets on the morning after his arrival and walked him to the scales. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother must have just stripped off my filthy outer ones and tucked me in bed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She was peering in, behind him, and on her face was a great and stark fear; it made her look stripped down to nothing, like a skull with gaping holes as eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Nel found a thick twig and, with her thumbnail, pulled away its bark until it was stripped to a smooth, creamy innocence. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And the King of Adarlan had ripped the crown off her father’s head and stripped his title from him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Up the creek, a couple private docks extended out into the water, then there was a long strip of riprap near a construction site. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I remember I’m not the only one whose world has been stripped away. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then I eat three sugary cakes and a strip of ham. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When at last Dandelion and Speedwell had pulled the leather strip off the nail, Bigwig came back to the hutch himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The light from outside was cut into strange strips, weird angles, by the cheap lumber somebody had used to do a half-assed board-up job of the windows. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z And then there was a strip from a photo booth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The couple stood motionless under the scorching sun, looking at the train as it merged with the black strip of the horizon, linking arms for the first time since the day of their wedding. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had stripped off his own shirt and was pulling on another, drier one, but he did not bother to change out of his wet trousers before heading off into the trees. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I can't help feeling a little grateful since the last thing I want to do is strip down Haymitch, wash the vomit out of his chest hair, and tuck him into bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He folded his blanket carefully and draped it in a narrow strip over his left shoulder, and now they were ready. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z On a post at the rear of the hootch was the decayed head of a large black leopard; strips of yellow- brown skin dangled from the overhead rafters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “What did the Mountain look like? How do we know that this is him? They could have dipped the head in tar. Why strip it to the bone?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Many of the people running the bulldozers and shovel contraptions were stripped of their shirts, while others standing nearby even wore ties and coats. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Directly after breakfast, Mrs. Glass had stripped the doors of their pleated silk curtains. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Yet in the last fifty years we have built a food system that strips many of those healthy compounds out of our foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z So she stripped off her sash and tossed it into the crowd. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In order to help me do this, he makes a Mobius strip for me by cutting out a long slip of paper, twisting it once and gluing the ends together. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “You know I put in my application to just about every store on the Fulton strip. I shoulda done what Charlise did, stay local and get those white people and their boutiques to hire me.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s a political cartoon strip from the 1940s. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He took out his knife and whittled some thin strips of bark off one of the sticks he'd gathered, to serve as kindling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Clearing a rain forest to plant annuals is like stripping an animal first of its fur, then its skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We stripped off the sheets and folded the bed back into the sofa. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z This sound was stripped of the multiple layers and intricacies of counterpoint, and designed for clarity and instant sensual impact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Madam opened an envelope and shook out two gray strips of mouse fur, each cut into an arch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the toilet seat a strip of paper bore the message: “This seat has been sterilized with ultraviolet light for your protection.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to strip naked and let the water lick my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the start of class, James bent over his backpack and pulled out a handful of long, skinny strips of paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We stand on the strip of grass at the front of the school. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z If you tilted them, a strip of color slid away to reveal a naked lady whose bosoms're two sawn-off missiles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I loved the scratching sound of the match against the sandpapery brown strip when I struck it, and the way the flame leaped out of the red- coated tip with a pop and a hiss. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It should be the easiest, because I knew that strip angled against the Pacific better than any place in the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually alpha rays were identified as helium atoms stripped of their electrons—that is, helium nuclei-—and beta rays as energetic electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She increased the dimensions of the model, then showed Arachne how it could be created—strands of material woven into strips, then braided into a long cylinder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We were camped at an old landing strip just north of Tam Ky and less than a thousand meters from Highway 1. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the rim of a cauldron would be, it breaks into long strips of curling iron, as though it has been melted and pulled apart like taffy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The rhythmic click echoed down the hall as the wooden block skipped over the thin strips of cement between the tiles. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Every time Daddy walks through the door, I can hear the iron chains clank around TJ’s heart, stripping him of what little dignity he has left. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I toss aside my weapons and race down the strip closest to her body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They stripped the Suli and Kaelish girls down to their underclothes, then bound all the girls’ wrists and ankles with cords from the curtains and gagged them with torn pieces of their prison clothes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The family had stripped itself of money to fight my mother’s illness and there was no more forthcoming. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I stripped to the skin and put the clothing into a plastic garbage bag—a so- called hot bag—along with a splash or two of Jik, and then put that bag into another bag. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo stripped the blankets from Pippin and rolled him over, and then walked off to the edge of the wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The East German government referred to the structure as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"; it was bordered by minefields and a no-man's-land known as the "death strip." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We have been given nineteen rooms to clean, most of them “checkouts,” as opposed to “stay-overs,” and requiring the whole enchilada of bed stripping, vacuuming, and bathroom scrubbing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The all-white jury promptly returned, however, when Democratic conservatives sought to “redeem” the South by stripping blacks of their right to vote and their right to serve on juries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And his absence was not only felt on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then he stripped off his dirty clothes and wrapped his bandages in plastic. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We set up on strip number one—there were twelve different strips on the floor—and Coach took me back through all of my best high school moves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Most of the time, I’d pull up my line to see a bare hook stripped of its bait by a sneaky catfish. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “He probably can’t hear you,” the nurse said, stripping an empty cot of its sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The strip of leather that bound my arm became as hefty and cumbersome as a chain. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z While they ate, Sefia gnawed a few strips of dried meat, searching the men for weaknesses while the rumble of their voices drifted up through the trees. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When all the men had gone, her handmaids stripped off the travel-stained silks she wore, and Dany padded out to where the marble pool sat in the shade of a portico. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t think 1 can eat an entire one,” he said and drew his knife across one of the strips. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z If you say anything they strip you, make you sleep on a cement floor without a light. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He waded in and stripped in darkness to the skin, splashed his body, arms, legs, and head with raw liquor; drank it and snuffed some up his nose. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran me up and down the strip, giving me the hardest lesson I’d ever had. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Without saying another word, they proceeded to strip the house of furniture, seizing the wardrobe, chairs and table, saying that the goods were payment for a mysterious debt of honor my father owed them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An old embroidered blue rug covered in geometrical white shapes wound down its length, and the razor-thin windows lining both its sides offered only strips of Lkossa’s pale morning light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod and push Pop into the bathroom, where I strip the old man and lift him into the tub. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad is making a landing strip for his new plane and he wants me to help him build a bomb shelter.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z 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 Then, with my fingernails, which I never bit because why bite something that didn’t hurt, I would pull the skin off in narrow strips. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was parked at the new strip mall up the road “nursing a macchiato” from the fancy coffee shop and “trying to process” my reasoning to see if I’d been “justified.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I ran down the steps near the edge of the strip and I stood on the bottom rail of the barricade reaching into the stands for my family’s hands. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then, as the white elite increased its power, they used literacy tests and property requirements to strip blacks of the vote. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t any older than Fidelito, who had lost his battle with airsickness and was coating the plastic strips in secondhand beans and tortillas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was a discarded school bus stripped of its wheels. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Russo, who helped out many nights, devised the time-saving innovation of taping two strips of cardboard to the glass of the Xerox machine. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Enjoy the bacon while you can,” Mom says as she slides a few more greasy strips onto my plate. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z About fifty settlements existed in this strip of the Mississippi when De Soto showed up, according to Anne Ramenofsky, an archaeologist at the University of New Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On the plateau, the team would set up camp, scout routes to the target, radio weather reports back to Britain, and light up a landing strip on the edge of a frozen lake. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He held out both his hands, took mine, and kissed them, and then they were ripped away, because Mrs. Diamant was stripping off my coat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Laws stripping people of their rights were inevitably described as laws restoring those rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While Tree-ear cleaned his wound, Crane-man took the strip of cloth and washed it thoroughly with water from the gourd bowl, scrubbing it against a flat stone at the river’s edge. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He was staring at the car in the garage; a strip of metal ran around its blue body like a necklace. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He gave them a bag of plastic strips to weave into sandals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "He was angry with that cook's boy who spilled the soup last night as well, but he didn't strip him naked." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She pulls out a tray of Florentine cookies and shows Maribel how to arrange them on overlapping strips of wax paper so they look more appealing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had taken film from my roughly forty-minute talk and edited it down to a single ten-second clip, stripping away the context, putting the emphasis on a few words. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In her own room Kate took five small bottles and a strip of scribbled paper from her handbag. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z With her suitcase stashed in a bus-station locker, Jule shouldered a tote bag and took a taxi to the Las Vegas strip. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It warmed Meggie’s heart just to see it, but all too often it disappeared behind the tall, ugly buildings covering the narrow strip of land that lay between the water and the encroaching hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It had been so long since Kaede had felt its warmth that its first touch brought tears to her eyes; she wanted to strip off all her clothes and stand naked in the light. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I was happy that in addition to my mom and sister, Akhi had also made it to this competition and was able to provide me with the support I needed on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Her eyes, cautious and guarded, bounced off mine before locking onto the strip of highway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I walked over to the strip and stood facing Coach Mustilli. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was a long, thin strip of land lying between the United States and Aztlan. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The opposite wall was adorned by an enormous banner with no discernible pattern, a patchwork of slender strips of cloth—mostly red and blue, but some purple, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The plane dug a trench more than thirty feet deep into the spongy earth of the old strip cuts on Skyline Drive, directly between two hushed, abandoned pieces of mining equipment. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She’d tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her gray eyes flickered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I could taste the pale green sweetness of the blade of wheat, stripped and sucked between my teeth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Enrique strips and wades into the Rio Grande to cool off. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z These were the same women I’d inevitably see at the next competition—women from Russia and China, Tunisia and Hungary—so I would be ready when I faced them on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Next she took two strips of skin from the water and held them in place while they froze to the bottom of the bowl, in the shape of flat rockers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A small strip of the Eye’s wheel came up from my shoulder, with seven of the thirty-two pods shining in the sunlight. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The strip mall I pass is vacant except for a pawnshop. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He thought about calling to Naomi for a towel as he stripped off his boots on the porch, but he didn’t want to wake the kids. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She stank so badly that she stripped right there, dropping her soiled clothing on the riverbank as she dove into the deep black waters. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even with a full light crew it would take them several days to strip the clipper of all the brass and copper and wiring. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z His most recent Memory, aside from the draft and the party, is of him at the airport’s private jet strip, waiting beside an older boy in sunglasses who I recognize immediately as his brother Daniel. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The shot zipped past a bystander’s shoe and blew a hole in the tire of a stripped Dodge parked in the road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya opened up her coat to keep from sweating, and Ivan stripped off his and collapsed to his knees in front of the fire. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z A strip of hide came off the zebra’s belly like gift-wrap paper comes off a gift, in a smooth-edged swath, only silently, in the way of tearing skin, and with greater resistance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Each green was divided into playing strips about 5 yards wide and 32 yards long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Rachel stayed on the strip, and I walked over to the coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Some were fitting small bits of machinery together, others wove strips of plastic into sandals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We cross the central strip of the town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The north anchor was closest, near enough to walk—and the trip took them across the strip of light called the Avenue, though it wasn’t an avenue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Harry asked as Ron stripped off his robes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The narrow strip of sky showing above the houses would stay light for many hours yet—long enough for him to make up his mind whether or not to go to Capricorn’s festivities. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Bathing is even more embarrassing, because I have to strip down to my birthday suit in front of a nurse. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Lastly—and most horribly—they had to wash each slimy strip of plastic in a bucket of hot, soapy water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I strip off my crumpled dress, dip a cloth in the chipped bowl we use for wash water, and scrub everything I can reach until it tingles. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z On the sawhorses, he stripped them of their branches, then set to work. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Walking along the weedy strip beside the highway for the second time that day, I was thinking how much older fourteen had made me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gregor stripped off Boots’s damp clothes and put on a fresh set. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when I was stripping copper from a radiator or throwing the five hundredth chunk of steel into the bin, I’d find myself imagining the classrooms where Tyler was spending his days. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I used a type of cipher called the scytale. You take a vertical strip of paper like this, and you wrap it around a cylinder-shaped object.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When the last strip of rubber had rippled to the floor, her father looked at her with cold, flat eyes, and rocked and rocked and rocked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wore hijab by choice, and I proudly represented my country both on and off the fencing strip, both in victory and defeat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We took back the sail, the strips of towel, even the tourniquet crusty with blood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two aircraft next to the landing strip. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She opened her eyes and saw her sister Sunny, who was looking at her frantically and trying to say something past the strip of tape. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I went to the locker room to get changed, and Akhi told me to meet him on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Only then did she look down at the small strip of material in her lap. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I stripped my sweatshirt off and pulled my hair up in a messy bun. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A few Cheerios poured out of the box into the sink, and then a bundle of bills banded with a strip of paper. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling accepted the bouquet of strips, extending one to look at the letters written on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He walked slowly off the strip and over to the tables. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Mulefa couples, for example, on entering marriage, would exchange strips of bright copper, which were bent around the base of one of their horns with much the same meaning as a wedding ring. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was brought to a cell and stripped to his underwear. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On the blank walls of some buildings were long, narrow strips of red paper upon which words had been painted in thick, black ink. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a strip of water between the island and the fill, and the man clung to the tree and cried for help. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z All the greenery was stripped away from the force of the water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I burn a strip up the sidewalk, melting snow and ice three feet on either side. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “This is the strip,” he said, pointing to the long, narrow, red rectangle on the floor. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But on closer examination, I see the thin strips of land radiating from the circle like the spokes on a wheel. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He tied strips of fabric and foil along the lengths of them; the encyclopedia said that crows didn’t like movement or shiny things. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He told her it was hers if she stripped naked and danced for him, right there in the street. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then she found a roll of sticky tape, and she tore off several strips of tape and hung them in a row on the edge of the desk. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tied to a tree, stripped naked, and had been beaten to death. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Trying not to look at Kaitlin s pale face, Diana ripped several long strips of duct tape off the roll with her teeth and hung them from the leg of an overturned chair. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Now and then she turned the strips to expose both sides. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In March Stassen was stripped of his cabinet rank as a rebuke. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This had become his uniform since he had decided to take some time off from fixing up houses—stripping floors, dry wall, the whole nine. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Good,” said Syme abstractedly, without looking up from his strip of paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Edwin crawled under a large spruce tree and stripped off his clothes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Now before we have you get your hands on a sword and you poke me in the eye, let’s show you how you have to move on the strip,” Coach said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Faith and I were sitting on the floor in the landing strip of white light spilling from the bathroom, talking music. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They are lithe and quick, their bodies and faces wrapped in funereal strips of black cloth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There are pieces of public life, of giving up one’s privacy to become a walking, talking symbol of a nation, that can seem specifically designed to strip away part of your identity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I could tear my bedsheet into strips and twist it into a rope of sorts and tie one end to the leg of my bed and try to break the window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was one strip, faded and smoke-smudged by time, which had been written by one of the men who had founded the Company and who was long since dead. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Like me, she was relentless on the strip, but she was always able to leave fencing behind once she took off her mask and carry on with life in a loving way. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Their clothes had been ripped and torn and stripped from them since they had been taken from their homes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I take some dried mutton outta my rucksack and use the knife to cut strips for me, for Manchee, and for the girl. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She cut the seaweed into different types of strips, which she wrapped around the onigiri in pretty ways. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She didn't resist when Mona wrapped a strip of linen around it, tucking the ends into place firmly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z All I could do was scrub out as much pus as I could with the ocean water and use the same filthy strips of towel to cover his wounds. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Syme had folded up his strip of paper and stowed it away in his pocket. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The returning midwife, angry at Alyce for ignoring her earlier, set her to do all the least pleasant chores: roasting frogs’ livers, boiling snails into jelly, stripping the thorns from dogberry roses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s great, Mom,” I say, happy that my mother seems brighter than she has these past few weeks; it’s been so hard to see her spirit being stripped away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I knew if I sat down I would fall asleep, so I went outside, behind the cottage, and stripped off my nightshirt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The van’s rear doors had no windows, so I was hunched over in total darkness for a second, until my fingers found the old power strip I’d duct-taped to the ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The room, stripped of almost every trace of his grandparents, made its own hollow quiet. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Later, of course, Europeans stripped New England almost bare of trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The veil she tore into strips, and tied Aunt Elizabeth up with them, behind the furnace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There are only five houses in total along a little strip of the road, one with what looks like a small general store tacked onto the front. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Smith and Pollard had stripped away the temperamental barriers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have the entire staircase—no, the entire apartment—stripped bare and redone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad let me borrow the car to drive it down to the place, which was stuck into the side of a small, lame strip mall on the main strip of Mount Pitts. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z No strip of leather held by only one broad-headed nail at each end can stand up for long to repeated twisting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I pulled the lips of the wound together and wound strips of my shirt around Yeller’s body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Accelerated particles would strike this strip at the end of their spiral journeys, with their final energies to be measured by an electrometer wired to it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A naked lightbulb hung from the ceiling, right next to three or four dangling spiral strips of flypaper so thick with flies that you couldn’t see the sticky yellow surface underneath. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he carefully joined and nailed strips of Spanish cedar to the ribs of the frame to form the hull. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They stripped everything military off of them and dragged the loot back to their camp. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He quickly drilled a hole in the beaker's stopper, then stripped a section of wire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That evening Grandma and I had a quiet supper at the kitchen table, under the ceiling light and the flypaper strips. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But he sneaked away to the dump and was back in a while with a strip of cotton cloth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z In the future, according to Tomorrow's World, cars will drive themselves along strips implanted in roads. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Bear-paws, they called them, queer elongated things made with bent wood and leather strips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Usually the only sounds you heard at fencing tournaments were the primal grunts and yells from the fencers themselves on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Having stripped off my sock, my mother’s fingers probe the bones in my left heel and I wince. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he lifted his head up and quite openly put the rest of the strip in his mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The embalmers hadn’t gotten her lips right—the gracious smile she’d worn like an iron mask had been stripped away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He put one knee on the fish and cut strips of dark red meat longitudinally from the back of the head to the tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, I take her out for a Valentine’s Day dinner at my favorite restaurant, Happy Family, which sits at the end of a strip mall about fifteen miles from home. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He ran a nail down the heavy cartridge backing and stripped it away to reveal... Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “When you stripped this house of all the valuables you could find,” Harry began again, “you took a bunch of stuff from the kitchen cupboard. There was a locket there.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It’s a law for black people only,” my mother said, and added that such a law had long stripped black people of the right to buy land and own homes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s an alphabet strip at the top, so I can spell out words, and a row of numbers under that, so I can count or say how many or talk about time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I tied a strip of fabric from her apron around the handle, and we set it on the mounded dirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I strip a tough vine of its leaves, thread it through the hollow center, and tie the spile securely to my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And then he tore a little strip of skin away from the side of the thumbnail on his left hand. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Even though five of us pulled the prank at the strip mall, I was the one who didn’t have the luxury of taking off—not after that lady recognized me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Place a strip of double-sided tape around inside of the roll on the tail end. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The bandits tell the nine other men, including Wendy’s husband, to strip to their underwear, then lie facedown on the ground. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I strip, and flakes of skin the size of playing cards cling to the garments. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In late June, our original garden-helper crew from Bancroft Elementary joined me for our first harvest, kneeling together in the dirt to tear off lettuce leaves and strip pea pods from their stems. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She put her foot on the first dark nonstick strip and then the next one and the next. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z With a grin she reached in her pocket, found a strip of caribou hide, and thrust it at him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Two aged crab apple trees, bent with the wind, stripped of leaves but still heavy with berry-sized red fruits and bushy crowns of white-beaded mistletoe, stood sentinel on either side of the front door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I made a scrape—an open box with a narrow strip of wood to keep the eggs from rolling out. I’ll put sand on the bottom.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Today with their failing ivy and stripped, moaning trees the houses looked both more elegant and more lifeless than ever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his feet to move without having to watch them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Trip glanced toward the bedroom, where through the open door he could see Pearl’s bed, stripped of its sheets and blankets, reduced now to a bare mattress and frame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In addition, she remade his ears, stripping them of the few pieces of fur that remained and designing him a new pair. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The provisions were already packed up; they only had to strip down the tent, and they could go. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Working quickly and quietly, she began to tear these into long, narrow strips, and to tie these strips together. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z One great shift in consort music made by Corelli and his imitators from the 1680s onwards was to strip back its traditionally contrapuntal texture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was high-intensity metabolic strength training that I needed to make me more dominant on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Bull was fidgeting as he always did when someone stripped away an outer layer of himself and revealed something intensely personal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not sure how long I crouched on that strip of sidewalk, freezing my sac off, waiting for that bird to croak. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Shay looked away, stripping off the rest of her disguise in silence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We ordered a whole mess of chicken strips and three large milkshakes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I thought of him like a wise grandfather, who was still in impeccably great shape and good enough to take on any opponent on the strip if need be. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z So she picked up one of the strips of paper and read it aloud, first in English: “Do not fight and air your dirty laundry in public. To the victor go the soils.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a comic strip we used to draw together about two astronauts named Gleebo and Tom who lived on Pluto and had a dog named Darth Daisy. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Peasants like Will’s father suffered if their strips of land were far apart, because hours of precious daylight were wasted as they zigzagged from field to field. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Jack offers me a strip of smoked salmon, but I lie and say I’m full. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was nothing Hazel could do, though she felt like stripping off her own skin. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I cut 10-centimeter-wide strips, then used them to make a sort of harness. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Joe had stripped down to his shorts and told the doctor that he rowed crew at the university, the job was his. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A grace contained on a small strip, forcing you to fight. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The animal would be skinned and gutted, then the flesh was cut into long strips and hung in the smokehouse to dry over hot, smoked wood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In the soil beneath his feet, he could feel a firmer strip, the print of a tractor wheel that had lately rolled over the surface. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d seen both Doc and Mama weave strips of palmetto leaves and sea grasses into baskets and other shapes: flowers, crosses, and such. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Boulders blocked the way to a narrow strip of sand, with more rocks beyond. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Across the open middle stretched two metal strips. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Only their scratching pens, kids' stomachs, flies entombed in the strip lights, and distant cries of free kids ruckled the silence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z His crews spared the landing strip and the mess halls so that they could land safely when their work was done and enjoy a hot snack before retiring. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Locking the door behind me, I strip off my wet pajamas and throw on a fresh pair. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A wide strip of deerskin pegged to each allowed them to move up and down. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching the pond, he stripped in the darkness, then waded in without hesitation. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “We both are. We’re going to show these people what two beautiful brown girls from the USA can do with a saber on the strip.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The two boys stripped off their school uniforms and jumped into the pond. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Besides the four names assigned to him, he has two more strips. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He stripped them off and threw them overboard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A medium-sized room had been divided to make a narrow strip of a kitchen and, presumably, a bedroom next door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Simultaneously her right hand picked up a narrow strip of dark green tissue paper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Max and I take apart the sofa, stripping off its upholstery, washing the dark green cloth in three soapings of hot water. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In some testing protocols, the employee has to strip to her underwear and pee into a cup in the presence of an aide or technician. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In its downward plunge, the huge limbs stripped the branches from the smaller trees. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “How’d that one kid react to you accidentally putting a strip of wet newspaper on his forehead?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z She had washed and stripped a hundred corpses, dead things did not frighten her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A strip of dark cloth covers my eyes, and a new pair of hands ties it at the back of my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When the rivers receded, they exposed a wide strip of bottomland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Matt solved the problem by transferring the bag of plastic strips to the little boy’s lap. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The backyards of these houses fell away in green slopes down to a strip of sand, and then the blue Lake Erie, lapping all the way to Canada. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z On the front of the building, faded yellow paint curled in strips, like peeling skin. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When they had finished their meal with the delicious strawberries, Sam got deer hide from the mill house and cut off long strips for Alice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Hermione asked timidly as they stripped fat pink pods from the plants and emptied the shining beans into a wooden pail. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Harrison and I were stripped to the waist. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Toby waited an extra five minutes before he got out of the car and stripped off his clothes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Do you work so very hard, Jeremie? Do you strip palm at home?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A tall, skinny, coltish girl, all legs and elbows, her brown hair was woven in a thick braid and bound about with strips of leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No doubt, it was hard to come to public terms with my mother’s past employment at Joe’s strip club, but confronting it made me feel a certain degree of freedom. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The doctor put a strip of white adhesive tape over Willie's cut, and left. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But they had become as useless as the board, just heavy strips of steel dragging her toward the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “That strip mall. Ben told me about it.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “He’s my prisoner,” I remind them, squatting down and slicing through the strips of my dress still tying his legs to the chair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Standing outside of the foundation building, my limbs tingled with a sense of familiarity, like they longed to get back on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My breath fogged up the window as we left that neighborhood behind and sped toward another strip mall. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The temperature had gone up and they stripped down to just their shorts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I chose a pattern with a woven look at the corners that resembles the weaving of a basket, five strips of fabric around the border. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The house was stripped out to the wall studs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His long strip of letters was the only submission for the week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She placed colorful flowers around her face to disguise her glowing eyes, and any bare patches were covered with tree leaves and strips of moss. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The walls were papered with a design of pale vertical strips, like a boys pajamas, which heightened the sense of confinement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Luma took down their names and ages, and with the help of the team manager, Tracy, wrote their names on strips of masking tape, which the women plastered across the backs of the boys’ T-shirts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Cut off the top neatly. Cut strips down into the can the length of your finger. Let each strip be so wide.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I eat my cheese crackers and chocolate milk and fruit leather strip. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to see what the best junior fencers looked like on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She had immediately stripped from her gown upon entering her rooms, and now sat in a rose-and-jade dressing robe that suited her well. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He bade each man choose out three thick-fleeced rams and bind them together with strong, pliant strips of bark; then to wait for day, when the flock would be sent out to pasture. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Kyle tugged the envelope free and heard the unmistakable sound of Velcro strips separating. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The strip was a less cruel piece of magic than the black cat had been, but more gruesome. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, the three girls and Cymbeline stripped down to their underclothes and crawled into the single bed, each making room for the next as they huddled close. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As she pushed her way in, the braided strips of silk expanded to accommodate her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z First, all the sugar must be chewed out of Mexican gum, then the bartender gives a few slips of paper to the aspirant, who writes either a proverb or a sentimental remark on the strip. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The narrow strip of light at the edge of the closet door widens, and your breath stops. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z There was a coach giving a lesson on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The first night it happened, I followed them into the strip mall parking lot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The café was like a battleship stripped for action. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I found my roll and did a quick patch job, stretching a strip of tape across the bottom of my shoe and over the sides. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The scientists were looking for ways to strip the kids’ abilities—“rehabilitate” them—but they had mostly just stripped their will to live. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Whatever is making that clicking, I bet it could strip us to the bone in seconds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Rossi asked Hall to carefully place the thin uranium strip inside a specially built machine that would bombard the uranium with neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She found young mupfuti trees, broke away the outer covering with a rock, and pulled the inner bark off in long strips. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While the nurse was expertly tying a strip of gauze around her arm and the doctor was putting his instrument in the sterilizer and taking out a fresh needle, Francie spoke up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Second Half Vondie strips the ball at center court, shoots a short pass to JB, who skips downtown zips around, then double dips it in the bowl. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z In December, 1959, the Somerset’s “beach facilities” consisted of two beach umbrellas stuck in a strip of sand at the rear of the hotel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them got me strapped on a pull-down table, stripped me, and injected me with, I suppose, one of the veridical drugs. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It had stopped snowing and the cedar trees lay about in hillocks of snow and broken limbs and a few standing trunks that stood stripped and burntlooking in that graying landscape. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I pull myself, dripping, onto the land strip and sprint down the sandy stretch for the Cornucopia. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He lies on the couch in the dark, in his clothes, his body covered by his jacket, preferring that to the stripped mattress in the bedroom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the wharf, under the derrick used for unloading the largest ships, he stripped off his clothes and dove into the water. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The only light comes through the Venetian blinds and leads in strips across the rucked covers, the comforter. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Shut up, stupid. You think you can get that bird to strip you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Chas stripped and got into some thermals and sweats, gloves, and a hat. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They’re a little strange, but I’m pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Even though I should be encrypted and off the grid, I feel like his stare is stripping me bare. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Miss Anderson strips me of my weapons before she claps me and Red Jack in irons and leads us down a back staircase to a lower part of the house. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Dill sang along with the music as they entered the city limits of Murfreesboro, with its strip malls and chain restaurants. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z They went together unanimously though shyly, without explanations, and found themselves standing at the end of Hob’s bailey strip after Mass. The Wart had no need to use ingenuity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine myself moving lightning fast on the strip with this new weapon that seemed engineered for speed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He stripped off his apron, and draped it over a garbage can. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I could see the others come out of the droptube behind me, and they were heading off to the strip. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She peeled one in long strips and sucked on the sweet juice hungrily. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Then, from the under side of his left ear, I slashed off a long strip that ran clear to the point. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She ripped up some strips of fabric and made makeshift bandages for Hugo’s hand and Isabelle’s foot. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She colored strips of parachute silk to use as scarves, and she carried a picture of roses on her Yak’s instrument panel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He couldn’t say that if this last embryo died, he would be stripped of his job. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I glanced up at the four lights and hoped I wasn’t going to be chained to the ceiling and stripped naked. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He sat down next to a baobab tree near the girl’s house and began stripping off the bark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He rang the bell and waved, making sure she saw the strip of white gleaming around his wrist. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z "I wash standing up. I get a bucketful of water and I heat it on this little stove and I strip and wash myself all over." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Kainene steered with a careless confidence, past potholes on the road, past palm trees stripped of fronds, past a thin soldier pulling along a thinner goat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Teenagers stripped down to bathing suits and cutoffs. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The strips of bandage that bound her feet had been taken off and her stumps of feet, hard little hooves with the toes bent under, were soaking in a pan of water on the floor. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He stripped off another bill and lighted it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ostracized, isolated, and wearier than she had ever been, she rinsed her arm with the last water from her pitcher, and bandaged it with a slip she tore into strips. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She measures me against a paper strip stuck to the wall, asks me to describe the clothes I wore when I arrived. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The silence that followed his outburst had a fungus quality to it, as though it were breeding malignancies, and I had the uncanny feeling that I had somehow been stripped naked and violated. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Quickly he slipped up a cobbled street, turned into a garden, stripped off his uniform and hung it on a clothesline. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There he stripped off his shirt, helped her into a boat, and paddled briskly across the Cut. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z About half a mile to the east, a long strip of land ran parallel to the coastal cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At a Queens strip joint called the Playhouse, Pitkin—a short, pugnacious, extroverted officer who some felt had a Napoleon complex—ran into an ex-con in the men’s room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Brother Vu slices it into slippery strips and stews it with seaweed and the magic sauce. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Black brothers were folding their tents, feeding their horses, and chewing on strips of salt beef. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If Poet’s estate did exist, it was sure to be a shell of its former self, stripped and plundered by the German army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Achilles stripped the bloody armor from the corpse while the Greeks ran up to wonder how tall he was as he lay there and how noble to look upon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And since most of the silk available came from underclothing and evening dresses, the quilt was glorious in strips of flesh pink and orchid and pale yellow and cerise. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Romero busted up an orange crate and used the wooden slats for a splint that he tied up with strips of old bed sheet. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want any confrontation to affect Faizah’s outcome on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z At one end is the bustle of Westchester Avenue, the neighborhood’s main commercial strip, and from there, the block runs about two hundred yards, flanked by trees and twin rows of parked cars. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She divided it into long, slender strips, then into small squares, smaller and smaller, as small as sugar cubes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z That was where they told me to strip down to my underwear. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later, we pulled into the strip mall lot. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The bitterness and alcohol and depression are stripped away from these phantom incarnations, and they console and protect me in death as they never did in life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I’m too busy staring at the photo strip of us together. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z There were news vans set up like permanent trailer parks—surrounding the strip mine, outside the school, and along US Route 30. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z They stripped me down to my slip and brassiere and made me lie down on this long metal table, but they didn’t buckle the belts I saw dangling down the sides. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled a busted one from the trash and splinted the broken spoke with a rolled magazine and a plastic bag ripped into strips. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Once again, Rachel and I stepped to the on-guard lines, opposite sides of the strip, masks on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They had told her how she might possibly win fifty strips and have a grand day on the excursion. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I jogged around the corner for the upscale strip mall just down the boulevard. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z His north sea eyes were colder than she’d ever seen them, empty of feeling, stripped of anything human at all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The last thing Katie did in their old home after it had been stripped bare and had that look of a near-sighted man with his glasses off, was to rip up the tin-can bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My appetite returns and I eat a cracker and a strip of beef. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The lynx reached a paw out to its full length and raked at the cat, tearing a strip of the bark away. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They stripped her violently, pulling off her slacks despite her kicking. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The mummy jar had been unscrewed, the tape stripped off, the crayoned picture of the Jackson Five torn. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z But he only hesitates briefly before he’s stripping out of his clothes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When they came up out of the Pipeworks, they stripped off their boots and slickers and hurried out into Plummer Square, where they flopped down on a bench and burst into furious talk. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All the other visible hills, including those facing me across the narrow valley, looked to be in good health, except where they had been scarred and gouged by quarrying or strip mining, which was regularly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My heart leaps and then plummets when I see Molly hobble across the dormitory, her nose purple between strips of medical tape. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Jack is outside, scraping the ice crystals off the windows in scratchy strips. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She sliced a pickle and placed the strips like the spokes of a wheel. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She stripped the girl of the drenched, ripped clothing, setting it aside, then rubbed her dry with rough cloth, and wrapped her in soft wool. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z James stood in front of the class and held up his vertical strip of paper with letters on it: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This is Hideo stripped of his fortune and fame and genius. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He stripped slowly and piled his vile rags in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It took every fiber in my being not to give in to it and take a nap right there on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He concealed the car as best he could beneath a brown tarp, stripped it of its Virginia plates, and hid them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some find the salaries and perks compensating; the developments that cater to them come with big houses, schools with top SAT scores, parks for youth sports, and upscale shopping strips. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Mostly she watched...everything: us kids playing in the river, the way the trees tilted to the north towards what was left of the natural landscape beyond the clear-cuts stripped of topsoil. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The inside of the limo is essentially a strip club. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I promised him I would, and I stepped out on the strip, game face on, ready for battle. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Her eyes are a little too much,” said Bridget, unfurling a boingy strip of hair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z To keep East Germany weak economically, the Soviets stripped anything of value from their zone of occupation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The tide was coming in and there was only a narrow strip of firm beach between the water and the white, stumbling stuff near the palm terrace. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Without a second thought, Stella ripped it into wide strips, which she wrapped loosely round and round her mother’s leg. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Prospector would scoop up dirt and rocks and sift them through the maze of wooden strips. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he cut strips from his jacket and tied the two crosspieces together at the ends so that they were pulled together and held the logs firmly in place. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Legs bent at the knee, along with the other beginners, I awkwardly advanced down the strip in this position over and over again. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The farther they rode into the Wood, the warmer it became, until at last it was summer again, and they could strip off their furs and pack them away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z As Calder held the flashlight, Petra rewrapped the painting carefully in the long strip of velvet, and then took off her sweater and tied it securely around the bundle. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the three of them filed into the kitchen, Finn keeping his eyes on the ground as Petey stripped off the white coveralls. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Then he reached up overhead and pulled off one of the elastic strips tied along the bar above the stretcher. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z We ran over to the far edge of the blacktop, where a strip of pebbles divided the ground into School and Not-School. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Nailer stripped more wire, tossing the junk insulation over the ship’s side. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Captain Smith rips a strip off the rag and ties it tightly around my finger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He continued to read Beetle Bailey and to cut out the strips, but he no longer mounted them in his collection. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I also make myself eat a cracker and a strip of beef and drink a few cups of water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The above-ground Zebra Room was a bar & grill, set in the middle of a busy commercial strip. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With complete control of the country in his hands, Hitler began persecuting German Jews, stripping them of their legal rights, kicking them out of universities and government jobs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The infant had been stripped of her blanket, and she protested loudly in the chill night air. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I was ready, by whatever means necessary, but after I fell short in my attack, Cecilia took over the attack, patiently staging her moment as she moved down the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There’s nothing but little shops and restaurants on this strip of Bedford Avenue. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We strip to our underwear, stuff our clothes in the backpacks. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z We were driven to the old jail, an isolated stone building, where we were ordered to strip while standing outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No sooner have the strips been cut than fists fight over them. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I had no dry clothes, so I stripped to my boxer shorts and climbed into my sleeping bag. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Purple strip lighting encircles the entrance, just like on the Pleiades Corp commercial, but beyond that it is dark except for a faint blue glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Once I pull out of the parking lot and head down the main strip, he says, “We’re going home now, right?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z A cultivator, a stripped tractor, a horsetrailer with no side panels and no tires, and other inoperative farm machinery lay about. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards stripped off her clothes in front of the prisoners. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jess stripped off her sweatshirt and dropped it over a branch. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z But something told Cole that Edwin and Garvey couldn’t be lied to this morning- Immediately he stripped and waded into the icy water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He battled opponents on the strip and was forced to fight racism and classism in order to claim his spot among the annals of fencing greats, which he did on his own terms. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The tables at Sunny- sides are littered with strips of soggy paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z An X made from two strips of clear tape is holding a white pad and some kind of brace on the bridge of her nose. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The electric clocks on street corners are dismantled, public phones are stripped down to the last wire. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It looked like a black strip on a plush green carpet. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z First they said that I also stripped, in town, at night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Once I found out who was in my first pool and what strip I’d be fencing on for my first bout, I found a seat and sat down and tried to calm my nerves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He stripped off the bloodied gauntlets, loading a fresh clip into the handgun. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z His bed was still unmade; she wondered if her mother would ever make it again, or if she’d simply strip the sheets, strip the room, paint it white, and pretend nothing had ever happened there. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There on the strip, we hugged and high-fived and basked in our glory. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She tapped every case and then wiped away her own fingerprints, kind of like a Mobius strip. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The bed’s stripped to the mattress, the closet gapes open, showing the emptiness inside, but I’d know this room anywhere. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Grandma gazed past her, seeming to count the corpses on the flypaper strip. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He filled the white-rabbit rice bowl with noodles, the long strips hanging from his chopsticks like limp threads. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In it a man sits, stripped above the waist, exposing for the camera a map of raised, crisscrossing scars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I go off the map, I leave suburbs and commercial strips far behind, I enter the open fields, which make for a nice change, drivingwise—but to live in? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew signs off buildings, overturned soldiers’ tents, and stripped the clean clothes that had been pegged out to dry. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get to the main strip, I remember James and our kiss last night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The truth was she would rather stay in the too-hot room and read than strip the dusty beds and sweep out moth-infested closets. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When his piece of grass got bent, he dropped it, picked up a little twig, stripped the leaves off it, and used that. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I sigh and strip off my hoodie, jeans, and undergarments, laying all the clothes out carefully along the bathtub to dry. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table, the pound of meat for the cat in the kitchen—all of these created the impression that we’d left in a hurry. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z On the ground in Norway, Poulsson and his team found the best possible landing spot and set up lights along a strip of land. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d be even worse off than she was today, stripped of all magical powers, without all her current abilities, and never able to learn anything new. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Two metal strips ran from the bottom of the socket all the way down to a circular lump of metal about an inch and a half thick that rested on the ground. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Alongside the clutter there is a starkness about the place that appeals to him: the floors are bare, the woodwork stripped, many of the windows without curtains to highlight their generous proportions. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I keep prying and prying until the strip moves a little more. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z During the first week of September, it was my family's habit to rent a beach house on Ocean Isle, a thin strip of land off the coast of North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She left the seaweed on the throbbing gash and retied the leather strip around it, using her teeth and her right hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I had no clue that Joe’s was a bring-your-own-beer strip joint where women danced around half naked getting dollar bills stuffed into their panties. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Coach Mustilli had registered me weeks ago, so all we had to do was find my pool and head over to my assigned strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He tore off a strip of shirt and tied the ndoro around his neck. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll show you again. With your thumb and forefinger, you pinch off the top — like this, and then let your fingers strip the milk down—like this.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Once we got up, she stripped the sheets from the beds and washed them too. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The third strips me and hands shivers to my skin and to my flesh and bones. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I look past his eyes, it’s a single room, the bed’s made up, stripped down, military. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I would compliment my teammates to show them I appreciated their skill and expertise on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I took my knife and cut a strip off the tail of my shirt. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I run my finger along the inner edge of the strip lighting, then wedge my fingernails in the crack. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He grabbed one of the soldiers and stripped off its clothes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Gale spreads the bread slices with the soft goat cheese, carefully placing a basil leaf on each while I strip the bushes of their berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He stopped, facing the strip; and remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were part of a brighter childhood, he smiled jeeringly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He passed people with horrible burns, their faces swollen, their blackened skin hanging in strips. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded like a chant, the way it was distilled, the way it stripped all the mess of the outside down to the bone of the problem. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I watched them moving back and forth on the strip the coaches had marked off on the floor using masking tape. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We stop at a diner not far down the main strip. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He kept careful records of the weight he had stripped from riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt cursed like the biblical king Nebuchadnezzar, stripped of power and pride, and driven into the wilderness to live like an animal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Yet he cannot picture his family occupying a house like this, playing board games on rainy afternoons, watching shooting stars at night, all their relatives gathered neatly on a small strip of sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was bare, stripped of King Hamlet's liveries and banners. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Four’s cold hand clamps around one of my hips, one of his fingers finding a strip of bare skin just under the hem of my T-shirt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The clouds were still thick, but they were breaking, and pale strips of blue appeared between them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He had heard her words, heard them over and over again during the night hours in the hospital wing while he lay awake, staring at the strips of moonlight on the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Not without stripping her down to her gym suit. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She's stripped down to her dressing gown, which makes her seem even more frail. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z After storing her fuel she returned to the kill to cut off more strips to smoke. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And why should she care — a rude, freckle faced sailor who took more notice of a strip of canvas than of a brocaded gown? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She’d fashioned a needle from a fish bone and stripped plant roots down to a stiff, thin thread. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Still, I put each pink- and-white strip of paper in my shoulder bag as souvenirs. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He took off his T-shirt and pressed it against the cut, then tore a strip from it and made a tourniquet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He tore more strips from his jacket and made a tie-down. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z We would put a strip of paper in the center, then fold the cookie in half and bend its arms back just as it turned hard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They giggled when we stripped down to bathe; they smiled happily while we soaped up and splashed one another. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed brass fittings and steel doors, noting easily stripped service lines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The week before, each child had been given a strip of ten tickets labeled “hot dog,” “soda water,” “merry-go-round” and so on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The vegetable garden was completely stripped, but the flower plot remained though its plants were trampled. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A four-door sedan, tan, with red stripping and another touch of red at the hubcaps. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I stare at my Erudite clothes while the others strip off their outer layers of clothing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z They stripped away our friends and family, took our clothes, took our future. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I whittled an angle on that twig, and bound the two angles face to face with a strip of green bark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, even a parking lot and out-of-state license plates and strip malls in the distance wink with hope. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Poland was also given a strip of land called the Polish Corridor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As the boat approached, the strip of sky wavered and melted away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she told everybody to strip and put on clean underwear. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Colored squares and black strips are calibration targets for the cameras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This narrowing, which was above all a stripping away of identity, began weeks before she had even heard of Sister Drummond. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I type in a few commands and strip away the visuals of the screenshot, so that I’m now immersed inside reams of code. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Prime among these was a narrow strip of concrete on which she had affixed a camera to the railing of the platform where Nazi officials would preside over the ceremony. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I watched refugees cross the ice and continue their trek down the narrow strip of land between the lagoon and the Baltic Sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His stallion’s spotted hindquarters were covered with ragged strips of cloth tom from the surcoats of men his master had slain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She fed it with fantasies, idealized it, savagely defended it, stripped it of its prosaic truth, and turned it into the kind of love one found in novels. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was warm up there in the summer and we didn’t have to strip or do anything sudden. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z To obey a leader who strips away one freedom after another? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The problem was that there was nowhere at Pochala for planes with food and supplies to land, no landing strip. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They strip •out the backseats and stack the migrants like cordwood, one on top of the other. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I will strip away the Mist, once and for all, and show you the world in all its true horror. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The room has been stripped bare, down to the sheets on the bed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He seemed more likely to strip the wheels from a patrol car than to paint the windshield black or hang his shirt like a pennant from the antenna. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z An owl hooted somewhere as he stripped off, and he thought with a pang of Hedwig. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The town has a historic district, a brief strip of colonial architecture visited by tourists on summer weekends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a torn sleeping shift from the ragbag and, using her teeth to start, she ripped it into several strips. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We were ordered to strip and then line up against the wall of the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the shape of a fried egg? How would you color the fat and lean of a strip of bacon?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Celaena followed after her, unceremoniously stripping down to her underclothes and enjoying it far too much when Chaol’s cheeks reddened before he turned away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But when they saw their leader stripping off his blue cloak and obviously preparing to dive into the pool, they had no heart to question his commands. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Closer to the car, houses floated in the middle of soggy lawns, trees had been stripped, there were branches down everywhere. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It had a strip of notched black boot sole for its bumper. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Well, hurry and get it out. Don’t worry about stripping it. Just make sure you get it all.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A small brown bottle zoomed out of the bag; he caught it and hastened back to Hermione and Ron, whose eyes were now half-closed, strips of white eyeball all that were visible between his lids. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They stripped them, took the ammo, and the supplies. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I mumble thanks for the advice, feeling like I’ve just been stripped naked by the crazed enforcer of some ancient sumptuary law: No chatting for you, girl. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean small pieces, little strips that I meant for the gaff’s hook that, when dried by the sun, looked like ordinary animal flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Angrily, he blinked away the tears and set about tearing a strip of cloth from the bottom of his tunic. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As they passed, each warrior stripped off his treasures and tossed them into one of the carts that the stewards had placed before the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inside the bag, two flattened strips of white cotton, each banded with black and carrying a dark brown stain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I know what you girls are up to,” she hissed, then looked over her shoulder at Betty Lou, the beautician, who was rinsing out strips of cloth across the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z His shredded shirt exposed gashes with long strips of flesh missing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When the jacket was on and zippered, it covered up that exposed strip of skin. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he stripped a branch off the tree, a switch, and started whipping him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z You might use it for cleaning, but only in extreme circumstances, like to strip rust from steel. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In her mermaid costume, Zora lay on the wet strip of outdoor carpeting, waiting to go on after me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Rockey Street was the main strip, and its sidewalks were filled with street vendors and restaurants and bars. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Helda, on May’s orders, kept the Korean foodstuffs down here, the earthenware jars of pickled vegetables and meats, the fermented seasoning pastes and sauces, strips of dried seafood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured her sitting in the kitchen, the wallpaper border near the ceiling with its strips of stamped ivy, the floral porcelain handles on the cabinets. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He stood on tiptoes and crawled on hands and knees, peering into the dark strips of space between the slats. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I stripped off the gloves and tried to hand them back to Frankie, but he refused to take them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z If we crossed the frozen Vistula lagoon, we could then make our way down the narrow strip of land to either Pillau or Gotenhafen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As the headsman looked at her, his pale colorless eyes seemed to strip the clothes away from her, and then the skin, leaving her soul naked before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We can still reach the war room, which is stripped but mostly intact. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I end up just dampening a strip of bandage and placing it on his forehead. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We cleared some ground for a landing strip, and then the planes began landing to make their deliveries. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We pull from the drive-thru into a parking space, and we watch the traffic go up and down the main strip while we eat. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Whenever he referred to him in his speeches he was careful to strip him of any human attributes and present him as an abstract functionary in some larger scheme. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Only this time we were at that part where all the freaks hang out, the strip or whatever. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The Salvadoran stripped off his shirt and used it to wrap a tourniquet around the leg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But first, before he had let her take it up, Father had brought out a long red strip of paper. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, all the finals were over, and all we did all day was watch film strips. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The label on Doon’s said “Matches,” and under it was a white, inch-wide strip of some kind of rough, pebbly material. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I grit my teeth as Venia, a woman with aqua hair and gold tattoos above her eyebrows, yanks a strip of Fabric from my leg tearing out the hair beneath it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He tapped some keys and pulled the lever on it and then inspected the resulting paper strip. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Their shadows, and the shadow of the tower on which they stood, and all the spectres of the burning trees, stretched over the parkland in broad strips of indigo. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going to be armed with his wand — which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood — against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire- breathing dragon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They’d make a slave of me that day, stripping cloak and tunic off me, throwing around me the dirty rags you see before you now. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I wanted the blood of the one who had stripped me of power thirteen years ago ... for the lingering protection his mother once gave him would then reside in my veins too. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z One of the legs collapsed and it fell backwards, revealing crossed lattice strips of hessian on its underside. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there's some improvement, I could swear he's making an effort to snap every branch we encounter. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At break, I pull two strips of black material out of my pocket. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It’s as if the house has been stripped of all those little things that made it a home. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Like, I’m pretty sure he stripped off that final wolf shirt one day, and then Bram moved to Shady Creek two hours later. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She smiled at the shining water and tantalizing strip of land. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He unbuttoned his shirt, stripped it off, and set it on the end of the cot. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Only difference is Ma got fat fingers, and used to be braiding like she was trying to strip my edges or make me bald. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I would lie in bed and wonder if it was because I was unapologetically competitive on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He was stripping down to his bathing suit just seconds after getting to the pool deck. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Even when it was working, it was just a skinny strip of light, and it was dead by maybe four minutes in, anyway. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “I ain’t bring you up here to watch them folks get harassed and stripped from their homes. I brought you here ’cause you asked how I knew. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Her eyes are wide open, searching, and when her gaze alights on Vivian’s face, it is startling in its intensity, stripped of any pretense or convention. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He’d already stripped him out of the blankets and now he unzipped him out of his coat and then out of his clothes and moved him away from the fire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The neighborhood is older than ours, with aging ranch style homes, but a strip mall on the corner looks no different here than in my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We might all have to strip down to the way we were born, to keep ourselves from drowning. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Instead of lunch, we sneak into the auditorium, and it’s strange seeing the stage stripped of the set for Oliver! Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Since “independence” was foisted on the Transkei, the tens of thousands of Xhosas living in Crossroads were to be stripped of their South African citizenship and deported to the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day, he strips and wades in knee-deep to scrub away sweat and grime. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He tottered to the fire with Anya and stripped off his coat to be closer to the flames. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z But when we go bathing and strip, suddenly we have slender legs again and slight shoulders. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant was in the corner of a strip center, a striped vinyl banner above the door heralding its presence and its name. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z My success wasn’t only measured by wins on the fencing strip, but also by the number of people I was able to touch and inspire by sharing my story of triumph. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Withstanding forces far greater than it was designed for, it rippled violently against the airlock seal- strip. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Al walks in, and I don’t even have to ask him to help me; he just walks over and strips bedding with me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “We can strip wire with a hangover, no problem.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The ivy which used to soften the effect of that bright red facade had been stripped away, perhaps to preserve the brickwork. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They stripped away the proteins by dissolving the material in chloroform. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Like most peasants, Will’s father owned strips of land in all three of the village fields. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The Devil’s Tongue was a very useful knot, and when Violet tied the cloth strips together, end to end, it formed a sort of rope. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Smith came up, working a strip of buckskin in his fingers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She used this to bind strips of reed into a cone. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In North Beach you had the glitzy strip palaces like Carol Doda’s with her famous bust outlined on the marquee. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “We’re just going to bike over to the old strip cuts after school.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Turning the little steel strip over and over between her fingers, she remembered an experiment she’d done in science class as a child. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The last bus lets us off on a commercial strip peppered with car dealerships. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I see Lazy Larry driving down the hill to the main strip, and I know I need to get to work. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But even cutting the jackets in strips might not make enough roping to tie all the logs together. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z My individual results continued to climb as well, improving both my national and international rankings, being recognized both on and off the strip for my efforts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She’s sitting at the kitchen table and holds up a handful of sample strips, splayed out like playing cards. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This material is processed by a superefficient metabolism, stripped of any useful minerals and...ejected at the other end, as it were. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was a warm evening—the two boys had taken off their shirts, and after a while Joe stripped also. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Singh was stripping old paper off the walls of one of the bedrooms, and all of us got involved. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “The landing strip is too soft to use tomorrow. Maybe it’ll start raining again before the field dries out.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The surface was covered with horizontal strips of wood separated by gaps. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z While Mother dozed in the tub, we stripped the linen from her bed and laid on fresh. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved that about her, and as our friendship blossomed on and off the strip, she helped me not to feel so alone when the team traveled abroad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Saint Francis couldn’t wait to strip off his shirt and sandals whenever he saw a poor person without them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He somehow managed to raise a fist in defiance as they carried him upstairs to do a forcible strip search. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He put a final strip of tape on the injured man’s splint. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “So this Ali...they stripped him of the title?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Digory’s hand was shaking as he opened his penknife and cut out a long strip of turf on the bank of the pool. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He stripped off his shirt and jeans, revealing a pair of gray boxers underneath. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She ran some hot water, and he stripped to his underpants. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk and walk and walk, all down through town and past the graveyard and over the long strips of paved road where mirages shimmer in the sun. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z An Orc stooped over him, and flung him some bread and a strip of raw dried flesh. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The left side of his face was a web of scars that radiated out, leaving bald strips running through his black hair and beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There’s just a pale pink strip across my cheekbone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Sunlight comes in through the window too, and falls on the floor, which is made of wood, in narrow strips, highly polished. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance a flat-bottomed motorboat lay beached on a strip of sand scarcely wide enough to accommodate it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In the King’s Tower, Jon was stripped of his weapons and admitted to the royal presence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Catholic church, first on the scene and deeply dug in, sat in comfortable tradition while the missions were gradually abandoned and their roofs fell in and pigeons roosted on the stripped altars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A window ledge is covered in stretched, dangling strips that look like melted wax. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He could see a strip of the road and the cornfield beyond, its leaves waving in the breeze. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z This latter pair also sports a belt fashioned from a strip of blanket. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, starting Divination, are you?” said the manager, stripping off his gloves and leading Harry into the back of the shop, where there was a corner devoted to fortune-telling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z One blink later, the three of them stood in the parking lot of a strip mall. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Jon left them there arguing as he returned to the armory, hung up his sword, and stripped off his battered armor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Doc had bound his chest tight with strips of old sheets to keep the broke ribs from moving every time he breathed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I cut strips of birch bark and Denna and I both picked at them and chewed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Though Mr. Armin was bleeding himself from the gash under his arm, he stripped off his doublet and his linen shirt. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Some tore strips from their canvas jackets and wrapped them around their bare feet, but once the canvas got wet it was worse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I strip and throw my clothes into a heap in the corner; tiny particles of dust rise into the air and drift soundlessly back to the ground. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z First, I patched it up, then I cut strips of spare canvas to place over the seam. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For white dwarfs, the pressure of the electrons, stripped from their nuclei, holds the star up. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a hard time finding my way on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The tide was low and there was a strip of weed-strewn beach that was almost as firm as a road. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The Combat Zone was a nearby strip club. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Charles added a strip of land about three hundred yards long on the western boundary of the property. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All morning she watched the Bloody Mummers strip the dead of their valuables and drag the corpses to the Flowstone Yard, where a pyre was laid to dispose of them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “This is my cue to get out of here before you strip out of your gown,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We ’11 need to strip the flesh from his bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We having fetched breeches and a plain shirt, I tore another shirt into strips and bound the man’s hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z One was an elegant Pentoshi, grey-haired and clad in silk but for his cloak, a ragged thing sewn from dozens of strips of tom, bloodstained cloth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My aggression seems to strip the street naked. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Once she pulls away I sneak in the rear entrance and run straight to the basement and strip off her clothes and change back into a regular shirt and skirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As I left the strip, prepared to give the ritual high-fives to rest of the team, I noticed Dagmara was hysterically crying. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He stripped his man clean in the open court, raced down the right wing and did this nasty reverse dunk. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Then they were stripped and given a prison uniform to wear, with a number on the front and back that was to serve as their only means of identification for the duration of their incarceration. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t fenced competitively or trained for almost a year, and I had no intention of hopping back on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Maybe he was hanging around to get in with her and strip her of all that she had. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The Nation reprimanded him, stripped him of all powers of attorney, silenced him, and then exiled him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach whispers hurriedly, “Heads up. Another strip. Another field. See everything. On guard, Donte. On guard.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Only a strip of the river between Baton Rouge and Vicksburg was then under Confederate control. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z If he is near a river or stream, he strips and slips into the water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z On Sunday evening, April 7,1765, a swarm of Rhode Island men, their faces blackened, boarded the Polly and stripped the ship of its cargo: barrel after barrel of molasses from the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We’re decked out in bright orange vests with even brighter reflective strips. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z A strip of plastic had been drawn back in the casing above each of the screens to reveal a small compartment, cylindrical and about five inches deep. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His horse, still in harness, grazed along the unplowed strip. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I shook the damp out of my legs and laced my boots back on, wrapping the tops in strips of fabric that tore as I knotted them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was a rude question, but the shame of being stripped before half the castle made it seem like nothing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Another possibility came to her, and the idea that the Council might have stripped Mona of her marking made her look at the greenwitch uneasily. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The drawback of the system was that the peasants had no control over where their strips would be. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z They stripped down to their underwear and dove into the quiet water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He was stripped to the waist, sitting up in bed leafing through a magazine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The Paqo told me that these guesthouses were normally stocked with corn, potatoes, and dried strips of llama meat, as well as wood for fire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “It’s warm enough for the park today,” I say, glancing across the parking lot to the strip of sun-sparkled ocean gleaming between Coastal Marine Supply and Otis’s Hardware. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When we returned to our stable, we gave the demon girl our one good chair—an old stool that Father had found in a vacated apartment and which we had stripped of paint and repainted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I looked out my side window and saw the field rushing up. We had landed on grass strips before, hut this one was dotted with mounds that looked like waves undulating toward us.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z After Arkansas, I knew, we would drive down through Texas, past the hundreds of strip malls and armadillos baking on the side of the road. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He came up with a strip of papyrus and showed the old inventor some diagrams and notes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A long, blurred strip of daylight reflected on the ceiling above the pelmet was all that broke the darkness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z From the top of the dig he dangled a measuring tape—alternating ten-centimeter strips of red, white, and green—to indicate depth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine Lord Krishna consenting to be stripped naked, whipped, mocked, dragged through the streets and, to top it off, crucified—and at the hands of mere humans, to boot. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I slip it behind the strip and pull down as hard as I can—it shifts the teeniest bit. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z We can hang strips impregnated with the chemical lindane in our closets and garment bags or place them in our bureau drawers for a half year’s freedom from worry over moth damage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But sometime next week, he’ll hand out these little strips of paper, and when he tells us to, we’ll all put them in our mouths. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She came at once, without repugnance, and they kneeled together beside the body, stripping it of the vital pieces. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z After pulling a length of the cable out and stripping the ends, she fiddled with a roll of electrical tape until Vogel arrived. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re almost there. The metal strips seem secure. They might hold together as long as the rope doesn’t give way. Diana, what do you think?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z After consulting the horizon on all four sides, she tore what was left of her quilts into several strips and resolved to polish the banister poles at a later time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If you now want more forest, why don’t you tear down some of your strip malls and plant trees? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He walked over to the stripped cot, which had been propped on its side and pushed out of the way. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sierra found the press, stripped two little cloves, and placed them in the metal chamber. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She cut off long, thin strips of meat and laid them on her smoking-platform. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Gently he stripped off Frodo’s old jacket and worn tunic, and gave a gasp of wonder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The walls of the throne room had been stripped bare, the hunting tapestries that King Robert loved taken down and stacked in the comer in an untidy heap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Emily tore off a strip, and they headed back to their building as fast as they could go. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We walk down the nearest sand strip, approaching the Cornucopia with care, just in case the Careers are concealed there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There was also a strip of some dark substance as long and as thick as his forearm. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After removing each strip, Dr. Grossman passed it through a meshing device that perforated it with tiny holes so that it could be stretched to cover a larger area. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I stripped off my Keds, grabbed my bag, and waded into the creek. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly stripped off his icy clothes and wrapped him in a big blanket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She tore the cloth into small strips, then ate some stew, and started off to hunt birds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was so much walking between the fields, and the strips of land were so small, our harvest wasn’t worth a rotten apple. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z He was stripped of his clothing, put in a cell, and not allowed a phone call to enlist help. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At first I see nothing but a stretch of farmland, a strip of empty ground, the fence, and the fields and beginnings of buildings that lie beyond it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Mark had ripped a wide strip of cloth from the bottom of his shirt to wrap around his nose and mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Kvothe closed the window’s shutters while Chronicler removed his shirt; there were bandages stripping the backs of his arms from where he had been wounded by the scrael three nights ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a single story, with a thin strip of yard full of sparse, scrubby grass in front. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We were ordered to strip down to the waist and line up facing the wall, waiting our turn at the X-ray machine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fat Lady had vanished from her portrait, which had been slashed so viciously that strips of canvas littered the floor; great chunks of it had been torn away completely. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “They’ll strip everyone to bones if we don’t drive them away!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I steered myself toward a strip of solid land with the wide, flowing river beyond. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I got the safety scissors and began to cut the poster board into bumper-sticker-sized strips. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the desperate eatery, through the rain-greased windows and beyond the access road that bounded a strip of sloping littered grass, ran the Interstate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her hands, which were not trembling, were still busy: she had opened the bottle of iodine and was cutting up strips of bandage. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The blank portion was limited, for the narrow strip was crowded by lines of text and a tiny picture of a hero and heroine embracing under a eucalyptus tree. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I imagined it lying in a muddy puddle on the sink, surrounded by strips of curling yellowed wallpaper. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She is so altered from the woman I knew in the Capitol, stripped of the gaudy clothing, the heavy makeup, the dyes and jewelry and knick-knacks she adorned her hair with. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When he came back he had a strip of blue-and-white cardboard in his teeth. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z According to the Book, they had once been equipped with wings of their own, but evolution had stripped them of this power. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The following morning Ranofer crept to the shop sore in every muscle, with the old, familiar strips of fire across his shoulders. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They went to plan B, laying strips of masking tape across the window and then cracking it with a crowbar. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She handed him a strip of cloth and a loofah pod to scrape off the dirt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Alaskan hunters know that the easiest way to preserve meat in the bush is to slice it into thin strips and then air-dry it on a makeshift rack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “All fencing takes place on this strip. If you step off the strip, or get pushed off, game over. Got that?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The country was stripped and plundered years ago and they found nothing in the houses and buildings by the roadside. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z When we got upstairs Lelia stripped me of my clothes and then she stripped herself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept on wrapping the cool white strips around and around till it was all finished up and my arm inside like a hot dog in a bun. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She cuts off a little strip and I have to hold Manchee’s head down while she loops it around the mess of his tail. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Every strip of wood he tapped from the inside, Pinch grabbed and threw into the fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Then she knelt on the ground, next to the sunken strips of earth where she imagined her mother and sister were buried. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Chas stripped and got into some thermals and sweats, gloves, and a hat. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One by one, Clayton and the Beat Boys filed out of the police van and were led into the station, their hands behind their backs, bound by plastic strip handcuffs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “You almost scared us to death,” my mother muttered as she stripped the leaves from a tree limb to prepare it for my back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After getting dropped off on the main strip, we walk up to the clearing. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I hand the paper to Paulie, and then he points to a strip of duct tape and tells me to stand there. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z One wrong word, an ill-considered look, an ill-timed laugh, any of them could provoke his lordship’s wroth and cost a man a strip of skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I stripped right down to the skin, not caring that the girls were watching. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys stripped to their underwear and set out for a narrow archipelago of rocks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There were comic strips to show us some examples of how people are misjudged and how our negative thoughts can lead to violence. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z His hair was cut just as flat on top, so miniature airplanes could’ve used it for a landing strip. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The sun's hot and severe, so while I wait for my water to purify I strip down to my underclothes and wade into the mild current. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I set the broom back in its place and went upstairs, where I stripped off the bedding, carried it outside, and pegged it to the line. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Others were flayed and stripped, showing rusty iron girder bones. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He strips Lincoln to the waist and continues the search, cutting off the president’s white shirt with a pocketknife. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Then Father and I would cut the bamboo strips and the rice paper and slowly construct the model. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And the entire time he was leading me, I was sure he was going to make a quick turn into an alley, where some dudes would be waiting to strip me of ... what, exactly? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She hacked off the outer shell of a mupfuti tree and began peeling off long strips of the inner bark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had left Dana Matherson stripped down to his underpants and trussed to the flagpole in front of the administration building at Trace Middle School. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the can was heaped with crumpled paper, he dropped the leather cover—empty now, limp, like the husk stripped from an ear of corn—on top and kicked the can under his desk. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside, it’s mostly cans but we find a dry loaf of bread, some bruised fruit and a few strips of dried meat. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The upright of the frame pressed tight against the lower strip of leather, but it held smooth and firm, offering no purchase for teeth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The blood has been stripped of its clotting factors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hold my head high and check that people notice the Syrian national strip I wear. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Tree branches that should have been heavy with green needles were stripped clean, as if a giant had come and swept them bare with his fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z My arms raised in triumph, I did a quick lap around the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He unbuckled a saddlebag and pulled out a few strips of dried meat, which he tossed to Gurgi. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z There were islands in the Worm where lovers kissed, but in the Plaza of Punishment they peeled the skin off men in strips and left them hanging naked for the flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His mother calmly picked up her knife and fork and cut firm strips of meat from the bone. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Everything about me is stripped of color, just as Metias has been stripped from my life. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We gather at the foot of the ladder, waiting for our eyes to adjust to the dim strips of lights, breathing in the mixture of chemicals, mildew, and sewage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The sun was gone and night had stripped the color from the trees, and she was going to be late getting home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So I point to good, then go to the alphabet strip and then jab at the letters E and R. Good-er. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She stripped off her many thrift-store rings and is wearing the charm necklace from her dad instead of the usual chunky array of crucifixes and silver skulls. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z His voice was thick with tears, but not yet stripped of defiance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They stripped off Lavender’s canteens and ammo, all the heavy things, and Rat Kiley said the obvious, the guy’s dead, and Mitchell Sanders used his radio to report one U.S. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He has bruises and cuts all over, and his fatigues hang in dull, tattered strips. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He bandaged the wound with sphagnum moss and strips of deer hide. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z To stand in front of Trip and that girl and say to them, I know what you’ve been doing—it seemed as mortifying as stripping them both naked. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once when I visited Buddy I found Mrs. Willard braiding a rug out of strips of wool from Mr. Willard's old suits. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Ron sat on the edge of the grave and stripped off his shoes and socks, which he placed upon the elf’s bare feet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When the cakes were laid out upon the table in strips, ready for heating, Wing Lung felt his heart fit to burst with pride. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There’s something comforting about hanging around with Tess and this boy, as if the absence of Metias hasn’t entirely stripped me of everyone who cares about me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “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 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 They’d all been stripped of their labels and the contents written on the metal in black marker pen in Spanish. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z An even more spacious garden spread out in back, which boasted apple trees, a vegetable garden, a strip of flowers, and a patch of wattles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We make a bed of pelts, strip off his layers of weapons, and help him onto his back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Akhi kept reminding me that believing in myself and being in the right head space when stepping on that strip was just as important as being in prime physical shape. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He hammers a strip of heated metal with careful, measured strokes, his brightly tattooed arms sweating from the strain. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She wore the old black cardigan all the time now, even on warm days, and she insisted on keeping her legs wrapped up in strips of an old wool blanket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Once, when I looked out the window, I saw washerwomen stretching out lengths of saris to dry in the sun, long strips of yellow and blue and pink against the green fields. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt an overwhelming sense of shame as I peeled myself off the ground, shook hands with Cecilia, and walked off the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It’s John Jr., carrying in a tray of rice crackers wrapped in roasted nori, salted nuts, strips of dried squid. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark hair remaining ran in a wide strip down the top of his head, and he had braided it down to the top of his neck. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Later, when I return to the dormitory, Edward’s bunk is stripped clean and his drawers are open, empty. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The plastic strips choked off the blood flowing to his hands. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Sighing, I stripped the blanket and sheet from the bed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My performance on the strip started showing that I was headed in the right direction. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z One stripped off the ruins of her gown and smallclothes, and another bathed her and washed the sticky juice from her face and her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And then there is a building, its front laced with scaffolding made of bamboo poles held together with plastic strips. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There were apricot candies pressed flat into wafers; thin, white, curled strips of coconut candy; several kinds of disclike rice cookies; and so on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay in the mouth of the cave and wearily chewed and twisted the bark strips into twine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She stripped away the green, resinous wood, pausing to remove a splinter from her thumb. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Community clotheslines ran above the ragged strips of grass. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z His laughter had burst the button from his tieless shirt collar, and a white strip outlined his gaunt neck. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She unfolded her strip, a piece of sky blue denim with fraying edges, on which words had been printed in white. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I strip the bed as fast as I can so I won’t be tempted to get back in. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He’d allowed them to be led onto the platform, stripped to the waist, shivering slightly in the evening air, given boxing gloves. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I stripped off my dirty travel wrap and stepped in. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Passing her father’s room, she saw a strip of light under his door. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After a long time, the man shook her by the shoulder and handed her a strip of dried reindeer meat to chew. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Bo blows bubbles into the Silly Putty and uses it to strip the ink from his owner’s manual while I weigh the Slinky, letting it slide back and forth in my hands, like Jake. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In detention,, he felt raw, skinned, the outer layers of himself stripped off. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But the boy continued to shadow her, clutching a few strips of jerky and saying nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He had been lured into the open, and trapped, twice trapped; trapped by being in jail for murder, and again trapped by being stripped of emotional resources to go to his death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Now strip those sheets, get in the kitchen, and get scrubbing. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I was glad to wake up, glad to see morning stream in through the window in shimmering strips the color of a ripe orange. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At the shell house, the crew boys stripped off their jerseys and stretched out on the ramp, basking like lithe, white lizards in the sun. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Washington Park racetrack sat on a verdant strip of land along the city’s southwestern edge, within walking distance of both the Fair’s Midway Plaisance and the University of Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She stripped down to her underwear on the porch, so as not to get the inside of the house muddy. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’m suddenly, fervently grateful that I was too exhausted from combat training to strip before sleeping. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If only he could strip it off, be free of it, five solely and forever as a sort of cruel essential ghost or demon of himself... Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He rose and let the blanket fall to the sand and then stripped out of his coat and out of his shoes and clothes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z At the start of class, James bent over his backpack and pulled out a handful of long, skinny strips of paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I had seen the Negro dockworkers stripped to the waist, their bodies glistening with sweat under their loads. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship, declaring them non-Germans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A long strip makes a handle to be strapped across the wearer’s chest. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I kneel in the corner and pull back the carpet, tuck the key there, and carefully push the carpet back down on the tack strip. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I unbuckle my belt and strip off my jumpsuit, which is little more than a perforated rag. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z First, you take construction paper and cut it into strips about two inches wide and eight or nine inches long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z 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 I then filled in all these holes with pebbles and along this path laid down long strips of kelp, making a slippery bed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z M. Stanley Livingstons 4-inch cyclotron, uncovered to show the interior, including the lone semicircular “dee” and a strip of copper serving as the target. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then, we stick a candle in the sand of each bag, and when we light the candles, it turns the street into a “landing strip” for Santa Claus. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Like there was a fencing strip between us, me and Trey face off with Alan. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This Mobius strip has only one side, you can prove it by running your finger along the surface. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I stared straight ahead, mesmerized by the strip of blacktop leading to the Rolland fairgrounds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Gingerly she untied the tight leather strip and let it fall away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On the floor of the kitchen, friction strips have been nailed into the wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The long strip of a building had nine rooms, side by side, with doors that led out onto a narrow veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After several biscuits, I brought out the slim packet wrapped in muslin and tied with a strip of calico. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As dawn breaks, I open the windows to my bedroom and let the last of the cool night air flow in as I strip off my Court dress. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The agent of change was, to begin with, a humble strip of waxed paper from the year i860. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Eyes closed, lips moving soundlessly, Muriel stretched forth a bloody hand, and a gust of wind stripped away the sparkling dust. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I have more trouble with the Klein bottle than the Mobius strip, probably because it’s a bottle, and I can’t think of a bottle that isn’t intended to contain something. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Biff’s eyes scanned over him, stripping him naked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z These offerings, with strips of meat, were laid upon the fire. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinner we cleaned up and took photos in the old photo booth, one strip for each of us. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He cinched the strip of cloth behind his neck, making sure his mouth and nose were entirely covered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z If a villein inherited enough strips of land to support his family, or if he was lucky enough to serve an honest and generous lord, he might live in relative comfort. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Her bikini top, two pink strips and a string, covers very little of her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z At her command, Missandei stripped off her clothes and climbed in after her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He took off his wet cloak, but it was too cold and damp here to strip down any further. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Beyond that was a groomed strip of sand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Peeta has found a good tree about ten yards from the narrow strip of beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “What? Jay, she broke up with me” When I got outside, Nicole was talking with Mr. Sager as he lined a window with weather stripping. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The other stores in the strip mall are empty. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a ragged strip of green cloth. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The painting over their fireplace, by Daniel Aronstein, was a modem depiction of an American flag: strips of frayed muslin layered with oil paints in greens and mauve. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z One day, a packet-ship arriving from Nova Scotia with meat, thus alleviating the city’s starvation, I purchased a salted ham-hock with Sally, and, by her side, stripped it for cooking. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Each of her footsteps made a sound like Velcro strips separating. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Wallpaper hung from the plaster in long, loose strips. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Also, it was easier knowing that I had my team to support me on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z That evening An-mei and I went to work and searched through strips of fortune cookie papers, trying to find the right instructions to give to your father. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He tore several wide strips from his cloak. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I was fine but she was standing above me and pulling long, rotten strips of flesh off her arms and hands as if peeling a rotten banana. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Fred hurried to the far end of the narrow strip and ran! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Rows of blue runway lights stretched out along the valley floor behind us, delineating Og’s private landing strip. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Somehow, I had to push through this feeling and get on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She stuffed some of the cloth into her mouth and tied it in place with another strip. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, we had the strip of land all to ourselves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Lavender died there were 17 men in the platoon, and whoever drew the number 17 would strip off his gear and crawl in headfirst with a flashlight and Lieutenant Cross’s .45-caliber pistol. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Caesar had seen Cora stripped naked for her whippings, the blood pouring over her skin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On either side, my friends, with quick, shivery movements, stripped off their clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Bach’s and Handel’s rich palette of chords was stripped back to just a handful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Take care, lad, or you shall end up like me, stripped of any respectable rank and warming your shabby old hide at the fire of your enemies.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The cameras were fed by 12,000 feet of film, an astonishing quantity made possible by a thin Mylar strip specially manufactured by Eastman Kodak. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z These you sucked inside your mouth till all the flavor was gone, and then you stripped the moistened meat away from the seed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The asphalt in the parking lot is dark and gleaming, its white paint strips faded almost to the point of nonexistence. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Cringing, the old man pointed to a great shell that held water, and pushed towards the fire another shell in which were strips of smoke-dried fish. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The small woman parried and ripped off another strip of cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Citing the severity of the crime, the district attorney will charge him as an adult, stripping him of the protections normally given to juveniles. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Louie found a discarded strip of metal, climbed on his friend’s shoulders, pried a vent open, squirmed out, and helped his friend out, badly cutting himself in the process. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “He had been stripped of his tools: his coin, key, and candle. Furthermore, his cell had no door worth mentioning. No window that could be breached.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Cast your whole vote, Ellsberg thought, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The entire team was punished heavily, too—knocked down to the bottom of the rankings and stripped of their top two players. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A man stumbles out of the sea carrying a small boy wearing the Syrian team strip and no life jacket. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I tear strips of cloth off my shirt and wrap my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Treats over, she sliced her birds into delicate strips and simmered them slowly and not too long. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was stripping off his wet clothes when Steelshanks Walton found him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They’d kept their weapons, but stripped off their telltale uniforms, begged or stolen clothes, and joined the tide of refugees fleeing toward Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Omakayas helped her grandmother carefully push the bark aside, then the two peeled it away strip by strip. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He always ’peared to be gigantic when he was tearing strips offen someone’s back or barking orders from atop his horse or when he was getting whispered ’bout in folks’ gossip. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She bound the least bloodied pieces around Lyddie’s head and tied them in place with a narrower strip. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Mariel staged her attack, pushing me down the strip, and as she accelerated with her arm a little behind in speed, I was able to hit her in preparation of her attack. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was slow work, turning silk strands into long strips of cloth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I went back to my rover, cut some strips of Hab material, then braided them into a primitive but strong rope. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Half was a purple contusion that hung in strips like a shredded mask. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z At a table in front of the banner, students with hipster glasses and uncombed hair hung out, talking about whether Ferd Johnson was really the genius behind the 1920s comic strip Moon Mullins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z TTie wolves were grey, and so were the silent sisters; together they stripped the flesh from the fallen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The strips of copper across the toes were so glittering bright that Laura wished she were a boy. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Humanity on the Great Continent of Gethen lives in a strip of land between two white walls. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Faintly he could make out a strip of wan, greyish light filtering in. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At the feet of the statue lay a braided cylinder of silk strips, five feet in diameter and ten feet long. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “If I cut offher teats and feed them to my girls, will she abide me then? Will she abide me if I strip offher skin to make myself a pair of boots?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They had all its leaves stripped off, and some of its branches torn off too, before you could say Jack Robinson. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z She still planned to polish the banister poles with the strips she had tom from her quilts. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Before I know what I’m doing, I’m three-quarters of the way across the wide strip of green that separates my driveway from Jupe's. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He bought a strip of twenty tickets for a dollar and they started to dance. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Millard sighed, lingered in front of the mirror a bit longer, then stripped and disappeared again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Portuguese were so shocked, evidently, that they stripped the gentle Kongo and chained them down in rows, in the dark, for the passage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His sister had insisted that Joffrey strip Blount of his white cloak on the grounds of treason and cowardice. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But when I got to her room, it was empty, and the bed was stripped. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Long strips of cotton fabric were hung over wooden racks so that their lower edges dipped into the water. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And she reached into her teacher bag and pulled out a strip of sticky gold stars. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Along one entire wall, arranged neatly in small piles, stood the raw materials he had collected: roots, seeds, dried leaves, pods, strips of bark and shriveled mushrooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z James stood in front of the class and held up his vertical strip of paper with letters on it: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z My allies and I are rounding the horn, starting to give chase to Brutus and Enobaria, who are sprinting down a sand strip toward the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Interesting? Like strip poker interesting? I hope I’m wearing the right underwear for this,” Arthur says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Once again, we were back on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z What would Kaz say if she suddenly stripped down and started washing herself in front of him? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He found a small strip of potato skin and ate it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Jule got hired to work for cash at a storefront gym in a strip mall. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I want to think it again now, but I have been stripped of all certainty. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z After some debate, I strip him of his jacket and zip it on over my own. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I tear a strip of cloth from the bottom of my shirt and try to wrap her wound the way Tess would. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Over the top, he placed strips of leftover plywood and a tarp. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Tomorrow the women would dye the yarn, and when it was ready, her father, a master weaver, would create the strips of treasured fabric on his loom. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Some sixty feet long, stripped to the deck, keeled over in ten or twelve feet of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He chewed his lip with gusto, like it was a strip of dried fish. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But as the forest, in a process out of Heart of Darkness, stripped away the layers of civilization, they became indistinguishable from their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By now, seeing me stripped shouldn’t cause her to do anything more than roll her eyes and throw me a shirt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “You might want to strip to your skivvies,” she said, looking doubtfully at my jeans and coat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The way is littered with hundreds of dead soldiers, their unburied bodies swollen by death and sometimes stripped bare by scavengers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She walked until she ran into Mariam, who shot her a cheerless glance and went back to slicing the stem off a bell pepper and trimming strips of fat from meat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The bird half-turned, and pulled another bloody strip of raw venison from the fawn’s ribs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z As evening fell, we hung out on a median strip, counting padiddles—cars with one headlight burnt out. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Patrons could climb it for a better view of the Vegas strip below. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the center is the Cornucopia on its circle of sand with the twelve strips branching out from it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu’s mother opened the carton, gently stripped away the Styrofoam packaging. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Topside again, he stripped down and carefully bathed his whole body. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He stripped back the beds and came away with two good woolen blankets and went back down the stairs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z With a sharp sense of style, they stripped Joel Moskowitz’s shoe store of its higher- priced and more fashionable models, leaving only some orthopedic offerings and a few Florsheims. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z |
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