The media, it turned out, was far more interested in a bit of HeLa- related news that was almost as sensational as Alexis Carrel’s immortal chicken heart. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the people my dad arranged for me to live with—the Bacon family—were desperate for extra cash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sitting here, shaded by the afternoon sun, I'm using my Vietnamese whenever I can, which turns out to be often. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor picked up the phone in the kitchen and the call turned out to be for her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They had been hearing isolated reports from the radio and others who had stayed in the city, and they were all relieved they had eschewed shelter there; they had known it would turn out poorly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that the camps, which had seemed to go on forever, were, after all, temporary. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bologna turned out to be the most rewarding event in Captain Black’s life since the day Major Duluth was killed over Perugia and he was almost selected to replace him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I broke forty-six glasses... well, it turns out there are many ways to break a glass. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When Burn next went back to his hometown to visit his constituents, he had a bodyguard, but it turned out that wasn’t necessary. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Harry got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one Ron wouldn’t touch, which turned out to be pepper. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the exercise bar. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Axelroot’s case, as I have mentioned, it frequently turns out to be monkey business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a tote bag stuffed with books, which will, along with the hiking boots I have brought for weekends, turn out to be the most useless items in my inventory. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had tried to climb the ladder but it turned out not to be possible. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was I shocked when it turned out she was to be our teacher, but there and then I instinctively knew that whatever the principles of proper teaching were, she did not possess them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed there by the creek wallowing in my pity, thinking about how this day had turned out so bad. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Me too. And guess what else? It turns out that the Portuguese shark is the deepest-living shark on earth. I love that. I think that’s really cool.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Under all the sequins, it turned out that Pixie had on a proper bathing suit. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then Elijah started playing a great riff on his bass, which turned out to be the opening of “Seven Nation Army.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As things turned out, Hazel stayed three days at the foot of the hill. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carry the candles into the room in front of me, which turns out to be the library. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had all fallen apart after that, and though he wished it had turned out differently, he wasn’t so much embittered by it as hurt. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those crops turn out to be ones believed to be of Indonesian origin, such as bananas and Asian yams. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Branwell did not speak a word during the whole meeting, he said a lot, and as things turned out, it was a good thing—a very good thing—that I was there. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out he wasn’t exaggerating or simply trying to scare me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Of course, it had turned out that he’d wandered over to inspect the candy aisle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished I had Annabeth’s invisibility hat but as it turned out I didn't need it Every time we came to a skeleton guard, Nico just pointed at it, and its glowing eyes dimmed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It turns out there are important health reasons for doing these things. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The class everyone had really been looking forward to was Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Quirrell’s lessons turned out to be a bit of a joke. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There were six people and a Scotch terrier inhabiting the remote farmhouse Major Major called home, and five of them and the Scotch terrier turned out to be agents for the F.B.I. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I confess that I am very excited to see how it all turns out. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if that turns out to be the case, she can always drop him with no social repercussions. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They turned out to be a knight and his lady. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that they needed someone with long arms who could plug in connections the length of the switching board. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Winnie was not able to visit me for another two years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My visit to the old geisha who lived across the firebreak was a typical example of how those attempts turned out. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he turned out the light and closed the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It might even be a migraine. My aunts foot doctor used to get migraines, only they turned out not to be migraines at all. Do you know what they were?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said the Wart, “I am glad it has all turned out to the best. Do you think I could go and visit them?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also knew how it would turn out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contents of the suitcase were turned out on the floor. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I’d convinced myself I didn’t need to be involved with the MSA to be a devout Muslim on campus, only it turned out I did. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His weak leg made him dance a little funny, one foot turned out for balance, but it didn’t keep the girls from wanting a turn with him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

It turned out that corn was an excellent way to store and trade wealth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Germans, it turned out, had poisoned the river shore with an yperite mixture—more commonly known as mustard gas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, though, that wasn’t much of a problem. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The fact that Mavens want to help, for no other reason than because they like to help, turns out to be an awfully effective way of getting someone’s attention. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Wrights, it turned out, were unexpectedly easy subjects. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother’s family turned out in its entirety. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, I’m more than just numbers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it turns out that a lot of my classmates were also new to the school, like me. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s physics was intended to be practical but turned out to be of little practical use in its most obvious field of application. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Isabelle Derby, the current mistress of the house, turned out to be surprisingly motherly and caring. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Announcement Day—February 10, 2007—turned out to be a bright, cloudless morning, the kind of sparkling midwinter Saturday that looks a lot better than it actually feels. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But it turns out to be plenty hard for me as well. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every window upstairs and down blazed, though she always turned out the light when she left a room. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But yeah, it turned out to be fun, too. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be a very handsome fellow, nineteen years old, more than six feet tall, with blond hair that flopped over his forehead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, it turns out that my mother had her own set of deep-seated prejudices,” Aech said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No. This bombing turned out to be just one more “unsolved” explosion in Bombingham, Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the eastern U.S. founder crops were four plants domesticated in the period 2500-1500 B.C., a full 6,000 years after wheat and barley domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be neat if she turned out to be a real friend. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my PJs, turned out the light, and got under the covers. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out he has played on several university teams. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that a lot of them were going through this. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty years ago, his brother was digging a well when he hit something metallic that turned out to be a gourd. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the safety protocols turned out to be in ROMs. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were unlucky to be born to us. What can you do? Things just turned out this way.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I fold the comforter and set it on the floor, turn out the light, and head out the door for my locker. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

This turned out to be unwise in the long run, since each time I missed practice I had to make up the time and pay for it with an extra half hour. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

To the dismay of reformers, Prohibition was turning out to be crime’s best friend. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It turns out that there is also a big difference in how number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“This is turning out to be an interesting little town after all, isn’t it, Roy?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d thought I hated these guys, but it turned out things changing didn’t always have to be a bad thing. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But it turns out that even the fiercest denial can't stop time. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was a lean, happy, excitable man who had turned out to be calm and serene in combat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out I had severely sprained my ankle. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

No one knew then that things were going to turn out the way they have. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first opponent turned out to be a giant, so much bigger than the toy general I used to peep at. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lunch turned out to be a massive affair, with a thick soup, fresh rye bread, onion rolls, bagels, cream cheese, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, and chocolate pudding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Close enough. What are we worried about, then? That means everything turns out okay.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Bunny knew how to swim. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

But that name turned out to be a detriment rather than an asset to me. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out Akira had wanted to see the nearby river that day, so Mama had taken him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I turned out of the hammock and ran outside as soon as the sun streaked in. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It turns out the Fortress looks like part of a hospital, which it is. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

We sit in his car, waiting in line to turn out of the parking lot. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When they turn out of the Field of Dreams parking lot, I look back at Webb. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the uncertainty itself was the worst suffering we had to undergo. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Both schools could now count on tens of thousands of students, alumni, and excited citizens to turn out for their annual dual regattas in April, when they battled for preeminence in West Coast rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Andrea and I were so busy the next day, I wasn’t even tempted to tell. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out I did leave her computer unlocked, which is a huge relief. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They had turned out, like people in small towns all over the country, to watch their young men leave. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, the theory is groundless; on the next Saturday, Pete even brings me a homemade Egg McMuffin as a treat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And it turns out the party will be on Christmas Day, after all!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to be unhappy. But there are different ways of being that. Don’t you think it might turn out that you would be more unhappy if we lived together?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No staff to speak of, the larder half-empty, the city getting ready to explode, and she wants this turned out and polished. Of all the foolish—” A loud beating on the front door interrupted her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if this new General Meade turns out to be anything like the last couple hickjops Lincoln’s put in charge, well...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Fiona turned out to be a good mimic, and for all her merriness, there was a cruel touch to her humor that Briony liked. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He turns out the kitchen light, snaps on the radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first it seems stupid, but it turns out to be kind of fun. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I am merely being frank. I don’t believe in sugar- coating things for the young. That is how I was raised, and I turned out perfectly well.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Nasreen Baji told me about her family back in her village, and it turned out we had other neighbors in common. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But he turned out to be a liar and a cheat, and he had a vicious streak. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And the whole day turned out to be the most affirming experience—it cemented my purpose in the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Right away I drove to Portsmouth and met my mother’s childhood friend, a slim, brown-haired, soft-spoken woman of Mommy’s age whose eyes, it turned out, were working just fine. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph hoped he wasn’t imagining the golden ship, and he prayed his own story wouldn’t turn out like the Little Match Girl’s. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I had sleeves added, but at the last minute, decided to have them made with organza instead of satin so it’s almost see-through. I’m kind of nervous about how it’ll turn out.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I didn't get to brood too much over what had happened. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The most interesting part of the day turned out to be late in the afternoon when the class worked on their projects for what the children called the Great Mouse Exhibit. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the highest bedroom, just below the eaves, he turned out the lamp and leaned on the windowsill. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She said this almost sarcastically, like she was sure the whole thing would turn out to be a big mistake on his part. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I think, but even if it were, it turned out to be Mitt, some wondrous thing, who will forever annul any of our regret. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, turns out there are other true geniuses! Because one of them must have made that work of art down there.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He turned out the light, murmuring his brief praise of darkness; we burrowed down into our bags, and within a minute or two he was sliding into sleep as a swimmer slides into dark water. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was distressed to see her, and thought how things might have turned out differently. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to their chagrin, the mysterious messages turned out not to be from the Nazis. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Secrets are turned out like pockets, and old memories meet new. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Someone was turning out the lights one at a time. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she came close enough, I tried to plead my case, but as it turned out, she had nothing to say. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And that turned out to be a huge, huge mistake. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I liked the poem, which turned out to be “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s just as likely that John, whom she likes more than anyone else, could turn out to be attractive and funny but not particularly sincere or smart at all. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the dog was no threat at all. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And it turns out I was right. Twelve plus six plus eight is ... twenty-six?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There had to be a reason why all of this was turning out the way it had. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Milo was not only the Vice-Shah of Oran, as it turned out, but also the Caliph of Baghdad, the Imam of Damascus, and the Sheik of Araby. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“No, but you asked me to be involved with that petition, and look how that turned out. Then you gave an interview about me to the school paper without letting me know?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

All turned out even better than Hermes had predicted. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be an inmate’s bedding and mattress on fire. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out we’d come in through the jailer’s living quarters. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our feet were trapped under a weight on top of the blankets that turned out to be Tree and Zheegwon lying perpendicular on top of the comforter. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s just different when it turns out to be someone you know.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

During the Depression, the studios, which were mostly run by immigrant Jews, turned out a string of formulaic fantasies about life among the Gentile upper crust. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A Uruguayan sculptor finally did what I had in mind, and the statues turned out exactly as I wanted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: No matter what happens, I won’t let you turn out to be wild. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fay hadn’t reported it to the police—and as it turned out, she didn’t even know the girl’s last name. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange, but you know how sometimes when you get what you think you always wanted, it turns out to be nothing like you expected? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It turns out Mama was in the women’s state prison and Dusty was in another jail in Florida. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I thought, If they don’t turn out, what will we eat? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, she turns out to be Mrs. Police Superintendent, and Uncle Al ends up with a shiny purple eye instead of a fat lady, along with summary instructions to leave town. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And when we saw the Boy turned out of doors to sleep in the Stable, coughing prodigiously from a Chill he had caughten, his Head bowed as he went... The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And, as it turned out, the Soviet codebook first captured in Finland finally found its way to the United States—to the desk of Meredith Gardner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because I’d known how going to see Mamá would turn out, I left Mr. Gee’s without feeling one bit of remorse over not telling her what was going on. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, the average number of items answered on that questionnaire varies from country to country. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There turned out to be a huge market for games that allowed people to play a leading role in one of their favorite old movies or TV series. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Luck,” James Vincent groaned to himself, to nobody, not in his wildest dreams realizing how prophetic his statement would turn out to be: “I got the kind of luck even a rattlesnake wouldn’t strike at.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That turned out to be my last year in Greenwood. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And that, as it would turn out, was just for starters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This turns out to be a more strenuous proposition than I had anticipated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a good thing you turned out to be a girl with plenty of alpana experience. I don’t think I’d have given a boy a chance.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was fun to listen to them, because it turns out Hugo is pretty interesting. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, they could do plenty, particularly the freshmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Styx Malone wasn’t right about everything, it turned out. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Izzi, it turns out, left early on an errand for Cook. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not too far to crawl back to them swiftly if the trees turned out to be full of spirits idling the night away. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she turned out to be right. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Barack, it turned out, had retreated up there as well, clearly needing a moment of his own. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Once she started turning out the hors d’oeuvres, she gained momentum. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There he stopped the car, ate a sandwich, drank some beer, turned out the lights and curled up in the seat to sleep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny, the way some things turn out in the end, except it’s the sort of funny that makes my chest ache. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

At the time, I thought it was a real awful curse happening to me, but instead, it turned out to be a big blessing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Celaena had once met a young woman from that cursed land, and though she’d turned out to be both cruel and bloodthirsty, she was still just a human. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the last half-mile, turning out of the Salinas Valley and driving up the unscraped road under the great oak trees, Samuel tried to plait a rage to take care of his embarrassment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one, it turned out, but that madman Yossarian, who brought him down with a flying tackle one day as he was scooting along the bottom of the ditch to his trailer for lunch. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Two beds and one chair, as it turns out. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned out the light and closed the door. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing I keep thinking about, what if something happens when I get older and I turn out to be another accident of nature? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out, Rindlisbacher explains, that the wife of the guy was the daughter of a police captain in Las Vegas. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Longstreet sent Goree to find out what was happening and it turned out to be nothing much—skirmish of pickets in Anderson’s front. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the flash flood didn’t have enough power to carry away the vehicle or even to do any lasting damage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to retrieve something which was stolen from them, which turned out to be— SCORPIUS: —people they loved. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And what a turning out those poor gypsies got! East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tiredly, following one another, they went up the great stairway, turning out lights behind them. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Where the conventional view had been that lands close to the equator must be uninhabitable, this had turned out to be nonsense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lawrence was unaware how tactless this sounded to Fosdick, who had been brooding over the foundation’s investment in what had turned out to be an instrument of unparalleled death and destruction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I spent the time deciding how I would save my mother instead of letting her save me, but as it turned out, neither of us had to do any saving. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that he and I were taking the same exam, but he wasn’t studying at all—didn’t believe in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the midst of one prayer, smoke issued from the lectern and I thought we had gone too far but it turned out to be a short circuit. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This turned out to be the big revelation for me about counseling: No validating went on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

An Air Day turns out to be pretty much the same as any other day, but without the four-hour drive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me know how it turns out,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was terrible, and it turned out I was taking an antibiotic that wasn’t strong enough. What are you taking, Esther?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It turns out that I’m sitting in the front row next to Keisha—the girl who can bake and write at the same time while I can’t do either. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Not only for me but for my mom, too, because she is always saying, “Never thought I’d be here forever. But that’s how things turned out.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I didn’t even need to control the currents. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had only enough funds, it turned out, to buy one shell, not twelve. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Therefore the government volcanologists called in to monitor and forecast St. Helens’s behavior primarily had seen only Hawaiian volcanoes in action, and they, it turned out, were not the same thing at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Handle H” turned out to be a knob, rather like a doorknob, with a pin on the end that would fit into “Hole 7” in the wheel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ollie and I remained trembling in place, watching their backs until they turned out of the alley. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"And it turns out, there's a whole lot of it missing." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And on many occasions it turned out they had. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what it actually was, as it turned out, Mr. Chris had his very own name for. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It also turned out to be a great ride. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I nodded at him, thinking how for a guy I first met in Juvi he turned out to be a pretty solid dude. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, my reasoning was seriously flawed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turned out the light and tried to drop back to sleep, but Joan's face floated before me, bodiless and smiling, like the face of the Cheshire cat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It turned out that knowing German would prove more useful to us than we ever could have imagined. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It turns out Roli and I have to do sixty whole hours of free labor every year, while keeping up a B-plus average. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I follow, just to make sure he gets to bed all right, which turns out to be a good idea, because he doesn't get to bed all right. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

So when Mr. Tate, the principal at my new school, started talking about me laying low for the season until I got my grades together I was like seriously turned out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, my conclusions are inaccurate. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maysilee Donner turns out to be pretty resourceful herself, for a girl who leaves the Cornucopia with only a small backpack. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Keeps us in shape during football season, and it turns out girls around here really dig male cheerleaders. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I guess I shouldn’t have been so surprised when Isabella turned out to be hiding a whole bunch of beautiful under her unibrow and braces. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the first school I visited, the Sarah Bonnell School for girls, had a large contingent of Muslim students. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Hydrogen,” said Lil, who turned out to be in every one of my classes, except for PE, of course. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Only then I had to drag him out of the water — because it turns out, he can’t swim! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

That turned out to be fortunate, because it left him free to take on a new project that soon landed on the NDRC’s plate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

What if only one of them turned out to carry that mark? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, jack Will didn’t need to learn any of these virtues—he already had them in abundance. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the news was much bigger than the boys could ever have imagined. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In a day of many mistakes, this would turn out to be one of the larger ones. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, there wasn’t much need to blend in. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

All she would remember was Mia holding her tight, so tight that the world stopped spinning at last, Mia tucking her into a low soft bed that, it turned out later, was Mia’s own. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I didn’t have to worry about RiRi. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We gave him a real nice send-off, whole neighborhood turned out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Still, she hoped that she herself would turn out like Angeline, and was sometimes embarrassed to find herself following at Angeline’s heels like a puppy. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It turns out that she wasn’t my Secret Santa at all. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were so hungry they ate mushrooms that turned out to be poisonous. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Comparing texts word by word turned out to be quite the consuming task. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, my breakdown had become a breakthrough for my family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His recurring illness had turned out to be appendicitis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the whole canasta group are wives of supporters of the plot. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There are murky, smoky parties, with the lights turned out and candles flickering in bottles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bull found a knife and clambered to the back end of the boat, which turned out to be a humongous mistake. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

That turned out to be our last moment of peace. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, thousands of children had poured from the church that day and marched the streets of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A fine spy I have turned out to be! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But when he grew up, the name turned out to be an apt one. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I kept hoping the explanation would turn out to be more complex, that there’d turn out to be more than pure, blind hatred to motivate their actions. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Worse, there was, it turned out, no cable modem access in Richton Park. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we had turned out the lights he came over to my bed and rubbed my shoulder the way he used to do when he was scared to be in the dark. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“As it turns out, writing is hard. But I do have an idea for an automatic doggie bath.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the way to make magic was to rip up my new thrift store clothes with a pair of scissors. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed dumbly to a shack that turned out not to be Brigid’s house at all, but the housewife inside knew Brigid and gave Lyddie proper directions. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It turned out we were not being overcharged. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Problems he had always assumed to be purely racial turned out to have a hidden component. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out to be a pretty weird Christmas vacation, as you might imagine, and Gram keeps fussing at me and won't let me sleep in the cellar. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Ionia was the place where science was born. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their injuries turned out to be relatively minor, but still I’d felt no pleasure witnessing their misfortune. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out he was dancing his drunken jig to his new home when he was run over.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It turned out that her grandparents were giving them their big bedroom and were taking a tiny bedroom for themselves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Things might turn out pretty hot,” she said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I get in, then I’ll know that people like me have a say in how our lives turn out. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The kouros it most resembled, it turned out, was a smaller, fragmentary statue that was found by a British art historian in Switzerland in 1990. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Cletus had some gifts—I was learning this bit by bit—and knowing when to talk and when not to was turning out to be one of them. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our destination turned out not to be the town of Ensenada, after all, but about five miles out of the city limits. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That same day, back in the States, a New Yorker named Richard Wingate sat down and penned what would turn out to be a prophetic letter to the sports editor of the New York Times. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He undressed and got into bed, read for about half an hour and then turned out the light. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that he had used inferior materials, siphoning the remaining cash into his personal bank account. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the schottische was a very energetic type of dance. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Trotter, it’s all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it’s supposed to.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

What if this turned out to be the exact moment the jelly beans wore off? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds of Venus turn out to be chiefly a concentrated solution of sulfuric acid. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew I was upset about the fight and said that everything would probably turn out all right. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out I was worried for no reason. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, no one asked Mr. Jones any questions—he says he never met the who team. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved his two nephews and it would be a sad blow if they turned out to be lions when they grew up. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

So my father had been the first one to open the letter, a long letter it turned out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital job had turned out to be a good one, challenging and satisfying and in line with my beliefs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And what if it turned out that Granddaddy was—God forbid—wrong? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Things don’t really turn out like you think. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It turned out, because of the King’s health, to be both easy and sad. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It can only be proven that I brought a person onto campus who I presumed to be an expert on sexual deviancy in adolescence and who turned out to be an actual sexual deviant. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I said turn out the light!” shouted the Centipede angrily. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

But this marriage turned out to be particularly important: Frederick’s daughter Sophia married the Elector of Hanover and was the mother of George I of England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Later, it turned out he was just a douche. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then, one day, it turned out little Jeanne was just as strange as Theresa. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Without her still eyes bearing down on me, I did not pour in too much hot water, and the garri turned out firm and smooth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dussel, the man who was said to get along so well with children and to absolutely adore them, has turned out to be an old-fashioned disciplinarian and preacher of unbearably long sermons on manners. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And Britain’s Royal Air Force, in a gallant and furious fight against the Luftwaffe, turned out to be a stronger opponent than Germany had expected. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To throw in the face of the father who was so ambitious for presidents and geniuses in the family, the German nobody turned out to be a world-class chemist. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We rode our bikes to Rado’s house and jumped the wooden fence, which turned out to be a real bad idea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The large pinecone with spiky leaves turns out to be called a “pineapple,” and it tastes like food for a king. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Park Forest, it turns out, was one of America’s first fully planned communities—not just a housing subdivision, but a full village designed for about thirty thousand people, with shopping malls, churches, schools, and parks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It turns out that conditions are even worse for the chickens in egg farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It turns out I still don’t know how to laugh. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out the first episode was Erlan and his brothers’ birthday party, so that was fun to watch because I’d been there in real life. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She lobs something toward me, and I grab what turns out to be a bundle of brand-new markers in rainbow colors, held together with a fat rubber band. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Peeta, it turns out, has never been a danger to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But turns out your son’s an apple off that same tree. So now we’re all celebrating!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It turned out she’d broken her leg tripping over one of her cats, and she didn’t seem quite as fond of them as before. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“And then they turn out just like they mamas.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cooter was whistling and still laughing every once in the while and, doggone-it-all, I saw how unfair this whole commotion was turning out to be. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It turned out that my mom’s parents already knew and so did a lot of extended family members. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Adams and Jefferson, it turned out, were too deeply shaped by the desperate struggle against England to foresee the Anglo-American alliance that flourished throughout the Victorian era and beyond. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This turned out to be joyous news for Huang Taitai, for she liked nothing better than to reclaim all her gold and jewelry to help me become fertile. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the atom turned out to be quite unlike the image that most people had created. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Losing, as it turned out, never occurred to the contestant herself. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But Johnson, it turned out, was also rotting underground. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

That night, I was just about to turn out the light when I realized there was something I needed to do. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, this meant they stopped talking at all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She shut her eyes tight and wished blindly that everything would turn out all right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And R. leguminicola, it turns out, is a variety of mold that produces a potent alkaloid called swainsonine—a compound well known to ranchers and veterinarians as a killer of livestock. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This turned out to be an accurate appraisal of the lawyer’s then immediate future, now his receding past. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gravity of relativity theory was brilliant at explaining why planets orbited suns or why galaxies tended to cluster, but turned out to have no influence at all at the particle level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wondered whether she had turned out the light in the back room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the harder he tried, the more laughable his efforts turned out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if we turned out to be villains, they’d have to pay for it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It turned out he was paying me three times what a normal saleslady earned! Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

If it turned out that he did not like those plans or his part in them, however, well . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ideology,” then, had provided Jefferson with a politically attractive pro-French platform, which had turned out to have enormous rhetorical advantages no matter how wrong it proved in reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The culprit turned out to be a turkey chili recipe that she and Wilson had discovered: every ingredient except the turkey came from a can. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The way it finally turns out with Killer Kane, Freak is right. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this place would turn out to be a terrible disappointment. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

People used to do that, too— have twelve or fifteen kids because they figured some would die, some would turn out rotten, and a couple would be hardworking, honest farmers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the best thing he ever did, since, quite unexpectedly, the Nazi offered him a job. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t never said nothing like that. You just kindly turn out that light and I’ll make you to know that black’s a mighty pretty color.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A failure to command coherence connectives turned out to be among the skills that most sharply differentiated the struggling students from their successful peers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I turn out the lights, Pop says, “What did Erin tell you about the accident—anything that Coach left out?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But observing nature, it turned out, was very different from experimenting with nature. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But as I roll over and turn out the light, I realize for the first time in a long time, I don’t really feel alone. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I’d been raised on the bedrock of football, basketball, and baseball, but it turned out that East Coast prep schoolers did more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her god of communication became a god of vengeance—to her the most satisfactory deity she had devised so far—and, as it turned out, the last. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At home, sometimes Naomi let Beto fix her hair, too, but he couldn’t ask for a turn out here. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The backward address turned out after several mistakes to be the undersecretary to Étienne Tshisekedi, the one government minister who might help us, though his own position with Mobutu is now on the outs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next step in my journey also turns out to be Mai's idea. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Toby wasn’t kidding—he really did go for the Egypt Game. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At first glance it appeared to be a three-ton pair of scissors, and this turned out to be exactly what it was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was lucky that Harry had tea with Hagrid to look forward to, because the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst thing that had happened to him so far. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He’d waited tables at a roadside restaurant in Panamá, which turned out to be the only experience he needed to find work in the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A neglected Levy Pants was like a neglected child: it could turn out to be a delinquent, something that created all sorts of problems that a little nurture, a little care and feeding could prevent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out my father was right about yesterday. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, that won’t matter if they turn out to cure seasickness or something, will it?” said Ron, grinning slyly at her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“If I had half your initiative, things woulda turned out different,” says Bobby. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hang around for a few minutes in case August turns out to be inside. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ben turned out his lights and waited for the driver of the Rambler to identify himself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Piper had flown perpendicularly across the flight path of a jet plane that had just passed through the area. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After a slow glide around the Statue of Liberty, the Zeppelin banked north, then turned out over the Atlantic. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The anonymous caller turned out to be exactly right. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, his prediction turned out to be off by nearly three decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned out the light and I patted my son’s body lightly and went back to sleep. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was both weary and faint, I still had a horse to turn out to pasture and morning chores to do. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She caught a dark bundle that turned out to be a sleeping bag, and Sherm dragged another one behind him up the ladder. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she had finished her ritual, Blanca climbed into bed and turned out the light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ida Wells-Barnett discovered firsthand that life did not turn out as she had hoped, and other southern blacks made the same discovery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She ran to the front door, to the pane of glass in its center, and watched as a black SUV turned out of the driveway and drove past the house, disappearing from view. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holiday season is supposed to be a time of happiness that you can spend with your family, but this year turned out to be tragic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had a lighter melody but the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except it turns out I’m not as careful at coloring as I thought. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We found what turned out to be one of the last buses out of Tembisa, for the police were quarantining the ghetto, barring all company vehicles and public transportation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it come time for one of us to go, he said, “Go ’head on, Little Charlie Bobo, I wants to see how you turns out.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But it turns out I haven’t brought any money with me and we cannot put together $2 between the four of us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the math didn’t get done; but as it turned out, it didn’t really matter, because April stayed home from school the next day, and her grandmother took the day off, too. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were exhilarated by the idea of taking a long, adventurous journey, but I knew very well how this was going to turn out. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When Elizebeth and her team broke the intercepts, they turned out to be messages from spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If she had stayed in Honduras, he would have turned out better. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I didn’t have to worry. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It had certainly been that way with Cecilia, the beautiful butterfly who had turned out to be a poisonous wasp. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, I’m not the only one with the bright idea to have a Halloween party. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It turns out that our taste buds are all alike, they can taste everything, and they’re all over the place. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Jimmy didn’t intend to pay us any money. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was never destined to turn out the way Mama did. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That note, it turned out—which by now had been quoted or read aloud by half the grade—was Maya’s first ticket to a kind of popularity she’d never experienced before. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And besides, often it is the bad things that turn out to be the best. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in seventh year, and he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out to be Death Eaters.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Climbing a chain-link fence turned out to be not that easy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Johnson’s secretary called me today, Mr. Know-It-All. It turns out you do need your paperwork from Lake Windsor Middle School in order to transfer here.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So DuShawn and Addie are going to the dance together and, as it will turn out, they will end up going out together the rest of seventh grade. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel orders us patbingsoo, which turns out to be shaved ice with fruit, small, soft rice cakes, and sweet red beans. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

HeLa cells, it turned out, weren’t picky—they didn’t need a glass surface in order to grow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Why, oh why hadn’t it turned out the way it did in a song? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It turns out that Mother Nature is a lousy mom.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, that's not all, actually. It turns out to be somewhat more complicated." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It turns out, this special person is also studying law in the capital, although he’s two years ahead of her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her release project, after a rough start, has turned out to be a great success. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo took this at face value, which turned out to be a big mistake. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It turns out the question that’s been eating away at me has only ever had one possible answer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As usual, the High were to be turned out by the Middle, who would then become the High; but this time, by conscious strategy, the High would be able to maintain their position permanently. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

What should have been the crowning moment of Bernard’s whole career had turned out to be the moment of his greatest humiliation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on his orange Racal space suit and opened up the monkeys under the necropsy tent, feeling frustrated and sad, especially when all the monkeys turned out to be healthy. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Michael turned out to be a great Rooster. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Just go along. Everyone. Please. No more outbursts and demonstrations. Cooperate and it will turn out all right in the end. Remember: Unity. Security. Prosperity. Dismissed.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The victory tankard turned out to be the same as the consolation one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out that 1–4 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern populations in the Middle East and Europe is Neanderthal DNA. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were relieved things had turned out the way they had; that they were in a position to comfort Ruth, instead of being left behind in the wake of a dizzying boost to her hopes. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, we didn’t study much. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman turned out to be a Washington socialite, but it could so easily have been Elizebeth instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A federal grand jury in Washington began what turned out to be a smoke-screen investigation accusing Fischer of money laundering after his match with Spassky in 1992. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ess followed eagerly, and it turned out they were in luck. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, I'm sure your parents must be so proud of you. You seem like you turned out to be a very nice young man.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Later I wondered if Miss Love had guessed how the fuss about the New York trip would turn out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A pair of economists who heard of this dilemma—it turned out to be a rather common one—offered a solution: fine the tardy parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought I was good at it, but it turns out I’m a year behind everybody else. You?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out that canceling the project was the best thing that ever could have happened to it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It would be just my luck that the only one would turn out to be my father. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Luke promised he’d never let me get hurt. He said ... he said we’d be a new family, and it would turn out better than his.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look down at Baby Girl, who I know, deep down, I can’t keep from turning out like her mama. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Coraline closed the old wooden door, turned out the light, and went to bed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, we were trying for Paris, but turns out there aren’t any Diplodocus skeletons buried under the Eiffel Tower.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be one of the wrong days. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It turns out there are eleven attributes that are probably critical.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I was understandably anxious, because if it turned out I’d been sold bogus data and none of the passwords worked, I would have sold myself into lifelong slavery. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

One of Grammer’s workers later admitted to authorities, “I had the assurance that if I was ever arrested...I would be turned out in five minutes.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’d seen enough adult promises turn out to just be wishes that he wasn’t going to hold his breath, though. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I took a step back, which turned out to be a really good thing, because the door suddenly swung open and there was Mrs. Windermere—at least, I figured it had to be her. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That turned out to be the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He is now gone into the army,” she added; “but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I felt a little self-conscious about them, like maybe she would be disappointed in Dad and me if the dduk didn’t turn out right. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be a terrible person. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Agent Samson was something along the lines of a circuit-court speech therapist. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out that at the age of thirty-one, Moore had hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells until it bulged like an overfilled inner tube. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘You were worn out, and it has turned out well: we are now both rested. And we have a hard road ahead, the worst road of all.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mom noticed I wasn’t overjoyed with how the article had turned out. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

This was not supposed to turn out like this. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I remember my dad saying, “Everything will turn out OK. In the United States, there are more opportunities, better jobs, and no terrorism.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing turns out the way I expect it to. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I get in bed and he turns out the light. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, Spike says, “I guess we should go to bed,” and we turn out the lights and while we’re lying in bed trying to keep our eyes open for just another minute, Spike says, “Sparrow?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be Dympna’s other passenger, the other ferry pilot on her taxi run. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Do you have to grow a beard if it turns out ugly? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m very sorry it turned out the way it did,” he replies without looking up. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

At first, I think it’s mine, but it turns out to be Lucinda crying. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the German beer industry suffers from small-scale production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He puts on his potato-peeling face, and when it’s set in that particular way, it would be impossible for him to turn out anything less than a perfectly peeled potato. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A wooden plaque in the entryway was engraved in cursive with the words Home Is Where the Heart Is, and the entire house turned out to be festooned in such observations. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Cas used to believe her, but it had turned out that was stupid, because it was never true. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This is not how my life is supposed to turn out. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Parker gave me a sympathetic look, and I felt the slap of irony hit—some secret weapon I turned out to be. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a book inside a bag made of two layers of brown paper. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that Hanako’s grandparents had discovered this afternoon that the wheat was being attacked by insects, so they did not think they could go to Kobe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But the thing that worries me most is that my children might turn out to be exactly like you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. Your life might have turned out worse, isn’t that possible?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And, as it turned out, all cats—even celestial ones—were highly intrigued by boxes. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The turkey potpie wasn’t half bad, and the cherry strudel turned out to be surprisingly tasty. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d had to redo and scale it down when it turned out we didn’t have nearly enough green and black pieces. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Mistress Cutler provided her with a store- bought calico gown. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

With each view­ing, we cried at the end when the Mexican kids buried Charles Bronson—who, as it turned out, wasn’t Iranian either. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If an experiment turns out precisely as predicted, this can be very nice, but it is only a great event if at the same time it is a surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By morning light, the books are all hunched together again with their spines turned out, fossilized, inanimate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all turning out to be alike, differing only in detail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were in the same group when we were out looking for Ziggy, and I was telling him more about you and Malia. It turns out his wife used to teach piano. She’s retired now.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

This turned out not to be such a good idea. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I needed her to see me—how great I had turned out without her help. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Still later, when the dust had settled and he had had the paperwork organized, Inspector Thomas Mathew congratulated himself for the way it had all turned out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Anh had hurried to the studio at lunch the next day to check how their prints had turned out after drying. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Gathering wild yeast turns out to be no big deal. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He wondered how his mother had turned out to be so nice—always laughing, always gentle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You mean like those guys who NetChat you and pretend they’re a hot German pop star named Hans but who turn out to be some old fat guy in a house in Kansas?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

His story turned out to be one of outstanding heroism: having remained aboard the foundering Athenia to minister to injured passengers and crew, he was the very last passenger to board a lifeboat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But as the spy wars in Berlin reached a new phase, the world would learn just how powerful a weapon the spy George Blake would turn out to be. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once the process of discovery had begun, it turned out that it was possible to make discoveries anywhere, if only one knew how to look. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Wisely, it turned out, for as he dropped a last pinch of sand into the fourth socket and stood back, he found Pai at his elbow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Has he? I was afraid he might turn out to be not as strong as the others.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to reread that case study of the woman who had no symptoms except a stomachache and turned out to have C. diff. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He planned to call in the decorators, and to turn out the attics, even to give a Sunday morning cocktail party, marking the beginning of his era as master of Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He never imagined it’d turn out he was right both times. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He could turn out such work in short order.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out the Cowboys had won the Super Bowl last year, so they were the best team in the league. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be sooner than later. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What looks like a brute fact—the distance a body falls in a certain period of time—turns out to be in part dependent on language and institutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Matt was just really shy. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Just after I turned out the lights and opened the door, I heard her say softly, “I want you to stop smoking, you hear?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of my life might have turned out differently if 1 had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Could we make events turn out differently from what the history books assert? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you turn out better than Charlie Weasley, and he could have played for England if he hadn’t gone off chasing dragons.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Julie, it turned out, loved gardening and she talked about nothing else. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

For all she knew, and for all Nicodemus knew, they were likely to turn out to be quite different from other mice, and they had a right to know the reason. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he’d reeled in yet another brown trout, and it turns out he’s got a thirty-pound salmon struggling to wrench itself off his barbed fishhook. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Enstice had a history of prematurely and incorrectly declaring deaths to be homicides without adequate supporting evidence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’s so excited, he has to call a bunch of friends and tell them how this has turned out to be the best Christmas ever. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“The fact is,” he answered, “I think I've turned out to be a Conservative.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His timing turned out to be flawless, for the catastrophe that had struck him that afternoon had plowed under the entire nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In command of the cookhouse was the imposing figure of Evanda May Calimar, a lady of color and, as it would turn out, an awe-inspiring cook. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Was it too far-fetched to imagine that things might have turned out differently if I hadn’t? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That turned out to be good, for it gave me the chance to better myself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is to say, we were obliged to find replacements for the two dismissed Jewish maids, and this Lisa turned out to be one of them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They gave Elizebeth a few more messages in what turned out to be yet another system. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Joyce settled down on a bench on the foredeck, sipping coffee in the sun, looking forward to watching Joe race and seeing him afterward, however it turned out. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A large number of sports fans, it turned out, refused to believe that a set of statistical tools could help them understand how good a basketball player someone was. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He had nothing, it turned out, but a few dollars and coins, for which he begged Fujiko’s forgiveness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The first body he came to turned out to be Namba, but Hutchison couldn’t discern who it was until he knelt in the gale and chipped a three-inch-thick carapace of ice from her face. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it turns out, tomorrow and the next day aren’t all that different from the days that went before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it turned out that such crops did not become adopted for cultural or other reasons, we would be left with a nagging doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Billy turned out to be a white-bearded, gruff sort of fellow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a rectangular anteroom. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But she was not, as it turned out, dead. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Beetee calls us over, and it turns out that during all those hours of fiddling with wire, he has indeed come up with a plan. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Bast. It’s good advice, as all of your seemingly inane advice turns out to be.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I... As it turns out, the topic was “Should foreign languages be taught in middle school?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was nauseated by the smell of burning flesh, which turned out to be my own as I climbed up the hot ladder,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The producers at Channel 3, as it turned out, had good instincts. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hammer turned out to be a waste of two or three good pounds, because there appear to be no nails in the mud-and-thatch town of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The famous upstart neurologist wanted to be my lover, it turned out, and actually won me to his bed for a time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing had turned out as either of them expected. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the SIM discovered the plot and most of our uncle’s friends were arrested. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It also turns out that astrologers cannot even agree among themselves on what a given horoscope means. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, it turns out that Nurse Nag-a-lot was right about my hip. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids hated when their parents talked about things turning out okay. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It sounded lame, but it was interesting because I know how his program turned out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Christened the Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition, Fischer’s team removed 5,000 pounds of trash from the mountain—which was very good for the landscape and turned out to be even better public relations. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was one condition that must have been a matter of chagrin for the arsonists—all the farm animals were turned out to pasture during the summer nights and so escaped a fiery death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white Southern voice scared some at first, but Johnson turned out to be okay. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later, seeing the uneasiness in the room, Lincoln adds, “Don’t you see how it will all turn out? In this dream it was not me, but some other fellow that was killed.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, every dream Minerva had ever dreamed was in the language. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It took another thirty minutes before the forest opened up to fields below—it turned out they’d been on a hill. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The storm turned out to be a cloudburst, and an island where we were going to spend the night was flooded. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma tucked our quilts around us, then turned out the light and went back to the bathroom. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that they were thinking the exact same thing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d been convicted of the very disturbing and brutal murder of an older man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And once he turned out of his pocket a wadded-up baby copperhead that nearly threw Mama into spasms. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong would share the vision he had on the river and explain that Father Cham would never have wanted things to turn out this way. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The last thing he needed was another harmless mortal who turned out to be a monster. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Been there, done that—even though the traitor god had turned out to be Ares rather than Hades. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I shoved it down my pants, turned out all the room lights, and opened the back window. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It turned out that their anthill was on the other side of her wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But it turned out the notion that being a middle kid was a form of child abuse was greatly exaggerated. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be placenta, and washed off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out I was the best bowler. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But that wasn’t the word that hurt most, it turned out. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I had only been away for three months. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

First, it turns out that a large T-shirt in a Georgia gas station is not the same size as a large T-shirt at, say, Old Navy. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

By coincidence, it turned out Barack and I had met Sam years earlier through a different set of friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was, as it turned out, an impossible task. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“What happens when they turn out my pockets? What happens when they rip my stockings? What happens when they scatter my salt in the dirt?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the wood was too hard for cutting once it dried, and the groves were abandoned. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, her sword was more in demand. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It turns out someone wrote a whole song about her eyes. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"She told us that she was being turned out of the human race. She was becoming a monkey." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“When I marry her,” he went on more calmly, “she tells me she’s a divorced woman. Now it turns out she’s not.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a wishing star turns out to be just a lump of rock that crashes into a planet and kills all the dinosaurs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We were an odd couple, for I affected the informal dress I had gotten used to underground and wore khakis and fatigues, while Robbie was always smartly turned out in a suit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. It turned out to be your wife dressed in your flight suit. We recognized her by her mustache,” Major Reynolds, Bull’s executive officer, shot back. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, that day in Cape Town was the first of many excursions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “small” ceremony turned out to be “Bobby Fischer Day” in New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bother to be stopped on the road in a Free State when the lost property turned out to have a silver tongue. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But now, to my delight and amazement, the answer was turning out to be profoundly interesting. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But Gottman, it turns out, can teach us a great deal about a critical part of rapid cognition known as thin-slicing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We wait the rest of the period for Dr. Cobb, but it turns out he doesn’t have time for us. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was to just pay for the stuff we needed, but it turned out this old white guy working the register was a straight-up racist. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out that reading was a great idea because the book was terrific. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“That you were gone into the army, and she was afraid had—not turned out well. At such a distance as that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The cake turned out crisp on the outside and moistly soft inside, and he cut slim slices and took them out in saucers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, not once during the entire expedition would I ever have reason to rope myself to another climber. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t really thought before about the fact that it mattered to him that those two fellows were in the boat with him, but it turned out that it did matter, a lot. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the mad “socialist,” Theodore Roosevelt, was going to run for reelection. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people, it turns out, they are mostly mothers. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I says no thank you I have all the women I can take care of now if I married a wife she’d probably turn out to be a hophead or something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I got him fed and turned out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

James was half-asleep before she turned out the light and closed the door behind her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through chattering teeth, she asked him to turn out the lights. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom takes my temperature—turns out I have a fever. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The story is interesting from another standpoint, proving that what the public is asked to accept as “safe” today may turn out tomorrow to be extremely dangerous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know, I guess I always thought I’d turn out okay, no matter how badly my many schools tried to mutilate me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Izzy had slipped it into her bag before closing the envelope again and turning out the lights and locking the door behind her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, was it too much to hope that the “man born for great things” should not turn out to be Thyon Nero? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, this is just management’s way of drawing my attention to the fact that more money is due. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The discs turned out to be bright golden pennies. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later I presented him with a list of suspects that turned out to be 90 percent accurate. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Judith Harris has convincingly argued that peer influence and community influence are more important than family influence in determining how children turn out. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was horrified to see that one of them was eating a child—but it turned out to be a doll. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the end neared, I congratulated myself silently—and, as it turned out, prematurely. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But of course it will not turn out this way. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh Ron,” said Hermione, shaking her head skeptically, “we thought Snape was trying to kill Harry before, and it turned out he was saving Harry’s life, remember?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Everything turned out all right after all; Bep just had a sore throat, not the flu, and Mr. Kugler got a medical certificate to excuse him from the work detail. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the meaner mice told him their mothers said Ralph was spoiled and selfish and would probably turn out to be no good when he grew up. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Felt like everyone around me wanted everything to turn out all right. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe this hugely powerful god would turn out to be helpful. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out that many things are more complicated than I ever thought they would be. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hoped her visit to her mother had turned out differently than mine. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In half a minute it could be turned out and the mold oiled for the next pouring. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Someone shouts and my heart skips a beat, but it turns out to have nothing to do with us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the time of chivalric myth this would be the beggar who turns out to be a king’s son. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the Sheriff of Nottingham’s knights who turn out to be evil robots. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“She remembered putting something in her mistress’s cocoa that turned out not to be sugar, but a lethal and little-known poison,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a miniature spicy fish cake. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We started with the sample problems first, and it turned out he was right: once I found the clue word in each problem, I knew what to do. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Roy wondered what made a grownup turn out so ill-tempered and obnoxious. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe thinking about Maple Hill would turn out to be better than Maple Hill itself. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out to be very difficult to devise a theory to describe the universe all in one go. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She had a Jew named Cohn, but he turned out badly." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As things would turn out, though, there would be a lot more of both time and trouble before we were all in one room again. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the girls, Cindy Thompson, made a special effort to befriend me, but it turned out that what she really wanted was to recruit me for the junior Ku Klux Klan. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Usually, in this kind of fund, a lot of investors pool their money and perhaps buy a baseball team, or help to build a stadium. But it didn’t turn out that way.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The only other class I had with Jenna, it turned out, was PE, so I’d have to wait till last period to find out more. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The kraken’s daughter turned out to be just a woman after all, the captains and the kings would say. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On what turned out to be my last meeting with Luzan I went over the appointed fifty minutes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love’s horse turned out to be a tall, prancy black gelding with a star on his forehead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When he had finished, he turned out all the lights and left. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I myself had a close encounter that turned out to be all right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just before they turned out the lights for the night, Henry would knock on their door and peep his head in. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

And it turns out he is a real expert on the subject. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“So much responsibility as to how the Games turn out.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thing she’d tried to avoid turned out to be a bush—a bush that saved her life and those of her crew. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One turned out to be a sealed vacuum cleaner bag full of dust that Crow had set behind the incinerator door. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out they really have become attached to me, and the idea of my returning to the arena has undone them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out he had a dusty collection of punk-rock records under his bed. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baking scones and cupcakes for the school janitors, watching Guiding Light with our mothers, collecting rose petals for use in a fragrant potpourri: anything worth doing turned out to be a girl thing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And then: “But if I had to guess, I would say I think she’s happy with the way her life turned out.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought that the equalizer would turn out to be the biggest dweeb in school? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She had learned the song of the snakes - which turned out to be a George Gershwin number from 1935. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Doc’s birthday party had barely time to get inside the laboratory and wedge the broken door closed and turn out the lights before the police car cruised up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, it turned out that the street instead commemorated Hermann’s father, Heinrich Goering, founding Reichskommissar of the former German colony of South-West Africa, which became Namibia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out she didn’t remind me of Franny after all. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We just needed some time—something, as it turned out, we wouldn't get at all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That machine, now turning out radioisotopes and bombarding tumors with neutrons in the Crocker Lab, was the most exquisitely engineered cyclotron in the world, thanks to Brobeck’s painstaking oversight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I thought they were marked with green pages, but the green pages turn out to be a restaurant guide. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out, however, that Blackavar, when not crushed by humiliation and ill-treatment, was a good cut above the ordinary. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What transpired over the next several minutes turned out to be one of the great varsity races in the history of the Cal-Washington rivalry. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I do my evening things—writing in my journal and reading a novel— then turn out the lights and sit for a while by the open door for some air. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it turned out to be more complicated than that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

ALBUS: And then you got there and it turned out to be terrible after all. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Yet the white man, it turns out, has suffered too. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out he was in my English class also. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In any case, all that practice in falling down turned out to be a waste of time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stays awake for hours after they’ve turned out the lights, prepared to answer him, prepared to lie to his face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a pretty sloppy game, considering that the Tangerine Times had picked both the Lake Windsor Seagulls and the Cypress Bay Cardinals as “Teams to Watch” in its preseason poll. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

About ninety minutes later he encountered “some unnaturally smooth, bluish-looking rocks,” which turned out to be the tents of Camp Four. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that I needn’t have been worried. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tally didn’t have much experience in judging an ugly’s age, but she turned out to be more or less right. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jobs turned out to be sorting the plastic forks, spoons, straws, and napkins for the cafeteria. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Not one had spoken to me before— and now how friendly they turned out to be. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The incident reminded me of the time in Poe Park when this squirrel I was feeding turned out to really be a rat which at first glance could have passed for a squirrel any day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned out to be a gang of junior-level crack dealers who operated out of the building, and they were not happy to see him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Neal, it turned out, was both the owner and the cook. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone shaved today—it turns out that the shaving rule is only enforced on weekdays—and they look ten times better. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I would turn out the light and close my eyes, and in the silence of my bedroom I tried to summon up her image. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad I was with someone I loved, but it turned out that nothing about it was as scary as I'd imagined. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She asked me why, and I said we were working on a project, and that turned out to be the truth. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Little soft rimmed cups of various sizes and a wheel, most likely, and another object that could turn out to be either a lever or a stick; it was hard to tell. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Never in a thousand years could Tony Chavez have imagined it turning out this way. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if it turned out to be bad? Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows turned out to be jungle gym equipment. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And they couldn’t wait for some jury to do the job; who knew how that would turn out? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We found many of them, as many as three dozen in a day, but on being cooked, many turned out to contain dead embryos in various stages of development. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out she knew a lot more. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could she turn out so different, given her upbringing? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It turns out I suffer from severe depression and anxiety, which have to be treated right away, or else I can end up here again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet the assumption that Lawrence and Teller would work together in unalloyed harmony turned out to be an instance of hope triumphing over reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Filch found them trying to force their way through a door that unluckily turned out to be the entrance to the out-of-bounds corridor on the third floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“You never know if things will turn out well. Just now our own story looks like it’s coming to a bad end.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The gallop turned out to be a good forty yards wide, mown to less than six inches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom was always complimenting me, and look how I turned out.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The way everybody turned out, it seems they did a good job too,” Richard said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might turn out to be a beauty after all,” she said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jane, at least, turned out to be an unexpected mercy, a tidy bouquet in her arms, even if conception proved yet another humiliation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The middle kid will turn out to be some kind of genius. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each night, I simply turned out the lights and went to bed. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My pillowcase fills with candy, but it turns out it’s really hard to walk up and down stairs in my CharlieCard costume. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Your sons will be turned out, your wife and daughters banished from the town of Ithaka.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Social Security number turned out to be genuine and placed McCandless’s permanent residence in northern Virginia. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out, two weeks’ suspension isn’t so bad, by the way. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Silly’s father had died shortly after she was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out Mother has an extraordinary talent for flowers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scrawny animals, it turned out, were seldom slaughtered for food because they were being held as the people’s wealth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that coming from such far corners of the social universe had its downsides. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any event, it turned out not to matter that Honoria was from Staples or that she had long arms. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This stage setting turned out to be unnecessary. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, there were ample grounds for the volunteer’s despair. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, it turns out that Mr. Kazilly’s son is also getting hitched. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I bring em out, undo the wax paper I got em in so they don’t turn out bent. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I got one of the boys to fashion little miniature boxing gloves out of dried plantain leaves sewn together, which turned out very realistic, and had them dangling down from all the lights and fans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if my supernatural ability turns out to be something disappointing like superhuman knitting? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Instead of the total confusion the human tongue actually turns out to be. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Enjoying, as it turned out, the last happy hours of his life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that he had a girlfriend on the side, and that’s when she filed for a legal separation. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If it turns out you do, maybe you’ll keep me in mind for the position,” I say. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was turning out to be a bit sad. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It had been a little sketchy there for a while, but in the end everything had turned out great. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

All of my legal documents said that I was born on September 22, 1980, but it turns out that date is entirely false. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My field of sunflowers looks like a toxic waste dump, which might turn out to be a cool statement on society’s unthinking gluttonous exploitation of our planet’s natural resources. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It turned out I could handle bad babies but I couldn’t handle Kermit. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl’s sly. Every time she tells us something, it turns out it’s only half true.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leicester, which turned out to be a city in England. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d barely turned out the light when his mum had very apologetically—and very groggily—come in to kiss him good night. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I feel like I have figured something out here, something important, something that I thought was hard but turns out to be pretty simple. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A glint of light near the table turns out to be a small spring. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This provides the illusion that it is in a general way all one thing, and that it turns out, on demand, a single, unambiguous product, which is health. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men of the 10th Leningrad turned out to be friendly and sympathetic, and were assigned to help train the 587th in battle techniques in their challenging, powerful Pe-2 dive-bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“A piece of cake, apart from the bit at the end where the pinpoint turned out to be next to a ruddy great prison!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, had already decorated his classroom with shimmering lights that turned out to be real, fluttering fairies. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the vacation cabins the pilots had been living in all summer turned out to be drafty and freezing cold in the winter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Comparing it to every other art school is never going to turn out well because Prism is the art school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Those portraits hadn’t captured his dark eyes, and they certainly hadn’t been able to predict how striking he’d turn out to be as he aged. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

‘What I saw in the Mirror: trees cut down and all, and my old gaffer turned out of the Row. I ought to have hurried back quicker.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Venus turns out not to oblige our predispositions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Witness this, god of the zenith, noblest of the gods, and Lord Odysseus’ hearthfire, now before me: I swear these things shall turn out as I say. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But here’s an Elder lesson for you. It turns out that the best way to teach a kid to swim is to let Joon hurl her into deep water.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘But I hope I do get back some day. If what I’ve seen turns out true, somebody’s going to catch it hot!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Those feelings below my waist, it turns out, were a side effect of malaria. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was turning out to be a very interesting day after all. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We were by ourselves, on a two-week excursion that turned out to have something to do with Ben’s business. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This, as it turns out, often saved him from the beatings received by his two sisters. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, when Martín was truly mad—yeah, everything I’d seen up to that point was him being cheery—he liked to blast death metal in the kitchen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“They don’t pipe down soon, the whole neighborhood will turn out to watch.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fie turned out to be Jamaican—a rear gunner in the RAF, shot down last week—perhaps they’d been hoping to get Allied invasion plans out of him? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But the overall course of history might have turned out more or less the same. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were given a small amount of water, which helped, but we were quite thirsty when we were finally “rescued” and returned to civilization, which in this case turned out to be Beno, Nevada. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had gone straight home, if I had gone out to get our rations with my mother and father, things might have turned out very differently than they did. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I whispered a prayer of thanks, then went back inside, turned out the lights, and crawled into bed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Reynie had gone to bed thinking of the people he might one day—if everything turned out all right—consider a part of his family. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad that we agreed, because homeschool turned out to be fun. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another strange thing about war, grandchildren, is that when things do not go as planned, they may turn out better. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His invention, it turned out, could also cleanse noxious vapors and particulates from smelter effluent, coal particles from mine air, and much more. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Caton, as it turned out, was a man of vision. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The injuries turned out to look worse than they were, just minor cuts from flying glass, thank the Lord. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which turned out to be a fairly good idea, since TOC ceased to pursue him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He never seemed to focus on what could turn out wrong. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The first and last chapters explore the scientific origins of the Industrial Revolution, which turn out to be earlier and closer than previously suspected. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wilkinson, it turned out, was a photographer himself—though he preferred landscapes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a good year. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re playing politics. You and Cardan need to be turned out in splendor for this banquet. Your new king will need everything to look right.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I turn out the princess light next to the bed. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Doreen had met the man online, a car salesman who turned out to be nice but married. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Oliver did have the best idea for the first Operation Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“If this turns out to be a weapon that is really awful,” Sax said, “what you should do about it is tell the Russians.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner I hurried to get ready for bed and turned out the light hoping I could fall asleep and wake up with one of Gay’s fresh starts. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d been given confusing instructions on his last visit to the clinic, and he hadn’t received his monthly five dollars. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But it turned out not to be so difficult to distinguish myself that night. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Delicious as the day turned out to be for Milkman, it was even more so because it included secrecy and defiance, both of which dissipated within an hour of his father’s return. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next two weeks turned out to be the most critical weeks of my life. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And Ruth, for one reason or another—maybe she was embarrassed how things had turned out with her possible, maybe she was enjoying the mystery—had remained completely closed on the subject. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie had been hoping the opportunity to check the attic for clues would present itself, but the next week turned out to be the busiest she’d spent in the manor so far. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But it all turned out brassy orange, and took three more tries to get it right. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The boys and their toys had turned out to be a monumental waste of her time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He walked up slowly, holding something that turned out to be a grasshopper. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you surprised later when the gun turned out to be a toy?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The orange horizon turned out to be a sunrise, which turned into a bright blue winter morning. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, though, I overheard her and Apá talking, and it turns out that Olga had accumulated a few thousand dollars in life insurance while she was working at the doctor’s office. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As matters turned out, Pegasus was not only a joy, but a help in time of need as well, for hard trials lay before Bellerophon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That one temporary decision became irreversible, because no shipyards remained to turn out ships that would prove the folly of that temporary decision, and to serve as a focus for rebuilding other shipyards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The perfect teacher Mom had chosen turned out to be none other than my dad. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one present at the start knew how it would turn out in the end. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t have turned out so well if you hadn’t helped.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He only ever thought about how things could turn out right. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that Dad had given all the ground he intended to, and the girls found Mother a weak reed on which to lean. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some guys said that he had been turned out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps at an adjacent frequency or a faster timing, there would be another message, which would turn out to be a primer, an introduction to the language of interstellar discourse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe we have perhaps chosen you too quickly to be a missionary. What I thought was great potential to spread the word of God turned out to be, well...” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I see this may turn out to be enjoyable after all,” he said, snickering. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke to me when we turned out of the village. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When they got into Tyler, it turned out that the man lived at a boarding house just down the street from Lewis’s lady friend. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted a rusty-looking streak in the wall of stone and coaxed the board closer, but it turned out to be just a slimy smear of lichen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It turns out that at least four factors influence acceptance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought Jawad Sahib’s arrest would be good for everyone, but it turned out change, no matter how good and necessary, came with a price. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The pain woke me often, but most times sleep turned out to be heavier, pulling me right back down. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

After considerable wrangling, it turned out that the Lord Mayor was not entitled to vote on the appointment, and in 1665 Hooke took over the post, which he retained for the rest of his life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I have done a lot of work on black holes, and it would all be wasted if it turned out that black holes do not exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it turned out to be pretty cool. Sort of like the grass thing.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It turned out that my mother had once spent about a year working for him as a secretary, taking dictation and maintaining the legal department’s files. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Some of our people may turn out to look at you, but do not be alarmed.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes an ancient prohibition becomes outdated, or it may turn out that a musty convention was never really a rule at all. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out I’m the one getting married, but I haven’t a clue who the groom is. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, her own grandmothers made her match, and look how that turned out. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It turned out to be easier,” he grumbled by way of explanation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obsessive or not, any parent wants to believe that she is making a big difference in the kind of person her child turns out to be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But, as it turned out, I discovered something before we ever made land. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

If it turned out that those answers I unearthed were no different from theirs—which I very much doubted—well, then I would believe everything they said with a clear conscience. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he observed, “I am relieved that this has turned out well after all. What will you have me do with the baggage, ma’am?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And as it turns out, my boots are the exact same shade of gold as my cat purse. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

As the weather worsened, Tom Bolles watched his freshman squad rapidly shrink from the 210 who had turned out in the fall to 53 on January 14. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Actually, it turned out he was really friendly. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that a lot of people felt the same way. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the restaurant’s owner, Gul Khan, was one of Habib’s classmates from Kabul University, where Khan had studied biochemistry. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

More than one hundred thousand people had turned out to view the annual contest between California and Washington, crowding along the shores of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Professors, relatives, random people I met, asked what was next for me, and when I mentioned I was bound for law school—Harvard Law School, as it turned out—the affirmation was overwhelming. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And, by an unforeseeable paradox, it was my career in the church that turned out, precisely, to be my gimmick. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The issue turned out to be the most successful ever in terms of newsstand sales. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be quite a revelation. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was I who made the appointment for my father to see a doctor, but it was my mother who ultimately got him there—by ambulance, as it turned out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

While the conspiracy theories were initially dismissed as far-fetched, if not downright loony, the word on the street turned out to be right, at least to a point. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baumbach said her daughter might have been an artist if things had turned out differently. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bree had always told him that he must keep his heels well turned out, and Shasta had got the idea that something very terrible would happen if he dug his heels into a horse's sides. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The rule is suspiciously complicated for something as basic to everyday expression as future time, and it turns out not to be a rule at all. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But how can I look him in the face and tell him that's turned out to be true?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it would be good for her leg, but turned out what it was really good for was her confidence. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Her advice to me as to the Nexus-6 mentality, he realized, turned out to be correct. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Which is very unfortunate, as it turns out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The senator turned out to be a state senator, a hack politician, now serving a five-year jail term for bribery. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now it turns out you only called us here to try and blow us up!” roared the Death Eater, and there was a volley of bangs interspersed with squeals of agony from Xenophilius. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If we would have, though, what would have become of that guy that used to carry a gun, or that other white kid that actually turned out to be my friend? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, well, turns out whenever the elders were summoned beneath Isihlangu, a feast was in order—never mind that it was because we had arrived as thieves in the night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had been primed to expect big things after inspecting the bustling Westinghouse, General Electric, and Tennessee Eastman factories turning out equipment for Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

While in there, it turned out, she decided to relieve herself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to, but, as it turned out, I didn’t say a thing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low cloud in the air turned out to be tiny flying antlike creatures by the millions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Hamilton’s reference to “fifteen years” turned out to be a precise estimate of their history as political antagonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The children’s center turns out to be a row of four shipping containers surrounded by a broken fence. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t always like my school photos, but that one had turned out pretty good. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It turned out that we were selling CDs and DJing parties in order to capitalize a payday lending and pawnshop operation in the hood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I hope... they all turn out that good.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie nodded and made her way downstairs, her mind crowded with the pieces of a puzzle that was turning out to be much bigger than she had thought. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Well, it turned out to be harder than I expected. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Wow,” I say, wondering if maybe Dad was right: Chumley Prep could turn out to be the best thing to ever happen to both of us. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The whole of Chicago’s black community and a few white friends turned out to celebrate. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Got pregnant, was turned out by her mistress and went and drowned herself. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

In order from most corny to least, this is how the laboratory measured our meal: What looks like a meal with lots of variety turns out to be mainly corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I always thought Angie would grow up to be something awesome, like a designer or an artist, but it turned out she was another Mexican daughter who didn’t want to leave home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants of Norfolk turned out to watch us drill, alarmed by our volleys. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It turns out that corn-fed cows don’t have the healthy balance of omegas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“His name is Patrick. And it turns out half of JV soccer is in love with him.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The actual nature of the genetic code, it turns out, is astoundingly simple: there’s just one molecule that carries our hereditary information and just one code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, turns out I had it wrong,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, chloroplasts are also separate creatures with their own genomes, speaking their own language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So as I sat in the living room that night, I took on the full responsibility of finding my parents’ killer—even if it turned out that the killer shared my DNA. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

At first, people thought it was another virus, and they were looking for groups like the Coalition of Pity, but it turned out that it was something called Nostalgia Feedback. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Houseman had his doubts about how the show would turn out. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And, we might add, look how well that turned out. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Trujillo had been visiting some official’s house next door, and attracted by the shouts from our volleyball game below, he had gone out on the balcony. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that I don't have to say anything. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At first I thought she was mad at Abbey and me, but it turned out that she wasn’t. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the person who had written this letter was Eliot Rosewater, Billy’s friend in the veterans’ hospital near Lake Placid. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that my fear was equally amusing to him, though. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, they also had to make ice cream and hers didn’t turn out so well. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But it had one overwhelming advantage: allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I’m not, though? You’d mind terribly if you turned out to be wrong this time, wouldn’t you?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped tears for Jack and Rose and the passengers of the doomed ship. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There we go,” he said, viewing how the photo turned out. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But your freed black will turn out no better than many the white that’s fighting to free him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, she and Moody shared nearly all their classes, from biology to Honors English to health. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The drive north turned out to be one of those sunny moments that come even in the darkest days. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I always thought Matt was the brave and strong one and Travis was the sweet and gentle one. In the end, it turned out that Travis was sweet, gentle, brave, and strong.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She even taught him how to spell and to write sentences, and he turned out to be a splendid intelligent pupil. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first time we heard Cecile laugh, and she laughed like the crazy mother she was turning out to be. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still bothered because she’d seen it first, she could tell, and because she had turned out to be the one to come to the rescue. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I worried that if he kept saying it, it might turn out to be true. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Fat Frankie, it turns out, is known for hustling at Three-Card Monte. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are we going to do if it turns out that we have pheromones? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think maybe it had to do with being a musician: Ms. Fender turned out to be a great listener. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to have been good thinking. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d spent the past two months thinking she was miserable, and it turned out that wasn’t the case at all. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was truer; as it turned out, Milkman’s feet could hardly make it over the stony road covered with second growth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were twins, as it turned out, even though they didn’t look anything alike. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mom took longer than five minutes, which turned out to make all the difference. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mitraillette, it turns out, is not the Resistance girl’s real name. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He opened one and shoved Fred into what turned out to be a very cramped, very dark prison cell. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But, as it turned out, Digory need not have marked the place. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their marriage was brief and confusing—especially given that her new husband, it turned out, already had a wife in Nairobi. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was moved by all the people who’d turned out to meet us, but at the same time I was feeling something more intimate and urgent that had nothing to do with where we were. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But whatever he said, he came home with a pretty good shiner, because pretty Mr. Culross turned out to have hands even quicker than my father’s. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like waiting around, hoping things would turn out the way she wanted. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

First Jackson and then Smith were also prepared with their response, which turned out to be the fullest public exposition of the proslavery position yet presented in the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

You waited and waited and waited and then...Summer vacation turned out to be boring. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was certain she was going to punish me, but this turned out to be one of those times when she didn’t care. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Things which were odd, by Julian’s definition, often turned out to be amusingly mundane. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mom noticed I wasn’t overjoyed with how the article had turned out. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Abnegation turned out to be no better, in some ways. It seems there’s no escaping the reach of genetic damage. Even the Abnegation leadership was poisoned by it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He kissed my forehead and turned out the light. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It turned out they were soldiers who worked with military scout dogs and lived on the far side of the base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Want to take a turn out to the park?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“No. Just asking how you turned out, somebody who was beat since he was four. I feel sorry, is what I feel.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the strength of a demonstration, Paramount agreed to build a manufacturing plant to turn out prototype tubes in Oakland. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the rebels hadn’t shot him but had fired at close range near his head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She would say this a little regretfully, as though I hadn’t turned out entirely as she’d expected. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was an awful lot to learn about mummies, and even after a whole evening of study it turned out that Toby’s information wasn’t all that complete. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it turns out I don't have to worry about it, because all at once, there she is. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Big City Lawyer turned out to be a man of average height with a Hollywood hairstyle and a capped-tooth smile the likes of which I had only seen on one person—a TV evangelist. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable,” Thomas Morgan, the influential geneticist, wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Tobias made scrambled eggs, which, as it turns out, is a disgusting food.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Uncle had joined the group three days earlier, but since there were more than thirty people traveling together, they had not found each other until now. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Looks like the entire city has turned out for us. Lovely." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a cool summer. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had entered the country by way of Mexico, riding in a wagon drawn by a tobacco-chewing man who had turned out to be, in his spare time, the local judge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t amused and it turned out that she didn’t even know what Malayalam was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

History, it turns out, is not a human expression. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, it turned out to be the best day of Virgil’s entire school year, because that’s where he saw Valencia for the first time. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"The gods favor the man with the just cause," said Ser Lyn Corbray, "yet often that turns out to be the man with the surest sword. We all know who that is." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the uneven surface of the ice, the machine turned out to be awkward and impractical, and plans to use it were abandoned. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Kids care about fame, it turns out, for only a few minutes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“But if it turns out I’m not from Penikese, other people will treat me different,” I said, remembering the schoolmaster as he scoured the handle I’d touched. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They were responsible and hardworking, but it turns out they didn't excel in the long-term planning department. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Mark Antony needed all the encouragement Cleopatra could give him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The victim turned out to be the bandit chiefs mother—an unpleasant, haggling sort of person. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“He don’t know what he’s missing out on, sweetie. And you’re gonna be just fine. My dad was a bum, and I turned out all right.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It even turned out to be crucial for the D-Day invasions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It turned out those cells weren’t from Russian cancer patients at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But it turns out that he is a very tough guy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s interesting. I think I remember something about your father. He was sent up north to a village to investigate a dragon. How did that turn out?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

High lords and fabled champions had come from all over the realm to compete, and the whole city had turned out tq^ watch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This agreement, which to Nicolas had first seemed like a shocking sign of coldness and distance, turned out to be to his advantage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a whole month later, Anise still looked bowled over by how everything had turned out, like Kalinda and I had taken turns spitting in her face. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know there’s so much else that made their lives turn out differently, but he makes it sound like the difference between them was me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But she needs to be able to beg Voldemort for Harry’s life, she needs to think he might die, and you’re the worst spoiler in the world that didn’t turn out to be true . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, for example, of the fifty thousand African Americans who have taken the Race IAT so far, about half of them, like me, have stronger associations with whites than with blacks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Our Pukhtunwali tenant of melmastia dictates that we do not turn out a guest once we have given them our hand in friendship and a place at our table.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Her job turned out to be sending e-mails as imagery became available. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, that is, he turned out to be the real thing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry the year didn’t turn out to be a happy one for you, but I hope you take a little time to ask yourself why. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh, they were only a collection of fiends, of course. The whole tower turned up-so-down and vanished immediately, and it turned out that they had been fiends all the time, including the priest.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It turns out Kainene and I have a mutual friend in London. Did I tell you about Wilfred at the Spectator?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oblivion was a mercy, it turns out. He remembers everything. Because he slew them, and there was no one left to take his memories away.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My body isn’t turning out like the exercise ladies’, but it’s growing, and the more it grows, the sooner I’ll be grown up and the sooner I’ll leave this place forever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t even vaguely interested in getting married again, but Zeitoun had turned out to be everything she had not believed possible: an honest man, honest to the core, hardworking, reliable, faithful, devoted to family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“If it should turn out that I—I mean, if I should be—yes, well, what I mean is should anything happen to me, I beg you, do pay attention to where you tread.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But that’s the lesson you learn, eh? Dogs is dogs and women turn out to be dogs, too.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Near the end of his trip, it turned out, Chris had gotten lost in the Mojave Desert and had nearly succumbed to dehydration. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, this was turning out to be the party of the year. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, their relatives had correctly predicted their fate: their age gap would lead to long-term problems in their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of Hitler followers turned out for the funeral. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought at first it was Moaning Myrtle in there, but it turned out to be Hermione. She said something about that Ron Weasley...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, between the end of the fifteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century efforts to find a new route failed over and over again. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Only thing, pulling the traps out of the water turns out to be a whole lot harder than putting them in. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That idiotic Zen-hippie style of his turned out to be just right for a driving instructor. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I stood there panting, sweating, wishing things had turned out some other way. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The lines turned out to be a hundred dull ones, as Aeneas—Turner thought he finally had the spelling down—moped about and looked for a place to live. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days of rest and some antibiotics, what indeed had turned out to be a nasty ear infection for Malia cleared up, returning our toddler to her normal bouncy state. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And, it turns out, each of the stages is orchestrated by chemicals—neurotransmitters—in the brain. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole night making incomprehensible movements in the drawing room; later they turned out to be exercises designed to perfect the mind’s control over the body and to improve digestion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a slightly rheumatic grunt, he climbed into bed and turned out the electric light. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, she was busting to talk. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Ernestine’s tonsils were recessed and bigger than the doctor had expected. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I didn’t turn out to be much of a boy,” I say. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, that exact scenario is often created by vote- hungry politicians. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

This could turn out to be just what a lot of people had been hoping for. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh," Lewis said, "well if you won't let us then— Wait . . . wait a minute .... I'm looking at my shoulder patch and it turns out I'm the commander. Sit tight. We're coming to get you." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, leaving the sarcastic, mocking side of myself behind turned out to be a bad idea, because nothing really stepped in to fill the gap. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Despite my terrible grades and our parents' strict rules, junior year in Flushing has turned out pretty nicely. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What I thought was dirt turns out to be charred blisters. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A long time afterwards I thought that if I had waited and gone to my uncles, or somehow sneaked across the bridge and warned my grandfather that things would have turned out differently. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This system turned out to be more reliable than working out complicated arrangements with the nervous ambassadors of the foreign democracies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it turned out they were all running for a train going in the same direction they had just come from. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, Whose PANTS? is basically a combination of Guess Who? and Chutes and Ladders. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, on the day of the murder, a fish fry was held at Walter's house. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It turned out Turner Station wasn’t just hidden on the map. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Winn-Dixie hopped up on the bed, and the preacher got up and turned out the light. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out I’d played an unwitting role in this decision. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man whose life turned out just fine, regardless of his education level. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So, too, as it turned out, was my patience. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wished he were in China, where if there turned out to be something wrong with the marriage he could always take a concubine. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was not turning out the way she’d thought it would. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out. Let me kill him, just a little bit." The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But then the winged thing turned out to be Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our destination turned out to be an empty stretch of road cut off by a pile of stones and logs heaped in the middle of the path. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wondered why it hadn’t turned out the way it said in songs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as she didn’t panic, everything would turn out okay. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She knew it would all turn out okay. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She took an experimental bite of one which turned out to be coconut. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry that my attempt at a new beginning turned out to be the very worst kind of ending. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I think a lot of decisions are made that way, Miguel. People act on impulse. But, bro, sometimes spur-of-the-moment decisions don’t turn out to be so good.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be another Russian guard—he hadn’t answered because he’d forgotten that night’s password! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Yes. And I tried to paint your nails because you liked mine, and they turned out terribly." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That evening an audience of nearly a thousand people turned out for the concert in Savannah’s new Municipal Auditorium, whites sitting in the boxes and dress circle, blacks in segregated orchestra or gallery seats. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"I messed up with the skin. It turned out too bright." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I told her that Nora, it turned out, liked cards, and was almost as good at hearts as I was. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He answered angrily and then hung up even more angrily, having been told that the tip turned out to be bad information. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“What? Oh, my God. So glad it all turned out okay.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He kept shouting out the answer he was trying to mime, but it turned out he was really good at Monopoly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then I just lie there, staring out my window at the winter sky, pondering how on earth this will all turn out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, what good was it for your sister to be named Deborah when she turned out so bad that everyone calls her Negra?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He wondered how things might have turned out differently for him if he’d had more faith, a different name, or been born to different circumstances. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The whole population of the neighborhood turned out for a long, trailing funeral which went on for hours and was in effect an indignation meeting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the mouse had died not from radiation but suffocation, for someone had forgotten to activate its air supply. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Eros is not so much an eyesore, it turns out, as just too much noise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed his forehead, anyhow, then turned out the light. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had hired a lawyer for the hearing and—in a twist that surprised only Ocean—it turned out that he was just too well-liked. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It turns out that all but a few candidates for domestication have been eliminated by the Anna Karenina principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The van squeaks as Papi makes the turn out of the lot. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Another was, “Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out Madge has plenty of empty hours to fill, too. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about it, Einstein. What if it turns out you’re nothing more than a baby-faced con? What then?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The sole exception turned out to be Amy, who is capable of getting even without first getting mad. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I began to see why Red had turned out the way he had. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet some of Fabyan’s unlikely stories turned out to be true. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was his fault that he pressed the wrong button on the camcorder and none of the film turned out, so there was no movie of the day I broke the single-season scoring record. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

That is, it was a bad thing...but it also might turn out to be a good thing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So, it turns out Henry can be funny. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We weren’t sure where he got his information, but it generally turned out to be true. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, my landscape of Gui’s Human Idol Emporium is not sarcastic at all, I don’t think. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why—maybe they were mad about having such a wimpy nickname—but these guys turned out to be really nasty. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it’s interesting, and more than a little disturbing, to see how Barb turned out—that she’s meaner and slyer than I am, more cherishing of grudges, and not quite as smart as I’d hoped. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They trusted the bank blindly—stupidly, as it turned out. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a show that eschewed what turns out to be the most important of all ways of reaching young children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first round of grades at school turned out to be pretty good, and so did my second. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As life would have it, the one who fed me turned out to be June. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gamble to ask about it, but one that always turns out well if I'm right. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out the headaches were a symptom of runaway tooth decay. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It turned out that when it finally happened, the revolution wasn’t televised. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I guess your father gave you a trip after all. Except on that trip, it turned out that you were the father and you were with your own son.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was turning out to be a prime buck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He honked his horn on every turn out of town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

As it turned out I didn’t have to. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and little sisters weren’t to blame for how things had turned out, but a part of me resented them for having to put my life on hold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lola likes to tell the story of how she and Lolo thought they didn’t have anything in common with my white grandpa, but it turns out they did—a love for their kids. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And, as it turned out, she was right. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Vicente doesn’t speak much English, so we talk to each other in Spanish instead. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I had to slow way down for a stop sign because the drivers in West Africa were turning out to be as bad as the ones in Brazzaville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had turned out to be an all-right Wednesday afternoon after all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But instead of turning out the light, she sat herself down on my bed, took off her slippers, and began massaging her tired feet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One was an East Side tailor near me, who made only to order, while the other two turned out an expensive product with which I had no desire at all to compete. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Flappily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarke was also rather well turned out for the party, in her fashion. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Mama Bellini, by the way, turned out to be the best friend a cricket ever had. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned out to be a good tool for learning English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I told him yes, and it turned out that he had this old trailer I could stay in for free. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Convincing Uncle Jet to have the ceremony might turn out to be more difficult than helping the water monster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In this case, though, it eventually turned out that Copernicus’s intuition was right. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For a second, I think that we’re passing a pretty convincing caveman, but it turns out to be a really wrecked homeless guy, his beard stringy and dotted with bits of food. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She turned out to be a natural, but I had to cut the workout short. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how the experiment would turn out, and he came from a long line of rabble-rousers distrustful of the government, but Sam was hopeful. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the wrong office for our purpose, and it wasn’t until an hour or so later when it was our turn at the window that we found out. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for many, life did not turn out as they hoped. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was really scared of flying, and it turned out okay. No, not okay. Great.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I was able to care for him properly until my wife turned out to be a disgraceful drunkard when my children were at school age. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that a large part of the hospital’s staff had had direct contact with either Monet or Musoke or with blood samples and fluids that came from the two patients. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, part of the reason I woke up to my friends instead of my parents in my hospital room is because Uncle Jack was in the process of being discharged. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

In the morning it turned out that one of the guards had become convinced of an escape in progress and had alerted the tower machine gunners. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

An aide led me into a sterile black-and-white room that turned out to be the nurse’s office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But gaining access to all of that information turned out to be something of a mixed blessing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It turned out that she had ordered a book for me to read, about childhood leukemia and its treatment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru thought it would look old and creepy inside, but it turned out to be just an abandoned office space. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Also, it turns out the visible mass of a galaxy doesn’t have enough gravity to explain why it doesn’t fly apart.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

So he was not surprised when it turned out to be excellent, with a fruity taste like eating a peach with the skin on, though naturally the skin was not so nice as the mouse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arizona turned out to be everything Dad had hoped it would be. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out there were a lot of things I had yet to learn about life, or at least life on the Princeton campus in the early 1980s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Stanton ordered troops to turn out into the streets, the guards to be doubled, military forts to be alert, guns manned, and special guards to be posted around the Old Capitol Prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it turned out that we didn’t have one, but I didn’t learn it from my mother. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Like I said, it turns out to be a pretty cool summer. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beauty Base Zero turns out to be what a person would look like if they stepped out of bed looking flawless but natural. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That was number 14 on today’s to-do list, and I’m pretty proud of how it turned out. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She nibbled his ear in an affectionate sort of way, which was a far better present than the one that she had brought him, which turned out to be from the Dursleys. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out that custard can taste really, really depressing when you’re not in the mood for it. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, no one from the United States women’s saber team did well in the individual competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Evan Parker, and his strict mom, and his nonexistent finances culminated in some of my most pivotal memories from high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The feral cat that Charles found turned out, surprisingly, to be a rather good pet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Benji found Coach’s social media site—Friendly Connect, as it turned out. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Heather O’Malley said no to being on the Freedom Party ticket. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a blow for Elizebeth’s team, RED’s Enigma messages turned out to be doubly encrypted. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It turns out the deceased civilians database has more information about the plagues than I guessed. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the movie turns out to be even better than the last one. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Seven was not ready. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I turned out my light and fell into my bed. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

All in all, it was turning out to be a wonderful year. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then I could turn out many more pieces each week. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But, as it turned out, he had wasted his breath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To add insult to injury, she then turned out to be better at counterspy operations than the FBI was. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dill thought—incorrectly, as it turned out—that his exchange with his mother that morning had somehow inoculated him against more pain. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be not a book at all but a wooden box trickily carved and painted to look like a calf-bound volume. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was turning out to be quite a little dictator. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the elfin knights and soldiers had turned out, and they were standing in their battle ranks, ready for action if something went wrong. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It turned out his aunt was a widow woman with ten children, living in a nasty, rundown old cabin on a turkey farm where you couldn’t get to the privy without stepping in turkey mess. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The mother and the father in this family were exactly the same as everyone else, but for some reason their children had turned out to be made of wax. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Later when it all turned out to be nothing, nobody would remember who started spreading the rumor—it had always been the same with the Sparra. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should’ve forgotten the birth part, since for my mother, it didn’t turn out well. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The apparition grips his trophy under an arm and turns out his palms as if to say, “I don’t know,” or maybe “I’m sorry.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I asked him. And it turns out that a dog’s blood-sugar level is supposed to be between forty and one hundred. You know what Jordan’s is?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The least I could have done was to have had the decency to have turned out a little more like him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here we have another kind of legacy, one that turns out to be perfectly suited for twenty-first-century tasks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But now they could all take a deep breath and not think about the boat, for however many sleeps the year turned out to be. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It turns out he’s already outside in the parking lot, standing by the trunk of our car, one foot on the fender, smoking a cigarette and talking to Wimpy in a low, serious voice. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, we need not have worried about the moon, because the Eagle landed beautifully in the Sea of Tranquility, and Neil and Buzz were able to walk around and collect some rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had not been clear, at first, that it would turn out that way. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For example, if you fly from the earth to the moon, it may just turn out that you arrive at the moon at 4 a.m. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past Grace, it turned out, was a real idiot. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It turned out I was supposed to have been picking them up over the summer as well—some kind of handout that I didn’t get in the mail. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, it was my dad who ended up causing the trouble. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There turned out to be one hundred and twelve of these notched letters scattered throughout the book. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You are welcome to all my confidence that is worth having, Jane; but for God’s sake, don’t desire a useless burden! Don’t long for poison—don’t turn out a downright Eve on my hands!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until he arrived at the University of Washington and turned out for crew that he came into his own. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Many hypotheses proposed by scientists as well as by nonscientists turn out to be wrong. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He turned out super handsome, didn’t he? He’s got nice teeth, nice eyes, good skin. And he’s very tall.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His father had wanted to go back to Afghanistan to help, but it just hadn’t turned out that way. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Our plan was to ask the Court of Criminal Appeals to reconsider its decision, and if that turned out to be a dead end, we would seek review in the Alabama Supreme Court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon’s rations turned out to be a bag of chips each and four bananas. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be much nastier than any of Mate’s! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I translate these notes they turn out to be so unlike him, so lacking in invention, so moronic in fact, that I can hardly believe it: “Talked to B.W.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that I'm really stupid, practically an idiot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her words make me think she is maybe going into her business exec mode, but it turns out she’s got more on her mind than the No-Name Party. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, being the Agency's first female officer in Moscow had its advantages: The KGB never caught on to her real position in the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All three of their hearts pounded—none of them would have imagined hours earlier what kind of night this would turn out to be. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It felt firm and warm, and for the first time in a long while Violet felt as if her life and the lives of her siblings might turn out well after all. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then he ran to the light switch and turned out the lights so we could sit cross-legged on Ben’s bed-that-looked-like-a-race-car and watch the ball glow and roll around the bedroom floor. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, I would see my home, but it turned out to be empty, a ghost house, with all the doors and windows open, but no one at all there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Harry had had no word from any of his wizarding friends for five long weeks, and this summer was turning out to be almost as bad as the last one. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Except it turns out he did have to sleep in a tent, a nice four-person green outfit shaped like half an egg, but still a tent. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Given how hyper and energetic I’d always been as a little kid, no one was entirely surprised when it turned out I had ADHD. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But convincing him to cover for us turned out to be not so easy. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was trying to bring whoever committed this crime to justice, even if it turned out to be me. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It turned out that dumb old A-10 Thunderbolt from the Sea, Air, and Space Museum didn’t fly at all. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nor is the leading classic rock station turning out to be sufficiently supportive. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out we did still have that canoe, overturned and full of dead spiders. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

If it turned out that they were right, I would keep looking. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was so anxious about what kind of kiss it would be—because my friends back home described so many types—and it turned out to be the beautiful kind. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It turns out his family is from San Francisco not far from where I lived with Dede while I was finishing up secondary school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her real hair turns out to be a nice auburn. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Like the conductor, at that moment Miss Lumley had no way of predicting whether her life would turn out happily or in some other, less desirable way. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the process was completed within four hours; moreover, the jury, including two alternative members, was extracted from the first forty-four candidates. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Atanabi turned out to be quite the little drill sergeant! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out there was no good reason for me to lie to my family. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Iowa pigs turned out to be more delicate and more expensive to house and feed than the Creole pigs, and in the end, most didn’t survive in their new home. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It turned out Henrietta’s cells could float through the air on dust particles. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, he was a little better, but by then both Trotter and William Ernest were down with the bug. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the big boss of the church has told Titid to shut up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that is pretty much what they did, pausing only to turn out the lights at 11:00 so the Eagle wouldn’t drop by. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, my grandfather had proposed to my grandmother in much the same way, after seeing her dance in a village competition. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the bruises were from bullets that had merely torn my flesh as they missed killing me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When you spend your entire life in and around the city of Chicago, as it turns out, you fail to fully apprehend certain facets of rural life. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It turned out later that only one horse had been actually stolen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I didn’t buy Blackjack donuts in New Jersey. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The stuff of life, it turns out, can be very easily made. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Albuquerque, even the reservation population turned out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid them under my pillow, but when I turned out the light, fear filled up my hard, narrow bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At recess the cool kids play tetherball, which it turns out I’m sort of okay at. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But, still, there’s a bit of comfort that comes with knowing how your life is going to turn out. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They turned out to be related to the I’m Alone—a rumrunning boat that was already in the news. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m really sorry about this. I know you love this place. But I promise, this will turn out okay.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And together, they all laid out the plates and cups, as Ben served up a good dinner of dandelion salad and grilled ersters, which it turned out Ess did prefer to raw. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The page came out with a ragged tear and the pencil turned out to be a green one, but that would have to do. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, this policy did not turn out as they had planned. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you were laughing at how horrible the night was turning out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

This would turn out to be true, but in the fallow days of late 1956 and early 1957, Livermore’s future looked bleak. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, the mere fact of having a unit to myself makes me an aristocrat within the Blue Haven community. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that he was my cousin's cousin, and my parents hadn't bothered to tell me he'd enrolled in my kindergarten class. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His lamp turned out to have a short in it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Might it not turn out to be a vegetable ship that brought me to land? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We never thought it would be easy, but it turned out to be even harder than we had expected. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It turned out that Zeno is right,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He took away your soccer season, and the price turns out to be one dino park.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Comparing texts word by word turned out to be quite the consuming task. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They’re diminutive and neatly turned out; each has his or her camera, his or her smile. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a Missouri special, with the St. Louis Cardinals winning in four over the St. Louis Browns. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the one consolation for what had turned out to be a pretty disappointing day. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be one of the most harrowing events of my life up until that time. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The problem, as it turned out, was that everyone was looking in the wrong place. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her father had insisted on giving the children cow’s milk, with the result that Theresa turned out a giantess — five seven! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It turns out that you own one-hundred-percent interest in a heavyweight boxer who lives nearby.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, it turns out that Jeffrey had to have been sick for a while without us knowing it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she would have turned out to be someone else completely. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her mom and dad took her to an urgent care place last night, and it turns out Madeline was right. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Why don't they turn out those lights, blinding me, here he comes, stick, stick, uh . The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I bet that old husband of hers turns out all the lights before he gets near her or he'd puke otherwise." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s true. I don’t know how I’d have turned out without you being my best friend.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a poem by somebody who really thinks about things, and that somebody turned out to be Tyrone. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all his contributions, Broadbent’s assumption turned out to be simplistic in much the same way that, before Helmholtz, people thought reaction time was immediate, infinite. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It had been her idea to follow the cucos before they were prepared, and look how that turned out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to keep awake and watch for enemies, but, as it turned out, they were all so weary from the feast that they soon slept too. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wishes to hold a Grand Review, but there turns out not to be time. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Perilee promise is usually as solid as an oak, but this turned out to be one she couldn’t keep. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She kissed him back, though for today all she cared was that the calculations laid before her like a nice cooked lunch should turn out digestible. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The freezing-cold winter had killed three-quarters of all the cattle that roamed the Badlands, and ranching turned out to be a money-losing venture for him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I stood waving until the big car turned out into the street. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But it turns out that the actual reasons behind the more rapid development of Eurasian societies were not at all the straightforward ones that our imaginary archaeologist of 11,000 B.C. guessed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that for most of their lives they’d lived only a few blocks apart. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Some of them are bound to turn out true by chance. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the inmates in the Box, as it turned out—all thirty on the upper floor—were not disciplinary cases but men under protective custody, of which there were two kinds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the other subdivisions from the brochures turned out to exist— most of them on the north side of town, which had been totally developed a long time ago. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s turned out well enough this time, as the ostrich said when he swallowed the melon. But there had better not be a next. That was too close for my peace of mind.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It turned out, what we had seen in the park must’a been a wild coyote. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The proper line, the one leading to the office responsible for issuing birth certificates and other documents, turned out to be longer than the other one, so we waited another hour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My second-grade classroom turned out to be a mayhem of unruly kids and flying erasers, which had not been the norm in either my experience or Craig’s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Thus the Cartesian distinction between mind and matter turned out to be less sharp and decisive than at first it had seemed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought he would write Everyone turned out okay, but when he passed the book back, he'd actually written, Everyone was mauled by a bear, it was very sad, let’s go get ice cream. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t. Maybe you should study more yourself,” Benton said, turning out his bedside lamp and lying back down. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It turned out, then, that summer, that the moral barriers that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career were so tenuous as to be nearly nonexistent. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to just get our inevitable encounter over with, but as it turns out the universe isn’t interested in what I want, because Adam doesn’t notice me by the lockers at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On his head was an impossibly large cowboy hat with a silver hatband, which I at first thought was made of little conchos but turned out to be little silhouettes of, right...more women. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It turned out they had been trapped at locations all over central Uganda. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is convinced that any day one of them will burst into the house with a gun and turn out to be an escaped lunatic.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, there was very little to do for the chickens. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

What scared me most, it turned out, weren’t the threats. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was hot; the water was heavy, but the task turned out to be fortuitous for her—and for me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He’d been out of the Academy only a few months, it turned out, but had already been assigned several times to the State Shop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on Sundays we bought a dime’s worth of beef which usually turned out to be uneatable. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that, in high school, not painting your toenails is considered disgusting. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You never know what might turn out to be handy when you need it most,” said Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of Sally’s cousins was a good-looking, slender, dark-haired boy named Appy, who later turned out to look like a movie idol and aroused more admiration than the short, comical, chubby Sally. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, there hasn’t been a Potter at Hogwarts for years—and that boy didn’t turn out so well. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She turns out the lights, holds a flashlight under her chin, laughs in an eerie manner: this is how such things are done. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it turned out that the original cells had probably never survived long at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In Amarillo the doctor I summoned turned out to be a young man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, as one packinghouse manager explained, “If you need to turn out a little more, you speed up the conveyors a little and the men speed up to keep pace.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. McDaniels called today and told me about your friend Liz. The one who turned out to be”—she looked around and lowered her voice—“a Negro.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph handed me the second volume of Octavian Nothing again and we watched them until they turned out of sight. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Or a trick of the eye, like crouching shapes on dark, lonely streets that turn out to be trash cans up close. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She never dreamed it would turn out like it did. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What he desired turned out to be gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just, as it turned out, seven minutes too late. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Old Man, it turns out, is Tyrone Guthrie the director, from England and so famous I can’t pretend not to have heard of him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

These chairs, as it turned out, were for the “families”—two families—the Fishers and the Bauers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, they hadn’t shot much of anything that night of July 17, 1973. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I was grateful the nominee didn’t turn out to be me'' I pounced on this. “So you let Cap swallow the hook. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Actually I just wanted to meet you here. I thought if it turns out that seeing you again is something I'd like to remember, then I want to remember it in Jazzhole.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Catholic high school cost a lot, and Papa said nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will remember that, if this turns out to be a trick.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she said, “I started reading Johnny Tremain, and it turns out it’s actually not so awful. Maybe you should try it again.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

But this, too, turned out to be a false lead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I did sort of wing that. I’m glad it turned out okay.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

None of her instructions turned out to matter. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out Boots was special weaponry after all. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His will, it turned out, was that Emily give birth at home at twenty-six weeks’ gestation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Each book and each paper, as it turned out, had quite a bit to say. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Each time I turned out a new line of text it felt like magic, words forming from slugs of molten lead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jule thought of the most appealing thing she could say, and it turned out to be the truth. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever we quit running or fighting long enough to look around, France turns out to be a beautiful place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And everybody who emigrated turns out to be special. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jahrling carried some slides containing spots of his own blood serum into his closet, shut the door, turned out the light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that even two committed go-getters with a deep love and a robust work ethic can’t will themselves into being pregnant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Which, as it turns out, is almost true. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Would he have turned out different, she asks herself repeatedly, if she hadn’t left him? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Magic is finicky that way. It doesn’t always turn out how you mean it to.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I settled my hands back down on my hips, recalling an afternoon in early April when Digger said he had something to show us—and the “something” turned out to be a cigarette. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

While we work on the boxes I work on convincing myself that Billy will turn out all right without any interference from me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In my interview, I had been promised a thirty-minute lunch break, but this turns out to be a five-minute pit stop at a convenience store, if that. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that other kids could pick up facts quickly too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Slopper was allowed to hear Story a couple years ago, when he was your age. He didn’t even hear it all, and it didn’t turn out so well.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

However, this venture turned out all right, because I did not have to noose that bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Grand Canyon . Jason recalled that day on the Skywalk, when one of his jerk classmates turned out to be a wind spirit. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It turned out that there was a law that stated that no black person could be released or tried on weekends, for the Bantu courts were open only on weekdays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But would not any effort he made now turn out like the others? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, I have not had occasion to use either of these sentences. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It turns out that it, and especially its Fertile Crescent portion, possessed at least five advantages over other Mediterranean zones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marly was puzzled at first, but then it turned out that Joe wouldn’t go to the little school by the graveyard at all. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

That even after all of this, I will never, ever turn out like her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I gave it more gas and slowly we crept forward, and I turned out of the driveway and onto the Norvelt road. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the trees miss their leaves—dropped like a friend who turns out not to understand you at all. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don’t have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As a rule, though, that wasn’t how all their drinking turned out. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Black Panthers at the People’s Center had taken up a collection for Cecile to fly down here. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When he broke the silence, it was only to mutter unhappily, “Six of one, half-dozen of the other. That’s the way everything turns out, isn’t it, Nick?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I did not see her again until the afternoon, when, as I say, I came across her in the dining room, replacing crockery into the sideboard. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She turned the volume down, taking a deep breath as she turned out of the lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The cops grouped the boys together, lined them up against a fence, and demanded to know which of them had jettisoned the bag, which later turned out to be filled with quinine, not heroin. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus there were a lot of women hovering around who turned out to be moms, helping the teacher with their kids. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cyclotron started turning out these new products with amazing regularity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On June 15, all hands turned out for the great Antarctic Dog Derby, held on a course called Epsom Downs after the famous racetrack in England. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Hagrid knew quite as much about unicorns as he did about monsters, though it was clear that he found their lack of poisonous fangs disappointing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I know, but surely he wouldn’t have singled you out in his will just to help us turn out the lights!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

While Gregor tried not to wolf his food, which turned out to be delicious, Vikus filled him in on the history of Regalia. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And as it turned out, his lack of experience didn’t matter. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that oak trees have three strikes against them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that despite their best intentions, her parents had prepared her exceptionally well for art school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the day came that my class graduated and, for the most part, moved on to college, I would be turned out into the world. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She’d picked the gym bathroom because it was far from the classrooms and there were no P.E. classes after lunch, but it turned out to be a bad choice. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it turned out I wouldn’t get to, because Susie still wasn’t at school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That afternoon’s two hours in Egypt turned out to be mostly a long discussion of the What and How of the Egyptian Oracle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wonderful woman with useful hair was turning out to be like any other grown-up. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out you were just grooming me to be another tally mark under People Who Think Courtney Crimsen Is a Really Neat Girl. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then he carried the new samples back into the closet and turned out the lights and looked again into his microscope. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out he was wrong, but he could easily have been right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It turned out that none of us code talkers could go home as soon as the end of the war was announced. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t know just how tough, and unexpected, things would actually turn out to be. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She guessed, correctly as it turned out, that that beach would be a favorite spot, that it would be crowded on this hot Sunday. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was saying how they liked to read the last pages of books first, to make sure everyone turned out okay. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the commander sent someone to clear the airfield before an accident occurred, the thing turned out to be a big teddy bear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know,” he said, “but still I acted like a fool. Billy, I had no idea things were going to turn out like they did, or I wouldn’t have called that bet.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a strange way he was looking forward to it—relieved that things were going to clear up between them, however things turned out. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Camo pants, it turns out, do not come in regular numbered sizes. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The game, which turned out to be the longest of Bobby’s career, ended as an interesting draw. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You turned out so unusual. I fixed your tongue so you could say charming things. You don’t even say hello to the villagers.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out there’s another food chain in America, one that looks very different from the industrial farms I had been visiting. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The only person I dreaded saying good-bye to was Grover, but as it turned out, I didn’t have to. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out forty-six out of forty-seven texts are June and the forty-seventh is Nora asking if either of them know where she left her white Chuck Taylors. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, I was able to ask an expert, the person who had actually designed that very ramp and the killing machinery behind the blue door. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Two cases going down to the theater turned out to be amputations. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And we did not find out until the following year just how effective Cade Hernandez’s Quit Being Individuals mission would actually turn out to be. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The grandmother, as it turned out, lived in New York City, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and had been searching for her daughter for three and a half years, exactly Sergio’s age. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It turns out Tía Mari asked Oscar this morning what book he might recommend for someone about his age, and he pulled this one out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

‘All the “great secrets” under the mountains had turned out to be just empty night: there was nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing, only nasty furtive eating and resentful remembering. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And I hope everyone’s pictures turn out great and never become old photographs and nobody gets in a car accident. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

While Abby seemed nice enough, it turned out we had different taste in extracurricular activities, and houses too. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

That earthquake of 8 October 2005 turned out to be one of the worst in history. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nok gripped her staff and started walking again, but this time she took a sharp turn out of the gardens. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Lau Po, as he allowed me to call him, turned out to be a much better player than my brothers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that adventure was a tiring thing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Certain Australian surf bathers, several years ago, were stung by tiny creatures that turned out to be nudibranchs armed with the stingers of Portuguese men-of-war. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I turned out to be useful after all. What a terrible surprise.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even if it turned out to be me. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the surprise was three dudes with snake tails instead of legs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the easier choice was the correct choice. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A batch of jerseys given to the Fugees turned out to be very large, almost like nightshirts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Scaramouche turned out to be not only a good coach but a confidant and a surrogate father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That Sunday turned out to be the dreariest one on record. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When all our plates were clean and our stomachs were filled, Grandma told us to turn out the lights, and she brought the beautifully decorated ginger cake to the table with candles blazing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Things might not turn out like she thought. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But nothing about the prosecution of Walter McMillian was turning out to be ordinary. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It turned out they were in the B classes, which also happened to be the black classes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first two segments of competition weren’t that bad, but I don’t know how this one’s gonna turn out. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Code breaking, it turned out, was not everyone’s cup of tea. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Europa turns out to be as smooth as a billiard ball despite the network of lineations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I sure am sorry things turned out this way. But we’ll get this mess cleaned up—leave it with me.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wilfred turned out to be just as Tom had described him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would turn out sour, boy; don’t you think so?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

In far-off Russia, a woman called Charlotte Russe claimed to have found the second ticket, but it turned out to be a clever fake. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, however, they had other motives. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Well, what a fine pair of commanders you two turned out to be. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

How it turned out—the only bad feature is, everybody comes in here, they pester her with questions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gym turned out to be not so horribly bad, even on an empty stomach. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I thought I might be able to exist there without touching anything, but then hours passed and it turned out I was wrong. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As I turned out the light, my phone buzzed with a text. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Especially when it turns out that I’m not the worst actor in the squad. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, he did most of the talking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, that was precisely what Jimmy Kruger was proposing as well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, the canoe turned out to be a cranky little craft. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But it was not a suicide tablet, it turns out. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But when it comes to how things turned out, I’m not sorry. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, lots of the women there liked Ron the instant they met him, and lots of the men liked Lillian the instant they met her. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But it turned out the sci-fi Hela was inspired by the ancient Norse goddess of death, who lives trapped in a land between hell and the living. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The last day turned out to be a great day. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The basement, it turned out, had a light switch. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Michael and I work well together. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He did not fear he would turn out like them; he only felt sorry that some people worked hard but proved unlucky. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it turned out it really wasn’t at all. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The banks turned out not to be such a disappointment after all. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She would buttress her argument with recommendations from Dr. Cuevas, which later, when he was asked point-blank, turned out to have been made up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as Neel had anticipated, Headmaster turned out to be a top-notch math teacher despite his impatience. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Criminals, it turns out, are the one social group in America we have permission to hate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote about the peculiar children and the hollows and how all of Grandpa Portman’s stories had turned out to be true. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This seems like a prudent and thrifty decision at the moment, but it turns out to be a major mistake. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until I was walking down the hall just after my talk with Katie, on my way to my locker, happy about how things had turned out. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out there was a man about a mile away who owned a camera, so the next day Papa stayed home from work, and they went to see him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What if he turned out to be stupid? Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the year before there had been some sort of stationery arms race among the kids, with each trying to have the most unique pens and paper. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Buckingham Palace is big—so big that it almost defies description. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And what should they turn out to be looking for but a cave, with a girl asleep? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And it turns out that being patient is important, as we sit for over an hour with no nibble from anything. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She appeared pretty satisfied at the way things had turned out. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This, it turns out, was our honeymoon phase. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They turned out the flashlight and pushed me toward the door. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not only had it taken place in international waters, but it turned out that the I’m Alone had been manned by Canadians sailing under a Canadian flag. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Well, it turns out things weren’t that cut and dried. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The people were hurrying us on down toward some kind of open dirt-floor patio with a roof over it, which as it turned out was going to be our father’s church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I can't imagine how tired you must feel. Shall I turn out the light?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It turned out he’d changed his mind and instead of heading south had driven to Alaska.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Television turns out to be powerful because it so effectively plays the top-down and bottom-up attention systems against each other. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He counts out loud, and it turns out that I’m short a few taste buds. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What struck her most was their attitude of fatalism, as if this was how it always turned out, whatever the initial promise or potential. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuesday night, most of what I thought I understood a y about myself had turned out to be wrong. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I loved the tidy geometry of those fields, the pops of color that turned out to be barns, the flat county highways that ran straight to the horizon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And I was beginning to wonder what would happen to Digger if it turned out to be true. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

While music listening is wonderful for our brains, it turns out that music performance is really where the fireworks happen. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The rain turned out to be a blessing for Lake Windsor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they left the niece’s suburb, the son drove them to the address his mother had given him, which turned out to be a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that he was still aloft, borne by the winds toward Nova Zembla, and that he had been unharmed by the cliff-ghasts and had fought off the other witch clan. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I told my adviser that I was going to Erie, Pennsylvania, I had no idea of going there, but as it turned out, I was. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Baba had had no cash on him for the oranges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Winter came, and turned out to be a very bad one. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that at least part of the explanation for this behavior can be found in the structure of the teenage brain. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For her it began as an adventure and turned out to have more twists and turns than she expected or knew how to handle. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I already sensed, though I couldn’t have said why, that I would lose either way, no matter how it turned out. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was merely along for the ride—very precariously, as it turned out—which reminded me once again how really minor man can be when it comes to competing for space and time and food. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now it turned out there was another room—one that could be furnished however you wanted. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It seemed like the whole town of Alexandriaville had turned out for the big finale. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The doll mender walked away, turning out the lights one by one. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

And it turned out that the astronauts packed a special flag on Apollo 11, with a wire worked into the material so that it would stick out like that. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Because Warren Harding errors, it turns out, play an enormous, largely unacknowledged role in the car-selling business. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It then turned out that the plug was defective, and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Every flower that had bloomed bore some kind of seed or fruit, and it was a surprise to see how the different ones turned out. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hale promised to turn out the vote for him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And if every sadness, when it came, turned out at least to be redemptive in the end. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But I’ve got too much to lose if this Bat Lady turns out to be a hoax. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Haymitch has his own troubles over in the woods, where the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That turned out to be the biggest surprise of the day. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Over the years, Mariam would have ample occasion to think about how things might have turned out if she had let the driver take her back to the kolba. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Garfield felt relieved about the way the battle turned out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dobby now handed Harry a small package, which turned out to be — socks. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, we lost study privileges for four years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reality: I don’t know why things turned out this way. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But their procedure, as it turned out, actually had baked laboratory dust onto the targets, which accounted for the irregular findings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No matter how things turned out, I was going to try to see the good in things, like Jackie and Howard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It turned out my new friend, Matt, wasn’t lying about his parents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You may turn out to be a real young woman of commerce.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that making gum for a lot of people was harder than just making it for yourself. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out to be true that an Object in Motion Remains in Motion. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m nervous to visit the art rooms in case we get in trouble for interrupting a class, but it turns out I didn't need to be nervous at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the foreigners were so impressed with the performance, they decided to pay the entire cost of the school’s new science lab, even more than Principal Marcelo had hoped for. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, a few months prior, she’d decided, “This health insurance is a scam. I never get sick. I’m going to cancel it.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The tragically hip thing turns out to be failing to turn in your rented graduation robes on time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The baishakunin took me to see it—peach trees, persimmons, weeping willows, rock gardens. None of that turns out to be true.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought I was the last one out of the locker room, but as I turned out of my aisle, I saw Greg sitting on a bench, leaning toward Freddie's locker with a key. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that a deluxe, all-inclusive tour through the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge costs twenty-five dollars per person and lasts roughly three hours. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As it would turn out, that particular decision was about to be taken out of my hands. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I still can't believe how everything turned out once the championship round began. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“So it turns out that Maya’s mom is an alcoholic,” Grace said as they walked, positioning herself between Rafe and the wall just to keep anyone from catching a glimpse of her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I could, but it may not be worth the drama if it turns out she didn’t do anything. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even at its high, cool clouds, Venus turns out to be a thoroughly nasty place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 3:30 quitting time turns out to be a myth; often we don’t return to the office until 4:30 or 5:00. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the evidence that would have been used to convict Theodore Johnson would now be used against Jerome Paisley to prove premeditation—to show he had planned to murder her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But it turned out that Mom wasn’t depressed at all. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her husband had left her for a Jamaican woman, with whom it turned out he had a secret four-year-old child, and she somehow managed to veer every conversation towards the subject of Jamaicans. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He remembered wandering up the hill, that what he had thought to be a child had turned out to be a fox, that a helpful caretaker had escorted him back out to the street. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be one of the Luftwaffe’s most celebrated and deadly flying aces, and he wanted to meet the pilot who’d shot him down. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’d held his church service the night before, followed by a potluck, but it turned out to be more of a “down on your luck,” as only one person showed up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dimple shuddered to think what the creature might turn out to be. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, creative thinkers do not need to have a high IQ. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Some of Greenberg’s subfamilies, and some groupings recognized by more-traditional linguists, may turn out to be legacies of New World population expansions driven in part by food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Plenty. They’re going to target you early. Whatever the level turns out to be, you’d better be able to cut out in front of them and get to clear ground.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes got beady and his lip turned out. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Fayu normally lived as single families, scattered through the swamp and coming together once or twice each year to negotiate exchanges of brides. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It did not, however, turn out half as bad as he had expected. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Nicholas, turns out Ms. Hardwick isn’t the only one leaving, he says. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What are the odds that the second boy, with the added handicap of racial discrimination, will turn out to lead a productive life? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, this was not to be, for in traveling to Orlando they had, of necessity, sat in a non-White carriage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a good thing I turned out to be a girl. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I know there’s always a reason you do what you do. Things always turn out.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Butternut was on it in a second, happily licking it while I checked the email—which turned out to be spam. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It would have been better if it had turned out to be a stranger—a sixth or eighth grader I didn’t see in homeroom every day. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Less than a week, as it turned out. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The day I married, the whole population of Ojo de Agua turned out to wish me well. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an entirely random decision which, as you will see, turned out to be quite fateful. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It turned out the test had been “broken” in my year; they were tweaking it to make it less formulaic—i.e., less likely to let in people like me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I said good night and turned out the light and pulled the covers up to my neck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

This has not been found to agree with experience, unless that turns out to be the explanation for the people who are supposed to have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, the Americans had no interest in settling scores with the Stasi or even the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many people in the county turned out for Roan’s funeral. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It turns out this is a group interview, conducted by Todd in a large room, where we applicants sit in folding chairs while Todd, a sharply dressed fellow of about thirty, lectures and shows transparencies. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, it was a good thing he had not come home with us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tried playing a few times without the North, but this turned out to be so boring that we abandoned the game altogether. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Richard had had more sentries posted than Nailer had guessed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, there was no chance for me to go, anyway. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I’d taken off an itchy sweater on a cold day: relieved to be rid of it, but surprised by how chilly the air turned out to be. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After we turned out the lights, she fell asleep in no time flat. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, though, betrayal can also breed penitents, shrewd minor politicians, and ghosts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two dollars she hated to release turned out to be well spent, for Teapot did have a fracture, although the doctor said poor diet had contributed substantially to the daintiness of his bones. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That girl is turning out just like me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It seemed like everything I enjoyed in the world was turning out to be wrong. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Plus a giant turtle shell that turned out to be a precast fiberglass pond lining. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The survival kit did have soap, it turned out—a few disposable packets tucked into a comer of the knapsack. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As things turned out, my father's ordeal proved even worse than might have been predicted. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that, I was sure Halloween was going to be awful, but it turned out it wasn’t. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope everything turned out all right,” Gram said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It turned out that not everyone was happy with their newfound fame. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite a minor explosion while we mixed her dyspepsia elixir, the parcels turned out beautifully, each wrapped in red-white-and-blue gingham, and I am sure they will be received with great appreciation. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All of that said, if it turns out that I’ve been shipped to a Muslim internment camp, please send help—and copious amounts of cheese and crackers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Was everything—her parents, the Guard, her search for answers, and what the impressors had done to Archer—destined to turn out this way from the beginning? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If the burglars take great pains to steal what turns out to contain a homing device that leads the police to them, that’s ironic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had been so pleased, I wrote her a number of new poems, but none of them turned out as well as the first one had. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be an American documentary filmmaker named Christopher Quinn. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was memorizing his face, in case it turned out the girl had been abducted. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Judy eyes the buffet, bites into something that turns out to be a shrimp cutlet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing that my father is working on one of the booby traps we planned out a couple of Saturdays back—which I’m sure will turn out awesome. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, very few people showed up to support the State. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

It turned out that the Soviet leader had secret weapons of his own. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On tiptoe, I turn out all the lamps, the television, every electricity sucker downstairs save the refrigerator. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It turns out that passing between Faerie and the mortal world isn’t all that difficult. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘It’s all turned out wrong. It won’t do. It’s no good.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She remembered wondering what her gift would turn out to be, and hoping for a good one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Can’t ever be more anyplace, it turns out, as long as I wear this brown skin. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all those years of predicting things, you turn out to be the one who almost threw Levy Pants down the drain.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and some of the engineers turned out for the parade, enjoying the celebration, allowing themselves, perhaps, just a sliver of pride in having been a part of such an achievement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This railroad turned out to be the protocols I mentioned above—the language of the Internet and World Wide Web. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out she did not need the compass. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ocean Desmond James was a very big deal, it turned out, and I don’t think even he’d realized just how much until any of this happened. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If it turned out the person they’d chosen wasn’t a good communicator or was uncomfortable with being vulnerable, they seemed to think time or marriage vows would fix the problem. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few of the people he claimed to have murdered turned out to be alive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It may be too late, as things have turned out. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked him well enough, and was pleased for Grace Turner that he had turned out to be bright. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the ranks he was anonymous, and it turned out that to have been inside conferred a certain status. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It turns out they are the military and this is a military testing zone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Voices, it turns out, streak into Zollverein from all over the continent, through the clouds, the coal dust, the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It turned out it was heading to the United States, and when it made port Nasser jumped off and immediately sought asylum. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This Jones was turning out to be a headache, in spite of the low salary. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I’d ever known. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A squat church of rumpled stone turned out to be locked. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

LINK: You mean because my family turned out to be from the Holocaust and hers turned out to be from the KKK? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But turned out they ’as from way up in the mountains. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Their birthdays, it turns out, are less than three weeks apart, which means, for most of March, Henry is twenty-three and Alex is twenty-one. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I hoped that I wouldn’t turn out that way, because I talked to a lot of gays. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It turned out Lunelle was a hatmaker without the least bit of shyness. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My life was turning out a lot like one of Holly’s scrap quilt squares. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Joeys a pretty terrible soccer player. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many ways to kill things, it turns out. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This piece looked like it might have been meant as a shield for a god, but it hadn’t turned out properly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Right then I could have tried to talk him into moving back to Texas, where he supposedly had some kind of ties, according to his passport, which turned out to be almost entirely false. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a weapon against her strength and if it turned out of no significance, still it was a hope that she might fall to their level some day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But it turned out she was pretty good at art after all, because the way she decorated it, it looked almost real. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Close up, the diploma turned out to be a gift certificate from Mr. Thirsty’s Beer Hall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He's a musician, and it turns out that he grew up playing in church. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The people who turned out for our home games—parents, little brothers and sisters, and other locals—had turned out for this game, too. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Belle was the one who had reported Marcus to the police. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, I came down with a fever and stayed home for ten days. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It chafed me as much as the Benedictine habit, as it turns out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to him, it turns out that I didn't die from the last bullet of the war after all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then she was scrambling across the sidewalk, the street, shoving people’s legs *It turned out to be four and a half blocks long. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Soviet team would be playing for the first time on United States soil. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The car squealed as we turned out of the parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In a situation like this, where I don’t even know how to name the various kinds of rooms, The Maids’ special system turns out to be a lifesaver. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people thought that, except for a few boulders, it would be hard and flat—and they turned out to be right. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it turned out that the River of Doubt was a tributary of the Amazon River, they estimated that they had to travel another four hundred miles. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

This is turning out to be an excellent day. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Or she stays in the sitting room, knitting away at her endless Angel scarves, turning out more and more yards of intricate and useless wool people: her form of procreation, it must be. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out he had been shot twice in the leg. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After Barack’s victory in Iowa, my message on the campaign trail grew only more impassioned, almost proportional to the size of the crowds that were turning out at rallies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One hundred and seventy islanders turned out for Arthur’s funeral, which was held on a warm, cloudless day in June at the San Piedro Memorial Cemetery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the screen turns out to be in tatters, not even fastened at the bottom, just flapping uselessly in the breeze. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be such a great dress, and the only one of its kind in the camp, that bride after bride—whether she's fifteen or fifty—gets in line to borrow it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out that my brother was the first one in line. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I knew the man was crazy, but it turned out he was dumb, too. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, liver was the only available source of vitamin C—and on liver I stuffed, without knowing why. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was safer to turn out an uneducated Ph.D. than to risk another explosion. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the Soviet one-time pad system had a weakness. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And really, I didn’t care if they made their pies out of sweat socks and wiggle worms, as long as they turned out this sweetsmelling I’d eat them. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would just have to be patient with them until one or two were killed and the rest wounded, and then they would all turn out okay. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, she need not have worried about the children running away. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Actually, she started out trying to help me, to get him to like me, but it turns out he’s interested in her. It’s not really her fault.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, she would have been glad that the division of Rome had turned out well for Mark Antony. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He ran to the door and locked it and then turned out the light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that pregnancy tests were expensive. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Moreover, to Harry’s amazement, he turned out to be quite right. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I kept going to see him in the fading hope that he’d turn out to be a real spy and I could have a medal after all. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby’s sitting on the ledge by the sinks, toes turned out like a ballerina, jelly flats peeking out from under her dress. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The big black thing that looked like a log turned out to be a big gun. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Mother married Daddy Clidell, who turned out to be the first father I would know. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Joey turned out to be pretty funny. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be Franklin Salisbury Jr., president of the National Foundation for Cancer Research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At first it seemed like Styx Malone had everything to teach us, but it turned out he had plenty to learn. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to call; he wanted her to miss him; but as it turned out, he was okay. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

His old babysitter, Tia Callida, had turned out to be Hera and had a nasty habit of putting him down for naps in a blazing fireplace. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It would always be my first choice to sit for several hours every day in a hospital, but it turns out that nursing staffs have a problem with that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But at home, it turned out, they had all felt the same way: as if they were different from the other children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But it turns out Axelroot could collect medals galore in the department of avoiding holy matrimony. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that, with respect to the stars, Venus turns once every 243 Earth days, but backward, in the opposite direction from all other planets in the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the reply should turn out to be Yes, hello, we might want to stop there and think about that, for quite a long time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the rumour Wacker had picked up was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She nodded approvingly as Naomi turned out the biscuit dough. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Flirty touches and first kisses and hearts that turn out to be wrong. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“As I recall, I once predicted you would turn out to be as selfish as all the other human heroes. Well, here is your chance to prove me wrong.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But he didn't despise himself and it didn't turn out as he had imagined. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

What kind of marriage has it turned out to be? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ironically, the real source turned out to be air pollution from cars and factories. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He brought in another man who turned out to be the doctor, and my leisure time was over. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I should read or turn out the light and try to get some rest before I have to get up for school. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And when an ear infection turned out to be the culprit, it was she who fed antibiotic syrup drop by drop into Mirabelle’s small pink mouth and let her lap it up like a kitten. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Peeta, it turns out, actually has a talent, which is painting. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, turns out he had a scare with the pox, and he’s been feeling his years a bit since then. He thought he’d best get his will writ down while he had the chance.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The last night of the eliminations turned out like the second night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me that her boyfriend, Arlo, wrecked his car and turned out to be a loser. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Since our machinist needed at least three days merely to turn out the more simple phosphorus atoms, I went back to Clare after lunch to hammer out the final draft of my genetics manuscript. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I had a notebook filled with words and phrases I might need in Australia: chemist means “pharmacy,” boot means “trunk,” lift means “elevator,” and to come good means “to turn out okay.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It turned out pretty well—four layers of hotcakes with maple syrup between and a stub of a miner’s candle on top. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Little opened the window and turned out the light. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the event, speed might turn out to be everything. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had turned out well anyway because the family had been so poor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even the contents of the suitcase turned out to be somewhat tedious. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be a bitter tea. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That turned out to be an understatement of considerable magnitude. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Richard envisaged somebody young and alert like their houseboy, Ugwu, but Harrison turned out to be a small stooped stick of a man, middle-aged, wearing an oversize white shirt that stopped below his knees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You are not to disturb Mr. Byrne and me after dinner. You will put yourself to bed at the appropriate time and turn out your light.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“On imagination. A lot of times they turned out wrong. For example they wrote about Venus being a jungle paradise with huge monsters and women in breastplates that glistened.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Pauline, it turned out, was no dragon. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Now it turns out he might not have been a gang member at all. The guy claims self-defense, but the kid wasn't even armed, they think now. Big controversy." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sensor even read her stomach muscles, which, it turned out, hoverboarders always clenched in anticipation of turns. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You can’t second-guess yourself. It was fate that determined how things turned out.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And as it later turned out, I was correct. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

After the meal, there’s the hush of a surprise, and then someone turns out the lights, and the owner of Bambino’s, Sue, appears in the doorway with a cake. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It turned out they had other things in common, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The name of the man with the Clark Gable mustache turned out to be Dr. Faruqi. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Thirteens’ full roster had turned out for the game, so Luma was able to substitute freely, to keep her players fresh in the heat. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, he wound up apologizing for the comparative failure of his effort. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It turns out she just hadn’t had a chance to listen to the songs yet. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I follow the number of steps and turns out of the entrance, and then burst through the front tent flaps to find myself deposited back in the narrow alley. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still too new to know how this will turn out. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They turned out of the gates into the twilit, deserted lane to Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But as he observed in recalling the discussion, that was before they actually had exploded their firecracker, which yielded a display that turned out to be very impressive indeed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the library did have a back door—locked, of course. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If I’m lucky, it might turn out to be somewhat benign. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It turned out there was no baby in it—just somebody’s sleeping poodle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

This has not been my experience, and it turns out to be a myth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She thought, my life is changing, everything is turning out for the best. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at a perfect piano, it turned out, with its surfaces carefully dusted, its internal wires precisely tuned, its eighty-eight keys laid out in a flawless ribbon of black and white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the earliest Fertile Crescent crops, such as the wheat and barley and peas domesticated around 10,000 years ago, arose from wild ancestors offering many advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out to be a long week. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“No. Nothing. Once or twice I thought I saw a flicker, but it turned out to be nothing.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then he and the rest of the crew chowed down on cantaloupe and ice cream for breakfast before turning out to row in front of Fox Movietone’s newsreel cameras. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But it turns out that plowing the land over and over damages the soil almost as much as chemical weed killers do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She had also lent him Quidditch Through the Ages, which turned out to be a very interesting read. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

As it turned out I happened to be sitting between them. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four women lived in different cities and didn’t know each other, but it turned out they had something in common. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It turned out to be the beginning of a long and happy friendship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Didu and I share a lot of the same tastes, despite a fiery argument or two over color combinations. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It turns out that Joe does not have to tell her anything and I do not have to be the steak sauce, because Kelsey chickens out and doesn’t show. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It turns out that thing will finally be good for something other than coupons,” my dad said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They said good night and turned out the lights. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually my father said, “Oh well. It all turned out the same anyhow. No harm done.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her husband turned out to be not just a heavy drinker but a full-blown alcoholic with all an alcoholic’s deviousness and tragic charm. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made me nervous, but it turned out to be a good thing in the end. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z