She joined “the lecturing corps” as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, earning ten dollars a week, an amount equal to about $300 in today’s dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. Just like ten thousand made my life easier.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes later Mrs. Trent sees the storm door swing open on our front porch. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no real idea of how far ten miles was, but he ought to be able to manage it easily. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And here he was letting some girl who wasn’t even ten yet scare the liver out of him by just telling what it was like to sight-see underwater. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. Why these ten? Why not ten other writers?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Since its last paving, the ten- or fifteen-mile-long road in question seemed to have been at the epicenter of an earthquake. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

By contrast with Monte Alban, these were minuscule entities; most were clusters of rustic villages covering ten to twenty square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was ten years old then, and in the six years that passed, he was still able to remember new things. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My parents went first, side by side, and then Linda in her new red cap, and then me tailing along ten or twenty steps behind. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eighth of ten kids, Oshiro had grown up in a small town in Hawaii. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We would gather ten men and hold a special service. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no other food coming into the city, the price offish was ten times what it had been before the war, and still rising. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was standing by the edge of a small pool—not more than ten feet from side to side—in a wood. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

All of the attendees loaded into their vehicles, and set off for the reception hall, ten minutes away. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Rubin was about ten feet ahead of me, bent over, running with the ax held out in front of him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our American Cousin starts at eight, and his plan will go into action shortly after ten P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

On directions from Yatzkov, Gold tried to hand Fuchs an envelope with $1,500 in tens and twenties. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

About ten hours into the wake, a white guy stood. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last ten minutes, she talks about what we’re going to do tomorrow. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The other interesting thing about that ten thousand hours, of course, is that ten thousand hours is an enormous amount of time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“We had sea room then. Sea room! But we were off Nantucket Shoals ten days ago! Where are we now?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lack of boughs made it difficult to hang the ornaments evenly, so the kids had to hang ten or more ornaments per branch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My sister, who is more than ten years my junior, was left to the guardianship of my mother’s nephew, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and myself. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She had dropped it on me like ten tons of coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They usually had eight to ten jobs going at any one time, which they oversaw out of a home office and a warehouse space on Dublin Street, off Carrollton. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Permian’s best and brightest, those ranked in the top ten, re-ported few demands made of them in the classroom as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized I had been talking for like ten minutes, because if I didn’t explain everything, he’d think I was making it up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The Carter Cowboys were scared of no one, absolutely no one, and just as the Permian players walked around with a shield of invincibility, so did they, a shield ten times stronger. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think I care whether it’s in ten thousand pieces or not?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Boy, give her another ten and then we’ll start off in her direction.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

To escape the fate that led her to leap into the icy river that night ten years ago. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even worse, this trend may be due partly to the fact that burdens an attentive reader with ten words, seven levels, and more than two dozen branches. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then, for more than ten days, they did not see the sun again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nice way to meet your dad for the first time in ten years. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“On a scale of one to ten, how bad do I look? Ten being burn your clothes.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I got him on the phone, he said he couldn't make it for dinner but that he'd meet me for a drink at ten o'clock at the Wicker Bar, on 54th. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

So that’s a twelve out of ten on the awkward scale. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Twenty thousand swords and spears had gone off to war with Robb, or near enough to make no matter, but only two in ten were coming back, and most of those were Dreadfort men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes of polite assistance Ishmael wondered aloud if his DeSoto wasn’t the answer and persisted in this vein for five minutes more before Hisao yielded to it as an unavoidable evil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a hissing noise that would go on for about ten seconds, pause, then come again. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Arm understood that when you had ten million people jammed together in a city, you always had a few troublemakers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would not live to be ten or twenty-five years old, as some peregrine falcons do. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Asha was as good a finger dancer as any man on the isles and had ten fingers to prove it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By Livingston’s calculations, he had accelerated ionized hydrogen molecules, H2, twenty times over the course of ten complete circuits. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After ten years of struggle he was a doctor and he knew his mission and he came south again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Rowan was pleased to hear Scythe Faraday reciting Kohl Whitlock’s name as one of his chosen ten. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But I was not a recluse; my ten days there were divided among ANC business, seeing old friends, and occasional jaunts as a conventional tourist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sent the money back with ten per cent interest,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you think about it, she’s been through about ten times more than most people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Groves met with Uranium Committee members in Chicago, they told him it would take somewhere between ten and one thousand pounds of uranium to make an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “I can get switched to some other desk. The department does ten or eleven separate jobs. Animal theft; I could transfer to that.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some time before ten o’clock, he grew nervous about its increasing size and, without Schaffer’s permission, turned in a second alarm to bring in reinforcements. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is ten forty-five when Booth pulls back on the reins once again and canters up to the wooden drawbridge by the Navy Yard. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now his works sell for tens of thousands of dollars because some rich person turned the media spotlight in his direction. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She had been coaching some of them since her first season, when they were younger than ten years old. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It took about ten minutes of this to get him to the house, up the porch steps, and into Joseph and David’s room, which fortunately is on the ground floor next to the living room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the KKK circulated flyers offering ten thousand dollars dead and five thousand dollars alive for each of us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I collected my ten dollars and went home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We use base ten arithmetic only because we have ten fingers on our hands.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t go to it for ten dollars.’ The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were miles of pastures and tens of miles of wasted, washed-out land abandoned to the hardier weeds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She got within ten feet, and the horse bolted. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At age ten, he won the conservatory’s prestigious gold medal before going on to the Paris Conservatory, where he studied under Joseph Massart and Leo Delibes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first shot was a slap from ten feet out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometime soon wouldn’t send you out after ten at night to phone. What’s the rush?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The marten? Is that all you can think about, that vicious, stinking animal? Tonight has aged me by ten years!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It had taken his wife all of ten minutes to decide that they would adopt, and her enthusiasm for life then immediately returned. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

From the age of ten I’d check the Daily Prophet first thing every morning—certain some sort of tragedy would have befallen it—certain I wouldn’t get to go. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“We can cover that much ground in ten minutes,” said Nala, stretching and rolling her neck to limber up. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I lived in constant fear for ten long years, from the time I was four until I was fourteen years old. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Behind that was a still littler barn, which looked queer in Pennsylvania where barns were usually ten times bigger than their houses. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And wouldn’t those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort had needed a place to lie low, undisturbed, for ten long years? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The girl suddenly said: "My brother won't leave until he finishes his assignment. Sorry. His session was over ten minutes ago." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The voyage had been smooth, with steady winds, a glassy sea, and a crew of ten men. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She remained abed ten years, gradually growing better, but never completely recovering, relapsing periodically into her paralytic state. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Shay had run away ten days ago, she’d started talking to herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He walked over, got the ball, and cool as could be, said, “We’ll go to ten.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In 1995, the leader of a commercial expedition absconded with tens of thousands of dollars of his clients’ money before the trip even got off the ground. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For ten years, the victrolas ground out their lessons on the second floor of our Montclair house. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine out of ten books I looked up were missing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There are no big changes between ten and twenty—or ten and eighty, for that matter. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He asks me to give each day a rating between one and ten. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Geffard pronounces this almost gleefully and pours wine into his glass, and she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That was almost a year ago, right after I’d turned ten. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Most of their pilots and navigators flew around ten harassment missions every night of the entire war in their flimsy open-cockpit Po-2s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I went out to the garden I had been neglecting—I had scarcely looked at it for ten days—and the field I had plowed but never planted. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Nausea. It hit me right away, as soon as we started moving. Blech. Also I’m the only person on this thing who’s over the age of ten.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

William, who is trying to hurry Clotho along, says, "I could stop a few of them. Five, maybe ten. Not however many that is." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“There are buildings in Chicago more than ten times higher,” said Lynn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the room there was a small bar, a mere hole in the wall, where gin could be bought at ten cents the large nip. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If the man was awkward, his wife is ten times worse. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was taking mail anywhere from ten days to two weeks to make the journey these days! An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It was a weirwood ancient and colossal, ten times the size of die one in the Stone Garden at easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I recovered, the pedicab was ten yards in front of me and gaining. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked back over her shoulder, having only just realized that Harry was no longer with her; he had stopped walking and they were now ten feet from each other. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At ten I finished dinner and went to telephone an old friend who lives in New Orleans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Performers played for five minutes or two minutes or ten minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Six days later the valley received ten inches in less than twenty-four hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For perhaps ten seconds they crouched tike that while the flailing fire sent smoke and sparks and waves of inconstant tight over the top of the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They bought soap from a machine for ten cents and deposited a quarter into the slot in the washer. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still he did not come. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe ten or fifteen pounds went in through the slot. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In a big field,jockeys who opt to go wide may have to swing as many as ten “paths” out, forcing their horses to run roughly ten lengths farther than horses on the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, for the space of about ten breaths. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The three splintered beams in the ceiling hold up God knows what load: ten tons of carbonized hotel and the corpses of eight anti-aircraft men and untold unexploded ordnance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She raises her voice, her frame growing ten feet tall. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were still ten feet away from the forest, in plain view of Hagrid’s back door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He counted to ten and I listened carefully; then he asked me to count alone and I did. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock that night, Warren and Revere met. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt in his vest pocket; there was a ten- dollar bill there. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Lily says you only saved ten percent of my brain. True?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"I don't know what your deal is, man, but that's a mean cut. And you owe me ten bucks." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Ancient stone arches rose above them supported by pillars as thick as ten trees, irregular flagstones lay underfoot, and on all sides were ranged rack upon rack, tier upon tier, of bottles and barrels. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

To supporters of Darwin's recently published theory of evolution, the find proved that the ancestors of modern humans had lived during the Ice Ages, tens of thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was all right for little girls to go to school, he said, but he still insisted that girls over ten should stay home, in purdah. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And he would, assuming he survived the next ten days. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There were eight of them, including the one with the scarified face, and there were ten of us boys. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, with a smile playing around his lips, he says, “Forgive me if I’m wrong. But are you—were you—did you come here on a train from New York about ten years ago?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now I am ten, learning to embroider circular stitches, to calculate fractions into percentages, to nurse my papaya tree to bear many fruits. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His job at the cathedral in Arezzo was to train the young choristers, and he’d calculated that teaching them the whole of the Church’s plainsong repertoire by ear, parrot-fashion, would take over ten years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Everything started to change the winter I was ten and a half One unusually warm day in January all the kids from the apartments were playing dodgeball after school. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Only three or four people live on this floor—about ten vacant apartments. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom has Abby staying in Alice’s room, which is hilarious, considering Nick has been spending the night on my bedroom floor for about ten years. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As the last ten girls give their speeches, I feel my pulse race and think how good it feels to say what I believe with every molecule in my body, while hundreds of people listen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she is finished, it seems like ten thousand tiny black shiny curls was all over my head. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dee thanks me as he hands me ten dollars in change. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Livingood stayed there for ten days, recovering from severe burns on his hands and the soles of his feet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All through the morning, many more small boats arrive to deliver their passengers and by late afternoon, ninety-eight people are onboard, each having paid for their escape in five or ten ounces of pure gold. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she didn’t even have ten cents, for she lost a nickel every time she broke one of the household rules like forgetting to make her bed in the morning. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But my dad was the best fisherman in our village. He’d bring home ten times as much as the other fishermen. He used to call the ocean Kadalamma. Ocean Mother.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was only a little bit after ten when me and Ty'ree got back Friday night. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had had an allowance since he was ten, starting at five dollars per week and increasing steadily with inflation and age up to its current twenty dollars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Three Free Throws Tonight Each night after dinner Dad makes us shoot free throws until we make ten in a row. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

But at ten o’clock in the morning, when he reached Catarino’s store, the girl had left town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was scheduled to fly back to Miami in ten days. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lakota people were down there, perhaps ten thousand or more. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Because of this, on the first day of High Mourning ten thousand demons were set loose on the city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He, who staked ten thousand on the throw of the dice and laughed, became more hard and mean in business, and sometimes dreamt of money at night. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bow of the submarine, there were four torpedoes, and in the stern there was one torpedo tube for the remaining ten torpedoes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Just like I told her ten years ago.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The work was tracked assiduously by a parade of fascinated foundation executives; for ten days in April, it was the turn of Rockefeller executive Frank B. Hanson. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each block was built to the same design, just as each of the ten camps, from California to Arkansas, was built to a common master plan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

About ten o’clock we started from the inn. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was also armed with a cannon, and behind the tower there was an antiaircraft gun, loaded with a magazine of ten shells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And my mom was a soccer mom times ten, always picking up someone from practice, dropping someone else off, fixing a uniform, or cheering someone on from the sidelines. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Me and Dad stare at each other for ten minutes without saying a word. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Not even ten minutes went by before the bedroom door clicked open, and I heard someone enter Mamá’s bedroom. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was no space left, and ten little ones still stood anxiously on the deck of the Ocarrion, realization dawning on their faces. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Partway up she stumbled and fell, rose, then fell again ten yards farther on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was looking down into a kind of pit, an underground room, and lying on the floor some ten feet below, apparently fast asleep, thin and starved in appearance, was the real Mad-Eye Moody. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“We crossed the line ten miles back,” he said. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, and perhaps most important of all, Prohibition failed because tens of millions of people refused to give up drinking and would do anything to get their hard liquor, beer, or wine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It takes a six-car el train ten seconds to pass a given point. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta and her cousins would hire themselves out to those white folks, pulling their tobacco for ten cents so they’d have money to see their favorite Buck Jones cowboy movies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If he’s not so good, too bad for you, you have to go for ten minutes or more. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Kramer had enclosed a glossy, eight by ten print of herself wearing an anklet, a strapless bathing suit, and a white-duck sailor’s cap. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to get about two minutes of time, but we must have talked for at least ten minutes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Quite excellent! Take ten points for Gryffindor! And so — to business —” He bent down behind his desk and lifted a large, covered cage onto it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how carefully Matt explained to them the difference between two hundred ten job seekers and only twenty jobs, it didn’t penetrate. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told about the project she’d been digging on for ten years, in the desert near Jericho. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The intercom clicks on: a robotic female voice announces that the library will close in ten minutes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If Ben is at home he won’t be more than ten minutes.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One summer day when I was about ten, I sat on a stoop, chatting with a group of girls my age. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It took another ten to click around and get the internet to work, because sometimes my computer was just, I don’t know, obstinate. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Below that, pistons and large cylinders engaged in a relentless dance with the ten wheels, two sets of small ones in front and three behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You know, the thing you do when you’re dirty and would like to be clean? I won’t be long, ten minutes at...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In ten minutes, or maybe twenty, he would rouse the men and they would pack up and head west, where the maps showed the country to be green and inviting. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the kids used to make cracks about him, so that made him go berserk around the age of ten. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, the bills were arranged by ones, fives, and tens. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I memorized it the same way I had memorized the list of ten things about my mama. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the street, ten flights below, the little toy trees are beginning to turn reddish, like someone is lighting a match to them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“A nice, long vacation. Probably five to ten years.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was ten years after the Revolution before an expedition arrived to examine the ground and interview the witnesses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, I was making about nine out of ten shots, ninety out of a hundred. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A young Mexican who started his shift ten hours earlier climbed out with a bag of garbage and heaved it onto the sidewalk. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And after about ten minutes, I'm getting a lot better. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gene Berkenkamp and the rest of the Cal boys leaned into their oars and took the prescribed ten extra- hard pulls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For seven, eight, or ten minutes, or however long it takes, no blinking, no movement, my eyes open but as still as a rock. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

About ten of my Lego kits came down off my shelves. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Further on in the yard, another white man, also with a gun, was supervising a group of about ten black policemen as they rounded up half-naked black men and women from the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a gap of about ten minutes before another talented musician was called onto the stage to sing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sixteen bucks and ten does made a happy enough society for a warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spread and closed my fingers ten times and said, “Nope. Look. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The boar was less fortunate; it couldn’t turn that fast, so all ten tons of the monster charged out onto the tiny trestle, which buckled under its weight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nymeria had landed ten thousand ships upon Dome’s sandy shores, but when she wed her Domish prince she had burned them all and turned her back upon the sea forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And there he stood with sword in hand, the last of Darry’s ten .. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We settled in “Tent City,” a labor camp owned by Sheehey Strawberry Farms located about ten miles east of Santa Maria. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah guessed she couldn’t have been more than ten years old, yet her face seemed ageless. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

About ten thousand people were in attendance, and I told the crowd that the Defiance Campaign would be the most powerful action ever undertaken by the oppressed masses in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re supposed to meet in the lobby in ten minutes for team dinner.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes of silent work, Hyacinth looked over at Laney’s progress. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It had only taken ten minutes of her being missing for the most sinking feeling of helplessness to hit him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s ten o’clock. I have to write in my diary.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Three little girls all alone? For ten days? In the winter? Where are they? Are they still in Kiev?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I remember the year because I turned ten shortly after, and as soon as I did, Caitlyn dubbed me the “double digit midget.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Look at how easily Alex interrupts the doctor—“I’m not ten.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She watched Hill move downfield and her heart leapt, so close were they, just ten yards away! Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten tables I'm stuffed, and we’ve only sampled a small number of the dishes available. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the previous few years I had taken my son, Thembi, with me, and by 1956, when he was ten years old, he was a keen if spindly paperweight boxer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place was packed because a popular konpa band had a ten o’clock show scheduled at the reception hall next door and some older couples in sequined dresses and tuxedos stopped in for dinner first. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Knowing Calypso had had a crush on Percy had made the feeling ten times worse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There were ten soldiers left behind to protect the village, and they stood at their posts all day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Riding in open country about ten miles south of Washington, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold would soon reach their own safe house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not at first, but what about later? What about when we had been married for ten years?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a sheer drop of ten or twenty meters, with boulders at the bottom. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock in the morning, I was taken to the operating room. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thirteen-thousand square-foot house had a pool, a tennis court, a gazebo, two jacuzzis, a workout room, ten bathrooms, and a special wing with a video room for his seven grandchildren. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow, in their first act as members, our top ten initiates will choose their professions, in the order of how they are ranked,” Eric says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But after ten minutes alone in the dark street, a new emotion overtook him: panic. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If she wasn’t back downstairs to meet Ekon in the next ten minutes... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The exact timing is uncertain—archaeologists keep pushing back the date—but it is now thought to have occurred about ten thousand years ago, not long after the Middle East's Neolithic Revolution. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be back soon. Give me ten minutes. If you don’t hear from me by then...Never mind. I’ll be fine. Just try not to kill each other while I’m down there.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Faith directs me to lie down and tells me that for our first session she’s only going to leave the needles in for ten minutes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They looked about ten or eleven years old, wore banana leaves on their heads, and held mock guns made from bamboo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cars lined up on both sides of the road nearly ten houses in either direction. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I hurry to the workbench and rest my gloved hand against the vial, whose contents could kill me ten thousand times over. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So off she goes with her thousand noble ladies- in-waiting and their companions, ten thousand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Clearly, much has changed in my thinking about the criminal justice system since I passed that bright orange poster stapled to a telephone pole ten years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these intrusively visible volcanoes on Earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At ten, Marie actually checks the phone line, she is so surprised. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The closing of breweries, distilleries, and saloons led to the eliminations of tens of thousands of jobs, including those formerly held by barrel makers, waiters, and truck drivers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You’re supposed to keep taking the pills, four a day for another ten days.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here, only the first aged has two syllables: My aged grandmother, who aged gracefully, took a liking to aged cheese when she was a child aged ten. ally. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actions and feelings of men ten thousand miles from home helped me to understand the moods and impulses of those walking the streets of Chicago and Dixie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We bought ten fortune cookies for a dollar. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a rule, fencing is only allocated ten medals during the Olympic Games, even though there are technically twelve events. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For ten cents, a lonely fellow could dance one dance with a pretty woman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I stared at my screen for the longest ten minutes of my life, willing it to change from “delivered” to “read.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I would take pennies from the store cash register so Frances and I could go to the Chadwick Movie Theater—it cost only ten cents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are ten or fifteen years younger than I am. What could you see to attract you in a man like me?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Ahead was a deep washout about ten feet wide. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you get to third grade, say, ‘It’s two ten.’ Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A thin golden line had been traced on the floor, forming a circle ten feet around it in every direction. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, the only time Miss Celia walks ten feet is to come in the kitchen for her lesson or to sneak upstairs every two or three days, up in the creepy rooms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I would've guessed Otis had an IQ of minus ten," Sandy said with a smile. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ten o’clock nightly news confirms my quiet worry. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She had tried on at least ten different outfits. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Blue Springs struck first, taking the lead on an easy shot from ten yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

From the ruin’s taller buildings the great lake, almost ten miles to the northwest, is just visible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tables were long, with places set for ten people at each. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was somebody who wasn’t even pretty but who stood out ten times more than the new girl from Wilmington. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He would have to snag them on the run and continue maybe ten more feet to the large rock against which he had been standing when the original shot had been fired. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the dark, I walk all the way up to Riverside, about ten minutes away, where they run a late bus for the nighttime water-plant workers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I glared at the photo as if it were toxic, because it was dragging me back, dragging me back to ten years ago. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father’s measly wage of ten rands a week was stretched even tighter as a result of the new addition to the family. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes me a few minutes to get their names straight—Pam is eleven, Lacey is ten, and Jenny is eight. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fresh air felt great for all of ten seconds before it became too cold for somebody wearing a tee and boxers. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At least ten cop cars arrived, a news van showed up, and the boys who jumped Long and Tate were arrested. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"You can teach me ten letters a day," suggested Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We sell mostly to other vendors, collecting twelve ounces of rice for five sweet cakes or ten cookies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, about ten feet down, the floor was strewn with straw and sawdust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Done took to high heel slippers and a ten dollar hat! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You will not be able to read for about ten days. He told me he will know by then about the scar tissue.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I sometimes think we might then have saved ten or twenty centuries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa gave them each ten naira from a wad of notes he pulled out of his hold-all. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

An expansive grassy area had been laid out along the water to the east of the grandstand to accommodate another ten thousand standing spectators. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It took another fifteen minutes for the cab to get us to Davis Square, which meant we were ten minutes late to meet Trevor’s mom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Faro stayed with me for about ten minutes and then, after sniffing around inside the cave, he trotted off down the hill, back to the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was ten years old when I first spoke to Prince Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Grandma paid the rent, ten shillings for two weeks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For even at the age of ten, Inigo’s genius was there. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There is no question of skipping this meal; on the contrary, for ten evenings the three of them are strangely hungry, eager to taste the blandness on their plates. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"You just got ten dollars from Grandma for your birthday." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

As they left home, she tried to avoid the thought that within ten minutes she’d be at the spot where Jim had died. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock, narcotized on morphine and atropine, she lay down on a gurney in a surgical room. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And there are ten doors ringed around the balcony up here on the second floor, just like on the game board.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We might hit up eight or ten stores in a day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Before I moved to Calypso,” Diego said, “I spent one year, ten months, and twenty-three days in prison.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She seemed to add to her calculation the empty street, and the fact that we lived ten houses up from hers so there could be other occasions like this. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The F.B.I. not long ago released a report of a shocking rise in crime each successive year since the end of World War II—ten to twelve per cent each year. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some sixty feet long, stripped to the deck, keeled over in ten or twelve feet of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ah could throw ten acres of it over de fence every day and never look back to see where it fell. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And then someone bid ten dollars, trading his ten- dollar bill for Mr. Warren’s. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It took ten minutes for Chip to find his stuff, and an hour more for us to make four trips back and forth across the dorm circle’ between the TV room and Room 43. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But one day a superior officer shocked him, saying, “Do you know that we are slaughtering tens of thousands of Jews and other subhumans every day in Poland and Russia?” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then I is guzzling ten or twenty more of you midgy little maggots down there! You is not getting away from me because I is galloping fifty times faster than you!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class had shrunk to ten boys, and I came out eighth. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She had thought about how much to tell him, how to tell him, and finally, ten days after the feast, she had approached Jonas and asked if she could talk to him alone. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If one block was this hard, how will I ever make ten miles? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Further conversation became impossible, and in less than ten minutes Francis was out of the Professor’s office. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“We leave Philadelphia at six a.m., arrive in Miami at eight fifty-five a.m., then leave Miami at eleven thirty a.m. and arrive in Puerto Rico at three ten p.m.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I counted backward from ten, felt my breath slowly evening out. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The idea is to open each bucket and put in ten drops of this stuff," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have been about ten years old, just starting to write her little stories. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Mayor Nagin estimated that the final number might climb as high as ten thousand. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Charles and Marjorie Moss lived on a little more than ten acres of land with three fenced areas. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

After ten months living on Maxwell Street, I knew my way around. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about that—but it’s worth ten dollars to walk him,” Tressa says. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Then he clambered down the spire; ten feet from the bottom he missed his footing and fell into the misty softness of the cloud. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The British army was hardly marching down Wall Street, but ten ships had docked downriver on Staten Island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I put it out again and in only about ten minutes it was full and I woke Piper and told her to drink it while we had it. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, born in 1912, was the grandson of slaves, the son of a millworker, and the oldest of what would be ten children in his family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He thought, I want you to put ten thousand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A man who might have been well-to-do on ten acres in Europe was rat-poor on two thousand in California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked ten years older than he had that day in Derby’s office. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to ease himself into the silvery current and wade the last ten yards to shore but was instantly whisked away like a feather. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a long time ago—ten, maybe fifteen years ago. I think he did go after her, but I don’t think he found her.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We went about another ten miles and people just wore out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next ten years, all over the world, aircraft designers competed to make early planes safer, more powerful, and more efficient. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had ten dollars over her fare in her pocket book. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He emerged around six in the evening, having lost between five and ten pounds of weight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations! What are you going to do with the ten thousand?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Molly was ten years old, almond-eyed and reserved, careful with her affections. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes they hummed the melody over and over. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He would lie down and “die” on command and wait, even if I went out of sight for more than ten minutes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this picture would wildly distort your understanding of the population that had been sentenced to prison during the past ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His rifle was ten yards above him, leaning against the rock up there, useless. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let the tea bags steep in the hot water for ten minutes. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

To get down to the scale of atoms, you would need to take each one of those micron slices and shave it into ten thousand finer widths. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At five minutes to ten, I heard a voice at the drive-in ordering a burger and fries. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was past ten, and, in need of a break from hours of training and researching and fretting about Cain and Elena, she’d come into the gaming room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jarai only had ten letters—and there were fifty students in our classroom. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By the time I was ten, that particular fire had been forgotten by most, replaced by other dark days: mudslides, fevers, droughts, more fires. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For the next ten minutes, Mr. Larson walked the class through all the steps in the process—things that would happen before the hearing, at the hearing, and after the hearing. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what I was going to do ten minutes from now, let alone next week. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the age of six to ten days these spin themselves a cocoon, from which they emerge one month later as fully formed winged adults. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ten then, and I watched the military shuttling the cleaner citizens to new settlements and gated communities. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Fadi chewed for a full ten seconds, took a sip of soda, and finally answered. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I stood alone in the garage, less than ten feet away from my blue bike. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’d only explored ten feet of the house and was already about to foul my underwear. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The ten percent is standard, so extras always help. The other bidders probably don’t have a beautiful daughter.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And today I have these vivid images of the ten, fifteen minutes we waited there. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took almost ten minutes to get away from them all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She got them at ten for a dollar at a pet store. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just skip ten and go right to eleven? Or tell everybody your birth certificate was wrong and you just found out you’re really twenty-one.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once, incredibly, an elf owl landed atop a saguaro not ten feet from where she was speaking. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I’ve pinkie sworn since I was ten years old. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When it was finally over—that first emergence, five or ten seconds that felt like an eternity—she’d fallen to her knees and lost her supper between the roots of a plum tree. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I laughed maniacally for ten minutes at this irony: that having sacrificed my family to my education, I might lose that, also. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We could only dig about eight to ten inches deep with our crude tools. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lived through that epidemic, which took, what? ten percent of the world’s population. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We sat there and stared at her without much reaction, but she smiled bravely through it, and we passed the first ten minutes of the school year together. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked more than ten years older than when I had last seen him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was forty-two years old and in excellent health, with the exception of a bout of bronchitis that had been diagnosed ten days before. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As for the public, the sentiment among most people was: “What are they going to do, throw him in jail for ten years for moving wooden pieces across a chessboard?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My appointment at Walton was for ten o'clock. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Around ten a.m. he would make six pies for the day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

To think I’m standing up here and gazing at a star less than ten feet away. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus company conceded that, according to the driver, Claudette had been sitting behind the ten white seats in front and there had been no seats available when the driver ordered her to move. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

About ten oclock he’d come in Thompson’s, get two cups of coffee, sit down and take his socks out of his pocket and remove his shoes and put them on while the coffee cooled. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one trip back to Boston, he asked Tom White to give him ten thousand dollars in cash, which he planned to smuggle into Haiti and turn over to the underground pacifist resistance. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store and blacksmith shop happened, and these became the nuclei of little towns, Bradley, King City, Greenfield. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Services were rarely less than two hours, ten to noon. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock Mrs. Popper yawned and laid down her mending. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And if they won an additional ten million, Benji would give that over too. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They knew how to make a medium-rare steak, baked potato on the side, in ten minutes flat for hungry customers always in a hurry. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Within ten minutes, the clerk had faxed over a birth certificate request form with no questions asked. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Nuts! If it would only hold off till relief got here, but that’s ten days off. Say, Mike, go on down and keep an eye on Cutie, will you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Five to ten minutes more, as well, without actually killing the occupant. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Take off the zero, and two times five equals ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

My family of ten was shoved into half of our house, and another family, which had about a thousand little children, moved into the other half. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out there was only one train straight to Kobe, and it would be leaving at ten that night, to arrive in Kobe at eight in the morning. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At ten seconds per guard, she began figuring, but then stopped, because numbers had always been her enemy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There are ten breeds of dragon, though these have been known to interbreed on occasion, producing rare hybrids. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on a folding chair about ten feet in front of the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Paul’s staff had to expand its office from a basement room to ten rooms on two floors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every night ten greyhounds that belonged to the Frenchman across the street wailed as if the world were coming to an end. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day saw nine out of ten over the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“I could have ten black men without turning against my own.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

For simplicity’s sake, suppose that the other elevator passengers inhale all ten versions of the virus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eight or ten white women had come to look at her too. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They stopped ten meters from the shrinking man of eyes and pointed the hose at him. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Trouble was, when I got within ten feet or so, he would just move away and graze on another patch of grass. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tend to think that even though you’re ten or eleven, you know right from wrong. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next, casks of salt beef, salt pork, salt mutton, and salt cod were stacked ten feet high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You’d think they were offering ten free cookies and the first of us to line up gets them, such is the screaming and panic. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But about ten or fifteen minutes later, Zero said, "Lunch." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s crowded with ten members of his recovery team armed with pens and clipboards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The low growl of ten guys in a room huffing and bouncing, packed in tight. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty seconds . . . ten seconds . . . five . . . and the buzzer went off. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He recalled the worst of the predictions before the storm: if the levees broke, there would be ten, fifteen feet of water in some places. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, you’ve got the words smooth on yore tongue. Well, you air ten now; I reckon that’s old enough to take on a sizable job.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder counted: a thousand plus five hundred plus a hundred plus fifty plus ten plus five plus three—1668. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Seems they have to have a ten percent tip, and then there’s that bottle of mineral water—and a queer sort of water too. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I first came to the hospital more than ten years ago, she’s been the respiratory therapist here, slipping candy to me and the other CFers, like my partner in crime Poe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Although the vet had said it could take up to ten weekly visits to get his blood sugar in check, I was optimistic. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

At ten, I was one of the younger kids on the bus, though there were certainly a few kids younger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Visiting hours start in ten minutes. Make sure you have ID!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But when the camera zoomed out there were ten women standing behind us, wearing the same white dress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He gave the president ten days more to live, at the most. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stood outside Erlan’s door for ten whole minutes while Dad argued with the man in the headset. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Carter Cowboys had the best high school linebacker in the country and maybe the best defensive back, along with ten other players who were sure to be recruited by major colleges. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The union leadership had repeatedly pressed the Chamber of Mines for a minimum wage of ten shillings a day, as well as family housing and two weeks’ paid leave. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’d be a hundred and ten if she were still alive.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I’d appeared as a feature on the ten o’clock news the night before, the little human-interest story they do between the weather and sports. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But ten minutes later, neither the water nor the intern are anywhere to be found. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A message from the club, Madam, to say Mr. de Winter arrived ten minutes ago.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and now it was the year of the Boar, making ten. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

These included the elephant bird, a flightless creature ten feet tall and weighing almost half a ton—the largest bird in the world—and the giant lemurs, the globe’s largest primates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine ten or twelve orange chairs arranged in a circle, with the happy women from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Mean Lady Ming yelled something mean back to the kitchen, and in ten minutes we had a brown bag smelling of fried rice and chicken wings. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a scale of one to ten on the how-close-did-l-come scale: five. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Momma pulled herself back from being ten feet tall with eight-foot arms and said, “You’re welcome for nothing, you varlet, I wouldn’t waste a killing on the likes of you. ” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Angel 5! Angel 5!” he said, “plane down in area approximately ten miles east of runway in the Combahee Island area!” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closing her wings to her body, she dropped headfirst almost a thousand feet, braked, and waited ten feet above Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

So he spent the ten bucks on a big bag of hamburgers, and we drove around handing them out to smelly guys sleeping on grates. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They know they will come here and live eight or nine to a room and earn ten dollars a day, maybe save five. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years ago, the schools on the other side of Levittown, the upper end, had substantial numbers of Jewish students, but I was one of no more than ten Jewish students in my graduating class. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s taken ten years and seems like a miracle, but the Americans are losing in Angola. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a real possibility that tens of thousands faced starvation and disease. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since we didn’t have a camera, I thought buying ten postcards for fifty cents would be the next best thing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So next is the third ten?” she asked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I walk up close and he whispers, “Some of these convicts have not seen a woman in ten or fifteen years. You’re old enough to understand what that means, Mr. Flanagan.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They grilled me for a good ten minutes, but only because they were so sure that I had to know who this white kid was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The ten holographic statues in their recessed nooks flickered off, leaving black and empty spaces. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The next morning at ten, Elizabeth opens her door, nods at me like a schoolteacher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Every day Johnny knew what orders were given to the Tenth and he knew other boys and men and women and girls were as carefully watching the actions of the other ten regiments in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the ten minutes was up, she took back the plate. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

As she came back, she glanced at the large clock in Knipe’s Drug Store, and noted that it was nearly half past ten. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land between the rivers is a sea of elephant grass, which can grow ten feet high. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh my God, no wonder Mom has been telling me I've been going through a “funky stage” since I was ten. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll just leave this and then rent more later,” I mumbled, my head down, putting the ten on the counter and walking as quickly as I could, without technically running, to the door. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Every ten minutes, she plumped up her mother’s pillow and asked whether she wanted a drink of water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Henry will pay us for him, you know. Probably ten bucks.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I was ten. The guests were their age. Don’t make excuses for them. I have to come to grips with this now and forever.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

A blood clot could lodge in my brain and kill me ten minutes from now; a car could hit you while you’re walking your dog. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After two weeks and ten jumps, Uncle Al is so desperate he approaches a woman of generous proportions in the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Only one in ten items still remain on the shelves—one type of chips, one brand of gum. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My fists clench with the strength of an army ten thousand strong, hopes flying sky-high, anxiety drowning in my chest. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But after we had been under way ten or fifteen minutes, someone would announce that he had to go. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arranged ten chairs facing the fireplace for the “guests” and another ten chairs off to the side, by the kitchen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls as young as ten and women old enough to be grandmothers labored alongside her. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Okay, the drone circles back in less than ten minutes. Use it, but hurry.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It takes me only ten minutes to make my way back home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘Well, that gives you a couple of hours for study and recreation. Then here from six to ten. Does that leave you enough time for plenty of sleep?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By ten we all piled into the car and started off for our big adventure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put ten people in a room and a pecking order soon emerges. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She told me he’d been at the shelter for ten months because everyone always wants to adopt puppies instead of older dogs. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She says, “There are kids there, living there, in that dark and dirty and cold place. A bunch of them. Eight or ten. Maybe more. They’re skinny and hungry and dirty. It is extremely tragical.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

That first night in Block 16, the rest of us squeezed into the second room—Granny, Lillian, age fourteen, Ray, thirteen, May, eleven, Kiyo, ten, Mama, and me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I go down to the library and wait for like ten minutes for Miss Fowell to get back from somewhere and I asked her for a slip so I could get a video camera. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

So they regrouped all of their forces around ten adjacent instances of the Zork playing field near the planet’s south pole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“These constellations have been set for tens of thousands of years. They describe the history of our planet itself, moving ever so slowly with the passage of time.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I shovel a handful of the fresh snow into my mouth, lis­ten to the muffled stillness broken only by the cawing of crows. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the blast of a supernova explosion to kill you, he explained, you would have to be "ridiculously close"–probably within ten light-years or so. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a hundred and ten degrees, easy, and we must’ve looked like deep-fried vagrants, but everybody was too interested in the wild animals to pay us much attention. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Rather thicker than one usually sees . . . quite rigid . . . ten and a quarter inches. Avis!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Captain Pefta, no matter what you do to my husband, he will always be ten times the man you are!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The remodeling was a true Ernest venture,” recalled his daughter Margaret, who turned ten that summer watching the builders tear off the front of the house and rebuild the structure room by room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was a network of vaulted hallways, each lined with coffin-shaped sleeping capsules, row after row of them, stacked to the ceiling, ten high. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Forty wonton, eight people, ten each, five row more,” she says aloud to herself, and then continues stuffing. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I staggered out of the bathroom ten, fifteen minutes later, Astelle was leaning against the wall, one leg tucked up under a short plaid skirt. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It took ten or fifteen seconds for the three of us to pry him loose, during which Birch’s gold watch clattered to the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind riffled the ten thousand pages of the oak tree. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Working in a rice field is ten to twenty times more labor-intensive than working on an equivalent-size corn or wheat field. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“At ten? I led out my whole floor- running all the way. It was the most exciting day of my life! ’ Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“With all the sand we ate,” Bill said, smiling, “I figure each of us was about ten pounds heavier by the time we got up again.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily usually sleeps until at least ten on the weekends. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They landed painfully, ten feet away on the cold stone floor, and to add insult to injury, there was a loud popping noise, and both of them sprouted identical long white beards. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“She'll probably last you another ten years. A real beauty if you ask me.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Because of this, the guard ended up undercounting the delivery by ten loaves. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were ten names, listed alphabetically by the last initial. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The family owned no more than ten objects—two pots, three bowls, a hoe, a cow, some chickens—and a good five of them were regularly lost, thanks to her father. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I get back to the store, it’s nearly ten and Jill, the resident stuck-up-ex-cheerleader-turned-food-service-worker, is in the back, doing prep work. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they inspected his bankbooks they found that he had over ninety-three thousand dollars in the bank and ten thousand dollars in good securities. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Etienne says heaven is like a blanket babies cling to. He says people have flown airplanes ten kilometers above the earth and found no kingdoms there. No gates, no angels.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Consequently, it’s risky to assume that what is true of them was also true tens of thousands of years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, lumbering after the centaurs was a battalion of one-eyed ogres, both male and female, each about ten feet tall, wearing armor cobbled out of junkyard metal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’d wait until he had ten or twelve, then tote them to a garbage can a few blocks away, because if Dad saw the empty bottles, he would get furious. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was ten minutes before Haldar emerged from his shop, impassive apart from the red in his face. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know the prime numbers. And if you tell me to count to ten before I speak like my mother always does, I will scream.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first ten feet of cutting and bending back the wire, his knees went numb; he felt cold air on his skin and knew that his Levis were worn through at both knees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though it’s close to ten o’clock, dinner has yet to be served. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the papaya grove were ten low earthen mounds that the team had identified as human-made. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could just picture him, at the end of his ten o’clock class, organizing it with the easy authority which always came into his manner when he had an idea which was particularly preposterous. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would suck it for ten minutes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment it’s silent, then Ben says, “Ready? Count backward from ten.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They intentionally tip me ten bucks, which is my biggest intentional tip of the night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He needed ten dollars though, and Mama didn’t have the money. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you forgot to take the lid off. Do you know, I was more than ten days working at that lid? Be more careful in the future.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

We'd been phone buddies the previous summer, and ten days of spring break would feel like an eternity away from him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘Eight or ten tonight, but give me a little time so I can feel about a bit and I can furnish fifteen or twenty.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barely ten minutes from the cabin, they were tangled in a thicket. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t make it ten steps before I’d rolled them up again. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In August 1943, I marched with Gaur, and ten thousand others, in support of the Alexandra bus boycott, a protest against the raising of fares from fourpence to five. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, boys and girls, but after ten years old they keep ’em apart.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I would go to the theater around ten thirty at night with Mom and my cousin Claudine. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Onofre had not ridden his horse in ten years, and the grandchildren and great-grandchildren only rode it a few times each summer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the letters I post to her regularly, Momma hasn't written me in over ten months. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When the clock read ten thirty-five, and Finn couldn’t wait anymore, he folded the sheet of paper and slipped it into the box. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At ground level, a full-sized tree would be ten feet through its bole, more than twenty feet around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then one morning I was in bed around ten a.m. and my phone rang. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The rest of it was projected at about ten times the normal speed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't worry. It'll come. And I enjoyed the ten seconds I heard," he teases. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hand him ten dollars and he gives me five change. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I was only ten, but I knew then that somehow I would find a way. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Judging by the sound, these stones might be ten to fifteen millimetres wide. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the first printing of ten thousand copies of the newspaper sold out. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We ate at the restaurant. Pigeon says DeMarco’s pizza has a half-life of ten minutes. That’s from chemistry, and it means he only eats it fresh out of the oven.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A teacher would ask for ten and I would write twenty. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Anyway, he was ten whole yards behind me, and had his gun aimed right at my back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He gives himself six or ten years at the most. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They say in the wintertime, with water close to freezing, you ain’t got but ten or fifteen minutes before your heart quits beating. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s on the Blue Ridge Road. Eight miles south of Kansas City. A combination night-club- motel. You pay ten bucks for the key to a cabin.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I immediately stepped down, because I didn’t want to deny anyone their ten minutes of feasting on the world. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you listen to everybody who claims to have seen Jeffrey-Maniac Magee that first day, there must have been ten thousand people and a parade of fire trucks waiting for him at the town limits. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it was a standard letter of only about ten lines, it took him an extraordinary amount of time going over it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Because the Earth has a larger area than the Moon, we might have to wait something like ten thousand years between collisions that would make craters as big as a kilometer across on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ten and I was hopeful that we might be able to leave all the old fears behind in Oakland. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In grade ten we had to do a week of work experience, to see what life was like in the adult world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But there were also ten or twelve jugs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he awakened after many hours, it seemed to him as if ten years had passed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys, ages ten to fourteen, pushed streetcars into place, blocking the Maximilian Bridge. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon, I had them walking in pairs, a good ten feet apart from each other. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had organized the fleet into ten lines of battle, each of twenty ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But that wasn’t going to happen from ten thousand miles away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Another pregnancy came; this time it was nearly ten weeks before the bleeding began. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes, we passed through fields in the moonlight. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I chew every bite ten times before I swallow. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Strider seemed to be getting anxious: they were nearly ten days out from Weathertop, and their stock of provisions was beginning to run low. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the water. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

All the tunes in the last ten years were so alike he couldn’t tell one from the other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She rose until the rope around her waist went taut, then hovered ten feet off the ground, held by the two boys. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The sun had been up for about an hour, and we’d already gathered the eggs, fed the chickens, had breakfast, and been waiting at the bus stop for over ten minutes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Our hope is that by a set of ten simple, straightforward laws, we can avoid the pitfalls of human fallibility. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Well, I’ll tell you, for the last ten or twenty years, instead of digging, I been buying my bait at a fishing store. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I’d played for about ten minutes, it came to me: My aversion to Adam’s shows had nothing to do with music or groupies or envy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top, they heard a loud, deep groan that lasted at least ten seconds. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At that point I hadn’t seen him in over ten years and didn’t think I’d ever see him again. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was the only pretty thing that every boy among us believed could be his, at least ten minutes at a time. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sat like that for ten minutes before I heard it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Each man will make it his duty To kill ten of the enemy before dying. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack and Hughie exhausted every possibility of haulage for ten days and only when they realized that no one was going to take this stove home for them did they begin to carry it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to it, there are ten minutes until four thirty, and according to Aunt Pooh, who knows somebody who knows somebody, DJ Hype calls between four thirty and five thirty. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The fare was a dollar, so I thought ten cents was exactly right and gave the driver my dime with a little flourish and a smile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His dad, at maybe ten or eleven, with one arm draped around a dog. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I miss getting a strawberry yogurt smoothie from the fridge, putting my headphones on, and walking the ten minutes to school every morning. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Every time he tossed a piece ten people pounced on it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mom left the house at ten o’clock this morning. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would read about the Russians moving into Korea and grumble that if the Americans occupied Japan there’d be another war within ten years, maybe five. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine or ten, he stands with a hunting rifle and a duck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In 1992, citizen activism led to an investigation, which revealed that eight out of every ten people of color in the entire city were on the list of criminal suspects. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If the adoption of ploughing increased a village’s population from a hundred to 110, which ten people would have volunteered to starve so that the others could go back to the good old times? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had quite a bit of time to kill till ten o'clock, so what I did, I went to the movies at Radio City. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The birds flew on, ten thousand firebrands down the wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the Nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He wished that they were a married couple of ten years’ standing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For ten years she hadn’t realized the breadth of what I had accomplished with my exacting competence, the daily work I did, which unto itself became an unassailable body of cover. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, from the dump, from the creek, from the tracks, from Red Hill — in ran the Pickwell kids for dinner, all ten of them. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes of dicey, fatiguing crampon work brought me safely to the bottom of the incline, where I easily located my pack, and another ten minutes after that I was in camp myself. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Until he was ten, Bobby’s regimen was fairly routine: He played at the Brooklyn Chess Club every Friday night, with Regina sitting on the sidelines, reading a book or doing her nursing homework. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle looked up at the dingy casement windows, about ten feet above the cellar floor. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, to see the man standing not ten yards away from him, after having hero-worshipped him from afar for nearly a decade, after having laughed at every YouTube joke. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh that, I’ve got a cheddar cheese that four badgers couldn’t roll, plus ten other varieties.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I could have written it myself, or recited it to her from memory, adding ten dollars just to be safe. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had clocked a new track record that would stand untouched for a decade: a mile and a quarter in 2:01 'A. It was the second-fastest ten furlongs ever run in American racing history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ten patients were waiting inside for the American doctor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Junior League Benefit come around ever fall and they be wanting her to make ten caramel cakes to auction off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The audience stood and applauded for more than ten minutes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From the slugs of irradiated uranium, fissile plutonium would be extracted at a second plant ten miles away, eventually to be sent on its way to Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For my last few tournaments in New Jersey, I’d been finishing in the top sixteen consistently and sometimes I was even finishing in the top ten. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The steer had to stay down for ten seconds before the roper’s time could be recorded. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I saw that dress on the magazine covers at least ten years ago." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bombings were front-page news for days: Two hundred twenty-four people were killed in Kenya, ten dead in Tanzania. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This move would bring us to a total of five moves in ten years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We would return tens of billions of years in our future—to find the Earth a charred cinder and the Sun dead. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Dean caught sight of Jinx’s catfish still tipping the scale at ten pounds. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the first two years of the program, one in ten of these flight students was a woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Tom can build a level of trust and rapport in five to ten minutes that most people will take half an hour to do,” Moine says of Gau. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, Booth reminds the group that the murders of Seward and Johnson must also take place at ten fifteen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I went to a lot of trouble to memorize the model number of the blanket—all ten characters—and now I don't even need to use it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite living in town a full ten years she retained the look of a farmer’s wife: stout, faded, and wind worn. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“At Michigan, I was probably programming eight or ten hours a day,” he went on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

By contrast, Spain and Portugal together had fewer than ten million inhabitants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We must’ve dug, like, ten feet,” Lucas said quietly, sweat still dripping from his nose. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“In my top ten favorite bands, maybe even top five.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

None of these jobs, he said, had lasted more than ten weeks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about ten paces from me so I could see him clearly. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be still! It’s not time yet! It’s not ten o’clock!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They weren’t more than ten feet away, but the cluster of huisaches sheltered us from their view. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And if you count less than ten, cut off the remaining fingers.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The first link: Top ten common foods that can poison your bird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

With ten packs to a box, that was thirty butterscotch Krimpets. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d watched every movie her wallscreen knew about ten times, all the way back to some old black-and-white ones in an English she could barely understand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I'm sitting against my locker ten minutes before the first period bell when Tiny comes running down the hallway, his arms a jumble of Tiny Dancer audition posters. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That is why the brain library is some ten thousand times larger than the gene library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ermis’s mother, Maria, left him for North Carolina when he was ten. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He sold all ten dozen in two days. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Shin soon found himself facing the fence, which was about ten feet high. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ask for two or ten or three hundred melons, and the number lets you off the hook by replacing the article altogether. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Today I ran my friend ten miles across her first finish line. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Tibbets’s mind raced back ten years to a night on the beach in Florida. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I needed or wanted to work out at six o’clock in the morning or ten at night, Jake would be there, no questions asked and ready to work. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The youngest Darwin, Horace, was ten, Annie’s age when she died, bringing back bad memories, along with fear and anxiety for Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kudu stood taller than Nhamo and weighed ten times as much. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That should only take us twenty minutes, maybe ten if we catch an express train.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

His piece was about ten meters in front of him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to bring it home in ten days. Just as soon as it grows fingernails.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock, we w'ere handed our daily ration of bread. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could see their eyes reflected in it, refracted, grown ten times, goggling back at them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I rest his head on my lap and we let him soak about ten minutes with everything immersed from the neck down. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them, as unlikely as it seems, are bound to become tomorrow’s mainstream names. might have seemed ten years ago? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Lavadie fumed silently for a full ten seconds before jamming the gearshift into reverse and bouncing backward out of the yard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her book had only one story and the one on the table had close to ten. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They appeared ten feet in the air, hovering over a restaurant courtyard that Reyna recognized. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He wound up calling Cingular’s legal department, who told him such requests could take ten to fifteen days, an amount of time that had already elapsed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There’d only been about ten of those in all of history, after all. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By checking the distances on the map, I can tell it’s just ten miles west of us—much closer than going back to Charity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each nail he drove took about ten swings using his left hand, but gradually his swings got better. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Will the wonder of knowing if ten percent is enough—the most important part—ever be answered, or will it drive me to the edge before that can happen? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I turned, and in ten seconds liquid was splashing in the gravel at my feet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Reducing diversions even to 10 percent of total production, he calculated, would require a force of tens of thousands of inspectors fanned out across Russia’s vast territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His ten $400 suits were in storage somewhere, but he just didn’t seem to care to dress well anymore. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably ten years older than Akhi, and things do change, the sport evolves, so maybe that was it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After ten days, it was almost a routine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin,” replied I, “it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. But she has confessed.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost exactly ten years older than Dill’s mother, but he looked twenty years older. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Within ten minutes, the whole place was full of bluish steam. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s ten minutes or an hour later. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Adena tobacco, a different species from the tobacco in cigarettes today, contains several hallucinogens and five to ten times as much nicotine— enough, all told, to make it psychoactive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Behind the pond, on higher ground, was a grove of trees, hundreds of them, all about ten feet high and six feet wide. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about ten in the morning when I got inside Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you double the size of the chips in chocolate chip ice cream and say on the package, “New! Bigger Chocolate Chips!” and charge five to ten cents more, that seems honest and fair. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“What? There must be dozens, tens of dozens of lines like that all over the place.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But just ten days later, with intelligence reports showing an increase in North Vietnamese activity in Cambodia, Nixon made a stunning announcement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was a scale from one to ten, where one equals “mild tremor” and ten equals “erupting volcano.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Except that here the cars were driving above and under each other as if they were on interchanges that were stacked ten storeys high. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hidden underneath all of those junk sprites and garbled graphics were nine more dots, worth ten points each. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Another ten days of hiding, and still the rebels hadn’t arrived. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had been ten years since the bombing, but I still thought about that awful day or the girls—usually Cynthia—daily. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Indoors, where the temperature is usually ten degrees cooler, well-groomed girls in starched shirts and pleated skirts perch on tall stools behind glass stalls displaying gold and silver jewelry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bloomin’ ’eck, that leaves us only about fifteen hours for a ten mile push-bike ride! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But then—boom! — the personal computer revolution happened, and they had their ten thousand hours in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was around ten a.m., the sun still coming up, the skies clear, not like the morning it happened. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was going to be twenty minutes late, which technically meant that I’d still be ten minutes early for school itself. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Here. With the two you already got, that makes ten for the week.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few children were out romping in the snow and she guessed that it was about ten o’clock in the morning—the time Eskimo children were sent out to play. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held the tens on her fingers to keep track. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Across from me sit these two kids who are about ten or so . . . maybe 11 or 12 but not very old. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were still ten kilometers from the village when my chronic backache spread to a deep, rock-hard contraction across my lower belly, and I understood with horror that I was in labor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I made her smile five times today so far. I try to make her smile ten times every day.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Darkness had fallen and the water, cascading ten feet into the air over a semi-naked statue that looked remarkably like Herod Sayle, was eerily illuminated by a dozen concealed lights. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Every morning between ten and noon she wrote, and every afternoon between three and four-fifteen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve shared her story with students in every middle school I have visited since the book was published ten years ago, and with many parents and teachers as well. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

For tens of millions of years these enormous, intelligent, communicative creatures evolved with essentially no natural enemies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My face was burning, and I wanted to escape, but Diego wasn’t going to pick me up for another ten minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Not the accounts for over ten years, Lee!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are scared, looking at the back door every ten minutes, afraid they’ll get caught talking to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The verdict came down on Friday, August 19: As his family looked on, the court found Francis Gary Powers guilty of "criminal acts" against the Soviet people and sentenced him to ten years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Summer only lived four blocks away from me, so I was there within ten minutes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

For his first ten years at Yale he didn’t even bother to draw a salary. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In 2001 researchers at the California Institute of Technology analyzed helium isotopes from sediments left from the later KT impact and concluded that it affected Earth’s climate for about ten thousand years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom must have stopped to wash her face ten times. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been killing chickens since he was ten years old and doesn’t seem to mind it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They clap their hands, turn over their money, and forget about it ten minutes later. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At ’zactly ten minutes after noon the voices of the students was heard and my stomach started tensing up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

After three days of searching, I’m finally going to see my dad for the first time in ten years. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I was pretty far away from him, about ten meters or so. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I finish taking ten steps, I stop and turn to my right. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d been dead for ten days before they found him, you know. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

What if she mistook it for a different pool that was ten times worse? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Less than ten minutes later a patrol car pulled into the driveway. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

No one in Clover could take all ten children, so relatives divided them up —one with this cousin, one with that aunt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Thought you said you mama give you ten dollars.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of our squad gets knocked out for ten minutes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Google glasses. One of ten pairs in the world!” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Queried at long distance by Sproul, the loyal Swann declared that his protege was destined to become one of the world’s ten leading physicists before the end of the decade. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One in every ten of them came mounted but all of them came armed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Those are the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system,” whispered Miguel, sounding awestruck. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When he was ten years old, he ran away. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

About ten million roaches running all over everything—you see them crawling around now. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘For the last ten years we have been getting reports from nearly every country in the world about people disappearing mysteriously in the night. We had one only the other day from Panama...’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You could have come over ten years ago, if you'd wanted to," the wife said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a ferry on the other side of Water Island that could take us to Saint Thomas for ten dollars, but Mister Lochana only charged us five. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We all sat down with a cup of hot chocolate and a bowl of roasted chestnuts to watch the ten o’clock news. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe nine or ten months ago. What about it?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With nothing to impede it, Monte Alban swept out and established a domain of almost ten thousand square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’d never had to park in Manhattan before and circled the neighborhood for ten minutes before squeezing into a spot on 72nd Street. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To combat this, Hollingsworth wrote, “Take one part muriatic acid to ten parts of water; rub the feet every night with this mixture before retiring to bed.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The logging companies hired full-time hunters who fed entire logging camps, taking ten or fifteen deer each week and fifty wild turkeys in one month. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was not even ten in the morning and the temperature was over ninety degrees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Sources close to the Hipwell investigation” claim an allegation has been made that Megan “may have been involved in the unlawful killing of her own child” ten years ago. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Lady Constance left, the children were so excited that it took ten full minutes for Penelope to turn their attention back to the fate of the doomed Hesperus. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You were first arrested at ten,” he said, scanning the page. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

While there are only ten hard-and-fast laws to the Scythedom, there are many accepted conventions. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Because,” said the matron, “Elizabeth Bright Griffin died ten days after coming to this institution.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In ten minutes the inn was a different place. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I always get into bed on step ten thousand, right? So then if, you know, nature calls, I have to wait until it’s officially the next day.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kinshasa was a sprawling city of ten million, and if we headed west we’d be sure to hit some part of it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

One time, when I was in a blind in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell ten feet to the ground, landing on my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe within the next eight to ten months I should be moving out of Stateway and finding an apartment somewhere better. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. But she was in my not-very-fancy barn with ten bales of hay, so I guess someone wanted us to have her.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We drove about ten minutes away to a tiny cemetery on the outskirts of the village. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to wait ten more minutes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In just the first two seasons, 100,000 pounds of ancient bones were excavated from the site, and tens of thousands of pounds more came in each of the half dozen years that followed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At ten minutes to noon, Roy and Beatrice arrived; this time she rode the handlebars and he pedaled, the camera stowed safely in his backpack. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since candles are in short supply, we fit them for only ten minutes, but as long as we sing the song, that doesn’t matter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Mummy, if you say so. Can I watch TV? Just for ten minutes?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Five years, ten years, even a hundred years of jail can’t change that. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At the table the woman puts down her magazine and sets all ten fingers on her cheeks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

An amateur photographer bringing a conventional large camera and the necessary tripod had to pay ten dollars, about what many out-of-town visitors paid for a full day at the fair, including lodging, meals, and admission. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I sent him out an hour ago, for an errand that should have taken ten minutes. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Turning to page ten, he sank into his desk chair and reread the article he had been looking for. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Would we argue that ten thousand targeted nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospects for our survival? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give you ten bucks for the dog and the card.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The recordings of my brother. The gramophone company in Paris wasn’t interested anymore, but every night I played the ten recordings we’d made, until most of them were worn out. And his song.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the morning they woke groggy, drunken from so much rest, and Mrs. McCullough had glanced at the clock on her nightstand and realized it was ten thirty. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I remember, yes. I’ve thought about it. Because I went out on my porch about ten o’clock, see. Hadn’t seen fog for more than a week. And I couldn’t see more than twenty yards.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the next ten minutes he patiently answered questions from television, radio, and newspaper reporters, as if he had just become the second man in history to throw a perfect game in the World Series. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up and did ten jumping jacks, my go-to method to boost my energy levels. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Big structures, such as mountain ranges, survive tens of millions of years; smaller impact craters, perhaps a hundred thousand'; and large- scale human artifacts only some thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jose Cruz, first baseman on the school team. I am ten years old and I am in the fifth grade. I want to grow up and become a falconer.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In November 1942, the commander of the Southern Front turned up to present thirty-two members of the 588th with commemorative watches as a reward for their service, and medals to ten others. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Today we have to cook for ten people.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

On a scale of one to ten on the “I'm done” meter, I'm at about fifty. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A single CFC molecule is about ten thousand times more efficient at exacerbating greenhouse effects than a molecule of carbon dioxide–and carbon dioxide is of course no slouch itself as a greenhouse gas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The failure of the previous selection was ten years ago, and my energy is starting to diminish. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had in his hand his and Regina’s life savings — $12 — and with that money, he bought enough cloth to make ten dozen aprons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“To a man like myself, ten pounds is nothing. Nothing! Why, I could quite happily bet you a hundred pounds a point!” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The wind comes up between eight and ten in the morning, and if it’s in your face, it makes the job more time-consuming. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I give him one last kick and make sure he won’t be able to move for at least another five or ten minutes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Slow as their material and technological advance had been, little as they valued “progress” in itself, they had finally, in the last five or ten or fifteen centuries, got a little ahead of Nature. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our mother needed her first thing Monday morning to box up things for the Salvation Army truck that was due by ten. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Count backwards from ten, another doctor says, And before you completely drown, everything goes black. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The room was only about ten feet wide. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ten feet away from the Chimera’s bloody maw, and I knew that as soon as I moved, the creature would lunge. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother caught her doing that because she left it near the light bulb too long and the mercury shot up to a hundred and ten. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They squirmed, kicked, flailed their sharp little fists, and gnashed their teeth; Harry spent ten whole minutes trying to squash a particularly fat one into a pot. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s score was ten wins, two losses, and six draws, and he took home the silver medal. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway: To have the most enchanting human being I’ve ever encountered tell me my move to her town is the best thing to happen to her in ten years? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Look at the size of them, will you? The chests must be ten feet around.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I close mv eyes tightly and count to ten, fifteen, twenty. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the process and it took about ten seconds,” he says. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

However, hedging his bets in case things go bad, Booth says he wants the letter back if he finds Matthews before ten tomorrow morning. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I was out with Freddie and Hackett, with people—which was more than I could say for the last ten months. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I counted ten injured survivors out of the original fourteen. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"That will only be half-price then. Five dollars, instead of ten. Shall I bill you?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Yet how could she stay at home when the ten rats, including Justin and Brutus, were waiting bravely underground? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every ten to fifteen seconds, sharp metal spikes popped through its bulbous flesh and the whole creature abruptly curled into a ball and spun forward. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Ten push-ups for you, twenty for you,” he would growl as he inspected a line of ten million people. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Peckleman could burn a ton of books in ten minutes. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was ten o'clock in the morning, and the first day of class. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It was here, ten thousand years ago, that the ancient fairy race, the Dé Danann, had battled against the demon Fomorians, carving the famous Giants’ Causeway with the strength of their magical blasts. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes of silent reading plus fifty of math plus fifty of social studies before music class, equals one hundred and ten minutes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Lily pulls out a board game she’s been too cool to play since she was like ten, and the three of us play while the grown-ups finish cooking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black: they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four ants together, or ten, encircling a dead moth on a path, begin to look more like an idea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would usually stay until about ten and then go home. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, though it be ten thousand miles away, we walked to the palace. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mama had ten times too much to do, like it was. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come here,” she said, and she led me to a display of ten pens. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Just... some girls. I’ll be home by ten. Are you alright?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’m not letting any old-fashioned, fussy notions upset the best order we’ve had for ten years. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had already forgot­ten about the funny noise. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had gone some ten miles and noon was at hand when they came on a high green wall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They ranged from ten years old to fourteen, and Gareth was the youngest of the four. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned right, drove past the parade grounds with its flagpole, and parked her car near a massive, almost windowless building made of concrete and yellow bricks that covered almost ten acres of ground. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had my first girlfriend when I was ten,” he tells me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A lot had happened to Cara in the last ten days. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The hour hand on a clock moves about ten thousand times faster than the "flowing" rocks of the mantle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was ten feet from the edge of the pit when we caught him and hauled him back up the slope. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The answer turns out to be about ten million dollars, which should make us all feel a little better. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks outnumbered whites by a ratio of more than ten to one. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He handed her ten dollars so she could pay for the blood test that was required for a marriage license. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I had been talking with Mayor Schmoke for ten minutes when he leaned toward me and asked the dreaded question: “So, Wes, what do you plan on doing after you finish school?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It must actually be quite a depressing moment—to have slogged through a mountainous wilderness for ten or eleven weeks and to realize that for all that effort you are still but halfway there. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You have only ten stone blocks with you,” she told him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t spend ten or twelve hours a day studying chess and another six to eight hours on Bible studies; and the constant surfacing of impure thoughts and other minor sins was plaguing him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, groups of five to ten people sit together and quietly consume just enough food to live for another day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were they ancestors of Earth Men ten thousand years removed? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was I twelve or even ten years old. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, there you are, boy. Platform nine — platform ten. Your platform should be somewhere in the middle, but they don’t seem to have built it yet, do they?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The Preacher pulled the biggest two bass and the biggest perch off the stringers and said, “This perch is ten years old, and these bass are one year old each. How many years is that?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s your father’s family. My mother and father died very young. My youngest sister was an orphan at ten. Our parents were not even fifty.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when I was ten, when her mother first brought her over so we could get acquainted. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Not from walking the ten miles from Grandpa Tweedy’s farm. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One night ten of us met in an office of a leader of the party to hear Young restate his charges against Swann. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, the el train had been roaring by the old man’s window for a full ten seconds before the body fell. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes, I’ve come up with a respectable noose. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can last another night here if you send up a couple of boys with some Sherpa tea, first thing in the morning, no later than nine-thirty or ten,” Rob answered. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Turner Station still had more than ten churches. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Of all the commandments, number ten gives me the greatest pause for thought. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“So help me...Give us ten minutes! Go dig the grave of someone who isn’t standing right here!” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After all, aborigines had reached Australia by boat tens of thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If the police were busy downtown at the library, investigating the theft of the missing books, it would take them maybe ten minutes to race all the way up to the motel. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It only took, like, ten seconds to happen. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We might make as much as fifty cents on that one catch, ten times the price of a soft blue crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in too good a mood to argue anymore, so I tell him he can use it in ten minutes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He began to flounder wildly, as if he had waked to find himself in ten feet of water. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A single canal system could carry enough water to irrigate an estimated ten thousand acres. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were only ten minutes left in seventh period. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a group of about ten shadowy figures leaped out of an abandoned building across from the street and surrounded me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of ten years, they went from wealthy to filing for bankruptcy. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The temperature was dropping rapidly, like ten degrees just since I’d been standing there. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I threw up afterward, but I did eat ten and I won first prize—five boxes of Finkles to take home with me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was another ten or fifteen white folk with guns, sticks, and scowls too. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Our gray matter is still, like, ten percent mashed potatoes.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But ten minutes later, he caught her holding her breath again. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop, out of breath, like I just won a fight against ten dudes. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I heard you the first ten times, crow. A man’d think there was no trust between us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He knows he talks too much, hopeless at moderating his feelings, which he usually hides under ten layers of charm, but he ultimately doesn’t care what Henry thinks of him, so he doesn’t bother. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re quick. You took it before I even knew what happened. That lady was rich. Did you see the way she was dressed? She’ll just buy ten more.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Fifty years later, around 1500, there were ten million printed books. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes’ life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It took ten minutes for her beloved gumboots to be completely shredded. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I found a wool scarf for Grandma for just ten cents, and socks for Conrad for three pennies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the show, two black women make it to the top ten: Miss New York, Vanessa Williams, and Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He stayed there for ten days, until high winds forced him to seek refuge in a cave midway up the precipitous face of the bluff, where he remained for another ten days. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda and Lavender saw the giant in green breeches advancing upon a girl of about ten who had a pair of plaited golden pigtails hanging over her shoulders. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I’d called the police back when I was ten or thirteen or fifteen, would Charlie be alive now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the flight home, twenty thousand feet above clouds that were ten thousand feet above the ground, Gus said, “I used to think it would be fun to live on a cloud.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And when Miss Deaver left the room for a minute, Nick spread about ten cups of fine white sand all over the classroom floor. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can spend minutes, tens of minutes, running my eyes over the print: faith. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We hadda walk ten miles. Says we was here when we wasn’t. We couldn’t get no rides in the morning.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the coxswain’s seat, Morry would chime in, “Give me ten big ones!” but all the while Moch’s boat would be silently accelerating away from them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Their wives came to our door daily with whole, dripping legs of something not ten minutes dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from making one extended trip back to Hawaii when Barack was ten, his father—a man who by all accounts had both a powerful mind and a powerful drinking problem—remained absent and unengaged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the final moments, Jeremiah fired a shot from ten yards out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I motion her to the kitchen, but another ten minutes pass until she comes in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"You mean the room we share with ten other couples?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He takes out a notebook, and after about ten minutes, he opens the massive gates and lets us in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I had to search for nearly ten minutes until I found what I was really looking for. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Junk in that boathouse was piled ten feet high. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His subsequent attempts to walk through the walls of his house resulted in what his biographer Radolphus Pittiman describes as a ‘concussion of ten days’ duration’. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is forty-eight, older than Claire, but she looks about ten years younger. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

His heart beats regularly for another fifteen seconds, then stops altogether at ten seconds past seven twenty-two A.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to things like saying hello, counting from one to ten, or talking about buying coffee and sugar, they did pretty well. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Permian had a first down at the Carter ten with twenty-two seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a football practice for kids who couldn’t have been older than ten. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was always ten times more than we could eat, and so there was never any need for fighting over it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"He will go as soon as he has his ten thousand. My lord husband promised a golden crown." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What could be cooler than unearthing an ancient bone that’s been hidden for tens of millions of years? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Trying to understand why I cried ten minutes after Lucas told me Ada was at Russell’s but never shed a tear when my cousin dropped dead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then, after she had disappeared into the woods, he lay in the water for another ten minutes feeling the kiss many times. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Momma lets us out of the car and says, “I’ll be back at ten.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

You could make as many guesses as you wanted, but each one cost ten silver, paid into the purse, which was a shabby affair of old green brocade held closed with a gaudy brooch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Soon a row of ten cans and the Jim Beam bottle line the wall. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If every captain was a king aboard his own ship, as was often said, it was small wonder they named the islands the land of ten thousand kings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Oh, maybe ten years ago, she would have clapped her hands—hurray!—as if this were good news. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Zuri. About ten other prospective applicants will join us for a brief tour, and you can learn about Howard University,” Sage says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Judging from the sound of the footsteps, we had about ten seconds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be ten years old again, so I could believe in princesses and queens. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food is arranged in ten separate bowls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This one’s a — a — a ten? Ah yes, I see the little number on it now.... So this is a five?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He pointed excitedly at the ten- pound notes in Mr. Granger’s hand. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As I approached, I could see that it was actually the mouth of an entrance tunnel, a neon green circle ten meters in diameter leading belowground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What happened to the tens of thousands of distinct languages that must have arisen in China over that long time span? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was sent there ten days ago,” I say. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I took a quick peek. It looks like someone made tribute videos for a number of past coaches. The videos are short—only ten or fifteen minutes long each.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Columbus then counted ten over the prostrate Nelson, and again the ten other penguins applauded. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us woke up late, at ten, I suspect because there was no reason not to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one of them would spend ten minutes looking through a family’s papers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’d had an obsession with phoenixes when I was ten, and this one followed me home every night. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It met in a classroom at the nearby high school, and it was so popular that although I arrived ten minutes early, a new student had already taken my place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Until then, the yard belonged to their squires, who ranged in age from ten to forty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They live in herds ranging in size from ten to fifty members. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d lived in South Shore for ten years already and would end up staying another forty. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Provided his code of honor hadn’t changed in the last ten months, blackmailing, corporate sabotage, and racketeering would still be fair game. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Mong just keeps peeking his shaved head around the Dumpster every ten minutes or so, to make sure we don’t miss his cousin’s car. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I had a baby. It weighed three pounds. They took it to the incubator so that it wouldn’t die and I’m going to get it back in ten days.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he keeps walking, which makes me feel ten million times worse for everything I did to the kid. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t more than ten feet long, but it was dry and sturdy, with high sides and a deep hull. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Mark the place you have reached. You will continue at ten o’clock next Saturday.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, he must test the truth of another of his father's saying One man an a wall was worth ten beneath it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Can I have ten minutes alone? I think I know how I can say bye.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The changes shifted the station break ten minutes later than its normal point halfway through the show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The lower floor has at least another ten rooms, and only half of those rooms are furnished. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But the piece that had transfixed Pearl was a photograph: a black-and-white print, eight by ten, of a woman on a sofa, beaming down at the newborn in her arms. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After ten months on Maxwell Street and over twelve months in an attic before that, I expected mornings to smell like dust and mildew. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’m worried that I’m going to let everyone down. I can do the ten miles, but the farthest I’ve pushed a hundred pounds is five. And five was hard.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s been medically prescribed: ten rows a day of plain, ten of purl. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the long finger of blinding power that plays between two terminals, except that this was a thousand miles high and ten thousand miles long: dipping, soaring, undulating, glowing, a cataract of glory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then he narrowed the search to towns with populations under ten thousand that were also on the banks of rivers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Since we didn’t have a camera, I thought buying ten postcards for fifty cents would be the next best thing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall, blonde, and the child of Olympic rowers, Mariel was the most decorated American fencer, male or female, and had been fencing since she was ten. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Looking back, I see it took about ten years for Mommy to recover from my stepfather’s death. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explain my mission in Minneapolis, although it turns out her niece has already briefed her, and ask her to tell me about her move to Florida ten years ago. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jetta made her jump into the pool in her clothes to get dive bricks that Jetta herself had thrown in, when the swimming team was standing less than ten feet away. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"I know that, but she did, about ten minutes ago. I told her I could pick up anything she needed, but she said she needed to go herself." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Four thousand shots were fired in ten minutes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Adam remembers that I clambered up that rope and got to the required height of ten feet really fast—and then I looked around and kept climbing! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Around ten o’clock, after everyone else has gone to bed and Kate still isn’t home, I turn on the computer again and check my Facebook account. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We skimmed over the treetops for a little under ten minutes before touching down in the landing zone, or LZ, as Simpson called it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were ten in the class: a bunch of juniors and seniors, one sophomore, and three freshmen, with me being a strange new addition. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I eat my fill, trying to drag out the minutes until ten o’clock, when we have to go down to the Training Center. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten circles to the left, ten circles to the rigbty, all make the blade sharp and mighty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys are a team? Smart move. Even I can’t win football games without help from ten other guys.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on, Rashad. I know how much you love housekeeping,” Carlos said, lowering his voice ten notches below its normal tone. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the month of Oekre there were ten days and nights when the temperature never went below sixty degrees, and one day the heat rose to 88°. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes of catching up, a few researcher trainees stop by our table. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Alex and I are going to walk ten thousand steps every day. Exactly ten thousand steps.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Once she left home ten minutes earlier to have more time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's got a sort of big shelf too, ten foot up and as wide as the back room. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, I found it weird how she was credited as a “beloved” mother when the only mothering she did was carry me for nine months; ten years later, I know much better. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But it's only five thirty, and there are ten more days until I can call Claudia, twenty-three more days until everyone comes back here. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am ten years too old to have my mother still picking out clothes for me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All ten of us climbed under the ropes and allowed ourselves to be blindfolded with broad bands of white cloth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve basically been picturing this moment for ten hours, and now that it’s here, I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to say. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

After eight churches turned him away in Chengdu, Shin made the long, miserable bus trip back to Beijing, where for ten days he refocused his job search on Korean restaurants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Two? Why not one? First guy to ten,” Bull protested. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent all day Sunday in Dr. Roland’s office, from ten in the morning on. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After they left, I started getting sorry that I'd only given them ten bucks for their collection. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Consider the fact that Canada has taken in twenty-five thousand Syrian refugees, while Obama’s plan to bring in ten thousand refugees was met with outrage in Congress. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When Buckland speculated on the antiquity of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton he could do no better than suggest that it had lived somewhere between "ten thousand, or more than ten thousand times ten thousand" years earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His skin was pale and his blond hair looked almost gray, as if he’d aged ten years in just a few months. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But the evening before he gave me a pair of new tennis shoes and ten rands taxi fare, and he and members of the ranch wished me well. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enraged, but this time outwardly calm, he wrenched painfully onto his feet and stood for a moment, rubbing his can, staring at the pony feasting deliriously on alfalfa ten yards away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you keep your weight up, I’ll bet you could go on another ten years.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She remembers seeing robots at the World’s Fair ten years ago. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started becoming a man the day I turned ten years old, and men aren’t supposed to cry. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Records showed that they had tried to conceive children of their own for ten years, and had been waiting to adopt for another four. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Other times he made Neel solve the same problem ten times until he was sure Neel understood it. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to find me inside my cave of stuffed animals, so I waited a little more, but even after ten minutes she still didn’t come in after me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His relief would come in another ten minutes, and he was looking forward to the mug of chocolatl, the smokeleaf, and most of all his bed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Isabel walked about ten feet in front of us, but she’d turn around every few paces to make sure we were still there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I always leave something at school, and nine times out of ten, I have to go back and get it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t you wait ten minutes?” was my sister’s. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since everything that happened, me and her haven’t said more than ten words to each other. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We estimated that on a rich day, when we had little sense of energy expended, each of us had lifted four to ten tons of rock. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because they have spent ten years building that stadium. The money has gone into peoples’ pockets,” Amaka muttered. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A giant column of smoke and ash rose to a height of sixty thousand feet in less than ten minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Directly above his name were three lines that his father had filled out just ten years ago that summer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have ten bucks in my pocket—what to spend it on? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then, how come you’re not at that Catholic school ten blocks from here? Or one of them private schools downtown?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She’ll be in the Port Authority at ten fifty?” repeated my mother. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She would be ten on her next name day, and she was the saddest child that Maester Cressen had ever known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This can happen only at very high temperatures where the particles are moving so fast that the repulsive force does not have time to act—temperatures of tens of millions of degrees. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for someone else. Handsome, petulant, short, not pleasant until after ten a.m.? Have you seen him?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The names gathered first on the African coast in tens of thousands of manifests. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Was he glad that he was having something offered to him that ten million men in America would have fallen on their knees and thanked God for? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At his feet was his great- grandson Esteban Garcia, who was by that time almost ten, driving a nail through the eyes of a chicken. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the back, on the last ten pages, were high-gloss black-and-white photographs of all the first years. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Father Stylianopoulos, wearing a tall kalimafkion on his head and a large pectoral cross, came to the house at ten in the morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While he drank, a girl of about ten and an infant brother holding her hand watched him from the doorway. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Meet me at the bookstore in ten minutes,” she whispered. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Outside of that wise guy there were ten boys and ten girls and she knew that they were all coming. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This would mean that the universe was only half the size and age that Sandage believed–ten billion years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We would have spent the last ten days planning for the Third Trial instead of avoiding each other. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At a camp nearer to the river, ten soldiers were struck dead by a single bolt. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it followed along, ten feet behind my board, and when I finally stopped across town, it plowed right into me, practically knocked me down. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Usually there would be ten or twelve monkeys in hatboxes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten incredibly long seconds, he walked back, slowly for him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Twelve lire for ten. It’s not worth it. My wife lost twenty lire.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the 1960s, crime rates rose in the United States for a period of about ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She fanned the bills like a poker hand—four tens. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In her candy pile, she counted ten packs of the chewing gum. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The queue for Chariots of Fire snaked down the cinema steps and along the street for eight or ten shops. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This latter factor is needed, since we’re interested in the probability that ten questions are answered correctly, not necessarily the first ten. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the ten or so people behind you. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I was at least ten years older than him in age and more than twenty years older in politics. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, Little Bee. And how old will you be ten years after that?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My swollen cheek aches—it’s probably ten different shades of blue and purple right now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was not, as the Dursleys had pretended for ten years, a souvenir of the car crash that had killed Harry’s parents, because Lily and James Potter had not died in a car crash. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Just like the children’s song: Let me tell you what to do. Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too— “Yes indeed,” the bundled man said dryly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The camp houses about eighty girls, their ages ranging from ten to fifteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For about ten seconds there was absolute silence in the room. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But I talked the car sales dude down to eighty-four hundred dollars from ten thousand, so in a way I actually saved money. You know what the color’s called?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then the mask came back, and Officer Ken looked right at Evan for ten very stem seconds. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Let her and her ten shopping bags go. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had at least ten adult relatives pointing at him all at once. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was only one food line in the cafeteria, and about ten square tables in the middle of the room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It's a big photograph, eight by ten probably, and it transforms the corner. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were in the choppers nearly ten minutes and still going. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zack’s still before the mast, and he’s ten years older than Lem. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All you had to do to enter the contest was send in ten Finkle box tops and an original poem about Finkles. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the afternoon, ten finalists would be chosen. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

For the next ten days, Chicago would remain a battle zone, with sporadic incidents of violence taking place throughout the city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

To grow from a tiny cluster of grains to a baby planet some hundreds of miles across is thought to have taken only a few tens of thousands of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Even with everybody participating, that would mean each and every one of us would have to be responsible for ten thousand links of chain. It’s not realistic to think we could accomplish it.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The actual site of the duel was a narrow ledge, about ten feet wide and forty feet long, located only twenty feet above the water. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The commuters stared curiously at the owls as the family wove its way toward the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"OK, listen James. Take this money”—she gave him a ten dollar bill—"and go get two tickets for Wilmington. That ticket window over there with a green light.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shirt was ten, twenty years old, and covered in Pokemon characters. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Earlier, when Bargh had gone to the committee at NYU that approves human experiments, they had made him promise that he would cut off the conversation in the hall at ten minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The number of blacks employed in the Yard increased quickly, from around a thousand in 1915 to more than ten thousand in 1918. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The fastest object ever launched by the human species, it will still take tens of thousands of years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there ain’t no way a normal woman, and a white woman at that, could survive ten years in the Army hunting down shamblers. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But the rule was that he had to put ten cents back out of his tip money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could have had an opportunity to play pro. Not a ten or thirteen-year-old career, but maybe one or two years . . . and maybe get a different job.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All ten Skyhawks had taken shots at the targets, and the torpedo boats were on fire. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We last like that for at least ten minutes, until she pretends she has an itch, and doesn’t return her hand to mine. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘But next time, kid, can we land on the floor and not ten feet above it?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I think it was terrible that they might have questioned a little boy: I was only ten or twelve at the time.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s just ten thousand dollars shot to hell, if you ask me.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"You can tell me something for ten rupees?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Less than ten million years ago, the first creatures who closely resembled human beings evolved, accompanied by a spectacular increase in brain size. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They burn like the fire of ten thousand suns,” Colin said, deadpan. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“And you’d better thank your stars it’s ten dollars,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we sat down to breakfast on my tenth birthday, I said, “Well, Papa, I’m ten!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The clock chimed ten, and Celaena, seated at the small desk in her bedroom, looked up from her book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Dear Little Book, here I am ten years old and already getting beaus. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, ten times more zealous, I planted beans and sweet potatoes, brinjals and chillies, and they all grew well under my hand, so that we ate even better than we had done before. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for some reason tens of thousands of those people suddenly stopped committing crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fugees played the first ten minutes on Blue Springs’s side of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He paid with a ten and left the change in the tip jar. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I would be ten years by my Chinese age, so it was an important birthday for me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This thingy counts every step, and then at midnight it downloads so we can check each other’s numbers. First one who goes over or under ten thousand loses.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Charity first learned to drive back in the sixties, she was taught to leave one car length between you and the car ahead of you for every ten miles per hour you’re traveling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The second group was comprised of ten of the silliest girls Harry had ever encountered, who, when he blew his whistle, merely fell about giggling and clutching one another. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

No morning passed that he didn’t freeze a ton of meats, vegetables, and lemon cream pies, enough to last ten years, until the rockets came back from Earth, if they ever came. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It included English, where the class spent the first ten minutes going over the homework assignment for Monday and the next forty-five minutes doing the homework assignment for Monday. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A complication arose at ten thirty when a hotel guard told the guests he was locking up; everyone had to leave. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After ten long hours of working in the sun, my father would come home and then start working on building our new house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You have been in the United States, then, for the last ten years on and off?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the ten minutes it took to get home, even with the heater off, the interior of the rover became an uncomfortably hot 37°C. The RTG would definitely be able to keep me warm. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s also a large, well-stocked Career pack of ten tributes scouring the mountain area for victims. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older children turned in their papers within ten minutes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Open your mouth. Nine, ten, eleven teeth left. How many had you when you came to us? And the few you have left are dropping out of your head. Look here!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was almost ten years younger than me, but our paths always crossed during World Cups, and soon we became best friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

No. This game was called Samsara, a game for children, a game which was perhaps enjoyable played once, twice, ten times—but was it worth playing continually? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Father really believes what he says, that there is a most important ten percent, then one day I may make the choice to go to Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Five—ten—fifteen—it was impossible to count the kids that suddenly pitched forward, falling face-first into the snow, screaming and howling in pain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A moment’s reading vindicated Miss Marsten’s statement; the Nexus-6 did have two trillion constituents plus a choice within a range of ten million possible combinations of cerebral activity. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He followed the translation with ten seconds of silence, allowing the words to fill the cavernous room. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes her mom calls for Fizz to come up and say good-bye to her grandparents. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

These stars shine for ten million years or so, a period corresponding to only 5 percent of a galactic rotation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday, July 18, ten thousand packinghouse workers expressed their dissatisfaction by walking off the job. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I move down through the darkness, burning with murderous lust, my brains raging at the sickness I can observe in myself as objectively as might a mind ten centuries away. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes being sandwiched by the two, I asked, “Will he be long?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were five bathrooms for the five of us living in the residence, plus another ten spare bathrooms to go with them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“That villain has the strength of ten!” said the bard. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tucked beneath the ten Wonder Dome screens in arched niches were ten 3-D statues glowing a ghostly green. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The awkward truth became apparent that the correct DNA model must contain at least ten times more water than was found in our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The ten toes tilted over, and I realized why they looked like toes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It took him ten minutes to gouge out a hole that he judged to be right. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She looked over at the group of young black girls who’d arrived ten minutes earlier; they held a sign that said, #JUSTICEFORJAVIER. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shields stacked ten deep formed columns jutting off the floor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit suddenly took a sharp left turn, veering ten feet across the track and back down into the deep going, straightening himself out just before hitting the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she undressed and put on her nightgown, even though it was only ten in the morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then two, then four, and then finally, ten minutes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On this summer Tuesday morning, ten of them were off at church camp. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Initially, he penciled out a construction budget of $500,000; by the end of the year, the budget for construction and ten years of operation looked more like $2 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Dad’s new car gets over ten miles to the gallon. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed Mr. Zuckerman two ten dollar bills and a five dollar bill. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mom says after galumphing downstairs from her office at ten after five. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the Dikori family decided to leave and to join the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees streaming into Egypt. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We threaded our way through the crowd at the Number One Department Store, searching the store for just the right green schoolbag, large enough to carry ten big books. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So they do, but every northerner is worth ten of these southron swords, so you can sleep easy." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The paper gone pay me ten dollars a week, and there’s the book money plus a little more coming. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Say you are in math class waiting for the teacher to hand back the results of a test that you had not studied for; I give waiting for the test results a ten. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She herself is a veteran relo, having moved three times in the past ten years to help keep her husband’s career on track. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We’ve been standing here ten minutes, and Lolo is only getting more upset, though neither one of us can tell why. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

About ten or twelve seconds, maybe. 3RD JUROR: What’s all this for? 8TH JUROR: I’d say that was a fair guess. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took about ten or fifteen real, decent jumps for one to make it to the other shoulder, where they disappeared into the thicket of tall grass edging the road. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

One man is lucky: he happens to have HLAs that can lock onto and carry pieces of all ten variants to the cell surface. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My mother let me get ten steps inside the front door before bombarding me with questions. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It took such a big effort that she would feel worn out afterward, like she had just walked ten miles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We walked for about ten minutes, then we had the good luck to come across a little creek with a wooden bridge running across it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. A little before ten,” he said shaking his head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn't tell me this, but I know she ran and jumped on him, and kissed his face, and played tickle monster, and hugged him like she hugged me earlier, but ten times tighter. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

On any given night I’ll meet ten, sometimes a dozen or more new people. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around ten, I’m having trouble keeping my eyes open. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Martin drives the ten blocks to school every day in the car he's owned since his junior year. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anatole has reorganized the secondary school, which had been in pure collapse for ten years—hardly a young adult in Kimvula village can read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This has been happening every night since the riots began,” Mr. Ngwenya said bitterly, as he awakened the rest of his children, ranging in age from three to ten. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, so maybe... ten thousand hours?” he said, finally. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My dance ended as the clock struck the quarter before ten. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A group of boys who were walking about ten yards in front of Richie and his friend had ditched what appeared to be a bag of heroin as the cop car approached. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were married ten days later in the small Chinese city of Yixing, in front of over two hundred people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Meat eating has been a part of human culture for tens of thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He said that six of his ten knuckles had been fractured and that the doctors weren’t sure when the casts could come off. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I made up my mind that year—when I was ten—that I wasn't going to sound like another Mexican. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

During his lifetime alone over ten thousand books and articles were written about him. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And the two of them went at it like that for ten minutes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

His baba had been dead for ten years; now he was staring at him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But after a while the birds got used to the digging, resettled upon their freckled eggs, and hatched out ten thousand little killdeer that scurried around Cleofes Apodaca’s pit peeping hysterically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eight he had his tonsils out; at ten, his appendix burst. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What I need is my half of the ten thousand dollars." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Canton wore brown shoes that looked like someone shined them ten minutes ago. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Where could you hide a book better than among ten thousand others? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

About ten feet above the ground was a tree house platform with low sides. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mother Water Monster took ten steps and was towering over Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“How we doing here? Oh, you look gorgeous. That color takes ten years off.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I did my homework too, and I just opened the banking app. We only spent about ten thousand on day one.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nine times out of ten, your European name was chosen at random, plucked from the Bible or taken from a Hollywood celebrity or a famous politician in the news. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then he went through each roll, bending corners and putting the ones with the ones, the fives with the fives, the tens with the tens, and there were no twenties. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was in now, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Sonny has three little sisters: Kennedy is ten, Paris is seven, and Skye is four. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was this child that I thought was an omen—a little kid about ten years old who was sitting right up on the railing and leaning against the glass of the bat cage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The register pinged, and a sign saying ten dollars shot up. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

About ten million years ago, the Sun emerged from the Gould Belt complex of the Orion Spiral Arm, which is now a little less than a thousand light-years away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the gloom, I see a makeshift wall about ten yards away and assume Peeta's behind it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s after five, sleepyhead. I’ve been waiting here ten minutes for you to wake up.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I multiplied three by ten and got thirty, which seemed beyond all reason. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Neither China nor North Korea released figures, but estimates of these economic migrants ranged from tens of thousands to four hundred thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If each of the ten items needed for the manufacture of something or other has risen 8 percent, the total price has risen just 8 percent, not 80 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever been to Colorado? I think there are ten black people in the whole state. I don’t miss people looking at me funny.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Sit down. And I will tell you ten things about your mama.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

After ten years, few traces of the war remained. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mack gives me a fresh crayon, a yellow one, and ten pieces of paper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“It was worth tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, and it was stolen!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are ten rooms downstairs and one with a stuffed grizzly bear that looks like it ate up the last maid and is biding for the next one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I blush, shaking my head as I send a quick text to him, telling him to meet me in the atrium in ten minutes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe he’s ten years older than Uncle Jack. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She hung poised there and counted to ten, then lowered herself slowly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She stopped ten yards short of the men and refused to budge. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was quite lucky when I got to the station, because I only had to wait about ten minutes for a train. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She called Mom from St. Ignatius, Montana, on the Flathead Indian Beservation, and said, “Hey, Mom, I’m a married woman now. I want to have ten babies and live here forever and ever.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Four hundred and ten dollars was a serious chunk out of his paycheck, but keeping his record spotless was worth every penny. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conveying all this information to the judge through the interpreter took about ten minutes; the judge’s reply, about ten seconds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom tells me it’s ten o’clock in the morning. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

My mom leaves the couch and takes maybe ten short steps into the kitchen and opens two small doors that I thought were cabinets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It only takes me about ten seconds now. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“The dollar rose by a factor of more than ten between 1920 and now, so that's more than thirty-five thousand dollars in today's dollars. A lot of tours at eleven bucks apiece.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She seemed ten years older than the last time I had seen her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they’d put it in the annual library sale, it would have gone for ten cents at most. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was ten, in fourth grade, and probably the best climber in the whole school. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

A school district this size, with approximately twenty-six thousand students in all grades, should have eight to ten National Merit Scholars a year, not just one, said Hayes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, laying his staff and his bag of books under the rowers’ bench, Ged became for ten bitter days of winter an oarsman of that Northern ship. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what to expect as he sat there, but for the first ten minutes, nothing happened. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was not until the plane was less than ten feet from the ocean that, miraculously, Alcock was able to pull the aircraft out of the stall and avert certain death. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although weeks passed without an answer from Father, my first letter from Char arrived only ten days after I’d sent mine to him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see pictures of her and her family when she is three, eight, ten, fourteen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the ten years or so since this group was first identified, economists have gone to great lengths to understand them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hina is ten years younger than Mom, has short hair, a zillion funky pairs of eyeglasses, is this amazing graphic designer and cool in ways I can only aspire to. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

From where the man dropped us off, it was only ten steps or so to the building Frankie called home. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

So he was setting off in a rented Ryder with a fake ID of his own, no credit cards, and ten bucks to fall back on if anything went wrong. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about ten fifteen the evening before, Faraday was on a local train platform. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My ten minutes were to be early in Third Hour, late afternoon. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Train B was leaving my house ten minutes later. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Mom doesn't want to go teach her ten o'clock class. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s start over. First, answer this question: on a scale of one to ten, how much do you like living here?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes, when I was somewhere near the back of the store, I thought I heard Ruth’s voice and wandered towards it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and he sent it to at least ten guys right away.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I learned that the majority of the slaves worked in the cotton fields from six in the morning until nine or ten at night with only a fifteen-minute break for a meal and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He has lived here ten years and knows more, he says. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once term had started, they were back to skimming through books for ten minutes during their breaks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He was at least ten feet tall, for one thing, and dressed in black silk robes and a crown of braided gold. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Taking an extra five or ten minutes to finish whatever art project I’m working on. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I take about ten steps away, bend over, and pick up a perfect scallop shell. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Things I had there could have gotten me more time than ten guns, and could have gotten them a promotion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Surprise! Guess what, Lou? It been ten years and I hates saying it, but ’em years ain’t been kind to you, my darling. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I sit there for what feels like at least ten minutes, legs crossed and cramping, but when I look at the clock again, only one minute has passed. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Labor Day approached, the day of truth when millions of kids would be back in school and tens of millions of parents would be off the highways. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other ten swirled around him, just out of blade’s reach. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Before he was to play his first game, Bobby was rated at 2298, making him among the top ten active players in the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Our Khmer soldiers today killed five hundred Youns trying invade our country! The Youns have many more soldiers, but they are stupid and are cowards! One Khmer soldier can kill ten Youns!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More or less 120 minutes long distance at $1.35 per first three minutes plus thirteen for the books plus probably ten for Charley’s taxi plus probably sixty for his time came to...? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stand there taking it all in, shoulders growing ten feet tall. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At ten, Monique had begun poring over a mail-order doll catalog as if it were a book—expensive dolls, with names and stories and historical outfits, absurdly detailed and even more absurdly expensive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Around ten or eleven, the drivers would start coming back from their morning routes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Eight or ten sleepy students walked up to see who the visitor was. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The once marginal, second-tier law firms started by the people who couldn’t get jobs at the downtown firms ten and fifteen years earlier. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

After my ten minutes were elapsed I clambered up onto the carpet and dried off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His father wasn’t growing old: he had reached some kind of nadir ten or twelve years ago and now he was growing backward, aiming toward middle age, maybe youth. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eight to ten seconds, Shorty had turned as atheist as I had been to start with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last ten days Dussel hasn’t been on speaking terms with Mr. van Daan, and all because of the new security measures since the break-in. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“If I could have foreseen ten years ago how things would happen, I’ve have cleared out too. I’m too old now. And besides, I’ve got my daughters and grandchildren here.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we were ten, it became apparent, though, that Caroline’s true gift was her voice. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Steak, for instance—the very best steak shouldn’t have been more than ten frogs a pound but Lee set it at twelve and a half. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay Stringer didn’t complain about the paper, and neither did any of the other ten kids using brown. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was only sixteen francs apiece for Bill and me, with ten per cent added for the service, and we had the bags sent down and waited for Robert Cohn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Pop Tarts are ten times better heated up.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Just take ten shots and if you don’t feel like taking an eleventh, I’ll drop it forever, okay?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rose ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet above the monster. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The days of the week, the events of the morning, or even ten minutes ago, will be beyond my reach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hubble was born in 1889, ten years after Einstein, in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up there and in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Simpson had spent eighteen years in the Senate, including ten as the Republican whip, the second-ranking senator in his party. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Which is how long it took Mom to guess six categories and win ten thousand dollars. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

So when the TV went off at ten, we all went back to our rooms. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But the worst part is that for the few minutes every hour when I’m not psychopathic, I know that to be with Brian: I would give all ten fingers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The doorman called up to say you were here ten minutes ago. I was starting to wonder.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before the half, tiny Qendrim dribbled through the defense ten yards out and tapped a slow roller past the goalie’s left foot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But there was only the survival manual, which I must have read ten thousand times over the course of my ordeal. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hustler intended to pawn a suit for ten dollars to attend and patronize the bazaar. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Golden Company was ten thousand strong, Seasoned and disciplined. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My daily routine never changed: Open the store at seven, school till three, come straight home and work till ten, then flop to sleep. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s certainly not worth five hundred pieces of gold. I’ll give you ten; it’s probably worth that.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Two years ago, when you first brought Adiah to me at the age of ten for evaluation, I told you that I believed she could possibly be a gifted daraja if given proper training.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When 'Taniel turned ten he abandoned us for a cot of his own, full of rocks that fall out of his pockets. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was a big and barn-like structure, ten minutes up the road. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The nearest village, Bucktown, was little more than a settlement composed of post office, church, crossroads store, and eight or ten dwelling houses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, she had probably shot about ten different flowers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Demand was so great that the price skyrocketed from ten cents to two dollars and fifty cents per copy in New York City. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Past the end of the alley I saw them go, ten, twenty, maybe fifty. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’ll never be anything as fine as them again. They’re built to last; ten, fifty, two hundred years. Yes, they’ve as much right to—to life as you or I or any of us.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d kind of found my calling at the age of ten with the hacking and had taught myself everything in the textbook years before. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s something funny, though,” said Hermione ten minutes later, holding her pestle suspended over a bowl of scarab beetles. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This burst of activity lasted less than ten seconds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She keeps talking about a birthday feast. Which means we’ll be in the kitchen for hours, making something that will be eaten in ten minutes. Like homemade samosas or something.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I would insist to an inmate who’d given himself the larger, milk-size cup of juice, as though he had shorted me ten dollars in change for a twenty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well before the week or ten days that would pass before the pilot came looking to see what had happened. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kathleen had just turned ten, and this trip was a kind of birthday present, showing her the world, offering a small piece of her father’s history. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira could see pale green sea, and in its depths fish of all kinds, some larger than men, larger than ten men together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, he scored a ten and it's not hard to imagine he impressed the Gamemakers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I think I can explain. You see, I asked Sir Lancelot not to kill my son, ten days ago.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just saying what we all know. Pima’s worth ten of Bapi, but it don’t matter. Another year, she’s got the same problem as Sloth. It’s luck or nothing.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Five feet ten inches tall but very short in the legs, so that when he rides a horse he seems much taller. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it was ten o’clock, and Mrs. Carpenter came to get me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

About ten hours after fertilization of the egg, the embryo divides into three broad segments, head, thorax, and abdomen, and each segment divides into further subcompartments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After all, it had been ten years since Ali and Hassan had left your father’s house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I heard was the number—ten thousand dollars, cash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When I was about to turn ten years old, the most significant thing about that number was that it was double-digits. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

By then he knew what had happened: ten years learning was ten years too long; too much had been allowed to happen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Watson in the larboard chains sang out, “By the deep ten.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For ten years, Mother had been the primary breadwinner, while continuing to cook meals, clean the house, do the laundry, and I had never once heard her express anything like resentment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“And did you pay ten cattle?” inquired the muvuki in a quiet voice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instant I got within ten feet of the girl, she let out a strangled cry and darted away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had spent the better part of ten years on ships, carrying everything from fruit to oil. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This window, made of ten smaller windows, is the only place where Axel and Byrd can look outside from inside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Between 1910, when the hospital opened, and the late fifties, when the records were found to be contaminated, tens of thousands of patients passed through Crownsville. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

True, last year he felt the same terror that he felt now, but he knew that after Farquar’s ten knuckles this year, no pride, no honor awaited him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Turtle returned to her calculations, multiplying numbers of shares times price, adding a broker's commission, trying to total the sums to the ten thousand dollars they had to spend. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to register for the draft within ten days,” Ben said, adjusting the fur collar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One ape like Reilly could demolish ten years of trying to build up a decent commercial name. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always pulls me away and says that she’s sure in ten years we’ll find out that it causes horrible diseases. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They had been flying at ten thousand feet. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Another ten were on the ground with us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At ten Cathy knew something of the power of the sex impulse and began coldly to experiment with it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kiki offered her ten minutes, too, and soon I had a whole other half hour to stand on the bucket if I wanted to. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Paul, carrying just ninety-nine pounds, ten fewer than Seabiscuit, was skipping along under the light load, inching in on the lead, while Azucar, on the far outside, was driving at them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We get to school in time for the last three classes, since there are only ten minutes allotted for teachers to summarize their lessons. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’d be signing books and there would be groups of women who would come together — six or seven women — and they would have me sign anywhere between three and ten books,” Wells remembered later. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easily twice the size of the El Camino and probably weighed ten times as much. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes ten seconds feels like ten hours,” Grandpa Nyles replied softly. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“If there is one chance in ten that he’ll be one of the top physicists in the country, I’ll take that chance,” he declared in approving Lawrence’s promotion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When I was fourteen years old, I was sent to spend ten days with my maternal grandmother in western New York State. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Tab spent the next ten minutes crying on the kitchen floor while the Stove Top burned. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And if you didn’t listen to her, she would make you bend over and whack you with a yardstick ten times. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted individual marks recurring again and again on a single page, and found entire clusters replicated, sometimes ten or thirty times in perfect patterns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But as soon as we were out the door, she was her old self again, chatting nonstop about a kid in her class who lost a tooth and got ten dollars from the Tooth Fairy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hubbub and confusion of the scene was a welcome distraction, and during the next ten minutes buses one, two, and three filled up and pulled away with their noisy loads. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after breakfast, after Mrs. Dudley’s entrance at ten, they came without comment, following one another silently, to the little parlor, and the doctor took his position before the fireplace. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So you spend years developing the perfect organizational system, which even has a convenient place for your historical-fictional-travelogue-memoir. You and the scrivs spend decades slowly identifying, sorting and reordering tens of thousands of books.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They lived rough, their families torn apart by the events of the past ten years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Cars whooshed past on the asphalt, not ten feet away. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m a dealer in used clothing. I’ll give you ten dollars for it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We two black boys, each working for ten dollars a week, stood staring at each other, thinking, comparing the motives of the absent white man, each asking himself if he could believe the other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock in the morning, the SS took positions throughout the camp and began to herd the last of us toward the Appelplatz. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

No last half-hour on the terrace, not even ten minutes perhaps to say good-bye. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the merchant laughed richly, for he was fat and well-fed, and he said, “I have a second son of ten whom I have not betrothed yet. How old is the girl?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My daughter gave me a hat about eight or ten years ago and I wear it every day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time my dad got home and my parents ate, it was sometimes close to ten at night. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I been looking, call ten ladies today. Not even a speck a interest.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She would wait quietly and count to ten thousand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s late, after ten o’clock, and everything is quieting down for the night. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“One most of all. A tall and twisted thing with one black eye and ten long arms, sailing on a sea of blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After maybe ten minutes of questions, the crowd disperses and we walk back to our parking spot. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But he still did not know what had hap-pened ten years before. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Two hundred men or ten thousand, the country is too vast." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock one winter evening in early 1935, Houseman slipped backstage at a New York production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I forget who fought in World War II. I can’t name more than ten presidents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Katz arrived ten minutes later, puffing hard but pleased to be at the top. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You think those ten thousand new-type work rockets will come through to Mars?” she said at last. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were supposed to only go into one house, the Greystones’, and visit a cat for five or ten minutes, and let me know immediately if there was any problem. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We shot into the depths—ten feet, twenty feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

So I told the hardest ten or twelve things on my list all in one outburst. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he’d driven the Crown Vic ten minutes to the Cache County Sheriffs Office, a new building that housed the local law enforcement, and was next to the jail. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Forgetting that they were already invisible, they shrank into the shadows, staring at the dark outlines of two people grappling with each other ten feet away. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We had a good time at NASA, must of walked ten miles going to see all the things they have there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lina’s box was full of smooth white rods, each about ten inches long. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But for a range of plausible initial conditions, planetary systems—about ten planets, terrestrials close to the star, Jovians on the exterior—recognizably like ours are generated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron said he’d had nightmares for a couple of weeks after they left Alabama ten years ago. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

During that conversation, at about ten thirty in the morning, Jerome unexpectedly showed up at home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The crowds gathered ten deep for one hundred feet in each direction, a few spectators reaching through the slats of the fence to stroke Seabiscuit’s chest as Smith cinched the girth on Woolf’s kangaroo-leather saddle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be another ten minutes after that when he managed to extract the first toothpick from the first classroom door and the chemistry teacher could at last get to his desk. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As she watched, a troop of ten, their sacks bulging, went past her out the tunnel; they greeted Justin and nodded at her, but they did not pause. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its door was not ten yards from where Sam stood. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And a long, sustained roar went up from the tens of thousands standing along Sheridan Beach as the Husky Clipper crossed the line three lengths ahead of the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Well I don’t know how you’d have heard that. As the news was fresh last night and we just docked down here ten minutes ago.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“James Parker has been missing for more than ten years.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

According to Rees, the number of light-years to the edge of this larger, unseen universe would be written not "with ten zeroes, not even with a hundred, but with millions." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But she’s working on Friday night. She works pretty much all day every day and every night. So as long as I’m home before ten...” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Among the Catholics, the Austrians went to Mass at eight o’clock, Italians at nine o’clock, and Irish at ten o’clock. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

By 1935, it numbered nearly four million members—nearly 50 percent of all German youth, age ten to eighteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, said it sometimes cost him ten thousand dollars a week to run his operation. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve only got like ten more yards to go,” coached Haley. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“We’re paying him a thousand dollars a day from now until December first, with a ten percent daily raise if he’s a good employee.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh, and say, “And you’re willing to wear silly shirts and toot horns and carry flags for ten miles?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Because everyone picked on me. So I stayed where I could throw perfume on myself all day and drink ten thousand malts and eat candy without people saying, ‘Oh, that’s full of calories!’ The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few chairs along the walls, the space not ten feet square. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first four rows of seats, which held ten passengers, were reserved for white passengers only. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock Alex brought in a can of beer and without a word put it on the bureau top. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to exercise and read the morning newspapers until ten o’clock. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If they are over ten times farther away, the gravity is ten squared, 102 = 100 times smaller. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is exactly what you would have eaten here ten thousand years ago,” he said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a doctor in the town of Green Lake, one hundred and ten years ago. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But if he did win, and he did get ten million free and clear, he would buy his mom a house. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right? It’s almost ten hundred hours, and I haven’t seen you. Commander Jameson wants to know where you are.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now, after only ten months in Brussels, he is going back to his homeland. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, one part of the explanation for farmer power lies in the much denser populations that food production could support: ten naked farmers certainly would have an advantage over one naked hunter-gatherer in a fight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that he decided that no human being, not even Úrsula, could come closer to him than ten feet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I needed ten or twenty dollars, needed it badly, but I had come in without first deciding what to say. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Someone asked if we were supposed to use all ten words, and she laughed and said that would be impossible. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Finally he said, “Ain’t it ten to one that it’s too late?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

All anyone knows is, he turned up in the village where you was all living, on Halloween ten years ago. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Martha and Melville said that Vaughan’s widow, Rosa, was left with ten children to raise and no income. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some kids didn’t seem to care how I looked, but for every kid who didn’t care, there were ten who did. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, by the age of twenty, the elite performers had each totaled ten thousand hours of practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For ten years or more, both of her daughters had often, if impotently, conspired to throw out this veteran kimono. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Look at that one, Mama,” Karen said, pointing to a large two story mansion with ten columns on each level. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darius finally asks after ten minutes of driving in silence down a highway. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even though Dad didn’t like dealing with googans, he was ten times happier on the water than he was driving a taxi. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

By the time I got to the theater, it was ten past seven. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This is what happened: Sahil picked me up at ten thirty this morning. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had an older sister who was married and lived in Houston, and an older brother serving eight to ten at Huntsville. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“About once every ten years,” said Griphook with a rather nasty grin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Five points for a sprinkle, ten for a puddle, twenty for a decorative pattern on the wall behind the mug. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

After dropping a dime in the fare box, she absentmindedly sat down in one of the ten front seats reserved for whites. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Your family’s last appeal was rejected. The deportation stands, Ms. Kingsley. You and your family will have to leave tonight at ten p.m.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

That only lasts about ten seconds though because Daddy asks, “Who you?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not much of an outside cat, so I rarely have occasion to consider the weather, but in Indianapolis we get eight to ten properly beautiful days a year, and this was one of them. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Within an hour, ten strong warriors came with platters of food, just like Pocahontas had said they would. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He pointed out two cormorants that dipped and dived into the water, disappearing for ages, then reappearing ten metres or more from where they’d gone down. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tori opened the front door, said that she needed about ten more minutes, then told Candice that Brandon was shooting hoops. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Persian literature is ten times older than America!” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Still, there may be as many as ten thousand captives." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had to lift the neckline of my tank top to cover my mouth and nose, just to get within ten feet of the thing. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

With about ten minutes until the 9:30 train left, Garfield and Blaine sat in the carriage a bit longer, finishing their conversation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Annoyed, Shanti walked a good ten paces ahead of the others. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There were three bedrooms upstairs, Erma said, but no one had been to the second floor in nigh on ten years, because the floorboards were rotted through. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Routed from their positions in total disarray, tens of thousands of South Vietnamese soldiers deserted. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Along with tens of thousands of other black people, my grandparents were forcibly relocated to Soweto, to a neighborhood called the Meadowlands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to “explain” why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago—it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, they read ten web pages about tennis over the next hour. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Forty thousand golden dragons to the champion. Twenty thousand to the man who comes second, another twenty to the winner of the melee, and ten thousand to the victor of the archery competition." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He's drenched, of course, because I had his car and he had to walk ten blocks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Snape looked no more than nine or ten years old, sallow, small, stringy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

About ten o’clock, Mama talked Miss Love into lying down a while, “even if you cain’t sleep.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was ten o’clock at night, and I honestly felt like I could’ve scrubbed the floors and washed the windows. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked downstairs as usual from seven in the morning until ten at night, but she walked very slowly and brown circles were beneath her eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the industrial farm, it takes about ten calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was a good ten feet up to the first limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of well-known doctors had abandoned their patients and scampered to safer air; ten others had died, while still more were ill and could not receive patients. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

For ten hours a day, six days a week, they disassemble massive forging presses and stack the usable metal in crates to be loaded onto train cars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes pass, then another ten, then another. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And now I've got one hour and ten minutes to find the names of some unhappy customers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock Mr. Oshiro called again; armed men had posted themselves around Amity Harbor out of fear of a Japanese attack. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Barefoot children were playing on the street, kicking a ragged ten­nis ball with a stick, and they stared when I pulled up and killed the engine. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They used to tear the front cover off the hack issues of the romance magazines and sell them by the bundle for ten cents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least ten seconds passed before the pebble rattled against something far below. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Or if we have essays, then I will be done like ten p.m., or ten- thirty p.m. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Humble, put back six buttons. Ebony, put back ten. Johnny, what’s going on, buddy? You have like two hundred buttons too many!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the new treaty, called the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, the distrustful neighbors pledged not to go to war with each other for at least ten years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After ten years of bitterness and competition, this was the first time Fischer had had a friendly interchange with his American rival. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t deal with the even-numbered problems that awaited me on pages nine and ten of my algebra book, so I pulled out my zine supplies instead. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The guy who worked there said, “This basket is ten feet tall. For older kids. Kids like yours might as well shoot at the sun. ’’And then he laughed. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

They looked like they were ten miles high. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The D score has no upper limit, while the E score tops out at ten points. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yep, we were, like, ten feet off the ground, but I was still able to reach out and steal the ball from Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of the statue loomed two dark doorways, ten feet high, with a gruesome stone face carved over each archway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I invited ten friends from school to come and play against my friends from the neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They didn’t really make eye contact, and after ten minutes of saying we were sorry and telling them we were there if they needed us, we went back home. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’d forgotten how each answer my teachers gave led to ten new questions. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s great stuff. Pharmaceutical. During exams you can get ten or fifteen dollars a hit for this, easy.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he told about one time ten or fifteen years ago when the southbound train ran over a bull yearling on a curve. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On a scale of one to ten on the how- close-did-l-come scale: zero. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The fountain featured a life-size statue of Mr. Lemoncello standing on a lily pad in the middle of a shallow reflecting pool ten feet wide. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Advocates of pre-Clovis settlement suggest that, for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, pre-Clovis humans remained at low population densities or poorly visible archaeologically, for unknown reasons unprecedented elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first fall was seven or eight feet, the second perhaps ten. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She explained how they only had to put ten percent down. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ten minutes, he came back with the wallet and handed it to Zeitoun. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And then, of course, there was the sheer size of the library; tens of thousands of books; thousands of shelves; hundreds of narrow rows. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I am amused by everything she says—McDonald’s food is really plastic, downtown Detroit will be all white in ten years, the government watches us through our cell phones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This was their second visit in ten minutes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were ten people in the outside office now, all with nightmares of their own. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We were down by ten in the second quarter. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a real turkey of a lieutenant that I want taught a lesson by one of your studs. Maybe put him out of commission for a little while. Perhaps ten years.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a family of five, parents with three boys, from perhaps five to ten years old. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I trained a fellow maybe ten years back, what was his name ... ?” He tapped his head for a moment, then shrugged. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Save ten, not five. Start with this one.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year my mom has a party for her and she turns ten again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, the year Ifemelu turned ten, her mother came home from work looking different. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s been several days since I showed Grandpa’s love video to Grandma and she has watched it ten times so far. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The clock struck ten, loudly, and before the sound of the last stroke had died away Stuart saw two gleaming yellow eyes peering out from behind the sofa. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The ten readers sat at long sloping desks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it makes you feel any better, I think you're worth ten of those guys.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the Wonder Dome had shifted back to its ten Dewey decimal displays. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

So she had bought the crystals for ten cents. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

What roads there might be were under five or ten feet of snow, and we may have crossed several without knowing it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After about ten seconds, my lungs felt like they were folding in upon themselves like flowers at dusk. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it had been ten years since I thought anything about any mistress, I guess, and as a minister now, I was thinking even less about getting any wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew now why Prince always seemed to shed about ten years when they made their landfall. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were out of the courthouse by ten after nine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It whirled around the cardboard square decorated with a sunburst of ten colorful triangles. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Her book had only one story and the one on the table had close to ten. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We have chains enough for ten, concealed beneath the meat.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Besides one Coming down soon? text ten minutes ago, she hadn’t said anything else. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Yolanda broke two of her fancy, painted, expensive nails and cursed out loud for ten minutes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon tens of thousands of people between here and Cardiff owed me their lives. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, I had been in Detroit for ten years now, at the same workplace, using the same bank, visiting the same barber. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten days. The wall can’t go up for ten days, according to the edict. It’s enough time.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

All the intern wanted was half of the ten thousand dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Park’s group managed to launch just one of its ten balloons and tens of thousands of leaflets were spilled onto the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

First, our students would be allowed to start at Central High School, which meant grades ten through twelve. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hamilton gave me a shoe box of ten thousand dollars in ten dollar bills. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“He only gave her ten Galleons?” said Harry indignantly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The noise virtually disappeared, the slamming stopped, and the Frog surfed down the long swells and waves so fast she sometimes showed close to ten knots on the speed indicator. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us stood maybe ten meters apart, fixed in place, for a long time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Here, the small group of the Refined lived with all the luxuries of the day—lush, well-kept lawns and gardens, and a garage leading to ten to twelve gracefully decorated rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This double door was opened at 8:23 and ten seconds in order that the dozen wine stewards could get their kegs quickly to the eaters. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

About ten o’clock, as I was walking home, three guys jumped me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-six horse-drawn floats, six golden chariots, ten marching bands, and six mounted brigades. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It took ten seconds to set up the lemonade stand. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Two quick passes from Winchell to split end Lloyd Hill gave Permian a first down at the El Paso Austin ten. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t of got my tubes tied, it could of been me, say I was ten years younger. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the clock must’ve struck ten because all at once the buzzing generators outside sputtered and died, as did the music from downstairs and the streetlight that had been shining through my window. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

During the eighteen years of his reign, the city acquired diplomatic stature and commercial clout; its population grew to perhaps ten thousand and it established trade contacts throughout Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t miss a thing, do you? Even at ten years old.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Frank stayed, and Todd and Charlie had weathered the storm, surely there were tens of thousands more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“He couldn’t let a runaway go without some punishment. If he did, there’d be ten more taking off tomorrow. He was easy on you, though, because he figured your running away was my fault.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She realized it had to be the evening run to Anchorage, which meant it was ten at night. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

People went to mosques for their ten raka’ts of noontime prayer and then retreated to whatever shade they could find to nap in, waiting for the cool of early evening. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wake up ten times a night anyway.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At ten years old, he was riding bareback on cattle roundups with the other cowboys. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And in spite of this self-knowledge I equipped Rocinante with enough writing material to take care of ten volumes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of being incinerated by ten thousand volts, all I felt was a warm tingle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The race was scheduled for Saturday morning at ten o’clock. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This placed his eyes on a level with the ventilator, so he could see another train about ten yards away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to the cafeteria five people stopped me to talk about the game and about nine or ten people waved to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had not seen me and was passing not more than ten yards away when the dog twisted about, raised his nose, and curled one paw up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I waited for ten minutes and tried to creatively visualize the tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He thought of the tens of thousands of Americans who’d lost their lives. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Where all the trash will be ten years from now? I worry about it every time I open a can of tuna fish.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our developments beyond it all took place within the last few tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent the last ten years with Mrs. Rogers, looking after her, talking to her, driving her around. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Somehow we made it to sunrise, or we would’ve had ten more on our butts before long.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She said that if Quincy wasn’t home by ten, she’d make some calls. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Others, like Dorothy Hoover and Doris Cohen, had highly refined understandings of theoretical math, differentiating their way through nested equations ten pages deep with nary an error in sign. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

During the spring, water flowed over his father’s waterwheel with such force that it excavated a pool nearly ten feet deep and twenty-five feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The mortal fingers were like ten red-hot nails driven into his skin. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

For over a month, six days a week, ten hours a day, that’s what he’d been doing—lowering boats full of men into various sea conditions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Take last night. There was at least ten guys ordered Manhattans. Sometimes maybe you don’t get two calls for a Manhattan in a month. It’s the grenadine gives the stuff that taste.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hostages, it turned out, had been seriously injured by the inmates, but ten hostages and twenty-nine inmates were then killed by police in the attack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone over the age of ten had already jumped off the board a dozen times that summer. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sold for ten dollars apiece, and the profit paid for the gas for the buses. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m seven, eight, nine going on ten and still Dad has no work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll hang just as easily for eleven as for ten, I guess.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had ten stone blocks on the stone-boat, all he could manage, and he was hauling and heaving the stone-boat and cursing the stones, but with each heave he got closer to the wall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Right now, somebody else might be earning ten million dollars; I might already be doomed to return to New York. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the next ten minutes I felt surprisingly good. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

During those ten days, the school went back to relative normality. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I unlaced my right tennis shoe, wriggled my foot out, and removed the mound of tens and twenties Pa had given me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how Waverly still sounded the way she did twenty- five years ago, when we were ten and she had announced to me in that same voice, “You aren’t a genius like me.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slopper called up through cupped hands when I was about ten feet up. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My homeroom teacher, Miss Allison, a young white woman with glasses who generally ignored me, would shrug as I walked in ten minutes late, apologizing about a delayed bus. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We probably fell for, let’s say, five minutes and then we must have run for about twenty with the roaches and we’ve been here maybe ten,” he thought. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He worked until about ten, and then had breakfast with Emma. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes the kids peppered Mr. Larson with words and phrases, and he wrote them down as quickly as he could. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

By ten that morning, everyone was coughing, but no one left his place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He performed a backward version of the loaves and fishes, trying to stuff ten thousand fish into fifty mouths, did the Reverend Price. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good ten feet to the ground. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nine times out of ten, it wasn’t good. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The giant diprotodon appeared in Australia more than 1.5 million years ago and successfully weathered at least ten previous ice ages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put in ten hours that week, meaning I make up twenty of the dollars I owe him; got one more week to go. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faces looked years older than when we had arrived ten months before. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed five or ten minutes of quiet, just me and my lawn mower. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's running through about ten emotions a second. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between five o’clock and ten fifteen, what was I doing? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes or so of silence, Russ says, “If I get into the game tomorrow, would you mind if I used my extraterrestrial powers?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beau walked right up against my leg the whole ten minutes down to the station. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Get ten thousand in 5 and 10 bills and put it in a shoe box. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I checked my watch: ten minutes after one. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Northwestward stalked the dark forest of Fangorn; still ten leagues away stood its shadowy eaves, and its further slopes faded into the distant blue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was ten o’clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn’t married a Negress Slave at once? Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But he was also leader of all the kids on the street, at least the ones under ten years old. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never counted! There must be tens of thousands by this point! Maybe hundreds of thousands!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some nine or ten soldiers were milling about it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even at ten, before I really knew what waited outside, the Japanese in me could not compete with that. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will. But even that ten percent needs rest. Let’s both get some sleep. We’ll talk more in the morning.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

They might come looking in a week or ten days. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You have been chasing your prey ten years, my lord?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Far away, maybe ten miles or more, there was a great burning, but between it and the Riders lines of fire blazed in a vast crescent, at the nearest point less than a league distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"It is only . . . Theon, the Boy Wolf is your friend, and these Starks had you for ten years." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I think about ten hours,” Lydia said, smacking a mosquito on her calf. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A group of people came out of an office building—perhaps the tallest one in town at about ten stories. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes or so at 170°, I would be red as a boiled lobster, but feeling good—relaxed, drowsy, and healthy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara was ten years old when she decided that speaking was pointless and locked herself in silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d lived in California till he was ten, so he knew how I felt about the sun. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nor did the varying numbers of the dead: three thousand, ten thousand, fifty thousand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the United States now boasts an incarceration rate that is six to ten times greater than that of other industrialized nations—a development directly traceable to the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was happy to find there were salmon coming up as well, big silvers mostly over ten and eleven pounds, a half-dozen ten-pound chums, too, even three resident black-mouth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Six months ago, it would have been worth ten thousand,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Most consisted of two squadrons of ten aircraft apiece; Marina Raskova’s three female regiments were not going to change the outcome of an air war on this scale. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Doing these things would get you fired, Testo said; and one in ten of us would receive a notice of discipline from his office sometime during his career. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These summer dinners always started so late—it was past ten o’clock—and the boys would be tired. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Papa said we had to cover at least ten miles a day, more if we could, and it should take about four hours, but with breaks it would probably be closer to five or six. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She is ten years younger than I am now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s too long, Commander. This whole town is going to explode in ten seconds....I’m going in.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Joaquin thought for a minute, then rolled back over onto his side, closing one eye so he could see the screen, okay, he wrote back, see you at ten? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The first big level ten win I remember was at the Houston National Invitational in 2010. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But ten,” I repeat, apparently unable to process a simple piece of information. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Usually,” she said, “it’s more balanced. It hangs around ten, a couple to one side or the other. Back and forth, back and forth. Like life.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I figure it would take ten or twelve bucks to give Doc a party you wouldn’t be ashamed of.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try to make her believe that I didn’t miss ten feet of catching you in that ditch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be in our meeting room, putting together a list of new Dewey decimal numbers from the Bibliomania cards so we’re ready to hit the ground running when the doors reopen at ten tomorrow morning.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He wandered for ten years before he saw his home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, in any given year, more than one in ten Americans violate drug laws. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Often, we were only able to do about ten lines at a time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tyrion recognized perhaps two in ten; one was Doom, the other Darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The voyage began this afternoon, with more than ten thousand passengers on board. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes after Powell entered the Seward mansion, a servant ran out the front door into the street screaming, “Murder!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bruises from my run-in with Aspirant Marcus a week ago are fading, and the ten lashes I received afterward have scabbed over. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Shortly after sunrise on September 20, 2007, more than ten thousand protestors had already descended on Jena, Louisiana, a small town of about three thousand people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He recited the prime numbers between a thousand and ten thousand. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Black street gangs in particular flourished in Chicago, with membership in the tens of thousands by the 1970s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Kendrick felt ten feet tall in his new sneakers...until four six-foot-tall kids jumped him and stole them off his feet. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Any parent who has ever said to a recalcitrant child, “Okay, I’m going to count to ten and this time I’m really going to punish you,” knows the difference between deterrent and empty threat. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When you have a bowl full of blood, you take a stick and swirl it around in the blood for five to ten minutes to remove all of the clots. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went over the denominations a few times—one cent, five cents, ten cents, twenty-five cents. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I didn't sleep too long, because I think it was only around ten o'clock when I woke up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Next to the sink sat a price board: Cut and style ten dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The bell rings above my head as I push the door open to find Harpy’s busy with all ten people in Clover City who didn’t attend the pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But he was already here, in the flesh, sitting less than ten feet from me, after all these years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes; ten years. His name was Green. He was a good man, too.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Convicted at the age of fifteen, he had served ten years in a combination of juvenile and adult penitentiaries on charges of arson and second-degree murder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but stare at the three twenties and one ten, and remember the pile of cash that she gave me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The boat is maybe ten times the size of ours, with room enough for ninety-eight people to walk and stretch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This may have been the cupboard skeleton we noticed, ten years ago, at the back of the small boy’s head as he turned the kettle-hat to and fro, in the Armoury of Benwick Castle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About ten kilometers to the northwest of here,” I said to Miig. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I was certain her aim was to say it ten times each night, but Cecile didn’t let her get that far. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s almost ten years older than me, so we didn’t exactly run in the same circles. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finished our meal in under ten minutes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Behind the rock was a clear place about ten steps across, which was sheltered from the wind, from which I could see the harbor and the ocean. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess it would be really cheesy of me to say I think you’re ten times hotter and smarter than any beauty queen.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Within the first year, we quickly expanded our offerings from our initial ten items to more than fifty, and were already making a profit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was still ten days before school would let out for the holidays. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Of course it may be tens of thousands of years before that day comes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first bout is to five points, the next bout to ten points, and so on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the dark and foggy night of August 27, almost ten thousand American troops snuck off Brooklyn in a fleet of small boats. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Free reading is the best part of my day, even if it is only ten minutes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

‘Salim got a call on his mobile yesterday. At approximately ten fifty a.m. He said it was from “a friend calling from Manchester to say goodbye”.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just came out of the hospital ten days ago,” Milo reminded him reprovingly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Start cutting rectangles, about the size of the Maps. Newt and Teresa, you can help me grab the first ten or so Maps from each section box.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But even after Papa married at nineteen, making forty dollars a month, he still had to send Grandpa Tweedy ten of it till the day he was twenty-one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The guys didn’t seem to notice them, sitting in the dark about ten feet away. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the floor, dug into the rock, was a hole about ten feet across, covered by a heavy metal shield. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Jitterbug dancing. Verboten. Reading un-German books. Singing un-German songs. Staying out past the ten o'clock curfew. Criticizing Adolf Hitler or the war. Verboten. Verboten. Verboten." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I moved to the rover, which meant I had to do an annoying ten- meter EVA. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the number rolled adds up to ten, eleven, or twelve, I die on the operating table. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Every ten years the United States government collects data to find out who is living in the US. The census takers ask questions about age, sex, and race, to see how the country is changing.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Goodness knows how many tens of thousands of people suffered unnecessary agonies under the surgeon’s knife because no one thought of the gas’s most obvious practical application. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All of ’em had to have a stoop and a picket fence and a flower garden out front and had to be exactly ten paces off the road. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When I was ten I knew where drugs came from. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He used to have about a dozen cups of coffee a day with ten spoons of sugar in each.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She’s supposed to have me rest, for ten minutes, with my feet on a pillow to improve the chances. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But like Mas said, “I was only ten years old. How could I be an enemy?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Andy got six kinds of meat, ten dinner rolls, and four pieces of apple pie. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The announcement meant that nine of the state’s ten largest banking organizations now needed an aggregate sum of money from public and private sources well into the tens of billions to stay afloat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the brief, furious fight that followed, another man was killed and at least ten more wounded. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Abboud would watch him and raise ten fingers like a coach or a referee when she thought he should get off. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was, standing there, gliding down through the darkness, quite an imposing figure, seeming, all in all, probably close to ten feet tall, with voice to match. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about ten already and it’s hot, and someone’s banging at the door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As his canoe tapped against the overpass, he could see that there were ten or more animals, the same ones he’d seen before and a few others, in various positions on the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I clear breakfast at ten o’clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It’s ten o’clock.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A figure in blue overalls was coming down the pavement, not ten meters away. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The roaches were within ten feet of the bank when the rats caught up with them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Lost City of Towers. They found it in the desert five, ten years ago, I do not remember exactly. Were you with the expedition that excavated it?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I told him, we can have ten merit scholars at school. But if we beat Permian, we get more publicity.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not ten yards from the door, Rowan dropped her empty pail, and her sisters did likewise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are times I can imagine people who know me looking back ten years from now, and saying things like “He had such potential,” and “What a waste.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It took a moment for all the seventy-five adults and ten or more children to get settled that day. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The clock is running—the crowd is counting—ten seconds, nine, eight... Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We done had us ’most ten year to get ready, so this ain’t no surprise. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In the corners of the room, dozens of yellow- spruce oars stood on end, each ten to twelve feet long and tipped with a white blade. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Stinky gives the sonbitch ten percent on every stiff he delivers to get drained,” Cleve said, jubilant that the heat was off him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was now decanting the mysteriously separated ingredients of her poison into ten different crystal phials. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mom always had this habit of asking me how something felt on a scale of one to ten. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even so, within ten minutes, it was obvious that the rapids ahead were impassable. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They were looking for the girl and the girl was ten feet from them, burning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was on the front veranda with young Toddy Hughes about ten o’clock when Mr. Son Black rode up bareback on his red mare mule. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They’d traveled for several hours without saying a word when, without warning, a shadowy body appeared about ten feet in front of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, about ten minutes before the bell, I asked for the bathroom pass. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We believe he was about ten years old. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she was ten she no longer believed in a mother made up by Mo, she believed in one who had simply gone away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was ten years old, visiting my dad in Yeoville, I needed batteries for one of my toys. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They haven’t the oomph to escape Earth’s gravity and, even if they did, there are no mechanisms to guide them across tens of millions of miles of space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Of one hundred and ten questions about his lineage, Werner can accurately answer only sixteen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He passed the Sansonis on floor ten, listened awhile to the game show they were watching on TV. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Somebody dies around here about every ten and a half seconds.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began her journal at the end of the first day of preliminary training, and managed at least ten minutes most nights before lights-out. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was knocked out right until the plane touched down in Brazil ten hours later. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my ten and slammed it down. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I hope he may long continue to feel all the value of such a reconciliation.—He is a very liberal thanker, with his thousands and tens of thousands.—‘Happier than I deserve.’ Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He says the prayers of one child like us are worth more in heaven than the prayers of ten cardinals and forty bishops. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’d give a couple of extra sticks when someone bought ten, which was five dollars’ worth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes of this, we hear Dad’s chair move. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“My mom calls once a month to tell us how happy she is to be away from boring old Illinois. For my birthday, she sent me ten bucks.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, how to move?—with death’s ten thousand jaws agape, and waiting in the darkness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z