But now he was a senior and had had a whole year to process the incredible feeling of walking into a stadium and seeing twenty thousand fans expecting the world from him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer layer of plaster had peeled and flaked away from most of the building, showing ancient red-brick walls that were absolutely straight, rising up higher than twenty feet from the yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I don’t know anything now, but I will when I’m twenty. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It was terribly cold—below zero,” remembered Leona Woods, a twenty- three-year-old physics grad student. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than twenty men are packed into the bedroom. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Battle of the Bulge ended about the middle of January, with the newspapers reporting seventy-seven thousand Allied casualties and one hundred twenty thousand German casualties. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Judd gives the man a ten and gets him to talking, then—when Mr. Wallace gives him change—says he give him a twenty. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew it took Kelly about twenty minutes to get home on the bus—and sure enough, the house phone rang at 3:22. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The silhouette of the bodyguard looked menacing, and Matt remembered he’d killed twenty children with a bomb intended for the English prime minister.The man seemed to soak up the faint starlight from the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty yards from me, it slows to a stop with a great screeching of brakes, and I have to run back along the road to get on. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The agents take Enrique and about twenty others to a patio. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Chester took what felt like twenty minutes to settle himself in, and just as I was drifting off, the kicks started. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Knew twenty languages when he was only twenty-five. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, in addition to inviting skilled Greeks to immigrate to the capital, the Ptolemies barred native Egyptians from spending more than twenty days in Alexandria at a time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I have an announcement to make. We have just dropped a new bomb on Japan which has more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT. It has been an overwhelming success!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had counted twenty- nine deaths out of a shipment of a hundred monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He visited Holland again in the autumn of 1628, spent the winter of 1628/9 in Paris, then returned to settle in Holland, where he stayed for the next twenty years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bull reflected on whether dress whites that had been tailored for a one-hundred-ninety-pound man would permit the entry of the same man who now weighed two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came out to twenty- five dollars a week, or a little over three-fifty a day. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty thatch huts along the dirt road. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"And we probably each eat about twenty onions a day, so that's ..." "Two hundred and eighty onions," said Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The odds were ten to one, twenty to one. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them was the Southern Ocean, and they were making for an island only twenty miles long and 100 miles away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Before they reached the castle, twenty pairs of eyes were watching them from the gatehouse ramparts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Haydn taught the world, apparently effortlessly, how to organise and develop melody in such a way that a piece of fifteen or twenty minutes would sound unified. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The wind chill must be twenty below and I don’t have a hat or mittens. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We gave the inmates twenty minutes or so to finish their meals, then set back down the gallery wearing latex gloves and bearing huge trash bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They took twenty ounces of blood from Joseph, and he will live for years.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

High-pitched conversations bounce off the ceiling, echoing and multiplying until the voices of twenty sound like the screeches of a hundred. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As of June 2001, there were nearly twenty thousand more black men in the Illinois state prison system than enrolled in the state’s public universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As I start to move, it feels like I am trapped twenty miles underwater. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was twenty then, and although his job as a waiter at the Hotel Medallion was a blessing to his parents and their seven other children, it wasn’t nearly enough to support a wife. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the boxcar, Shin befriended a young man of about twenty who said he was headed home to Gilju, a city of sixty-five thousand people on the main rail line to Chongjin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Today I had twenty lazy daisies waiting for their knots. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature around Finn dropped twenty degrees, and Finn’s skin burned with the cold. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Of course, gods are usually twenty feet tall when they’re on Olympus, so that makes them look a lot less normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Four years after Osborne left, however, a former guard from Elmira named Lewis Lawes took the helm and in twenty years on the job became America’s most famous and admired warden. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s twenty or twenty-five minutes if you count the time it takes me to get Bryce and Aurora off the bus and walk back here with them.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He said if you go to the Dominican Republic, you can find twenty more like him in the same park. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before that, must be twenty to fight in Army. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“One hundred and twenty men from the old Second Maine, which has been disbanded.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His soldiers moved about twenty paces behind the action. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had been working in the fields like everybody else, and stayed past picking time to live with a family twenty miles away from her own. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had marched more than twenty miles again; it was now a hundred miles in five days. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene’d had the bright idea to swap out a couple of Robo’s twenties with some of our piggy bank singles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And Vincent, now almost twenty, enthusiastically takes on the role of sage older brother and mentor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The bears—animals, whatever they were—drank for perhaps twenty minutes more, then quietly departed the way they had come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As Smith had foreseen, since his stellar performance in the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap Seabiscuit had been assigned the highest weight in virtually every race, at times carrying over twenty pounds more than his rivals. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waitress swings by again to take the second round of orders, and within twenty minutes, we’ve got a mountain of food. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

By the time Eliot’s mother arrived at twenty past six, Mrs. Sen always made sure all evidence of her chopping was disposed of. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mohammed wasn’t even twenty, and he’d won a race starting in Saida and ending in Beirut, a distance of twenty-six miles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The nation maintains its own elected government and has twenty thousand members. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’d heard about blood pooled on the floors of classrooms and the bodies of twenty first graders and six educators torn apart by a semiautomatic rifle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was about twenty feet tall—typical giant height—with a humanoid upper body, and scaly reptilian legs, like a bipedal dinosaur. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He stood head and shoulders taller than me, twenty or so, tall and blond. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stare at myself for maybe twenty minutes in Daddy’s mirror. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive twenty miles. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two chariots down in the first twenty feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The United States of America has been Balkanized, has been divided into twenty petty nations so that it will never again be a threat to world peace. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of her parents passed away when she was in her late twenties. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It must have been the lunch break because as we stepped into the courtyard there were about twenty students loitering around chatting in little groups. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall on Kyle’s right swung open, revealing six swiveling sections, each pivoting panel maybe twenty feet long, all skittering sideways and gliding backward to create new walls and reconfigured pathways. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I could hear her sighing from twenty feet away. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Although she had been raised to ten dollars a week when she went on reading, her runner-up received twenty-five dollars a week and the other readers received twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There I joined some twenty others, all of whom were gasping, with red, wet faces, as the pain sharpened. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You listened for maybe twenty seconds, took off the headset, passed it on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a stocky youth of twenty years, earnest and homely, with a wide nose and a shock of thick brown hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Inside the front cover are the names of at least twenty girls who had it before I did. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

According to the atlas map, he probably had another twenty miles to go before hitting the highway. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At twenty weeks a mysterious line starts drawing itself down from her navel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One was a tall woman in a blue dress who could easily have been Blanca twenty years older. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Here was a pruney man in a turquoise smock, about twenty paces up the bridle path. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I think quick and say, “Can Mr. Allen drop Russ off at Erin’s house around seven twenty?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives us the impression that if we gave him another ten minutes, he’d come up with another twenty uses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Within twenty years, there may be no balds left in the Smokies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Well, between us we can put almost twenty thousand in the field in the next half hour. We’re in very good shape, I think.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

TimeStar said, “I’m really from twenty years in the future, Otto. Not two hundred. I’m you at the age of thirty-one.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like a thick piece of rope, a long piece, maybe twenty feet. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She had turned the corner, resetting back to her late twenties. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

You had to order a dress from Dessie months in advance, and you made twenty visits to her shop before you chose material and pattern. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty minutes from his tent, and began to make his way there. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked side by side for another twenty minutes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Well, he thought, I’m good for another twenty years if I’m careful. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever there’s a test I study at home for twenty minutes and get back to my Sims and stories. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Multiplying something by twenty’s easy, you just double it then add on a zero. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The distance through the wormhole might be only a few million miles even though earth and Alpha Centauri are twenty million million miles apart in ordinary space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last twenty strokes, Shorty Hunt wrote his parents the next day, were “the best I ever felt in any boat.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had turned the corner many times, had fathered more than twenty children over the years, some of whom were now over a century old themselves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After some spirited bargaining, I gave her the loden-stone and a single talent in order to wipe out my extremely short term loan of twenty talents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A veil had descended over my eyes, but I felt twenty years old and had the strength of a bull. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today our interview was shorter than usual, since I was sharing my twenty minutes with Manolo’s mother, who had driven down from Monte Cristi. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Kylmer had a research grant from the government and worked part of the time at a special laboratory they had built for him, not at Cornell but in the mountains about twenty miles away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But before honorably handing over my property, you stole twenty dollars.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A surprise—in this open landscape, where the distance from home to work to a friend’s place could easily be twenty miles, a car didn’t seem like a luxury. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louie was twenty months younger than his brother, who was everything he was not. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Between fifteen and twenty grand just from the casino tables,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

By the time Shandra was back in goal to start the scrimmage, we had lost about twenty minutes of practice time. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my bag to look for my phone—it’s in there, thank God, along with a bunch of scrunched-up twenties and a bloodstained Kleenex. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the guards spotted them from twenty yards away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun’s office was unharmed, but it was no more than twenty feet from the fire. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mom had calculated that we could leave at 6:00 A.M. central daylight time, stop three times at twenty minutes per stop, and still arrive at our destination at 9:00 P.M. eastern daylight time. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flossie opened the package—which contained about twenty huge trout heads—and burst out crying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He graduated high school years before even our mothers. This must’ve been here over twenty years.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The man had added about twenty pounds and seemed bursting with good health. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Only twenty miles long and thirteen miles wide, it lies at the farthest tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Ferguson twenty years later, the Court unanimously upheld Alabama's restrictions on interracial sex and marriage and affirmed the prison terms imposed on Tony Pace and Mary Cox. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And once Mrs. Trent gets into the front hall, it takes at least twenty minutes to get her out again. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. Seven twenty at Erin’s house. What number is hers?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I got twenty grand's worth of recording equipment in there." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Topping off the spectacle was a military parade including nearly sixty thousand infantry and more than twenty thousand horsemen. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I kept that paper on my person wherever I went for over twenty years. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been a teacher for almost twenty years now, and he couldn’t remember the last time he had gotten mad in front of a class. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby, Bisguier, and about twenty other players and spectators stood around the tournament director’s desk as he applied the tie-breaking system to determine the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least twenty bodies, laid out side by side, filling the entire floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We don’t have a lot of money, so twenty bucks is a big deal. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A special award will be made there in twenty minutes. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Right there. The questions on page one twenty- seven. Right next to the photosynthesis diagram. Ask away.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chet walked about twenty feet from the scene of the attack, searching for it. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“But it’s chaos here, and it has been since Wednesday. Everyone is working twenty- four-hour shifts. I haven’t been home since Wednesday, either. I can’t stop to look around for your mother.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Warships cannot be made from brick. The slavers burned every stand of timber within twenty leagues of here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They walked behind them for about twenty minutes, not speaking, listening hard for noises other than breaking twigs and rustling leaves. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

For some eagle pairs, that same nest might be used twenty times or more to lay, hatch, and nurture their offspring. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Soraya had told me that he had lived in the U.S. for more than twenty years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed because he used to say the same thing nearly twenty years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no more than twenty, where a hundred had been accustomed to wait upon King Robert. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even now, twenty years later, I can see him wrapping his girlfriend’s pantyhose around his neck before heading out on ambush. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their parents probably give them twenty bucks a day and don’t blink. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me! Does the wall need holding up? Do you think I’m an idiot? Give me twenty push-ups.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was his money, and if that’s what he wanted to do with twenty years of money he saved up, then let him make a fool of himself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded gratefully and let her switch into the oar seat, but twenty minutes later I asked for it back again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Through the fence I told him, “It probably won’t take more than twenty minutes. Maybe thirty.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So this year for the Fourth of July, my parents are taking me to the Tulalip reservation, about twenty miles north of the city. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After about twenty minutes, Johanna comes in and throws herself across the foot of my bed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“The big secret,” Az said, “the one that made us run away almost twenty years ago.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty perfect games had been documented in the game’s sixty-year history. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We spent a third of the class time learning “aeiou’s,” a third learning how to count to twenty in Tsonga and a third how to sit and stand upon command. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “But it ain’t! Five times twenty equals one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Something about fifteen or twenty feet away looked up at me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, let’s say twenty. I remember how you got in front of the camera.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He handed her twenty cents, and she sprinted away. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven feet wide at the widest and maybe twenty feet long inside, if you counted the storage space under the cockpit. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe in twenty years he’d be the mayor of New York and we’d all be in the audience listening to him talk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I put my fingers in my pocket and feel the crinkle of the crisp twenty. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ll give thee twenty dollars for the calf,” he said quickly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I've promised the City Watch twenty of my guard until the tourney is done," he told him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I hadn't gone twenty yards when I heard my name and Gatsby stepped from between two bushes into the path. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s the drain in the cafeteria floor!” said Grace, peering up twenty feet to a circular, slatted grate. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

There are/were many reasons for this decision to run it after a lapse of twenty years, but for people with normal lives they do not seem even remotely logical. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And just beyond them were villages crowded cheek by jowl—“there was one day when we passed more than twenty.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We lost twenty satyrs against some giants at Fort Washington,” he said, his voice trembling. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Fifteen or twenty minutes later, sergeants were interviewing DiPaola and Davis—they had been working on those same galleries—as well as other officers who had been involved. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would she even notice if someone took twenty million out of her billions? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tailor by trade and entered politics in his twenties, working his way up to the Senate. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Where does Maa Kamala get the money to take in so many girls? There must be twenty out there in the courtyard.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A fancy fortune-teller with a bunch of college degrees. He uses science and computers to predict the future. He can tell you what’s going to happen in ten, twenty years.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

So tomorrow, with only twenty- seven dollars left of the money raised in Kansas City, they were heading west again, to Texas, to Nevada—“nowhere definite.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experiments need at least twenty test subjects to ensure reliable data. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Good idea. We’ve got everything we need, plus a figgy bonus. Now we just need to boil the willow and the mint for twenty minutes or so, then let the tea sit awhile.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By the fact that Milton took hundreds of baby photographs of Chapter Eleven and no more than twenty or so of me? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then he told us about the time a friend of his found a bag containing twenty thousand dollars. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself forking over a twenty, and then another in a few days. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And only one in twenty of those were women. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

That close—twenty yards — and I could see the delicate latticework of the leaves, the texture of the soil, the browned needles beneath the pines, the configurations of geology and human history. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet away, a dude was spot-welding a hinge onto the pasture gate. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They also monitored the apparent motion of the Moon: the twenty- eight higher niches in the kiva may represent the number of days for the Moon to return to the same position among the constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, almost using my mom’s ATM card only twenty minutes into the adventure, I wonder how I could have managed the nerve to think I might pull this off. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Valerie had reserved twenty minutes on her schedule to talk to me that day, but our conversation ended up stretching for an hour and a half. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The students were all in their late teens or early twenties, many of them recent immigrants to America, and of middle and lower income. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been walking for over twenty minutes now, the woods thick and dark despite the daylight that must be approaching outside it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was out there every day from seven a.m. to seven p.m., and every day it was: How do we turn ten rand into twenty? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I did live on Sycamore Street. Seven twenty- eight.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, powerfully built youth of twenty, with a firm mouth and grave, dark eyes that gave him the appearance of an older man. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up, finally, on level ground twenty feet to the right of the mouth of the cave. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon, twenty thousand people had gathered behind a rope line in Ephrata. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We only had to read for fifteen minutes a night, but the past four days I’d read for twenty at least. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A quadruplet code would have 256 permutations—far more than needed to encode twenty amino acids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I thought of those twenty times and soon disputed that “fact.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“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

“Okay, it’s twenty till, so I’m going to run down to my floor and take a quick shower before dinner. I can meet you both downstairs in the lobby.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If anybody wanted to know what the neighborhood looked like in the twenties, where Jack Johnson had lived, perhaps, or where James Baldwin’s father had preached, Mother Fletcher could tell you. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly behind us, about twenty yards away, was a line of trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can find all the fresh butter we need in Sicily for twenty- five cents a pound,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the rising ground behind the house, barely visible from the road, was a vertical orange tank twenty feet high. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When these children of Bantu Education entered their late teens and early twenties, they rose up with a vehemence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trailer could hold between fifteen and twenty bins, or about forty thousand pounds of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The visitation room was twenty feet square with a few stools bolted to the floor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

J. T., who was in his late twenties, had cooled down his subordinates, but he didn’t seem to want to interfere directly with their catch. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A candidate star must be ten to twenty times as massive as our own Sun and "we don’t have anything of the requisite size that’s that close. The universe is a mercifully big place." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

According to Lopsang, during the fifteen or twenty minutes Fischer spent on the summit, he complained repeatedly that he wasn’t feeling well—something the congenitally stoic guide almost never did. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty to twenty-five years ago, social activists started a campaign to get rid of unfair, negative racial stereotypes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, hope I’m not interrupting. We have twenty minutes till the doors open upstairs. Anybody up for an Extreme Challenge?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Come back, boy!” she shouted, but Neville was rising straight up like a cork shot out of a bottle — twelve feet — twenty feet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

You only mention physical changes—and no, I don't believe you’ve gained twenty pounds! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Clustered in the left corner of the room stood twenty or so black men, all wearing work coats and dungarees, a few sharpening their outfits with newsboy caps or brimmed hats. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She kindly invited me inside while a woman in her early twenties lingered behind her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her expression was wide-eyed and a little crazy, like she’d just had twenty espressos and ridden a roller coaster, but that didn’t bother Leo. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We had been leaning there against the wall for over twenty minutes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Eumaios crossed the court and went straight forward into the megaron among the suitors; but death and darkness in that instant closed the eyes of Argos, who had seen his master, Odysseus, after twenty years. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maxx had promised to arrive by 11:40, twenty minutes before the official start of Speaker Day, giving him time to learn the speech and everything. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes the rice had swollen enough and absorbed some water. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If I’d once met with twenty people at a time at low-key house parties, I was now speaking to hundreds in a high school gym. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Shaped like circles, diamonds, hexagons, and interlocking rectangles, the earthworks are three to nine hundred feet in diameter and outlined by trenches up to twenty feet deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because of his unusual caution, the following seven games, numbers fourteen to twenty, were all draws. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I get there, he hands me a twenty. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“An average tree will give twenty gallons in a season,” Mr. Chris said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty minutes before we had to pack up and return to school, Shaun shouted out to Frank, “Are we going to have a quick game? We need to have a rematch from last week.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The twenties have proved to be perilous years. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell, but Alex didn’t think the temperature got much below twenty degrees in the daytime outside, so it would probably be about that, maybe a bit warmer, inside. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A wolf pack misses its prey sixteen out of twenty tries. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty years old and six-foot-four, a big strong farm boy. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

She didn’t blame or judge me for being poor—instead, she wrote, I hope this twenty dollars helps. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I could jump twenty feet into the air from a standstill, leaping like a monkey over the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I found myself, six days later, standing at our local airport watching a tin commuter plane containing Katz touch down and taxi to a halt on the tarmac twenty yards from the terminal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I gave the test to a relatively random sample of my friends and acquaintances, mostly journalists and professionals in their late twenties and thirties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to walk east from the station once I get there—toward the lake—but I still get lost for almost twenty minutes, going in circles and ending up in a cul-de-sac. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There followed a series of robed speakers, each talking for no more than fifteen or twenty minutes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

With his face in his hands and his handkerchief headgear drooping low over his brow, Zooey sat at Seymour’s old desk, inert, but not asleep, for a good twenty minutes. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The guy doesn’t even look at me, and gives me a twenty and mumbles, “Keep the change,” which translates into a two-dollar-and-four-cent tip for me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The engine had to weigh at least twenty tons, and there were dozens of boxcars behind it, each one shoving it forward. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A cloud of breath escaped her mouth every ten or twenty heartbeats. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Shady took my hand and walked no more than twenty feet from where we’d been sitting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

To Burnham, Codman seemed amazingly young, late twenties at the most. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Mess or no mess, I’m thinking about that day I look back twenty years from now, and I’m not about to have some rent-a-tux on my arm.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Did you know that once billboards were only twenty feet long? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They killed sixty white persons, men, women and children, found on plantations within a radius of twenty miles. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came in twelfth out of twenty, which of course I thought was a tremendous injustice. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And what makes these thoughts all the more disturbing is the knowledge that our fate could perhaps be sealed twenty or more years before the development of symptoms.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hitting something from twenty paces waren’t nothing, but I wondered if I should miss one or two of ’em on purpose so’s the Preacher wouldn’t see no signs of conjuring. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They were in their early forties then, married nearly twenty years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Above them was the triforium, a row of arches that went up another twenty feet in front of a narrow passageway. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They left Mr. Binks after he got caught up at the white socks table buying twenty pairs of socks, Genie guessed for when he got his skates. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

People had to have more than twenty experiences of joy in their whole life. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His record mile, run when he was seventeen, was three and a half seconds faster than Cunningham’s fastest high school mile, run when he was twenty. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

His wings stretched twenty feet from tip to tip, black as jet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are only about twenty of them, in two staggered rows so that the view from each seat is comparable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I talked to the reporter, whose name was Mr. Newman, for about twenty minutes, and was candid about both prison and the Rivonia Trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our high school, which had about twenty students at full strength, was down now to fifteen since two had graduated the previous spring and three had gone off to war. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty pairs of different-colored ear- muffs were lying on the bench. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

A reporter predicted that Louie’s record would stand for twenty years. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Brian had joined the police force as soon as he turned twenty. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Turning twenty on the farm, he believed he had found the place where he would grow old and die. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They went first to the little spring, and then climbing warily up they came to the road at the point where it swung east towards the Isenmouthe twenty miles away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

So far he had only covered about twenty pages and was beginning to wonder whether this Boethius was something of a gambler. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Enjoy life while you can. Nothing’s gonna happen for maybe five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. But lemme give you a piece of advice: Whenever the doorbell rings, have somebody else answer the door.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she let me approach—twenty feet, ten feet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been through situations like this a few times in the last twenty years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The feast of St. Christina the Astonishing is the twenty- fourth of July and I think I’ll keep that for myself along with the feast of St. Francis of Assisi on the fourth of October. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Standing upright, it would be over twenty feet tall. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As word spread that a young, handsome, and apparently unmarried doctor now stood behind the counter, an increasing number of single women in their twenties began to patronize the store. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the space of a single productive minute, therefore, he might endorse twenty separate documents each advising him to pay absolutely no attention to any of the others. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Catelyn climbed stiffly from the shadows and looked at the path ahead; twenty feet long and close to three feet wide, but with a precipitous drop to either side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A stone merman rose from its waters, twenty feet tall from tail to crown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But in an apartment building, it’s like twenty families. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Next, they played what seemed like a hundred and twenty rounds of Go Fish. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Adela was twenty, and so far did she outdistance the world that it seemed certain she would be the most beautiful for many, many years. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how Waverly still sounded the way she did twenty- five years ago, when we were ten and she had announced to me in that same voice, “You aren’t a genius like me.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At twelve, she started keeping steady company with a lad of twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn was standing on a wooden pallet, twenty feet in the air. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When he had left her, more than twenty years before, and after more than ten years of marriage, she had felt for that moment only an exhausted exasperation and a vast relief. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

By 1980 she received a name that was twenty times more common among blacks. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

"I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"There are only two of us, and there are at least twenty of them down there," he said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was sixty-eight and a widower twice over; she was in her twenties—no one knew exactly where in her twenties, but estimates put her between twenty-one and twenty-seven years old. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes of watching me pretend to wait, the receptionist asks if she can help me with something. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what. I’ll be here for twenty more minutes, tops,” he says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, it is so tedious and demanding that many students leave as many as ten or twenty questions blank. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I stood there for another twenty minutes, trying to convince her to come inside, but she kept saying “no.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It broke on the edge of a little town called Jistann, the needle trembling at H. Milkman sold it to the tow- truck man for twenty dollars and caught the first bus out. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, for she fell ill one winter and died before she was twenty.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

The trunk was at least twenty feet in diameter, with branches as tall as any in the park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I noticed the beer can that Shelly had used to clobber the speedboat driver floating about twenty yards off the beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

After about twenty seconds, Welles signals for him to silence the instruments. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He says we’ll also look for survivors from the Roanoke colony, the settlers who went to Virginia with Sir Walter Raleigh over twenty years ago. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But there was a log extending about twenty feet out into the water of the lake—a beaver drop from some time before—with old limbs sticking up, almost like handles. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled like hot hair, nail polish remover, and a soft perfume, which Bridget had sprayed on at least eight out of twenty pulse points. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, as another wild burst of lightning illuminated the fairway, he spotted it twenty yards ahead of him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him no more than twenty minutes and it got a laugh, sure enough, though not quite the sort he’d expected. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about the right age and physique, and it was probable that people changed somewhat after twenty years in a forced-labor camp. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But if it was somebody within twenty pounds her weight she would give him a good sock and go right on. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got enough gas for about another ten kilometers, twenty at the most.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"We like it here. Betty can walk to school, and I drive to mine in about twenty minutes." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Normally, the second floor housed twenty patients that needed long-term care on straw mats covered with blankets. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone—literally every kid in attendance, twenty or thirty of them—was gathered around, shouting and bidding on the goods inside. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We’ve taken in twenty of the Negroes who lived on his land and a nasty old overseer named Duncan. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“If our theory is right and a witch is helping the Nightbeast, this is all gonna be twenty times harder,” Thorn said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he had gone halfway around the lake, and had jumped up twenty or so birds, he finally gave up and sat at the base of a tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Akira’s pajamas held twenty as well, so altogether they had a hundred dollars. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was twenty feet away from Elowen, and the dagger was pressing against her calf. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when Diego texted me later that evening to meet him outside in twenty minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Despite her common sense, which had withstood more than twenty years’ worth of the three-legged table and her mother’s prognostications, she was trembling as she crossed the threshold of the darkroom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the house was plain and uncomfortable and noisy with the complaints of twenty relatives. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, following the tracks I’d made fifteen or twenty minutes earlier, Beidleman and the remainder of Fischer’s clients filed down through the worsening blizzard. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the house seems to have dropped twenty degrees in a matter of seconds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Exposure, you know? If he fell in, he could die in, like, twenty minutes.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A body of knights would pick sides, so that there were twenty or thirty on either side, and then they would rush together harum-scarum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s fifteen or twenty buildings gathered round the pond at the bottom of the falls before the river starts up again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Jefferson had also shared with Madison his intriguingly utopian suggestion that each generation was sovereign, so that the laws made for one generation should expire after about twenty years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Do you want another twenty years?” yelled Ivanov. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was more than twenty years since his family came to pick—the defendant, his two brothers, his two sisters, his mother and father—she remembered them well enough. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In World War ll, in the USSR, nearly twenty air armies were stationed throughout the country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His food, which was sitting on the plate in front of him, very innocent and oblivious, gets destroyed over the next twenty seconds as he eats half of it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"All the brass in this booth is not worth twenty honors," Dany told him as she studied the reflections. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the rostrum, seated in three compact rows of auditorium chairs, were about twenty children, mostly girls, ranging in age from about seven to thirteen. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The gun was about as long as I was tall, and had a bayonet around twenty inches long. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Special relativity, fully worked out by Einstein in his middle twenties, is supported by every experiment performed to check it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have twenty thousand men. You are besieged by land and sea. Why would I choose single combat when my eventual victory is certain?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“O faithless one,” Queenie said, pointing to the entrance to a farm lane about twenty yards farther on. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In at least fifteen states, blacks are admitted to prison on drug charges at a rate from twenty to fifty-seven times greater than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They piled in and Jimmy began driving crosstown through the park and then the twenty blocks uptown to the bodega. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Having lived on a mountain for twenty years, he’d never seen the sea before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the look of him, he must have weighed twenty stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not much for twenty years;—and yet too much for twenty years. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Kitum Cave expedition set up headquarters in the Mount Elgon Lodge, a decayed resort dating from the nineteen twenties, when the English had ruled East Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of his life he was thoroughly cosmopolitan, travelling widely, living for twenty years in Weimar, and for six years near Rome, where he took holy orders. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After I promised I wouldn’t copy all the records, Deborah said she was going to bed again, but for the next several hours, she knocked on my door every fifteen or twenty minutes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Climbing to twenty thousand feet, he rendezvoused with nine other Skyhawks headed for North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He wondered aloud how he was supposed to report on a story from twenty miles away. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might’ve been seventeen or twenty, it was hard to say, but he was built like a dancer—with long graceful arms and muscular legs, perfect posture and an air of regal calm. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No one was within twenty feet of her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I got a hay fever attack and sneezed ten or twenty times into a nuggety hanky. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Since were so busy, were limiting Internet usage to twenty minutes per person.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At this point both benches emptied and converged, and the twenty or so fans watching joined the fray. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But among the twenty of us in A group, no one could see any signs that we were growing older at all. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why should my team be expected to raise twenty thousand dollars? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Gauguin is quite ambitious, and he has agreed to make Theo his sole art representative, sending him at least twenty paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was a rather large company, twenty all together. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Romans lounged in groups of ten or twenty, talking and laughing while wind spirits—aurae—swirled overhead, bringing an endless assortment of pizzas, sandwiches, chips, cold drinks, and fresh-baked cookies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We must have walked for about twenty minutes. We went down this hill, to the bottom of a gully where a stream was, when my dad suddenly said to me, ‘Coraline—run away. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

At the time of his arrest, Marcus was twenty-four years old and had been addicted to drugs for six years, beginning shortly after his mother’s death and escalating throughout his early twenties. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The horse weighed in at 1,070, twenty pounds too much. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Coq au vin. I haven’t made it before. I just found out that you’re supposed to cook it twenty- four hours in advance. I’m afraid I’m running a bit behind.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wiry man in his late twenties was Harper, an evening-shift officer who had been injured by inmates in the yard during an incident the week before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, twenty, thirty gulls rose from somewhere on the island coast and turned to face the sea breeze, screeching like broken promises. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

So Sammy staked me, about twenty dollars, I think it was. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Adolf-Hitler-Platz, concentric rings of tall masts flying Olympic flags surrounded a central tower, sixty-two feet high, draped with twenty swastika flags, forming a dramatic, blood-red cylinder in the middle of the grassy square. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I was born in the country nineteen hundred and twenty. Born here, raised up here, always lived here, and gonna die here, I'm sure," he said, and then winked at Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Much smaller, I thought, and not nearly so menacing, and in the bright sunlight it was hard to picture what had happened on this ground some twenty years ago. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I can see in the darkness, the trestle drops down to a rocky riverbank twenty yards below. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As it was, about twenty yards on each side of the bridge were cut each year, and one could dive in from the bridge itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Check the Scoreboard. There are still twenty Sixer avatars listed there, below Parzival. And their scores indicate that every single one of them has a copy of the Crystal Key.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I get lucky and catch a ride on a farmer’s wagon for more than twenty kilometers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The most surprising thing: he looked about twenty. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We’d only been in the kitchen, like, twenty minutes and the guy was talking Satan. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were born at the right time with the right parents and the right ethnicity, which allowed them to practice takeover law for twenty years before the rest of the legal world caught on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In twenty or thirty minutes, the wind picked up sharply and Timothy said that we must stand against the palm again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We followed the sound of running water down the hill until we pushed through a thick stand of pine trees and came upon a lovely, deep stream about twenty feet across. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

About fifteen feet forward-ship from the first row of deck chairs, and eighteen or twenty rather sun-blinding feet overhead; a young man was steadily watching him from the Sports Deck railing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Harriot Stanton Blatch, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, lived in England for twenty years and worked with British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If we get back up there in the next twenty minutes it should be okay.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It twisted and turned for another twenty feet before opening up into a tiny box canyon with steep walls rising away on every side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next twenty questions covered things like lions in the jungle, gravity in space, authors of famous books, and math. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’ve walked that corridor for twenty minutes, yet have gotten nowhere. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She felt dizzy at the sight, the motion, the noise, and the size of the room, which must have measured twenty feet long and almost as wide. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just before dark, they began skimming across the water, their short, winglike fins taking them on flights of twenty or thirty feet, sometimes more. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The modest two-story house would be their family home for more than twenty years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We were still jammed in twenty yards or so from the car by all the people on the wide sidewalk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the tank built in to the front end of the boat for fresh water and he thought it held twenty gallons but he did not know how much water was in the tank. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this because he stops chewing for a good twenty seconds. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

If this demand were granted, you would need only eleven points out of twenty three but I would still need twelve and a half out of my twenty three. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ben noticed that Red was a good two inches taller than he was, but he also was certain that he outweighed Red by twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty dormice were dragged forward in a pitiable condition. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They were twenty yards from the porch when something hissed in the grass behind them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I go in, snoop around, find what I need, and if I’m not back out in, let’s say, twenty minutes, you come in too. Yeah?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was twenty years younger than Calvin, but found himself unable to keep up the pace. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car had gone no more than twenty yards when it began to slow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I feel like I'm eleven again, tethered not to the safety of the fence but to Peeta, allowing myself twenty, maybe thirty yards of hunting space. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A former singer in her early twenties, Comrade Ri dressed like a junior executive at Samsung. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Your friends? Your family? Aapa, this isn’t back home. And it’s not the same as it was twenty, thirty years ago, even in India.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

First, fool Lustig, then Hinkston, then gather a crowd; and all the men in the rocket, seeing mothers, aunts, uncles, sweethearts, dead ten, twenty years ago, naturally, disregarding orders, rush out and abandon ship. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Owen had told him once—was it twenty gallons? The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly twenty till eight, but the coachman assured us that he could get us to the Wild West Show only a few minutes late of the eight o’clock showing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t gone fifteen or twenty minutes, but when I came out, I found I was not alone. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I hear people today complaining about the time their children will spend riding the bus, but I remember the time when minorities had to walk fifteen to twenty miles to attend school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, we can spend the next twenty years trying to address the fundamental problem of unconscious racism in our society. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backward, right into Nico’s sword. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rowdy had been an absolute terror, scoring twenty points, grabbing ten rebounds, and stealing the ball seven times. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A single sweep, and a third of it lay, a writhing heap of thorns, in a pile twenty feet away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next twelve days, American bombers struck Hanoi and Haiphong with twenty thousand tons of explosives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

First, I entered a zip code in downtown Chicago, clicked “location,” and asked for a radius of twenty miles. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Seven hundred and twenty dollars. Talk about a rip-off. They’re supposed to sell for fifty-five a piece, but they charge a five-dollar service charge for each ticket.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet across, the Map Room had concrete walls bare of any decoration. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looked up: A giant stood before him, twenty feet high, its head hidden in shadow, nothing but its treelike, hairy shins illuminated by light from the castle doors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The only light came from dim fluorescents spaced every twenty feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At twenty feet tall, the Jupiter bird was the largest bird ever to walk the planet, a marvel of science. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If you think my memories of the day might be inaccurate more than twenty years later, here's the moment described in my diary: Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We had made like twenty or thirty squares before Whit, finally, thank you Lord, cut the music. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They walked through the wood for twenty minutes, talking and joking loudly, until at last they emerged on the other side and found themselves in the shadow of a gigantic stadium. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"And forty more—twenty knights with as many squires. If I arrive without a knightly tail, the Tyrells will think me of small account." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nico watched, paralysed, as the grave spewed forth more dead British soldiers - five, ten, twenty, multiplying so quickly that Reyna and her metal dogs were surrounded before Nico even thought to raise his sword. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For twenty minutes, the rails clacked beneath us, the posts holding up the rock roof blurring past like a subterranean forest of gray tree trunks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty years of working separately, the younger members of both groups began to see the wisdom of joining ranks and working on suffrage together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

An hour later, about twenty of us were sitting in a Denny’s in Spokane. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

By ten-fifteen Alex was inside the school, and twenty minutes later he had his large plastic bag of food to take home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A laugh breaks from his lips, maybe twenty meters ahead. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Just twenty years after the end of World War I, it looked like a second world war was about to explode. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw thousands of men, ten, twenty thousand, perhaps more, spread across the vastness of the beach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Joe Sullivan was given a June 2014 release date that was changed by Florida officials twenty days before his scheduled return home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“There aren’t any four hundred twenties in the mountains,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His father switches off the music and calls Dilip and Maya Nandi, who now live in a suburb twenty minutes away and have a little boy of their own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every American was a rifleman by birth, and one American was worth ten or twenty foreigners in a fight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them are secondhand, all the classics for example, one volume in blue cloth boards cost one mark twenty pfennig. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hands of the clock pointed to twenty minutes past nine. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The voice on the radio droned on: “February twenty- first—one hundred and forty-one. February twenty-second—seventy- four. February twenty-third—two hundred and six.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s not long before I am ahead of copy and Mister Golden seems pleased with the column, the first two of which only took me about twenty minutes to write. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That comes out to twenty times for each one of you. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Both were gone as soon as I said, “Almost twenty. Not quite, but I almost had you.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He held the twenty cent one in his hands, drawing it through his fingers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dri, you said they would be there in twenty minutes, right?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into his cash drawer and pulled out two twenty- dollar bills and put them down on the desk. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without warning I had a vision of Francis—twenty years later, fifty years, in a wheelchair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes, Blake returned to Rotterdam, using the back roads he had learned as a teenager in the Dutch resistance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their wings were the first thing he’d heard in more than twenty years. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I'll match that. First to twenty wins fifty pence off the other.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the woods on the right, the Hunters sent a volley of silver arrows into the enemy line, destroying twenty or thirty dracaenae, but more marched behind them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You could buy a small house with that! What does she need twenty thousand pounds for?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the middle of a dark room surrounded by maybe a hundred and twenty foot-high statuettes of Smokey the Bear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next twenty minutes, I worked myself into a frenzy anticipating what might happen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I recall an auction not twenty yards from here,” Mr. Robert said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol’s first home is a fully furnished apartment ten minutes by foot to Harvard, twenty to MIT. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe hundred, hundred and twenty kilos so far,” Nailer estimated. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

So now, at the age of sixteen, my name will be in the reaping twenty times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“They don’t shovel. They haven’t shoveled in twenty years. They use machines.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not! And if turning up my hair makes me one, I’ll wear it in two tails till I’m twenty,” cried Jo, pulling off her net, and shaking down a chestnut mane. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a long pole and wire, I’d drag the hide on top of rail fences, swing it through the air, and let it touch the ground twenty or thirty feet away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was reason to worry, too, for just a few years ago, the demons had broken their own laws and turned away over twenty thousand of their former guests who had expected to be readmitted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This way, I can go to Erin’s at seven and spend at least twenty minutes with her alone. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was no use trying to trick her by telling her to meet you at a time twenty minutes before you really wanted to meet. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

This became our core group of about twenty prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The development approach involved taking small cells of melody or rhythm, or both, and making up a whole discourse from them over a twenty- or thirty-minute period of growth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The straight eight-to- five world simply didn’t have enough glamor for her, and it was twenty years later that I first saw her in a nurse’s uniform. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His EVA had lasted only twenty minutes or so, but he had enjoyed it so much he had hated to get back inside the spacecraft and close the hatch. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She struggled to wrap it around Taisin’s waist, and several desperate minutes later, after they had been dragged another twenty feet downstream, she succeeded, and Con began to pull them onto the bank. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maniac produced his certificate for conquering Cobble’s Knot, and twenty minutes later the young runaways were at tacking a large pizza with pepperoni. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In four years of fighting, nearly eight million Soviet soldiers and twenty million civilians died. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It contains a county map of Texas with complex voter demographic breakdowns, matched up with the populations of children of undocumented immigrants, unregistered voters who are legal residents, voting patterns over the last twenty years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Because of the plankton and the cold, green waters, he might only be able to see twenty feet in front of him on an average day. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

One hundred and twenty sunrises, one hundred and twenty more times he has to drag his corrupted body out of a bed and button it into a uniform. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow and his black brothers were gathered around three spears, some twenty yards away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rod is in his late twenties, plays drums in a Pogues-type, Irish-trad-punk band, and, if the rumors are true, deals a little himself, only not on the streets. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had Millennium Challenge been a real war instead of just an exercise, twenty thousand American servicemen and women would have been killed before their own army had even fired a shot. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They were barely twenty feet from the bank at that point, and there was more than three quarters of the way to go. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She stood twenty feet away, holding her ceramic amphora. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It might take twenty years, but soon enough we’ll all be on that gurney. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Sort of. I think it was like twenty minutes away. I got on a bus from the airport and I rode the line until I saw a place out the window." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Daoud Khan had been killed, but not before the communist rebels had killed some twenty members of his family, including women and grandchildren. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Hermes made it sound pretty ridiculous—hordes of monsters going up in the elevator twenty at a time, listening to "Stayin’ Alive." The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a bad mule, but he’s old. Probably twenty dollars.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been poking you for twenty minutes. You sleep like the dead.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I get home with twenty minutes to spare, but my feet feel like toeless blocks of ice. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure if a client being twenty minutes late qualified. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

That list could well have served as a recapitulation of twenty years of war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

About twenty minutes later he'd gotten himself together and was about to leave the house. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Charlie’s legs stuck out from under the Wrangler when I trudged home twenty minutes later, and country music filled the morning silence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She is young and can find work now, but women over the age of twenty-five or twenty- eight are no longer considered for many jobs in Honduras, something made clear in newspaper employment ads. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The camp store loaned me one hundred dollars in mortal money and twenty golden drachmas. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, no. I wouldn’t read five thousand pages of something if it contained precise instructions on how to lose twenty pounds by eating Krispy Kremes and orgasming. Do you not have homework?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I was only nineteen or twenty at that time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty black guys sitting under fluorescent lights in an old warehouse. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty years earlier, he had been working on a tanker called the Andromeda. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hearing that hoarse, smoky voice again took her back twenty years, to the days of her childhood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It could be twenty feet deep or more, and impossible to escape. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, where am 1 gonna get that twenty bucks?” he asked acidly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as Atzerodt takes refuge at a cousin’s house in the small community of Germantown, Maryland, twenty miles northwest of Washington, a cavalry detachment knocks at the door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five feet down and back, twenty feet across and back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been on a tanker once, maybe twenty years earlier, navigating through the Philippines. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes—what should hurt me?—I walk fast. I shall be at home in twenty minutes.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He then asked us to give him double-digit numbers up to twenty to multiply in his head. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It is difficult for me to sit still for more than twenty minutes at a stretch, so I used to interrupt my tanning sessions with walks to the pier. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Helene and her daughter entered a coach peopled by some twenty white men and women. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’s about twenty feet from the edge of the cliff. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep, so I took my board up the mountain to watch the sunrise. They went right over me, twenty hovercars at once coming across the ridge. But what’s happening now?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The old man had the look of Westerns about him, and the brown-skinned one must weigh twenty stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsen- hausen concentration camp. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s getting old. What am I saying? He is old. He’s been old for twenty years.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At night it will be, anyway. I hope we beat it home. I don’t want to travel twenty miles with the oxen slipping and sliding up and down every hill.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My tools? I have twenty acres of trees to care for. And I’m a wood-carver. You thought they were weapons?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a good twenty minutes to the pickup zone if we were fast. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about how I feel. When something makes me happy, I put a pebble in the wagon. If I’m unhappy, I take a pebble out. There are twenty pebbles in all.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We were strangers—though, as you can imagine, it did not take long for us to develop a feeling of comradeship, for we twenty were alone in a strange world. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They raise a white child and then twenty years later the child becomes the employer. It’s that irony, that we love them and they love us, yet...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t get past twenty copies without losing her place and had to start over, again and again. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one taxi will stop for us, though we hail for twenty minutes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By her early twenties, she was dancing professionally before packed houses all over Germany, drawing rave reviews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On Sunday Lyddie went to see her, taking her botany text and a couple of novels that cost Lyddie twenty cents at the lending library. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can walk at least twenty minutes in one direction and make it back with plenty of time to spare. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if it was a good cause you could lower yourself to work for twenty,” Valerie said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did this for two weeks every April and figured he had about another twenty years to go. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I let her hold me ten, twenty, thirty seconds, then slowly I pull away. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Each time I planted one of my ice axes, that distance shrank by another twenty inches. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We don’t really see the creator twiddling twenty knobs to set twenty parameters to create the universe as we know it." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s the liver. It can be up to twenty percent of the shark’s body weight. The fatter the liver, the healthier the shark.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Cato lies on his side at the very top of the horn, twenty feet above the ground, gasping to catch his breath as he gags over the edge. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I could run twenty miles,” he said. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The men, tied there for over twenty hours a day, had no choice but to lie in the filth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena and August are arguing so loudly I can hear them twenty yards off. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Four arms spring from its summit: the nearest town to which these point is, according to the inscription, distant ten miles; the farthest, above twenty. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The number of dead floating cells had increased twenty times! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We stayed out in the cool rain for twenty or thirty minutes and then went back inside. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But think about Squelch aged twenty, or thirty? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I'm twenty years younger than her and unquestionably gay, but yeah. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The equivalent of twenty million books is inside the heads of every one of us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know we're so lucky we're coming out now and not twenty years ago, but it's still really a leap of faith. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

For about twenty years Mr. Fenchel had done hand tailoring in Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Which she received,” I struck in, “when she was dressing for her marriage? At twenty minutes to nine?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the room seemed to drop twenty degrees. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I definitely didn’t mention the great pandemic from back in the twenties. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were all chanting in unison, “Eighteen, nineteen, twenty,” and for a moment, I thought Ben was getting—like—hazed or something. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Our mother told us Aunt Consuelo came here twenty years ago.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the place where the skeletons had stood, a twenty- foot-long scar wove across the marble floor of the pavilion. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It had been twenty months since he and Joe Kennedy had identified element 94’s alpha signature in their microscopic sample. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The number may, however, be estimated at from twenty to fifty, seventy, eighty, ninety, or an hundred and more. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes spends the afternoon training Maribel, a pretty Puerto Rican woman in her late twenties with a pixie cut and stylishly long nails. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had about twenty minutes before I had to be home. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was mountains looming on the verge of sight, their jagged edges softened by wellnigh twenty leagues of misty air; perhaps it was but a cloud-wall, and beyond that again a yet deeper gloom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

By the time I’m twenty feet up, I’m out of breath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

As best he could understand it, the world had simply gotten too full of people about twenty years earlier. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guards, also in disarray, are too busy trying to sort out the power situation and help people up to notice the twenty or so of us who slip out the door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My city was about twenty feet around its borders and growing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She has counted the shredded beets on her plate and organized them so they are lying in a line like twenty men in sleeping bags. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes on and on, like a kid, and he’s just turned twenty, for Jesus’ sake. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

This Court finds your age to be twenty. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They rest in weeds twenty paces off the road. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The twins and I were twenty years old, and Henry and Francis were twenty-one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I was just filling everyone in on dinner plans for prom. We have a six o’clock reservation at the American Grill Bistro at North Point Mall. It’s about twenty minutes from the nature center.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Five points for a sprinkle, ten for a puddle, twenty for a decorative pattern on the wall behind the mug. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness Jamie thought so clearly so fast, and thank goodness for those twenty acres of floor space. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re twenty years old, for Christ’s sake. Are you trying to get us killed?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was at least twenty minutes before the people a few feet in front of them appeared to have moved forward at all. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I held the camera shutter open for twenty seconds for each star. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those charged included Dr. King, twenty- three other ministers, and all the car-pool drivers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The camera is marked twenty dollars, which doesn’t seem like too much for a digital camera that works. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The insubstantial frost feathers ensured that those last twenty feet remained hard, scary, onerous. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also gave herself twenty years’ headstart over the young girls, although she admitted to only ten, which already forced her to push. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got twenty more lockers today, kid,” Hull said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Inside the camps, however, workers had been paid less than twenty dollars a month, even if they were doctors! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey banged around on my drum set for twenty minutes or so and things felt normal again, for a little while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad dropped us off in front of Ari’s Cakes twenty minutes later, and Trevor and I got out of the car without speaking a word to each other. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The straw was curled and mangled as if Mr. Munch had been cleaning the sidewalk for, like, twenty years with it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

From the stage, Kammerer could easily identify Mackintosh’s group, about twenty people in all. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I step inside and see at least twenty people packed in the tiny living room and hallway. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For twenty years I held the Tangerine County record for the most passing yards in a single game. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These four eras are further divided into anywhere from a dozen to twenty subgroups, usually called periods though sometimes known as systems. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Coach had us run suicides for twenty minutes, his way of punishing us for being part of something stupid. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She’d nearly miscarried in the first trimester, and now that she was approaching twenty weeks, she was beginning to have contractions. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Hmmm. You should. White lithium salt. I thought of it three span before you came to us. It is good so far, twenty- four days and I expect many more.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So, instead of panicking, I closed my eyes and spent the twenty minutes’ drive with Edward. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Far from being ubiquitous, it could only be used simultaneously by no more than twenty people in a single city. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There are only about twenty cheerleaders in all, so I have no idea how they meet the demand. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This room, set up to accommodate about twenty workers, was nearly full. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“But one night, there were ten sightings in ten different parts of town. The next night twenty. By the next week, we had fifty of them and...” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bike ride to ABC usually took around five minutes, but this time it took the boys almost twenty because of Wes’s slow pace. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The teacher was a young woman in her early twenties, straight brown hair, freckles, with a name like Miss Haven or Havishaw. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has a twenty. You owe him four dollars and twenty-six cents.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty purple-and-gilt chairs stood in two rows here, and Harry, filing into the front seats with the Weasleys, looked down upon a scene the likes of which he could never have imagined. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He took out another twenty and gave it to her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Likely the one on the road got the twenty years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he had to be twenty feet tall at least, and just as wide. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Remember when Manifest boasted citizens of twenty different nationalities? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Carrie is in her twenties, with blond hair and brown eyes and a crisp English accent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once it was on we had twenty minutes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mom gave him one of his presents, a brass cigarette lighter from the nineteen twenties in the shape of a Scottish terrier. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when Jimmy stuffed a wad of twenties into his hand...where did the money come from? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes and no. The new evidence is a warm lead, obviously, but serials are tricky. They live for the cat-and-mouse, and they think twenty steps ahead.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Not this time, try me again in twenty years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would have to retrace my way at least twenty miles, find a vet, have Charley vaccinated, and then return. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And usually these carrion talkers were the same ones who had said one American was worth twenty Germans in a scrap—the same ones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he had already told them the day before what he had seen in that first column—twenty men in the back of a three-ton lorry killed with a single bomb. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He measures twenty inches long, weighs seven pounds nine ounces. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-two lines per block, twenty times five blocks is one hundred, and two times five is ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

"They took about twenty chaps to the infirmary," Mike said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He has to deliver them to a neighbor about twenty miles away. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Fischer arrived twenty minutes late for the drawing of colors, and he and Spassky met backstage. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys had spent the first twenty minutes of the play trying to get rid of the creepy sensation that Magistrate Riker was still glaring at her from somewhere in the shadows. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought twenty flyers could have brought more than a thousand people to the park? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it never was, because there’s probably a good twenty, twenty-five yards here. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lady tells us it took him twenty years to write the dictionary, and he also wrote the first schoolbooks and grammar books. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Parked automobiles catch fire, as do curtains and lampshades and sofas and mattresses and most of the twenty thousand volumes in the public library. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If twenty dollars could do so much, I wondered, what could forty do? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He must have stood a while near the end of the gap, resting or looking, because it was twenty minutes before he came out, walking somewhat more slowly, and started toward the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Actually, his third if you counted the twenty minutes it took to coax him out from under my bed and lock him up in his plastic carrier. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the lobby there were about twenty boys, all dressed better than I. Their parents were giving them last-minute points for the interview. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes George couldn’t believe she was so old: twenty- two! I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

In his twenty years as a Marine he had gained weight each year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had paid human traffickers twenty thousand dollars, the family’s entire savings, to get them out of Afghanistan into neighboring Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Each mansion occupied an area about three times that of the yard I lived in, yet the latter was home for over twenty families. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were twenty feet above her, stopping the other Bludger from murdering Harry, Oliver,” said George angrily. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Some were riding to fairs as great as that of Troyes, others to universities which rivalled Paris, where there were twenty thousand scholars whose ranks eventually provided seven popes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under all the bunks except the forward double one were bins for more storage—no wasted space on a boat—and under the double was a water tank which David thought held twenty gallons. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus shelter I'd left twenty seconds ago was requisitioned as a bunker. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We had enough food to feed twenty square blocks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Good! That's very good. People want to hear that. Our people need to have someone say that to them. Why don't you let me send out an interviewer? I'll have her there in twenty minutes." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my mother’s sister made me a sandwich I couldn’t eat, gave me twenty dollars, and put me out. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest of the address books, bought twenty- eight years ago at a stationery store in Harvard Square, has a pebbly black cover and blue pages, bound together by a rubber band. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There were maybe twenty of us at most,” he said, gripping my hand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ice pulled out a roll of bills from his pocket and gave the woman twenty dollars. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had nightmares that he would take ten, twenty, or thirty jump shots in the first practice and not make a single one of them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thirty? Did I say thirty? Such a fool I am. The price is twenty honors." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the age of ten Amy was caught taking a fistful of twenties from an unguarded till at the grocery store. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The boat fills quickly—ten, twenty people—yet still the Turks push more in. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We estimated that there would be over twenty million people going to the polls, most of them voting for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I walk into Miss Walters’, Miss Hilly be there and she try to give me twenty dollars. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Corporal Snark was an intellectual snob who felt he was twenty years ahead of his time and did not enjoy cooking down to the masses. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

From the twenties through the eighties, whatever else there hadn’t been in Odessa, there had always been high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest canals were seventy-five to eighty feet across and twenty feet deep. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

For the whole rest of sixth grade, Hunter wasn’t allowed within twenty feet of Max, and so far this year, he was keeping away. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now I was drinking sugary tea with Zalabia Bedouins and squatting on a sand drift in Wadi Rum, the Valley of the Moon, less than twenty miles from the Saudi Arabian border. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like twenty kids are in front of me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since both trains run every twenty minutes throughout the day, he figures he’ll let the subway decide whom he’ll visit, and take the first train which comes along. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It usually only took about an hour, and he always gave me twenty dollars for it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“More? I gave him twenty dollars already. We’re only getting a few things.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Citra released a breath that she had been holding for the last twenty seconds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

That meant twenty dollars was worth at least four hundred eighty Zim dollars—enough to get me back in school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain rolled into the room twenty seconds later carrying a tall stack of newspapers in his lap. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty people were working on the Huaricanga mound, shoveling away the obscuring loess. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A man who looked twenty years older had taken his place. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than twenty minutes a ship of three hundred thousand tons became a speck on the horizon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty other Americans in there, sitting on the floor with their backs to the wall, staring into the flames—thinking whatever there was to think, which was zero. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had happened before, and it had cost a territorial governor his head a hundred years ago, and it had cost another governor his political career only twenty years ago. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since Meteor Crater, Arizona, an impact crater about a kilometer across, has been found to be twenty or thirty thousand years old, the observations on the Earth are in agreement with such crude calculations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were right. Somebody took them here, no doubt. Look—the bushes are beat to death on the other side. Like twenty people marched across it.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I remember she was in her early twenties, and not bad to look at. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t appear much different to me than they did twenty years before; they looked just as tall, as venerable, the capital of my father’s life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember all the American soldiers in trucks yesterday? Must have been twenty trucks that drove by us. They definitely took that road.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But in that brief span the storm abruptly metastasized into a full-blown hurricane, and the visibility dropped to less than twenty feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was a young man, still in his twenties. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Between ten and twenty minutes later, with Neves’s body already growing cold, the track physician decided to take a shot at the moon and injected Neves’s heart with adrenaline. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty women met and formed the Mothers’ Club, electing a young mother named Joyce Thorpe president of the group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her January pay came to eleven dollars and twenty cents, exclusive of board. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though dubbed a “front-page detective” for his incessant self-promotion, he had an impressive track record, including catching those responsible for the 1910 bombing of the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times, which killed twenty people. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We are to get this poem by heart, twenty lines a night to be recited every morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was twenty- four and seven years married when she knew. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting twenty head of stock to eat it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, for the horse. The Hasses gave him to me for twenty bucks because he won’t stop eating the pants off the line.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One of them lifted his left hand from time to time and patted the floor lightly and swiftly ten or twenty times, then sat motionless again. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Adams was overwhelmed when they arrived at the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi, about twenty miles northwest of Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In his front yard, he saw the two men about twenty feet away, standing under a cedar tree. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Francie was raised to twenty dollars a week, Mama gave her five dollars a week for herself to pay for her carfare, lunches, and clothes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden watchtower was the tallest thing this side of the mountains, rising twenty feet above the biggest sentinels and soldier pines in the surrounding woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A green mist poured from the mummy’s mouth, coiling over the floor in thick tendrils, hissing like twenty thousand snakes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped another twenty dollars into the envelope and wrote that I hoped it would cover costs until my parents could figure things out. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The next time I saw him smile unabashedly like that was twenty- six years later, in a faded Polaroid photograph. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

These cost twenty bucks at the swap meet. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then he searched for people twenty and older who lived in those residences. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The salad bar has types of lettuce greens I’ve never seen before and at least twenty toppings. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Confederates thus outnumbered Rosecrans’ army by as many as twenty thousand, and they handed a terrible defeat to the army that had so cheerfully set out upon its march in June. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may have buried the lead, but I need to give you twenty years of epically romantic context before we revisit the end of their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They were in their twenties, blond and blue-eyed with stylishly tousled haircuts and funky glasses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dominic gave Jake a quizzical look, then took the man’s twenty and gave him the correct change. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle even got money from some kin and friends in the eastern provinces from whom he had not heard in twenty years. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, pointing at the birdcage, I said, “I remember when you used to have about twenty birds.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Shelving units were arranged in a square around an open area, maybe twenty feet by twenty feet wide. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, among other honors, for his novel Native Speaker, and was selected by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best American writers under forty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had three rooms and no rugs, and I’d look at the single photograph she had, of a white girl she told me she looked after for twenty years over in Port Gibson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“She was adopted by a family about twenty minutes away. We have their information. We agreed that whenever one of you wanted to contact the other, we would let them know.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

Lifting weights was a struggle with poor results; sets of twenty pull-ups became sets of four, on good days; and his coach pulled him out of the ring indefinitely because fighting would be impossible. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Dancing Trout Dude Ranch and Health Spa had been operating on the Devine estate up in Milagro Canyon ever since the early twenties. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After spending twenty minutes in the neutron-rich environment next to the cyclotron, they discovered that they had each absorbed several hundred daily doses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Fifteen or twenty heads turn in our direction because Brenda has a really loud voice when she wants to. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finding the right key took about twenty rings, and at first there was no one on the other end of the line. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he would ride for twenty more years, bearing only a single scar from a hoof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls who know twenty different ways to kill you with a knife. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Fourteen days passed, three hundred and thirty-six hours flew by, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty minutes whistled past, twelve million ninety six thousand seconds roared away.... Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

But by the late twenties, as he had witnessed the menacing rise of eugenics in the United States, he had begun to reconsider his enthusiasm. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To his eyes, Temp looked exactly like the other twenty roaches sitting around. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had handled the Columbia account for twenty years and didn’t like the idea of losing even a small part of the business to a competitor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I got off the train yesterday, I hung around outside Ashbury station for a full fifteen or twenty minutes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was reelected to the House more than twenty years later, in 1940. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty minutes had passed when Mrs. Lee finally called on our table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Harry estimated that their owners were fewer than twenty feet away, but the cascading river made it impossible to tell for sure. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

‘I stashed twenty rifles in this convenient shrubbery’? Give us something.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Before they had gone twenty yards, though, she turned to glance behind them and said, “Men, he says. What men? Does he mean wildlings? Why won’t he say?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The ground was about twenty feet below her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His illnesses were becoming so bad and so frequent that he sometimes could not work more than twenty minutes at a time without having a pain or discomfort somewhere. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes twenty or thirty people stream out of their homes along the rails and toward the train. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Will you go, child? Will you try? Your mama’s got maybe twenty, twenty-four hours.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The thing we got to worry about now is infection. That leg wound is going to take twenty...thirty stitches. What happened?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty seconds at a time, I could practice opening the Gemini hatch, getting out, and “flying” or walking over to the side of a make-believe Agena built out of wood. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of a desk crashed to the ground twenty yards away, on fire, as more and more flaming debris fell from above. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The tribal cops had to pull twenty or thirty adult Spokanes off the court before any of them assaulted a teenage white kid. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He takes one, talks his heart out for twenty minutes, and then falls asleep, like clockwork.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She stopped using her married name and removed the fine gold wedding ring that he had placed on her finger twenty years before, on that memorable night when Barrabas was assassinated with a butcher’s knife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blushing queen of little more than twenty summers on her throne, and the whole flame-lit hall filling with noble knights on bended knee. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s got to be about twenty miles from here,” he said. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I've cleaned the bedroom we share about twenty times and straightened the pillows on the couch so many times they look scared to move. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had not seen her in more than twenty years, when the love they both felt for Nicolas was stronger than the love between them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sure the fall was more bad luck, and he was sure it was because of the stolen twenty. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would cost a lot of money, he said—about twenty signs had been made, not to mention all the business cards and stationery—and besides, all the new clients were paying their bills. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He’s been dead these last twenty years, but he would have been proud. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s twenty bucks waiting for me if I don’t.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Within twenty feet or so of the gate, the cameras started clicking, a noise that sounded like some great herd of metallic beasts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is practicing by swimming in the Caribbean for up to twenty hours a day. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Two men came out on the beach, not twenty feet from where they hid. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The graphic underneath was at least twenty, maybe thirty years old. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After trying on about twenty dresses at five different stores, I finally find one I want. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now my arm was twenty feet long, thirty, forty, fifty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The riverbank wasn’t more than twenty yards away, and once I was there, I could somehow get a boat and make it to my own mother. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Three dollars and twenty cents split four—excuse me.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is why I keep writing war stories: He was a short, slender young man of about twenty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took her twenty' minutes during her school dinner break, and she left the pages for me to collect so she wouldn’t get caught carrying them around. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Down the road came twenty or thirty tired and ragged men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a thick roll of bills; tens and twenties. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He proceeded along the trail until an animal emerged from the undergrowth onto the path not twenty feet ahead. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The truck bumps over the tracks and comes to a stop twenty feet away from us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Pauline, twenty pounds thinner, looked like a more concentrated version of herself: whittled down, somehow, pared down to her essence. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I straddled the highest point, the south face fell away beneath my right boot for twenty- five hundred feet; beneath my left boot the north face dropped twice that distance. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first twenty minutes or so of motoring, I cannot say I was seized by any excitement or anticipation at all. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty-five thousand international fans in the stands—a good portion of them Americans—rose and cheered them as their bow knifed across the line a full twenty feet ahead of the British shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And there were twenty, no, thirty, no, fifty or so people making themselves at home in our yard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin had tried to blow up the English prime minister, but he’d killed twenty children instead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Landed here to found New World about twenty years ago or so. But there were aliens here. The Spackle. And they...didn’t want us.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But often he was gone from home, and Johnny knew he was ‘feeling about’ for those fifteen to twenty boys he had promised. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Ben thought, Red has ten or twenty of his buddies surrounding him which gives the battle of poundage back to Red by several thousand pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends he promised to meet up with again in twenty years. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The campsite was only twenty yards ahead when, without warning, the forest around her went silent. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He could not imagine how he was going to feel in twenty years. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer wall, raised many centuries later, was twenty feet lower, but thicker and in better repair, boasting octagonal towers in place of square ones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here was he, junior to the judge by perhaps twenty years, and yet with a vastly inferior sense of self-preservation. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes, she removes the rollers and leaves me with a head full of small ringlets instead of my old straight hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The greatest number seemed to be young, well muscled, and in their twenties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he heard a voice from somewhere in the small crowd say: "He won twenty thousand dollars, man! And I was right behind him in line. Unreal." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I stared at her chair for a sec, then pulled another twenty, dropped it on top of the other one. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t eat chocolate again for twenty years.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Looking around, he saw equally huge pictures of the twenty competing grandmasters. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing he’s nineteen or twenty, but I’m not ruling out he’s our age. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The men were then pulled from the hold, squinting in the bright sunlight—filthy, weak, and almost crippled from being tied down for almost twenty hours each day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty songs now, but she didn’t feel satisfied with them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We can spare twenty. But it’s still too long.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the short traverse from mountain to ocean, travelers pass through twenty of the world’s thirty-four principal types of environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I hold even less for myself, because I had had twenty years in which to watch him, where Ellen had had but five. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they turned twenty the land’d go over into their name—law said they could do that, put it in their kids’ name at twenty.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Then I mustn’t be doing my job. Squat. Give me twenty. Butt out, back straight.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In addition, the machine encrypted six letters of the alphabet with one cipher, then used an entirely different cipher for the other twenty. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Maddy and Az had worked for twenty years to no avail. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I think this time I’ll just take my cow without signing the forms or paying the twenty bucks,” Joe observed calmly, casually tying the other end of his rope to the pickup bumper. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Eisenhower told Stassen he was “quite sure the Soviets have never given any thought to any inspection plan which involved the presence ... of anything like twenty to thirty thousand foreign inspectors.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Linnaeus has calculated that if an annual plant produced only two seeds...and their seedlings next year produced two, and so on, then in twenty years there would be a million plants. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"Careful, young lady. I have been teaching this subject for twenty years." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My father had told me once that it had been built in the early twenties by a group of Orthodox Jews who wanted their sons to have both a Jewish and a secular education. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“How can I trust a man I pay twenty years to stay out of jail when all of a sudden, the minute a little extra pressure’s on, he says ‘go to jail’? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After he was through with the twenties and the teens, there was a big leap. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was early twenties and what he’d call North Carolina perfect. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d misjudged her because of her small size, but even so, she couldn’t be much older than her early twenties, hardly what I had expected to find. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hustled back to our table, slipped the leather petty-cash envelope out from my pocket, unzipped it, pulled a twenty, and dropped it on the table by where Mei-li had been sitting. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The nearest one is pretty far away, but I make the trek, and have the clerk spend twenty minutes trying to sell me on a phone I have no intention of buying. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was leaning out from its davits, swinging in the storm, some twenty feet above the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up to twenty lizards may live in one hole. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dicey pulled her suitcase out from under the bush, opened it again and took out twenty more dollars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was twenty feet away, he carefully raised the sling and aimed. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second case concerned a man in his twenties who was driving a truck with his wife in the passenger seat down Blacksmith Fork Canyon, a steep, windy road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Lucy, that shark was caught twenty miles off Rockport. And do you know what the chances are of being attacked?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But that was short of the mark, for twenty guests were invited and there were several meals at which it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He landed in a pile about twenty feet away from the boys, the camera knocked from his grip. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The nurse toddled away with a smile toward his brown staff car, parked about twenty yards away at the edge of the rectangular clearing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Exactly seventeen minutes and twenty seconds left until the end of the school day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Matt Cain pitched a curveball, twenty balls flew across twenty screens. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Enough to buy himself a hundred and twenty sheep, a return ticket, and a license to import products from Africa into his own country. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And our school starts twenty minutes earlier than yours,” they said, “which means you can’t ride to school with us.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are twenty orange dots on the hill above. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We made enough to buy a full twenty pounds of zinc dust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t mind doing something like that when I’m twenty, working on movies. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty- six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"It's a bill for twenty dollars for emergency attention on a certain date in December and a checkup a week thereafter." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Someone once told me that you only get those everybody-shuts-up-at-once moments at twenty past or twenty to the hour,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I hustle hard, and Rock gives me a whole twenty bucks for sweeping, mopping, and helping him restock hair supplies. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Avery was in and out of jail until he turned twenty, when in the midst of a psychotic episode he wandered into a strange house, thinking he was being attacked by demons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I read that over twenty thousand people viewed her body, and I should have been there myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a handful had responded to his command, no more than twenty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One hot pool, surrounded by large boulders, was about thirty yards from the river’s edge, a shallow puddle twenty feet wide. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An intermission lasts about twenty seconds, during which stations across the country can make announcements. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They walked up the hill, Hathaway and Captain Wilder, the twenty crew members following, taking deep breaths of the thin, cool morning air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were fresh clothes for all of us, twenty bucks in cash, a pouch full of golden drachmas, and a bag of Double Stuf Oreos. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then, right there on TY Mrs. Granger and Nick and Bud Lawrence and Nick’s mom were talking to twenty million people about frindles. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ice gave the guys who had given the man CPR twenty dollars each. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Vivian Shawcurt was twenty years old but looked like a teenager—of which she was only one year on the far side of. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white man was not too unusual if he had a ten-, twenty-, thirty-, forty-, or fifty-thousand-dollar-a-year job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An exhaustive list of prospects would have included between twenty and thirty names, with Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, and James Madison enjoying spirited support. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“And twenty years from now, we’ll all go on vacation together, and our spouses, or whatever, will get jealous that we’re spending too much time talking to each other, and they’ll run off together.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take them,” he said, handing over a twenty and a ten. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But he looked younger now; like a boy just past twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew and Carleton were in their early twenties and dazzlingly hip. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I heard there were enemy troops. Fifteen, twenty or so. Where are they going? What are they trying to do? Something happen?” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, they were drinking cocktails and she would have at least twenty minutes to herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She might have flared up at such a tactless suggestion, twenty years before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grabbed mine in the first twenty minutes. The rest must have been scared off by the shot and headed towards Chi-Roy there. He grabbed one too.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Not twenty feet away, it stood watching them: the Spirit Bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Instead she perched atop a wooden piling twenty yards away as the blustery wind tugged at her cloak with ghostly fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At twenty, when he was already an alcoholic, scarlet fever almost laid him in the grave; at twenty-three, malaria looked like it would do the job. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You served with my parents for twenty years,” I say to Mazen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

With the money I make from my numerous inventions, I build my own spaceship and discover another planet that looks a lot like Earth and is only twenty minutes away. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We were asking for an investment of their faith, and now we had to deliver on what they'd brought us, carrying that enthusiasm through twenty months and fifty states and right into the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Mosquitoes! He wouldn’t feel it if twenty mosquitoes bit him now.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the easy part. Fowl Manor. On a two-hundred-acre estate on the outskirts of Dublin. Fowl Manor is only about twenty klicks from our current location.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He pretended to read the piece of paper as he discreetly stuffed the twenty dollars into the cuff of his long-sleeved shirt. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was black, with a cinnamon-colored nose, not twenty feet from him and big. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if it has been five years, or ten, or twenty? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No, he was in his late twenties then,” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After all, she had crossed into the United States twenty years before, and she had married a pocho, a man of Mexican descent born in the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But we also say fifty and thirty and twenty, which sort of sound like five and three and two, but not really. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The corn bread still has twenty minutes to go. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked at him sitting there across from me, and suddenly imagined him crying his way through his twenties, and probably most of his thirties. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At twenty paces, he hit a telephone pole with a stone sixty-one times in a row. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had to guess, I would say he was in his early twenties. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I came out of the booth, after about twenty minutes or so, and got my bags and walked over to that tunnel where the cabs are and got a cab. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Flossie had six sheaths of various colors and the same number of tarleton underskirts and at least twenty chiffon sleeves of every color that a person could imagine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until the sickness Massasoit had directly ruled a community of several thousand and held sway over a confederation of as many as twenty thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It cost about ninety bucks, and all he bought it for was twenty. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, twenty years after the civil rights revolution, the jury remained an institution largely unchanged by the legal requirements of racial integration and diversity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I try to wrap my mind around how much twenty thousand dollars really is. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

London, from the twenty- fourth floor, lit up like frost on glass. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty meters, she turned around and walked the opposite direction. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, nothing! Just back to Mercury Mines for twenty years. Or maybe Ceres Penitentiary.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The earth travels twenty miles per second, and it pulls the moon along through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Behind her followed nine bands, four mounted brigades, more than twenty floats, and more than five thousand marchers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I’m impressed with the team that shows up—most of the art club, a lot of kids from the meeting, and about twenty sixth graders. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It took twenty minutes just to get a tray, which only left about ten minutes to eat. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It could easily take twenty minutes to walk from one room to another, despite the fact that they were only fifty feet apart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of course there’d be eleven years between us, but my father had a sister, my Aunt Margaret, who was twenty years younger than he was. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They met in veterinary school at Kansas State University and had gotten engaged a few weeks later, and they were married when Nancy was twenty. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For laypersons in the twenties, physics was invested with an aura of drama, even romance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"He showed up about twenty minutes ago. Said he decided to come back himself." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Around the table, he arranged mattresses and cushions, so as many as twenty people could sit and slip their legs under. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to say. Very quickly. I would think less than twenty minutes.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Enfranchise him and we are left outside with lunatics, idiots, and criminals for another twenty years.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Auburn Prison, meanwhile, had been built in the style of Newgate Prison in New York City, with inmates housed in “apartments” holding two to twenty inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had about eight cups in a row and was ready to drive in about twenty minutes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, like I said, our grandmother lives down the road, about twenty miles away, between here and Ejido la Paloma. This was more like a quick stop along the way.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Namba had perished on the South Col, just twenty minutes from shelter, assigned to a summit party, and on May 16 he reached the top without supplemental oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty acres of flax and twenty more of wheat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He genuinely wondered, even as he estimated himself to fall in the top twenty percent of the general population, careerwise. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his dad went on for twenty minutes about the scientific aspects of the current. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty yards from our dug-out there is a small house that was used as an officers’ billet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They can live over twenty years—feed on large rodents or other mammals—average about twelve feet but can reach nineteen—” He groaned loudly and spoke even faster. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As for weight, the men were in line with the national average, but the women typically said they weighed about twenty pounds less than the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She gave me a pair of one-hundred-dollar bills, two fifties, and five twenties from a pile of endless bills. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

You think you can hold on to this thing for twenty years? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Fourteen in all, though by the next day, there were twenty more. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“The third and final task will take place at dusk on the twenty- fourth of June,” continued Bagman. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Young lady, when it's sixty-five below and your front doors froze shut, you’ll be glad for this twenty pounds of beans.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s the type of feeling that I’d give all twenty fingers and toes to have again. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I worked twenty years and bought this house myself,” she went on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Army would have twenty plutonium bombs by the end of 1945. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes or so of sitting between us in silence, Didu finally pulls herself together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My father gave me a twenty when I left for college and told me to never be without my own cash.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although Regiomontanus died in 1476, the Epitome was not published for another twenty years, when it set the young Copernicus thinking. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the twenty years between 1687 and 1707 he worked towards the construction of a viable steam engine, but in the end he failed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I go slow at first, barely twenty miles per hour, as I roll through her neighborhood. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At eleven o’clock on the night of the fifteenth, a government sedan picked up Lawrence for the bumpy three-hour ride to Compania Hill, a watching post twenty miles from the bomb site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

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

“Anyway, this dude come into the poolroom, and he knowed he was a good pool shot, see? So he hustled this other dude into a pool game for twenty dollars and beat him.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of twenty or more was running at breakneck speed up and down the street in front of Central High School, their rifles with bayonets pointed straight ahead. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even twenty minutes had passed after we’d scarfed down the entire plate of cookies, when Tamika’s gut interrupted my explanation of mutations in DNA over thousands of generations to create a new species. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A guard escorted us to a large room with a strangely high ceiling, maybe twenty feet. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They could not dress more than twenty ships abreast, lest they risk tangling their oars and colliding with each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And the dogs spoke to the men: singleshot barks—evenly spaced and widely spaced—one every three or four minutes, that might go on for twenty minutes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of proceeding to the restaurant, they decide to wander up the sidewalk for a while; there are still twenty minutes before their reservation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked as though she had aged twenty years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This time it was just Father and me in the airplane, plus Mr. Axelroot, and twenty pounds of dry goods and canned whole prunes the Underdowns couldn’t take with them when they fled the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she was probably in her early twenties, she acted in every other respect like a very small child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Through a federally funded job training program operated by Goodwill Industries, McNair found a $9-an-hour job at a warehouse twenty miles—two buses and a taxi ride—away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The empire encompassed every imaginable type of terrain, from the rainforest of upper Amazonia to the deserts of the Peruvian coast and the twenty- thousand-foot peaks of the Andes between. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What? But back in the old days—” “Oh, we’ve raised our standards! To pass, you must show proficiency in all twenty. Isn’t that great?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time Woodhull’s name disappeared from newspaper accounts and gossipy conversations, she was widely criticized for having set back the suffrage movement by at least twenty years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fang never said anything, but I think sometimes the stuff we gave him was all he got for Christmas, except for maybe a dirty twenty his mom slipped him on her way out the door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Too late: twenty boys and their coach were streaming down the hill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

I asked myself these questions when, after spending nine months in France, I returned to the United States for a five-week trip to twenty cities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

By the time she was twenty, she had had four children, all born dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes drifted by, then ten, then twenty; at last, the judge ordered the bailiff to retrieve them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Constructed at enormous cost, this porous architectural folly consumed twenty thousand trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The same drug that had been considered fearsome twenty years earlier, when associated with African Americans and Latinos, was refashioned as a relatively harmless drug when associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A flight of flickering orange birds took wing from the castle, twenty or thirty of them,- pots of burning pitch, arcing out over the river trailing threads of flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If a player attempts twenty shots per night, for example, the probability is surprisingly almost 50 percent that he will hit at least four straight baskets sometime during the game. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But testifying with his best friend’s murderer glowering at him from twenty feet away? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I would insist to an inmate who’d given himself the larger, milk-size cup of juice, as though he had shorted me ten dollars in change for a twenty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I — live — at — seven — twenty — eight — Sy — ca — more. I — do.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thirty-nine steps, twenty steps, fifteen steps," I said to myself. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was saved after about twenty minutes when a man stumbled toward us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Fixing that is going to take a lot longer than twenty years. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mine’s licking envelopes. I can do twenty in eight seconds, no paper cuts.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It would be that much harder with his not having eaten in twenty hours. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And twenty points from Slytherin! Wandering around in the middle of the night, how dare you —” “You don’t understand, Professor. Harry Potter’s coming — he’s got a dragon!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I wolfed down the yam and ran back to the old man and handed him twenty cents, "Give me two more," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All twenty of them stormed into the room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days go by like this and, to my chagrin, no one from the approximately twenty places at which I’ve applied calls me for an interview. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean Town is a real city—twenty thousand people, much bigger than Ogdentown. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few minutes passed, various Griever sounds penetrating the walls every ten to twenty seconds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We only had twenty minutes before we had to head home, and now we had to go to a whole other building to talk to Professor Thomas—if she was even there at all. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Julian halted within twenty paces of a stunted oak. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He stopped the honey wagon beside a cluster of twenty hives tucked in a thicket of trees, where the bees could have shade in the summer and shelter from the wind through the winter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is the prettiest and strongest and funniest person who ever spent twenty- three hours a day alone in a basement. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some twenty prisoners were waiting in line at the entrance. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firemen told my father that out of twenty sticks of dynamite, ten exploded. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It has been a desert ever since its water started flowing south into Los Angeles, sometime during the twenties. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's the agent, not these gentlemen. He's the one; He says it's the bank, but you know he's the one. We've done business with him for over twenty years." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then, I've gained twenty pounds or so—I'm not ashamed, but I no longer have a mannequin's body. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Is it twenty dollars like the last time?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Once she caught sight of Sidhean out of the corner of her eye; he was standing perhaps twenty feet to her left, but when she turned to look, he was gone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

People here are instinctively more fearful and less generous than they were twenty years ago in Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty minutes, we explored my castle in the air together. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It reminded me of some crankheads we busted in the twenties when martial law was declared. Those people were just as nuts— bloody hell-bent psychos, they were. Come on.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From where he sat he could see twenty other men, all of them writing intently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What would have been expected of her twenty years ago? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Responding to Lincoln's request, Dr. Bliss got to the station about twenty minutes after the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s good. I’m only going to wear it for twenty minutes, right? We can make it work.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders is giving us twenty pages of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves to read by tomorrow and telling us she’s been easy on us so far, but things are about to heat up. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

He told me Farid was twenty-nine, though he had the wary, lined face of a man twenty years older. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to prison for twenty years. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

At that point, only about twenty-one minutes were spent using the computer for fun, and twenty minutes on video games. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the fact remains that when a ‘hit’ is made, the atom gives up about twenty times as much energy as was needed to break it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

About twenty ghosts had just streamed through the back wall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Instead he would smuggle himself into the city, as he might have done twenty years before. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fungus gets ’em, too much rain, any one of a dozen things—now we’re talking about a hundred, maybe a hundred twenty worth of berries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since starting in the car business more than a decade ago, Golomb has sold, on average, about twenty cars a month, which is more than double what the average car salesman sells. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then I took twenty steps to the north, one for each year of my life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The nearest police are about twenty miles from here in Altamont,” Mr. Milo says, his eyes wide. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've thought about it a lot, and I came up with a list of twenty supplies you need to survive middle school when you don't have arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a torch flared twenty feet ahead of them, and behind that torch, a half-dozen more burned into life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

To push away the feeling, I count the days since I last had a drink: twenty. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Soviet Union had agreed to invite Bobby to Moscow, and generously pay all expenses for him and his sister, he was granted a visa that was good for only twenty days. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The pretzel man—who was also a hot dog man—glared at him until Benji held up the twenty. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes with no sign of the child, the primary diver would have to resurface. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I put about twenty of the best chunking stones I had into the sack then lifted the end of my mattress and pulled Mr. Taylor’s sullied knife from underneath. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Osborne stayed only a few months; Lawes, more than twenty years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And can you guarantee that he won’t come back in the next twenty minutes?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The twenty minutes passed, and then another twenty minutes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the past twenty years, virtually every progressive, national civil rights organization in the country has mobilized and rallied in defense of affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Your PIH-er wasn’t saying you shouldn’t have brought John to Boston. Only that it was a shame you had to spend so much, given what else you could do with twenty grand.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But instead of a horse’s lower body, it had the body of a dragon—at least twenty feet long, black and scaly with enormous claws and a barbed tail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty yards away, a dark figure in a stocking cap was reaching into the trash can. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The cookie basket was empty save one bag, and they had gathered twenty more signatures on the petition. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Three times weekly she took an aerobics class, checking her watch throughout to be sure her heart rate had exceeded one hundred and twenty beats per minute. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of those twenty million people was a producer for the Late Show with David Letterman. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every islet is thick with farms and fishermen’s houses, and these are gathered into townships each of ten or twenty islets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We are none of us more than twenty years old. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality there were about fifteen or twenty of them, all gentlemen in green hunting dress, with their horses; some in the saddle and some standing by their horses' heads. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’ll take an extra twenty minutes if we follow the phone route. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They were followed by a wagon carrying twenty thousand suffrage leaflets, which they shared with interested people along the way, taking every chance to discuss the issue of voting rights for women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And over the heads of the crowd and down past the dark storefronts and blinking neon signs I saw a bristling band of about twenty men quick-stepping forward. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d like to say that ten, twenty, thirty years from now, me, Sonny, and Malik will be as tight as we’ve always been, but that could be a lie. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter is a young black woman in her twenties writing in a notebook that she puts away once she sees us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the gate a field sloped down very steeply so that it fell out of vision only twenty yards or so in front of me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Took me one minute, twenty seconds. I'm out of shape." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At other times a cheery fellow, the doorman often complained bitterly about having been fired from his job of twenty years in the Westing paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last twenty years, we've created a new class of "untouchables" in American society, made up of our most vulnerable mothers and their children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And I had gone into the sandalwood box where I kept my savings and taken out twenty coppers and four twenty-cent pieces. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty minutes, the night sky was alive with wagon wheels, party-colored dahlias, and whistling glitter palms. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They made significant outposts in Brigham City, just twenty minutes from Trementon, at the base of the mountains, and in Logan, the region’s hub, which held a larger temple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was not much changed—a little more run-down and dingy than it was twenty years ago. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they lived for over twenty years out of the swing of Island social life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We draw closer and hear their plan: There are a dozen gentlemen, and over twenty of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Each rumble lasted about twenty seconds, with both claiming victory. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The police were taking roll calls, once, twice, twenty times. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been at the battery factory almost twenty years now, since right after the revolution, and I supervise forty-two women. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I caught a bus over to the West Side to first pick up my snacks, then meet Spoony at UPS, just a few blocks from home, so he could spot me a twenty. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even more surprising, in addition to the usual reporters—Zach, Lena, and Darryl—there were at least twenty kids seated at the desks. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I put the top twenty on the bottom and re-neatened the stack. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

If written out in English, say, that information would fill some twenty million volumes, as many as in the world’s largest libraries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During lunch period, I got called to the principal’s office, where I sat for twenty minutes and worried about the unknown emergency. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was less than twenty feet away, so close that Alex could make out the perspiration on his forehead. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But an impact with a large comet, such as Hailey’s Comet, whose nucleus is perhaps twenty kilometers across, should occur only about once every billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was in my early twenties climbing had become the focus of my existence to the exclusion of almost everything else. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t need to come now. I’ve got a hundred and twenty bucks of birthday money in my wallet. I saw a Best Western a ways back.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hemme maintained more composure than I would have if I had been faced with twenty stone of furious, bellowing artificer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the center, about twenty yards away, knelt the gruesome figure of a woman, her clothes tattered, her limbs emaciated, her skin leathery green. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like a store, he thought, just like a store, and he could not remember later how many he ate that day but he thought it must have been over twenty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And whether there was two or three or twenty, he still must do what he had come to do. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The crowd had thinned down to less than twenty students, and the courtyard was far quieter than it had been an hour before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s been twenty years. I shouldn’t be crying anymore.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was in Haiti as a journalist, writing about the presence of twenty thousand American soldiers there. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I’m only being about twenty percent sarcastic, but Mr. Black says, “Thank you, Mr. Finch,” in a way that means the direct opposite of thank you. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad snapped back, “No professional shows up twenty minutes late wearing cutoffs. If he worked for me, he’d be fired.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There couldn’t have been more than twenty—of the hundreds of kids who had flooded through the halls of the old school—twenty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Pearl, who had only seventeen dollars and knew Lexie’s weekly allowance was twenty, paused. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Garden plots were planted in random spots between the buildings, twenty or so one-story structures made from long planks of wood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But almost all moles appear in the first twenty years of a person's life. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There were usually about twenty or thirty aircraft to a regiment, with a similar number of pilots to fly them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I totally do kiss and tell, just not in the first twenty seconds of talking to my boy. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We all knew that in twenty minutes, no discomfort would matter to him at all, because he would be dead asleep. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It cost a hundred and twenty dollars, but that seemed like a bargain compared to the jacket. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They are small enough at best—I could eat twenty of them. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Benji knew he must look like a normal kid—well, a charming kid—coming into the store with maybe twenty dollars in his pocket. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your portion of the rent is twenty dollars.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“How else are we going to cart twenty marionettes into town?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn’t tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The U.S. government also entered the fray in the hopes of gaining twenty years of back taxes owed by Bobby, and what was left over from the 1992 match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed playing over what are called miniature games, short encounters of usually twenty moves or less, as if they were musical exercises, works of art unto themselves, usually with only one pervasive idea. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very old, terrific record that this colored girl singer, Estelle Fletcher, made about twenty years ago. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

So he bought the child for twenty pieces of silver and she lived in the inner courts and slept on the foot of the bed where Lotus slept. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

While he talked in the mornings, Billy Buck cut twenty or thirty straws into neat three-inch lengths and stuck them into his hatband. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy broke into a brisk jog with Dana no more than twenty yards behind him, cursing and spluttering vile names. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker expects us to practice twenty minutes times five days each week and prove it with a signed-by-a-parent sheet marked with Xs for every day we play. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

And—though the immediate danger was apparently gone—there was no guarantee that it wouldn’t surface again a year, twenty years, fifty years from now. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Near that, maybe twenty feet to the south, stood a squat building made of rough concrete blocks, a menacing iron door its only entrance—there were no windows. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of dollar bills—ones, fives, tens, twenties, all wrinkled and worn—spilled into my lap. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped in and was suddenly in a tropical climate at least twenty degrees warmer and considerably more humid than the actual outdoors. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He thought again about the wallet and the twenty and Laura Friendly. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I noticed that we spent only twenty minutes on ballet, and forty minutes on tap. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not young myself any more. I’ve been out to Jupiter and Saturn and Neptune for twenty years.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least twenty new literary works that used my father’s life as a subject appeared on bookshelves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The actual site of the duel was a narrow ledge, about ten feet wide and forty feet long, located only twenty feet above the water. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The man paused, looking at Deborah, then at me: a short black woman in her fifties, and a taller white woman in her twenties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

These fees, costs, and fines are generally quite new—created by law within the past twenty years—and are associated with a wide range of offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They take him and two younger boys, sitting nearby, to a cavernous railroad shed, where seven other officers are holding twenty migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In twenty seconds we were back in the courtyard, leaping over dead Mr. Crumbley, diving down the dry well. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They were about twenty miles from their hometown of Cedar, Washington, rumbling along a winding highway. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ned's men . had drawn their swords, but they were three against twenty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One day Venkatesh walked twenty blocks from the university to a housing project on the shore of Lake Michigan to administer his survey. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had paid twenty dollars for the hit and Sweet Jimmy’s stuff was correct but now he was freaking because of the guy watching him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults spend at least twenty minutes talking about traffic. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one who had the most money offered him twenty pesos. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Northwards, beyond and above the trees, the Internal and External Secretions factory glared with a fierce electric brilliance from every window of its twenty stories. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand throats roared out their thanks; then twenty thousand; then all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe twenty minutes later I jumped the password wall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe twenty of them in a line, marching. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Freshman English was taught by a cheerful woman in her late twenties who kept talking about something called the “essay form,” which, she assured us, we had learned in high school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You think you’ll be able to find him after all this time? He’s probably”—she thought about it—“nearly twenty years old by now. Long since on his own.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I carry an emergency twenty dollars in my wallet,” she said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first I imagined them in their seventies and then I guessed what they looked like in their twenties. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Neeley had a boxful of “miggies,” small brown and blue speckled marbles made of clay which cost a penny for twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As much as I want to hunt a Nightbeast, because, well, I’m me, I had, like, twenty separate nightmares about being eaten by one,” Valley added. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Zooey was now gazing abstractedly at an old root-beer stain on the ceiling plaster, which he himself had made nineteen or twenty years earlier, with a water pistol. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But you passed your exam with three hundred and twenty percent!” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

After traveling for about twenty hours, we arrived, exhausted, at the Nogales, Arizona, bus station in the morning. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been more than twenty dollars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When we got to the park there were maybe twenty- five guys in their Tigros gear and ten girls. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discover one of them twenty yards off in a shrub. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First love makes everyone mad—it’s foolish to throw away your future because of one hormonal decision based on less than a year of your life when you were barely in your twenties.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“SHE SCORES! SHE SCORES! Gryffindor leads by eighty points to twenty!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I led Sohrab to the living room, which looked like it had been host to a Level Twelve Party by twenty or thirty Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He gave the price of twenty oxen for her, kept her as kindly in his house as his own wife, though, for the sake of peace, he never touched her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s extremely frugal, the kind of guy who drives the same car for twenty years. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were in their twenties and had their lives to lead. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imagines his father, in his twenties as Gogol is now, sitting on a train as Gogol had just been, reading a story, and then suddenly nearly killed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A child got in the center, bounced, and then was flipped twenty feet up in the air, like a toy rocket. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably paid with a twenty. Got six, seven bucks in change. Somebody expects to live under this roof, he ought to carry his own weight. Am I right, Eddie?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The arched entrance is twenty feet high and electric with gaudy imagery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Late in 1876, during his seventh term, Garfield bought a farm in Mentor, Ohio, about twenty miles from where he was born. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hurried to number twenty and knocked on the door. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If two trains started from opposite ends of the track and one train was going forty miles an hour and the other twenty miles an hour, how long would it take...? This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days Miss Volker had me telephone Mrs. Vinyl’s house about twenty times to check up on her like we did with Mrs. Dubicki. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The twenty four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He said the scent came from dissecting sharks and whales, from cutting away layers of blubber and plunging her hands inside the cavities of marine creatures that were twenty times her size. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She’s about twenty years old, dressed in a long, straight wraparound skirt and a puffy white blouse that glimmers in the morning light. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel itself is at least twenty stories tall, sleekly designed, with a virtual image of floating koi swimming across its entire side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His men pushed open the great oaken doors, twenty feet tall and banded with bronze. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And ninety-five more who weighed between fifteen and twenty. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girls had been there for twenty minutes, proposing ways of getting inside, rejecting all of them. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Several million light-years across, it is composed of some twenty constituent galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Actually, I just climbed the Devils Thumb. I’ve been over here twenty days." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You get in there and answer that question for yourself, young man. I called you twenty minutes ago. Is our house about to burst into flames while we’re standing out here?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is now some twenty minutes since the man left, but I have remained here on this bench to await the event that has just taken place - namely, the switching on of the pier lights. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She rose, counted out twenty paces from the target, and shifted the hilt in her hand so that the blade was pointing backward toward the sea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Awkward silence for what feels like twenty whole seconds while I talk to myself inside my head. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He got twenty dollars to put tape on the bridge of his glasses, wear too-short pants, and don argyle socks for three days. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“You want to know something else about your Jake Mosby? His daddy owns about twenty percent of the steel mill that owns us. He’s got more money than Carter’s got little liver pills.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Programs scheduled to culminate in two years became outmoded in six months, and crowds of men gathered for them in one place were dispersed to twenty others. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way I figured, we couldn’t be very far—somewhere between twenty or twenty-five miles off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He kept me on camera twenty minutes and he asked pointed questions that did not evade the issue. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept sinking and surfacing, but Nhamo thought she could see twenty adults and six babies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning to General Johnson, the president asked, “What is your reaction to Ho’s statement he is ready to fight for twenty years?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Watching Annabeth weave the makeshift bed, Jason had remembered the story of Penelope - how she’d held out for twenty years, waiting for her husband Odysseus to return. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I worked with the sorceress Circe for many years. I know a returned soul when I see one. When did you die, Hazel—Nineteen twenty? Nineteen thirty?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had lived for almost twenty years without trauma, tension, hate, or neurosis, which was proof to Yossarian of just how crazy he really was. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I put in ten hours that week, meaning I make up twenty of the dollars I owe him; got one more week to go. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have twenty allowance dollars coming to me.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hanako did twenty feet, and it took her about an hour. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Another fifteen or twenty cars almost rear-ended us, sitting motionless in the middle of Highway 6, before Faith started edging the Sunbird forward. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Today I’m taking five minutes to go twenty feet. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The study lasted twenty weeks, but the fine was not introduced immediately. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

After he hid from the soldiers for twenty months, they finally found him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With twenty yards to go, Woolf tore his hand free, threw out his right arm and grabbed Ligaroti’s bridle, just above the bit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about ten or twenty thousand million years ago, it would have a minimum size, which was equal to the maximum radius of the history in imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mila and I made a deal with Mr. McCabe. She has to keep twenty feet away from me all the time, except in class. So actually, she shouldn’t even be here.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then it rushed madly across about twenty fields, breaking down all the fences and hedges in its path. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

They spotted Bod and his three new friends and made for them, dropping twenty feet with ease. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She was in her late twenties with a sprawl of red hair and a round, boyish face. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At around twenty, recruits started dropping in exhaustion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lodged in the flank of a gray wolf scarcely twenty feet away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One night, as he walks twenty blocks back to the river from washing cars, it rains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At exactly four forty-five, sunset, the warship Michigan fired one of its cannon and continued to fire twenty times more as one thousand men quietly took up positions at each of the exposition’s flags. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Lord! A thousand and twenty dollars. This is terrible. How I’m gonna pay that?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to his watch, the gold Longines his mother had given him, it would be another twenty minutes before a stop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the four days since starting their journey into the unknown, the expedition had traveled only twenty miles down the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A slim, dead, dainty young man of about twenty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jem parked his fishing car over there, we dug earthworms by the back fence, I planted a bamboo shoot one time and we fought it for twenty years. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At my best guess, Auri was only a few years older than me, certainly no more than twenty. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh. I do,” Velia said, reaching into her pocket and unfolding a blade out of a complicated gadget that looked like twenty tiny tools in one. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nearly everything Al Ulbrickson wanted out of life was going to be determined in the next twenty minutes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

According to him, I’ve totaled about twenty imaginary cars while trying to navigate those lots. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He thought, however, that he would take advantage of the occasion to have Amaranta confess after twenty years of reticence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was eight dollars and twenty cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet more than twenty percent has been destroyed because of logging and wildfires.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Past the end of the alley I saw them go, ten, twenty, maybe fifty. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about twenty thousand boxes and Leon paying cash in advance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alma had never been to college, the great regret of her life, and like Mary, she became a mother well before she entered her twenties. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

So I didn’t know my actual birthdate until I was around twenty years old. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I got close I was to find a tree with a good view of it and wait there, perfectly still, for twenty minutes until I heard him whistle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t see Ashley or Shelby anywhere, but fifteen or twenty guys are sprawled on the floor playing a drinking game. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We talked for about twenty minutes: I didn’t leave until the last possible moment. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re mostly in their twenties and back to try it again at school. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After walking for twenty minutes, Mom finally found her perfect spot. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“First a bicycle, so I wouldn’t have to walk to school. That would only cost me twenty dollars.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I never apologized for taking the twenty. I only made excuses.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day, in 1966, he came to us and said, “Gentlemen, the rains have washed away the lines on the roads, we need twenty kilos of lime today. Can you help?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches into his pocket and finds twenty dollars in cash. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations, Tom. You are now the proud owner of three hundred twenty Montana acres. Good luck.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“No, not even twenty years ago,” he was saying. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"I remember another stripling who was given com-mand of Storm's End. He could not have been much more than twenty." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

We got to talk to Toni and Derrick for about twenty minutes. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, about twenty feet ahead, he saw a burst of flame. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She took as much as twenty grammes a day. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was twenty minutes before two o’clock in the morning, enough time left to catch plenty of fish—the coffee would keep him awake long enough to fill his hold with salmon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was around 7:00 P.M., fifteen hours since the assassins had arrived at Mudd’s door, and just under twenty hours since John Wilkes Booth had shot the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty miles away at that time. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average speed of trains was fifteen to twenty miles per hour. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It took me another twenty years to accumulate the confidence to deal with what the equivalent experience would have to be for me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bolsheviks were led by Vladimir Lenin, a man of bold and energetic ideals who had been urging revolution for more than twenty years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Because she was facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence, she made a deal to accept a prison sentence of twenty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To estimate native numbers before Columbus, one thus had to multiply census figures from those times by a factor of twenty or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It had maybe twenty years1 worth of dust on the rim, but the second hand ticked out just fine: 5 seconds to go, 4, 3 ... Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I’d have survived the twenty lashes that were to be my punishment. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All that was left of the great stronghold of the First Men were three towers . . . three where there had once been twenty, if the taletellers could be believed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were no doors and twenty men sat side by side as in a railway carriage, so that they could be reviewed all at one glance, for soldiers must always be under supervision. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything he worked for over almost twenty years has been left behind: the school he started from nothing, the school that now has three buildings and eleven hundred students. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My resolve is almost immediately broken at the first table, which has twenty or so soups, when I encounter a creamy pumpkin brew sprinkled with slivered nuts and tiny black seeds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without the hair-trigger, the weapon required twenty pounds of pressure to fire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A Fugees forward struggled free of traffic to take a shot that flew a good twenty feet over the crossbar and into the parking lot behind the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

—Writing in my book during guard change as I can get away with twenty minutes at a time. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young man of hardly twenty, his head full of nothing and his mouth recalling the taste of lipstick, Shadrack had found himself in December, 1917, running with his comrades across a field in France. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

With twenty years of good eating, my shackles might grow up to be half the size of the sheriff’s. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There are so many guests invited to Sonia’s rice ceremony that Ashoke arranges to rent a building on campus, with twenty folding tables and an industrial stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ti Jean was a muscular man in his thirties, a local farmer’s son who had witnessed what Farmer had accomplished in the central plateau over the last twenty years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Their lives were at sea, together and apart, as they passed from their twenties to their early thirties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But it snowed twenty inches the day before Essie went into labor, so when they called me, I went alone. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mama knew I could get twenty a week, maybe she wouldn’t send me back to school and I couldn’t blame her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me twenty workers like her and I’d open a small factory and make a million,” his father used to joke. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nine dollars and twenty cents,” said the girl behind the counter. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"I just gotta get dressed, man. Give me like twenty minutes." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When we went to the district commandant to enlist, we were a class of twenty young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time before going to the barracks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the clanking of the drabware behind us, and turned, startled, to confront a young man of fashionable dress and perhaps twenty summers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Aside from this, Herbie had been led to believe ants could lift loads ten or fifteen or twenty times their own body weight, and supposedly they were fairly intelligent. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I was playing in the yard when I heard a frightening noise coming from the fields, like the sound of twenty leopards roaring. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There are eight people in Mother, three women and five men, all in their twenties and thirties. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The women ran to obey her—twenty girls off to the spring with jars for dusky water, the rest at work inside. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I face out toward the big barn they have as a garage, and I write it in imaginary letters twenty feet high. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Twelve minutes to get to Alcatraz, twenty years to get back, my dad says the cons say. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first song seemed to last twenty minutes. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got another ten, maybe twenty feet, before the car jerked to a dead stop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

People were leaving the South and heading to Chicago in parties of twenty, sixty, even more. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He said he had been paying on his life insurance for twenty years. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened unconsciously to all the sounds that had begun his day for twenty years and lit the first of the ten cigarettes that he smoked every day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should have left there at 11:58. But owing to the weather we were twenty minutes late.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reckons it'll be worth a fortune twenty or thirty years from now, when the Falklands War has turned into history. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Another twenty minutes of debate followed, and then the men headed to their trucks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would’ve bet twenty dollars T. Ray’s name was squashed into the cracks and crevices out there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were nearly twenty PSFs on the ground, swarming the neat small lines of kids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This happened repeatedly over the next twenty minutes. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You say that you yourself heard Ratchett speak to the conductor at twenty minutes to one?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got a list of every high school and university in each river town, and cross-referenced everyone who had been on a swim team for the past twenty years or had registered for a triathlon. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The point was to see how much agreement there was about who among the twenty cases was actually having a heart attack. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought twenty flyers could have brought more than a thousand people to the park? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that, she needed help: Henrietta lived twenty minutes from Hopkins, and Day worked nights, so he couldn’t take her home after radiation until late. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He went looking for his wallet and returned with two twenties. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Despite her air of frivolity, she was near the top of her class—officially, Shaker did not rank its students, to reduce competitive feelings, but she knew she was somewhere in the top twenty. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He won the job and stayed for twenty years. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arno said this went on for about twenty minutes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smugglers put twenty- four migrants into an Overloaded boat in Mexico, he says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He figured it was close to five o’clock—twenty after, he guessed. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether, we had perhaps twenty or thirty members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we could make twenty miles a day. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk must be four feet in diameter and the limbs don’t even begin until twenty feet up. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Barnett excelled, attending Northwestern University and opening his own law office right there in Chicago when he was just twenty years old. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe trying to throw my brain at his for the last twenty minutes had made me loopy. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The rats had finished digging the new hole, and all twenty of them were working near the house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For almost twenty minutes, neither of us says a single word. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We know now that our universe—or at least its most recent incarnation—is some fifteen or twenty billion years old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But twenty points to Gryffindor, because I manage to smile up at him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It rose about twenty yards, fuzzily gleaming, then whizzed straight back to earth only a few feet away, hitting with a hard thud, but it didn’t break. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the temperature had dropped almost twenty degrees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She only had a twenty, so she’d have to put the rest on the credit card. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I slid into my seat with twenty seconds to spare. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I shoot back a quick message seeing if he wants to have our usual breakfast date in twenty, before putting the phone down and swinging my legs over my bed to grab my laptop. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

—Emily Dickinson And then I settle into my precalc seat twenty minutes early. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

There were cut lashings of net twine visible there, loose ends dangling, ten or twenty figure eights, cut through cleanly on an angle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The county had been promising Lark Creek a lunchroom for twenty years, but there never seemed to be enough money. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Enrique flees from car to car, more than twenty in all, struggling to keep his footing each time he leaps from a hopper to a fuel tanker, which is lower and has a rounded top. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Being high enough to avoid getting fried means you’ve got to be at least twenty feet in the air. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his twenties he became a communist; communism’s promise to redistribute land and wealth among the people seemed an attractive alternative to French oppression. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They radiate from the epicenter, shaking the ground like buried thunder, traveling the globe in less than twenty minutes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Somewhere he’d heard that they could swim twenty to thirty knots. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both men, in their early twenties, had long criminal records that included drug charges, handgun violations, and assault charges. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We could meet in Nebraska and then it would only be twenty hours for each of us. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In recent years, many of the stacks had grown to a height of twenty units or more. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sixty-five, seventy, which, with the fifty dollars she had left from the car, made one hundred and twenty, then one hundred and forty dollars, one hundred and fifty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Nelson Davis, was more than twenty years younger than she. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I left twenty minutes early for Support Group the next day. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She had ripped up about twenty pieces of paper trying to get it right. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

As the autumn of 1933 began to wane, daytime temperatures in Seattle sagged into the low forties, evening temperatures into the twenties. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I fling down a twenty and grab Ben’s hand. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Most of Maria Isabel’s neighbors, including twenty- five on her block, have no work, she adds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"If it blew today and again next week, that wouldn’t tell us anything at all about what it might do the following week or the week after or twenty years from now," Doss says. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He worked the land harder than twenty men, let alone nine. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Our two houseboats are twenty feet long and ten feet wide and are docked side by side. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was over before I even got to twenty. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At twenty minutes after two, Siunek comes running into the kitchen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The bar was full of beer drinkers, all white and at least in their twenties, if not older. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There must have been fifteen, twenty of them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And then, when I’m in my twenties, I’ll go east to the big city, to find my first job. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quick campaign began, and within a day or two, twenty members of Parliament signed an edict that Charles should be buried in Westminster Abbey. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Florida, for example, has added more than twenty new categories of financial obligations for defendants in criminal cases since 1996, while eliminating most exemptions for those who cannot pay. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He would plow for me, sixty acres, if twenty of it were his to harvest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The maitre d’ was a small, elegant man who looked up toward a massive, red-faced man who stood six feet four inches tall and weighed over two hundred and twenty pounds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he found the cabin, he studied the map, paced twenty feet away from the cabin, and spotted the first pile of stones. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Monsieur. You forget, he rang his bell about twenty to one—soon after we had stopped.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then at flea markets, or in the occasional photography book, I come across one of Plantagenet’s old pictures, usually erroneously ascribed to the twenties because of the Daimler. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If you belong to a group of twenty people, however, there are now 190 two-way relationships to keep track of: 19 involving yourself and 171 involving the rest of the group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been an hour, but it could have been twenty minutes. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Even if I sleep twenty minutes or a half an hour it is good. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within the next quarter-hour, twenty of the men had ushered in six hundred seat-holders. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got, like, twenty shiny bracelets around his wrists. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Leon needed at least twenty thousand dollars to draw even with the school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After chatting for twenty minutes Andy extended an invitation to their whole team, including Ian, “to come ’round our camp for a wee snort” later that evening. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had only to stretch her neck or rise on some pretext to see twenty or forty undressed males lounging or playing ball in the sunlight. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet inside the doorway, a life-size wooden cutout of a gladiator popped up from the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We will take in fifty children at a time, and do a type-out”—this makes Uncle Robert groan—“and it will take approximately twenty minutes, per fifty kids.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

‘You’ve twenty days to practice in. Logs in back yard need splitting.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty seconds I hit pause and took Mrs. B’s heart rate again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In groups of twenty or thirty, tourists swarmed through the ruins, milling around the villas, wandering the cobblestone paths, gawking at the colourful frescoes and mosaics. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We must have stayed like that for a good twenty minutes, until I couldn’t postpone blowing my nose anymore. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a lad of less than twenty summers, with a fine noble face and a sense of humour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I es­timate that it was about six or seven miles in diameter, which means a circumference of about twenty miles. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He swept the musket up, the bayonet pointing straight at me, twenty feet away. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they came back, they were half a dollar poorer, twenty minutes older, and decidedly more swaggering at the walk. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were only about twenty feet up, but the gardens and fountains spreading out on all sides made for a spectacular view. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So do we, Miz Ellis. Surely you don’t think this is the first time something like this has happened to me over the last twenty years?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then a young man no older than twenty, dressed in a military uniform, looked my way and said a soft hello. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the shade of two gum trees that graced the doorway of the front of the main house sat a group of about twenty tribal elders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was flying as high as twenty feet now, and the sun, gleaming through the painted canvas, made the wings seem like living flesh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The backup singers were in their late twenties, but they seemed to resent her being the center of attention. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“But I want it in writing that after I do twenty hours’ work for you, Shiloh belongs to me.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest suffrage parade took place in New York City in November 1912, when some twenty thousand women participated. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Because he knew something: even though outside he looked twenty, and his mustache was already coming along nicely, inside he was still this nine-year-old who liked rhyming things. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After all, when Tyler was born twenty months later, the birth took place in a hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he went through each roll, bending corners and putting the ones with the ones, the fives with the fives, the tens with the tens, and there were no twenties. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I can guarantee you twenty dollars, plus a delicious hot dog and soda if you say yes.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Years of nongrowing, from being a seventeen-year-old, smooth-faced idealist hunched over a book in his Harlem apartment, to becoming a smooth-faced veteran of twenty hunched over a beer in a post exchange. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If he overloaded the boiler next to the Keepers’ compound, it would explode and— Was it wrong to blow twenty men to smithereens? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reloading was a time-consuming process that called for two hands and more than twenty seconds. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wei took a wad of bills out of his pocket and placed the twenties on the outside, then flicked past the tens and fives till he got to the ones, in the middle. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to leave in twenty minutes,” she said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, I pull out my wallet and hand Mrs. Carnes a twenty, which is the smallest I have, and she counts off the books. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

But for the next twenty minutes, she never once shut her eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Porch had been leaning for twenty years, and then just fell down, split clean away from the foundation. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man o’ War had run just twenty-one races—winning twenty—and faced only forty-eight opponents. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a long monologue to speak—twenty lines of type in the script, delivered as he walks the stage and leads a tour of first-year students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And apparently twenty more yards down the road is far enough away, because he eases on the brake, and pulls over to the side of the road. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If I throw twenty darts at a target and manage to hit the bull’s-eye eighteen times, the next time I throw twenty darts, I probably won’t do as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived, he had no English, no place to stay, and less than twenty bucks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her words still lingered in his mind: “I’ll get twenty times the scavenge he does. ” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But then I blink—and suddenly there are twenty. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There were one hundred twenty- five in all, and I could hear the labored breathing of my fellow travelers as we climbed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I practically spat on the floor, which would have horrified Elisabet more than the ill-considered use of twenty million dollars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only fifteen or twenty people there pursuing their individual projects. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

First, we had an audience of ten people, but eventually it grew to twenty, everyone sitting shoulder to shoulder in those long pews. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We pulled up in front of Tangerine Middle at seven twenty- five. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his late twenties, blond, shag haircut, green eyes, and a silver-dollarsized circular bum scar on his forehead. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On my turn I’d get whatever score my word was worth, and on his turn he’d get twenty points if he hadn’t chewed any letters. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three railroad workers had been thrown in jail for mocking a Liberty Bond poster, and a woman had been fined for sending twenty dollars to her mother in Germany. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I see the problem: Is the answer twenty or eight? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

And when there was a useful scene, it was difficult to see it more than fleetingly because there were usually twenty others in the room watching with you. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was not much older than twenty, so nobody was quite sure that Mary Lou was really as old as he said she was. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

That was the context going into the interview, which Singleton would later describe as “the most contentious I’ve ever had in twenty- four years in law enforcement.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But Hanako was carrying another twenty dollars that her mother had hidden in a seam in her pajamas. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After finishing the round, which took about twenty minutes, he started again just in case some had fallen back asleep or had not heard him the first time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was heavy for them, even in this way, so that they had to stop every twenty yards or so, to change over. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty- five feet from me they caught him and down he went. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the earth travels twenty miles per second, it pulls the moon with it through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Almost instantly, twenty long canoes surrounded the visitors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

About twenty spectators and as many journalists and photographers also waited, staring at the empty, lonely board, and at Reshevsky, who never stopped his pacing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “This hotel is very cheap, ma cherie. The innkeeper behind the desk said our room was forty francs a night but only twenty francs if we made our own bed.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And another one of those twenty million people was a staff writer for People magazine, and another one was a writer for 3-2-1 Contact magazine for kids. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel we’ve lost energy. I don’t think we’re as determined as we were twenty years ago when King died. We have become less tolerant and less supportive of those who are less fortunate.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For once I wanted us to feel like millionaires. And if twenty cents can make us feel rich, it’s a cheap price to pay.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their twenties, with painted nails and freshly curled hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The kid's head flip-flopped 'cause of his snapped neck and his feet spasmed, twenty feet off the ground. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Two strangers stood on the doorstep, one a small woman with a light brown complexion and curly hair and the other a striking dark-skinned man in his early twenties. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

That exact same conversation happened at least twenty times, just like that. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For the next twenty minutes, flat glass fronts, one after another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It must at least look like a blue diamond worth twenty million francs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But how can a track team raise twenty thousand dollars?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The five thousand marines there were cut off and could get supplies only by air, even though any helicopter that flew over took a lot of enemy fire from the twenty thousand surrounding Vietcong troops. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lying sleepless on the floor one night, he watched as a roommate, a transport worker named Kang Chul Min, who was in his late twenties, got up and began mending his work trousers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come, since you will not visit them.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Helena, I know I’ve told you this twenty thousand times, but you need challenges bigger than Baked Alaskas. Julia's flying the nest this year. Why don’t you think about going back to work?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Most believe it to have been done about 470 years ago when Michelangelo was in his early twenties. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In diameter it was perhaps one hundred feet, and, suspended in its dead center was a smaller sphere of perhaps twenty feet diameter. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And soon they saw them, too: twenty or so men, women, and children, all moving as Dirk Jansen had done, uncertain and shocked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When they finished about twenty pages, they gave them to Houseman for feedback. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I got off and she got on and rode about twenty or thirty feet. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The man, in his early twenties, wore a blue, faded shirt and khaki pants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He found two twenties and a paint chip. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The war left 53 million dead, mostly young men in their late teens and early twenties. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When that ice barrier closed, though, the Indians who stayed in Beringia were stuck there for the duration: almost twenty thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re the one who put the sign up! What was I supposed to do? Spend twenty minutes throwing out the garbage? He’d come down here looking for me.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was twenty minutes before the friend went away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, around eight o’clock, I stood by the side of the road waiting for school bus number twenty. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"We're very thirsty men. This young man pushed history ahead twenty years today." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once everything was all mixed up, I scooped the batter into my cupcake pan and put it in the oven, setting the timer for twenty minutes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, listening to the last twenty minutes, and it feels like Arthur is right beside me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Our dormitory had forty beds in it, twenty' on either side of a central passageway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so tired by that time that I accidentally turned two pages at once, skipping from page seventeen to page twenty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Spire vultures are massive birds with five-inch talons and wingspans that clear twenty feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Twenty paces stretched twenty miles, every faint crunch of our shoes sounding like gunshot. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months to my nine years, thirteen years to my twenty. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They reached the town, they came to the palace, and at last after twenty years Odysseus entered his dear dwelling. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could set your clock by Lydia’s being twenty minutes late. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas Jones kept the secrets of the pine thicket until, almost twenty years later, he told his tale to a writer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his late twenties with light, close-cropped hair, a smooth face, the body of a dancer. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Each morning they returned, with the horse dragging another twenty blocks of granite, every block larger than the tallest man. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

In a rare moment when Johnny and Bobby leave the phone open, I walk up to it with the phone card that Mom brought me twenty minutes after she left with Dad and Sarah. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Five names in each category don’t appear at all in the other category’s top twenty. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt panting and frowning at the door, still twenty yards away, wondering, I reckon, why she park so far. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It sleeps or rests on average twenty hours a day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Michelson was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics for the work–the first American so honored–but not for twenty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Why do department stores or suburban water companies find it necessary to assign account numbers with twenty or more symbols? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom, wrapped in a silk scarf, was a book she’d had for twenty years: a commentary on the Chinese method of divination, the I Ching. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had a way of making me feel like we were the same age, even though I was still in high school and she was a workingwoman in her twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I count twelve exits and identify twenty potential weapons before I realize what I’m doing and force myself to relax. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lived here twenty years, and I've never known a gunman in Underhill to walk away that easy, no matter the circumstances. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The businesses here are hangers-on, relics from about twenty years ago—a sad and very old department store, a shoe store that smells like mothballs, a toy store, a candy shop, an ice cream parlor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You still owe me twenty minutes,” Coach said, checking his watch. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s just twenty dollars. It’s not that much. Besides, what am I going to spend it on?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Actually, he was older than me, probably in his early twenties, but he broke his leg jumping from the ship and his suffering made him a child. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took Tori more like twenty minutes to get ready, but eventually they were all on their way to Vista Heights. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But they are still twenty miles from the airport, and there is an enormous amount of bad weather still ahead of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At twenty past nine they walked across the street to the newly opened Westminster Abbey Cabaret. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

During this time the other employees arrive, about twenty of them, already glowing in their uniforms, and breakfast on the free coffee, bagels, and doughnuts The Maids kindly provides for us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from the noise, there were fifteen to twenty people trekking through the forest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But I feel giddy and wild and twenty times braver than usual. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

After scouting around, the men landed the boats on a remnant of a tabular iceberg—a large, flat, blue ice cube that rose about twenty feet from the surface of the water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She didn't speak a word of Farsi and ended up married to an Iranian man who was in his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Why, I’ve sat here off an’ on for nigh twenty years past, an’ it hasn’t done me no harm. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was a gorgeous animal, and his coloring made him worth at least twenty talents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Blind be may be, but Aemon knows what he's about. I pray the gods let us keep him another twenty years. Do you know that he might have been king?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But he hadn’t mentioned the missing twenty bucks then, and he wasn’t going to mention it now. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the platform, a group of about twenty people in brightly colored skintight bodysuits materializes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Oppenheimer called Richard Feynman into his office, the twenty- six-year-old Feynman must have thought he was in trouble again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably one of the oldest undergraduates at college, but he joined the military after high school in Iran and didn't move to Baton Rouge until his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m still sitting there twenty minutes later, the house as closed up and silent as when I arrived, and finally I head home. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Chloe said, “That was the best twenty minutes of my life.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In twenty minutes, he would be coming around to see who had it right. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was a catboat, twenty feet long and almost as wide. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon another picked me up, a young man in his late twenties who spoke with an educated flair. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closest grocery store was twenty miles away. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were a younger couple, like in their twenties. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“And she works in the bargain and earns twenty dollars a week now.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’ve read it twenty times. I bring it back to the bookshop, read other books, and then take it again. I like the stories.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She stopped about twenty feet down the trail. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was young, as far as Malcolm could judge, maybe in her twenties, and very pretty, with the sunlight glowing in her golden hair and her light green dress. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The session drags on for a torturous eternity that is just another twenty minutes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We had arrived almost twenty minutes late, and the benches were packed to capacity. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty voicemail messages waiting, all from her. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was built before Karhiders used powered vehicles, and they have been using them for over twenty centuries. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you and your partner are using your time wisely. You only have twenty minutes left.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They proceeded directly to the car, and for twenty minutes Mrs. Sen practiced driving. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Benton smiled back awkwardly, thinking that perhaps Rameel had convinced himself that he could convert tribal peoples to a complex faith like Christianity in as little as twenty minutes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The inflatable shark naturally led to the puddle of heavy cream, which, if lapped from the floor with slow, steady precision, could account for up to twenty minutes of valuable stage time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She finished about twenty paintings in her studio, cleaned the whole house, and cooked enough soup to last all winter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Gus said to me, “Can you meet us at my house in, say, twenty minutes?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“For twenty dollar a week, you ain running a plantation in here.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In consequence we alighted at the little community of Milo, twenty miles to the south, on unsteady legs and blinking at the suddenness with which our circumstances had changed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And about twenty kids running around him and screaming.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to look at Cassiopeia with me? One of the stars in the system is going supernova. When it explodes it will be twenty times brighter than usual.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But if I ever managed to break the curse, in a month or in twenty years, I would find him and win him over again if he was still free. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your exercise will take place on the triangular yard outside the unit—thirty yards by twenty yards by twenty yards, with a mural of wildlife hung above the basketball backstop. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, following a moving cloud with my eyes, I asked, “Do you ever wonder what we’ll be doing ten or twenty years from now? Or where we’ll be living?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After fifteen or twenty minutes, the usher returned. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time they are twenty or so, we’ll be gone. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even in your twenties you know how old you are. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Astonished, Bruno added, “Jesus. They did so much shuffling and scuffling we’d never get a decent footprint. Looks to me like somebody ran twenty head of buffalo through here just to destroy the evidence.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at twenty minutes after six in the morning, I wander past the railroad station on my way home from work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the biggest stops, with anywhere from fifteen to twenty kids waiting every day. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

By everyone’s best estimates, she had been outside for approximately twenty minutes when the fire chief opened the door, and in the snow for perhaps two. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

More Americans than twenty years ago believe it possible to start out poor, work hard, and become rich. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ecologists have since employed more sophisticated theoretical tools to produce new, lower population estimates; ethologist Dale Lott put the number of bison in “primitive America” at twenty-four to twenty- seven million in 2002. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You can imagine that twenty rats and two mice traveling in procession would cause some comment, and we did not want that. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other giants spread out quickly in a large circle, each giant about twenty yards from his neighbour, preparing for the game they were going to play. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way they covered almost twenty miles before nightfall, and came to a point where the Road bent right and ran down towards the bottom of the valley, now making straight for the Bruinen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And I wondered if she’d saved the twenty minutes for me on purpose. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was an unusually hot and humid day, and with the twenty of us crowded into her entryway, it felt even hotter. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Meet me there in one hour, and bring twenty tambala.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Yet twenty days had passed, and here they remained, still shipless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She stretched out her rough, chapped hand and, with a gesture that came automatically, smoothed his hair with the same caress she had used to console his children for the past twenty years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are mirrors on two sides, and they skew my ability to figure out square footage, but I figure it’s twenty feet by fifteen feet, tops. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All of the kids were in their twenties but still very close and protective of their mother. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He was only in his twenties, unusual for a war leader. It’s one of the reasons Crazy Horse is considered so exceptional.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It only takes me twenty minutes to pack everything I own. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“It's as if she's come back from twenty years of war,” he would say. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the room has dropped twenty degrees. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Some twenty back-seat drivers at once demanded an explanation, but the Chief gave none. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Harry turned his Firebolt upward and was soon twenty feet above the game. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired. I had to turn away about twenty kids your age trying to buy beer.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Go fix yourself up fast. I’m only giving you twenty minutes.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The electric engines were so quiet that one could hear avalanches grumble down immense blue slopes on the far side of chasms twenty miles across. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mom won’t be here for another twenty minutes, so I hang around the music room even after they leave. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In just half an hour every student in the room knew all twenty vocabulary words. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It clings to the familiar twenty- four-hour cycle, so that the astronaut becomes sleepy when it is his normal bedtime in Houston, regardless of what he sees out his window. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think also that you know of a good reason for your failure, which you have tried to hide, tried pathetically to hide and overlook, for five and twenty years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begins to shiver violently, the house instantly feeling twenty degrees colder. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through the gates and into a smaller hall, where queues were forming in front of twenty golden grilles housing as many lifts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the time it took my eyes to focus, he was twenty feet away, standing at the edge of the small meadow, in the deep shade of a huge fir tree. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But Joe has been in the City twenty years and isn’t young anymore. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unnerving; Koffi hadn’t heard their entrance, the hut’s flap certainly hadn’t opened, but here they were, at least twenty of them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were younger—perhaps in their early twenties. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to remain still and count to twenty. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds, there was a crowd of about twenty people clustering around Charlie, and many more were pushing their way in from the street. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

We make it about twenty feet into the tunnel and grind to a halt. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“How do I take care of a hundred and twenty mutinous men?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was out not only her wage, which her family needed, but also the twenty cents for round-trip bus fare. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

One hundred and twenty kids with two pieces of trash each is two hundred forty things to throw away. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“But I’m sick of the way it’s always a hundred of us who wind up paying that measly twenty bucks, and you still lose another cow off the permit.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled twenty dollars, which would've been my pay for the day had I worked, from the same pocket. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She had raven hair, styled Joan-of-Arc short, and appeared to be in her late teens or early twenties. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I bet he was hot twenty years ago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

February 24—and there's been an update every twenty- four hours right up to yesterday. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten or twenty board the train, armed with machetes, knives, bats, lead pipes, and pistols. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dad got it running—“More like limping,” he said—but it never went any faster than fifteen or twenty miles an hour. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I could get by with maybe twenty percent of what's left." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were twenty of them, holding to each other’s shoulders or adjusting their belts. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to get four miles across the city in twenty minutes, and it was looking like he would be late for work for the first time in his life. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As for Mr and Mrs Taylor themselves, I have ascertained that they ran the village green grocery here from the twenties until their retirement three years ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It was very stern,” Mother assured me twenty minutes later, when she appeared at my door asking if I could lend Emily a pair of shoes and a coat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Take Mr. Pip’s written order, and pay him twenty pounds.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Salt water shot twenty feet into the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He worked as an illustrator when he was younger, but he’s been painting for the last twenty years and has a huge online following. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a twenty- two-year-old African American boxer from Detroit, named Joe Louis, stood in Schmeling’s way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The wheel needed twenty minutes for a single revolution. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Great. I’ll pick you up in twenty minutes. Just tell me how to get to your house.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Judith is at least twenty years Mallory’s senior, but both their smiles are as glittering white as the crown brooches on their cardigans. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was in his early twenties, or appeared so. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Now you have to understand that twenty pennies might be a good bit of money for some little ragamuffin troupe living hand-to-mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ground was scrabbly dirt, and in the center of the rope enclosure, about twenty feet away, was a hole. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The news reached her twenty minutes after the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They made it in twenty minutes and the driver never said a word. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

So if I put twenty acres into flax and twenty into wheat, that would be the needed forty acres. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jessie didn't even have the patience for ten questions, let alone twenty. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Within twenty years at the most, he re-fleeted, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?” would have ceased once and for all to be answerable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Delegates from twenty different parties including the homeland governments had already agreed on the ground rules for the convention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scraggle-haired Englishman had returned to his primary interest, which was chasing girls twenty years younger than himself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The roads were good this time of year, so we made excellent time traveling north through the Commonwealth: fifteen, twenty miles a day as we searched out new towns to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It took them another twenty minutes to finish loading the truck. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There are twenty beds in the ward and there are men and boys with bandages around their heads, black patches on their eyes, thick glasses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’s maybe said twenty words to me, but the thought of Bo, in a tux, escorting her at the pageant turns me into this version of myself that makes my eyes burn. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The impulsivity of the idea had been so attractive to him twenty minutes prior, but now it seemed silly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As the game progressed, Bobby had only twenty minutes remaining on his clock to make the required forty moves, and he’d so far completed just sixteen of them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We count up: out of twenty, seven are dead, four wounded, one in a mad-house. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at Ash in mid-sentence and Ash quickly looked away, feeling overwhelmed by it all: Kaisa, the hunters, the banquet hall, the King and Queen, barely twenty feet away from her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I have done better, though now I must grope for spent arrows; all mine are gone. Yet I make my tale twenty at the least. But that is only a few leaves in a forest.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Three grades times two classes times twenty kids is one hundred and twenty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Harry Potter died over twenty years ago as part of that failed coup on the school—he was one of those Dumbledore terrorists we bravely overthrew at the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I had twenty- three cents—a dime I had earned running errands for my grandpa, and thirteen cents a fisherman had given me for a can of worms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left one morning with twenty members of my squad for Bauya, a small town a day’s walk south of us, to get ammunition. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That year, Louis cleared a profit of twenty million dollars, up from nine million before the war started. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At Bethune, the colored high school he went to, all the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders—about twenty of them—were housed in the same little room near the entrance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Must be around twenty- five and here she was around forty. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The people of Santa Fe, a city of just twenty thousand, began to wonder why so many men with European accents were suddenly walking the streets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held that unnatural pose for perhaps twenty seconds, until he understood, hearing the words I couldn’t say, and moved to the floor. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of them, a row of twenty or so darkly tinged windows stretched across the compound horizontally, one after the other. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A day came when Katie didn’t have the twenty cents for the insurance collector. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything for the past twenty years docketed and outlined and complete. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His brother and two sisters gave him a standing ovation which lasted over twenty seconds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Vega found an old cardboard box, sitting upside down, about twenty feet away. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

"By their fires I call them twenty thousand strong," she said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time he finally moved on to the far side, so the legend goes, twenty- three cars, several bicycles, and a bus were stacked to a dead stop in both directions. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t many of our people left by 1876,” Grandpa Nyles explained, “compared to the sheer numbers of whites. There were probably twenty thousand Lakota. At the same time, there were twenty-five million white people.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

But he would just say, in the Urdu accent he hasn’t lost after living in the Milwaukee area for twenty years, “Embarrassing? I don’t understand this embarrassing. Why do you care what people think?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The air inside the mobile home was at least twenty degrees cooler than outside. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Only, twenty minutes later, Dad came downstairs alone. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s been twenty years and for a long time my grief was unabating. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Boanda invited us to come to the house where her mother and father lived with two unmarried sisters, who appeared to be twenty years older than Mama Boanda. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Guildhall’s holds he stashed twenty donkeys, seven camels, and an assortment of monkeys and deadly snakes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Adding twenty or more captured Indians thus meant that the ship was sailing with at least twice its normal complement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the early twenties, the mine still had not produced much, if anything, in the way of gold, or rubies, or even garnets for that matter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The new restaurant was located near a high school, employed twenty carhops, and promptly made the brothers rich. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I stand under the trees for a while, opposite number twenty- three. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Users with less expertise were more accurate in predicting the learning curves, though their guess, too, fell short: they predicted twenty minutes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It is twenty years of history and there’s a great deal to be learned from it.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few hours later he was back, carrying with him twenty baskets of food and twenty buckets of water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Clarissa, who by the way couldn’t have been much older than Spoony, maybe early twenties, white, freckles, bright-red hair, looked at the start of my new piece. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

McDonough, as tall as the others but with a potbelly, was, like Perlstein and Proctor, in his late twenties or early thirties. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He owned and operated Griffin’s Saloon on Main Street, and on a Saturday night he might refuse to serve twenty men he thought had had enough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled a ten and a twenty out of my handful of bills and dropped them on the table. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Ten feet up, twenty, boots catching in the rigging. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were twenty who had arrived before he had—none were from his group of friends. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. K had lived by the dead sea for twenty years, and their ancestors had lived in the same house, which turned and followed the sun, flower-like, for ten centuries. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I heard the Colonel’s voice, distinct and very annoyed, saying, “Because it narrows the list of possible suspects by twenty- three! Why couldn’t you just follow the plan? Christ, where is everybody?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But after dragging about twenty tires through the dirt, I gave up on that. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I ran the last twenty yards or so, even though running in the halls is one of the deadly sins at Camillo Junior High, right up there with pride, envy, wrath. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He let Jack lead the way; and Jack trod with theatrical caution though they could have seen an enemy twenty yards away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes, he puts the birdseed away and we walk back to the house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Forty years of radio and twenty years of television must have this impact. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held his breath as he pushed off the bottom and swam the last twenty feet. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I took twenty dollars from my babysitting stash, grabbed my glue stick, and ran back downstairs. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer said: “After you’ve pushed ‘send,’ and you’re waiting for a response, fifteen or twenty seconds may pass before you’re fully back and have regained your sense of all vehicles around you.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At eleven thirty, Roberto carried the twenty lunches in a box and delivered them, on foot, to the workers who were given half an hour for lunch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

About twenty women in black burkas swept back and forth, placing trays of food, enough to cover the rug and feed a thousand people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The slender branches went up about twenty feet and were heavy, drooping with clusters of bright red berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had followed me in the press; I said I had been told of him, and we talked for fifteen or twenty minutes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nifflers live in lairs up to twenty feet below the surface and produce six to eight young in a litter. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were more than twenty of the big imps, and ten times that many small ones. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The salsa museum was free, but upon exiting, Nazario put a twenty in the donation box. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And after twenty years typing for the Parole department, I just about knew what she'd buried. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a twenty from my desk and tossed it down to the Bank of Chas. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even in my imagination, the shore just twenty yards away, I couldn’t make myself be brave. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesus, I’ll never understand why they didn’t hear the noise twenty miles around.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I marched from Connecticut to Boston with about twenty other men from my town. It took a week—a hundred miles. My feet nearly fell off.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The currency was automatically converted and my credit counter jumped to over twenty thousand, by far the largest amount of money I’d ever had. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was twenty years old before I ever saw this lake with my own eyes, despite having grown up only two hours from its shores. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I gave him twenty francs and he touched his cap and said: "Good night, sir," and drove off. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The next month I flew to Australia with my new baby and reunited with the parents I hadn’t seen for more than twenty some years. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She emerged in a cavernous vaulted cellar, surrounded by casks of ale stacked twenty feet tall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It didn’t give any indication of this whatever, but Katz spotted a white blaze twenty yards into the woods, and we whooped with joy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She counted four eyes, four ears, two mouths, two noses, twenty fingers and twenty perfect toe-nails. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keav follows the soldiers, with twenty other boys and girls, and never turns to look at us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They he morning had dawned clear and cold, with a set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he’d overheard us, but he was twenty yards out and upwind of us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, a dark-skinned man in his early twenties with thick, knitted eyebrows twirled a whip in his hand and rhythmically swatted the side of the truck with it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My twenty- three paired chromosomes have linked up and crossed over, spinning their roulette wheel, as my papou puts his hand on my mother’s belly and says, “Lucky two!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the Tuskegee staff grew to thirty-five scientists and technicians, who produced twenty thousand tubes of HeLa—about 6 trillion cells—every week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The leg was twenty feet up, wedged in the first forking of the trunk, bare, severed cleanly above the knee. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stephen Foster, a representative of the Massachusetts delegation who had worked with Stanton for almost twenty years, stood and called for her resignation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It took him twenty minutes to reach the top and sure enough K Unit was already there, crouching around three small tents that they must have pitched earlier in the afternoon. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“My opinion is that I can’t go twenty more feet so long as the white weather lasts.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when I get to fifteen I keep going, to twenty. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ashe got to know his students, he learned that many had never been to Center City Philadelphia, where the city’s restaurants, theaters, and museums were, all of twenty miles away. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They started a game of twenty questions in German. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And with twenty quarters, I could probably play Street Fighter for twenty hours. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty minutes had passed, and still no sign of Sticky. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or the Nazi saboteurs in a rubber boat filled with explosives bobbing in the water not twenty feet away from him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A day after his arrest, he is marched east in a group of twenty to join a larger group where they are penned in a warehouse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rhododendron thicket was about twenty feet back from the Burroughs’s lane and about a quarter of an acre big. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I just hope that, twenty years in the future, they’d be comparing some kid to me: “Yeah, you see that kid shoot, he reminds me so much of Arnold Spirit.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now tidal waves twenty feet tall slammed into the village. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

They had been married for twenty years and had a grown-up son who was going to Oxford. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s probably in his twenties, but he doesn’t seem much older than I do. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Take her wherever she wants,” he told the driver, passing him two twenties from his own wallet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Few men in her neighborhood earned as much as twenty a week and they had families, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Are you kidding me? You had twenty experts working for twelve hours on this. We have a multibillion-dollar communications network. You can't figure out any way to talk to him?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first and best was that instead of being a journey of many days, Navajo High School was only twenty miles away from my home. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance I could see that it was something meant for animals, twenty feet by ten, made of thick iron bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I came up on deck I saw we were within twenty yards of the ridge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been twenty minutes or so later that I encountered Miss Kenton again, this time while I was busy with preparations for dinner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he ticked off the names of friends he grew up with, it was a litany of trouble: one was an alcoholic and divorced at twenty, with a child and no job. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty seconds of music, the announcer interrupts a third time to introduce commentator Carl Phillips, who will conduct the interview. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had been known to walk out of doctors’ offices if he was not seen within twenty minutes, but Hayes did not keep him waiting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We listened as she walked the twenty steps to the bathroom and slammed the door with all her might. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We sat there for nearly twenty minutes before Frank was given a package to take downtown. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were across the river, no more than twenty yards away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even after I reminded them: He could die in, like, twenty minutes..We ought to yell something... Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The best years of her life, from age twenty to forty, had been celibate, and aside from the consummation that began his own life, the rest of her life had been the same. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you make it twenty pounds,” said I, smiling. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z