“We don’t watch a lot of TV,” I said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When it was time to get ready for bed, Calista told me she’d help me take the cardboard TV to the recycling, but I said I wanted to keep it up a little longer. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Mrs Wormwood isn't going to thank you for this," the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

No screams, no pleading wails—or perhaps the Terranovas’ TV was turned up too loud to hear it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He comes running back into the living room and turns on the TV and stands there looking at it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The students with the six highest scores from all our preliminary rounds will make the final TV team. Sound fair?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Momly was sitting up, watching the same morning show on TV. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

We were standing outside the TV studio after school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And you can tell this because of an experiment which I saw on TV in a series called How the Mind Works. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the most expensive thing we have, because our TV is a hand-me-down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, we’d play tic-tac-toe for hours or watch Power Puff Girls marathons on TV. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

My parents are watching one of the approved TV shows on the media unit and trying to escape into another world. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Deb’s mom sounds like a TV announcer, cheerful even when they don’t want to be. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was another story, about the upcoming trial of a straight man who killed a gay man after the latter had gone on a TV talk show and said he had a crush on him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't have a TV in his room at Sadhu Kumar's, so he had to read or work. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The TV news crews followed the FBI agents and the disgraced principal out of the ballroom. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that perhaps I needed to prove to white people that I wasn’t like the criminals I saw on TV. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I heard Sapo sit down on the couch and turn the TV on. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I played the video through the TV to get a better look at the faces, the eyes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But the words I wrote blare from the TV. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So, while they were talking, I suddenly remembered the TV news sports man and what he said about my brother. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The big story never seemed to quite make it to the front pages or the TV talk shows. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why would anyone want to be the victim/ The lure of TV. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

After the TV’s clicked off, Mom stares at me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims . . . and I just started to cry. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said to the TV, “Did you come for death?” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I smiled, remembering the fun we’d had watching TV through the window while Mr. Potter dozed in his armchair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He didn't watch much TV, but it wouldn't have mattered, because no one had heard of CreaTVity. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He watches a cricket game on a little TV. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The little girls turned from their cartoon show at the TV to look at him and then turned quickly back. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I finally found her in the den, on the couch, feet curled under her, watching TV. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Don't stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred saw a clump of TV cameras and photographers and eager reporters with notebooks. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On TV once she heard a relationship expert say that you can’t find peace until you find all the pieces. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I asked what that meant, Mom said, “The TV show, Albie. It got very good ratings.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was very tired because that TV kept me up all nite but he said no it dont work that way. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Before the afternoon ended in Butte, we gave a TV interview, all four of us—me, Barack, and the girls—which was something we'd never done before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I pick up Hector out of his seat and plop down on the couch with him like all I want to do is hold him and watch TV with Frank. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma sat with us, glancing often at the TV as she ate. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The TV was still buzzing, its lights dancing across the carpet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I think almost every TV viewer in the area watched the show. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a part of Brooklyn that gets shown on TV. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After a while, I went out into the living room to sit with my parents and watch TV. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And she wasn’t watching TV with me anymore because Trigonometry and Tears had gone into reruns, which meant they were showing old stories that we’d already seen. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Why is that TV so—oh, hey, Daddy. Sure you don’t want to come with us?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They got the TV in a totally different spot, and their couch doesn’t look as comfy as ours. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“No, he wasn’t colored. He was scum. Some Yankee from New York, the kind you see on the TV with the long hair and the peace signs.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you have a TV show at any point in your life?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, to buy a plasma TV, not to donate to charity.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He picks up the TV and moves it onto the floor. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Leather couches and big flat-screen TVs hanging from the walls next to art in fancy frames, which seemed weird because he didn’t seem like the TV type, or the art type. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Without synthetics, processed foods like TV dinners just can’t be manufactured. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was like watching one of those nature shows about weird animal species on TV that her dad always got obsessed with. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Now the school and its resident geniuses are going to be on national TV? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It means if you want to know whether — and what — kids are learning from a TV show, all you have to do is to notice what they are watching. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older kids started talking about the best things on TV over Christmas and New Year's. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She presided over the world in her drawing room on satellite TV. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you studying to prep for the competition?” asked the TV interviewer. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

After all, most people would agree that food is more important than a new cell phone or cable TV or name-brand sneakers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I have interviews with radio and TV stations, and newspapers and podcasts are interested too. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone had seen him on The Late Show, and on Good Morning, America and two or three other TV shows. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big, L-shaped couch takes up most of the living room, along with a big TV, but smaller than the one we have at home. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She’s watching the TV, where a news anchor is blathering about the “flow crisis.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He went back to the TV, and after I finished washing the dishes by hand — no dishwasher — I went upstairs unwillingly to work on my math homework. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A TV was on, set to one of the news channels. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Though the large house was still, I heard the TV from Mrs. Davis’s room somewhere on the other side. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explain all this to Humble as we help Monica roll out the TV from the activity center and plug it in. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It gave viewers a reason to look for the ads in TV Guide and Parade. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spun around and raced back to the TV. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Wolf forgot about the closed-circuit TV. We’ve got it all on film.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rummaging around in some lower shelves, they dug out several, filled them with food, then sat on the floor between the computer and the TV. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“TV people are lazy!” she shouted to us over the rain from beneath her umbrella. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You did pageants before you went to Hollywood. Now you’re on TV.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But don’t forget—they didn’t have TV or video games back then. There wasn’t much to do except build stuff.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the game gets under way Bryce and Aurora have shifted to right in front of the TV, but they still only pay attention for commercials, when it’s “more fun.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I returned to my room I flicked the TV to the storm report and watched the almost-a-hurricane head our way. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“No, Mom. She just wanted to be on TV.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were talking about the game today, and how his TV had conked out, and one thing led to another. He had the cash, I had the TV, and the rest is history.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Across from the bed are a small futon and a TV. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Last week, he had a bunch of Boston College students talking about Run for a Cause on Catholic TV.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She turned the TV up as loud as it would go and ignored him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the TV screen as if it were the reporter who just asked him a question. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Wallace,” he would say to me, “never couch at home watching TV when you could be doing something fruitful. Get out, boy. Jog. Go to the gym! Lift a barbell!” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

With such confidence and no awkwardness at all, Lucas had mentioned my brother as if he were merely inside the house listening to music or watching TV or writing down song lyrics. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I walked downstairs, past his unmade bed, past the gaming chairs beneath the TV. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’d been thinking about her today because of the shark. When I saw her on TV, it was like she’d read my mind.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Nick mutes the TV and plays a slow, acoustic version of “Brown Eyed Girl.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The TV tottered for a moment, then plunged with a crash to the floor. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few more moments when the only one talking was my TV persona gushing over the kitty cuteness, I spoke up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Bryce glances at me and then looks back at the TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not just in my thoughts and dreams, but on TV, on the internet, on posters all over downtown. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have Nerf-gun parties, get a gigantic TV, and stock the kitchen with junky stuff that our moms never buy. For kids only.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A white cloud spinning across the TV has turned my neighborhood upside down, inside out. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stared at the TV screen in stunned silence for a moment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sally was married and Max was drowned and his father was at home watching baseball on national TV. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You in trouble. I ain't even know the TV was that loud." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I squint to see if the big mansions I’ve seen on American TV will glow or sparkle in the dark. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He brought his TV closer and turned it on loud. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The other thing about school that's different after Christmas vacation is how jealous everybody is that we got our pictures in the paper and on the local TV. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen them on TV, on the Internet, on the cover of magazines, and in newspapers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On shelves around the TV monitor were books of all sizes, and on the wall were signed photographs of actors. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Charlie looks at me briefly, then at the cushy chair facing the TV. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

My mama and her boyfriend was fighting, and I turnt the TV up so I could hear my show. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes were glued to the news on my TV. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When I came out of the bathroom, Sapo had a bow l of Coco Puffs and was sitting in front of the TV watching cartoons. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

His only serious activity, besides watching anything on the TV, is doodling. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I rip the cord from the wall, roaring out, “What are you doing with all our things?! What are you doing with the TV?!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Tuesday night I made TV dinners in the oven and burned them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then it was just me, the TV, and the shadows, fades, and outlines of my art again. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t look much older than me, and here she is on TV. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Increasingly, though, there’s evidence that watching TV—and, especially, watching junk food ads on TV—promotes obesity by changing mainly what and how much people eat, less so by changing how much they move.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our TV was a tiny black-and-white with a bunny aerial on top. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I remember watching a TV program once about old-age homes that brought in cats and dogs to cheer the elderly and dying patients. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t much music in this house, except what we hear on the TV. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fast-talking guy on TV was pouring chocolate syrup on the floor and mopping it up with a Miracle Mop. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It ain’t an easy thing, but I got to forget about Dad on the TV couch and concentrate on my own stuff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kat stared at it without seeing it, chanting, ‘Our living room. On TV,’ to herself. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the satellite TV was up again, Coach Hedge was in his cabin happily catching up on his mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dina stayed behind her shut bedroom door with the TV blaring while Ralph lamely offered to help Molly with her bags, loan her a twenty, drive her somewhere. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I can ask Connor about a TV show that came on the night before or tell Jessica that I like her new shoes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

During the past year, there had been pictures of the revolution’s soldiers in the newspapers and on TV, but I’d never seen so many in person. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For a few moments the only sound in the whole place came from Fox News on TV. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I heard them shutting off the TV to get ready for bed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If he saw this, he’d have some heated words for the lady on the TV. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s out in the parlor right now looking at TV. Every afternoon, as right as rain, he looks at that show where them kids dance.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes dart from the edge of the bed, to the flashing images on the TV, to the door separating us from a herd of loud strangers. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Instead they all yelled at the TV when the Pats blew a twenty-five-yard pass with another flag for holding. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I found one such TV dinner that included thirty-one ingredients, from guar and xanthan gum to “natural grill flavor.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What do you care? It’s a TV show.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And Sam and Mom never let us starve, even if we have to do without TV or a toaster for a little while. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That bands would perform and young people would be dressed up on national TV showing off their booms and ticks. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The jazz keeps coming from the TV room, but it's a different time now, and a saxophone starts wailing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said she was always impulsive like that, and she always loved movies. She grew up watching everything in black and white, because their mother refused to splurge on a color TV.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The TV wasn’t working because the satellite dish was no longer pointed up at the satellites. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She nodded, then glanced at the TV again. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Prying W.E. away from the TV and explaining his part to him proved far more difficult. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I wake him up on the TV couch and tell him the Mary Rose is high and dry, he looks at me like he don’t understand. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was folding my laundry while watching this TV show called The View when I got home. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was scrubbing purple crayon off the TV screen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sit in our living room, the twins dozing like puppies on my favorite blanket near the TV This time, there is no whispering in the kitchen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The TV in the den blares some morning news show, and Momma hums around the house. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She knew more about TV than any girl I’d ever met. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“GO, ROSA!” they shout, and then they realize that they’ve seen us on TV. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A youngest son whose stereo and TV repair business is so good he sends leftovers to China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town I live in isn’t small, and there are radio, TV, and newspaper people, all of whom will be presenting stories and writing articles for the next day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They look like canoes, and each has a TV mounted on a swivel arm. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I switched on the TV and began to surf. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

My coworkers stopped what they were doing and crowded around the TV in the comer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the cleaning, I plug the TV in and set up the antenna. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“The TV drains too much power from the generator.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I heard one of the older girls laughing at a TV show in the distance. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"You can forget what they say on TV," Brick says. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He would fix himself a TV dinner, open a Coke, and sit on his cot listening to the radio. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he turned the volume up; sometimes he turned it down; sometimes he’d switch the TV off, then back on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The white spirals of storm have gotten bigger on the TV map. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t stop talking to the TV It was just too new to him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

That night, I went into the den, where my parents were watching TV. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She hurried back past the TV without looking up. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I turned the TV on, and sat and watched the news, but this time I really watched it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I culled symptoms of mono, plantar warts, shingles, borderline personality disorder and a bladder infection, as well as listing a bunch of side effects from some TV ads for drugs. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other thing he really needed would’ve been a TV with some fighting on it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The mention of my name on the TV makes us turn toward the screen in unison. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The TV was still on in his parents' bedroom. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And then, because I’ve seen way too many murder mysteries on TV with my mom, I whisper, “Am I going to die?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Most of the pictures she’d Scotch-taped to the walls were of TV stars, good-looking guys that Alex was pretty sure wouldn’t be welcomed at a convent, no matter how open-minded the sisters might be. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Except he ain’t on a tuna boat, he’s on the TV couch. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Are dreams in color, like on TV, or black and white, like those old movies that Daddy likes to watch? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Children singing and dancing on TV late at night.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I switched the TV off and found myself watching my mother as she sat at the kitchen table, looking over some of her old lesson plans. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Next to her David shakes his hands with excitement as a video preview plays on the TV. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help thinking that it would be awfully nice to have people think you were interesting enough to put on TV. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some things looked brand-new, like the flat-screen TV, and some things looked like they belonged in a museum. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Cletus and Ob were as enthralled as cats in front of a fish tank, so I just kept them happy by cooking five turkey TV dinners in a row and refilling their RC’s. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t watch TV or read a magazine. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

You could mute your TV and listen to that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I put the TV on mute and watched some people dance across the screen. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can read anything I want. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kimberly's eyes shine in the reflection of the flashing TV screen. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories on TV of traitors being executed, but those people were trying to harm us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What do you care! Go on back to sleep! Watch your TV shows! Drink your beer!” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a show on the TV he’s pretending to watch. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda and her brother were sitting quietly on the sofa waiting for their mother to bring in the TV dinners on a tray. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Columbia, he said, should run a full complement of the advertising created by his firm in the local editions of TV Guide and Parade magazine in twenty-six media markets around the United States. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Felix finished his waffle, he glanced up at the TV, which had the current time and temperature in the corner. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the images on the TV screen did not look like victory. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, I may be busy—there’s a rerun of a Frisbee tournament that I may want to catch on TV....” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To have your father sitting down eating dinner or shining his shoes while watching TV. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” she said, “I went to Abuela’s house and watched TV with her, but she was coughing a lot, so I just let her rest. Then I went with my dad to the store.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I run in the living room and look at the couch and the TV and the bread on the rug. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Though many compared it to a bad TV movie, it had lasting implications for Iranians. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He means the TV show that keeps repeating, and of course he's teasing her, but the Fair Gwen is not amused. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie held his hands out like surgeons on TV do before the nurses put the gloves on them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The kids sneaked in, turning the TV back on, and neither parent paid attention. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They eat most nights side by side on the stools at the kitchen counter or at the coffee table, watching TV. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has blankets and a pillow on the couch because he sleeps right in front of the big TV. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Eventually I walked over to the TV and flipped it on, taking a leisurely stroll through the channels on my way to the Sox game. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They tried to study in the living room, but Josh wanted to watch TV, so they took their stuff into the kitchen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I thought she was swinging, like Tarzan from a vine, on the TV. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I turn the TV back on now?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The TV was off and we were all silently absorbed in our cards, so I heard Aunty Ifeoma’s scream clearly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of those prissy retirees one sees frequently in New England, the sort who subscribe to antique magazines and carry those canvas tote bags they give as gift premiums on public TV. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Prettier than a TV star,” he says, touching the plastic pearls. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice, higher-pitched on the phone, warmed her as he told her what had happened on his TV show, how he had just beat a new level on Game Boy. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dad just turned off the TV in the bedroom, which means he’s finished getting dressed, and he’ll be in here in three, two, one... A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s sweet of her to come help you. I couldn’t get mine away from the TV.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You love TV,” I said while I started loading the dishwasher. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Gee-gee, you know every word to every commercial that comes on TV.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I looked around the living room at Gus’s old easy chair, the dusty table covered with magazines and coffee cups, the TV with a bowl of plastic fruit on top. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I switched the TV on, lay on my bed, and watched Space Sentinels and Take Hart. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was ranting at the TV and Bobby Gene and I were playing Battleship behind the couch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Returning from the funeral, my brother, sisters, and I half expected to find some vaguely familiar Sharon Two standing at the kitchen counter and working the puzzle in TV Guide. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There's only the flickering light from the TV. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became so used to being in the closet that I put snacks in there and a mini TV to watch. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I didn't know you could dance like that! You could be on TV!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

TV, computers, and video games competed for kids’ time, and in some neighborhoods staying indoors felt like a safer choice than going outside to play, as Craig and I had done when we were kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe that lady had been watching too much TV, and only thought she had a good plan. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought our ‘getting to know you’ time was done for today,” Drew said, his eyes fixed on the TV. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He chain-smoked the rest of that day in front of the TV. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha is in love with Dell's large TV and he finds a program where Japanese soccer players use their heads to smash clay pots. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed wrong, like those football players who finally retire and have to face that first Sunday at home, watching on TV, thinking, I could still do that. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A “code”? Wasn’t that like on those TV hospital shows, when somebody... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their plates were clean in seconds and they moved to the floor in front of the TV with the game console. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Usually the only sounds Frank heard from the coach’s cabin were sporting events on the TV, or the coach yelling, “Yeah! Get ’em!” as he watched his favorite martial arts movies. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bob, my dog friend, loves TV almost as much as I do. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He’s the kind of guy who’s quiet unless he’s watching sports on TV. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There it is, in your tiny handwriting: April 27th: Studio TV-15, the words all jerky-looking, like you wrote them on the subway. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She bought TV Guide every week and read it from cover to cover, planning her nights around her favorite shows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one had believed it when Dad said yes, but in retrospect it was entirely characteristic for my father to move, in the space of a day, from no TV or radio to full-blown cable. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With no TV and no internet, there’s nothing else to do, so she suggested we have a family game tournament. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It might be the kind of question that determines whether I get a normal room with a TV or a special room with straps. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I turn off the TV and decide the first thing I’ll do is order food for us. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“A shiny white Cadillac comes to carry you off to be Tinker Bell on TV. But your precious little girl—” “Lootie Belle!” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two weeks of no TV, no phone, and no going out whatsoever, Amá says maybe she’ll end my punishment today. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I watched the news unfold on TV with my mom: Trayvon, a black high school student, was walking home from a convenience store when a man named George Zimmerman began following him, deeming him suspicious. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We sat there, staring at the video on the TV screen in silence. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

With the remote control attached to her hand, she raises her arm toward the TV and mutes the sound. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As Rasheed watched with anticipation, the way people wait the simple tricks of street magicians, Zalmai pulled on the TV’s wire, pushed the buttons, pressed his palms to the blank screen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Fake Uncle whistles happily, gripping my shoulder as tight as an eagle I saw on TV once, holding on to a squirming mouse. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When her parents headed upstairs to bed, she asked if she could stay up to watch TV. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He powered on the TV and turned up the volume, way louder than it needed to be. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Because my mother says I can’t watch TV all weekend if I don’t,” answered Melissa. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although the house was not much cooler, there were at least fans in there, and Mrs. Moss parked the babies in front of the TV during the hottest part of the afternoon. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A punishment for Jazz would be more like keeping her from watching TV. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

How could Mama think that movies and TV showed what things were really like? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A dozen times or more, they unearthed the TV from behind the toolshed, late at night, with the lights out and quilts pinned over the windows. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few days later the video was everywhere—even on TV— and the Taliban took credit. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“That dapper and dashing dude is a real estate tycoon! I’ve seen his commercials on TV.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Charles seemed to have relaxed and was now standing behind the counter, staring at his old TV again. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe collect hair and fiber samples like they do on TV.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

To the right of the foyer was a living room where the light from a TV flickered across the far wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Did you see him on TV last night?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It just sort of happens, and suddenly you realize the cloud that looks like a big hand with fat fingers now looks like a catcher's mitt, or a big soft TV set? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He leapt up on the ratty sofa in Big Tony’s basement TV room as if it was the raging river. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dad grabs the remote and shuts off the TV We both sit on the sofa without moving. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home The cooler in the window Stops, then starts, And the TV flickers With a climate of snow. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

First I hauled the TV and VCR from my parents’ bedroom, where Ruth had been sleeping, up the steep stairs to my own. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“This is going to look so good when they make the TV movie of my life,” Miss Ohio said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The guns, the quietude, the serenity of those old geezers, and the idiotic TV program, the enthralled children without a care in the world—it had upset him, he couldn’t get his bearings straight. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, it didn't help that the TV stations played Key Largo on one channel and a documentary on the "Great Hurricane of 1935" on the other. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

You’re like a father—you act like somebody’s daddy: “Turn off the TV!” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mobile Press Register headline was “DA: TV Account of McMillian’s Conviction a ‘Disgrace’”; the article quoted Chapman: “For them to hold themselves up as a reputable news show is beyond belief, and irresponsible.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a large frame house, with miles of slippery wood floor, a kitchen clad in stainless steel so shiny it burned, a living room with a fireplace and giant TV. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Watching June and Nora on TV doing appearances without me is torture. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I told Vonetta and Fern we had to watch something on TV and to be ready when I came to get them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She’s never been the type, though, to leave the TV on as background noise—but she has it blasting in the family room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. Lucille Ball talking to me from the TV is weirder by several orders of magnitude than anything that’s happened to me so far,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Early on, Dell Duke had wanted to be a doctor because he liked TV shows with heroic people who saved lives every week while showing off perfect teeth and great haircuts. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I slipped on some shoes, snuck past Mom, who was watching TV in the living room while grading tests, and went outside. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His body seemed far away, and he watched Rosa as though she were an image on a TV screen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sees a screen of Minecraft paused on his TV behind him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It all comes tumbling back into his head then: contraband and G’ma acting weird and piles of money behind the TV. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He took several deep breaths as he backed up against the TV cabinet and readied himself for the next attack. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“No TV at all,” Diego said, a shy smile on his face that made me wonder if he was messing with us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The kind of skinny, wicked long harpoon used for giant tuna, like my dad used to catch before he switched to TV and beer. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not about to get Frank to change the channel on his TV, but I kind of want to see for myself all the interesting bits she tells me about. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the average American household, the TV set is on for seven hours per day. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once Millie is sure her parents are asleep, we head to the TV room and watch a few videos of former pageants that I stole from my mom’s stash. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When his mother came in to kiss him good night, she turned off the TV and opened the window. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He turns the TV back on to his murder mystery. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re sitting watching TV and suddenly you discover a wasp crawling on your wrist.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was facing right at the TV and my dorky school picture. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was just silent, sitting there with my eyes glued to the TV screen, listening to my parents being interviewed by two cops in the dining room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I even considered not washing my lips like they do on TV, but then I thought it would get too gross. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I smuggle frozen TV dinners into the refrigerator and con her into eating them by saying they’ll go to waste if she doesn’t. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His parents go off to watch TV, and we sit outside on the deck because it’s so warm and beautiful, and I can see the ocean from his backyard. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two were easily ruled out—we could see the glow of the TV through the windows and curtains—but the others weren’t as obviously occupied. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I bolted down the hall, clutching Fig against my thundering chest, and planted myself in front of the TV. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Many critics of television, to this day, argue that what’s dangerous about TV is that it is addictive, that children and even adults watch it like zombies. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the above applies as well to faith healers, psychic surgeons, and an assorted variety of other practitioners from homeopathic physicians to TV evangelists. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay out on the porch on the hard cement, soaking it up, while the rest of us read or watched TV. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was at my stepmother's grandmother's house, and she's about ninety years old, so we were back home in front of the TV by nine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that. It’s just that sometimes all I see ahead of me is TV dinners—a sort of endless line of them dancing towards me like in a cartoon. You ever eat TV dinners?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They resembled the men I’d seen in army pictures on TV and on the movie screen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chow and watch TV until I hear Dad’s Jeep in the driveway. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t one of these big sets that they advertised on TV, but it was electric, and he knew his dad had put more money into it than he should have. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I could tell Mom I was tossing it around the living room when it accidentally-on-purpose hit the TV screen. I’ll take all the blame. Come on, Noah, how about it?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A New York TV station liked the story and sent a cameraman to Jon’s house to film the children with Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

On everybody else’s TV, there were two announcers sitting in a booth. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Abbey and I were curious about what my father had said on TV, but neither of us was brave enough to sit up with Mom while she watched the tape. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We sat in the dark motel room with the light of the TV flickering. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We’d run into the TV room in time to catch the commercials with colored people using deodorant, shaving cream, and wash powder. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this my sole companion jumps up, grinning, and waves a fist in the air at the TV set. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see Stick as a lawyer, making speeches like Father, or like the ones on TV who defend wrongfully accused people. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure I finally figured out what was so bad about having a famous TV star for a best friend. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Panthers on TV said they were in communities to protect poor black people from the powerful; to provide things like food, clothing, and medical help; and to fight racism. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everybody made such a big commotion—you saw so many TV cameras here that week, running all around the Darrow Homes taking pictures, interviewing everybody. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keira pauses the TV on one channel showing a reel of last year’s highlights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When forgotten people feel compelled to riot in Los Angeles, we share their pain through our TV screens, and their ravages impact our emotional and economic health. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re sitting watching TV,” he continued, “and suddenly you discover a wasp crawling on your wrist.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The kitchen around her, which was as big as Hazel’s living room, looked like the sort of kitchen you see on TV, all matching and gleamy. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every so often she’d flap her hands and say something too quiet for Emily to hear over the TV noise, like she was carrying on a one-sided conversation. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hunkered down behind his TV tray, Milton scowled at the left-wing press, and his growing resemblance to the President couldn’t be ignored. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad’s TV interview was the buzz of the Keys, and she didn’t want to deal with the stares and whispers at the local market. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The same way I’d get when I had to explain something the twins accidentally saw on TV. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She looked just like one of those unknown actresses you see on the TV summer-replacement programs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t see the man’s face, but his cart carries an old TV, clear bags full of empty soda cans and bottles, and more clothes. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Yellow light shines like a line beneath my bedroom door, and I hear some murmurs and whispers that don’t belong to the TV, voices coming from the kitchen. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But she laughs as she tells me that last night on the TV news she saw a manager from the hotel where she used to work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the screen was a live TV feed that looked to be coming from some kind of overhead camera. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear the sound from the TV rising up the stairs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The whole family was gathered around the TV, even my great aunts, who never watch football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He showed us a little portable TV that he kept in his pocket. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We made our way to the TV room, which according to Chip contained the only cable TV on campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

One of the prisoners had just seen her story on TV. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Because he felt mean and unsettled, Joe barked, “How come those kids are watching TV?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly tried to think of the phrase that was always used in courtroom dramas on TV. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the newscaster on TV said there were already ten thousand people at the football stadium, with thousands more lined up around the building. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My first game to ever be turned into a TV show. Brought to you by lemon Pledge!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They were the only ones in the apartments with a TV Television was such a treat. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This was Yoyo's time to herself, after she finished her homework, while her sisters were still downstairs watching TV in the basement. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He picked up something that looked like a TV remote and pressed a red button. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Mama and Papi are laid out on the couch watching TV. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Appearing beside him, her long nightgown trailing wispily, Iran shut off the TV set. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Burt dried himself off and went inside, returning in a moment dragging a TV on a butler’s cart onto the patio. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because TV’s already rotted it. There’s still hope for you two.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On TV, patients are always critical, or stable. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even watch it, ’cause our TV sucks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses PLAY. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

After Ivy unwrapped Taryn’s present—a new turquoise messenger bag that Ivy loved, with a nice wide strap and magnetic closures—they settled in front of the TV to watch a movie. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But no one watched out the window or watched TV more than Big Ma. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I guess being on a famous reality TV show kind of makes you a celebrity. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then, I noticed that while they were on TV singing or dancing or serving the white folks, none of them were in the family shows. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When that happens, Lola and I eat on TV trays while watching design shows. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder what went on in Michael’s house around dinner and TV shows. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not allowed to watch TV at home, and I’m not allowed to watch TV in limousines either, but it was still neat that there was a TV there. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, trying not to look like an idiot as I fluttered my eyelids the way I’d seen girls do on TV. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But not then, because it was a good TV night. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Just in case my dad decides to get his lazy duff off the TV couch and go fishing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I do my imitation of the dance routine from TV and finish with the finale: Are you ready, boots? Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She didn't lean against him when he watched TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When my mom comes in from work, she turns off the TV and I can feel it coming. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I appeared on the TV game show Concentration in 1968,” he announced, “and won a roomful of furniture and wood paneling for my rumpus room.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I turned off the TV, then turned to Dad and shrugged. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the laugh track on all those teen TV shows Nicole had seen a million times. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of reading in the library or attending lectures, I watched TV in my room, working my way through every popular series from the past two decades. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Alex flicked off the TV, then motioned for Radar to vacate his dad’s lounge chair. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Strange—even though I’m not the smoothest person when it comes to things like interviews, I was superhyped to see myself on TV. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We could go home, lock the door, and fight over the TV like we always do, or we could help Daddy at the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She still practices her own version of spirituality, which she cobbled together from too many Deepak Chopra-esque books and TV shows. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It would impress her friends; she imagined them sitting in the small room just off the living room, which Aunty Uju called the TV room, watching programs on satellite. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every so often she’d flap her hands and say something too quiet for Emily to hear over the TV noise, like she was carrying on a one-sided conversation. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I retreat to the family room, take my pain meds, and turn on the TV. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There he is, on the TV, standing right down the block on Peach Street, in the middle of this vigil. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That was how we got our color TV and a plain television stand. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I told her I wanted to be a TV director. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Then he stopped at the Blockbuster and got a movie in case the TV cable went out again. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The TV’s screen is already black, the living room quiet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I’m going to go watch TV with the guys until lights-out. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You were horrible,” another guy says from his spot in front of the TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ma turns off the TV and makes waffles, with a big pat of margarine in the center of each one and hot homemade brown-sugar syrup filling the plates. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And tonight is a big night. Lawrence Welk is on TV. All the singing, dancing, and polka music. You’ll love it!” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I want to show the beauty of our people, that we are not all banditos like they show on TV, munching cuchfritos and sipping beer through chipped teeth. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings my mom and I would turn on our little black-and-white TV and watch the news. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she walked back into the house, the living room was dark, but the TV was on. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It might have stayed that way, had I not been flicking through the TV channels late one night, when something caught my ear . Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later the projection of the earth morphed into a reality TV show called Bunker, and a hammy announcer's voice boomed at me from everywhere at once. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She glances over at the TV too but doesn’t say anything. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Richie was home, and everybody except her mom was watching TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’m watching a bad TV movie and can’t change the channel. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The shakedown of her Winnebago didn’t turn up anything other than the $42,520 Scoob saw in the space behind the TV. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sneaky throws the pillow back, and turns the volume down on the TV. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The name he shouted was that of the TV character most synonymous with the archetypical skinny, ineffectual, small-town policeman. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer was easy: TV Duke would chase after Tater and rescue him. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But you know how prisons are on TV, all metal and gray and filled with angry people eating slop and sleeping on concrete slabs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not seeing me, for twenty minutes, lying on the floor of my bedroom, staring at him through a cardboard TV. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not my TV; that’s off, and I can feel the floor resonance. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first one I’d ever seen that wasn’t in a book or a magazine or on TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At night, I peer through the glass doors and see Blanca and her parents and brother watching TV or talking together in the soft yellow light. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Student in Kung Fu. A TV show from when I was a kid.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I hope I don’t choke on live TV!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She would serve his food, a plate on a tray taken to him in his study or in front of the TV in the kitchen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I screamed at the TV and clapped my hands over my ears. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn’t believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The only things on TV were cricket where nobody scored and a western where nobody shot anyone. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The highlight was going to be a special appearance by the woman who portrayed Mother Paula in the advertisements and TV spots. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t say anything for a while, but the TV stayed on, the Buffalo Wild Wings commercials beginning to lull me to sleep. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Suspecting someone didn’t like your TV momma was a lot different than hearing it said out loud. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The TV is on, some kind of garden show. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brademas is like one of those TV cops in the interrogation cell. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I did not think I could stand a Christmas at my parents’ house, with a plastic tree and no snow and the TV going constantly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first TV crew comes to Chokecherry on the Saturday my father takes me suit shopping for my bar mitzvah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The TV lady puts a mike in the face of some white-haired geek—it’s Webb’s father. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He rolled to his side, facing me, his back to the TV. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Stable. I keep hoping for one of those TV miracles where he hears my voice and snaps awake, but that obviously didn’t happen. Nothing we can do but wait.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I leafed past pages of TV stars, rock-and-roll groups, and pop idols. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a leather couch in his room, right in front of the flat-screen TV and video game systems. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He seemed to feel awkward standing in the kitchen doing nothing; he lumbered into the living room to watch TV while I worked. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I doubled back into the living room and turned off the game and the TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So I turned the TV back on quick. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Finally he snapped off the TV and shut down the treadmill and glared at me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard plenty of them in the movies and on TV and at sporting events. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The windows around the garden were open and you could hear ten different TV's and radios. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wedged myself more tightly in front of the TV. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t get a better sense of what happened until I see it broadcast on the small TV in my hospital room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

While filming the documentary about outsourcing, the TV crew and I spent an evening at the Indian-owned “24/7 Customer” call center in Bangalore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I flipped the TV on just as Arletta Paisley’s intro started up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

So the TV was the same old model, the car that Charlotte drove was the same old model, the dishes and the silverware and the towels—all the same. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not own a working clock; generally he depended on the TV for time signals, but today was Interspace Horizons Day, evidently. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But tonight, Dad checked his phone for work emails, and Audrey and Macy talked about some TV show I didn’t watch. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She says, “Do you know that I have to turn up the TV as soon as you get home?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They moved apart awkwardly Oprah was on the TV in the den and she heard the audience erupt in applause. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s nighttime. There’s nothing on TV for children this time of night.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I reach for the remote and turn the TV on. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My dad is the ‘I’ll throw that TV out the window’ kinda dad. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She perched on a chair at the back and ate fried chicken wings with her fingers, her eyes on the TV screen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My only pleasure now is the TV set. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They huddled in front of the TV set. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when I’m watching TV I just wish I could dive through the screen and beat the hell out of people! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the Doctorita is watching TV and talking with her mother. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He usually said all this to the TV, but our house isn’t that big and his voice is pretty loud so you can always hear him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I was about five, I remember watching an episode of SpongeBob one night, and a commercial came on TV that totally freaked me out. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

"Remind me how to turn on the TV, Say-So. Don't seem to wanna work for me," Cinder would say, pointing the case he kept his eyeglasses in at the television screen. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the TV in the other room. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The triumphant opening of Super Smash Bros. blasts from the TV. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He got a TV, but my old one is bigger, 21 inches to 18 inches for him, plus he doesn’t have Auto Sleep Off or Wake Up on his remote, like I do. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I had to get the news from the TV man. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she left, I lay on the couch with the TV off and my eyes closed, and I listened for Sal’s basketball. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God. This is what you do when I’m not home. You watch scripted TV.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“The living room TV is yours for the watching,” his dad said happily. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“By the way,” she asks, “have you ever heard of TV on the Radio?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We don’t turn on the TV, so we can eavesdrop, but they’re speaking in angry whispers, impossible to decipher. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In my domain, I have a tire swing, a baseball, a tiny plastic pool filled with dirty water, and even an old TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It checked out the TV but did not seem interested in the program of the moment, the five o’clock news. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He has a TV, a stereo with a CD changer, even a telescope. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“It must have been hard work getting this thing up here,” she said, patting the TV like she sometimes did me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I bet they don’t let you watch TV or go to the movies.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mostly Bowdy and I just sat in my basement room, which was maybe five degrees cooler than the rest of the house, and read books and watched TV and played video games. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jumping in front of the frozen TV picture, he waves the remote in circles, like it’s a magic wand. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate on TV trays, the television now turned to bull riding. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was watching the war on TV, so across the hallway I heard her phone up the landscapers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had never been to court before, but judging from all the TV shows—which is all I really had to go off—it seemed almost as scary as going to jail. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I remember when we saw him on TV and you liked him a lot.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

If I eat KFC in my room, I can watch TV on one of the half dozen available channels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kathy, call your friends at the newspapers and TV and radio stations and tip them off about the crooked betting ring in this town.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mexican ladies are always knitting doilies for everything—doilies for the TV, doilies for vases, doilies for useless knickknacks. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So I got myself a bowl of dry cereal for dinner and watched the TV next to her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He works at a candy factory all day, then comes home, watches TV, and eventually goes to sleep. Seems pretty sad to me.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They said that TV was haram\\ it showed the Westernized world, where women have love affairs and do not cover their hair. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It took them a long time to accept there what everyone could see by their TV’s was OK anywhere else. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She could fly through the air or even knock down walls, like the superheroes Matt saw on TV—only She wouldn’t do that, of course, because She was Jesus’ mother. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a black leather couch in the center with a giant flat-screen TV along the wall. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I reach out and take her hand and we both watch the TV screen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She looks like she could be on TV. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

There’s no phone, but Scoob does make an unexpected discovery in the hidden space behind the kitchen TV: rubber-banded piles—four of them—of crudely stacked green paper rectangles. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I know what it is, he realized; I’ve never seen one before but I know it from the old nature films they show on Government TV. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The clock on the TV said it was just after two in the morning. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lidewij finally wrote back just after six P.M. while I was on the couch watching both TV and videos on my laptop. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He liked to stay in, read books, watch TV, and pretend that he was grown up. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He had schoolkids sign pledges to turn off the TV and devote two hours to their homework each night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I saw on TV once, a guy had to get his whole leg cut off just because he never treated a wound he got from a bike accident. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her mother brushed sweetly, softly, and to Taylor, it felt like the world was just this — her mother, the beautiful girls on TV, the caress of a brush in her hair. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Park waited until the TV was off in his parents' room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We watched TV late into the night, until my mom woke up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But on the other hand, I thought about what my mom had said in the TV clip. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I plopped back down on the couch and turned the volume up on the TV. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Images from the TV reflected in his green eyes as he watched, stone-faced, rocking back and forth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He collected himself and said, “Miss Trotter threw a pot at the TV just after the governor stood where Jefferson Davis had once stood, and shouted, ‘Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.’” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I swear, my mother was getting her TV lawyer on. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Even when the power went off, Monique sat in front of the TV. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every home had a TV, and every TV a remote, and you could get a satellite dish if you wanted. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to catch up by watching plenty of TV, but I had a long way to go. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Schoolwork, toys, TV shows, me, yourselves—anything you want to talk about. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that this is probably where Edith Graham watched TV and movies. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She remembers that the TV in the living room seemed to be on all the time and that the trailer smelled of cigarette smoke and the cat’s litterbox and mildew. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jennifer's family ate dinner together in the dining room, just like families on TV. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I turn away from her smug face and look at the TV. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whack the of: Paulie says his new TV fell off a truck. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Emily were in the living room with Em’s mom, eating peanut butter crackers and watching TV, when the doorbell rang. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t cutting the frog open or anything, but I started narrating as Twig sliced, like Twig was one of those doctors on TV. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If I was there, she wouldn’t care one little bit if I went to school or stayed on the couch watching TV and eating cookies for lunch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Nearly everything in the room was broken; the TV, the pinball machine, the furniture. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It didn’t eat holes in ElViejo’s suit, the way the Flying Priest’s holy water ate through demons on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I was on TV, instead of “no release!” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen the Tasmanian Devil on TV whirling around like a top so I unbuckled my belt and pulled on the end really hard, as if I was trying to start a lawn mower. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clip made the TV news the next morning. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the background the racket of Buster Friendly boomed and brayed, eradicating her words; he saw her mouth moving but heard only the TV. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The TV was certainly doing the best it could, with a blond starlet singing “Hurrah for Hollywood...La-La-La-De-Dum” as two hundred chorus boys lifted her up into the air. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Just about everybody has seen a TV or computer with a plasma screen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

English was staring at the TV again, his face now becoming a fist, tight and angry. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to watch TV, and I definitely don’t want to do homework. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, he was king of the wild frontier," I said, quoting the theme song from the TV show. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lydia’s parents retired to their front porch rockers with glasses of wine and books while Travis followed Lydia and Dill to the TV room. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“No, man. I just watch a lot of TV.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, for sure. I already bought a new suit for when I’m on TV.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He entered Pris’s former apartment, unplugged the TV set, and detached the antenna. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He looks over at Leo, who has abandoned his project with the TV and is now happily eating a slice of cheesy bread. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But of course back in December I had never heard of Studio TV-15, Mom didn’t get her postcard from The $20,000 Pyramid until a couple of weeks ago. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The TV showed the boy’s back as he was marched in handcuffs up the steps of the police department. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then we watched TV until Mom yelled down that it was time for me to go to CCD. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m face to face with a bed like a birthday cake topped with a fluffy icing-pink blanket with a white llama design, and two poufy pillows, all facing a glorious TV. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see my reflection in the TV screen and in the photo of my family. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A certified Aerobics instructor, she appears regularly—with a bevy of other muscle-toned beauties—on an exercise program, “Power Moves!” on cable TV. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dell moves closer to the big-screen TV, asking: "Do you watch a lot of sports?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“The buzz is—Leo Espinosa is going to create a new Dog Squad spin-off called CanineCommandos'. Dozer and Petunia? You two will be the stars! You’re going to have your own show! On Apple TV!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He seemed embarrassed, too, as if he had just revealed a fondness for a very uncool TV show. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw over and over again that we weren't living equal to the people on TV. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I took one last look up the stairs where the TV was still sleeping, and then followed Mamita outside into the bright morning light. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, she served Ritz crackers piled with sardines for appetizers and put dinner on TV trays so that everyone could watch the news or play a heated game of Scrabble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The children on TV had mamas, though, and Matt had fallen into the habit of thinking of Celia that way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the TV down a bit more. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You guys,” said Akimi, coming in from the Rotunda Reading Room, “there’s all sorts of TV news crews inside. Including that reporter from CNN.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It happened right in front of my eyes as I again watched her on TV. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, all the way across the Atlantic, he’d done pretty much nothing except make small talk with sharks and listen to Coach Hedge sing TV theme songs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No TV watching. Me and Annie are going to do some running on the beach, I guess. I don’t know. Maybe go fishing if it’s not too rainy.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And not twenty minutes later, the phone rang: a reporter at one of the local TV stations had heard about our story and wanted to know more. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The TV screen stayed black, but after a few seconds a deep voice spoke from it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When I got home, I watched TV with Mom, but I couldn’t stop thinking about Davis looking down at my finger, holding my hand in his. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He could barely change the batteries in a TV remote. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She ate her dinner as quickly as she could, skipped all but her favorite shows on TV, and spent as much time in her room as possible. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t watching TV that evening, but his mother burst in to report that Tom Brokaw was talking about him and Beatrice on the network news. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone on TV is either mestizo or American. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad got up and snapped off the TV. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like some heartless, survival-based reality TV show, only nobody won any money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She could hear signs of life in far-off rooms—the low mumble of a TV commercial, the beep of a microwave running down its count—but distantly, as if in a dream. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He paused in midair like a stop-action TV shot and turned, almost losing his balance, to face the questioner, who was sitting on the fence nearest the old Perkins place, dangling bare brown legs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I got Oscar all situated, then went into the den to turn on the TV. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Their eyes, caught between bad and worse, bounced from me to the TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

David stands at the TV, the remote in his hand. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Granny also said TV was a silly invention. Back before she got one of her own.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t care what they show on TV, these stupid boys with guns and these murderers they show on the news. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Charlotte is known for having been in a TV commercial when she was six. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I aimed it at the cardboard TV frame she’d taped around my window and pretended to push one of the fake remote control buttons. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

If she bought a portable TV set, we could put it in our room and she wouldn’t have to see us for hours. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corn is in the non-dairy creamer and the Cheez Whiz, the frozen yogurt and the TV dinner, the canned fruit and the ketchup. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad had seen all the negative portrayals of black people on TV. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All the commercials are sayin’, “Get Dad what he really wants this Father’s Day,” and it makes me hate TV. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“And it happened the way your friends explained on TV?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Cigarette smoke hazed everything like in a TV flashback. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The men watch the news on the box TV in a corner of the ceiling. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Tell you a story,” his father said, not taking his eyes off the TV. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She'd seen the mother on TV, being ushered out of the city mortuary where she'd gone to make arrangements for the burial of her son. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They didn’t look at all like the hovels he’d seen on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dudes had short spiky hair and big collars and flip-flops and they all walked around like they were supposed to be somebody, but I’d never seen none of ’em on TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The TV came on and I watched for a minute. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Or are they just happy to see the girl they read about in the paper—the one they saw peg-leg around on TV—running again? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Of all times for Frank to turn up the TV to drown them out, couldn’t this be it? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She taught her three children the art of debate and tutored them on current events, translating for Jim the images of famine and war that upset him on the TV news. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We finished our homework and watched TV for a while. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I tried hard not to think about Marisol watching our TV, feeling sorry for us while we played Chutes and Ladders and ate bran cereal out of a T-ball cap. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. I think it was seeing my mom on TV that night. It made me curious.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Any doubt that Arletta wasn’t what she pretended to be on TV disappeared as I read the article. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“What I want to do,” I told her, “is watch TV.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I objected one day, sitting next to him in the TV room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge stood there scowling, his eyes bloodshot, like he’d been watching too much TV. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We don’t hug and say, “I love you,” like on TV shows about boring white families who live in two-story houses and talk about their feelings. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She thought about what it would be like to sit next to June on the couch and watch a movie on the old TV. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A week later, Nana and I were watching TV, and a commercial came on for a used-car dealership. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now I drink Pepsi, eat old apples, watch reruns on TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Dad preemptively turned up the volume on the TV. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He stared at the wall behind the TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He just stared at the TV like he was in a trance. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Decorated with a bookshelf, framed pictures, a pink striped comforter, a TV, and a computer. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The TV was always tuned to some game or another. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She wore a little outfit just like the maids I’d seen on TV She was very beautiful. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But many of my mother’s friends were scandalized that I had shown my face on TV. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It says Congratulations in big curly letters, and at the very top is the address of Studio TV-15 on West 58th Street. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He would eat, watch TV, and be left to worry from afar. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Or curl up next to Dad on the TV couch and forget about everything wet and cold. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen TV is mounted on the wall above the fridge. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Dog Squad was there to pull the plug and “neutralize his ray gun—before the madman ruins satellite TV for everyone. It’s football season!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Probably watch to hours of TV a day. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He closed the screen door gently as he entered and slipped past his mother, who was rocking herself in the kitchen chair watching TV. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the TV room, there was a group of men, many of them Nigerians, talking loudly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I just saw you on TV,” she said. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We should sell the TV,” my mom said after a while. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Good-bye, Chicago, and all your glorious cable TV, internet, and cell phone service. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty good at imitating what TV stars do.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then I did TV pieces, traveling with a crew throughout parts of London. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like tiny TV screens lined up side by side. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The TV’s the altar. I’m what people are sacrificing to.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I had recently done interviews with the TV news channels Dawn and Khyber News about girls’ education, and although I had been nervous, I had made it through. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I found Macy curled up in front of the TV, even though she hadn’t turned it on. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we change our clothes and watch TV or something over at your house?” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I leafed through it, wondering, Did Adah want me to read about how Jimmy Stewart got his start, or to know that when a Philco moves in, your TV troubles move out? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that he and his fiancee, Lindsay, had been watching my performance on TV back home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She walked over and stood in front of the TV. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been okay at Jessica’s house, sitting in the same rooms where his mother had eaten dinner, watched TV, gone to sleep. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I realize the TV sound isn’t on, but none of us needs to hear the man speak. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The hotel room was basic: two double beds separated by a wooden nightstand with a gray lamp on it, across from a chest of drawers that doubled as a stand for the TV and coffeemaker. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I sat with my mom in the evenings and binge-watched episodes of her favorite TV show, Little House on the Prairie, after she’d found the DVD box sets at Costco. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mama screamed, and I guess I was scared, because I just felt frozen—like I was watchin ’ myself on TV—as the movin’ steps gradually gobbled my shoestring and pulled my foot toward its teeth. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The focus of the room from this perspective, the TV and VCR, balanced on a too-small wooden stand, were in the southwest corner of the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We sit at the kitchen table where I can’t see the TV which isn’t on anyway. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns on the TV, it hardly comes in at all the screen is so fuzzy, and he keeps switching channels and he's cussing out the old lady for having such a crummy TV. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird seeing her in the flesh and not as a bunch of pixels on TV. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When I watch TV over my dinner at night, I see a world in which almost everyone makes $15 an hour or more, and I’m not just thinking of the anchor folks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shuddered, remembering the word the doctor on TV had used: victims. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She went back to her room and a moment later the volume on her TV went up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Why shoud I tern on a TV before I go to sleep. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then her smile fades, and she puts the mug down and returns to staring at the TV. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After Lefty came home from the hospital, my father took a TV up to the attic to provide some entertainment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Leave it to Goon to throw gang signs on live TV. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The reporters in the TV studio and those on location in City Hall are chattering, saying the same thing over and over. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yep, we have to send a kid down to the teachers’ housing compound behind the school to wake Mr. P, who is always conking out in front of his TV. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We watch white people on the TV screen for a while, but even the movies with guns and fast cars and explosions get boring after a while. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was less talk and laughter at dinner because the TV was on and my cousins took their plates to the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Otto and I sat up and stared out into the near-dark clearing like we were watching a sports game on TV, the caterpillars a bowl of popcorn we chowed through without looking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the pre-pre-pre-internet landscape, when the world came packaged almost exclusively through three channels of network TV, this stuff mattered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how they tracked me down, but all these TV shows, magazines, and newspapers called, wanting to do a story on us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She threw open the front door and shouted to the world: “I’m on TV! I’m a star!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She goes to the TV cable truck and opens up the back double doors—but with no luck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a TV show, dude. And not a very good one, either.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Sara, you want to win that competition and get your mom on TV, right? This is our big chance to tell people about her business. And don’t you want your parents to take you seriously?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After dinner Dad flipped on the TV so we could all watch the local news. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even have Wi-Fi and TV screens built into the seats. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So when they ignore her again, she throws her body in front of the TV and blocks the screen, shaking her hips from side to side. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“And you can learn a lot from TV. I watched a show about billionaires. There was this Wall Street guy and his supermodel wife. They spent twenty million dollars on their baby’s first birthday party.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hold them in the air like the movie stars on TV. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like what a happy family on TV might do to have a Big Talk. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I'd never realized that a computer could act so much like a TV set. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“But we’re filthy. My shorts are ripped. See? We can’t be seen on TV looking like this. What will people think?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were Matlock reruns on TV every afternoon at exactly this hour, and I was not embarrassed to admit out loud that I loved them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to settle for the subway and school and watching TV. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I mean, what if I sit at home all day and watch TV, and then tomorrow, I wake up and I'm my regular self again? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A TV in the corner was tuned to Animal Planet. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“TV gives you an education in how to talk. Newscasters, rich people, doctors on those medical dramas. None of them talked the way I did. But they all talked like each other.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He watched the news on TV; the reports had not changed much. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For our taped conversations, we had switched from handheld microphones—because it was too difficult now for Morrie to hold anything that long—to the lavaliere kind popular with TV newspeople. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He does that all the time he looks at the TV. A ‘settlement.’ A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A TV flickering blue and white high in a corner of the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t think so,” he said, fanning himself with the TV Week. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Dust lets go of Mv model airplane On the TV. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every room is expertly decorated and looks like it belongs on TV. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Me and the ghosts keep watching the TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And be careful with tune and turn: I think I’ll tune in to my favorite TV show and turn into a couch potato. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, far away from the hotel, in the basement of a New York City apartment building, two other dogs were also watching TV. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mandy claps, jumps lip and down, and hugs a few of her friends as if she’s just been crowned prom queen in a bad TV movie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On TV they called it only a riot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen her before, on the TV and on other newspapers lying around at school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

John asked, not moving his eyes from the TV screen. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

At recess or on the school bus, especially on Wednesdays, the day after the TV show came on, the boys would all sing, “They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,” or something like that. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day his wife rolls his wheelchair onto the porch with a TV stand and a small color TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He stepped quickly in front of the TV. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t kids like Jesse ever get to go on TV? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, we had microwave TV dinners on Thanksgiving. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a TV at home, so I watched it a lot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad live in a really nice house now that he’s back, and I mean ridiculously nice—the kind of house you see on TV shows about movie stars. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I tried to tell her about my TV interview yesterday, but she didn’t act concerned. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Such as: He knows about the time I put my foot right through his TV screen. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Smiling, he kicked the boy’s head, watched the flies scatter, and said, It’s like with that old TV show—Paladin. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him on TV as he addressed the nation and Jackie Kennedy as she gave a White House tour. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody, but nobody,” he’d yell, “is too poor to turn off the TV two hours a night!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I already know what happens, so I turn off the TV and go, “Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at a loom the size of a big screen TV her hands weaving colored thread back and forth with amazing skill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I was welcomed by the hum of generators and the glow of TV screens behind cottage windows. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Like everyone, he’d been glued to the news all day, watching on a tiny TV by the cash register. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s just something that makes sure my TV doesn’t get destroyed by crazy power cuts.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

While he watches TV, I fill out the online application and try to imagine what it would be like to never go home again. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She and Maya had watched TV that night while their mom was upstairs on the phone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“In movies, on TV, musketeers are always white.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She and I sat alone in the TV lounge watching MTV on a drearily cloudy Saturday. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It just looked like tough guys doing a cartoonish job, the kind of thing you might see on a crummy TV show. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use to watch the late show and the late late show on TV all the time before I went to sleep and it never made me smart. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Climbed back onto his bed and lay on his side to watch TV. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to convince my parents to go to the Fourth of July fireworks on the National Mall, but my mom said we could just watch it on TV. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“A funny guy, yeah. I see you on the TV, and I laugh all the time.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This TV is the devil incarnate," she said in a loud voice. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Last night I watched the Celtics game with Dad on TV. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He might have had the bad luck to catch the only pessimistic scientist on TV. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I stopped in the doorway of the office and silently watched my father watching TV. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His department is getting dozens of phone calls from magazines, and wire services, and TV producers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he picks up his beer and goes back to the TV couch. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She reminds me of a fitness trainer on a reality TV show. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Every single day after school, Rosa would take me to the hospital and I would lie in bed with her and we would watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the TV in her room. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The kids had just come home from school, the TV was on, a stereo was playing—there was noise throughout the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where this was going, but I was hoping that eventually it would lead to a TV and a snack. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Jule was still awake, watching TV on the living room couch. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She clicked the TV on and flipped through channels, not stopping on any one show long enough to figure out what it was. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He drove a huge car like the ones on TV. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Dad was watching TV pretty loud, but you never knew how sound might carry. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The TV is off, and the air lacks that sweet smell of Mrs. Rodriguez’s cooking. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hailey grabs the TV remote and flicks the game off, turning to a detective show instead. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Jack grabs the remote and turns the TV on, keeping the volume below three bars. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, sport. Inmates are allowed only one short visit per day, and we’re already bending the rules for this TV thing. Maybe tomorrow you can see your old man. But call first, okay?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Relief! Last night, after we heard it on the TV, know what my wife did? Bawled like a baby.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the corner, in the great room, a videotape of a Florida Gators football game was playing on a big- screen TV. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like the host of a TV game show. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Not as cool as it looks on TV, I can tell you that,” she said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Anyways, they love their satellite TV down there, and it so happens that this particular cantina picks up one of the Miami stations loud and clear.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A student called to ask him for suggestions about what to write on placards; another student was contacting the local TV stations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Watching the TV convinced me more than ever there was an incredible world beyond Little Rock where I should struggle to go. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She watches TV: migrants drowning in the Rio Grande, dying in the desert, ranchers who shoot them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Three days later, my father was up on the roof, fixing the aerial so he could watch some football game on TV, and he fell off. And he died.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

So he encouraged me to watch a DVD that one of the journalists in Islamabad had given me: a TV program called Ugly Betty. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We sat on the sofa looking at Cletus’s pictures while the Lawrence Welk show went on past us on the TV. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

We watch a funny TV show, and then another show. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I watched all those talks on TV about the satellite really closely, and I didn't see any experts who were women. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, on the TV screen, they came alive. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His mom stood at the sink washing dishes, half-watching the morning show on a tiny TV propped on the counter. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sure, it was a good story, but so was my favorite TV show, Doctor Who. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes after work Ralph watched TV now, like Arthur Smith, never bothering to turn the channel, simply letting the words and images wash over him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, but only Starr’s parents are allowed to watch in the TV room.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

So he takes her other sort-of-suggestion and turns on the TV. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

His stepmom leans over the railing from their upstairs TV room and gives a friendly wave. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The images on the TV set blurred, and Moss’s eyes filled with tears. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That’s why everyone is distracted with TV shows and no one likes to talk about it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In a way, it was like watching TV, because he was such a good storyteller. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then I say, “I’m not some basic chick from the hood who thinks all that glitters is gold. I watch TV. I’ve seen fancy things before.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We joined our mother at the TV and never looked back. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her first job would be to improve W.E. s taste in TV. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

His father sprawled on the couch in the flickering glow of the TV. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But people today go with what they see on TV when all they need to do to check the weather is open the window and put their head out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like those ladies you see on American TV these days, the ones who are so happy they have washed out a stain so the clothes look better than new. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the TV coming from the bedroom. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But on my TV, one of the announcers was a cat. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Propped her feet on that table while she watched soap operas on that TV? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

This doesn’t look like the zoos on TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She got up, the TV broke into loud piano music. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fazlullah claimed that watching movies and TV shows was a sin because it meant that women would look upon men, and men would look upon women, who were forbidden to them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she quiets down, she slumps onto the couch in the TV room and puts her face in her hands, breathing hard. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no power, even though both the TV and the Atari were plugged into electrical outlets set into the floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I watch TV and play video games. All day.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

At last she turns off the TV and carries it out of the cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I turn off the TV, and as soon as the sound cuts out, I hear something else: voices through the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even when she was watching the TV with one eye, I felt like she was really listening to me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sure, we argue over dumb stuff like TV shows and which Dolly look is the best, but never anything real. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He just sits there, staring at the TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When they discussed things like American TV shows and pop culture, I would have no idea what they were talking about. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His tastes in music, movies, TV, and drama are as modern as can be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the TV screen a woman named Angela Davis is telling us there's a revolution going on and that it's time for Black people to defend themselves. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The call center is a cross between a co-ed college frat house and a phone bank raising money for the local public TV station. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

They would play until Mom got home and yelled at them to turn off the TV and get their homework done. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

That night, I’m blaring TV on the Radio at home. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She reaches into her bag and hands the boy something that looks like a TV remote. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, I make myself a cup of coffee and turn on the TV. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Countless entire runs of TV shows from forever ago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I throw myself onto his bed, I flick the TV on. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the people wearing their feathers at football games on TV and on Halloween and not think that’s not right. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The three androids glanced up, momentarily moving their attention from the TV screen to him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I lie down on the couch to watch TV, but my eyes close and I’m out. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He studied via distance learning over the TV, Tam Lin sent off the homework, it came back with excellent grades, and Celia praised Matt lavishly. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone number was still on the TV, below the map. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was a signed photo of Fess Parker, who had played Davy Crockett on the TV show. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lauren seemed to compensate by watching TV for hours at a time, housewives and fix-it shows and singing competitions flashing across the screen every time Maya came downstairs for a snack. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we could watch TV together as a family instead?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He’s already gone to the spare bedroom next to the TV room and shut the door. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I can't believe what I'm reading: "Watch TV or something"? And then, "Call me if there's an emergency"? So let me get this straight, Mom: Your kid goes invisible, and that's not an emergency? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They give me a handful of gift certificates, a TV for my room, ice skates, and a sketch pad with charcoal pencils. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

What if other people and things began to disappear — her father or the TV? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t take his eyes off the TV even once the whole time I was watching him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the time she let me use her dolls to make up plays or let me watch whatever I wanted to watch on TV. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I watched the pageant on TV, the stage and runway seemed so small. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So I turn up the TV volume and put on some baby cartoons. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” he replied, his voice moving in the direction of the front room and the TV. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the TV reporters said there were giant, gaping holes in the sides of the Twin Towers, like a cartoon explosion. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. At Garland there’s nowhere to plug in a plasma TV.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And, in fact, there was a TV, one Genie and Ernie hadn’t even bothered to watch, the one in the living room, which to Genie was just the land of the missing wheel piece. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Jesse leaned back in their only armchair, stuffed and satisfied, in a rare moment away from the TV or computer screen. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw on the TV where they were doing some surgery. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seriously, I stopped watching TV completely—that’s how scared I was! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Once the TV is on and tuned to the right channel, Jus finds it hard to breathe for a different reason. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I saw this special on TV about cockfighting. It’s the exact same thing.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The weather guy on TV called it a “scorcher” and said you could fry an egg on the sidewalk. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The one from the TV screen in the diner. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Scott stayed up watching TV, and I’d forgotten to delete my browser history. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom turns around, going back to the TV show. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When I get over there precisely seventeen minutes later, she’s also showered and changed and has I Love Lucy season four cued up on the TV. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was too hot to do anything but lie around or read or watch TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Not me. When my cousins visit from England, they always complain that there’s no cricket on American TV.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It isn’t even that my cello is at school or that I could stay home and watch TV or sleep. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your protest partner in crime. Momma told me she saw her hand you that bullhorn on TV. Putting you in danger like that.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It turned out that downstairs, the mood had been jubilant all along, the basement TV pumping out a consistent stream of good news. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was nice, just sitting there watching TV together. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the living room, I flick on the TV, mute it straightaway and sit down on the sota. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

TV\\«*rjcla>j, December f Harvey had outdone himself, Alex thought as he carried the sled into his old basement apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we wouldn’t even talk: we’d just keep the screens on while we both watched a TV show together or built the same Lego set at the same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She was like one of those cheery young physicians in Hawaiian shirts and tennis shoes that you see on TV shows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Spend the rest of my life indoors, out of sight, with no TV to watch and no books to read? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A pilot, that’s what the TV show was called, like it was going to fly an airplane or something. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there were a million self-help books on these subjects, and plenty of cable TV shows, and $90- per-hour consultation sessions. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noelle walks toward the TV from down the hall, wearing a long black skirt and a white top with little frills around the shoulders, locking eyes with me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I cross my fingers, wishing with all my might that Apa will soon get up from the table and go away so that I can turn on the TV in the living room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He gets up then, and he goes over by the TV set, far enough so the rope is tugging at me. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I shut off the radio, and I take my dishes from the TV room back to the kitchen, and I scoop myself a bowl of chocolate chip ice cream. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my nose a little bit up in the air like smart people on the TV. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, stay back. Hands where I can see them,” he says, quoting something I’m sure he saw on TV. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My TV dinner tasted like a commercial break. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was like a stiff embraceless dance between her and the TV set. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, everybody knows what it is, and sometimes it shows on TV for a quick sec, but it’s a totally different thing when you sit there and pay attention. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There's a big old TV with a doily on the top, and an empty goldfish bowl, and piles of newspapers tied up neat with string, and a Bible on this little table by the TV. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alice perched on the arm of the sofa and stared blankly at the TV like Jasper. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She used to watch those reality shows on cable TV and yell at the screen, “How did you not know you’re pregnant?!” as actors re-created the most unbelievable scenarios. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised at how small the studio is—it looks bigger on TV. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Believing in perfect places was as stupid as believing in unicorns, or that a TV personality was a good substitute for a real momma. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They dropped the jar of quarters they’d been counting and rushed around the corner to where Calder’s parents were watching TV in the next room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Like dogs all across America, Fred was glued to his human’s TV, watching the new episode of Dog Squad that had just started streaming that night. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Let me handle this. On TV, detectives and spies are always looking for people, getting in where folks don’t want them to get in. I’ve been studying their moves.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

So I stopped thinking about the layers and the warmth, muted the TV, and focused on Decapitation. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve only had crushes, but it’s embarrassing to admit they were characters in books and TV shows. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, I stayed home, watched them on TV. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wimbledon was on TV with the sound turned down. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s tough, Fig Newton, when what you really want is just out of reach,” Dad’s voice said on the TV. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He takes his dinner into the den, in front of the TV. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, yeah, I’m here,” I whispered, and continued my conversation with the TV producer until we were finished. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go straight home, and no TV. Play board games or read. Do you understand?” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Lydia got home, her dad and mom were lounging on the couch, watching TV. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They were glued to the TV screen, or the video game, or their food, or whatever. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not on my watch! thought Fred, hearing TV Duke’s voice in his head. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the evening we ventured outside, looking for something to eat, and then returned to the room to watch TV! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It means she’ll see me watching TV, but not really watching, just staring and not laughing, as I don’t do my homework. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Javier turned the TV off, and he could see himself and Javier reflected in the screen, the light from the streetlamp falling on them both, covering them in shadows and bars of brightness. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, they’re important—everybody knows that; the TV tells you so—but they come and go. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We end up cooking grilled cheese in the toaster oven and bringing it into the living room to eat in front of the TV. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There she was, on the TV screen, tousling my hair in relief. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Doug’s mom let us eat in front of the TV in the family room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

An aged sectional sofa curved around in front of the TV, a round coffee table in front of it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And by 2009, roughly an hour of video consumption was done on a device other than the TV. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Us boys thought it was a bit funny but the girls screamed with laughter like the TV audience on Happy Days. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Dad usually leaves all his cleaning for Saturdays because he hates the idea of coming home from work on weekdays to more work. On the weekends we cleaned and earned our TV marathons.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Guessing I did by the way Jupiter rotates in her chair with her eyebrows raised, and Courtney continues to stare at the TV but blinks rapidly for a few seconds before clearing his throat. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Go on TV or something, I don’t know,” she says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That’s where he lives ever since the funeral, lying like a sack of nothing on the TV couch. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gray lace curtains hung at the single window between them, and beside the window was a black table supporting an old- time TV set with rabbit ears. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The previous year when Mr. Homer Fairbain had been master of ceremonies for the district playoffs, the contest had been broadcast on educational TV. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, TV tends to blow things out of proportion. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time we get in there, she’s got the TV on, punching buttons, muttering, “Channel Ten...Channel Ten...” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My mother and I went with two nurses; my father didn’t go, because he had become so recognizable from TV that he was afraid he would attract cameras. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone had read something or seen something on TV like that. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed to the TV set and turned down the sound but left the picture on the screen. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The TV’s mono speaker emitted a brief electronic bip sound as I dropped the gray dot and picked up the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was sat on a packing chest watching Happy Days on my portable TV. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We drank ginger ales and ordered jalapeno poppers and we all danced to a country and western band while Susan’s face beamed on the late news from the TV above the bar. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Felix was sitting at the kitchen table, eating off-brand frosted flakes and focusing on the maze on the back of the box, when the TV caught his attention. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Again, there is loud music, but it comes from the TV. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"And an airplane, and a TV set," said Ralph sourly, "and a steam engine." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On my TV there were two announcers sitting in a booth. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I only thought about homework, food, TV, and going outside to play with my friends. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the TV, a shark expert explained the difference between the dorsal fins of the two huge sharks that were possible visitors to the area: great whites and basking sharks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Just in case a TV reporter comes by and we get to be on television. I want to look my best.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had seemed to Adina then to be a TV fairy tale: All those pretty girls smiling and waving and showing off their tumbling skills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The walls flicked from black to blue to black to blue as he ticked through the TV channels, one after another after another. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At home, my parents are in the family room watching TV. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I can picture it. The two of us on TV, wearing Hameed’s Kitchen aprons.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I sit on the couch staring at the TV, but not really watching, while Ma gives Becky her bath. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, he has to get the TV from Shayleen now and that isn’t easy. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Imagine if Michelle Obama got tired of all the heat and decided to go natural and appeared on TV with lots of woolly hair, or tight spirally curls. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

ER was one of my favorite TV shows. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I can hear the TV in the background. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard of it, have seen it on TV, but my parents have never taken me, just like we’ve never been to Disney World or watched The Sound of Music. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A gum-chewing waitress was leaning against the counter, watching the TV. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He pulls his hand back like something’s bitten him and shoves the TV back into place. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Just seeing a baby on TV made her change the channel. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, while I watch the thin, beautiful mestizos living glamorous lives on TV, and the fat, ugly indigenas serving them, I try hard, very hard, to hang on to Jose’s slippery words. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Fizz and I sneak to the basement to watch TV. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In his head, Fred heard stirring music even more heroic than the TV show’s opening theme. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a motel in Hiawassee—clean sheets! shower! color TV!—and a reputed choice of restaurants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All my friends and I are obsessed with these animated tigers called Ti-grrlz, which are suddenly everywhere: on TV, clothes, backpacks, stickers. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen movie stars do the same kind of salute on TV. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bri and Julie promptly fought over the remote control, only to find it was a national day of mourning and all the TV stations had memorial services on, with sermons and choirs and politicians. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We always have the TV on in the salon. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was still thinking about the dream that evening as we all sat in the living room, watching TV. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We owe on the pickup, the washing machine, the TV, and the refrigerator,” Joe announced glumly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the pink room, long highways, TV sets, telephones, and electric lights. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would jump for the remote and turn up the TV volume until it was too hard to tell what was louder, who wanted to win the noise battle more. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We watch as the scene on TV changes from the happy couple in the wildflower meadows and sunshine to the dark, dreary cellars in the castle’s dungeons. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, my voice comes through the TV, with bleeps where the curse words should be. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"I didn't mean you look bad on TV or anything." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But then Dad turns off the TV, and Mom comes into the room to sit with us. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She sets Penny back down in front of the TV and continues cleaning. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Next to the door there’s a large TV where the lyrics will appear. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother is on TV flying around in blue fairy dust, waving a magical wand in a cute sparkly outfit’ ” The magic of Disneyland had won Fern over to Vonetta’s side. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, he pressed the power button on the remote and the TV went quiet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m not running my mouth on TV like Mr. Lewis.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

While the TV crew finished setting up, the director walked over to have a hushed conversation with Jenny. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He needed a TV in the bedroom too, then he would be like Arthur Smith. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. We’ll have to get a suite. They have these cool rooms with sets of bunk beds. And each of them has a TV mounted over the bed.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was planning to put the TV on, and I was mad as @#$% because I knew the spaghetti was congealing in the pot. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He jumped down, losing his TV head in the process. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, the newsreels would roll up, the TV cameras would arrive, reporters would hang in the trees, and you’d be famous.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn and Chess started yammering on about Mom and the kitchen and TV. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s one of those pullout couches smack in the middle of the room, and a TV stand, though there isn’t a TV. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I guess I had been looking toward the Encouragement above the TV, a drawing of an angel with the caption Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

On TV, cops need hard evidence or the bad guy gets away. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This nickname was often used with affection and sometimes accompanied by the theme song from the TV series. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The TV is on, but they’re whispering and giggling about something else. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Nowadays it's all over the TV, how Tariq didn't even have a gun. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As uberblogger Glenn Reynolds likes to say, blogs have given the people a chance to stop yelling at their TV and have a say in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jake tapped the sides of his head the way some people do when the TV is getting bad reception. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The second war, I had watched on my TV screen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, everybody’s dashing, sophisticated, and very brave on TV,” said Chico. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I stood up and fed the tape into the TV/VCR combo in the corner. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I clicked the TV on with the remote. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Wow, so you might get to be on TV?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She gets up and sits in her rocker, staring at the TV screen. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Why don't you watch some TV with us?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Mom was standing between the TV and me, her hands folded behind her back. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The TV musical The Cheetah Girls, about four girls in a band at a performing arts high school in New York City, had just come out. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He cleans it and shines it while he watches TV.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was helping his dad and the TV crew break down the set inside the barn. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And Em’s dad reminded Bridge of Em’s mom—he watched reality TV and always knew what meme was going around. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They don’t use computers or watch cable TV, and they never curse and have this thing about them that makes you want to be polite. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes just enough to see what was on the TV. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

From the window it was just a video game on TV. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On TV, CNN is focused on the continuing crisis of Hurricane Noah. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hope some TV news reporters are tuning in. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s right, Esperanza. You had them talking heads on TV, sayin’ how it was a bad neighborhood, and how if he’d just put his hands in the air when asked, it wouldn’t have happened.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Accounts of excavations appear almost daily on TV and on the front page of Japan’s largest newspapers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Room by room, I terrorize their belongings, just like a thief on a TV show. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m thrilled to be alone—two days of watching TV and reading and dancing around the house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You expect them to be like the over-the-top characters they play on TV. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve watched enough TV to know that cafeterias are rooms of torture and humiliation in both schools and prisons. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother, Garrett, who’s been sitting on the couch waiting for normal TV to return, makes the appropriate face, which just makes Uncle Basil laugh. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And hundreds of video games, each one the size of a widescreen TV Basically, you name it, this place had it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

These were the questions knocking around inside Curly’s head as the image on the TV screen dissolved to electric fuzz before his disbelieving eyes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was twelve and watching the original Captains Bodacious on TV. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Watching TV on your bed shouldn't be odd, but it somehow is. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter how loud the TV is. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She hands me her bowl and stands in front of the TV. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Voices speaking Chinese came from the front room, and when Emily peered in, she saw they were from a flat-screen TV perched on a cabinet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And here I was now, twenty-nine years old, sitting in the very same apartment where I'd watched all that TV and consumed all those meals dished up by the patient and selfless Marian Robinson. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To boot, Onofre’s TV antenna was so tall, so elaborate, so pronged, and so replete with squiggling copper and aluminum tubing and boosters, that it looked like a DEW-line radar interceptor in Greenland. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The TV shows pictures from Florida: a man unable to stand because of wind, cars abandoned, trees lying on the ground. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

One time I tried to explain a cable TV bill to my mom when she thought she had been overcharged. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He laughs and I pick up the sweatshirt—a logo of Hillman College from that old TV show A Different World—and hand it to him. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Still nothing on TV except for an overly dramatic Lifetime movie that my mother was totally into. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He’d unlock the door, and the two of us would fall into the shade, scrambling over each other to get to the TV remote first. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She looked as though she was the star of some TV show, but she wasn’t. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

His mouth moved, but the TV had been muted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I could sit on the sofa with a cup of tea and Saturday Kitchen on TV. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue glow of the flat-screen TV in front of us ricochets off her eyes as she turns back to it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

That night, the three dog actors gathered around the TV set in their hotel room with a big bowl of Pork Chomps. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

From the living room came the low, familiar sound of the TV news. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We watched the dark ocean like it was TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“All you want to do is lie down and watch TV all the time.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Within hours after the shooting, Pakistani TV channels ran footage of me with prayers and poems. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No. But the TV doesn’t do high school very well.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Here there was no TV, not even a couch. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Dimming told us the hotel has a late check-in policy. The TV studio is just across the street from the hotel, so we’ll be fine.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Okay, ladies and gentlemen,” chirped the TV meteorologist, Max Myer, who was really enjoying his stint as a game show host. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She pauses the TV and stands, coming straight over to shake Ben’s hand. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I sat down and located the power switch for the computer and the TV. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I watched a TV show where the scientist proudly showed how he could kill little mice by making a certain kind of sudden loud noise. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Local survivors of tragedy are invariably quoted on TV as saying something like, “I can’t understand it. Nothing like that has ever happened around here before.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he got under the covers, it was like his mind was a TV flipping channels by itself. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s watching TV ... no, he’s running a VCR, in the dark, in another place.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The images of Africa on American TV were all the same: There were the ads for charity groups showing a white lady holding a starving black child, flies landing all over the kid. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t wind up applying for the TV gig after all. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday TV is just as bad as Saturday TV, so I left it off and laid there in the cold space, staring at the wall, thinking about everything. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But nevertheless, I don’t want electricity and all that it will bring—radios, TV, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, washing machines—noise. I want to hear the birds.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad is in the living room with his eyes closed, his pants unbuttoned, and the TV on. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I have a TV that needs time to warm up, a phone that almost never rings, and a fridge that buzzes like a radio. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I looked away from him and focused on the TV. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There was not a single porch light on, not a TV glowing behind a window, not a Town Car in a carport. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was about the size of a TV remote control. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, the TV announces an emergency message. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But when my dad gets a beer from the Frigidaire and goes back to the TV couch, all he says is, “Be careful. I couldn’t stand it if you drowned yourself.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner Pearl talked about the Richardsons as if they were a TV show she was fanatical about. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A big TV screen flickered, the volume turned down. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The TV shows folks partying in the French Quarter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some things looked brand-new, like the flat-screen TV, and some things looked like they belonged in a museum. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha is on the couch watching a TV show about a guy who drives around the country in a convertible eating bacon cheeseburgers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He explains that the moment he decided was this summer, when he saw Richards on TV talking about the Youth Congress program. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She flipped off the TV and chucked the Miss Teen Dream manual into the trash can. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We watched some TV and ate a giant bowl of the most perfect tart green grapes in the world. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’re the ones who win all the money on TV. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was too depressed to eat or watch TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since everyone else was sleeping, I brought a bowl of cereal into the family room and was watching TV while I ate it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I knew from TV that that was bad. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were smoking cigars and watching the world like it was TV “That’s so weird to think about,” I said. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He likes pretzels, and today he took a sip of beer while we watched the ball game on TV. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Charles pointed a trembling finger at the TV screen. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, there’s a show based off this series. My Fabiana couldn’t put the books down, and now she’s glued to the TV every week. I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as my daughter did.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked as though he had been lying there watching TV his whole life. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to be fifteen years old to purchase your own ticket,” the man says, looking above at a TV monitor of the local news. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Because my dad is the king of ‘Turn off the TV and read a book.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was no TV at Garland, and it wasn’t just because our generator barely had enough power to run the lights and refrigerator. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

This one was sent to the TV station that had broadcast the brief interview with Zeitoun. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We go live in five,” says the camera operator, and all I can think is, Please don't put Mr. Lewis on live TV. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I'm staring at the TV, only the TV isn't on. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

A graphic popped up on the TV along with a cha-ching sound effect. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I reject the break room for this purpose because the TV inhibits conversation, and for all I know that’s what it’s supposed to do. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The TV was blaring—some station that shows country-music videos all day long. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know exactly when cars were invented, but I figured that was like prehistoric times—back when people watched black-and- white TV and hunted dinosaurs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the TV screen, we watched as another unsuspecting officer opened a cell and was coldcocked by an inmate; he crumpled to the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dottie was staring out the window, paying no attention to the nature documentary on her TV. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Matt had never seen anyone naked outside the art classes on TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat a whole bowl of sprouts and watch TV for three hours until people get home. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wanted to get away from the TV. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Life in here is nothing like my life before, but I still get to read books, exercise, and watch TV. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Donna comes over to stand near the TV. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Just come here and see if you can fix the TV.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She yanked me by the arm, pulled me off the floor, snapped off the TV. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had decayed before a national TV audience, a miniseries of a death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several thousand people lived in Chisamba Singles, but there were only a few TV sets in the entire settlement. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed odd to him that this girl had never heard of Earth’s most knee-slapping TV comic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

That’s been on the TV too: raids at night, secret hoards of Jewish things dragged out from under beds, torahs, talliths, Magen Davids. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Except like a TV and a dad who’s not in prison.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Don’t look in their refrigerator or turn on their TV. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, some people think the cop was justified. They say he was just doing his job,” I said, darting my eyes from the TV to my mother. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I dream about, but when I wake up gasping, I hear the sound of crushed bones in my ears—is it the TV? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And Morgan would look up from the TV or a book or a game to watch him, as though she saw through him, while Don pretended not to squirm under her piercing eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Aunt Eva was shaking her head as Uncle Sam snapped off the TV set. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him is a crowd of men—mostly young—jumping up and down, trying to get on TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a TV in our house; even so, we had never gone over to the church just to watch a TV program. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The TV set continued, “The ‘moon’ is painted; in the enlargements, one of which you see now on your screen, brush strokes show. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Furnished with couches left behind by previous generations of Culver Creek students, the TV room had the musty air of dust and mildew—and, perhaps for that reason, was almost perennially unoccupied. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"It is time," Helms pontificated in a 1960s TV editorial, “to face, honestly and sincerely, the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinctions in group intellect.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So when the TV went off at ten, we all went back to our rooms. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

While eating dinner with Mom in front of the TV that night, I kept thinking about the case. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the men I saw on TV were built well and active too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

So I could be generous in my comments when my mother bad-mouthed the little girl on TV. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its hard drive was filled with old books, movies, TV show episodes, song files, and nearly every videogame made in the twentieth century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Here I was a nobody from Louisiana eating room service in a fancy New York hotel while watching myself on TV It was like The Twilight Zone or something. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever’s commercials created the greatest increase in response to the local TV Guide and Parade advertising would win the whole account. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two other TV crews showed up, along with a couple of extra Coconut Cove police cruisers, summoned by Officer Delinko. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bet that crippled blacksmith was surprised when he netted a couple of stupid kids. You looked good on TV” I shoved his shield at him. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Alex’s mom kept a tiny TV on the kitchen counter next to the stove. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, I programmed a selection of classic ’80s TV shows, retro commercials, cartoons, music videos, and movies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After school, my brothers and I cowered in front of our beloved TV—the volume turned down to a whisper. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Four solid walls, a big-screen TV, and food on the table. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Which meant walking between him and the TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Would they slip through the chimney into Baby Kochamma’s life and TV? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always tells me about how he used to be a dancer on a TV show back in the day called Soul Train. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She jumped up and, frantic, she turned off the TV, the stereo, and the computer. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Our behavior resembled that of the people on TV, happy and carefree. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever noticed how on all the ads on TV, people are watching TV?” my friend is like. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

While she was gone, Park turned up the volume on the TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I could never be on one of those reality TV shows where a camera keeps staring and staring, watching everything I do. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve been looking at these cartoons, seeing people die twice on TV, and they thought that this little boy couldn’t die. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was glad May Belle was absorbed in the TV, He didn’t want her waking Momma up before he got away. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We could shop for groceries and fold laundry in front of the TV. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Behind him, Dr. Zinchenko—all decked out in a sparkly red minidress—looked like the models that point at prizes on TV. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Shoot, I’m just glad I can watch TV and talk on the phone again. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I walked with Sam over to our former apartment to watch TV with Mrs. Muramoto. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We had a TV on the third floor, but I deliberately kept it off. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, I noticed that people on TV who live in trailers are always poor. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kaira watched the bat rolled across the floor and under the TV cabinet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, honey,” she says, and serves me chamomile tea and bread with blackberry jam, while the morning news blares on the TV. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a crackle of static, followed by a low hum, as the TV warmed up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Doctorita’s on TV, her teeth bleached white, a giant fake smile stuck to her face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen her dad cry before, of course, but that had been during movies or really sad TV commercials, not during real life. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She turned back to the TV, a commercial for a car now, and made a joke about Blue Citrus needing its own car commercial. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the house Onofre had a large library of both Spanish and English detective novels, an upright piano, and the best reception on his mammoth color TV set of anyone in the county. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, did you see Slater’s brother on TV the other night?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The only thing that helps is watching late-night TV with the sound muted. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cabot Searcy walked into the room, turned the TV off, and looked down at Gabriel on the floor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He turned the TV down, then checked his watch, clearly confused about why I wasn't in school. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They immediately fell silent, hoping he might go right to bed or at least flip on the TV and pass out in front of it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead and take that stuff into the TV room, girls,” Mrs. Bonner says. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mom clicked on the TV to the BBC, her favorite news channel. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Cramp played along, said he’d seen the story on TV, said he was friendly with the Millers, said it was a real shame about Stan. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s someone who’s seen me on TV, and I want to snap, Leave me alone! The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She would sit and watch the people moving about, like characters on a TV screen with the sound off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Connor is watching downloaded episodes of his favorite TV show on a tablet in his lap with headphones on. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The lady who plays Mother Paula on TV is going to be there. The mayor, too. That’s what the paper said.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning, for some reason, there is no gorilla show on TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“My favorite game was this one,” he says, nodding at the TV screen, where a small square is traveling through a series of simple mazes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Don’t worry, Bobby, just watch TV or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also on the screen, along the right side, was an active instant-messaging chat room, which seemed to be discussing the scene on the TV. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he flicked on the TV to catch the latest news on the disaster, keeping one eye on the hot dogs he was frying and one eye out for Nunu. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

That night, we were lying on our beds, watching a talk show on TV. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Anyways, I peeked in the living room, found the night-watch guy lounging in front of the TV, sipping coffee from a thermos. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The TV is on to some afternoon rerun of an anime show, and I’m just sitting on the couch where Khalid used to sit, staring and blinking and thinking. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

For two years we lived in a garage with the gardening tools, old furniture, a tiny black and white TV, and a lone mattress in the center. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Man, you can’t be going on live TV, snitching like that. You a dead man walking, you know that, right?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He dresses like a TV preacher—in three-piece suits with vests most days. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My elbows collapsed and I fell flat on my back, coughing out air, the TV sounding as if it was right beside me. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And I’d go home to my little apartment and heat a TV dinner, and feel all virtuous, like I’m supposed to. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew about autopsies was what I had seen on reruns of “Quincy,” but somehow it never occurred to me that my information might be inaccurate because it came from a TV show. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were three old TV sets too, but they looked like they didn’t even work. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ellis is sitting next to him, watching whatever is on TV. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was like one of those terrible dogs the Nazis used for hunting down concentration camp prisoners who escaped in those old TV pictures. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hunched down and crept toward the stronghold like police detectives on TV. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

You see movies and TV shows where people receive horrible news in hospitals, but for us, with all our many trips to the hospital with August, there had always been good outcomes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Eleanor was only distantly conscious of Richie watching TV in the next room, and she practically fell off the bed when he jerked the bedroom door open. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Down the creek and past our little house, where my dad is passed out on the TV couch. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll go to watch TV and all of a sudden the lights will cut off. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the afternoon class came whooping into room 145 on Wednesday, the kids were surprised to see a TV and a VCR on a cart next to Mr. Larson’s desk. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’d changed my mind about watching TV and was outlining the second chapter. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There was beer in a cooler by the TV, but no one was drinking. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He switches on the little kitchen TV and searches for something using the remote. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I spoke to local and national TV channels, radio, and newspapers—I spoke out to anyone who would listen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They began to endorse Japanese products and had a cartoon and a live-action TV series based on their exploits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And he stared at Robert, who was slumped over in a La-Z-Boy with a can of Bud in one hand and a remote control in the other, just watching the static on his TV screen. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Well, he didn’t really make movies, but he recorded the sound for movies and TV shows. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time I hung out and read my comic books, or watched TV, or went out back to the pen, where I threw the ball for Jake, their bomb dog. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Angel sighed in disappointment and let Monique return to the bedroom and the TV. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it’s late and the TV is quiet and the Doctorita is put- ting the boys to bed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You just told me to turn on the TV." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That I was just kind of hanging out watching the funeral like it was a pickup game at the park, or some kind of reality TV show. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Our TV's in the back of the removal truck. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dr Strauss showed me how to keep the TV turned low so now I can sleep. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How in the world are you inside my TV?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I know we probably watched TV and played Hot Wheels and Lego, probably battled over Pokemon cards, but the purple elephant escapade wasn’t a one-time deal. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a universal presence, like TV or the Internet. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Barack looked out at the audience and into the TV cameras, and as if kick-starting some internal engine, he just smiled and began to roll. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mama Ya-Ya is touching the TV screen as if her palm can stop the storm. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s construction TV, about building house decks.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, my head got heavy, and I sat down on the couch in front of the TV. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I watched TV eighteen or twenty hours a day. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I spend the rest of the afternoon watching TV and sleeping on and off. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My own smiling face on the TV teased me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Jordan’s waiting in the car. He’s not real happy, because there’s a baseball game on TV and he had to leave before it was over. Hurry!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, she studied with the TV on. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She turned the TV on and searched for the Nigerian channels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And she says I watch too much TV! P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then I watched all the Friday night TV I wanted, but by the time Peyton Place came on, I was too sleepy to continue. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

More and more, instead of going to his gardening job on Sundays, he stays home drinking beer and watching TV. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Mom” was a TV mom, and Cecile wasn’t like any mom on television. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of being an actor or a singer; he reenacted TV shows at the dinner table, playing every part, his bright smile practically jumping through his lips. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had filled the wall behind the TV with framed eight-by-ten photographs. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I was planning to make some microwave popcorn and watch a National League play-off game on TV. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you and I went to that awful bar, the one with the TV, and I got so drunk?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I backed up a couple of steps, went into a crouch, swung my gun arm up, straight out stiff, left hand clamping right wrist, like I saw on TV. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

On the TV, Priscilla is ambushed at school by a tiny yet aggressive woman who turns out to be her personal trainer. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The stories on the TV news were just as depressing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I watch the gorillas on the TV screen. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

At the door a deputy actually frisked me, like you see on TV. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I noticed that on TV it seemed as if black people were always committing crimes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, Taylor saw Ladybird Hope on TV talking about her life in pageants, how it had given her the confidence to go after her dreams. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Granger nodded to a portable battery TV set by the fire. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lorraine thinks she could be an actress, but I keep telling her she’d have to be a character actress, which means playing washwomen on TV detective shows all the time. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

One time when a neighbor’s TV set broke, Dad opened the back and used a macaroni noodle to insulate some crossed wires. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Talking about sports, TV popular culture, or anything else the client wants to discuss is absolutely appropriate to building a relationship that makes effective work possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Looks like the war’s over,” she said flatly, motioning to the TV. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She’d buried two water bowls, a TV remote control, a pizza box, a ziplock bag of Legos, three Frisbees, and two of my homework folders there. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was sitting at home, his feet up on the table, watching TV. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Are we going to be on a reality TV show?” asked Haley, smiling up at a tiny camera with a blinking red light. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mabel's in front of the TV, sorting through the movie choices. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A TV in the ceiling corner always plays a news station, and Mr. Barry always yells at it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Chan told me at church. Too many TV set found in his car.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s still in the bed, watching—but not really watching—the TV. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Large, high-resolution monitors and quality speakers were turning their computers into sophisticated cultural centers in much the same way TV sets had morphed into family entertainment units. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as though I were attending one of those Hollywood openings I’d seen on TV. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, every now and then, the program stops and the TV tells you about all the great things you can buy, like a miracle cream that makes it scientifically impossible to get a pimple. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“How many of you have been watching on TV or reading about the school protests happening around the country?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My brother Ron told me that when he saw me win Worlds, he dropped to his knees in front of his TV and cried. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once on the TV this dude hypnotized a lobster. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I just went to the couch in the family room where the TV is. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously certain people didn't deserve to watch TV in the middle of the afternoon. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad were still in bed, watching an old movie on TV. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like a TV family in a huge house with plenty of money, food. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, their TV blares real loud, and Jodeci sings over it from the stereo. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Scientists have playfully named this specimen Dumbo,” the TV narrator says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After that, I was so scared of seeing that zombie face again, I stopped watching any TV until Halloween was over and the movie was no longer playing in theaters. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say it half as energetically as the TV announcer did. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even in airports, there were hanging TV sets tuned to CNN so that you could get an O.J. update as you made your way to a gate. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night I had the worst nightmare: I was on live TV with Mr. Keller but suddenly the station turned into a stage. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Dad turns up the volume on the TV. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My foundation is basically crumbling right now. My mom’s going to rehab, my parents are getting a divorce. Just because you don’t have some perfect TV family doesn’t mean you’re not a good person, Joaquin.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tries to shift his focus to the TV, where layer upon layer of monarchs cover the trees in some Mexican forest. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s next to impossible to tell that he, his La-Z-Boy, and his very own TV are all part of an incredibly lifelike, technologically advanced sculpture. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to be on TV again," I insist. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was also released at a time when a Gulf war was brewing and when there were no other representations of Iranians in TV shows and movies. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He caught the cat and—live on TV—he kicked it and stomped it and beat it to death with a sjambok, a hard leather whip. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And heard, muffled and far off, a TV set. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Fuming, I stare at the TV, at a commercial with happy blond children drinking red juice. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I looked at the TV, a tiny voice in my heart whispered to me: “Why don’t you go there and fight for women’s rights? Fight to make Pakistan a better place?” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After seven years of living in the basement and watching TV, after doing absolutelij nothing at all, my sister decided she needed to change her life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

People were always going into shock on TV shows, but Cas couldn’t remember what they did when it happened. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

An old color TV is set high in a corner opposite the register. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was guys and girls who kissed—in our grade, on TV, in the movies, in the world; and that’s how it worked: guys and girls. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There are potted plants in every corner of the room, TV screens positioned on the walls, cushiony chairs and couches. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Six or seven people are standing around the small TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Later I climbed up on the roof to readjust the TV dish, or try. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We watch the TV in silence, our knees touching, and the humidity rising, sucking the about of the room. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She found me in the TV studio after school one day. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

‘The police are looking for him. And now it’s all over the TV.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were kindly adults who appeared on TV and came to the schools to give talks. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He read a book, watched TV, inspected his presents, thought about the day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

His father said, “Sit down and watch television with us,” and he turned back to the TV, apparently unmoved by the presence of a large, strange dog. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted my sisters to see the astronauts on the moon almost as badly as I had wanted them to see the Jackson Five on TV for the first time. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He punched his feet through the bottom and now he reminds me of a talking raisin I once saw in a TV commercial. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I mean, in all the movies and TV shows, the popular kid who ascends from the depths of dorkdom has their day in the sun, and then it’s smooth sailing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Get up in the morning, eat breakfast, tend my crops, fix broken stuff, eat lunch, answer e-mail, watch TV, eat dinner, go to bed. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his program ended, Burt turned off the TV and rolled it back inside, disappearing into his room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shook hands again and, going out of the door, they glanced at the TV. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw my mom and dad watching TV in their bedroom, wearing their pajamas at three p.m. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mitch: No. I asked my math teacher first period if we could wheel in a TV to watch it, but he said we had to review for the chapter test this week. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know why she watches TV all afternoon? Because she can finish her homework in half an hour before bed. Like that.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I glimpsed Dad as I left, his face frozen in the dark, the light from the TV leaping across his square glasses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I used to love watching those sleazy crime dramas on Saturday afternoon TV. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The suppers were TV dinners in floppy aluminium containers with separate compartments for the stewed meat, the boiled potatoes and the peas. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I repeat them in my head until the news cycle on the TV has finished and starts all over again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For example, can there be such a thing as an organic TV dinner? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I pace the living room when I should be watching TV. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Indigenous women cook and clean and work in fields and take care of children; they don’t sing in the spotlight on TV to thousands of fans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the kids get home she makes them a snack and they watch TV and do their homework. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They used to hang out—watch TV, go to the park and hoop, sell drugs. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on the couch and she sits on a floor pillow in front of me while the news is on the TV. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A flat-screen TV takes up a whole wall, and tropical fish swim around in a tank on another wall. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Look, Stephen, I’m sorry to spoil your festive arrangements, but we didn’t come all the way down here to drink pop and watch TV.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed through the mob, noting the crew from C-SPAN’s Book TV and then the fact that the front rows of chairs were filled mainly with gray uniforms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More fun than my portable TV, any day. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

You know how on TV shows, first kisses are always a surprise? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had been sitting on the bookshelf next to the TV—untouched. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The other half is watching a show about sharks on the TV that hangs in the corner. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the blank TV screen, and then flipped through the pile of DVDs to select another. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of watching hours and hours of the Discovery Channel, I found myself in my room staring at an empty TV screen—-just thinking in the silence. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

With his salt-and-pepper hair, denim clothes, and leather jacket, he reminded me of a TV actor, but he was just an English teacher. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My own body flinched under the punches, automatically, like how your leg hoists itself when you’re watching a high jumper on TV. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’d go to school, come home, and watch TV with Mom. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Except for the blaring of the TV coming from Monique’s room, all was silent. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these days I’m going to walk into the house and the news guy on TV will be reporting a hit-and-run that just happened downtown. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it, okay?” she told me again as she flipped through the channels on the TV. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And within a few seconds they’re all focused on the TV again. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Our whole family was glued to the TV when her arrival was broadcast. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to jump up and point at the TV and say, “Are you people blind?! That’s me! Can you not see that that’s me?!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His attention seemed to wander, his eyes carrying over to the other side of the room, toward his computer and TV. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We had only second-hand stuff, rental houses in one redneck Catholic neighborhood after another, clothes at Round Robin, a black and white TV afflicted with wavy lines. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Why, I saw her on TV last night singing in a gorgeous sparkly dress. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick shuts off the TV when we enter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I have on headphones so I can block out the TV show he’s watching. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“After the O.J. Simpson verdict, one of the jurors appeared on TV and said with absolute conviction, ‘Race had absolutely nothing to do with my decision,’” psychologist Joshua Aronson says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the family eats quickly and goes back to watching football on TV. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She turned her attention to the news feed on the TV in the partition. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The barber had the football game on the TV The calendar showed a vodka bottle and a pretty girl in a white fur bikini. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I listened to the talk and watched the TV and couldn't stop thinking about it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So around one o’clock, in the middle of me watching like my hundredth TV show, my dad came in and said, ‘Walk me to the bank, Mar.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Piles of books and papers were stacked up wherever they would fit: on the desk, on the bookcases, in shoe boxes above the bookcases, on top of the TV, pouring out of the open closet. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The people on TV—the models and actors—were super-skinny, especially the young women. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mom and I would be glued to the TV, waiting for the mother of the poor slain boy to emerge. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“She’ll call social services and the police and the FBI and the TV news.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I went out to the kitchen and left John and the Pigman watching some kind of TV spectacular, the theme of which was Hurrah for Hollywood. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s three Hulks. Wait, I take that back. Multiple Hulks. If you count TV, cartoons, all that.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Later that night, when Nana and I are watching TV, my phone vibrates. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cabot Searcy had, in all his brilliance, run a long black cable under the door from whatever room was outside and hooked it to the back of the TV. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She has a sweet, worried face and a frilly blue and white checked apron, just like a TV mother’s. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He barely registered the change when they turned off the TV and started playing pool. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

My dad fiddles with the TV and all the cords, and manages to get the ancient DVD player up and running. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Lelia always worried that in ten years we would be fat and dull and maybe by then even have a big- screen TV. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gen turned her head, but not her eyes, from the TV. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was a TV in a back room, so we watched that and read our books all day. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps the remote out of reach, just in case his sister or I want to turn the TV back on. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The trial was on TV all day long for almost a month. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was the only academic they could find doing research on children’s TV,” he says, with a laugh. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glued to this bit of interesting information but Chantal shuts off the TV. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They all met in her living room, the one that Grace and her parents hardly ever used because the TV wasn’t in there; it was in the den. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then she shot her eyes at the silent TV. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bryce and Aurora are zoned out in front of the TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There is a crease between his eyebrows and crow’s-feet around his eyes as he squints at the TV screen. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stands, just like a cop on TV, and walks around his desk until he’s looming over me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, she talks about things she heard on the radio or saw on TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm? Oh yes, I ate something,” she answers without looking away from the TV. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Monique looked confused and tried to remember, but gave up with a small shrug of her shoulders, then headed back toward her favorite chair to watch TV. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like that actor’s lips on TV. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he was really even watching TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The TV cut back to the police chief. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Would you turn down that TV?” her dad had yelled more than once, and it felt so unfair. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A tabloid magazine played quietly through the TV. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There she was, slumped all the way back in a recliner about two feet in front of the TV. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I turn around and see the TV news crew standing behind me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth as he gave us a speech about how everybody was saying it was our year, the newspapers, people in the league, even TV sports news was covering us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He touched the stupid tooth around his neck and then turned his attention toward the TV, focused on another rap video that had started. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Smiling and proud, he plugs the new TV into the wall of the relaxing room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Across town, in a little house that looked a lot like Alex’s, an old man sat in his den, watching the disaster unfold on TV. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two cardboard boxes of stuff are stacked by the kitchen, two mattresses lie on the ground by the window, and an ancient TV and old, mustard-yellow couch take up the rest of the space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By that time they’d started putting some of it on the TV, the trials and so forth. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my fishing rod from the garage and dashed to the comer of the house where Dad had mounted the TV satellite dish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The whole time photographers were snapping away, and TV cameras were pointed at us, so we finally got it together and straightened up to pose for the winners’ picture. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I think of Apá, I picture him soaking his feet in front of the TV. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My mom is sitting at the kitchen table, still in her scrubs and with her blond hair piled high on top of her head, watching the news on her portable TV. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All the eyes are going to be focused on you, all the sportswriters, all the TV, all the fans, everybody, there ain’t nobody else playin’. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hair laughs at those cute hair products I see advertised on TV. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

From what I gather, Mitch and his mom eat dinner together every night while his dad takes his meal on a TV tray in front of his recliner. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lots of people got kidnapped by aliens on TV. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Obiora turned off the TV as the credits started to slide down the screen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday, aside from being a wack TV show day, is also apparently a slow news day. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I imagine myself sprawled on the pink blanket watching TV and eating watermelon. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The program on TV is a show about shipwrecked pirates. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The TV is on, which means someone is downstairs, which means it’s probably Mom. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I love it when a plan comes together,” he announced, dropping another catchphrase from another ancient TV show. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The tidy green-painted Newsome Park shopping center included a grocery store, a drugstore, a barbershop, a beauty shop, a beer joint, a cleaners, and a TV repair shop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The TV does all of the talking for a while. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sadly, the newspapers and TV like to report all the bad things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

If our recipe won that TV spot, it would have meant tons of orders for her mom’s catering business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I had been watching TV for two hours when I heard Louisa’s regular knock. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

His head would roll around by itself, like in that monster movie he’d been watching before Celia ran in and turned off the TV. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then the TV made a scratchy sound like pouring dry sand on paper and the lights went off. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just Renee frowned at the TV and said, “It’s hard for me to make out sounds with the TV on in the background. Makes everything garbled.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“No, but I’ve seen it on TV. You just sort of slide the card.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“By starring in all of my commercials this holiday season. TV. Radio. Print. Billboards. Cardboard cutouts in toy stores. His or her face will be everywhere.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mustafa turns off the TV, and everyone sits quietly with grim expressions on their faces. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the TV screen, a father was beating two children, wooden punches that hit the air above their heads. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sitting at his parents’ house watching all the news about himself on TV? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he’s not thinking of me at all; maybe his mind has wandered to his car or his electric bill or the movie he watched on TV last night. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the soldiers and the people in Vietnam on the six o’clock news was the only time I was glad we didn’t have color TV. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It shook you up when you saw her on TV.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the TV room I set up a tray table. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my shower I come back to her bed and lie there, watching TV like a princess. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he had never seen TV before, he was a total addict who barked out warnings and advice to the characters on the screen. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and glued my eyes to the TV. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“The TV glass! It’s round and cracked up like Charlotte’s web.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It's early morning as Lola and I drive with Mr. Keller to the TV station for our special day. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Obinzes mother walked in and glanced at the TV “You were watching this scene when I left,” she said quietly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So if it wasn't TV dinners it had to be fish and chips. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The satellite array that powered the onboard Internet and TV was blown to bits, which had really made Coach Hedge mad. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom said only people brainwashed by advertising bought prepared foods such as SpaghettiOs and TV dinners. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The images on TV frightened me and caused me to ask myself, Could I do what these black students are doing.? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander away from the TV and toward the window. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A small television sat on a TV tray, a game show playing silently. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing it the first time I caught him on TV, and I recognize it now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But now GEO TV, the biggest channel in our country, wanted to interview a girl about the peace treaty. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Porter flicked channels on the muted TV. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

At home in the evenings, my father spent much of his time watching basketball and hockey games on TV, appearing weak and exhausted in his chair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The small TV attached to the wall has a jumpy picture and no sound. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A few windows flicker with the faint blue light of late-night TV. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I mean, I had never actually been in one in real life, but I had seen them enough times on TV to know that they're all bedazzled in pink and purple. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Obiora had borrowed a video game from the flat upstairs, and the boys were clustered in front of the TV in the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

What if my parents force me to live in their dirty house without rice or meat or books or a TV? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The TV says the governor has asked the president to declare a state of emergency. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Daddy had bought Granny a TV for Christmas. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have seeped into my memory somehow—maybe from a radio or TV program. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Now that we had the pot barrier broken, it became a magnificent haze of yelling back at the TV; we stopped calling it “watching movies”; we started calling it “chilling.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I ask over the noise of the TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As I pressed play, the TV screen filled with Beakman wearing his green lab coat, the same lime green as Fig’s eyes, and his dark hair teased toward outer space. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I live upstairs. I heard your TV. Let’s meet; okay?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d sit in front of the TV for hours, a black cloud hovering. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A furious argument ensued touching on the theme of the Rights of Man and the Noble Savage, but there was no convincing her, and I was sent to bed with no TV that night. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness he and his dad sometimes watched reruns of old TV shows from the 1960s. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I half expected someone—my father?—to come out and throw the diapers on the TV console at me while scolding me, irrationally, for staying away so long. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Dining room, living room, fancy living room with no TV, Mom’s room, kitchen.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s what I’m going to do. We have a Scope on a satellite TV bird with a footprint in Ireland.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was still ratty at losing the sound on the TV. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her dad had a voice like someone on TV, somebody who would try to sell you record compilations. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

They stare through the glass, they cluck their tongues, they frown while I watch my TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I turned off the TV and wandered out of the theater. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was good to know that even if Erlan was about to be a big-time TV star, he was still my best friend. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dying to see that movie since the trailers came on TV. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Outside of the Flipper incident, we didn’t fight over TV, which would mean less noise to bother Cecile. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later the Japanese company incorporated elements of Lawrence’s design into one of the most successful color TV technologies in history, a product it named Trinitron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Walter sat in a common room with older, heavily medicated people watching TV It was jarring to see him sitting in a hospital gown among people so compromised and infirm. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“No, The Twilight Zone. It was this old show on TV. These different stories.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s more fun to watch than any nature show I’ve ever seen on TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When Dad comes back to the living room and turns off the TV I ask him, What is closure? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dont have anything to do to keep me busy now because the TV is broke and I keep forget- ting to get it fixed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when he zoomed across their TV screens as a flaming squirrel in a holiday commercial for Squirrel Squad Six, the hysterically crazy new Lemoncello video game. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The TV is off, and there’s a large glass pitcher on the counter with three cups in front of it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I thought deaths were supposed to bring people together, but I guess that's just what happens on TV. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a massive TV facing the door, on which Templars are being brutalized. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Dad comes around the TV to see what I'm watching. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, you never know. Emilia says clones are as vicious as werewolves. Did you see that story on TV about the boy who got hair all over him when the moon was full?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a shivery thrill, I press a button, and the TV comes to life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’ve finally gotten Bryce and Aurora into bed—but not yet to sleep—I hear Frank’s gruff voice from the living room over the noise of the TV. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Much better,” she answered, clicking off the TV set. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I guess I don't know all that much about reality TV. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“In particular I want the TV set. So we can hear Buster’s announcement.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I never saw people I knew on TV. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There he bent to turn on the TV. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Chantal is by the front door and starts to put on her coat, but the noise from the TV makes her stop. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Most times he don’t even put the TV on, he just sucks on his beer and stares at the cobwebs on the ceiling. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One night, a couple of girlfriends and I were sitting around watching TV and talking. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I finally drag my tired butt into the house, it’s four in the morning and my dad ain’t on the TV couch, he’s sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In front of her, the TV is broadcasting CNN’s Republican primary coverage, while the tablet in her lap is playing an old episode of Drag Race. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I put the picture right on top of the TV, so I couldn't miss it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Uhmma, I call as I flick on the TV, do you not want to watch? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He’s so familiar, so terrifically familiar, it’s almost like they should just go plop down in front of the TV and watch a show. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“From what I’ve seen on TV, the 1960s were generally weird.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And once his show was on TV, everyone in the world practically would know who he was and love him and think he was cool. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like a memory match game, or that old TV show Concentration.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

A dopey letter is still a dopey letter, no matter how you dress it up; and there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He just couldn’t stay up without a TV, and even if there was one, he’d still be dozing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the week, while Charlie still searched for the perfect tree for his tree house, I hung around and watched TV. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was talking to a TV producer about a piece we were doing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every TV Guide and Parade ad, he had his art director put a little gold box in the corner of the order coupon. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice, Nora, and I tend to do our work in front of the TV or with music playing, but we all get good grades, regardless. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But the one constant was this little TV/DVD combo that we toted around with us and an old DVD from the library free shelf: The Mysterious and Fascinating World of the Octopus. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Pictures flashed on a TV hanging in the corner, but the sound was off. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And then Dad mutes the TV and says, "You know Dr. Porter?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mullet Fingers had lasted less than forty-eight hours under the same roof with Lonna, who’d spent most of that time on the telephone trying to drum up more TV interviews. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his firm wrote a series of TV commercials that told the “secret of the Gold Box.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, the South Side was something entirely different from what got shown on TV. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was chewing on the third bite when I saw what was on the TV. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I have zero doubt Drake’s space would make mine look like I’d gotten a visit from the organizer lady on this TV show about “the bliss of living tidy.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

When she saw the TV, she ran to it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The only thing I could do that kept them talking awhile before they hung up was to tell them I was calling from TV Quiz and that they had won a prize. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Naw,” said Mr. Hundy, “didn’t see Willard Scott. Reckon I wouldn’t have known what to say if I had. It’s a big operation they got there, course it don’t look so big on the TV.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the TV, the lights in the Tokyo Dome finally dim. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The TV was on, but she wasn’t watching it—she was staring out the window. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I spoke with a doc who had a lot of forms and asked me questions like “Can you do homework while watching TV?” and “During dinner can you keep your napkin on your lap?” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After everyone was done, Mom sent the rest of them into the living room to watch the Rose Parade on TV. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, I only know Dad’s home because I hear a toilet flush or the TV turn on. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Yep, my sister and her husband lived in some old silver trailer that was more like a TV dinner tray than a home. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She flopped down on her shaggy pink wall-to-wall carpeting, glanced at her digital clock, and reached out automatically to turn on the TV. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I put on the TV loud and felt better. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had impressed journalists, TV reporters, statesmen, and readers in comfortable homes who were thrilled by the high-sounding phrases and the nobility of the sentiments. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Souvenirs, like Las Vegas snow globes, cram the shelves, and plastic shields everything—the carpet, the lamps, even the TV. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Packed nearly to the ceiling with couches, fridges, and rolled-up carpets, the TV room undulated with kids trying to find and haul away their stuff. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep all the TV shows at bay until I could process everything. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Shelves stuffed with books were built into three walls, and a TV dominated the fourth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Or when I threw a baseball inside the house and broke the TV. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He gets the TV out of the backseat. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Two TV crews washed her in lights and interviewed her backstage. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He took the TV, the DVD player, the stereo, all the electronics upstairs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Vonetta. Suppose you were going to be on TV” She perked up on that one. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be part of the TV crew. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“There are a lot of cooking shows on TV, and Jake watches a lot of TV.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“How are you holding up? This is a lot of pressure. Being on TV. Helping the Pentagon. Working with the FBI. You’re still only twelve, hon.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The TV and the telephone were covered by pieces of yellow fabric with scalloped edges. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But when I look straight in through the open windows, I feel like I'm watching the end of a happy TV movie. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Easiest thing to hock or sell. Cameras and TV sets.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of old comedians on the black-and-white TV shows her grandmother used to watch when she was a child. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the rent is $150 a week, so it’s on to the Biarritz, where a jolly gal shows me the efficiency for $110 a week—no TV, no linens, no dish- ware. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished I could stay with Granny, watching the nice, safe TV. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waiting room TV is tuned to Robin Givens’s talk show Forgive or Forget, where today’s theme is “You took me in and I cleaned you out.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Howard stayed for supper, he and I would eat pork and beans or potato chips or a bologna sandwich in front of the TV and nobody would say the blessing. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You would think I would cut the TV off, but I didn’t. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had a small box over his head, with a Saran Wrap-covered opening shaped like a TV screen to look out through. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, Santa was coming tonight, the TV weatherman lied to us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He turned the little TV down as usual. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

If this were a TV show, Maya thought to herself, this would be when the zombie invasion started. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I never connected the movies and TV close-ups of planes with the things that I saw zooming overhead. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him once why he doesn’t just turn the TV off. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ma doesn’t look anything like the witches you see on TV. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

If my life were a TV show, what would it be? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the house, Dad flipped on the TV. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She took two steps into the room, then stopped short, taking in Alex and the banner and the TV news in the background, and she knew he knew everything. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You remind me of somebody I saw on TV” he told me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Vivian herself looked like one of those English schoolgirls you see on TV. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max Myer, the meteorologist at one of the local TV stations, was checking himself in a hand mirror, prepping and primping to be the celebrity quizmaster. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on his bed with his notebook and imagined himself trapped in a staticky TV. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Over the decades, it has been the subject of films, plays, TV movies, websites, and numerous books and articles. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We had been waiting for her on the verandah, although there was power and we could have been inside, watching TV. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sat there, the TV muted in the background, and he felt at home again, a strange sensation after such an intense day. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The TV was connected to an orange extension cord that was plugged in on the other side of the room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

For a while, Alice sketched the vague outline of the dark room from her vision, as much as she could see in the light from the TV. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The beds are empty in some, but in one, a man is asleep in front of a loud TV, his mouth hanging open. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

No, she was one of the rich in- di'genas, one who owned a two-story house and a TV and a truck. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening after dinner, we all sat down in the living room to watch TV. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drifted into the living room, scuffing his feet along the carpet, headed for the worn Barcalounger next to the old gray sofa in front of the TV. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen them on TV before, the trailers the government puts up for people who’ve lost their homes in natural disasters. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was no TV, and the carpeting was a weary beige. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing to do at my grandma’s house except watch a ton of TV.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A blazing TV monitor announces what’s happening in which studios: Gypsy in Studio F; Phantom in Studio C; Carousel auditions in Studio J. It’s...incredible. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, in that case you enjoy that cream, Mr. Jankowski. Do you want your TV on while you eat?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Something catches me off guard—a TV show, a funny one-liner from my dad, a comment in class—and I laugh like nothing ever happened. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

What if my movie made it into thousands of people’s houses on local TV channels? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His grandpa was watching TV in the living room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She flips the dial on her TV, turning it off. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We saw the story on TV. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have something like this happen at our church.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“No. After stew, we just watched TV. My dad didn’t say anything. Not anything. Except to tell me to brush my teeth.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They were pale and displaced and complained of missing their dire-sounding TV shows, things with Vice and Cop and Jeopardy in their titles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walks into the room and gestures at the TV. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We were already passing a small roach back and forth by the time I noticed the empty shelf under the TV. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Santa, honey, that’s a sweet little Blessed Virgin you got on top that TV,” Mrs. Reilly said to get them off the earring topic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a TV or radio, so perhaps he never learned how it ended himself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The only other noise came from occasional footsteps in the hallway and a TV somewhere. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning, I woke up, went into the living room, and found a big empty spot where our TV had been. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Gabriel nearly threw himself onto the floor and, scooting across the room to the TV, thought he might start crying. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Cara smiled up at her mom and said, “Now I know why I like newspaper stories better than TV news stories.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Courtney looks back at the TV and pulls his lips between his teeth. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Why would you cover it? If I could draw like that, I’d put a commercial on TV about it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I grab 2 Sprites and a sleeve of Chips Ahoy! cookies, and we go into the living room to watch TV. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When she mentioned that I had started wetting the bed, I went to where the others were watching TV and started to mimic what was on the screen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That's the idea I had gotten from the UN caseworkers, and from anything I had ever seen on TV over the years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The dolls were stick-thin, like the actresses on TV, unlike the people I saw in real life in Rochester. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I guess it wasn’t too bad, having a big famous TV star for a best friend. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of people watch the news on the old box TV in the ceiling or read magazines that have been there since I was little. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Thatcher was on TV yesterday talking to a bunch of schoolkids about Cruise Missiles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mama Ya-Ya keeps standing, leaning on her cane, staring at the TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

We pop open the cans and put them on the living room floor in front of the TV. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I watched TV with Charlie after dinner, for something to do. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nowadays these mixed couples get on TV every other day complaining, “Oh, it’s hard for us.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have a lot of time for movies,” Drew said, still staring at the TV. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“After that, I finally gave up and started watching TV” Desda’s homework paper starts to spot from her greasy fingers. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she was here I used to wake up in the middle of the night and go downstairs and just lay beside her, and we’d watch TV and laugh. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My TV is off, so while we wait for the new neighbor, I ask Stella to tell us a story. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Her dad picked up the remote control and muted the TV. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I was in the back room with my children—my fifteen-year-old boy, my nine-year-old son, my two daughters—we were back there watching TV. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down beside me on the couch, nodded hello to my dad in the recliner beside him, and stared at the TV. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I paused at the TV, the only one I might ever get to watch Trigonometry and Tears on. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We ran with it to the TV room, closed the blinds, locked the door, and watched the movie. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

On the silent TV a beautiful happy family is sitting around the kitchen table. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I realized, not only were there no women among those scientists on TV, there weren’t any Negroes either. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what day it is, Percy? I just saw it on TV It's June thirteenth. Seven days since we left camp.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

What I did is I took a cardboard TV box we found behind Wal-Mart. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The sick pounding kind of violence that I have to mute the TV to get through, unless Dad’s around and then I have to endure it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Charles asked, now turning the TV down even more. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It is narrow, with two windows, a dresser, and a giant TV cabinet that looks as if it might fall on you and crush you while you sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even in just a few fleeting seconds on my TV screen, I can see that. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I go up to the television to turn it off, and just then, she comes on, the only Spanish lady I’ve ever seen on TV. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“We needed a place to organize all this material, put it on the walls, and draw a chart like the FBI always does on TV when they’re tailing the mob.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He sensed, behind the closed door, the presence of life, beyond that of the TV. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mama Ya-Ya stands in front of the TV, trying to unravel what the picture means. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Papa did not pencil in TV time on our schedules. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A baseball game is playing on the TV. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For Denver TV, the message seems to be: Paper chain good. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

People didn’t tune in en masse to watch comic book artists sketch on TV, did they? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Might as well talk to the TV, for all the good it does. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I could see the TV shows, but the TV wasn’t on. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Well, on TV she had, but not in real life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I learned it on the playground and watching lots of TV. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and I are going to help Mom practice every single night, which is why I’m sitting at my desk instead of watching after-school TV, which is a birthright of every latchkey child. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

My parents sheltered me from many of the civil war images that surfaced on TV. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Robin sat with her arms crossed, staring at the blank screen as the TV warmed up. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A monster TV glows in a corner, and there’s a pool table and exercise equipment. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever my father isn’t off on a drinking binge, he spends most of his time in his bedroom, alone, watching TV. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had only one room with two mattresses on the floor next to a TV. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The TV glittered with beautiful women parading in evening gowns, their smiles holding so much promise: Everything can be yours! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, take it back again. I’m not going to go blind looking at a broken TV.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We called him Radar because he looked like a little bespectacled guy called Radar on this old TV show M*A*S*H, except I. The TV Radar wasn’t black, and 2. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mitch: My dad told me that when he was a kid, the whole school would go to the auditorium to watch the space launches on TV. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the first thing Citra’s father did once the scythe left—turn on the TV and blast it to drown out the gleaning on the other side of the wall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sohrab had turned off the TV when I went back into the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather stay home. You get to watch TV, sleep in your own bed. I always get stuck sharing a hotel room with my sisters. So gross.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t any different from the rest of those scoundrels you see on TV today except he preached in synagogues and he wasn’t so smooth-talkin’. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A TV cameraman and a newswoman jumped out of a van, looked over the kids, and walked up to Jose. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then all the TV's and radios went off. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s that warm spot on the couch when my favorite show is on TV. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The TV switches from Marla in the newsroom to me walking across the infield. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“The TV guide said it’s ‘essential viewing for anyone interested in a career in films.’” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Huffer had Mrs. Droogie laid out on the couch in the living room, where she had died while watching TV after dinner. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If we can flush those pills down the toilet, she might be okay. In the meantime, speaking of that TV show, do you think we should call the police?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father glanced at Jazz, who was pretending to watch TV, but she was really waiting to hear what was going on. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My dad clenches his jaw as he looks away, back at the TV screen, but my mom’s eyes crinkle as she watches me, waiting for me to keep going. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When he isn’t watching TV, he’s texting his friends or pushing past me in the hallway to go to his room and close the door. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The answer, of course, is the letter ‘M,’” Diane told local TV reporters. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as Dad wheeled Mom into our house, I plopped down on the sofa in front of the TV with my half-finished McDonald’s Happy Meal. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the door to his parents' room open, he heard the TV. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I craned from behind my resting spot and looked at the clock above the TV; somehow it was 2:07 A.M. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Better, perhaps, to turn the TV back on. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He moves closer, like the TV has put a spell on him or something. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She’d find out sooner or later, when it was on the news, because all the Miami TV stations broadcast to the Keys. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Nine thirty. Nine twenty-nine. Nine twenty-eight. Adina ran to the control panel embedded in a long desk beneath the TV screen. “There has to be some way to turn this thing off, right? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It was bound to leak out eventually,” Aech said, shutting off the TV. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she saw it, lying like a gray frost upon the TV set. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

After I shook hands with him, I asked them about the movie because I didn’t recognize it except for an actor who used to be on a TV show, and I couldn’t remember his name. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Exceptionally good, I'd say, based on the guys I used to know at his age and the things I see on TV. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the evenings kids watched TV or played Ping-Pong and dominoes in the dayroom, or settled in to make phone calls at one of the two pay phones. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She and her father were constantly at war over the TV programs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach rumbled, so I figured I’d make a snack and watch TV while there was no one around to bother me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Just the reflection of the TV in his eyes. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I find a doodle of the seedling on a pad of paper near the TV. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“At least the Duke from TV. We need to become the dogs other dogs already think we are! The dogs I know we can be.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Something else is on TV that isn’t familiar or particularly funny, so I look for the remote. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I want to win the competition, and it’s on TV, so yeah...” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was TV that gave her the clue. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Yep. That’s when we head to the set. Starring in a TV show isn’t all glitz and glamour. Okay, it’s mostly glitz and glamour, but you also have to wake up early.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were watching poker on a huge, flat-screen TV hanging on the wall. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They experience background music in computer games, cartoons, TV shows, films, on iPads, radios, and ringtones. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“This is public TV,” whispered the camera operator. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

When his gaze locks in on the TV, he remembers the money hidden behind it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The living room decor was sparse, with a velvet brown pull-out sofa and a matching ottoman and a TV console covered with adult diapers and unwrapped syringes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Since I hardly ever watch the TV, I watch the photo once in a while. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He looked around to the back of the TV to find that it was merely plugged into the wall. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You did! You saved my life, Duke! Just like you do on Dog Squad. Only, this wasn’t TV. This was real. With real poison. I could’ve gotten really sick.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Part of me doesn’t want to turn on the TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Look at that film-star for instance," she added, pointing at the silent TV screen where a bosomy female was being embraced by a craggy actor in the moonlight. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And we’ll all three of us just sit there watching TV together, not really talking anymore. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He heard voices bickering inside the house, and he hoped it was only a TV show with the volume turned up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would hike eight miles, get a room, have a shower, phone home, do laundry, eat dinner, buy groceries, watch TV, sleep in a bed, eat breakfast, return to the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stop in front of the TV screen, which reflects my face like a black mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother made me take Sam a couple of doors down to watch TV at the Muramotos’ apartment. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The TV commentator Stuart Hall was laughing like a Harrier jump jet taking off. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I do. And now I’m going to be famous. I’m going to be the first bird to ever find a missing child. I’m going to be on TV!” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Charlie watches the TV screens in a bar area behind the reception desk. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Lily said that's because TV news had only white reporters, and white reporters didn’t want to be hit over the head with a Molotov cocktail. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I want to hear more about the thousand sucres and the fruit and the TV, but no one says another word to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How he acts in the TV show, not real life.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The reporters on TV dazzled me, and I wanted to be just like them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Richie had fallen asleep in the living room with the TV on. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Down in the kitchen the TV weather girl called it a fall freeze. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t get a TV until the bus boycott, but our radio ran off a battery that gave us about an hour at a time of a white station, WSFA. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Mom wouldn’t let us watch TV, so we played Mom’s old board games like Life, Sorry!, and Payday. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z