英语词汇“twenty-four”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

What did surprise her was that the 650 messages used twenty-four different code and cipher systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t he the one who saw a Grim and died twenty-four hours later?” asked Hermione. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You’re not kidding I’m tired. I can’t sleep anymore. My eyes water all night long. I feel sick twenty-four hours a day.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a most important secret to tell you,” he said, “which you must keep to yourselves religiously for twenty-four hours.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The only happy newborn ever to weigh over twenty-four pounds upon entrance was the product of a southern Turkish union. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Could recite the date and year of not only Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, but the name of the farm where they found John Wilkes Booth twenty-four hours later. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I count twenty-four strings. How does that even work? That’s more than some harps.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gussie was paralyzed with fright for a moment, then he ran away screaming and hid under the bed where he stayed for twenty-four hours. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She threatened to put him in jail and I was on restriction twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—possibly forever. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The official order arrived in the Monday mail: the execution was to be carried out within twenty-four hours. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The bill came to seventeen dollars altogether, seventeen dollars and twenty-four cents to be exact. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you do that? Your allowance is only twenty-five cents. Twenty-four forty-three plus twenty-five cents makes only twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Pattie signed the bottom of the paperwork that gave her legal responsibility for Willow for the next twenty-four hours, the police cruiser charged out of the parking lot like a getaway car. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He simply stood by, like his twenty-four- year-old deputy, thinking the thoughts a man thinks at such a time about the ugly inevitability of death. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The doctors wanted me under "observation" for at least twenty-four hours, just in case. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His name was Van Rensburg and he had been flown to the island on twenty-four hours’ notice after the assassination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In eighteen twenty-four. Monroe had—will have—two terms.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty-four he had already won dozens of prestigious tournaments, and had participated in Wimbledon and the U.S. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unrolled the carpet partway and immediately found something else: a flattened, empty box that had once contained twenty-four nutrition bars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Immediately the directors had ordered a rough plan of the fair, to be delivered to them within twenty-four hours. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I can be Sweet Dorothy seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day as long as nobody crosses that line. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The next twenty-four hours, we’ll know if this dog’s going to live,” the doc says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At twenty-four, William was only a little older than she was, but he had grown up in a very different world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The A-4 judge poured the contents of the twenty-four bottles into a shot glass, and it did not overflow. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll do as you requested and put a memo in his file for all medical personnel to take note of his lucid stretches over the next twenty-four hours.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He thought of the twenty-four floors, the views that would soon no longer exist, his disposable camera. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep the excavated chambers as dry as possible, they ran pumps twenty-four hours a day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I was twenty-four years old, one day out of the blue my mother said to me, “You need to find your father.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Mother, I must attend to my bowels. They are revolting against the trauma of the last twenty-four hours.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the buttons on his shirtfront could barely contain everything he had taken: two loaves of bread, twenty-four frozen waffles, and a ten-pound bag of apples. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the place of his dreams, Mike Winchell had just had the worst performance of his Permian career, four for twenty-four passing for fifty-seven yards and one interception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the emotions I’ve held in check over the past twenty-four hours crash over me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Geoffroy’s twenty-four substances thus survive even when they are combined with other substances: they are not transmuted when they enter into such combinations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If their luck held, they would cross into Virginia sometime after nightfall, within twenty-four hours. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is twenty-four by seven. You work in the day, and then the night, and then the next morning.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

So much had happened to him in the last twenty-four hours that somewhere along the way, he had stopped worrying. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

When we arrive at building twenty-four, there’s only one car in the lot. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Go right on down to the tip of Manhattan Island that this devilish white man stole from the trusting Indians for twenty-four dollars! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surprised I was good-looking? I was a boy once, you know. I’m only twenty-four now.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Black closed his hand around the floating key and said, “I haven’t left the apartment in twenty-four years!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was denying me for a lousy twenty-four minutes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d now been up for over twenty-four hours straight, jacked in the entire time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Not enough. You didn’t say you’d be living in another country in less than twenty-four hours.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not unlike the German propaganda machine, which is cranking out lies twenty-four hours a day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He’s pretty sure he’s cried more over the past twenty-four hours than he has in his whole life. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Built in 1939, it’s open twenty-four hours a day, so there’ll be no excuse to not get those papers in on time.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At age twenty-four, after working with Akhi for only a year, I had done what most people would assume was impossible. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And for the second time in twenty-four hours Fadi explained his half-baked plan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Turtle began with the purple-waves story, went on to the whisperings, the bedded-down corpse, the dropped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and her mother's cross, and ended with the twenty-four dollars she had won. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pippin's not so nicely spoken as you, my pet, but his heart's twenty-four karat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma all the time said I was just like my dad, “bouncing off the walls twenty-four hours a day.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought about what I would have done when I was sixteen years old or nineteen or even twenty-four, I was scared to realize that I might have run. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Wiretaps had become common, as was twenty-four- hour surveillance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"Eight threes," the Trunchbull shouted, swinging Wilfred from side to side by his ankle, "eight threes is the same as three eights and three eights are twenty-four! Repeat that!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

At twenty-four, he’s not that much older than she, at fifteen, and he is very handsome. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The documents clerk handed him his passport, and he remarked to her how nice it looked with the twenty-four new pages perfectly sewn in. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The two men stood pawing through the dynamite— twenty-four sticks of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The youthful count of St Pol had been taught the arts of war by being given twenty-four living prisoners to slaughter in various ways, for practice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, actually, it was exactly twenty-four times, but I felt justified in using the generic “few,” realizing that any number greater than “never” was as good as saying “twenty-four.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After twenty-four hours of tireless work, Anthony went to the university trustees and presented $8,000 in pledges to make up the shortfall. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Judging by how far the infection has progressed, I’d estimate he was bitten eighteen to twenty-four hours ago.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, “Mason, so much has happened in the last twenty-four hours. And after spending that time with you, I got an idea. I thought maybe we could start a new dialogue.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, nearly twenty-four hours after Venkatesh stumbled upon them, they set him free. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

That was all we had to eat for twenty-four hours. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The broker will try to give us at least twenty-four hours’ notice.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” I said, continuing my journey into stupidity, “Do any of you guys know my home phone number? I think it’s got a twenty-four in it, too.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All twenty-four students sat upright and still at the desks they had grown too big for. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t forget the events of the past twenty-four hours, but here, speeding along a concrete wash, I can let them trail behind me, if only for a few moments. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was sure he was going to die right there in my arms, less than twenty-four hours after he had saved me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the booth had six different jams, and sometimes Iyengar had twenty-four different jams on display. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Marina pulled some strings to get twenty-four new Yaks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And after White had taken the job at Leavenworth, the cases were closed, closed with great triumph, even though the bureau had not yet connected Hale to all twenty-four murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It might be twenty-four hours since he had eaten, it might be thirty-six. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then, over the eleven-week production schedule for the show, you can log in twenty-four hours a day and check the progress of the production as it follows the sun around the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, the reversion to a strict shift system dispelled the sense of floating timelessness of those first twenty-four hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to maintain liaison with the Lord, and they were all in favor of that; it was something else, though, to have Him hanging around twenty-four hours a day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If you’d come forward within twenty-four hours of the attack, you would have been okay. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take too much time before I figured out that twenty-four hours’ worth of walking was a lot longer than I thought it would be. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Security personnel are on duty twenty-four hours a day,” she continued. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We were both twenty-four years old when you were born, the normal age for most Americans, but among the class we soon found ourselves, we ranked as teenage parents. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was a box of watercolors with twenty-four tubes of color and three brushes and a pad of heavy art paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Not practice? For twenty-four hours? Be still, my broken heart,” Mom says. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was getting, he judged, three meals in the twenty-four hours; sometimes he wondered dimly whether he was getting them by night or by day. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the large group with whom he had spent almost twenty-four hours a day for the last ten days, and almost as many hours each day for several weeks before that. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But his temperature was down to normal, he said, and had been normal for twenty-four hours now. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smith had raised an additional hundred dollars in less than twenty-four hours! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll be sure to make that point clear when we ask for permission. Rules are rules, Amari. If an emergency session is called, we could probably have an answer in about twenty-four hours.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Faint voices broken by static came through. “.. . final score: New York Giants, twenty-four. Detroit Lions, seventeen . “Lions suck,” Jennifer said, shaking her head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-four colleges, which allowed for endless permutations of alliance and betrayal. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When she got to twice twelve is twenty-four she didn't stop. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was returned to South Carolina, their oldest son, Perry, age twenty-four, was in prison for murder. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Taylor stood in the rain with inky papers—a cool boy of twenty-four, already a major. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the first twenty-four hours, having dispatched a dinner of veal, with cassava, yams, and fried bananas, and a case and a half of champagne in addition, Aureliano Segundo was sure of victory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He goes back over the last twenty-four hours in his head: the sleeplessness, the pills, the tense little grimace Henry does in public that Alex has always read as aloofness. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Samantha mentioned roses are her favorite flower while we were watching Titanic,” Dylan says, beaming, like it’s a superhuman trait to remember something that was said less than twenty-four hours ago. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Seaborg’s group commandeered the cyclotron to bombard uranium twenty-four hours a day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One hundred and twenty-four seconds later, Root’s black-and-white blueprints faded out, to be replaced by full-color daylight imaging. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

My mission was to multiply twenty-four times nine. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“When the elementary school wanted new playground equipment, it took three years to get it. But bring up something boring, and it’s ready to go in twenty-four hours.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

Of these twenty-four, all of them men of great experience and power, and some of them men of great fame, Gabriel, to his astonished pride, was asked to be one. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After they book you in for something serious—murder, attempted murder, setting a person on fire on a bus—they put you in a camera room for the first twenty-four hours. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Winchell threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Hill and then made it three when he hooked up with Brown for a sixty-one- yard bomb with twenty-four seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady turn around, turn around, turn around, Lady touch the ground, touch the ground, touch the ground; Lady show your shoe, show your shoe, show your shoe, Lady, lady, twenty-four skiddoo! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know that the police have twenty-four hours to charge a suspect, and they’ve had that now. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she smacked it down on the counter and said, “That SmartMart outside of town is going to be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. A Supercenter is what they’re calling it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They skip forward several years after that: suddenly Megan is twenty-four, living in London, working as a waitress in a North London restaurant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You spy a twenty-four- hour road trip in a minivan. Hip because road trips always are; tragic because the gas we’re guzzling will destroy the planet.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

My grandfather has a plan to get into building twenty-four, and it feels like it’s straight out of a spy movie. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Apparently, if they did not get the cane into the boiling vat within forty-eight hours—preferably twenty-four hours—their crop would be ruined. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But Vondie grabs the rebound, a fresh twenty-four on the shot clock. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“Law’s people will come even farther, with no rest. It’s twenty-four miles to Guilford. He left at three A.M. When he gets here he’ll be pretty tired.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the person whose box they checked also checked their box, both daters would be notified of the other’s e-mail address within twenty-four hours. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Who had been champion for eleven years, since he was twenty-four. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the Ferris Wheel the pumps meant to drain the tower excavations ran twenty-four hours but could not conquer the volume of water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing that feels familiar is the mustache, the excess hair on his cheeks and chin shaved less than twenty-four hours ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, I was back to full health within twenty-four hours. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The nightingale has twenty-four basic songs, but gains wild variety by varying the internal arrangement of phrases and the length of pauses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each crew spent twenty-four hours on standby, making periodic checks, clearing the debris, doing whatever was necessary to keep the water moving into camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Seabiscuit had won the race easily, running the final quarter in a blazing twenty-four seconds flat and obliterating the track record by \\% seconds, he had dragged early in the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Jeny to assemble teams of soldiers and civilian employees to be ready to move out with space suits in twenty-four hours. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am hope not. He is owe twenty-four dollar, the maricon.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I'll be living in it twenty-four and a half hours a day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine spending twenty-four hours a day, every day with her. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give your life rights away for free! The day has to be mundane, Valmiki. And day is a mortal’s twenty-four hours. Comply, or else you’ll face the gods’ powers.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With them this time was the twenty-four- year-old fighter-pilot captain with the sparse golden mustache who had been shot into the Adriatic Sea in midwinter and not even caught cold. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I went on aspirins twenty-four hours a day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added that he would be returning to Haiti within twenty-four hours. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Their teacher was called Miss Honey, and she could not have been more than twenty-three or twenty-four. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next twenty-four hours, over sixty Sixer avatars cleared the First Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The ring was to hold my neck in one position, and I was to wear it twenty-four hours a day for three months. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Sunday was to be a feast day for everyone, but more especially for the twenty-four elders, who were, that day, to be gloriously banqueted at the saints’ expense and labor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had spent the previous eight weeks confined to his room close to twenty-four hours a day and had been denied mental health services despite his repeated requests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“They won’t do anything at once, not for twenty-four hours perhaps.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Adding up the balls, he could see that there were twenty-four points left on the table. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours later, Bunny was dead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wondered if they had been dancing for twelve hours or twenty-four or for no time at all. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“So you said. But, Mademoiselle, the Orient Express leaves Stamboul every day of the week. Even if you had missed the connection it would only have been a matter of twenty-four hours’ delay.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It goes on for the next twenty-four hours, this complete indecision. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

"I lost my wife when she was forty-six. I lost my daughter when she was twenty-four. And you remind me to remember them?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed the only question I had asked of anyone for the last twenty-four hours, and yet no one had given me a satisfactory answer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he said, “she died twenty-four years ago! Long time ago! Yesterday, in my life!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty-four hours and a couple of embarrassing moments later, but here they were. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-four years old now and despite his accelerating mental decline was still employed by the Inter Ocean as a delivery contractor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My actual birthday, two weeks away, was about twenty-four million miles in front of Julia Bishop and me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

After twenty-four hours of hard work, the men finished the track in time for the president's arrival. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It would take a full twenty-four hours to harden; but the sky remained cloudless. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Neither of us was smelling too good: I’d gone twenty-four hours without access to deodorant, and Otto was giving off odors of spilled milk and passed gas. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I thought that after what we’d experienced less than twenty-four hours before, we would now be more than just casual acquaintances. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Rutherford was twenty-four when he first came to Cambridge University’s storied Cavendish Laboratory on a graduate scholarship. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With eight oarsmen in the boat, oars would have to enter and exit the water cleanly more than twenty-four hundred times. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Breakfast and dinner are served on our floor, but at lunch the twenty-four of us eat in a dining room off the gymnasium. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s been less than twenty-four hours,” Grace pointed out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Twenty- three, twenty-four, twenty-five,” the people shouted, and you could hear their enthusiasm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas had no memory of his life before the Box, but he was positive he’d finished the worst twenty-four hours of his existence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The Indians’ contracts called for seven hours’ work for about twenty-four cents a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When my mother and I had taken the dollar to the post office to exchange it, we had walked out with twenty-four Zim dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The total number of prisoners in the single cells was usually about twenty-four. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six times twenty-four—no, it would be nearer six times thirty-six. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next twenty-four hours in a frantic funk, obsessively checking the Scoreboard every five seconds, expecting the end to come at any moment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s barely been twenty-four hours, and it’s kinda taken on a life of its own.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in chairs alongside the six psych-unit cells most days, twenty-four hours a day, were the officers assigned to two kinds of special watch: suicide watch and drug watch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They mean fresh fish, fish that has been caught no more than twenty-four hours before and has never been frozen or chilled on a block of ice. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was why he wanted to take the suit, even for twenty-four hours. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

—Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stood around in huddled groups, a little bit damp, and still hungry because we’d eaten so fast and there were twenty-four cream puffs waiting for everyone back in the classroom. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dividing the dog watch that way switches the hours of the watches for the next twenty-four, so that the same men don’t stand two watches every night. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Emmett’s first year, the jail held nearly three hundred prisoners, including four murderers, sixty-five thieves, two arsonists, twenty-four burglars, two forgers, five rapists, and twenty-four inmates classified as lunatics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The twenty-four teachers had won a contest held by the St. Louis Republic that entitled them to a free stay at the fair at the newspaper’s expense. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the twenty-four years since the Langley laboratory had started operation, the glitterati of the aeronautical world had made pilgrimages to Hampton. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even when she’d discovered she was pregnant, she had told them within twenty-four hours. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I wish we could go twenty-four thousand miles away,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In an ideal world, I would have spent twenty-four hours a day conducting investigations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Had it been only twenty-four hours before that she had leapt from rock to rock, had climbed and grasped and pulled herself up the sheer cliff? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was now twenty-four, and his philosophy and worldview had been formed for the rest of his life. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In twenty-four hours it was all gone except for some lovely shady patches in the woods—white-laced branches dripping rain holes in the crust—and the slushy gray piles at the roadside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed the twenty-four checkers pieces back to their home squares on the board. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“At Cobble’s Corner. You have twenty-four hours to claim your prize.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty-four hours, his Hitler Youth comrades provided a guard of honor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was just twenty-four hours since I had been sentenced and I knew I was in way over my head. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours she was picked up and was on board a flight to San Francisco, courtesy of the American Consulate General. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Following Sikhdar’s discovery in 1852, it would require the lives of twenty-four men, the efforts of fifteen expeditions, and the passage of 101 years before the summit of Everest would finally be attained. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

So, swimming in fedock-deep slop and conceding as many as twenty-four pounds to his adversaries, Seabiscuit finished third, snapping his historic win streak. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a period of about twenty-four hours, then, when she wasn’t much help to anybody. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clockers were stationed at the track twenty-four hours a day, greeting one another with the phrase “What do you know?” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seventh congressman to vote was Harry Burn, twenty-four, the youngest member of the legislature. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first twenty-four hours after the speech are a blur, but a few snapshots will stay with him for the rest of his life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was fourteen again, instead of twenty-four, and against all odds we were becoming friends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours before, I had been sleeping on the bathroom floor, so I didn’t have the highest of expectations, but it was moments like these that I had trained for. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t last of course, and twenty-four hours later they are frightened again and restoring themselves with any helplessness within reach. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gardar got off relatively unscathed—Bobby’s snit against him lasted only twenty-four hours. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Military police guarded the only gate twenty-four hours a day. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was the idea: Give them twenty-four hours to eat the grass and fertilize it with their droppings, and then move them onto fresh ground. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

No wonder Jamie had more than twenty-four dollars; he was a gambler and a cheapskate. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd had begun forming some forty hours earlier, but up to twenty-four hours before, there were still fewer than one thousand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Once when I was twenty-four, once when I was fifty-seven. Two tablespoonfuls taken with breakfast. Two perfect days.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Near the end, Smith said, “I know you got to do your twenty-four hours; just let me do my eight.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For the time being. But don’t try to leave the island. We’ve got your number, Chaplain. Just remember that we’ve got you under surveillance twenty-four hours a day.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Here are the stats for Mrs. Windermere’s kitchen: The floor was white and yellow tile—twenty-four tiles wide, eighteen tiles long. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Of course it wasn’t torment twenty-four hours a day being a Jew. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the best part about Ms. CeeCee was that she was open twenty-four hours a day. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Two dollars times twelve minutes equals twenty-four dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first Stormbreakers would have already begun leaving the plant, and in less than twenty-four hours the prime minister would be activating them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

For almost three months, he had been kept in detention, guarded twenty-four hours a day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Their nonstop flight would last more than twenty-four hours. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For more than twenty-four hours we retreated and attacked, using the arms and ammunition from those we had killed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Their quarry was a man who had just turned the corner and reset his age to twenty-four. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Would you please turn to page twenty-seven of your report? Your inventory of items aboard the defendant’s boat? And read for the court item twenty-four, please?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“See that? It says June first at five p.m. And it is now”—he checked his wristwatch—“five twenty-four p.m.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He might have committed an infraction within the past twenty-four hours. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved in together when Bobbette was twenty and Lawrence was twenty-four, and they had their first child that same year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the start of the second half, with the Creek down by a surprisingly slim margin of twenty-four points and the Beast at the foul line, the Colonel looked at Takumi and said, “It’s time.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it also sat on twenty-four million tons of anthracite. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The second day the host made twenty-four, as their vanguard passed beyond tire Glover lands into the thick of the wdlfswood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He made a point of knowing exactly where his client was twenty-four hours a day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what does “twenty-four skiddoo” mean, at the end of it? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

An hour after the death certificate is signed, Lucinda is laid out in the water well of the hippopotamus car and hitched to a team of twenty-four black Percherons with feathers on their headbands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They had not been milked for twenty-four hours, and their udders were almost bursting. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The sun dipped below the northern horizon for fewer than four hours out of every twenty-four, and at midnight the sky was still bright enough to read by. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twenty-four hours we spent there were horrendous. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one else in the room had said anything, and it could not have been any sort of coincidence that less than twenty-four hours later Deirdre was without a job. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I could not believe that only twenty-four hours had passed since I tore my clothes off in the rain during that run with Annie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Evidently, this medicine was going to drip into him for twenty-four hours, and then they would give him other drugs to minimize the poisoning he would get from this drug. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, they weren’t supposed to call her at work unless it was an emergency, but they hadn’t heard from her in over twenty-four hours and that was emergency enough. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

William Beck- ford, for example, came from a family that owned twenty-four sugar plantations in Jamaica. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

So much to do, and only twenty-four hours left. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

By an unfortunate coincidence, the waiter sat us at the table by the window where Francis and I had sat with Julian less than twenty-four hours before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Among this black race were twenty-four wise scientists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re already twenty-four, sister. Do you want to end up saying rosaries for the poor?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was the beginning of a day—Ernie’s birthday and the Fourth of July—where the only normal thing to happen the next twenty-four hours was that Ernie woke up with his sunglasses on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In twenty-four years of representing Texas in the House and Senate, Johnson’s focus had always been on domestic policy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And just let me have twenty-four hours without any dam New York jew to advise me what it’s going to do. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day racial tensions rule the streets, at night gunshots are heard from drive-by shootings, and twenty-four hours a day, the gangs and drug dealers control the block, trying to hold down their territory. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That had been less than twenty-four hours earlier. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I’m so weak from holding down nothing but Cheerios in the last twenty-four hours, I’m beat. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

For there were twenty-four of them, each one given his night to preach—to shine, as it were, before men, and to glorify his Heavenly Father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Because there was Toby, sitting in the plane with a woman he couldn’t have known for more than twenty-four hours, drinking from a bottle of wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We wind up with twenty-four kids, ages five to fourteen, and despite the low-key relational upheaval, it really is a lovely sight. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

All twenty-four of us sit in a big arc throughout the interviews. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But Harry hasn’t been near a Death Eater in the last twenty-four hours. Who’s supposed to have put a Trace back on him?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And, ultimately, when I turned twenty-four, it was my mom who made me track him down. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The same shoebox that sat on my porch less than twenty-four hours ago; rewrapped in a brown paper bag, sealed with clear packing tape, exactly as I had received it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They must be twenty-four carats, pure inside and out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two tables were set up in the middle of the room with twenty-four bottles of cold Coors beer on each one. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drum, which Gey called the “whirligig,” turned like a cement mixer twenty-four hours a day, rotating so slowly it made only two full turns an hour, sometimes less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was a huge, photogenic young man of twenty-four. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I think everything in my universe had a twenty-four in it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though the bureau estimated that there were twenty-four Osage murders, the real number was undoubtedly higher. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They had less than twenty-four hours to get ready. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then there’s Jimmy. Jimmy’s been here a lot. I’ve been here twenty-four days, and I’ve seen him come and go twice. You seem to like him.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

HARRY: He’s been out twenty-four hours, mostly in order so Madam Pomfrey could reset his arm. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Nearly twenty-four hours passed before federal troops arrived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By 2012, there were about twenty-four thousand defectors in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

After she married John Smith when she was twenty-four, she centered her life around family and church, yet she often told fond stories about her student days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-four of them—and only thirteen weeks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Lord, in six months my ears have heard what they hadn’t known about in twenty-four years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, 142 pounds gets pretty stupid when you add twenty-four ounces of beer to it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It took the FBI more than twenty-four hours after Howard had jumped from his moving car to figure out that he had escaped. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been over twenty-four hours; time to text Davis.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I say nothing when he tells me how he has texted the other Will Grayson forty-five times in the last twenty-four hours, and do I think that's too much. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The space wasn't big—twenty-four feet by ten—but it displayed Mo's life, from beginning to its end. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The second test had to do with spatial relationships and left me with a headache that would last for the next twenty-four hours. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours ago, he had been standing in the sunlight at the entrance to the marquee, waiting to show in wedding guests. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s been a strange twenty-four hours, and I didn’t sleep much last night. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams and the other nurses had to remove their dressings and put fresh antibiotic ointment over the burned area every twenty-four hours. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He needed to renew his strength after being awake for almost twenty-four hours. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worsley’s navigational equipment was down to one compass, his sextant, and his tables—and of the twenty-four chronometers he had taken with him from London, he had only one remaining. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

People who are alert twenty-four hours a day, and people who are dead. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know any underworld types who could help us break into building twenty-four?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Evidence of Cleopatra’s time in Rome may be seen in a temple that was located in Palestrina, a town twenty-four miles east of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the past twenty-four hours, Mami must have had the chance to call home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He wanted you to know that the fence surrounding District Twelve will now have electricity twenty-four hours a day.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If one passed by the Earth, it could not “stop” the Earth’s rotation, much less start it up again at twenty-four hours a day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I'm sure I'll have the lowest score of the twenty-four. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mary divided the contents of each tube into two, giving them room to grow, and within twenty-four hours, they’d doubled again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sissy at twenty-four had borne eight children, none of whom had lived. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me start off by asking what your reaction is to the events of the last twenty-four hours. Were you surprised to see those names appear on Halliday’s Scoreboard?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Lazarus woodpecker weighs approximately twenty-six ounces, is twenty-four inches tall, and has a wing span of just around thirty-two inches. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the war, her team would break into dozens of spy networks, including thirty-seven circuits linked to Hamburg, and a further twenty-four that were handled from Berlin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours, stacking hundreds on top of hundreds, accumulating by the millions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours after landing in Fairbanks, Carine and Sam flew on to Anchorage, where Chris’s body had been cremated following the autopsy at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground crews, which had to replace twenty-four dirt- clogged aircraft engines in twenty-one days, resorted to spraying oil on the taxiways to keep the dust down. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“About twenty-four hours,” Dad said, coming through the foyer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Five feet seven or eight with a wiry build, he claimed to be twenty-four years old and said he was from South Dakota. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is something about sudden darkness in a classroom of twenty-four sixth graders that sets off mischief. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

If need be we could turn off our oxygen and safely remain up here for perhaps twenty-four hours; after that, however, we would need to either go up or go down. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

Less than twenty-four hours after the assassination, Dr. Mudd had just given Booth the first confirmation that he had killed Lincoln! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no way of knowing that during the night, his wife in great pain, and after nearly twenty-four hours of labor, gave bloody birth to a fragile baby girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I copy mine from Cradle’s bulletin board, noting that there are two new ones in the past twenty-four hours. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it kills trees in twenty-four hours,” she asked him, “aren’t you afraid it will kill you?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For that matter, what was David going to look like after she’d been surrounded by new pretty faces twenty-four hours a day? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When we reach number twenty-four, my grandfather stops. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The average commuting time is twenty-four minutes, the same as Atlanta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Twenty-two on Wednesday; twenty-four on Thursday; twenty on Friday. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Bowdy scored twenty-four points in the first game and forty in the second game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We end up with ten questions, because Natasha thinks that for number twenty-four we should talk about our relationship with both our mother and father. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The surprise attack—at dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941—killed over twenty-four hundred Americans and put most of the Pacific Fleet out of action. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-four “house” units, fifty men living in each unit, if memory serves me correctly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's all happening twelve light-minutes away. That means it takes twenty-four minutes for them to get the answer to any question they ask. The whole launch is twelve minutes long. They're on their own." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to do that, okay, Nala? I don’t need shepherding twenty-four seven!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It takes twenty-four months to fill the tank. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are twenty-four students in the class. Statistically, at least two of you should not be able to taste the compound on the paper.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Astronomers have known for centuries that the earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full rotation—one day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The storm had been pushing him south and west at eight miles an hour for probably twenty-four hours. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1640, when Pernambuco was briefly ruled by the Dutch, its plantations sent some twenty-four thousand pounds of sugar to Amsterdam alone. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No. You have to stay here. Anyway, they’ve just installed a wall television. Cinema size. Wrestling, twenty-four hours a day.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At the University of Kansas, the journalism school does a periodic “media fast,” in which students aren’t allowed to use their devices for twenty-four hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Many such plants around Atlanta ran twenty-four hours a day, and many refugees, starting out at the bottom, ended up taking jobs on the night shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I had done as much to my body as it could take in the last twenty-four hours. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mother complained that spending all day and night with us in a tiny room was giving her gray hair even though she was only twenty-four. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The war went on for thirteen years, the legal struggle for ownership for another twenty-four. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had stopped answering pings four hours and twenty-four minutes ago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the 1940s, the United States had kept a draft in place, requiring all men ages eighteen to twenty-four to register for military service. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was no natural light in my cell; a single bulb burned overhead twenty-four hours a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of Judge Lew Fielding’s courtroom sat twenty-four islanders of Japanese ancestry, dressed in the clothes they reserved for formal occasions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the previous twenty-four hours the wind speed had not fallen below 107 miles an hour, and often gusted much higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sadly, my boy, I mean exactly what I said! I haven’t left the apartment in twenty-four years! My feet haven’t touched the ground!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had room for twenty-four things, but I decided to start with one side. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’re hungry. My head has a circumference of twenty-four inches,” Petra shouted over the wind, and they all laughed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“So let’s just review the last twenty-four hours. One, you did not kill yourself. Two, you applied for college. Three, we made out. Those are three, like, really good things.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In their three years on the front lines, the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment flew more than twenty-four thousand combat missions in total. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Now, leave it on for twenty-four hours. If you have to take a shower, peel it off, then put it right back on. That’s it for now.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, there’s one other difference. It takes twenty-four hours for the Big Dipper to swing around the North Star. So every hour space on the clock face stands for two hours.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad, a cop, taught me and twenty-four other kids about it in second grade, when he gave his presentation on Stranger Danger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The upswing is that, having eliminated the need for both eating and sleeping, you have a full twenty-four hours a day to spread your charm and talent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t slept in at least twenty-four hours. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Breeding Hippogriffs build nests upon the ground into which they will lay a single large and fragile egg, which hatches within twenty-four hours. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strategy A will result in Myrtle’s choosing the best suitor in eleven of the twenty-four instances, while strategy B will result in success in ten of the twenty-four instances. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how torn up his parents were; she knew how miserable their last twenty-four hours had been. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For the second time in twenty-four hours, Chuck had nailed it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

“Well, for a few of the loop’s twenty-four hours it’s September second, but, yes, it’s the third.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I told her that prophecies can be broken — I told her the whole logic of prophecies is questionable— ALBUS: In twenty-four hours’ time Voldemort curses himself trying to kill the baby Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

In an abort, Hermes would leave orbit within twenty-four hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men touch their caps and say they’re sorry for his troubles and some pat my head and give me pennies, twenty-four pennies, two shillings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

This main wall, some twenty-four feet high, is punctuated by twenty-one distinctive wall towers but is otherwise as blank as a cop’s face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve times two is twenty-four steps to safety. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours later, and every other word out of Jay’s mouth is “glory” or “hallelujah.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My thoughts tripped back and forth through the massive amount of life that had happened to me—to him—in the last twenty-four hours. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He opened it for the second time in twenty-four hours. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Hasn’t she come here twenty-four hours early because she isn’t sure when he’ll arrive and in what direction? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Salim said how huge it was and I said it had twenty-four storeys and Kat said it would be flattened any day now by our dad. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, if the call was to be connected at all, it would happen within twenty-four hours. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It would take just one Marine wife or one Marine kid to start working for the Russkies and every move the Corps made would be transmitted to Russia twenty-four hours in advance.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I wondered: What would a normal family be doing less than twenty-four hours after discovering their parents had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ma warn you, I know how to kill vampires. This knife is genuine solid twenty-four- karat silver.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A uniformed security guard was standing at the window, munching on cooked watermelon seeds—Sohrab was under twenty-four- hours-a-day suicide watch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To undermine their effort, one of the district commissioners ordered the warden to install two gas stoves near the women’s cells and to hire six women to cook ham and bacon twenty-four hours a day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The process will take some time, Dr. Ashley tells her; given that this is her first pregnancy, labor can take twenty-four hours, sometimes more. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He expected twenty-four hands to shoot up, but not one hand rose. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours the small provincial society world knew that an authentic count had arrived in their midst. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a bit more than two weeks, around twenty-four million miles, after my seventeenth birthday, the Perseids scattered brilliant torrents of blazing dust all across the nighttime sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In 1905, when Tom was twenty-four, he enlisted in the Texas Rangers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By “people over here twenty-four seven,” I know Thomas means he’s the only one there, listening for me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I even heard they paid off their roommates so they could move in together to work on this stuff twenty-four/seven.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Despite the doctor’s instructions to wear an eye patch for twenty-four hours, I had to take it off. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she had twenty-four migrants at home, so many she could barely open her front door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For at least twenty-four days we shall eat, I thought. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with twenty-four hours’ notice, railway passes were issued. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were less than twenty-four hours until the launch at the Science Museum. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The last twenty-four hours have been the hardest of my life. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Work on the calutrons proceeded twenty-four hours a day even while the magnet was energized, its powerful field a constant presence in the building. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And then, at age twenty-four, he was gone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But on the way to the moon there is no place to hide, and the sunlight is continuous, twenty-four hours a day. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They work varied shifts, because the crow’s nest operates twenty-four hours a day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Allen also served in the National Guard for twenty-four years. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I mean, he lives by his wits in the woods, so he isn’t exactly wagging his tail twenty-four hours a day. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

‘What is more, I’m getting famished. I haven’t had a thing to eat for twenty-four hours.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I missed you. I know it was only twenty-four hours, but...” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Although it must certainly sound strange, for all these years—twenty-four to be exact—it has felt that I have known you. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Fifty-two minus twenty-four is twenty-eight not wearing hats.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She writes the number in the little green notebook that lives in the cabinet next to the antibacterial ointment, then flips through twenty-four weeks of humiliating recorded weights. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Sidetracked isn’t even the word. We were off the face of this planet. We were holed up twenty-four hours a day. I missed so many concerts.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, twenty-three became extinct. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because when we came back in from recess, on the shelf was a long box from Goldman’s Best Bakery...filled with twenty-four cream puffs! The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Thanks to radioactivity the Earth could be–and self-evidently was–much older than the twenty-four million years Kelvin’s calculations allowed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At first, the storm seemed reluctant to come ashore, building up its nerve over a slow twenty-four hours, the air pressure changing in a way that made the hoverboards jittery to ride. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The psychological counselors were on call twenty-four hours a day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grant’s plan is to get in and get out within twenty-four hours, with as little fuss as possible. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Roo was born in South Africa but one day she was told by the government to leave the country in twenty-four hours or she'd be thrown into prison. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They had been marching, and much of the time under fire, for twenty-four hours. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With twenty-four hours of quiet behind us, Coin finally announces we can leave the bunker. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“One hundred twenty-four thousand hotels rooms, actually. Sounds like a whole lot of people had the same idea.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Make it to the bedroom, he urged himself, undress, curl into cool sheets, tell him I came home sick, must be a virus, twenty-four hour flu, and keep my face hidden. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His breathing is shallow and fast, coming twenty-four to twenty-seven times a minute. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

This is twenty-four days of heat, exhaustion, and monotony. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Chiron ordered a twenty-four/seven guard duty on the hilltop, at least until he could, find an appropriate monster to protect the Fleece. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You got twenty-four hours,” Felix said, then handed Armpit a business card with his phone number on it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Emma Wedgwood had lived until she was twenty-four with nothing at all to distress her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than twenty-four hours, the whole trip had become pointless. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I stop brushing and multiply twenty-four times six in my head using the process Samantha taught me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“System entry in twenty-four weeks,” Viola says quietly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He knew that in all likelihood she had been there, clinging to her furniture, for twenty-four hours or more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Dream lives twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, twelve months a year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No less than twenty-four crates for the office and us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Scarcely twenty-four hours had passed since my parents had abandoned me here, and already my life was spiraling out of control. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Arrowheads and spear points were found embedded in or lying near the bones of twenty-four skeletons, 40 per cent of the find. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we don’t get our hands on that key, the world might not last another twenty-four hours.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Over the next several weeks they’ll gradually step up to a daily ration of thirty-two pounds of feed, including twenty-four pounds of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His skin was back to full color, his eyes no longer crisscrossed with red veins; he seemed to have gained fifteen pounds in twenty-four hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When he was twenty-four, Dad asked Mother if they could hire an herbalist to midwife my brother Shawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-four years old—in their world, that made him practically an old man. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sailors are on shore leave for all of twenty-four hours, and they want to fit all of life into them. Two Musicals 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The band itself was an unlikely and fleeting ensemble, built by Cornell in pure and earnest homage to Andy Wood, a Seattle musician who had recently died, at twenty-four, of a heroin overdose. Chris Cornell Had an Unforgettable Vulnerability 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

He sailed all over the world, was naturalized as an American citizen, worked as a shipbuilder, and rose to ship’s captain, taking his first command at the young age of twenty-four. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The novel, which takes place over twenty-four hours, consists mostly of conversations between the characters. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Almost twenty-four years later Hernán Cortés and his army of conquistadors arrived on the same eastern spit of land. Goodbye, iPhone. Farewell, Brooklyn. Let’s move to Honduras and camp with jaguars 2013-01-05T20:00:00Z

By twenty-four, he had become a member of the Magnum photo agency; by twenty-six, he was being exhibited at MOMA. Elliott Erwitt’s Visual One-Liners 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s a full time job,” White told me, “as in twenty-four hours a day.” Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Joy and Nolan first met fifteen years ago, at the première of “Memento,” the basis of which was provided by a short story that Nolan had written and published in Esquire when he was twenty-four. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

It is also a lovely irony that it was fifty years ago this year that Moorcock, then twenty-four years old, was offered the editorial helm of the British magazine New Worlds. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Two days later, less than twenty-four hours after we got home, al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked passenger jets and flew them into a field in rural Pennsylvania, the Pentagon, and the Twin Towers, killing thousands. A letter to my daughter: What I want you to know about freedom, fear and Donald Trump 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

Around three of its sides sit twenty-four audience members. ‘Food’ Review: It’s an Acquired Taste 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

Today, in the same building, twenty-four people assemble motors for electric blinds. In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

For the hundred and twenty-four little people who descended on the set of Munchkinland, it was a moment of homecoming. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Even though a patch might be picked clean one day, it can have a whole new crop twenty-four hours later. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z

Her U.K. editor balked at putting that word in the title, so the book was published there, twenty-four years ago, as “Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream.” Dubravka Ugresic Returns to America 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Somewhere on the Lower East Side, we ran into one of her friends, a handsome, boyish-looking Middle Eastern kid about twenty-four, my age. My first time scoring heroin 2013-01-01T01:00:00Z

There was certainly no lack of M’Diarmids around Loch Earn, including an Angus M’Diarmid, who was twenty-four years old in 1815—which fits that description of a “fine athletic young man.” An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The Tiger's wife was lost in her own world, adrift from her husband in mind and body, punishing him for twenty-four years of bitterness. Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z

“There’s nobody I’m supporting in the world.” The book that brought them together is no longer at the center of their relationship; recently, after twenty-four years as an editor, Stevens was laid off by Merriam-Webster. The Encyclopedia Reader 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Lastly, your statement “Richard Marx is married to a model” is not only inaccurate, but insulting to my wife of twenty-four years. Richard Marx hates my guts 2013-01-19T00:30:00Z

Because of the preeclampsia, they broke my water three weeks early, and Madison Charlotte was born twenty-four hours later. Plastic surgery after the baby 2013-04-27T22:00:00Z

I’m surprised they don’t pipe Mozart through the streets twenty-four hours a day. My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Maybe it does only in the precincts of dreams and poetry, Not in a country lit twenty-four hours a day to keep dreams stuck Turning in a wheel In the houses of money. 2016: Our Year in Poems 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The project’s title is a hyperbolic lark—there are some twenty-four thousand restaurants in the city—but my motivation is entirely earnest. Drawing the Vanishing Restaurants of New York 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Ergo, when she still hadn’t returned from her bike ride twenty-four hours later, the police helicopters began circling. The Feminist Trailblazing of Sinéad O’Connor 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Joy remembers the accompanying letter saying something along the lines of, “If you can summon up the extra twenty-four dollars or something, you can get this software for yourself.” On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

My wife and I where together for twenty-nine years, twenty-four of those married.Peaceful healthy happy, until she met an old boyfriend.I... No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Pages 120 and 121 boast a jazzy graphic mapping the twenty-four pockets and seventy buttons of a mid-century man fully dressed in a suit and overcoat. The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

A recent study found that forty-seven per cent of black men between the ages of twenty and twenty-four in Chicago were neither in school nor in the job market. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

There's not a man here that wouldn't like to circumnavigate my globes, sail his frigate into my harbour and fire off a twenty-four gun salute. Is it OK to rewrite classic plays? 2013-07-02T11:05:04Z

Twice they flew us to India, sending us all over the country on airplanes instead of our twenty-four hour Chinese train rides. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Then Chaplin decided to add, as he put it, “a small moustache, which, I reasoned, would add age”—he was only twenty-four—“without hiding my expression.” Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The son, Akiva, is a dreamy alter, or “aging bachelor,” of twenty-four, who draws in secret. Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Then came the Internet, which operates twenty-four hours a day, boasts a trillion-plus pages, and breeds rabbit holes the way rabbits breed rabbits. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Eventually, I sent him an e-mail with twenty-four questions that, I hoped, might elicit more personal details: Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

He would fly back to Washington, D.C., twenty-four hours later. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Joe Harris, a local bus driver for twenty-four years, helped develop the route for the grocery bus, and drove it for the first six months. The Shopper Bus 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

He was twenty-four when he went to Afghanistan. Colbert Honors StoryCorps’s Military Voices Initiative 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Hemispherx had made several modifications to the trial months after it had begun, including shortening it from forty weeks to twenty-four, which the F.D.A. found troubling. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

When we read one of the twenty-four thousand cookbooks published annually, we are indulging in the exquisite pleasure of combining the two functions: food and language mixed together. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

“I have not heard from them since I left Virginia twenty-four years ago. I am in hopes that they are still living and I am anxious to hear how they are getting on.” She found handwritten letters from her enslaved ancestor: ‘I’m just blown away’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, a full twenty-four hours before Maroon 5 performed, the Daily News ran a story with the headline, “The NFL bungled the Super Bowl halftime show, but Atlanta picked up the slack.” The Artless Spectacle of Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

For seven years, when I cooked at all, I cooked for the man who became my husband when I was twenty-four. Leaving a Religion and a Marriage, and Gaining a Chicken Soup 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Bridgers, who is now twenty-four and lives in Los Angeles, writes vulnerable, elegant rock songs that are strikingly astute about the odd whims of the human heart. Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Butterworth smiles and says, of the song, “No one gets it, but it’s a clue to what we’re doing, over the long haul! But, generally, my plays are set in one place, over twenty-four hours!” The Freewheeling Playwright Jez Butterworth Takes On Ireland’s Troubles 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Treuer published his first novel, “Little,” in 1994, when he was twenty-four and had recently graduated from Princeton, where he studied anthropology. David Treuer’s Rebellious New History of Native American Life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

The class lasts three weeks and pays twenty-four hundred dollars. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

It premièred at Roundabout Underground’s sixty-two-seat black box in 2012, then moved to the “big” theatre upstairs, which seats four hundred and twenty-four. How to Write for the Rockettes 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

My son, George, who is now twenty-four, read a little King in high school, but he hasn’t gone back to him since then. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z

Last year’s count was four thousand three hundred and twenty-four, down from about sixty-five hundred in 2009, the year Wyeth died. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

In the days of snail mail, he and Robert Bly had a rule requiring the recipient of a draft to critique it within twenty-four hours. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Tao is only twenty-four, and also has a flourishing career as a pianist. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

An employee couldn’t be there twenty-four hours a day. My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The dudes, looking twenty-four years old and seeming like a mature eight, sit in a loft apartment and compose Pringles cocktails by stacking different flavors. The 2019 Super Bowl Ads Are a Case Study in Technological Dread 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

The lawsuit claimed that Kelly “had a propensity to have sexual contact with minors,” and that he began having sexual contact with Hawkins in 1991, when she was fifteen and he was twenty-four. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

I first caught a peek of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in 1994, twenty-four years after it first aired and seventeen since it was cancelled. Everything I Learned from Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

He is still showing the effects of left-knee tendinitis, which kept him out of fourteen of twenty-four games after the All-Star break; wincing and winded, he shot 5–15 from the field. Joel Embiid and the Narrative of the N.B.A. Playoffs 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

But he also posts a lot: a typical twenty-four hours might see two or three dozen posts. The Inscrutable Hypebeast Cool of Lil Jupiter’s Instagram 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

When I was twenty-four, I was crossing the street near the South Street Seaport and the side-view mirror of a moving bus whacked me across the face. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

I went to work as an assistant to Bob Silvers when I was twenty-four and he was eighty-two. My Life as Bob Silvers’s Assistant 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

He died in August that year, at the age of twenty-four. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

When I was twenty-four and staying in an old farmhouse in the Marche region of Italy. Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Now twenty-four years old, he’s still living at his mother’s house, but he’s received commissions from the magazine Dazed and the Paris label Faith Connexion. Fashion Collages for the Age of Instagram 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

The campaign by Prop 8 supporters worked; Obama won California by twenty-four points on election night, but marriage equality lost by four. We made Barack Obama evolve: The behind-the-scenes story of how he got to “I do” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

But this summer, the platform became less ephemeral with the launch of “Stories,” which allows a user to publicly post a series of related snaps that will last for twenty-four hours. A Day with Jérôme Jarre: How a Snapchat Gets Made 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The action occurs almost entirely over twenty-four hours in a vast, cluttered kitchen in rural Ireland, and is based on a story from Laura Donnelly’s own family. The Freewheeling Playwright Jez Butterworth Takes On Ireland’s Troubles 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

If the king were to die, Richelieu knows he would be at the mercy of these heartless enemies “and, within twenty-four hours of the death of the king, would be hanged.” Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

My mother’s favorite photograph was one of herself, at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. Inspiration Information: Lucky Us 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The study, which lasted twenty-four weeks and included ninety-two participants, from Peterson’s clinic and three other sites, used the Karnofsky Performance Scale to assess patients. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

“So there were twenty-four of us. We were all purchased together. And, actually, our next residence was a bowling alley, for a twelve-year-old’s birthday party.” “Everything Is Alive” and the Joy of Interviewing Inanimate Objects 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, even when reporting the foods they ate in the last twenty-four hours, which depends on short-term memory, participants still underestimated the quantity of food eaten by up to 20 percent. Your brain is making you fat! 2014-01-01T19:00:00Z

In Eliot’s book, Mr. Mistoffelees is a precious creation; in the musical, he is a gay icon, bedazzled like the night sky, sometimes pulling off twenty-four fouetté turns in a row. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

The owner of a MetroPCS at the intersection of Florida and Georgia avenues regaled the corners with go-go for twenty-four years. Go-Go Music as a Rallying Call to Resist Gentrification 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

At that time, the earliest a premature baby could be born with some expectation of survival was twenty-four weeks. Julius: The Story of a Premature Birth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

I kept thinking, What is she talking about, it’s less than two hours out of every twenty-four. A Lovingly Obsessive Tribute to Mike Nichols, by Elaine May 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

One side effect of propofol is that patients often experience a state of euphoria for twelve to twenty-four hours after going under. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

While the U.K. has been debating its eventual departure from the European Union, twenty-four European nations have been competing against one another in a major soccer tournament in France. On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

It is one story of one period of twenty-four hours in poetry. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Also, part of the story is that back then we only had twenty-four tracks. Fleetwood Mac is “the great American story” 2013-06-03T19:02:00Z

This story is set over a twenty-four hour period, but Jennifer E Smith perfectly manages to fit in all the romance and heartbreak to make a wonderful teenage novel. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Site by Jennifer E Smith - review 2013-01-15T15:00:00Z

"We picked up two survivors who had been in the water twenty-four hours, and fighting off sharks," Plotz wrote. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

He had been giddy twenty-four hours earlier, before France beat Belgium, to check on the flag-waving crowds in Paris and Antwerp. The England vs. Croatia World Cup Match Made for Some Awkward Television 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

House of Representatives before being elected to the upper chamber, where she remained for twenty-four years. “A Lady for President?” Third Graders Respond 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

The organization’s Web site notes that the “Falun,” meaning an “intelligent, rotating entity composed of high-energy matter,” is planted “in a practitioner’s lower abdomen from other dimensions” and then “rotates constantly, twenty-four hours a day.” Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Black Mountain was launched in the Depression, and for twenty-four years it led a hand-to-mouth existence in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, outside Asheville, North Carolina. Learn By Painting 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

So we all gotta keep on keeping on, in order to see to it that things evolve better for our, ah, descendants so the worthwhile peeps rule twenty-four/seven. Style Invitational Week 1322: Back to the drawing board 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

D-Day was postponed for twenty-four hours, and indeed the weather turned stormy. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

单词	twenty-four
例句	twenty-four What did surprise her was that the 650 messages used twenty-four different code and cipher systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Wasn’t he the one who saw a Grim and died twenty-four hours later?” asked Hermione. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “You’re not kidding I’m tired. I can’t sleep anymore. My eyes water all night long. I feel sick twenty-four hours a day.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a most important secret to tell you,” he said, “which you must keep to yourselves religiously for twenty-four hours.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The only happy newborn ever to weigh over twenty-four pounds upon entrance was the product of a southern Turkish union. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Could recite the date and year of not only Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, but the name of the farm where they found John Wilkes Booth twenty-four hours later. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “I count twenty-four strings. How does that even work? That’s more than some harps.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Gussie was paralyzed with fright for a moment, then he ran away screaming and hid under the bed where he stayed for twenty-four hours. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She threatened to put him in jail and I was on restriction twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—possibly forever. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The official order arrived in the Monday mail: the execution was to be carried out within twenty-four hours. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The bill came to seventeen dollars altogether, seventeen dollars and twenty-four cents to be exact. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can you do that? Your allowance is only twenty-five cents. Twenty-four forty-three plus twenty-five cents makes only twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z After Pattie signed the bottom of the paperwork that gave her legal responsibility for Willow for the next twenty-four hours, the police cruiser charged out of the parking lot like a getaway car. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He simply stood by, like his twenty-four- year-old deputy, thinking the thoughts a man thinks at such a time about the ugly inevitability of death. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The doctors wanted me under "observation" for at least twenty-four hours, just in case. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z His name was Van Rensburg and he had been flown to the island on twenty-four hours’ notice after the assassination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “In eighteen twenty-four. Monroe had—will have—two terms.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z At twenty-four he had already won dozens of prestigious tournaments, and had participated in Wimbledon and the U.S. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I unrolled the carpet partway and immediately found something else: a flattened, empty box that had once contained twenty-four nutrition bars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Immediately the directors had ordered a rough plan of the fair, to be delivered to them within twenty-four hours. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I can be Sweet Dorothy seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day as long as nobody crosses that line. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “The next twenty-four hours, we’ll know if this dog’s going to live,” the doc says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At twenty-four, William was only a little older than she was, but he had grown up in a very different world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The A-4 judge poured the contents of the twenty-four bottles into a shot glass, and it did not overflow. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I’ll do as you requested and put a memo in his file for all medical personnel to take note of his lucid stretches over the next twenty-four hours.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He thought of the twenty-four floors, the views that would soon no longer exist, his disposable camera. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep the excavated chambers as dry as possible, they ran pumps twenty-four hours a day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When I was twenty-four years old, one day out of the blue my mother said to me, “You need to find your father.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Mother, I must attend to my bowels. They are revolting against the trauma of the last twenty-four hours.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the buttons on his shirtfront could barely contain everything he had taken: two loaves of bread, twenty-four frozen waffles, and a ten-pound bag of apples. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the place of his dreams, Mike Winchell had just had the worst performance of his Permian career, four for twenty-four passing for fifty-seven yards and one interception. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All the emotions I’ve held in check over the past twenty-four hours crash over me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Geoffroy’s twenty-four substances thus survive even when they are combined with other substances: they are not transmuted when they enter into such combinations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If their luck held, they would cross into Virginia sometime after nightfall, within twenty-four hours. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is twenty-four by seven. You work in the day, and then the night, and then the next morning.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z So much had happened to him in the last twenty-four hours that somewhere along the way, he had stopped worrying. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z When we arrive at building twenty-four, there’s only one car in the lot. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Go right on down to the tip of Manhattan Island that this devilish white man stole from the trusting Indians for twenty-four dollars! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Surprised I was good-looking? I was a boy once, you know. I’m only twenty-four now.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Black closed his hand around the floating key and said, “I haven’t left the apartment in twenty-four years!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He was denying me for a lousy twenty-four minutes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I’d now been up for over twenty-four hours straight, jacked in the entire time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Not enough. You didn’t say you’d be living in another country in less than twenty-four hours.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Not unlike the German propaganda machine, which is cranking out lies twenty-four hours a day! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He’s pretty sure he’s cried more over the past twenty-four hours than he has in his whole life. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Built in 1939, it’s open twenty-four hours a day, so there’ll be no excuse to not get those papers in on time.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z At age twenty-four, after working with Akhi for only a year, I had done what most people would assume was impossible. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And for the second time in twenty-four hours Fadi explained his half-baked plan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Turtle began with the purple-waves story, went on to the whisperings, the bedded-down corpse, the dropped peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and her mother's cross, and ended with the twenty-four dollars she had won. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Pippin's not so nicely spoken as you, my pet, but his heart's twenty-four karat. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Grandma all the time said I was just like my dad, “bouncing off the walls twenty-four hours a day.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When I thought about what I would have done when I was sixteen years old or nineteen or even twenty-four, I was scared to realize that I might have run. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Wiretaps had become common, as was twenty-four- hour surveillance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Six days later the valley received ten inches in less than twenty-four hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "Eight threes," the Trunchbull shouted, swinging Wilfred from side to side by his ankle, "eight threes is the same as three eights and three eights are twenty-four! Repeat that!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z At twenty-four, he’s not that much older than she, at fifteen, and he is very handsome. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The documents clerk handed him his passport, and he remarked to her how nice it looked with the twenty-four new pages perfectly sewn in. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The two men stood pawing through the dynamite— twenty-four sticks of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The youthful count of St Pol had been taught the arts of war by being given twenty-four living prisoners to slaughter in various ways, for practice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, actually, it was exactly twenty-four times, but I felt justified in using the generic “few,” realizing that any number greater than “never” was as good as saying “twenty-four.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After twenty-four hours of tireless work, Anthony went to the university trustees and presented $8,000 in pledges to make up the shortfall. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Judging by how far the infection has progressed, I’d estimate he was bitten eighteen to twenty-four hours ago.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He says, “Mason, so much has happened in the last twenty-four hours. And after spending that time with you, I got an idea. I thought maybe we could start a new dialogue.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Finally, nearly twenty-four hours after Venkatesh stumbled upon them, they set him free. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z That was all we had to eat for twenty-four hours. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “The broker will try to give us at least twenty-four hours’ notice.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I said, continuing my journey into stupidity, “Do any of you guys know my home phone number? I think it’s got a twenty-four in it, too.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z All twenty-four students sat upright and still at the desks they had grown too big for. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I can’t forget the events of the past twenty-four hours, but here, speeding along a concrete wash, I can let them trail behind me, if only for a few moments. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I was sure he was going to die right there in my arms, less than twenty-four hours after he had saved me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Sometimes the booth had six different jams, and sometimes Iyengar had twenty-four different jams on display. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Marina pulled some strings to get twenty-four new Yaks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And after White had taken the job at Leavenworth, the cases were closed, closed with great triumph, even though the bureau had not yet connected Hale to all twenty-four murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It might be twenty-four hours since he had eaten, it might be thirty-six. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then, over the eleven-week production schedule for the show, you can log in twenty-four hours a day and check the progress of the production as it follows the sun around the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In the days that followed, the reversion to a strict shift system dispelled the sense of floating timelessness of those first twenty-four hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was one thing to maintain liaison with the Lord, and they were all in favor of that; it was something else, though, to have Him hanging around twenty-four hours a day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If you’d come forward within twenty-four hours of the attack, you would have been okay. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It didn’t take too much time before I figured out that twenty-four hours’ worth of walking was a lot longer than I thought it would be. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z “Security personnel are on duty twenty-four hours a day,” she continued. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z We were both twenty-four years old when you were born, the normal age for most Americans, but among the class we soon found ourselves, we ranked as teenage parents. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was a box of watercolors with twenty-four tubes of color and three brushes and a pad of heavy art paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Not practice? For twenty-four hours? Be still, my broken heart,” Mom says. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was getting, he judged, three meals in the twenty-four hours; sometimes he wondered dimly whether he was getting them by night or by day. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He looked down at the large group with whom he had spent almost twenty-four hours a day for the last ten days, and almost as many hours each day for several weeks before that. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But his temperature was down to normal, he said, and had been normal for twenty-four hours now. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Smith had raised an additional hundred dollars in less than twenty-four hours! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “And we’ll be sure to make that point clear when we ask for permission. Rules are rules, Amari. If an emergency session is called, we could probably have an answer in about twenty-four hours.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Faint voices broken by static came through. “.. . final score: New York Giants, twenty-four. Detroit Lions, seventeen . “Lions suck,” Jennifer said, shaking her head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There were twenty-four colleges, which allowed for endless permutations of alliance and betrayal. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When she got to twice twelve is twenty-four she didn't stop. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z By the time I was returned to South Carolina, their oldest son, Perry, age twenty-four, was in prison for murder. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Taylor stood in the rain with inky papers—a cool boy of twenty-four, already a major. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z During the first twenty-four hours, having dispatched a dinner of veal, with cassava, yams, and fried bananas, and a case and a half of champagne in addition, Aureliano Segundo was sure of victory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He goes back over the last twenty-four hours in his head: the sleeplessness, the pills, the tense little grimace Henry does in public that Alex has always read as aloofness. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Samantha mentioned roses are her favorite flower while we were watching Titanic,” Dylan says, beaming, like it’s a superhuman trait to remember something that was said less than twenty-four hours ago. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Seaborg’s group commandeered the cyclotron to bombard uranium twenty-four hours a day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One hundred and twenty-four seconds later, Root’s black-and-white blueprints faded out, to be replaced by full-color daylight imaging. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z My mission was to multiply twenty-four times nine. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “When the elementary school wanted new playground equipment, it took three years to get it. But bring up something boring, and it’s ready to go in twenty-four hours.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z 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 Of these twenty-four, all of them men of great experience and power, and some of them men of great fame, Gabriel, to his astonished pride, was asked to be one. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z After they book you in for something serious—murder, attempted murder, setting a person on fire on a bus—they put you in a camera room for the first twenty-four hours. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Winchell threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Hill and then made it three when he hooked up with Brown for a sixty-one- yard bomb with twenty-four seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Lady turn around, turn around, turn around, Lady touch the ground, touch the ground, touch the ground; Lady show your shoe, show your shoe, show your shoe, Lady, lady, twenty-four skiddoo! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I know that the police have twenty-four hours to charge a suspect, and they’ve had that now. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she smacked it down on the counter and said, “That SmartMart outside of town is going to be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. A Supercenter is what they’re calling it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z They skip forward several years after that: suddenly Megan is twenty-four, living in London, working as a waitress in a North London restaurant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “You spy a twenty-four- hour road trip in a minivan. Hip because road trips always are; tragic because the gas we’re guzzling will destroy the planet.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z My grandfather has a plan to get into building twenty-four, and it feels like it’s straight out of a spy movie. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Apparently, if they did not get the cane into the boiling vat within forty-eight hours—preferably twenty-four hours—their crop would be ruined. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But Vondie grabs the rebound, a fresh twenty-four on the shot clock. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z “Law’s people will come even farther, with no rest. It’s twenty-four miles to Guilford. He left at three A.M. When he gets here he’ll be pretty tired.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If the person whose box they checked also checked their box, both daters would be notified of the other’s e-mail address within twenty-four hours. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Who had been champion for eleven years, since he was twenty-four. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At the Ferris Wheel the pumps meant to drain the tower excavations ran twenty-four hours but could not conquer the volume of water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The only thing that feels familiar is the mustache, the excess hair on his cheeks and chin shaved less than twenty-four hours ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Each time, I was back to full health within twenty-four hours. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The nightingale has twenty-four basic songs, but gains wild variety by varying the internal arrangement of phrases and the length of pauses. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Each crew spent twenty-four hours on standby, making periodic checks, clearing the debris, doing whatever was necessary to keep the water moving into camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Seabiscuit had won the race easily, running the final quarter in a blazing twenty-four seconds flat and obliterating the track record by \\% seconds, he had dragged early in the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked Jeny to assemble teams of soldiers and civilian employees to be ready to move out with space suits in twenty-four hours. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am hope not. He is owe twenty-four dollar, the maricon.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But I'll be living in it twenty-four and a half hours a day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine spending twenty-four hours a day, every day with her. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Don’t give your life rights away for free! The day has to be mundane, Valmiki. And day is a mortal’s twenty-four hours. Comply, or else you’ll face the gods’ powers.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With them this time was the twenty-four- year-old fighter-pilot captain with the sparse golden mustache who had been shot into the Adriatic Sea in midwinter and not even caught cold. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I went on aspirins twenty-four hours a day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He added that he would be returning to Haiti within twenty-four hours. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Their teacher was called Miss Honey, and she could not have been more than twenty-three or twenty-four. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Over the next twenty-four hours, over sixty Sixer avatars cleared the First Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The ring was to hold my neck in one position, and I was to wear it twenty-four hours a day for three months. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This Sunday was to be a feast day for everyone, but more especially for the twenty-four elders, who were, that day, to be gloriously banqueted at the saints’ expense and labor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He had spent the previous eight weeks confined to his room close to twenty-four hours a day and had been denied mental health services despite his repeated requests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “They won’t do anything at once, not for twenty-four hours perhaps.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Adding up the balls, he could see that there were twenty-four points left on the table. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Less than twenty-four hours later, Bunny was dead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He wondered if they had been dancing for twelve hours or twenty-four or for no time at all. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “So you said. But, Mademoiselle, the Orient Express leaves Stamboul every day of the week. Even if you had missed the connection it would only have been a matter of twenty-four hours’ delay.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It goes on for the next twenty-four hours, this complete indecision. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z "I lost my wife when she was forty-six. I lost my daughter when she was twenty-four. And you remind me to remember them?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It seemed the only question I had asked of anyone for the last twenty-four hours, and yet no one had given me a satisfactory answer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Oh,” he said, “she died twenty-four years ago! Long time ago! Yesterday, in my life!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Almost twenty-four hours and a couple of embarrassing moments later, but here they were. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He was twenty-four years old now and despite his accelerating mental decline was still employed by the Inter Ocean as a delivery contractor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My actual birthday, two weeks away, was about twenty-four million miles in front of Julia Bishop and me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z After twenty-four hours of hard work, the men finished the track in time for the president's arrival. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It would take a full twenty-four hours to harden; but the sky remained cloudless. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Neither of us was smelling too good: I’d gone twenty-four hours without access to deodorant, and Otto was giving off odors of spilled milk and passed gas. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I guess I thought that after what we’d experienced less than twenty-four hours before, we would now be more than just casual acquaintances. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Rutherford was twenty-four when he first came to Cambridge University’s storied Cavendish Laboratory on a graduate scholarship. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With eight oarsmen in the boat, oars would have to enter and exit the water cleanly more than twenty-four hundred times. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Breakfast and dinner are served on our floor, but at lunch the twenty-four of us eat in a dining room off the gymnasium. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “It’s been less than twenty-four hours,” Grace pointed out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Twenty- three, twenty-four, twenty-five,” the people shouted, and you could hear their enthusiasm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Thomas had no memory of his life before the Box, but he was positive he’d finished the worst twenty-four hours of his existence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The Indians’ contracts called for seven hours’ work for about twenty-four cents a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When my mother and I had taken the dollar to the post office to exchange it, we had walked out with twenty-four Zim dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The total number of prisoners in the single cells was usually about twenty-four. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Six times twenty-four—no, it would be nearer six times thirty-six. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent the next twenty-four hours in a frantic funk, obsessively checking the Scoreboard every five seconds, expecting the end to come at any moment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “It’s barely been twenty-four hours, and it’s kinda taken on a life of its own.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Sitting in chairs alongside the six psych-unit cells most days, twenty-four hours a day, were the officers assigned to two kinds of special watch: suicide watch and drug watch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They mean fresh fish, fish that has been caught no more than twenty-four hours before and has never been frozen or chilled on a block of ice. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z That was why he wanted to take the suit, even for twenty-four hours. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z —Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We stood around in huddled groups, a little bit damp, and still hungry because we’d eaten so fast and there were twenty-four cream puffs waiting for everyone back in the classroom. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Dividing the dog watch that way switches the hours of the watches for the next twenty-four, so that the same men don’t stand two watches every night. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In Emmett’s first year, the jail held nearly three hundred prisoners, including four murderers, sixty-five thieves, two arsonists, twenty-four burglars, two forgers, five rapists, and twenty-four inmates classified as lunatics. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The twenty-four teachers had won a contest held by the St. Louis Republic that entitled them to a free stay at the fair at the newspaper’s expense. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the twenty-four years since the Langley laboratory had started operation, the glitterati of the aeronautical world had made pilgrimages to Hampton. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Even when she’d discovered she was pregnant, she had told them within twenty-four hours. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I wish we could go twenty-four thousand miles away,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In an ideal world, I would have spent twenty-four hours a day conducting investigations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Had it been only twenty-four hours before that she had leapt from rock to rock, had climbed and grasped and pulled herself up the sheer cliff? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was now twenty-four, and his philosophy and worldview had been formed for the rest of his life. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In twenty-four hours it was all gone except for some lovely shady patches in the woods—white-laced branches dripping rain holes in the crust—and the slushy gray piles at the roadside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then he pushed the twenty-four checkers pieces back to their home squares on the board. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “At Cobble’s Corner. You have twenty-four hours to claim your prize.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For twenty-four hours, his Hitler Youth comrades provided a guard of honor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was just twenty-four hours since I had been sentenced and I knew I was in way over my head. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours she was picked up and was on board a flight to San Francisco, courtesy of the American Consulate General. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Following Sikhdar’s discovery in 1852, it would require the lives of twenty-four men, the efforts of fifteen expeditions, and the passage of 101 years before the summit of Everest would finally be attained. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z So, swimming in fedock-deep slop and conceding as many as twenty-four pounds to his adversaries, Seabiscuit finished third, snapping his historic win streak. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a period of about twenty-four hours, then, when she wasn’t much help to anybody. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Clockers were stationed at the track twenty-four hours a day, greeting one another with the phrase “What do you know?” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The seventh congressman to vote was Harry Burn, twenty-four, the youngest member of the legislature. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The first twenty-four hours after the speech are a blur, but a few snapshots will stay with him for the rest of his life. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She was fourteen again, instead of twenty-four, and against all odds we were becoming friends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Less than twenty-four hours before, I had been sleeping on the bathroom floor, so I didn’t have the highest of expectations, but it was moments like these that I had trained for. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It doesn’t last of course, and twenty-four hours later they are frightened again and restoring themselves with any helplessness within reach. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Gardar got off relatively unscathed—Bobby’s snit against him lasted only twenty-four hours. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Military police guarded the only gate twenty-four hours a day. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But that was the idea: Give them twenty-four hours to eat the grass and fertilize it with their droppings, and then move them onto fresh ground. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z No wonder Jamie had more than twenty-four dollars; he was a gambler and a cheapskate. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd had begun forming some forty hours earlier, but up to twenty-four hours before, there were still fewer than one thousand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Once when I was twenty-four, once when I was fifty-seven. Two tablespoonfuls taken with breakfast. Two perfect days.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Near the end, Smith said, “I know you got to do your twenty-four hours; just let me do my eight.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “For the time being. But don’t try to leave the island. We’ve got your number, Chaplain. Just remember that we’ve got you under surveillance twenty-four hours a day.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Here are the stats for Mrs. Windermere’s kitchen: The floor was white and yellow tile—twenty-four tiles wide, eighteen tiles long. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Of course it wasn’t torment twenty-four hours a day being a Jew. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And the best part about Ms. CeeCee was that she was open twenty-four hours a day. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Two dollars times twelve minutes equals twenty-four dollars. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The first Stormbreakers would have already begun leaving the plant, and in less than twenty-four hours the prime minister would be activating them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z For almost three months, he had been kept in detention, guarded twenty-four hours a day. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Their nonstop flight would last more than twenty-four hours. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For more than twenty-four hours we retreated and attacked, using the arms and ammunition from those we had killed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Their quarry was a man who had just turned the corner and reset his age to twenty-four. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Would you please turn to page twenty-seven of your report? Your inventory of items aboard the defendant’s boat? And read for the court item twenty-four, please?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “See that? It says June first at five p.m. And it is now”—he checked his wristwatch—“five twenty-four p.m.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He might have committed an infraction within the past twenty-four hours. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved in together when Bobbette was twenty and Lawrence was twenty-four, and they had their first child that same year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At the start of the second half, with the Creek down by a surprisingly slim margin of twenty-four points and the Beast at the foul line, the Colonel looked at Takumi and said, “It’s time.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it also sat on twenty-four million tons of anthracite. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The second day the host made twenty-four, as their vanguard passed beyond tire Glover lands into the thick of the wdlfswood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He made a point of knowing exactly where his client was twenty-four hours a day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And what does “twenty-four skiddoo” mean, at the end of it? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z An hour after the death certificate is signed, Lucinda is laid out in the water well of the hippopotamus car and hitched to a team of twenty-four black Percherons with feathers on their headbands. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They had not been milked for twenty-four hours, and their udders were almost bursting. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The sun dipped below the northern horizon for fewer than four hours out of every twenty-four, and at midnight the sky was still bright enough to read by. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The twenty-four hours we spent there were horrendous. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z No one else in the room had said anything, and it could not have been any sort of coincidence that less than twenty-four hours later Deirdre was without a job. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I could not believe that only twenty-four hours had passed since I tore my clothes off in the rain during that run with Annie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Evidently, this medicine was going to drip into him for twenty-four hours, and then they would give him other drugs to minimize the poisoning he would get from this drug. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, they weren’t supposed to call her at work unless it was an emergency, but they hadn’t heard from her in over twenty-four hours and that was emergency enough. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z William Beck- ford, for example, came from a family that owned twenty-four sugar plantations in Jamaica. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z So much to do, and only twenty-four hours left. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z By an unfortunate coincidence, the waiter sat us at the table by the window where Francis and I had sat with Julian less than twenty-four hours before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Among this black race were twenty-four wise scientists. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re already twenty-four, sister. Do you want to end up saying rosaries for the poor?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And that was the beginning of a day—Ernie’s birthday and the Fourth of July—where the only normal thing to happen the next twenty-four hours was that Ernie woke up with his sunglasses on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In twenty-four years of representing Texas in the House and Senate, Johnson’s focus had always been on domestic policy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And just let me have twenty-four hours without any dam New York jew to advise me what it’s going to do. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z During the day racial tensions rule the streets, at night gunshots are heard from drive-by shootings, and twenty-four hours a day, the gangs and drug dealers control the block, trying to hold down their territory. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z That had been less than twenty-four hours earlier. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I’m so weak from holding down nothing but Cheerios in the last twenty-four hours, I’m beat. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z For there were twenty-four of them, each one given his night to preach—to shine, as it were, before men, and to glorify his Heavenly Father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Because there was Toby, sitting in the plane with a woman he couldn’t have known for more than twenty-four hours, drinking from a bottle of wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We wind up with twenty-four kids, ages five to fourteen, and despite the low-key relational upheaval, it really is a lovely sight. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z All twenty-four of us sit in a big arc throughout the interviews. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “But Harry hasn’t been near a Death Eater in the last twenty-four hours. Who’s supposed to have put a Trace back on him?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And, ultimately, when I turned twenty-four, it was my mom who made me track him down. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The same shoebox that sat on my porch less than twenty-four hours ago; rewrapped in a brown paper bag, sealed with clear packing tape, exactly as I had received it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z They must be twenty-four carats, pure inside and out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Two tables were set up in the middle of the room with twenty-four bottles of cold Coors beer on each one. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The drum, which Gey called the “whirligig,” turned like a cement mixer twenty-four hours a day, rotating so slowly it made only two full turns an hour, sometimes less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He was a huge, photogenic young man of twenty-four. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z At that moment, I think everything in my universe had a twenty-four in it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Though the bureau estimated that there were twenty-four Osage murders, the real number was undoubtedly higher. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They had less than twenty-four hours to get ready. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then there’s Jimmy. Jimmy’s been here a lot. I’ve been here twenty-four days, and I’ve seen him come and go twice. You seem to like him.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The bombings were front-page news for days: Two hundred twenty-four people were killed in Kenya, ten dead in Tanzania. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z HARRY: He’s been out twenty-four hours, mostly in order so Madam Pomfrey could reset his arm. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Nearly twenty-four hours passed before federal troops arrived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By 2012, there were about twenty-four thousand defectors in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z After she married John Smith when she was twenty-four, she centered her life around family and church, yet she often told fond stories about her student days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There were twenty-four of them—and only thirteen weeks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Lord, in six months my ears have heard what they hadn’t known about in twenty-four years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yeah, 142 pounds gets pretty stupid when you add twenty-four ounces of beer to it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It took the FBI more than twenty-four hours after Howard had jumped from his moving car to figure out that he had escaped. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s been over twenty-four hours; time to text Davis.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I say nothing when he tells me how he has texted the other Will Grayson forty-five times in the last twenty-four hours, and do I think that's too much. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The space wasn't big—twenty-four feet by ten—but it displayed Mo's life, from beginning to its end. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The second test had to do with spatial relationships and left me with a headache that would last for the next twenty-four hours. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Less than twenty-four hours ago, he had been standing in the sunlight at the entrance to the marquee, waiting to show in wedding guests. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It’s been a strange twenty-four hours, and I didn’t sleep much last night. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Adams and the other nurses had to remove their dressings and put fresh antibiotic ointment over the burned area every twenty-four hours. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He needed to renew his strength after being awake for almost twenty-four hours. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Worsley’s navigational equipment was down to one compass, his sextant, and his tables—and of the twenty-four chronometers he had taken with him from London, he had only one remaining. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z People who are alert twenty-four hours a day, and people who are dead. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know any underworld types who could help us break into building twenty-four?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Evidence of Cleopatra’s time in Rome may be seen in a temple that was located in Palestrina, a town twenty-four miles east of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Sometime in the past twenty-four hours, Mami must have had the chance to call home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “He wanted you to know that the fence surrounding District Twelve will now have electricity twenty-four hours a day.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z If one passed by the Earth, it could not “stop” the Earth’s rotation, much less start it up again at twenty-four hours a day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I'm sure I'll have the lowest score of the twenty-four. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Mary divided the contents of each tube into two, giving them room to grow, and within twenty-four hours, they’d doubled again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Sissy at twenty-four had borne eight children, none of whom had lived. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me start off by asking what your reaction is to the events of the last twenty-four hours. Were you surprised to see those names appear on Halliday’s Scoreboard?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Lazarus woodpecker weighs approximately twenty-six ounces, is twenty-four inches tall, and has a wing span of just around thirty-two inches. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Over the course of the war, her team would break into dozens of spy networks, including thirty-seven circuits linked to Hamburg, and a further twenty-four that were handled from Berlin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours, stacking hundreds on top of hundreds, accumulating by the millions. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Less than twenty-four hours after landing in Fairbanks, Carine and Sam flew on to Anchorage, where Chris’s body had been cremated following the autopsy at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground crews, which had to replace twenty-four dirt- clogged aircraft engines in twenty-one days, resorted to spraying oil on the taxiways to keep the dust down. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “About twenty-four hours,” Dad said, coming through the foyer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Five feet seven or eight with a wiry build, he claimed to be twenty-four years old and said he was from South Dakota. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There is something about sudden darkness in a classroom of twenty-four sixth graders that sets off mischief. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z If need be we could turn off our oxygen and safely remain up here for perhaps twenty-four hours; after that, however, we would need to either go up or go down. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z 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 Less than twenty-four hours after the assassination, Dr. Mudd had just given Booth the first confirmation that he had killed Lincoln! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no way of knowing that during the night, his wife in great pain, and after nearly twenty-four hours of labor, gave bloody birth to a fragile baby girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I copy mine from Cradle’s bulletin board, noting that there are two new ones in the past twenty-four hours. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, if it kills trees in twenty-four hours,” she asked him, “aren’t you afraid it will kill you?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For that matter, what was David going to look like after she’d been surrounded by new pretty faces twenty-four hours a day? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When we reach number twenty-four, my grandfather stops. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z The average commuting time is twenty-four minutes, the same as Atlanta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Twenty-two on Wednesday; twenty-four on Thursday; twenty on Friday. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Bowdy scored twenty-four points in the first game and forty in the second game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z We end up with ten questions, because Natasha thinks that for number twenty-four we should talk about our relationship with both our mother and father. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The surprise attack—at dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941—killed over twenty-four hundred Americans and put most of the Pacific Fleet out of action. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There were twenty-four “house” units, fifty men living in each unit, if memory serves me correctly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's all happening twelve light-minutes away. That means it takes twenty-four minutes for them to get the answer to any question they ask. The whole launch is twelve minutes long. They're on their own." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was going to do that, okay, Nala? I don’t need shepherding twenty-four seven!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It takes twenty-four months to fill the tank. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are twenty-four students in the class. Statistically, at least two of you should not be able to taste the compound on the paper.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Astronomers have known for centuries that the earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full rotation—one day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The storm had been pushing him south and west at eight miles an hour for probably twenty-four hours. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1640, when Pernambuco was briefly ruled by the Dutch, its plantations sent some twenty-four thousand pounds of sugar to Amsterdam alone. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “No. You have to stay here. Anyway, they’ve just installed a wall television. Cinema size. Wrestling, twenty-four hours a day.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z At the University of Kansas, the journalism school does a periodic “media fast,” in which students aren’t allowed to use their devices for twenty-four hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Many such plants around Atlanta ran twenty-four hours a day, and many refugees, starting out at the bottom, ended up taking jobs on the night shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I had done as much to my body as it could take in the last twenty-four hours. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mother complained that spending all day and night with us in a tiny room was giving her gray hair even though she was only twenty-four. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The war went on for thirteen years, the legal struggle for ownership for another twenty-four. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It had stopped answering pings four hours and twenty-four minutes ago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the 1940s, the United States had kept a draft in place, requiring all men ages eighteen to twenty-four to register for military service. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was no natural light in my cell; a single bulb burned overhead twenty-four hours a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the back of Judge Lew Fielding’s courtroom sat twenty-four islanders of Japanese ancestry, dressed in the clothes they reserved for formal occasions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In the previous twenty-four hours the wind speed had not fallen below 107 miles an hour, and often gusted much higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Sadly, my boy, I mean exactly what I said! I haven’t left the apartment in twenty-four years! My feet haven’t touched the ground!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I had room for twenty-four things, but I decided to start with one side. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you’re hungry. My head has a circumference of twenty-four inches,” Petra shouted over the wind, and they all laughed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “So let’s just review the last twenty-four hours. One, you did not kill yourself. Two, you applied for college. Three, we made out. Those are three, like, really good things.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In their three years on the front lines, the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment flew more than twenty-four thousand combat missions in total. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Now, leave it on for twenty-four hours. If you have to take a shower, peel it off, then put it right back on. That’s it for now.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, there’s one other difference. It takes twenty-four hours for the Big Dipper to swing around the North Star. So every hour space on the clock face stands for two hours.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad, a cop, taught me and twenty-four other kids about it in second grade, when he gave his presentation on Stranger Danger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The upswing is that, having eliminated the need for both eating and sleeping, you have a full twenty-four hours a day to spread your charm and talent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I hadn’t slept in at least twenty-four hours. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Breeding Hippogriffs build nests upon the ground into which they will lay a single large and fragile egg, which hatches within twenty-four hours. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Strategy A will result in Myrtle’s choosing the best suitor in eleven of the twenty-four instances, while strategy B will result in success in ten of the twenty-four instances. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew how torn up his parents were; she knew how miserable their last twenty-four hours had been. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z For the second time in twenty-four hours, Chuck had nailed it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Will you go, child? Will you try? Your mama’s got maybe twenty, twenty-four hours.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Well, for a few of the loop’s twenty-four hours it’s September second, but, yes, it’s the third.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I told her that prophecies can be broken — I told her the whole logic of prophecies is questionable— ALBUS: In twenty-four hours’ time Voldemort curses himself trying to kill the baby Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z In an abort, Hermes would leave orbit within twenty-four hours. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Men touch their caps and say they’re sorry for his troubles and some pat my head and give me pennies, twenty-four pennies, two shillings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This main wall, some twenty-four feet high, is punctuated by twenty-one distinctive wall towers but is otherwise as blank as a cop’s face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Twelve times two is twenty-four steps to safety. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Less than twenty-four hours later, and every other word out of Jay’s mouth is “glory” or “hallelujah.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z My thoughts tripped back and forth through the massive amount of life that had happened to me—to him—in the last twenty-four hours. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He opened it for the second time in twenty-four hours. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Hasn’t she come here twenty-four hours early because she isn’t sure when he’ll arrive and in what direction? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Salim said how huge it was and I said it had twenty-four storeys and Kat said it would be flattened any day now by our dad. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually, if the call was to be connected at all, it would happen within twenty-four hours. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “It would take just one Marine wife or one Marine kid to start working for the Russkies and every move the Corps made would be transmitted to Russia twenty-four hours in advance.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And I wondered: What would a normal family be doing less than twenty-four hours after discovering their parents had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “I’ma warn you, I know how to kill vampires. This knife is genuine solid twenty-four- karat silver.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z A uniformed security guard was standing at the window, munching on cooked watermelon seeds—Sohrab was under twenty-four- hours-a-day suicide watch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z To undermine their effort, one of the district commissioners ordered the warden to install two gas stoves near the women’s cells and to hire six women to cook ham and bacon twenty-four hours a day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The process will take some time, Dr. Ashley tells her; given that this is her first pregnancy, labor can take twenty-four hours, sometimes more. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He expected twenty-four hands to shoot up, but not one hand rose. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours the small provincial society world knew that an authentic count had arrived in their midst. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a bit more than two weeks, around twenty-four million miles, after my seventeenth birthday, the Perseids scattered brilliant torrents of blazing dust all across the nighttime sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In 1905, when Tom was twenty-four, he enlisted in the Texas Rangers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z By “people over here twenty-four seven,” I know Thomas means he’s the only one there, listening for me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “I even heard they paid off their roommates so they could move in together to work on this stuff twenty-four/seven.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z 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 Despite the doctor’s instructions to wear an eye patch for twenty-four hours, I had to take it off. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon she had twenty-four migrants at home, so many she could barely open her front door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z For at least twenty-four days we shall eat, I thought. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with twenty-four hours’ notice, railway passes were issued. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There were less than twenty-four hours until the launch at the Science Museum. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The last twenty-four hours have been the hardest of my life. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Work on the calutrons proceeded twenty-four hours a day even while the magnet was energized, its powerful field a constant presence in the building. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And then, at age twenty-four, he was gone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But on the way to the moon there is no place to hide, and the sunlight is continuous, twenty-four hours a day. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They work varied shifts, because the crow’s nest operates twenty-four hours a day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Allen also served in the National Guard for twenty-four years. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I mean, he lives by his wits in the woods, so he isn’t exactly wagging his tail twenty-four hours a day. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z ‘What is more, I’m getting famished. I haven’t had a thing to eat for twenty-four hours.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I missed you. I know it was only twenty-four hours, but...” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Although it must certainly sound strange, for all these years—twenty-four to be exact—it has felt that I have known you. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Fifty-two minus twenty-four is twenty-eight not wearing hats.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z She writes the number in the little green notebook that lives in the cabinet next to the antibacterial ointment, then flips through twenty-four weeks of humiliating recorded weights. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “Sidetracked isn’t even the word. We were off the face of this planet. We were holed up twenty-four hours a day. I missed so many concerts.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, twenty-three became extinct. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Because when we came back in from recess, on the shelf was a long box from Goldman’s Best Bakery...filled with twenty-four cream puffs! The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Thanks to radioactivity the Earth could be–and self-evidently was–much older than the twenty-four million years Kelvin’s calculations allowed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At first, the storm seemed reluctant to come ashore, building up its nerve over a slow twenty-four hours, the air pressure changing in a way that made the hoverboards jittery to ride. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The psychological counselors were on call twenty-four hours a day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Grant’s plan is to get in and get out within twenty-four hours, with as little fuss as possible. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. de Roo was born in South Africa but one day she was told by the government to leave the country in twenty-four hours or she'd be thrown into prison. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They had been marching, and much of the time under fire, for twenty-four hours. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With twenty-four hours of quiet behind us, Coin finally announces we can leave the bunker. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “One hundred twenty-four thousand hotels rooms, actually. Sounds like a whole lot of people had the same idea.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Make it to the bedroom, he urged himself, undress, curl into cool sheets, tell him I came home sick, must be a virus, twenty-four hour flu, and keep my face hidden. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His breathing is shallow and fast, coming twenty-four to twenty-seven times a minute. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z This is twenty-four days of heat, exhaustion, and monotony. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Chiron ordered a twenty-four/seven guard duty on the hilltop, at least until he could, find an appropriate monster to protect the Fleece. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “You got twenty-four hours,” Felix said, then handed Armpit a business card with his phone number on it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Emma Wedgwood had lived until she was twenty-four with nothing at all to distress her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than twenty-four hours, the whole trip had become pointless. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I stop brushing and multiply twenty-four times six in my head using the process Samantha taught me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “System entry in twenty-four weeks,” Viola says quietly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He knew that in all likelihood she had been there, clinging to her furniture, for twenty-four hours or more. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The Dream lives twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, twelve months a year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No less than twenty-four crates for the office and us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Scarcely twenty-four hours had passed since my parents had abandoned me here, and already my life was spiraling out of control. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Arrowheads and spear points were found embedded in or lying near the bones of twenty-four skeletons, 40 per cent of the find. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we don’t get our hands on that key, the world might not last another twenty-four hours.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Over the next several weeks they’ll gradually step up to a daily ration of thirty-two pounds of feed, including twenty-four pounds of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His skin was back to full color, his eyes no longer crisscrossed with red veins; he seemed to have gained fifteen pounds in twenty-four hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When he was twenty-four, Dad asked Mother if they could hire an herbalist to midwife my brother Shawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was twenty-four years old—in their world, that made him practically an old man. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The sailors are on shore leave for all of twenty-four hours, and they want to fit all of life into them. Two Musicals 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The band itself was an unlikely and fleeting ensemble, built by Cornell in pure and earnest homage to Andy Wood, a Seattle musician who had recently died, at twenty-four, of a heroin overdose. Chris Cornell Had an Unforgettable Vulnerability 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z He sailed all over the world, was naturalized as an American citizen, worked as a shipbuilder, and rose to ship’s captain, taking his first command at the young age of twenty-four. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The novel, which takes place over twenty-four hours, consists mostly of conversations between the characters. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Almost twenty-four years later Hernán Cortés and his army of conquistadors arrived on the same eastern spit of land. Goodbye, iPhone. Farewell, Brooklyn. Let’s move to Honduras and camp with jaguars 2013-01-05T20:00:00Z By twenty-four, he had become a member of the Magnum photo agency; by twenty-six, he was being exhibited at MOMA. Elliott Erwitt’s Visual One-Liners 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “It’s a full time job,” White told me, “as in twenty-four hours a day.” Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Joy and Nolan first met fifteen years ago, at the première of “Memento,” the basis of which was provided by a short story that Nolan had written and published in Esquire when he was twenty-four. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z It is also a lovely irony that it was fifty years ago this year that Moorcock, then twenty-four years old, was offered the editorial helm of the British magazine New Worlds. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Two days later, less than twenty-four hours after we got home, al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked passenger jets and flew them into a field in rural Pennsylvania, the Pentagon, and the Twin Towers, killing thousands. A letter to my daughter: What I want you to know about freedom, fear and Donald Trump 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Around three of its sides sit twenty-four audience members. ‘Food’ Review: It’s an Acquired Taste 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Today, in the same building, twenty-four people assemble motors for electric blinds. In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z For the hundred and twenty-four little people who descended on the set of Munchkinland, it was a moment of homecoming. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Even though a patch might be picked clean one day, it can have a whole new crop twenty-four hours later. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z Her U.K. editor balked at putting that word in the title, so the book was published there, twenty-four years ago, as “Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream.” Dubravka Ugresic Returns to America 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Somewhere on the Lower East Side, we ran into one of her friends, a handsome, boyish-looking Middle Eastern kid about twenty-four, my age. My first time scoring heroin 2013-01-01T01:00:00Z There was certainly no lack of M’Diarmids around Loch Earn, including an Angus M’Diarmid, who was twenty-four years old in 1815—which fits that description of a “fine athletic young man.” An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The Tiger's wife was lost in her own world, adrift from her husband in mind and body, punishing him for twenty-four years of bitterness. Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z “There’s nobody I’m supporting in the world.” The book that brought them together is no longer at the center of their relationship; recently, after twenty-four years as an editor, Stevens was laid off by Merriam-Webster. The Encyclopedia Reader 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Lastly, your statement “Richard Marx is married to a model” is not only inaccurate, but insulting to my wife of twenty-four years. Richard Marx hates my guts 2013-01-19T00:30:00Z Because of the preeclampsia, they broke my water three weeks early, and Madison Charlotte was born twenty-four hours later. Plastic surgery after the baby 2013-04-27T22:00:00Z I’m surprised they don’t pipe Mozart through the streets twenty-four hours a day. My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Maybe it does only in the precincts of dreams and poetry, Not in a country lit twenty-four hours a day to keep dreams stuck Turning in a wheel In the houses of money. 2016: Our Year in Poems 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The project’s title is a hyperbolic lark—there are some twenty-four thousand restaurants in the city—but my motivation is entirely earnest. Drawing the Vanishing Restaurants of New York 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Ergo, when she still hadn’t returned from her bike ride twenty-four hours later, the police helicopters began circling. The Feminist Trailblazing of Sinéad O’Connor 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Joy remembers the accompanying letter saying something along the lines of, “If you can summon up the extra twenty-four dollars or something, you can get this software for yourself.” On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z My wife and I where together for twenty-nine years, twenty-four of those married.Peaceful healthy happy, until she met an old boyfriend.I... No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Pages 120 and 121 boast a jazzy graphic mapping the twenty-four pockets and seventy buttons of a mid-century man fully dressed in a suit and overcoat. The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z A recent study found that forty-seven per cent of black men between the ages of twenty and twenty-four in Chicago were neither in school nor in the job market. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z There's not a man here that wouldn't like to circumnavigate my globes, sail his frigate into my harbour and fire off a twenty-four gun salute. Is it OK to rewrite classic plays? 2013-07-02T11:05:04Z Twice they flew us to India, sending us all over the country on airplanes instead of our twenty-four hour Chinese train rides. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Then Chaplin decided to add, as he put it, “a small moustache, which, I reasoned, would add age”—he was only twenty-four—“without hiding my expression.” Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The son, Akiva, is a dreamy alter, or “aging bachelor,” of twenty-four, who draws in secret. Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Then came the Internet, which operates twenty-four hours a day, boasts a trillion-plus pages, and breeds rabbit holes the way rabbits breed rabbits. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Eventually, I sent him an e-mail with twenty-four questions that, I hoped, might elicit more personal details: Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z He would fly back to Washington, D.C., twenty-four hours later. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Joe Harris, a local bus driver for twenty-four years, helped develop the route for the grocery bus, and drove it for the first six months. The Shopper Bus 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z He was twenty-four when he went to Afghanistan. Colbert Honors StoryCorps’s Military Voices Initiative 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Hemispherx had made several modifications to the trial months after it had begun, including shortening it from forty weeks to twenty-four, which the F.D.A. found troubling. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z When we read one of the twenty-four thousand cookbooks published annually, we are indulging in the exquisite pleasure of combining the two functions: food and language mixed together. The Allure of Imagined Meals 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “I have not heard from them since I left Virginia twenty-four years ago. I am in hopes that they are still living and I am anxious to hear how they are getting on.” She found handwritten letters from her enslaved ancestor: ‘I’m just blown away’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z On Saturday, a full twenty-four hours before Maroon 5 performed, the Daily News ran a story with the headline, “The NFL bungled the Super Bowl halftime show, but Atlanta picked up the slack.” The Artless Spectacle of Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z For seven years, when I cooked at all, I cooked for the man who became my husband when I was twenty-four. Leaving a Religion and a Marriage, and Gaining a Chicken Soup 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Bridgers, who is now twenty-four and lives in Los Angeles, writes vulnerable, elegant rock songs that are strikingly astute about the odd whims of the human heart. Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Butterworth smiles and says, of the song, “No one gets it, but it’s a clue to what we’re doing, over the long haul! But, generally, my plays are set in one place, over twenty-four hours!” The Freewheeling Playwright Jez Butterworth Takes On Ireland’s Troubles 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Treuer published his first novel, “Little,” in 1994, when he was twenty-four and had recently graduated from Princeton, where he studied anthropology. David Treuer’s Rebellious New History of Native American Life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The class lasts three weeks and pays twenty-four hundred dollars. David Sedaris: The IHOP Years 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z It premièred at Roundabout Underground’s sixty-two-seat black box in 2012, then moved to the “big” theatre upstairs, which seats four hundred and twenty-four. How to Write for the Rockettes 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z My son, George, who is now twenty-four, read a little King in high school, but he hasn’t gone back to him since then. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z Last year’s count was four thousand three hundred and twenty-four, down from about sixty-five hundred in 2009, the year Wyeth died. The Pilgrims Who Visit the House in Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z In the days of snail mail, he and Robert Bly had a rule requiring the recipient of a draft to critique it within twenty-four hours. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Tao is only twenty-four, and also has a flourishing career as a pianist. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z An employee couldn’t be there twenty-four hours a day. My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The dudes, looking twenty-four years old and seeming like a mature eight, sit in a loft apartment and compose Pringles cocktails by stacking different flavors. The 2019 Super Bowl Ads Are a Case Study in Technological Dread 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The lawsuit claimed that Kelly “had a propensity to have sexual contact with minors,” and that he began having sexual contact with Hawkins in 1991, when she was fifteen and he was twenty-four. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z I first caught a peek of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in 1994, twenty-four years after it first aired and seventeen since it was cancelled. Everything I Learned from Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z He is still showing the effects of left-knee tendinitis, which kept him out of fourteen of twenty-four games after the All-Star break; wincing and winded, he shot 5–15 from the field. Joel Embiid and the Narrative of the N.B.A. Playoffs 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z But he also posts a lot: a typical twenty-four hours might see two or three dozen posts. The Inscrutable Hypebeast Cool of Lil Jupiter’s Instagram 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z When I was twenty-four, I was crossing the street near the South Street Seaport and the side-view mirror of a moving bus whacked me across the face. Meryl Streep’s Twenties, and My Own 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z I went to work as an assistant to Bob Silvers when I was twenty-four and he was eighty-two. My Life as Bob Silvers’s Assistant 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z He died in August that year, at the age of twenty-four. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z When I was twenty-four and staying in an old farmhouse in the Marche region of Italy. Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Now twenty-four years old, he’s still living at his mother’s house, but he’s received commissions from the magazine Dazed and the Paris label Faith Connexion. Fashion Collages for the Age of Instagram 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The campaign by Prop 8 supporters worked; Obama won California by twenty-four points on election night, but marriage equality lost by four. We made Barack Obama evolve: The behind-the-scenes story of how he got to “I do” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z But this summer, the platform became less ephemeral with the launch of “Stories,” which allows a user to publicly post a series of related snaps that will last for twenty-four hours. A Day with Jérôme Jarre: How a Snapchat Gets Made 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The action occurs almost entirely over twenty-four hours in a vast, cluttered kitchen in rural Ireland, and is based on a story from Laura Donnelly’s own family. The Freewheeling Playwright Jez Butterworth Takes On Ireland’s Troubles 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z If the king were to die, Richelieu knows he would be at the mercy of these heartless enemies “and, within twenty-four hours of the death of the king, would be hanged.” Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z My mother’s favorite photograph was one of herself, at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. Inspiration Information: Lucky Us 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The study, which lasted twenty-four weeks and included ninety-two participants, from Peterson’s clinic and three other sites, used the Karnofsky Performance Scale to assess patients. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z “So there were twenty-four of us. We were all purchased together. And, actually, our next residence was a bowling alley, for a twelve-year-old’s birthday party.” “Everything Is Alive” and the Joy of Interviewing Inanimate Objects 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, even when reporting the foods they ate in the last twenty-four hours, which depends on short-term memory, participants still underestimated the quantity of food eaten by up to 20 percent. Your brain is making you fat! 2014-01-01T19:00:00Z In Eliot’s book, Mr. Mistoffelees is a precious creation; in the musical, he is a gay icon, bedazzled like the night sky, sometimes pulling off twenty-four fouetté turns in a row. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The owner of a MetroPCS at the intersection of Florida and Georgia avenues regaled the corners with go-go for twenty-four years. Go-Go Music as a Rallying Call to Resist Gentrification 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z At that time, the earliest a premature baby could be born with some expectation of survival was twenty-four weeks. Julius: The Story of a Premature Birth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z I kept thinking, What is she talking about, it’s less than two hours out of every twenty-four. A Lovingly Obsessive Tribute to Mike Nichols, by Elaine May 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z One side effect of propofol is that patients often experience a state of euphoria for twelve to twenty-four hours after going under. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z While the U.K. has been debating its eventual departure from the European Union, twenty-four European nations have been competing against one another in a major soccer tournament in France. On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z It is one story of one period of twenty-four hours in poetry. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Also, part of the story is that back then we only had twenty-four tracks. Fleetwood Mac is “the great American story” 2013-06-03T19:02:00Z This story is set over a twenty-four hour period, but Jennifer E Smith perfectly manages to fit in all the romance and heartbreak to make a wonderful teenage novel. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Site by Jennifer E Smith - review 2013-01-15T15:00:00Z "We picked up two survivors who had been in the water twenty-four hours, and fighting off sharks," Plotz wrote. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z He had been giddy twenty-four hours earlier, before France beat Belgium, to check on the flag-waving crowds in Paris and Antwerp. The England vs. Croatia World Cup Match Made for Some Awkward Television 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z House of Representatives before being elected to the upper chamber, where she remained for twenty-four years. “A Lady for President?” Third Graders Respond 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The organization’s Web site notes that the “Falun,” meaning an “intelligent, rotating entity composed of high-energy matter,” is planted “in a practitioner’s lower abdomen from other dimensions” and then “rotates constantly, twenty-four hours a day.” Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Black Mountain was launched in the Depression, and for twenty-four years it led a hand-to-mouth existence in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, outside Asheville, North Carolina. Learn By Painting 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z So we all gotta keep on keeping on, in order to see to it that things evolve better for our, ah, descendants so the worthwhile peeps rule twenty-four/seven. Style Invitational Week 1322: Back to the drawing board 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z D-Day was postponed for twenty-four hours, and indeed the weather turned stormy. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z
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