So Cade took a shower upstairs and changed into his Flat Face Pizza delivery-boy uniform, which was just a T-shirt with the childish Flat Face logo and a pair of blue jeans. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

First, we went through security, and then a uniformed guard led us down an empty hallway to the visiting room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The players had begun to peel the sweaty uniforms from their bodies. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were pretty fancy cars, too—Mercedes and the like—and there I was, in my old, patched school uniform. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before anything could happen, a guard in a uniform appeared and told Mom and Dad and Lori and Brian that they would have to leave. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Poor, dead boys in army uniforms from every era, their pale skin even whiter in death, clung to bridges and passenger cars, their grasping fingers reaching out for the memory of life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She has her full uniform on, cloak and all, and her triple-arrow insignia shines silver under the fluorescent lights. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She must have come straight from varsity cheering practice — she was one of only three eighth graders who got to practice with the high school squad — because she was wearing her uniform. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My clothes don’t fit me anymore, so at school they gave me the uniform of a senior who’d hanged himself from a tree the year before. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking, I dive fully into the linen closet, squeezing myself next to the laundry hamper, Rolf’s rumpled uniform clutched in my fists. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Also all the slang, the “square-bashing” drilling exercises, and the boring meals and the uniforms, though Maddie’s group didn’t get issued proper uniforms at first. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Gerhard is a sight for sore eyes, looking strong and fit in his brown Reich Labor Service uniform. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had thought her uniform would protect her as she crossed unknown territory. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Two police officers in dark green uniforms with brown batons and steel guns holstered at their waists sauntered into the marble foyer. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But every Sunday, Grandma lights candles and talks to a picture of Grandpa in a sailor’s uniform. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I had new clothes, made by tailors in the camp who ripped apart military uniforms at the seams and refashioned them into civilian clothes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Finally back in the United States, Houston and a friend, still in uniform, were returning home on a train when a white man refused to sit next to them in the dining car. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The ground-level lobby was an open space with gray walls, stone floors, and a uniformed security guard standing behind a desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, he seemed the exemplary student: He sat ramrod straight in his desk, listening with attention, and his Messenger uniform was impeccable. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man was in uniform, the woman wasn’t, and this meant the opposite of what you might think: that the woman was in charge. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doorbell rings and I open it to find a person in a brown uniform. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She was required to wear a ridiculous uniform and creep around the house as quietly as a mouse, lest she disturb the judge in his seemingly endless and sacrosanct deliberations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One is an older black woman dressed in a maid’s uniform. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I daydreamed constantly about working at Zimmerman’s that summer to save me the embarrassment of the stupid uniform, but I knew Mr. Zimmerman didn’t hire people under seventeen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there was a rowing uniform—white shorts and an elegant white jersey with a U.S. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To the children because of my uniform, and to Sister Claire because of my understanding. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The images came rushing back into his mind: the men in dark uniforms, their guns raised, bursting into his room, dragging him out of his bed, promising to finish what they started with his father. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He lay sprawled, his gray uniform glistening with wet, fresh blood. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the uniforms hung from the fourth mesh hole at the top of the locker. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we turned and cut a path through the green uniforms of the Palmetto players. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they neared the consulate, they saw police cars and several uniformed officers milling around its entrance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That evening, Dudley paraded around the living room for the family in his brand-new uniform. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“A uniform’s supposed to be snug. It isn’t supposed to fit like a nightgown.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crawl under obstacles, do push-ups, scale ropes suspended from the ceiling—one hundred children passing sleek and interchangeable in their white uniforms like livestock before the eyes of the examiners. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I remember being lost among a sea of small heads and matching green-and-blue-and-gray uniforms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They’d kept their weapons, but stripped off their telltale uniforms, begged or stolen clothes, and joined the tide of refugees fleeing toward Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looked like a grown Fernando and he wore a blue uniform trimmed with gold braid. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The seats were filling with officers in full uniform and their ladies; in remoter areas, the rank and file were admitted to celebrate their favorite Regimental commanders in this act of buffoonage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A cop in uniform and a man in a suit came in. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Apparently Day has some detailed knowledge of how government uniforms look. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Wylan’s uniform was far too big, and Jesper’s sleeves and pants looked ridiculously short, but at least the boots were a reasonable fit. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Behind him is the kid I fenced, oak grove imprinted on his uniform. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Both girls had their names stitched in cursive on their uniforms, but with my dyslexia, the words looked like meaningless spaghetti. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If I looked at him any longer, I was going to start crying, so I pushed myself up and crawled over him to dig my school uniform out of the mess on the floor. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes working white men in their uniforms or their navy striped suits drove up and down the gravel road that ran alongside our yard, making the dust and small rocks grind under their wheels. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Allen couldn’t wait to shed his uniform and get into regular clothes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The woman in the uniform jumped back in fright. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With crowds of people, heavy traffic, uniformed officials shouting and directing, it reminds me sharply of the Syrian border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her white uniform and was on her way to take on other traumatized children. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Commander has on his black uniform, in which he looks like a museum guard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I was back in uniform—this time, khaki shorts and a white shirt. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It felt good to change out of her uniform into regular clothes and walk across the compound to where they lived with their dogs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We put on our uniforms and a van comes to pick us up. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A van lurched by, with schoolchildren in uniform hanging out the windows. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“We were filthy, our camp uniforms almost rotted off our bodies, and both of us so weak and emaciated, we could hardly stand,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Get out of that dirty uniform,” Rupa said, “and then we need to talk.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

And a man who survived the dangers of the battlefield courted danger by walking the streets of his hometown in uniform. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had a flabby neck and wore a blue uniform. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"When I call your name, come get your uniform and go put it with your stuff. Then give me some warm-up laps," he said. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He was still in his uniform as I had seen him through the glasses in the early afternoon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were so muscular, so stern in their dark blue uniforms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A slight paunch strains against his crisp Park Service uniform. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They put a picture of me and Erin in our squash uniforms on the school’s home page.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s a Catholic school up in Fort Myers, but that’s a long ways off. Was he wearing a uniform, this kid? Because the nuns make everybody wear uniforms.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, I felt a rush of excitement when I put on my uniform that morning and thought maybe, just maybe, they'd make an exception. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It isn’t dressed like one of Balekin’s servants, and neither is its uniform the same as the other palace staff. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His janitor’s uniform was slashed with new claw marks, but he looked delighted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone from taxi drivers to sanitation workers had been outfitted in some kind of smart new uniform. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

First, I had to change out of my school uniform—I had only one. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A young man in a deputy sheriff's uniform was standing in front of the entrance to the courtroom. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He shook hands with Mrs. Bessie and, because his uniform made him feel grown up, he kissed Cilia goodbye just as he had the Sunday before seen Rab kiss his aunt. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“High time they put the RAF in kilts,” she remarked, flipping the hem of her uniform skirt disdainfully. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant was sharp, his brass belt buckle and insignia were shined, and his uniform was creased in all the right places. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They asked him to change out of his new suit and wear a prison uniform. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

These were their last games in Granger uniforms, and even though they didn’t like the mascot that represented them, they had represented the school and team with dignity and honor. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, a uniformed officer clambered aboard and the driver pointed down the aisle at Claudette. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

You would swoon if you saw how handsome your old pal looks in his uniform. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I thought about trying out for the track team, and my mind immediately went to the uniform; what would I have to wear? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The troops from Andover appeared in their dashing red uniforms, every button shining, leather gleaming. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their uniforms were black, and two of them hadn’t taken their caps off, which Malcolm knew was bad manners, apart from anything else. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Fish in a barrel, I think, as blossoms of red stain their white uniforms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Each line on the map is like a contour line but, instead of marking a uniform measurement of height, it marks a uniform measurement of magnetic variation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Country Day had some nice uniforms but they didn’t have anybody on their team who was all that. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Looking dignified in his military uniform, he pounded his cane in time to the music. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he saw a uniformed figure coming toward him between the rusted rails. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, the only thing left to decide was the color of the teams’ uniforms. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We agreed to meet after I changed into my gym uniform. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up and see a blue uniform. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Finally he croaked, “Come back in the morning, and we’ll see if you fit in the last maid’s uniform.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, those had loads of comments like, Does this look like a thug? and If he were white with this uniform on, would you still question him? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a short while, plane and ship under control, she looked again at the children in uniforms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in her black uniform, with her shining braid encircling her head like a crown, she’s as beautiful as winter’s first snow. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as I saw the green uniform, I panicked. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The officer glanced down at Pong's uniform and winked. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Reggie brings up a photograph with a man in uniform holding a gun and points. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Yep, and he looked so cute, even in his'brigadUta uniform. He says he’s leaving in a few weeks to go teach the peasants.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Only one artist is wearing what I consider a French painter's uniform—black beret, a white blouse with billowing sleeves, and a black scarf. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

One by one we were herded into a little shed where three tall, uniformed Navajo boys, whose hair was as short as Mr. John Benally’s, were waiting. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her work uniform—a starry blue skirt and a red-and-white striped blouse she wore to sell candy at Sweet on America. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m somewhat fascinated by her hair, since it’s so uniform, so without a flaw, a wisp, even a split end. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Right now it was mostly hubbub, laughter, and the sound of clinking plates and tumbling ice as uniformed servers whisked around the room with their heavy trays and pitchers of water. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Ifemelu imagined him in a classroom in the fifties, an overzealous colonial subject wearing an ill-fitting school uniform of cheap cotton, jostling to impress his missionary teachers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I put on my uniform last thing before I leave the house so it doesn’t get dirty as I eat breakfast by the fire pit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have stitched on that button by himself—a button from an old Colonies uniform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The guard grabbed his shoulder, spun him around, saw his Olympic uniform, and hesitated. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was in her uniform, holding up a plastic bag. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to see the gym filled with parents instead of kids running around in their gray and purple P.E. uniforms. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You two should’ve been in the underground auditorium five minutes ago. I suggest you change into your uniforms, make those beds, and hightail it down there.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some of the dead wear striped uniforms like mine. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The uniform I was wearing under them was a dead giveaway to what I was, but the scrubs were too baggy to run in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Golly pops her off, and before her feet touch the ground Coach Q is asking her when she can come by the office and pick up a uniform. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But now our town was swarming with men in green uniforms and Kalashnikov rifles. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The young ones are still in love with their uniforms. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was fast arriving at the point where many a black child, eager to continue learning, had to drop out because parents could not afford school fees, books and uniforms. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last evening the hilltop had been a uniform expanse of green grass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Under his dark blue uniform he wears a plain black T-shirt and a black string around his throat. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On August 31, 1939, the SS dressed in Polish uniforms and launched a fake attack on a German radio station in Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia, in southwest Poland. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain gifted me the uniform, knowing I could walk in as I had done. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I didn't know what to wear because I had always worn uniforms to school back home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At first she smells of her freshly ironed uniform, but then I smell the faint scent of cigarettes and oily food lingering behind her starchy presence. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be having a wonderful time, their uniforms looked new and good; they were clean and energetic; they were going places. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was dressed in a servant uniform and had tightly clenched fists, mahogany skin, and a French accent. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On that first awful, awkward visit, a uniformed guard stood leaning against the wall, watching us. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears all black, from her tight-fitting uniform jacket to her steel-toed boots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

From behind his desk, the assistant produces a folded uniform—slate-gray, eagle on the breast, Litzen on the collar. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For close to a decade I’d dressed in a uniform every day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I know their uniforms are green, and so we have to keep walking. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Three dead men in uniforms sat slumped over their desks; each had a loaded rifle next to him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At Audrey’s wedding, seeing my brothers in their suits, those black uniforms, my rage turned to fear, of some predetermined loss, and I forgave Shawn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He saw a group of men dressed in the same black uniform as Raul, with the emblem of a beehive on their sleeves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The correctional staff at the prison processing center couldn't find any uniforms that would fit a boy Ian's size, so they cut six inches from the bottom of their smallest pants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now he saw that both men and women wore tan uniforms and wide, straw hats. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stank of fish and seawater, but all Kaede saw were the black uniforms of the guards around her, their thick leather boots splashing through slimy puddles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And how will you keep your business while you’re studying? While you’re on the bus two hours a day to and from school? And what about uniforms? And books?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie told me their roles for employees: no lateness, no laziness, no stealing, no kind of hustling off any customers, especially men in uniform. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would ride me in a joking way in the room, criticizing my housecleaning or the way I wore my uniform. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Same with coats, hats, sneakers, clean socks, and gym uniforms. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermann Goring, in a dark uniform and cape like Hitler’s, bent over and slapped his knee with each German victory and then turned and beamed at Hitler. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A lady in a white uniform smiles at me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She looked nicer than I had ever seen her, in her white uniform and her hair in a small pompadour. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears a private’s uniform; it is missing a button. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first was being babysat by some boy in a uniform holding a broken skateboard across his lap, stroking it like a hurt dog. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

A couple of guards, in their red and brown uniforms, ambled across the square, laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, for just an instant, he reminded me of my 101st guard—same stature, same uniform. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went on the website, everyone was wearing uniforms. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She puts her brown hands away in her uniform pockets. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

You teach girls and you have a uniform that is un-Islamic. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

An unsmiling woman in uniform, ticket booklet in hand, was stumping towards them when Ginika jumped in and started the car. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

First of all, we had to wear uniforms. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I told her, “Your uniform is incredibly beautiful.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are blue and yellow balloons punching around in the wind, and two bake sale tables set up with blue and yellow tablecloths, and about twenty-five or thirty people in blue-and-gold track uniforms. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Goeth was coming closer, all shining black leather boots and crisp black uniform. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But what he didn’t know was that the smiling soldiers were Americans, wearing uniforms swiped from a British ship. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people around the unfamiliar building wear no uniform to distinguish them, but they don’t wear factionless armbands either, and they carry guns. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Five years earlier she noticed Lawrence walking down the street in his uniform, and fell for him instantly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The leader of the pale warriors barked orders to someone in a colorful uniform at a gate. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they all wore the same navy blue uniform. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were wearing their uniforms, though they were in bed. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

St. Francis doesn’t have uniforms, and even though everyone says it doesn’t matter how you look on the outside, it does. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The missionaries supplied us with uniforms instead: shorts, a shirt, shoes, sometimes a jacket. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came off before my school uniform, before I had a snack, before I switched on the television. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

We all look so young in it, our cheeks puffing out with baby fat, our uniform shirts untucked, Tiago’s sneakers untied. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was as if these terrifying authorities, these uniformed agents, had been lying in wait behind the façades of pretty buildings for a disaster they knew must come. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She glanced down at her clothing—black pants and a thin white button-down—and Pearl understood suddenly: this was her work uniform; she’d left work without even bothering to change. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Into the house, into Adam’s bedroom, came a captain of cavalry and two sergeants in dress uniform of blue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At his left sat Nico and Piper, her shoulder being tended by a nymph in a nurse’s uniform. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Startled awake, Jeremiah grabbed his uniform and dashed to the bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Amma must have worn colorful saris, too, when she was a maid, instead of the plain uniform of old shirts and long skirts that all the women wear in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She's decked out in her full uniform again, stoic and alert. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Looking at her crisp khaki uniform and shiny boots always makes me feel extra scruffy. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Nike stepped in to provide equipment and uniforms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Across the country, some equated the uniformed black soldiers with people who had stepped beyond their place, provoking slights and even violence against them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Quickly he slipped up a cobbled street, turned into a garden, stripped off his uniform and hung it on a clothesline. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly, most uniformed positions allow the wearers to have a separate life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A white mob lynched Private Charles Lewis in Hickman, Kentucky, when he refused to empty his pockets while wearing his army uniform. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Frantic, the tenants called for police protection that arrived in short order, a hundred uniformed men, some on foot, some sitting high on the backs of police horses. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His smart-fitting army uniform made him look straighter, leaner, and the sleeve had a skull-and-bones image next to the half of a yellow sun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I do, I catch a glimpse of a uniformed person standing at the half-moon desk in the center of the hallway. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She saw the hard cloth of his uniform and felt the ferocious hands wrap themselves around her neck; then without interrupting the kiss, the fingers began to tighten. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reinforcing that interpretation of a single invention of pottery in the south and a spread from that one source, the style of the earliest Jomon pottery is fairly uniform over the whole of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I see the white Peacekeeper uniform, the pointed chin, the light brown iris where my arrow will find a home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

McWatt would occasionally join them, and often Aarfy, who always arrived pudgily in full uniform and never removed any of his clothing but his shoes and his hat; Aarfy never went swimming. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One morning, while I snapped on my uniform, Mami told me not to wait for Juanita because she wouldn’t be coming to school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A man wearing his uniform coat over his nightshirt waved the paper in the air. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second representative distributes uniforms: white shirts, white shorts, white socks. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally he said, “Suppose I told you I had to wear the uniform for a reason.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would obey the instruction about the uniform, but that day I chose my brightest pink shalwar kamiz. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were wearing mismatched police and military uniforms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But even as he prayed, he kept an eye out for the regimental markings on the men’s uniforms. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that, he carefully peeled my arms off his uniform and guided me down, so we were sitting on the step, facing Mom’s maroon sedan. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Their uniform is simply their hunting-shirts, on which, it is said, they have embroidered the words Liberty or Death. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

While I’d been in San Francisco and I wore my uniform in the street, people of all kinds would come up to me and say hello. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four or five maids is shopping, all in they uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His book, My American Journey, helped me harmonize my understanding of America’s history and my aspiration to serve her in uniform. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He wore a gray-green uniform and a helmet like the Germans. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No. But I know that they know you were here before as an of-ficer and now you are here out of uniform. After this retreat they arrest everybody.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lyell believed that the Earth’s shifts were uniform and steady–that everything that had ever happened in the past could be explained by events still going on today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Red Cross volunteers, many of them from Boston’s wealthiest families, arrived in their immaculate white-and-gray uniforms, which immediately turned brown once they stepped into the deep sea of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“They no longer roam through the towns, hunting for mischief. They are in uniform, marching with the Hitler Youth. They have no time for cigarettes, dancing, flasks, lipsticks, automobiles, or movies.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Is a school uniform, from the nuns’ school. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom, still wearing her Pizza Pit uniform, hasn’t gotten very far into the room. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It’s as if she isn’t sure of anything and this uniformed man behind the desk and the computer will have all the answers in the universe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The “fashionable clothier” picked up intelligence tidbits from British officers getting their uniforms fitted in his shop. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beard is trimmed to a goatee, and his uniform is a white double-breasted suit with gold trim. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A fat woman, chewing on her cheek and twirling a lanyard of keys, gives me a striped uniform and tells me to strip and to leave my old clothes on the stool. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She wears a fancy uniform: gold epaulettes shine from the top of her cloaked military robe, white ropes loop around her shoulders, and a double-arrow insignia is printed on both sleeves. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Boy, that was sharp! I’d sign up just to have a uniform like that one!” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker had really been playing it down when he said the uniform might be “a little big.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

General Russell sat at the head of the table, a tall, tough-looking figure in uniform; he chaired the meeting. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the faces of the boys in uniform, they could see their faces. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought they were hills, but they were too uniform; nature wasn't so neat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At home, I pulled the light-green Dollar Store uniform shirt off over my head, balled it up, and threw it in the corner of my room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even in his new uniform, he still looked like a baby. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I could see someone in a park ranger uniform standing in the ticket window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“For your information,” Papa said, both of his index fingers pointing down at his uniform, “these are coveralls. Only the coolest supers wear them.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And he looks ridiculous in his red and white uniform. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They all wore black uniforms with beehives on the sleeves, and they were all idiots. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two colonels changed out of their uniforms into sweat clothes, and Nancy put a frozen chunk of her homemade stew into the microwave and thawed it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between and behind the lights there were shadows moving swiftly, and as they came toward us I could see that they were men—men in white uniforms carrying nets, round nets with long handles. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They stand proudly as if their uniforms make them something. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the room where we were tattooed, we were taken to another room with a huge pile of old, used prisoner uniforms, and told to find something that fit. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them are old clippings, and show Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, in Girl Guide uniforms, making radio and other speeches during the Blitz. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a private school in Manhattan; I think it’s the last one where they have to wear uniforms. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s me in my invisibility uniform blending into a wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The gates underneath the arch were flung wide open and manned by security men in dark brown uniforms and matching berets. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wade into the waves after her, the cold winter water lapping up against my thighs and my sides, making my school uniform stick to my skin. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wears a big sweater over her uniform and a long coat that almost covers her legs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Quietly, I slip to the back of the kitchen worktable to press the seemingly endless stack of the Commandant’s uniforms. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In addition to Mr. Grin and Nadia Vole, at least a dozen uniformed guards were making the journey. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of Chapter Eleven in an army uniform, squatting in the jungle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For some parents, it was a financial hardship to purchase the required uniform and pay ten pfennig, or pennies, as monthly dues. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They were the elite, and they had the best-looking uniforms.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the women saw their prisoner uniforms, they swarmed around them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone seemed to be standing still except for a uniformed court guard who was reaching toward me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In his uniform, with all the different pads he fancied, he looked a little like Robo Cop. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bellboy complete with uniform and sharp-creased cap jumps forward and begins to carry our bags into the lobby. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting behind a broad, semicircular desk sat a young guy with a struggling goatee wearing a Regents Security uniform. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Imperial attendants approach, and their gold uniform buttons catch the lantern light. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He wore the Continental uniform of buff and blue. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish Lucy or Ellen or even my mom were here to see me in my red and white Harpy’s uniform with Clover City’s prized possession resting atop my head. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Their gray uniforms passed like fleeting shadows through the confusion. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For thinking she’d stop feeling like the maid just because we were at her house, because she wasn’t wearing a uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some crunched-up ones were being pushed in wheelchairs by nurses in nurse uniforms. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I confess I imagined that I was looking at the uniforms of the South African Defense Force. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at Miles’s uniform, then over at Evan and Ian, and all three of us understood at the same time. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She walked in, looking less serious than usual, and behind her was a stranger, a beautiful young woman dressed in the People’s Liberation Army uniform. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skirt and shirt of her uniform—which were the exact same shade of green as the felt of a casino card table—were travel rumpled and creased. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Papa stood in the doorway wearing his banker’s uniform . . . dark suit, white shirt, and blue tie. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I was no longer prisoner 16013. I could not throw away that filthy uniform with that hateful number fast enough,” said Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Turn the uniforms into mirrors, blaring with the sun, the lances into spears of steel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A door of the van slides open, and four white men in sandstone-colored uniforms step out and flank the sidewalk leading to our house. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The uniform he wore had creases ironed into the shirt. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should thank her mother for leaving; without the money she sends for books and uniforms, Belky could not even attend school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Near the lone hangar, lethargic mechanics in grease-stained uniforms poked among the entrails of decrepit jets far removed from their vintage years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before him, lighted from top to bottom, he saw the Lytes’ house and he remembered Pumpkin’s uniform. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were undressed, we were thrown the plain khaki uniforms of Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A uniformed woman followed through the door, carrying a second newchild wrapped in a similar blanket. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A uniformed officer came in and escorted X-Ray out of the room. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, it’s cold out, so we can conceal most of our uniforms and weapons under flowing coats and cloaks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A bunch of seventh and eighth graders in wine-colored uniforms are crowded outside the building, beneath the overhang, trying to stay dry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was against the rules, they often stuffed bracken, osmunda, and other ferns inside their uniforms and brought them home to their mothers to make side dishes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He told them to head back to the U-boat, forgetting to hand over the bag of German uniforms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It has been years since I jumped off a building in my Abnegation uniform; it has been decades. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was crowded with troops, row after row of them in gray uniforms, two hundred soldiers at least—and every barrel of every gun was pointed directly at them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then we went to find Coach Walski to give him the uniform back.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t in official cheerleading uniforms—they were wearing matching tracksuits—but somehow it was obvious that they were cheerleaders. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Opening his locker, Ben unpacked his uniform and stared at the new Converse All Stars Bull had bought him, a purchase that had gone unreported to the iron-fisted keeper of the books, Lillian Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so busy she’d sleep in her uniform, or fall asleep at her desk. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

What he saw was a boy in the rags of what had once been a school uniform. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They wore bright red uniforms that were the color of blood, and it was obvious just by the physical look of them that Permian hadn’t faced a team like this all year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scraps of burnt uniform flutter in the rising heat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the sanitation trucks enter the gate and see the men in their khaki uniforms fan out around the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

To either side of the rifle and sword were posters that showed Marines standing tall in their full dress uniform. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still wore her dark uniform from the Medica, but had added a grey cloak from her room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not all the way—just enough that I could see the snow on the driveway, and grass, and the bottom half of a dark uniform. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"I'll warn Papa,” Jemmy offered generously, "that if you spy out a single uniform, you'll crack my neck like a chicken's.” The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t wearing a uniform, but he was a policeman. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a spotless green uniform with blue piping. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the start of school, he was given a black uniform: pants, shirt, an undershirt, and a pair of shoes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He rips off his baseball uniform to reveal a very Tiny purple polo shirt and chino shorts. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

For almost two years, I've seen nothing but uniforms of either captives or captors. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All the students wore white uniforms, but they had different-colored belts-mostly white or yellow, but a few of them were orange or green. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’s dressed in an ill-fitting Peacekeeper’s uniform complete with the white fur cloak, but it’s several sizes too large for her slight frame. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least the guard was wearing an ordinary uniform instead of drüskelle black, Jesper considered, still unable to shake the image of that banner from his mind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Neel slowly went inside to put on his uniform. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the young women of the 122nd Air Group were given winter uniforms, of course once again it was standard military issue meant for men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He shook his head—not an army uniform, but a brand-new three-piece suit, his paycheck from his office job tucked in his coat pocket. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"That's your uniform," Coach said, holding his hand open so I could see the white confetti. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Wearing your fancy Saint Augustine’s uniform and eating fancy brunch with your new fancy friends. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The best part, the doll would come dressed in a fencing uniform with a hijab. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They suck on their knuckles and brush the dirt from their uniforms. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Cheat. Now let’s clean up and get those uniforms on. We have a party to go to.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A big man in a blue uniform and boxy hat blocked the exit. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s cold out, especially since I’m only wearing my basketball uniform, and suddenly I’m sprinting, although I’m not sure why. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were wearing a different uniform from the combat soldiers outside, but they carried the same hardware and had the same placid expressions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the band took a break, Bull slipped the opened can of mushroom soup into his uniform shirt pocket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who arrested me leaves, replaced by another man, also not in uniform. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were black circles under his eyes and his uniform was torn in about six places. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a dozen men in National Guard uniforms there, and they all took notice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was still wearing her waitressing uniform, and the puffy skin under her deep-set eyes sagged heavily. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The uniformed cops inside the apartment ignored us, coming and going through the kitchen and using the service elevator, taking cartons of foodstuffs with them. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

After a while, instead of the spectacular Mustafa, a lady appeared who had the unhappy, tidy air of a provincial aunt, dressed in a blue uniform with a starched white collar. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor had not gone far before several soldiers in red uniforms stopped him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his reveries ended, he was still in a filthy, threadbare, lice- infested uniform in a miserable camp crowded with starving and dying prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They all wear the gray rebel uniforms from 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But Mam was taken away on a stretcher, and I saw Maisie moving, whimpering, as a man in a uniform carried her down the hall. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The white hand of a uniformed officer reached out toward the car, opening the door and pulling me toward him as his urgent voice ordered us to hurry. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few who clawed their way into the ranks of officers still encountered filthy toilets, secondhand uniforms, segregated showers, and disrespect from white soldiers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They wore uniforms at Jennifer’s school, but they had free dress the first week. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They’d come down to shepherd us through customs and speak French to the men in uniforms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us wanted nothing more than to become one of those heroic Indian athletes like Jim Thorpe, who wore a sports uniform and did great things on the playing field. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ponytail makes her look simultaneously younger, like a schoolgirl in a uniform, and older, too, the severity of just a face framed by that swinging hair. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And she saw the frank relief on the pilot’s face turn to bewilderment and apprehension as he was increasingly surrounded by blue uniforms and the stripes and badges of the Royal Air Force. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Behind him were the waxen-faced officer and the black- uniformed guards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were wearing green army uniforms, and Richard wondered why soldiers would make such a spectacle of themselves, dashing in like that, until he saw how red and wildly glassy their eyes were. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I feel her three-year-old heart racing against mine, flapping like butterflies on my white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They are like military without uniform, to do dirty work. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you know what they said when they saw my brother in his uniform sitting in a wheelchair with bandages around his eyes, his legs gone? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of prisoners at Plaszów, most wearing a yellow Star of David on their uniforms to show they were Jews. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t wear a hunting cap. This is the Paradise Vendors’ uniform.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least football players wore uniforms, but boxers wore only the trunks. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth thought about wearing his Hitler Youth uniform, but settled upon wearing good brown trousers and a white shirt. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie had on her school uniform, the khaki slacks and polo shirt, her blond hair in a protective braid because it was gymnastics day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had specified both the cut and the fabric to his tailor — it was his preferred uniform for giving tours because it did not get crushed during his long hours behind the wheel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The platform was crowded with uniformed young men and crying parents, clinging to one another, saying good-bye. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Trudging through the shadows, Officer Delinko pictured himself in a tailored suit instead of a starchy uniform. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A box arrived in the office in the afternoon: Team Lawn Boy T-shirts and uniform pants, and truck magnets for the crew to slap on their pickups. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I just thought maybe you could use it on whatever you want. Additional uniforms? Maybe some unnecessary and overpriced equipment?" Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

My father went to work every day dressed in the blue uniform of a city laborer, but at night he showed us what it meant to love jazz and art. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They walked around the block three times, the cop pretending not to notice the hands that went up to hide smiles as the people saw a fully uniformed officer of the law so engaged. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, however, simply said, “You’re no different from other schoolchildren. They too have parents who have trouble getting jobs; yet they have uniforms and books.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t wear military uniforms but suits, like the Secret Service, and with their fashy haircuts and vicious grins, they’d fit right in at a Unite the Right rally. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Here was Garnett dressed beautifully, new gray uniform, slender, trim, riding that great black mare with the smoky nose. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just boring not being able to gossip with anyone. The boys were cute, but the girls there had no sense of style. Most of them were wearing the ugly brigaduita uniforms. Ugh.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He saw a pair of uniformed men approaching from amid ruined machinery and tanks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My Little League field was right outside the fence, so if I had a game in the afternoon, I brought my uniform and changed into it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I saw myself in a new Liberation Army uniform, slim and standing straight as a reed, long braids swinging at my waist. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tía Mimi's hedge of bright red ginger shielded us somewhat from the sight of the eyesore palace and of the dictator strolling of a Sunday afternoon with his three-year-old grandson in a minuscule general's uniform. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She stepped aside, and suddenly the doorway swarmed with men in blue uniforms. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young Asian woman in a nurse’s uniform came in, beaming. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Lewald’s voice echoed in the background as the announcer labored to fill the air, describing the uniforms of various teams, the platform on which the speakers stood, the Hindenburg circling overhead like a near moon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The black suit seemed like it was just a really smooth outfit, not a work uniform. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And he had a very white skin; oh, he was most unusual! He was dressed in a strange uniform and he came down out of the sky and spoke pleasantly to me.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in the rows and rows of seats below her are kids of all colors, all around my age, and all wearing the same uniform. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As it swung wide open, with tremendous force, two tall black policemen in stiff brown uniforms rushed in and immediately blinded me with the glare from their flashlights. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enameled cans on the lower shelf were uniform and Donovan felt a cold draft about his ankles. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Another hole was dug in a different spot and the bag of uniforms was buried. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Down below were houses, neat and uniform, calm and organized. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was well Johnny had thought to put on Pumpkins uniform. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tim and El drive me home and wait for me to change into my Chili Bowl uniform shirt. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But now he was standing up really straight, dressed in a tight fitting blue uniform with gold buttons, like the ones servants wear in a banking company. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far off there's a strange ridge, even and uniform, and I can't make out what it is even as I squint against the sun. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her red-white-and-blue Sweet on America uniform smelled like the best things in the world: chocolate, licorice, and all the other stuff she sold at the candy shop in Grand Central. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, we didn’t have to change into PE uniforms. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was white—the walls and sheets and nurses’ uniforms—or silver—the beds and trays and medical instruments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there in his petty officer’s uniform, tall and almost shockingly broad-shouldered and thin-hipped, his cap pushed slightly back, the sun lighting on the patch of reddish hair that showed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt pointed out the brown uniform, all the while clutching Fidelito’s arm. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volkheimer goes inside and returns with a colonel in field uniform: the Reichswehr coat and high belt and tall black boots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I was tired of the uniform.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Gandhi was taken to the police station, where he was whisked through a side door disguised in a police uniform. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The dewy drops clung like lint to his neatly pressed uniform and dripped down his neck from his closely shorn hair. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As the gray uniforms begin to converge on me, I think of what my brief future as the assassin of Panem’s new president holds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They were close to the umbrella trees that lined the driveway when Richard saw the bearded man, in a severely smart, belted army uniform, striding across the corridor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For one thing, there was a man in uniform guarding the door. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sweating in his dark suit the way the white men had stained their white uniforms, but his face gleamed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the day arrives, I show up in my uniform and they make me wait outside the courtroom. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the orb light glinted off the buttons of the police uniforms. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The ghost still wore a maid’s uniform, and her head tilted as she studied Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He thought she looked like an angel—with her round brown face and soft white uniform. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her uniform, she'd always seemed a little out of place at the prison, and she looked especially uncomfortable now. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Did your old team have uniforms? Hey, wouldn’t that be something? Uniforms and everything, but how do we pay for them?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When their squabbles reach a certain mother-annoying level, they are called away by their nursemaids, who sit on stools at the far end of the patio, a phalanx of starched white uniforms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I am in the old Jackson kitchens with the maids, hot and sticky in their white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They did look fine in their uniforms as they marched through town. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uniform and cap were too big for me, so big that my cap came down over my eyes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing at my own, I wonder when I will also get out of the Khmer Rouge uniform and into some colorful clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a later time the most probable state would be a fairly uniform mixture of oxygen and nitrogen molecules throughout the two boxes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’d be cool to change things up. Maybe have a lion or a grizzly on the uniform,” I said, spreading my hand across my chest. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The African general and the Gallivespian came in: King Ogunwe in a clean uniform, with a wound on his temple freshly dressed, and Lord Roke gliding swiftly to the table astride his blue hawk. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was well muscled, handsome, and proud in his uniform, but Ben saw immediately that Philip was the poorest athlete among last year’s starters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that point on, we’d be growing and cooking our own food to eat, mucking out the Washrooms, making our uniforms, and even making theirs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Tag was in his official company khaki uniform, a company badge in the shape of a star on his jacket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As much as a third of the male population was in uniform, as were many children. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They hide in plain sight, with uniforms and badges.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a thing for polyester uniforms?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He put on the ratty, too-big uniform and slipped his feet into the cotton shoes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She stepped forward to the contestant’s podium, which had a skeleton in a school uniform hunched over it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, most of us never even got to wear one of those dress blue uniforms like that first one I saw on the Marine Corps recruitment poster. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these movements echoed the Nazis in their salutes and uniforms, as well as in their attacks on Jews. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Robert was wearing the uniform of the famous Green Berets. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to wear a uniform skirt to school like me and Donna?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She shows me a picture of a man in a khaki uniform. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The one in the fanciest uniform stepped to the front, and his face appeared on the giant screen, instead of Mom’s. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On this first really fine day of May she sweated under her starchy uniform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This had become his uniform since he had decided to take some time off from fixing up houses—stripping floors, dry wall, the whole nine. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The uniform went on easily over the boy’s breeches and jacket. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If God made them so uniform, why didn’t He do the same for humans? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At the police station a man in uniform handed Luke to a woman in uniform. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Arrows with feathers cut in flawless uniform lines. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Today, he wore his usual attire, the uniform of a fool: very expensive clothing worn entirely incorrectly. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Another flock of white uniforms sweeps into the opening. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He himself was finding it difficult to put faces with the caftan and uniform. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out of these meager salaries, they had to buy their own uniforms. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A black man on a horse, wearing a military uniform—white pants, white gloves, navy jacket, and a blue, white, and red sash. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Uncle Grady. Do you still have your old army uniform?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The school had abandoned uniforms a while back, but the dress code was still pretty strict. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

From their vantage point, the children could make out the khaki uniforms of American soldiers escorting women and children onto the ships. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nothing could look more ludicrous than his forage-cap and his uniform. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve got crisp uniforms and the Boys and Girls Club logo on our backs and down the side of our pants. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was dressed for school in his uniform and little tie, holding his book bag. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’m already dressed, wearing one of Donna’s uniforms: a gray skirt, a plain button-down white shirt, and a navy V-neck sweater. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The nurse is young and pretty, and wears a graying white uniform. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, after considerable shaking, Reynie had roused Sticky, the two of them threw on their Messenger uniforms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the twenty-ninth day, Liyana’s papers had proper headings, and her navy blue uniform had lost its bright gleam, its sharp pleat. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three evenings a week, Mia boarded the 1 and rode to 116th Street, where she put on a different uniform and waited tables at a bar near Columbia. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He participated enthusiastically in their demonstrations, wearing a uniform with the swastika emblem and marching with his knees unbent in the goose-step style, like the Nazis that he fully supported. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, he spotted an old pair of cotton shoes and a worn military uniform. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I go back home and throw my uniform into a corner; I had intended to change it in any case. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not common peace officers, but members of the BladeGuard, the sign of the Scythedom clearly emblazoned on the breast of their uniforms. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A dark-green pickup truck pulled up to the roadblock on the town side of the bridge, and a lean man in a green uniform got out. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My mom, same as she’d done with her flat and with her maid’s uniforms, found the cracks in the system. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He reaches into his khaki uniform and pulls his phone out and shows me the screen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

About a billion years after the Big Bang, the distribution of matter in the universe had become a little lumpy, perhaps because the Big Bang itself had not been perfectly uniform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl stood before us—her school uniform visible beneath her transparent raincoat. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I looked at her and thought about Daisy’s observation about uniforms. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of thing that happens when a cop puts on a uniform, or when you wear a pair of sunglasses so people can’t quite see your eyes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Montez in a blue army uniform, trudging along toward battle with an old rifled musket, shoulders slumped. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Standing on her feet all day in the sweltering laundry was an opportunity if the tumbled military uniforms bought new school clothes, if each sock made a down payment on her children’s college educations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The entire Columbian Guard seemed to be present, their pale blue uniforms standing out like crocuses against black loam. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I don't feel the soldier's arms under me or the roughness of his uniform lapel on my cheek. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She woke early, sometimes even before Papi, cooked the beans and rice for our supper, ironed our school uniforms and her work clothes, and bathed, powdered, and stuffed herself into her tortuous undergarments. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Peacekeepers, in pristine white uniforms, march on the cleanly swept cobblestones. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at his mother in her postal uniform, and something on his face must have given him up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He thrust his hands forward, and the bits of metal flew from his uniform, a gleaming cloud that hung in the air for the briefest second then shot toward the Tidemakers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And then soon after that, Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Prison made him despise himself, while she looked as adorable as he remembered her, especially in a nurse’s uniform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She no longer worked at the uniform factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Pilar makes fun of Lourdes in her uniform, of the way she slaps the nightstick in her palm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her day satchel was packed, her uniform was on, shoes buckled; she’d wrestled her hair into a tight bun the way the matrons insisted she do. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The glass was clouded, but she recognized the uniform of a policeman and wondered what her grandfather could be doing with one of them in his library. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were naked and carrying their clothes; others half-naked, or more or less dressed, in school uniforms, grey, blue, fawn, jacketed or jerseyed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Inej looked at her strange crew, barefoot and shivering in their soot-stained prison uniforms, their features limned by the golden light of the dome, softened by the mist that hung in the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Having served two tours in Vietnam at the height of the war, he found himself woefully unprepared for the flat pitch of life out of uniform. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At this juncture, the imposing figure of Hermann Goring strode onto the platform, outfitted in a spectacular white military uniform. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We started peeling off our jackets and uniform sweaters. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But she’d found that people didn’t always recognize her navy uniform with its gold ATA pilot’s wings, or make sense of them, and Scotland was as foreign a land as France to Maddie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A man in a khaki uniform digs in a storage closet. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A colored woman in a white uniform nods to us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They looked up at the uniform gray skies and, seeing in them tokens of much colder weather ahead, wondered how they would make it through another winter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From the opposite end, a huge, blond woman in a starched white uniform was coming toward him, carrying a vase of longstemmed, red roses. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The coward in the tough leather jacket has made it very clear how he feels about the coward in the invisibility uniform. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But either she really believed I was having deep emotional reactions to questions like, “Should our school have uniforms?” or she was just giving me enough rope to hang myself. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have the same uniform too, but I can’t march in Texas. I marched in some parades in France, though.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a general’s uniform with gold braid on his massive shoulders. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I used to watch Keav fuss over her school uniform, pressing and repressing her blue pleated skirt and white shirts so they looked as crisp and new as possible. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a time she put on a Red Cross uniform and met other ladies similarly dressed in the armory, where bandages were rolled and reputations unrolled. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there was no jury, the judge had not permitted me to give him street clothes to wear, so Walter was wearing his prison uniform. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A short man in a field captain’s uniform emerges from the backseat of the Mercedes and brushes something invisible from the sleeve of his coat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Soldiers, wearing crisp uniforms with shiny buttons and carefully polished shoes, were lined up in neat rows, saluting him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And he made an effort then to rock his entire body length out of the bed with a uniform motion. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Jefe always wears his white uniform, except on Wednesdays, when he heads for his country home at night. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I thought to myself, I like the uniform and I like playing the snare drum. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because his uniform is green, and that means I have no choice at all. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Slowing down for the bottleneck, he noticed that the men in uniform were waving over vehicles with large flashlights. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It did not take me long before I wore the striking uniform of the Hitler Youth....I could only promise my father that I would think about what he had told me.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My siblings and I each got a uniform every Christmas and had to make it last the entire school year. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My father had changed out of his work uniform and into a clean white shirt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His dad was in his dress uniform, and his mom was wearing a pink miniskirt. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I tightened the navy tie that accompanied the uniform—the tie was wrapped in the same knot I’d used as a freshman. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone wore the same uniform, a tank top and shorts, with a yellowy gold stripe down either side. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For a few moments, he was a small figure in a khaki uniform and high black boots, alone in the great expanse of grass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, the satyr wore gym uniforms for fun. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was turned towards a young man, sitting beside him, also wearing a uniform. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh, they said I could get a uniform from the janitor.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They hear footsteps coming down the stairs, and then his father enters the living room, along with a uniformed man holding a clipboard. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s weird seeing you without your uniform on. I almost didn’t recognize you.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Last night on the retreat we had heard that there had been many Germans in Italian uniforms mixing with the retreat in the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford noticed a flask protruding from the back pocket of his uniform, but his breath smelled of peppermint. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place where his uniform lay made a wet spot on the cement floor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got into our uniforms and threw the ball around the stage a few times and each player was introduced and got a cheer. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike a fencing uniform with a mask covering my face, the judge sees me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With their funny round hats and uniforms, most of the soldiers look the same to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere around us are uniformed men with guns. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But then the duchess married el comandante, a former general in the Chilean army who wore his uniform every day. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Two shiny gold medals hung on the left side of the uniform. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Van Eck turned up the light on one of the lanterns, and Kaz saw a body in a purple uniform slumped on the floor, eyes closed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We had to wear stockings or knee socks with our uniforms, year-round,” she said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Not a good idea to play with this one,” a uniformed female worker said. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His mother wore her cleaning uniform, ready to leave for work. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One was wearing a soccer uniform, shirt neatly tucked in, socks pulled up to her knees, like a peewee soccer player who had been carefully dressed by her mother. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The students wore navy blue uniforms with pale blue shirts, navy knee socks, and blue loafers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The country filled with men in uniform, with war machines, flags, hymns, and parades, because the military understood the need for the people to have their own rituals and symbols. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two firemen passed and Sissy never so much as noticed and there had been a time when Sissy couldn’t resist a uniform. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her work uniform—navy pants, navy shirt with a name tag, offset by her fuzzy, dingy pink house slippers. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure, though. It may be different if you’re in uniform. Anyway, thank you for the information. Goodbye!” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Some questioned my traveling alone without a family escort, others opined that my fencing uniform was too tight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was the skeleton of a Union soldier, though the uniform it wore was so ragged and filthy it was difficult to identify. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hair sparkling, skin gleaming, uniform drenched with rain, Kwasi takes one last look at Sonia, then disappears behind the closed doors. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A man in a tan uniform approached them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She dressed him in his soldier's uniform, shaved him, combed his hair, and waxed his mustache better than he had ever done in his days of glory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His boots came to my shoulder, and his gray uniform was piped and spangled with silver. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

No doubt I am guilty of some injustice here, but it is irreducible, since I cannot risk assuming that the humanity of these people is more real to them than their uniforms. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She fumbled with the buttons of her white uniform, which gave me a moment to think. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wore the belted army uniform and red armband of the Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nina, people love to give up authority to men in nice clothes. I have uniforms for the stadwatch, the harbor police, and the livery of every merch mansion on the Geldstraat. Let’s go.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the man in a blue uniform and a bored expression finally calls us up to the desk, I hold my breath. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I went into my bedroom and ran my hand over my uniform hanging in the closet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A soldier dropped by one day wearing a patch she recognized from Captain Denny’s uniform. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the prisoners changed into their uniforms and were taken to their tiled cells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The uniformed man led them to an office, and handed out forms. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Anyone ever tell you that you look fine in that uniform?” he asks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined what her mother would say to her, showing up at a place like this wearing a spire-fighting uniform, but it was too late to worry about that now. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On big game days, we were allowed to wear Granger sports gear instead of our usual school uniform of khaki pants, white shirts, ties, and boat shoes. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Dressed in his khaki uniform and helmet, he looked like a helpless turtle flipped upside down. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

A man in uniform opened the door but didn’t bring down a step—he said someone had stolen it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the distance was a bandstand where men in dark blue uniforms were milling about. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagemess of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had no underwear or socks, but at least the uniform had pockets. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in full uniform, the boys and girls marched into the immense stadium and lined up in long rows on the field. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother often wore a hand- dyed caftan—brown and blue—and her hair was braided with ribbons. Father had a uniform with medals and jingled when he walked.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t find the words to thank the uniformed American who escorted them to their gate. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adults were looking down at her: the man who’d brought her in, another man wearing a white coat, a woman in a nurse’s uniform. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts up a photo with an image of a young boy and an older girl dressed in matching blue uniforms. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The British had the best uniforms and the shiny new guns, but there was something exciting about the Patriots—being underdogs and fighting off the mighty British army. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days leading up to the last one, it was decided that wearing our uniforms was too dangerous, so we were told to dress in our everyday clothes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They are just two regular guys in uniform joining the sea of pedestrians, soldiers, and tourists. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The artist gives the ragtag army imaginary uniforms and weapons. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelley could feel blood squelching around in his boots, and his uniform was crusted with fresh and dried blood, sweat, dirt, and vomit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had never owned a garment in such an eye-catching color, but the Swanburne uniform featured a trim of navy ribbon around the hem that Penelope had always found pleasing. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He was dressed, as usual, in his basketball uniform. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her name-brand jeans and fleece are the preferred uniform of Poplar Springs students, and if she weren’t so outspoken, she’d blend in with everyone else. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I identify all the smaller pigments—the rich browns and tans and whites—that help make the hue bright and uniform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes were soft and irisless and brown, and suddenly I saw Roskus watching me from behind all his whitefolks’ claptrap of uniforms and politics and Harvard manner, diffident, secret, inarticulate and sad. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wear a uniform with my name stitched on the pocket, as in high school gym class. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the silhouettes of two more men in uniform striding toward them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A delicate young man in what looked like a Boy Scout uniform crouched down, reached out his arm, and laid hold of the stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The instant I saw the green uniform, I panicked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Set after set of the Queen’s fireworks exploded over the roofs of the city, over Canvastown, over the mansions that held the King’s subjects in their ball gowns and fancy dress uniforms. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They couldn’t have—” Aunt Bushy, clad in a school uniform and standing alongside Granny, suddenly burst into tears at the mention of Uncle Piet’s name. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why is the universe so uniform on a large scale? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a fancy white uniform with gold fringe epaulets and a breast of medals like an actor playing a part. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But someone had to wear an away uniform, and in this case, Permian didn’t mind at all giving up black. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has an extra uniform at Uncle Carlos’s and can go to school with Daniel. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

This hat is basically part of my brother’s school uniform. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

One of the guards bleated as her nose began to gush blood down the front of her uniform in absurdly forceful gouts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone was ugly, and would still have been ugly even if dressed otherwise than in the uniform blue overalls. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

No one wore a uniform of blue, like hers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to notice it, but the two of them look so painfully out of place here in their harvester uniforms. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing her uniform of overalls and crazy socks with funky clogs. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He’s not wearing a white robe or a blue robe or a cop uniform. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The stocky, broad-shouldered man in the doorman's uniform, standing with feet spread, fists on hips, was Sandy McSouthers. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had made me feel dumb in my uniform, like a bozo carrying out someone else’s ill-conceived plan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mixed the paint thoroughly, then brushed it smoothly on one of the pieces of board, careful that the brush strokes were uniform. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't expect her to answer, but to my surprise, she unbuttons her uniform jacket and pulls up the shirt beneath to reveal a stretch of pallid skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There, at the front of the class stood two Navajo men wearing the uniforms of Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uniform was clean but wrinkled, and the dark circles under his eyes looked like they covered most of his face now. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The kids got band instruments, sports uniforms, and new books. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Martin stretches his arms up against the frame of the doorway like he’s hanging from monkey bars, and the top of his uniform rides up even higher. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I spot a lady official who is wearing the same uniform as the ones who took my mother away. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I know? I watch my mother starch and iron that stupid white uniform every single week. He’s prouder of that uniform than he is of us.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This was a huge relief, because I was worried someone might recognize me and notice that I didn’t belong in a maintenance-tech uniform. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

However, the uniform of that poster Marine was much more striking than his. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I hadn’t seen them before, but on the far end of the convention center there was a group of African-American kids in matching uniforms. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was warm for so late at night, and the men all looked comfortable with their collars open and the sleeves of their uniform shirts rolled up. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He is thin and tall, maybe two feet above us and dressed in the standard green uniform but without the rifle and grenades on him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack’s ticket went to a tailor named Salek, who in return helped Jack by keeping his uniform clean and repaired. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about when Flora had shown him the picture of Alfred T. Slipper in his janitor uniform, and how Alfred had been transformed into the bright light that was Incandesto. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

We always had to wear our school uniforms and ties whenever we showed up for a rugby match; that was just the way things were done. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You would see the name on the back of the uniform. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a conductor in a purple uniform leapt out of the bus and began to speak loudly to the night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her mother was sewing uniforms for Jackboot soldiers in a Warsaw factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

With no uniforms, they would dress formally in their finest and most feminine clothes, wearing makeup, hats, scarves, and jewelry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing his red-and-white jersey over his shoulder pads, along with his cleats and helmet—his whole football uniform. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The guard sits up, touches his uniform, sees the station wagon is full of women. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Prisoners were killed all the time for far less. But he could tell by the low camp numbers on our uniforms that we were both old-timers. He was one himself. Maybe that was why.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I treasured those two stripes on the sleeve of my US Army uniform. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as I pull the light cord, I see a stack of Mom’s nursing uniforms on a shelf, perfectly folded into neat Dad-squares, with one of her plastic name-tag pins resting on top. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The board didn’t want to spring for new uniforms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And before anyone could even glance round, the mountain of uniforms was detonated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Waiting inside his office was the head of mall security, two uniformed police officers, and my and Teddy’s homeroom teacher, Mrs. Vorster. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I went upstairs to change out of my school uniform. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a football uniform—a handsome young man—with his arm around her. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kids with green, navy, and yellow uniforms spilled out into the white-tiled hallway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He has come home only once. Everybody on the street came out to greet him and the children were fighting to touch his uniform.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he was wearing his uniform on the bus that night, so there was no question that the bus driver knew that the obstinate black rider was a soldier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Biggs bounded from the ship in a fresh uniform, not looking at Spender even once. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat upright, played with his uniform hat among the plates, which still lay on the table from the lodgers' evening meal, and looked now and then at the motionless Gregor. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table was crowded with officers wearing splendid uniforms and perfectly powdered wigs along with several of Master Lockton’s business companions. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found him outside, being led away in handcuffs by two uniformed police officers. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Rondon, dressed in his military uniform and with his faithful dog, Lobo, by his side, read aloud his Order of the Day, which included their work assignments and goals. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A nurse in a white uniform said, “Well, now, how are we doing, young man?” and for a long moment I stared up at her and didn’t know what was happening. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice that Gerald had quietly opened Angel’s door or that two uniformed police officers were standing there until just before they grabbed him and handcuffed him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inmates would soon be rushing outside to the yard, hopping mad and “looking for the first uniform they can find” to beat up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Esther wasn’t supposed to work, but she came to the center wearing a jeans skirt instead of her normal white uniform. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Major-general Kallner had not worn his uniform in its entirety since the first dinner with the U. S. Robot representatives. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They wore uniforms and drove around in trucks and looked important. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She had lost Arcadio, not when he had put on his military uniform, but from the beginning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were something like twenty Long Island junior high schools here, and some of them even had uniforms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The two boys stripped off their school uniforms and jumped into the pond. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The saint hung down on the outside of my uniform and I undid the throat of my tunic, unbuttoned the shirt collar and dropped him in under the shirt. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were recommended for it—after their heroic service at Voronezh, they got special Guards uniforms ordered for them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Over the summer, the basement got flooded and the uniforms all shrank. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She’s really out of touch, he thought as he donned his white work uniform; even if he hurried he’d be late to work and Mr. Sloat would be angry, but so what? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just then, Wynn appeared, still wearing his uniform from working at the new Wreck O Mend, an auto repair shop in the SmartMart center. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The uniform reeked of sweat and a chemical odor that awoke evil memories in Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obinze looked through the window at an old jet standing in the mild late afternoon sun, until a uniformed man came walking down the aisle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The officers, in navy blue uniforms, walk straight up to him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was blood on his dress whites and his uniform was still damp from the plunge into the swimming pool at the Club. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuffed my eargear and indent jumpsuit under the mattress and put the anklet in the pocket of my new uniform. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the United States-Mexico border, Papá told us that we had to cross the barbed-wire fence without being seen by la migra, the immigration officers dressed in green uniforms. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But here there were no showers, no way to stay clean or to rinse out uniforms. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the group were chosen, at random, to be guards, and were given uniforms and dark glasses and told that their responsibility was to keep order in the prison. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hastily, I took one of Mamá’s blue dress uniforms out and slid it over my own clothes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A fine-looking middle-aged Negro woman, dressed in a white uniform, stepped out onto the sidewalk a few doors away and stared at me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are. You’re worse than sneaky. You’re like a snake. A snake with an Italian uniform: with a cape around your neck.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her condition was kept secret until her belly began to poke through her uniform. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I began turning the pages, filled with photos of rivers and rice fields and men in military uniforms. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Wise is dark, and Lay’s is uniform and light.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My nightmares started then, nightmares in which I saw Ade Coker’s charred remains spattered on his dining table, on his daughter’s school uniform, on his baby’s cereal bowl, on his plate of eggs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They wore identical uniforms with lots of pockets and buttons and belts. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As they moved closer, more men in dark uniforms got out of the cars and truck cabs. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran her hand across my uniform, a gray skirt with a darker-toned waistband, long enough to show no calf when I wore it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the present smooth and uniform state of the universe could have evolved from many different non-uniform initial states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next meeting, André, dressed in the uniform of a British officer, was to arrive via a British warship, the Vulture. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their tattered uniforms were black with soot from the villages they’d burned in retreat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wore my new shirt to school that Monday beneath my uniform, with the tag sticking up out of my collar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His squad’s wearing cool brand-new Nike uniforms, like a college team. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that so? Fascinating. Did you, by any chance, remember to bring your basketball uniform to school today?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Even our school uniforms, which we had to buy each year, were secondhand, and often thin or torn in spots. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of us working in the Factory that morning, all in Green uniforms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Soldiers in uniforms and camouflage, putting on space suits ... it could set off a panic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull was dressed in his dark green winter uniform when he parked his squadron car in front of the bank and walked the six storefronts to Hobie’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Torn pants, grimy jackets, one of the men in suspenders; they do not wear uniforms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s not a gun or a uniform to be seen. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting, shaved and in full uniform, on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor handed out garbage bags for us to place our uniforms in and offered us the rationale for this ritual of suffering. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joey picked up his uniform and wiped his face in it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A uniformed patrolman pointed it out to me. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The actress and storyteller Awele Makeba transforms the auditorium into a packed city bus, the scene of a tense standoff between a determined black girl and several uniformed white men. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I strode up to a window behind a black counter where a woman in uniform sat, turning the pages of a magazine. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I am catching fever and I don't recognize their uniforms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He looks as tidy as ever, with his perfectly slicked hair and perfectly ironed uniform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His manner was always casual and relaxed, and his uniforms were custom-made. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Most were in uniform, sitting up there stiff and proud in rows of chairs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The kids, of course, are all in uniforms. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Let’s keep going. Do you want to invite that girl from your gym class who refuses to wear her gym uniform because she thinks it’s un-American?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His uniform said he was a private in the Fourth Regiment—the King’s Own. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were interested to discover some activity beneath the bridge—more workers in white uniforms, navigating a boat among the pilings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The girls at Saint Mary’s wore uniforms and hiked up their pleated skirts as soon as they left school, Jennifer told me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He got to his feet as quickly as he could, wiping muck from his uniform, shame squirming in his belly. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In her final Memory, she’s looking on behind a barricade as a man in uniform walks to a waiting helicopter. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I also thought that Martin came from a wealthy family because he was wearing a school uniform in the photo he sent. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Several men and one woman, all wearing business suits and carrying briefcases, were talking to the uniformed men. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

T-shirts emblazoned with stern eagles in Confederate uniforms and “American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Remembered to see: the starched black and white uniform worn by the maid who opened the door; the Mexican gardeners—their complexions as dark as my own. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiters and waitresses in black-and-white uniforms swing open shop doors as the aroma of noodle soup greets waiting customers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest was young and blushed easily and wore a uniform like the rest of us but with a cross in dark red velvet above the left breast pocket of his gray tunic. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A few years later, when Robbie won his scholarship to the local grammar, Jack Tallis took the first step in an enduring patronage by paying for the uniform and textbooks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was changing out of my school uniform when this dream of a silver MG cruised down Kingfisher Meadows. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Officer Parrelli was out of uniform, but his clothes were perfectly ironed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“By bullying and browbeating anybody who tries to stop you. Chaplain, get me my uniform! It’s around this hospital somewhere. For once in your life, succeed at something.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And I had to wear the stupidest uniform on the planet—a brown 100% polyester apron-style wraparound skirt thing with a white blouse underneath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad used to say that my old school’s uniform was a pimple on the face of New York. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Dance? I don’t feel like dancing with 110 old man. Besides, my feet swole up this afternoon while I was ironing them uniforms.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smartness of the uniform which at first had delighted him he now saw was a danger. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dime Lion led them around the tunnel to the third archway, where a prison guard dressed in a blue-and-gray uniform was posted, rifle slung across his back. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His family had not seen him dressed in anything but his white prison uniform since the trial six years earlier, and many in the crowd gasped when he walked into the courtroom in a suit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His gaze kept flitting to the shotgun The uniform he had on was all white with a cap to match In his hand was a wire holder for milk bottles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He took the uniform directly to Ben and told him to prepare it for use by the sharpest Marine officer in the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to stick to Claire’s side like there was Velcro on her uniform. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Except her outfit did not look like a school uniform—or at least that blue jumper didn’t. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been treated first class once, with their uniforms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His school uniform, blue shorts, and white shirt with the St. Nicholas badge blazing from his left breast still had the ironed lines running down the front and back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Oshiro lay on the ground with blood soaking into his uniform, he heard the reassuring whup-whup-whup as the medevac landed nearby. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Four men, including the one in the janitor uniform and another with only one leg, performed the roles of soldiers and carried real spears. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just enough time for him to take off the marionette’s army uniform. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His navy uniform looked darker the closer I got, like it was drenched straight through with rain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinner was over, and luckily it was too late to issue me regulation boots and uniform and confiscate my own good clothing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or this apartment before which a white man stood, dressed in a brilliant uniform? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Martin was round all over; his cheeks drooped and his uniform shirt might have been a size too small, but he hadn’t started growing like the other kids in his cabin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Once Sister Claire overheard some of the children who live near me in La Saline teasing me about my clean uniform. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain turned, saw Tom’s white grinning face, saw him flick rock dust from his uniform, blinking it out of his eyes, grinning bleakly. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will find the scarlet kimono in the baggage of one of the men and you will find the uniform of the Wagon Lit conductor in the baggage of Hildegarde Schmidt.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Singer sewing machine chugged up and down creating stitches in my blue-and-white elementary school uniform, I wondered why my brothers did not wear uniforms to school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Then why don’t you put some clothes on ? Why are you walking around naked ?” “I don’t want to wear a uniform any more.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had been impressed with their perfection of equipment, discipline, grand gaudy uniforms, the pride of their officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unarmed men, women and children on a highway were attacked by uniformed men wearing gas masks and riding horses. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mood was bright as I entered the prison wearing blue jeans for the first time ever, uniforms on hangers slung over my shoulder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus today is nothing but maids heading home in our white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dressed in their formal Olympic uniforms, they maneuvered the shell from one deck down to the next, trying to stay clear of lifeboat davits and guylines. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At that point I do believe Grandpa would have left our porch swing and joined in if he could of found his uniform right quick. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But Ma listens for a minute to the soldier's voice; observes his gestures, medals, stripes, and uniform; and says nothing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A team of men in white uniforms perhaps, and the school closed for several days. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

If the universe is indeed spatially infinite, or if there are infinitely many universes, there would probably be some large regions somewhere that started out in a smooth and uniform manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's too bad you can't talk to your mother about this. The only way I know how to land a girl is to look sharp in a uniform." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then one day, he disobeyed a direct order to wear his uniform. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We saw their white uniforms through the trees and walked toward them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A young officer, a trim black- uniformed figure who seemed to glitter all over with polished leather and whose pale, straight-featured face was like a wax mask, stepped smartly through the doorway. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had changed into gym clothes, but I was still in my school uniform, tie and everything. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“You have minds,” Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant’s finger grazes the back of his uniform. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a policeman’s uniform only with more gold on it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m halfway up the stairs, Emma bursts through the front door, soccer uniform dirty, cheeks red. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

No doubt jeans and a T-shirt—the uniform of all American boys everywhere. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had on uniforms and their faces were surprised. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His plan seemed so ambiguous and meaningless now, in front of these uniformed men. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They removed their white camouflage suits, revealing British military uniforms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the medical kit and cameras, we have nothing but our uniforms and our weapons. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t hard to imagine what their group must have looked like: a pack of uniformed men, spears, and stern faces, charging into unknown danger. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They had no official uniforms, but wore helmets of various kinds from army surplus stores, motorcycle shops and hard-hat construction sites, each bearing a small silver decal with “Sheriff’s posse” spelled out in black letters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the dust-clouded yard, Riker’s tyrannosaurus leaned down and gobbled up a man in a prison uniform, then swept its tail in a wide arc, clobbering two knuckleskulls and sending their riders flying. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Women, in green, blue, red, stripes; men too, some in uniform, some only in civilian suits. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, handing him a picture of my dad in his uniform. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were lined up in row upon row while the Nazis checked the numbers on our uniforms against the tally on their clipboards. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His deportment had now for some weeks been more uniform towards me than at the first. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

An hour later, the front door pops open, bringing with it a gust of winter and a uniformed detective, the combination of which curdles my stomach. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the woods and the meadows have been stripped of disorderly life forms and forced into a uniform made of concrete. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an unused upstairs bedroom, she found a man in an army uniform crying and drinking from a bottle that never emptied. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

An officer in a field uniform, ruddy-faced, with very thick glasses and ceremonious manners, signaled to the sentries to withdraw. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

All of them were wearing white uniforms, with a different colored X marked on each of their backs and a number written in black above it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was the one who washed his and his siblings’ school uniforms in the bathtub at night because they each had only one set. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After the letter arrived, my father made a decision: The boys at the Khushal School would no longer wear the uniform of shirt and trousers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The men had no uniforms, so they wore ordinary clothes: coats to ward off the early morning chill and large-brimmed hats. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did so in style, wearing his spotless new corporal’s uniform as he spoke on street corners and in chapter houses. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie did as she was told, dropping it in the pocket of the maid’s uniform she still wore, and walked behind Aunt Rose, out the back door that led to the small rear yard. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I walk a few steps and see high school graduation, Stuart proud in a military school uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The air is thick and hot, and I realize that I’m sweating again in this silly uniform, even with my blazer tied at my waist. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Because my invisibility uniform doesn’t seem to work with this guy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Why hadn't I paid more attention to his uniform? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then she went back to the enamel table and lowered her freshly uniformed body into the seat opposite Mrs. Snell. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

I open the cover to find a picture of myself, standing straight and strong, in a black uniform. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Maddie and the other WAAFs in her barracks still hadn’t got proper uniforms, but as it was winter, they had been issued RAF overcoats—men’s overcoats. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At the sound of the door they regarded the four uniformed men. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the football players walked down the school halls in their game jersies on Fridays, so did the cheerleaders in their uniforms. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took one final glance at the letter, then carefully folded it back into its envelope and put it in the cargo pocket of my camouflage battle dress uniform. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The uniform is also an easy cover for cops. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Kappe's final instructions, he told the saboteurs to wear the uniform on the U-boat and when landing. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Maples was overweight by thirty-five pounds but still looked distinguished in his dress uniform. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Out of the grave site, skeletal warriors erupted - spartoi in the tattered remains of British redcoat uniforms. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Standing so close, odors of her body rose up to me from her white uniform, a mingling of hickory-smoked flesh, gardenia talcum and sweat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A police patrol came out to meet them halfway, and Alba found herself a few inches from a green uniform, with a pistol aimed directly at her nose. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steel, more black than silver, lacked a uniform polish, and had a serrated crest, she told Eliot, for grating. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were all dressed in football uniforms like I was, but their jerseys were blue and red, not yellow like mine. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He had more than one uniform, and several pairs of shoes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She turned the page and pointed at the photograph of the Butcher in his Waffen-SS uniform. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her daughter's arm, covered by the sleeve of the spire-fighting uniform. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ivory, dressed in his uniform and smelling of sour sweat, groaned as the needle attached to the IV bag slipped into his vein. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this man was in a London Underground uniform and this meant it was his job to help lost passengers. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were so covered in dust and droppings, you couldn’t tell one uniform from the other. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed through the mob, noting the crew from C-SPAN’s Book TV and then the fact that the front rows of chairs were filled mainly with gray uniforms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere inside Bob’s uniform, the skeleton kitten mewled in agreement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of this universe, there were no galaxies, stars or planets, no life or civilizations, merely a uniform, radiant fireball filling all of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At six-thirty, Ben finished packing his uniform and was waiting in his room for the summons from his father to leave for the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The square was packed with several thousand people, including a block of about a thousand schoolchildren in the uniform of the Spies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Trumpets blare and bands march in uniform steps, and Miss America herself, Vanessa Williams, stands on top of a beautifully decorated float and for me, is the highlight of the whole parade. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In 1957, Jim and the other football boys wore Marine uniforms and pretended to be raising the flag on Iwo Jima. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says cheerfully to the uniformed lady at the desk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The uniform I once loved now made me feel like a criminal. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After we were all given uniforms, we were marched to the Plaszów tailor shop by another prisoner wearing a yellow armband. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened? Why was Cap in that uniform?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A guard unlocked the door of Shin’s cell and handed him the school uniform he had worn on the day he arrived in the underground prison. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“There was one little man. In a uniform like yours. Not cute, though. Not one bit. Just shouted and smoked a smelly cigar. Terrible complexion. Red as a tomato.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Without turning her head from the audience, Hilly gestures to her left, where two dozen colored women have lined up, dressed in their white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And, unlike uglies, who had only their dorm uniforms and other disposable possessions, the two had actually spent half a lifetime collecting things before escaping the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The guidelines governing display of uniforms and toiletries were very clear; if one guy’s stuff was out of compliance, the whole room would be written up for it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had tossed and turned, awoke often covered in sweat, images of men in black uniforms dancing through his dreams. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Opposite the picture of Jimmy and his wife was a photograph of Perry in uniform. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stood and carried it over to another guard, the one whose uniform held the most medals and the fanciest braided orange trim. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A good many of the British purchasing men were crippled, but they wore their uniforms just the same. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My friend Omar pedaled past us in his blue and khaki school uniform. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kept on telling me I owed her for uniforms and some old broken-down bed she give me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well before I was a student myself, I would watch the Catholic school kids walk by the front of the house, dressed in gray and red uniforms. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upshot: I got back into uniform the first night I was out and snuck onto an Army post to see that movie. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Long as I got my white uniform on, I’m allowed to shop in this Jitney. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Usually, guys would hang out in the common areas, where we didn’t have to wear uniforms—we could just wear T-shirts if we wanted to—watching television until bedtime. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The back of her new housemaid uniform was ripped to shreds, stained with her blood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I used to pretend I was a Cub Scout. I always wanted to be a Cub Scout. I'd see them at the park in their blue uniforms." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The Union army had never caught him in action—he was a river ghost to the boys in blue uniforms. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would wear a beautiful uniform and go to see strange places. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week after Tessie became engaged, on a steamy Tuesday morning, Milton put his clarinet away for good and went down to Cadillac Square to exchange his Boy Scout uniform for another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They rode wearing their uniforms, their helmets in their laps, each boy carrying his own towel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the elaborate shell houses along the Langer See, oarsmen stowed their street clothes in lockers and began to don their national uniforms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But as Jonathan resumed his tasks, his mind turned to uniforms, the new New Jersey uniforms. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t like how I look in my uniform. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This was a guerrilla force, and they were soldiers who had won their stripes in the fire of batde, who cared more about fighting and tactics than dress uniforms and parades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my God. Are you going mad? Get away from me this instant. I hope that you’ve noticed that scimitar dangling from my uniform.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Italians were wearing silky light blue uniforms, and they had tied white bandanas rakishly around their heads, pirate-style. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I described how in Brooklyn we didn’t have to wear uniforms to school, but on Fridays there was a class called assembly in a big auditorium, and all the kids had to wear white shirts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother now insisted that I never walk to school by myself, for fear that I would be seen alone in my school uniform by the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You look absolutely Napoleonic in your uniform, Bull. Yes, you’re right. People used to take pride in their work.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed a camplire on the mud, steering well clear of it, for we saw that men in uniform tended it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stowing her helmet under her arm, Holly smoothed the creases from her uniform and stepped into Commander Root’s office. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

His white uniform was starched so stiff his trousers looked as if they had been made out of cardboard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was in the hallway, staring at the picture of himself in his Navy uniform, the picture painted by his daughter, my mother. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

A kindly nurse in a starched white uniform brings coffee, which sits on the table next to me until it grows cold. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Their black uniforms contrasted with the white and chrome tables, reminding him of the black-turbaned Taliban. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Servants to press my school uniforms and a cook to make any snack I want. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My brother Sam was standing there, wearing a uniform. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The progression of the front line is too uniform to be natural. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Old Maurice sat down in the big chair and loosened his collar and all--he was wearing this elevator operator's uniform. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Smith slid his hands over the horse’s joints and tendons, feeling for the uniform cool firmness of a healthy leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, three uniformed men were waiting for him beside a jeep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The streets of Los Angeles were full of uniformed men and women—not just American, but also British, Canadian, and French. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Ma still wearing her widow's uniform is one thing," Sunny complains, "but why are you dressing like a nun?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the pleated skirt and tailored blouse of my school uniform always felt awkward to me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Wearing the same dress- blues uniforms we had graduated in the Friday before, we stood at our tables and snapped to attention when the training lieutenant, Wilkin, entered the room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salem Police divers did double duty, working regular shifts as uniformed police officers or detectives, but also responding to emergency situations. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I thought all of the soldiers were men until I made out a line of women in those green army uniforms and boots. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

I wadded up blankets and uniforms from my departed crewmates to serve as one edge of a planter box with the curved walls of the Hab being the rest of the perimeter. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elévée picked at the short sleeve of her school uniform, evidently not desiring to talk about fashion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina Raskova’s aviation recruits were first given their oversize men’s uniforms, many of the young women were still in their teens—the men’s boots were so big that their feet moved around inside them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A young fellow in a blue uniform waved from the hut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Six soldiers stood behind them, all wearing uniforms but carrying long metal bars instead of guns. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a uniform and held a box of goods for sale. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the shadows, Jack saw bedraggled men in blue-and-gray-striped uniforms, hurrying from one building to the next. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A particularly interesting problem is the size of the small departures from uniform density in the early universe that caused the formation first of the galaxies, then of stars, and finally of us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each wears a standard uniform: black boots, black shirt with a single row of silver buttons, dark gray trousers, bulletproof vest, and a single silver armband. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If the Station Inspector, in his green uniform, appeared at the end of the hallway, Hugo knew everything would be over. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was the uniform of the Junior Patrol, a club for boys who did good deeds and marched around in formation, singing songs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A man in a tan uniform got out and gave us a friendly nod. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He puts Natalie’s buttons down in two careful piles, gets up and brushes his uniform off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say that if you check a boy’s backpack, it will always be a mess, and if you check his uniform, it will be dirty. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the convent, when I mop, I hang my uniform on a wire hanger in the nuns’ closet and slip on my old brown shift, in which I feel comfortable and almost invisible. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the weather was still quite warm, they all wore tightly belted army uniforms. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only element of uniform that we had in common was the small, black skullcap which we, too, wore. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was to go with Mr Hooper to buy his uniform, for the new school. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Alex stood up but said nothing, allowing his uniform to answer the man’s question. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A man in uniform appeared in the doorway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friday morning there’s a message from Kyro in the announcements, commanding all track members to report to his room at lunch to return uniforms and finalize banquet plans. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The grownups didn’t pay any attention to him, but I kept looking at him to admire his uniform and I could see that he was thinking about something. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peeled the waitress’s uniform off, put on my T-shirt, and pulled my jean shorts back on quickly. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Baby Girl grab the skirt a my uniform and don’t let go. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He told them he must have Pumpkin’s uniform. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like you shouldn’t meet a billionaire in a Chuck E. Cheese uniform, or in a shirt stained pink by your hair, which are my only outfits at the moment.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair is curly around her head, and her white uniform dress has been tailored to fit her short arms and legs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A tall man in uniform stood in the shadowed doorway of the next building. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suspicious Circumstances: The Wagon Lit uniform found is a point in his favour since it seems to have been intended to throw suspicion on him. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also in the ROTC, so two days a week he wore a military uniform to campus, drilled, and learned to fire a rifle. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The striped cat rubbed along his thigh, covering his uniform pants with fur. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dressed in full uniform, entire Hitler Youth squads—as many as one hundred boys—showed up at classroom doors to intimidate teachers who did not espouse the Nazi worldview. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Liar. It was the wrong uniform. Who were they?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen her before in her uniform, but her normal clothes were always so put together, so Ruth. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were all outfitted with showy uniforms that looked like costumes from an operetta, but he was unable to make them wear shoes, because they were accustomed to going barefoot and could not adjust. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are men mingled with them, a lot of men, but in their dark uniforms or suits, so similar to one another, they form only a kind of background. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got to wear the same uniform as everyone else and didn’t have to carry the burden of explaining our family’s religious practices every time we went to an away meet. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looks sharp in his uniform but he also looks beat-down. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Today, though, he was wearing a chauffeur’s uniform, so I could only see extra peepers on his hands, face and neck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And more important to me, children from these families bought new schoolbooks and uniforms each year, went on all the school trips and spent lavishly during lunch breaks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Colonel Cathcart had raised the number of missions to fifty-five, Sergeant Towser had begun to suspect that perhaps every man who wore a uniform was crazy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They also sent the black uniforms into action. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

These uniforms actually fit us and we were allowed to wash them ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in uniform opened the slaughterhouse door and stepped out, looked the men over, then pointed his finger—you, you, you. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Haukelid’s men dressed in stolen Nazi uniforms, so Quisling wouldn’t be suspicious until it was too late. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a young man no older than twenty, dressed in a military uniform, looked my way and said a soft hello. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only humans Hazel could see were some black-suited security women patrolling the catwalks, and some men in orange jumpsuits, like prison uniforms, driving forklifts through the aisles, delivering more pallets of boxes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Standing behind him is a man I've never seen, but I recognize his uniform. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving to watch them play, Howard was delighted to see that the jockeys had memorialized his generosity by ordering their uniforms in Howard red and white, with the Howard signature triangle on them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scholarships were in recognition of our academic excellence in the three years we’d been at the secondary school, and were to help us on to matriculation—paying for everything: books, school fees and uniform. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the light behind him, Arm thought, he looked like a uniform with a hat floating over it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hooper had said, 'My father's going to pay for your school uniform. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The church was overflowing with people, with friends, relatives, and men in uniform. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our haste to change out of our uniforms and into exercise gear and get over to the gym by the specified time, it was easy to forget this rule. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had two skirt-and-jacket outfits, her gray uniform and her blue uniform, which she always wore over a white shirt with a little cameo pin at the neck. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holiday rep wilted before him and slunk back into line, wishing her uniform wasn’t quite so pink. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Aibileen waves and I pretend I don’t even see my own best friend on the side of the road in her bright white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Or is it just like, wear the uniform and sit at a desk? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A uniformed policeman took me to the hospital, where they stitched up the wound on my scalp. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing around outside were ten men in faded, worn uniforms. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were also dealing summarily with German agitators in Italian uniform. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He knew that the last man to wear this uniform had been shot for putting it off and there was a chance he’d get shot for putting it on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aibileen’s standing on the side of the house in her white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a rumpled gray uniform and a dented metal hat, and though he was full of energy, his face looked haggard, like he hadn’t slept in days. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Still in uniform, the men arrived at the Seattle airport. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She offered to enroll him herself and buy his school supplies and a uniform, and she went along with Amanda on the first day of class. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have uniforms and numbers and you know what they are meant to be doing. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my white uniform and put my little gold cross back around my neck and I went to wait on Miss Leefolt cause she just have her baby girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a white uniform and a white hat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On each side of him stood a uniformed sheriff’s deputy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before we leave, the soccer captain reminds the team to wear their uniforms to tonight’s wake. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The man in the center was very tall and wore a blue uniform. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

This would lead to a uniform universe, as we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidence Against Him or Suspicious Circumstances: None, except that he is the only man the right height or size to have worn the Wagon Lit uniform. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby and the other cheerleaders rush off to the bathroom as soon as the parade ends to get into their uniforms, and Nick and I look up at the bleachers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Our school uniforms were white shirts and dark blue pants or skirts. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Twill taught at school, Bonnie was one of her pupils, and when the final bell had rung, both of them spent a four-hour shift at the factory that specialized in the Peacekeeper uniforms. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The uniform is supposed to make us all the same. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Aside from having to wear those embarrassing red-and-yellow uniforms with matching floppy hats, I loved the job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now, my hands were tied together behind my back, and the men in the black uniforms had packed four of us to a seat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’d walk home, the school uniform would come off, the overalls would go on, and I’d get under the hood of some sedan. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Today she’s got on a blue suit with gold buttons, the same kind they got on navy uniforms. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They wore scratchy prison uniforms, including one-size-fits-all shoes with interchangeable right and left feet. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The boys wore khaki uniforms, and the girls had blue-and-white plaid dresses. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still in formation, looking strict and tall and mean in their crisp, dark uniforms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, soldiering is a lot more glamorous from the other side of the uniform! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was thin, with her hair pulled back under a cap, which seemed to be part of her uniform. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t you remember to bring your uniform on game days?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Along the walk the buildings rose, uniform and close together. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a gold Nazi Party emblem near his heart on his uniform that signaled he was a long-standing member of the Nazi Party. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Richard was always there before her, looking, oddly, much younger and less anonymous without the ugly, tight-fitting, black uniform that he had to wear when working. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There are twelve velvet chairs arranged in a circle, and in each sits an official in full black uniform, his or her shoulders adorned with shining gold epaulettes, sipping from delicate glasses. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A guard marched Hickey out of the prison and across the yard to the gallows, his uniform dirty but buttoned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He swears he’s never going to wear a uniform again.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were many carriages going into the race track and the men at the gate let us in without cards because we were in uniform. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They used to play with me and let me touch the stars adorning their uniforms. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The school, where they paid attention to him and respected him, and then power, with his endless decrees and his glorious uniform, freed him from the weight of an old bitterness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Behind him at the helm, a burly bearded guy in a mechanic’s uniform was tinkering with the controls, furiously trying to keep the ship aloft. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No bike rack, seventy-dollar uniforms, oblivious principal—this place was just rainbows and unicorns. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As a boy, he’d been used to people giving Baba this kind of attention when they saw him in uniform, but with Kamau it was harder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A colored woman in a white uniform is attached to her side. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At first glance, it looked like an idyllic pastoral setting—except there were guards in Nazi uniforms on the premises and a stone wall with a barbed-wire fence surrounding it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When I explained to Mami why I came home with a torn uniform and bruises, she made it clear that I was forbidden to fight in school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until he picked up the green spray paint and drew that enormous X over the back of the uniform shirt and handed it to me that I remembered to start breathing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And Pumpkin had left behind him his musket and uniform. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy to lose sight of him, but I could pick out my uncle among the rows of soldiers in those sad green uniforms. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The inner layer, my own uniform, was in reasonably good shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the stage for her capture, a second bandstand for the town’s amusement as she lay on the planks at the feet of four regulators in their white and black uniforms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

These, Bono illuminates for me in asides, and for the first time, I fully comprehended the magnitude of human story in our endeavor and the intricacies stashed like clockwork behind the regularity of our uniforms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Make no mistake, there are advantages to an invisibility uniform. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“But your mom needed me, didn’t she, Mr. Cutiepie, because someone went and spit up all over her uniform and she had to go change.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ben took the uniform from his father, smoothed it with his hand, spread a blanket on the lawn, then laid the uniform reverently on top of the blanket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other long-term residents, whom I encounter at the communal laundry shed, are blue-collar people with uniforms and overalls to wash, and generally quiet at night. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With surprising speed, I changed into my uniform and was on my way out to meet Danny. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Georgie joined him on the sidewalk, still dressed in her uniform from Downtown Donuts. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen it before, under the emperor’s green soldier’s uniform. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

At the farm, I wore the simple blue overalls that were the uniform of the black male servant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I hear anything about this—anything at all—you can give your uniform right back. Am I clear?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a Boggs Ferry Raccoons uniform and had long, curly red hair. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And I would not look so fine as you in the uniform, Jeremie. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her uniform peeks out from under a luxurious fur coat. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I took my time putting my uniform back over my bony body, bending over so they couldn’t see me gasping for breath. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tuck the knife in the belt of my uniform, make sure it’s tight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I am Colonel Bose’s son, and not only are you rude but your uniforms are in disarray. I am going to report you both.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Now a close shot of a prisoner, with a stubbled and dirty face, flanked by two Angels in their neat black uniforms. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing my school uniform pants, my belt, unbuckled and twisted halfway around to my back, and a wrinkled T-shirt. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In a panel of the oak wall, between crossed British flags, hung a dramatic arresting photograph of Major Sir Milo Minderbinder in the dress uniform of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe far across the universe, on another planet, the indigenas are the powerful ones, the ones who go to school in burgundy uniforms; Maybe the mestizos are their servants. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pressed the warm iron to Seema’s uniform, hoping what I said was true. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bedraggled, dirty, torn uniforms, torn flesh, lost equipment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine and I wear our Attendants' uniforms, and Red Jack is still dressed in the white shirt and apron of a house servant. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The boat returned with more men in uniform and a load of heavy chains. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother walked in wearing her motel maid’s uniform. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Fabric from the uniform of an officer of Guilder.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Your questions to Mrs. Hubbard were unnecessary. Locked or not locked, the man could easily get through the communicating door. After all, if a Wagon Lit uniform, why not a Wagon Lit key?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The palm trees along Wilshire were nice and uniform, like soldiers standing at attention, and the medians were landscaped with flowers and low shrubs. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I was expecting to see Arthur Bauer trotting out with him, but number 4 was still standing there on the sideline with the other clean uniforms. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill’s mother, dressed in her maid’s uniform, walked in and looked around, her face grim. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He touted their bravery and vowed that if war came, Polish soldiers would not give the Germans who dared to invade so much "as a button from their uniforms." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d never gotten to know this side of him—the basketball player version of him—and in his uniform he looked like someone I didn’t know. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The state troopers were huge and daunting in their gray uniforms. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around, and even though the arena was dim and only half-lit, the seats empty, and I was chilled to the bone without the full uniform and pads, I couldn’t help but smile. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We can't go in this one without changing to sterile uniforms. But we can look at them.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her arms were waving through the air, the long sleeves of her simple, mustard-yellow uniform blurring. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Aucamp was a short, heavyset fellow in a suit rather than a military uniform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance back guiltily at Mom, who is pale and tired looking, trying to scrape a stain off her Waffle House uniform with her fingernail. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, uniforms wind up in barns and sheds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The security guards folded their arms across their uniforms and watched. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It isn’t until we’re changing out of our cheer uniforms after the football game that tomorrow night’s dinner comes up. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In their gray-and-black dress uniforms, their peaked hats adorned with silver skulls and crossbones sitting on their tables, they stood out from the rest of the crowd—neat, severe, and ominous. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Near another wagon stood a group of men in blue uniforms. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

But there’s another in the breast pocket of my uniform. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The next day I stood on a stool while Mami pinned the hem on my school uniform. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He went down to the rocket field in the early morning and yelled in through the wire fence at the men in uniform that he wanted to go to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin spent all five years of primary school in class with this same teacher, who was in his early thirties, wore a uniform, and carried a pistol in a holster on his hip. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Stuart in a christening gown, held by a colored woman in white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The station was empty, but the ticket window was open and a porter in a gray uniform was pushing a broom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kallner, with his baldness glistening, and his dress uniform oddly unsuited to the general mood, began with uneasy directness. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Stephanie, all five foot two inches of her, still in her school uniform and penny loafers, marched over to us. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We stopped at Bramley, and the bus immediately filled with black women in maid uniforms, returning to work after their day off Sunday visiting their children or husbands or relatives in the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened it at six in the morning, with a newly hired staff of two, Eleni Pa- panikolas, in a waitress uniform purchased at her own expense, and her husband, Jimmy, as short-order cook. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The one that knocked his tooth out has got himself a purple, steel-buttoned outfit that looks like a cast-off janitor uniform. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sanitary napkins were not available, and the seamstress’ uniforms were sometimes stained with menstrual blood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But first, they hastily changed out of their grayish-brown military uniforms and into their American clothes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Looking at the white uniform, Lupita asked, “Are you a maid in a hotel here?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The creases in his uniform look sharp enough to injure somebody. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the soldiers here, the Exclusion Guards—their sandstone-colored uniforms look crisp, new. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We found our uniforms—a gray suit for me and a white lab coat for Elsie—waiting for us in our closet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I stood there, some fat guy in a uniform stepped out of a security booth and waddled towards me looking cross and officious. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a bleak and uniform gray. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As the guard was looking them over, two uniformed police officers hurried quickly down the aisle. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Four men in uniforms of the Governor’s guard filed in through the stable door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“A string quartet, and all the men in their elegant new officers’ uniforms. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He saw men, resplendent in white uniforms, running effortlessly backward against a field of deep green. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Posing in their soccer uniforms before their first game. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, he found a suitably irresponsible companion, donned his Olympic dress uniform, and descended on Berlin. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I put my uniform on the correct way for the team stretch, which is how we start every practice. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In the foyer, two uniformed officers sitting at a table asked for identification, took my letter, and nodded toward a mountain of luggage nearby. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside a pub, several drunken storm troopers sit in soot-covered uniforms, singing about the greatness of Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

At Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, players were debuting numbered uniforms: Lou Gehrig wore No. 4; Babe Ruth, about to hit his five hundredth home run, wore No. 3. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She can’t tell if Terry’s outfit is a uniform or if it’s just so boring that it looks like one: black pants, clunky black shoes with rubber soles, a matronly peach-colored T-shirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He said we were free and told us to tear the numbers and triangles off our uniforms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They pass shops stuffed with hanging meats and a drunk with a broken mandolin on his lap and a trio of streetwalkers huddled beneath an awning who catcall the boys in their uniforms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Only if the early universe was very smooth and uniform, with a high pressure, can one explain the absence of observable numbers of primordial black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then the door of the first car opened and a man in a black uniform with high black boots stepped out. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One in a football uniform and the other in a pink dress and a tiara. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The young man who spoke threw back his coat to show his uniform and insignia. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corinthians was careful; she carried no shopping bag of shoes, aprons, or uniforms. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, she wore a uniform of green and white and learned to speak French. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To my eyes one camouflage uniform looked like another. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her raincoat falls open a little to reveal a white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The cloth was torn and his uniform was streaked with blood, but he was breathing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the next shapeup, Kaztauskis slipped five dollars to the uniformed man, and this time, as he stood with the others hoping to be chosen, the uniformed man pointed at him. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The only thing children should be connecting to, my dad would say, is each other, in a football uniform. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We make a little parade, Justin in his bright green soccer uniform and knee socks, the barking black dog, me, and Elizabeth calling, “You don’t have to...the kitchen is a mess.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The conference was officially opened by our host, His Imperial Majesty, who was dressed in an elaborate brocaded army uniform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sort of magnificence about him, even without the fine uniform that made Governor Andros so splendid. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Shelley was the store manager, and her slumped shoulders and dour expression were as much a part of her uniform as the blue polo shirts we all had to wear. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My comrades from ROTC, and because it was Friday, uniform day, they were dressed head to toe. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their boots gleam and their uniforms are tidy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some of them are old clippings, and show Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, in Girl Guide uniforms, making radio and other speeches during the Blitz. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both of them were dressed in the blue shorts, gray shirts, and red neckerchiefs which were the uniform of the Spies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Their pressed smart-fitting uniforms, their polished black boots, their confident eyes filled her with that hollowness that came with having been robbed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looks very authoritative—even more so now in his uniform of brass buttons and blue wool—but authority and reason are two different things. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The wagon driver wore a gray uniform similar to the ones worn by the guards at the gate but absent any sash or decoration. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You're saying you need a uniform to get the camera,” I say it finally. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had to buy my own uniform and meet all other expenses; this I tried to do by working part-time for the Smiths. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew approaches from the end of the hallway, his hands in the pockets of his dark blue uniform. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I don't know why exactly, but I started to hum it as I saw more uniformed officers enter the vestibule outside the visitation room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He whispered to a plump woman in a dark blue uniform. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Since we all wore uniforms—plaid jumpers for the girls and navy blue slacks and white shirts for the boys—it was difficult to know who was rich and who was poor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In a fierce battle during the French and Indian War, four bullets riddle Washington’s uniform—but do not strike his body. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wore uniforms, but they fit no better than our clothes—no high boots, no silver eagles. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Some had blood on their uniforms and faces, which they didn’t seem to notice or simply ignored. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Another claimed that Spicely had “been profane” to the white driver, and added that by defying the law the soldier had brought dishonor to his uniform, which “should be a symbol of law and order.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She and Percy followed Bob, the golden mud flecks from Hyperion’s burst bubble glowing on his janitor’s uniform. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Someone had taken a bright red marker to the girl in the picture, partially obscuring her face, but I could tell she was pretty, blonde, and wearing an old East Shoal cheerleader’s uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Someone cut off the patient’s muddy, bloody uniform, and Adams saw his legs had been blown off at the thighs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Every day I watched the German soldiers in their field-gray uniforms who guarded a petroleum tank across the street from our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

After I made her a new bandage, I trotted her Brown Cow uniform to Miss Lizzy washer. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He did wear the standard Sixer uniform—a navy blue bodysuit with gold epaulettes at the shoulders and a silver IOI logo on his right breast, with his employee number printed beneath it: 655321. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The young nurse fiddled with the edge of her uniform pocket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We laid our uniforms out on the picnic table, side-by-side, so we could compare them. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt and Karen clad themselves with random selections from various summer and winter uniforms. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I tell him the rest—studying in secret and watching the students walk by in their uniforms and longing to go to school and dreaming of leaving the Doctorita one day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is wearing his typical band uniform of a T-shirt, skinny pegged pants, and Converse, with Gramps’s plaid scarf draped over his shoulders. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His uniform barely fit, and his locker forever smelled like the rotting food he squandered. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her oxfords were off but she still had her uniform on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want to get their new uniforms dirty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The title of his book Invisible Stripes referred to the stigma that continued to hobble criminals after they’d done their time and left their striped uniforms for the streets. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both were fund-raisers for the school, raising money for things like library books or basketball uniforms. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

That evening I decided to ride Spizz’s tricycle to the game, and when Bunny saw me ride up in my uniform and walk onto the ball field she wanted to know everything about the murders. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Next to them stood a smart soldier, his uniform perfect, his hat off and under his arm, looking away like he wasn't supposed to be seeing this. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Javier is wearing his Pioneers uniform, bright and new as the revolution, as his optimistic face. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in white clothes, like some kind of uniform. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Next to her is a dark-haired young man in a captain's uniform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone but Fiona scatters, and he smiles at me and says, “It’s great to see you out here. And it’s great to see you in uniform.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Prisoners had only their thin uniforms and wooden shoes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them wore the uniforms of the jobs they’d had too: policemen, postmen, nurses, trolley conductors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He came running onto the field in his perfectly clean, mud- free uniform to kick the extra point that would tie the game. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most are invited to attend the white children’s weddings, but only if they’re in their uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In his recruit's uniform he leans on a round rustic table with legs made of birch branches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I did as I was told, and pulled the scrubs over my uniform. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The room’s walls were light green and the white floors were spotless, just like the uniforms worn by the nurses and doctors. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Leale, not in his Union uniform, announced his rank and profession. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An actual uniform, just like basketball teams, except for a track team. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing the uniform of the Guardians, but his cap is tilted at a jaunty angle and his sleeves are rolled to the elbow, showing his forearms, tanned but with a stipple of dark hairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in Detroit Metro Airport, there are no long lines to show papers and proof to uniformed people. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She marveled that many uniformed marchers were boys and girls near her own age. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

An orderly in a stiff uniform jumped out to open the back door before the car came to a complete halt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since they wore no uniforms, it was impossible to tell friend from foe. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The police officers were sitting on the sofa in the living room, a fortysomething man in plain clothes and a younger one in uniform with acne on his neck. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas’s father wearing his nurturing uniform, entered the room, cradling a tiny newchild wrapped in a soft blanket in his arms. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed immediately that they weren't wearing the standard Atlanta police uniform. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Another two men come in, Ordners, wearing uniforms this time, and there is a long and whispered conversation that I cannot hear. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Aside from the carbon-copy houses, there was nothing uniform about this working-class neighborhood; it was filled with people of all shapes, colors, and backgrounds. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pike had come in his Naval ensign’s uniform; some reflex must have survived Midshipman’s School and brought him back to Devon for the day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

You did not know any one who went over in German uniform to confuse them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of the menacing green of army uniforms, the shine of boot and gun, he saw a brown caftan and flat slippers and a familiar face that took him a moment to recognize: Miss Adebayo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then one day, the drüskelle had crowded into the hold dressed in freshly pressed uniforms of black and silver, the white wolf’s head on their sleeves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, this? Corporal Reynolds got me this uniform and arranged for me to sneak in here with the garbage-removal service.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth and blood gushed over his chin and onto the bright silver buttons of his uniform. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They went away and left me there, with a uniformed officer—the one with the neck acne who came to Cathy’s flat in Ashbury a lifetime ago—standing at the door, avoiding my eye. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to the group behind us, which had grown to include a uniformed Secret Service officer in a white shirt and a black tie. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Farther down the wall, a tall black man in an elegant colonial military uniform stood on top of a jungle mountain. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m only here for the trial membership, so that’s why I don’t have a uniform.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could already see himself—walking up to her while dressed in a crisp army uniform, a grin on his face and a bouquet of roses in his arm. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many soldiers and sailors sat about, oddly calm, like little boys in cowboy uniforms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brass horns and booming drums marched the soldiers onto army trucks covered in the same green material as their uniforms and army bags. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The uniform was an ugly mustard shirt with a chocolate-colored skirt and brown shoes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sean turned, his broad shoulders a wall in the blue uniform, the gold name tag glinting. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“A Gestapo uniform would be best—high-ranking enough to walk through the city after curfew without being questioned.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cots with crisp white linens sat in uniform rows. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And then they would say something like, "Oh, so you are gonna run, right?" or "Word, so you getting your uniform, right?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At the dock, we all had to go through a line and talk to some men in uniforms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning after he betrayed his mother and brother, uniformed men did come to the schoolyard for Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Carlos said, looking very handsome in his Marine uniform. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was still early in the day, so I changed from my uniform into my T-shirt and shorts and headed back to the market. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We threw on our dress gray uniforms, including the gray wool pants that scraped every blade of hair off our legs and dark blue cotton shirts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Their helmets and their gray uniforms were wet and they rode easily, looking ahead and to both sides. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And I’m guessing their uniforms were stuffed under their plaid shirts and jeans?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was all shiny boots and official uniform. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Sun would be invisible in the daytime; its light would be scattered and diffused over the whole sky—just as scuba divers see only a uniform enveloping radiance beneath the sea. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The TSA agent at the scanner yawned and stretched so hard, I thought the buttons would pop off his uniform and fly everywhere. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The doorman, in a blue uniform with gold piping, hurried out from under the awning and insisted on carrying the milk crates into the lobby. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not far from them was a smoldering mountain of uniforms and blankets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A school representative in a black uniform arranges them in ranks four deep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I pull my paper map from a pocket in my uniform and spread it out on the floor with new resolve. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He wore his doorman's uniform, but unlike Otis Amber, carried his hat in his hand. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erin wouldn’t be caught dead in a cheerleading uniform and I’m not talented enough to play more than one sport successfully. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We'd see sixty, seventy soldiers in a row, Frenchmen, in horizon blue uniforms, all with eyes bandaged, walking with their hands touching the shoulder of the guy in front for direction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the Kinshasa police were for real and some were random guys in stolen uniforms, looking for bribes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Young men in uniforms stood ready there to grab hold of the sterns of the boats when they arrived for the start. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I turn the pages slowly, seeing each detail of the uniform. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Before we could make our way through the crowd, a heavy man in a navy blue uniform came running toward us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was just starting to relax when a man in a dark uniform jangling with medals walked over to the woman. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mission completed, Morgan returned, in a Redcoat uniform, accompanied by six British soldiers—all true deserters, won over to the American army by Morgan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several weeks she troubled over it before granting conditional permission: ‘Just remember, you’re not a maid. I don’t want you wearing a uniform.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was a detective, so he didn’t wear a normal police uniform. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

See, Will always wore his school uniform jacket inside out so he could be different. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Officers in uniform stand stiffly at attention in two long rows. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the darkness I could only make out his black uniform and his pointed weapon. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her security-guard uniform, about to head off to work at the courts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He was wearing the same kind of uniform as the first guy but was ten or fifteen years older and a whole lot trimmer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But there does not seem to be any need for all those other galaxies, nor for the universe to be so uniform and similar in every direction on the large scale. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chose a uniform style, neoclassical, meaning the buildings would have columns and pediments and evoke the glories of ancient Rome. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Constance sat up, rubbed her eyes, and squinted at the uniforms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

No longer was everyone so obsessively concerned with his uniform. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom sat at the kitchen table, still in her uniform, the black apron stained with salad dressing and other unidentifiable food particles. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He leaned over the window sill and gazed at the four uniformed men who squinted up at him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken over Mercy’s flax wheel and was slowly mastering the art of winding a fine uniform thread. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They were a ragged-looking lot of men, their clothing dirty and torn and most of them not even having proper uniforms. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uniform fit, and with that Joyce had landed a job. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Thus Smoot is tempted to conclude that the Big Bang was much less uniform than his other observations suggest, that the original distribution of matter in the universe was very lumpy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did well to get enough for uniforms, bats, anti balls. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Get your uniforms on and get on over to the blackboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod my head at Lizabeth and tuck the envelope in the big pocket of my uniform and tend to breakfast. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The American flag embroidered on his uniform back. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Oh, those troops were impressive-looking with all those belts and buckles and powder horns and bayonets and so forth dangling about their red uniforms. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until 1 A.M. that we had our uniforms prepared, toiletries displayed on our tiny closet shelves, and extra stuff stashed away in lockers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I could see out into the corridor, and there were two men standing there, in uniforms, with machine guns. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Santino Jerke’s uncle had been shot and killed in front of him by uniformed Sudanese government soldiers for stealing a chicken. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

His father, in full uniform, sat at the kitchen table, sipping from a steaming cup. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some soldiers wore coats, while some wore only their uniforms. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The senior police official, not in uniform, blue-eyed, with a narrow, flaring nose and inexpressive lips, eyed Rick, then reached for Rick’s briefcase. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Men in uniform and men with obvious power and authority strode across the sand all afternoon, clearly preparing for something. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach says he only has enough uniforms to keep eighteen players, and cuts will be next week. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the vice minister of justice, Russian doctors, dignitaries from other health organizations, and ten Russian generals in olive drab uniforms sat on one side of the assembled tables. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In a fancy blue uniform and flying in a plane like this every day. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under their vests it was hard to see their uniforms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Another man in a military uniform with his back to me is standing behind Mr. Washburn’s chair. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And in the morning, just before she pulls her uniform from the closet, she prays, God, please give me and those people marching another day. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She thought this the most moving sight she had ever beheld: a regiment of black, newly freed South Carolinians wearing the uniform of the Union forces, escorted by the band of a white regiment. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Admired by Jane Austen, Dr. Johnson, and David Hume, Blair edited the first Scottish edition of Shakespeare and a forty-four volume uniform edition of the English poets. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t recognize him. Not without his football uniform.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aibileen is still on her front steps in her white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I found his full kit: uniform, sword, boots and spurs, and a cap. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the soldiers assembled at the village square, dressed in their uniforms, carrying their weapons and ammunition in backpacks and waist belts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The three Hessians were upon the ground, their bodies twisted, their torn uniforms filthy with earth and blood. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t put on your uniform because you’re not going to school today,” Mami said as I came out to the kitchen, rubbing my eyes and scratching myself. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The carriage door swung open and out stepped a man with an official government uniform, followed by a woman wearing a gold-flecked dress. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She touches a round white button on her uniform with what might be an inconveniently trembling finger. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“My friend Larry at school told me. His uncle was one of them pilots. He has a picture of him in a uniform and everything.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her skin is dark brown and shiny against her starchy white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She notices the stitching on his sweat-stained uniform, the gold band on his finger that matches hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The veil of security I thought the uniform provided had been lifted, and now we hustled in our black dress shoes and stained wool pants through dirty fields and grassy yards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He doesn't know these boys, but he recognizes their uniforms. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have been wearing it for six years, Djo, and the clean strong cloth of my uniform still pleases me. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was not a uniform in the group, although a few members of the ambulance team wore camouflage fatigues. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere very cold, because they’ve got fur capes as part of their uniforms.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My uniform consists of a white shirt with puffy, short sleeves and a short, blue pleated skirt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other girls at Thurmond could pick themselves up after a few minutes, shaking off the nausea and disorientation like the loose grass clinging to their camp uniforms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A white man in a train uniform came. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing magnificent about this man was his uniform. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I should be putting on my uniform, stretching, getting ready to play in the county semifinals. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The father leaned against the door, his right hand stuck between two buttons of his buttoned up uniform. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked at the name tag on his uniform like it was a scab. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His white uniform is covered in green grass stains and dirt. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He had half a bagel clamped in his teeth as he buttoned up his shirt, some sort of uniform. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

After munching on a Hot Pocket, I go ahead and iron Mama’s work uniform and hang it up on her doorknob. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I could see her in her white uniform, working in the emergency room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Once he had the uniform, Jack was issued shoes with wooden bottoms and ankle-high canvas tops. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I came on the train. I was in uniform then.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us sprinted to the school, each holding a different piece of Miles’s uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His eyes darted over me, from my haggard face down my forest green uniform to my mud-stained shoes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’m dressed in my training uniform and a black and red vest with my boots laced and my hair tied back in a tight ponytail. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Over his uniform he pulls on some of Etienne’s tweed trousers, along with a shirt whose sleeves are too long. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My brother, a little boy, saluting my father in uniform. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Three more scowling men, in blue uniforms, pointed them on until they reached their seats— attached wooden chairs on the arena floor ten rows away from the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with skin the color of gingerbread and the kind of lean, proportioned body that was perfect for a uniform, any uniform. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They dressed him in his Army uniform, and we went in and looked in the coffin. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all said and done, I was out on the fencing strip alone, with nothing but my name and country on my uniform. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Her uniform is pressed to perfection, and her pants are tucked into mirror-bright black boots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Conductors trained to soothe riders who were afraid of heights stood in handsome uniforms at each car’s door. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He called it the Tristan Strong uniform of choice, perfect for all occasions. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of gray camouflage, they were now wearing blue New Mexico State Police uniforms, but they had the same transparent gray skin and yellow eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Soviet women who fought in uniform in the Great Patriotic War had to struggle to adapt to clothes made for men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After all, he had been to London with Mr Hooper, the uniform had been bought. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Come straight home,” Ma repeats, tucking in her white uniform shirt. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He was suddenly very glad he had not worn his colonel’s uniform today—for once, his bad habits had paid off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sagging a bit in his uniform, slumped behind his counter. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A brown uniform flew up and landed on the scoreboard controls. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We wore the same uniform, were the same height, had the same face. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burger, who, like the others, was wearing a bathing suit, shoved his uniform into the canvas bag along with Quirin's and Heinck's discarded navy fatigues. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He too is in a Guardian’s uniform, but he has no hat on and the uniform is dirty and torn. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands, towering over us with broad shoulders and muscles that strain the seams of his uniform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She was still wearing her wedding dress; Okeoma’s uniform shirt was neatly folded on a chair. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys, who normally sported their high school letter sweaters, were dressed in smart brown military uniforms and jaunty hats. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except these weren’t killer bees, but a swarm of school kids of all sizes and grades in brown and gold uniforms. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They weren't smooth and uniform like the jingles we’d seen in old pictures, hung from women’s dresses, being danced into grand entries at the old powwows when we were safe to make noise. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He stared at her school uniform, speaking English smoothly. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face is kind, but his uniform is scary, everything black except for handcuffs dangling from his belt. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I told her that I would go back only when I had a uniform and books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her the insignia on his uniform meant he was a crewmember on a helicopter that sprayed Agent Orange. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Young German women dressed in uniforms walked among the ranks of athletes, smiling, handing out cookies and orangeade, trying to keep everyone peppy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Smooth, uniform stone walls, a lack of furniture or decoration, and only a single window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing regular clothes—T-shirt, jeans, sneakers—not his marine uniform. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I began going to school in a hideous uniform: khaki shirt, khaki shorts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If the powerful scientific revolution that had swept through Europe in the eighteenth century had one legacy, it was this: the laws that ran through nature were uniform and pervasive. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I slammed the door shut, grateful that my game uniform was in my gym bag. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Even the wagon horses left no mark, their droppings instantly scooped up by uniformed street sweepers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, again following the Pythagoreans, he long believed that only uniform circular motion was admissible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One need not be in uniform to serve our country,” bristled Mrs. Martin. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Benno Seligmann's father is standing outside his shop, wearing, of all things, his lieutenant's uniform from the Great War, medals and all. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The compound is thick with people this morning, all dressed in green or dark blue uniforms that pool around the ankles or stop several inches above the shoe, depending on the height of the person. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I walked home from school full of importance in my green and yellow uniform. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could take the credit, but let’s face it, the gym uniform is universally flattering.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For no apparent reason, the probationers were given a half day off, free from study, though they were to remain in uniform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He knew that he had to do something, but he remained where he was, his gaze riveted by the Hessian’s height, his bright uniform, the pale face beneath the high, golden cap. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d thought Thorn was scary when I first saw him in his black uniform at the military academy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Filthy toothless creatures in oversized, soiled prisoner uniforms. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Quang comes home, throws down his uniform shirt, goes to the bathroom. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With more than a million troops on active duty, about five percent of the country’s population is in uniform, compared with about half of one percent in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wore a blue and red uniform with elegantly polished black boots, and his epaulets gleamed gold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m conscious of my stained uniform: do I smell of underarm sweat, of chicken fat? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He used a swatch of military uniform cloth to cover a hole in his pants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be back in a field uniform, and Root even managed to convince himself that the jumpsuit was no tighter around the middle than it used to be. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Our school uniforms lay crumpled at the top of the heap. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then the door of the bed room opened, and Mr. Samsa appeared in his uniform, with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reaches into his khaki uniform and pulls his phone out and shows me the screen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The freezer has three photographs on it—a little boy, Tommy with some friends, a man in a military uniform. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I began asking myself: Why was it a crime to be without books and a proper uniform? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when the butterflies have finally stopped, on a low tropical bush with pink flowers, and he’s down on one knee focusing his binoculars, three uniformed men in a jeep drive up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground-level lobby was an open space with gray walls, stone floors, and a uniformed security guard standing behind a desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a color photograph of a boy dressed in a football uniform and a man standing next to him, smiling proudly with his arm around the boy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The tie-dye T-shirts of my classmates had also disappeared; the touch tank room was now filled with kids in uniforms of khaki and plaid. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Sí, go somewhere where nobody will know your cards are forged. I’ll give you your wages as soon as you get out of my maid’s uniform. That must remain here.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I frequently served Mass early Sunday, wearing my full uniform—including belt and dagger—beneath my altar boy robes,” said Alfons Heck. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I keep guessing for about five minutes until I can’t think of no more jobs where you’d be wearing one of them white uniforms. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They show him with a smiley golden retriever, with his pastor and some fellow deacons who are all blurred out, and then in his police uniform. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The humiliation of wearing a uniform, even if it was blue, and deceiving people was tempered by the genuine lift which came of having her own money rather than receiving an allowance like a child. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, Ikejide was plucking oranges; his uniform bunched up at the back as he nudged fruit down with a stick. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could just imagine them getting home, folding this uniform, and wrapping themselves in pagnes before going to the market. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could make out every pinstripe on every uniform, we were that close. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A guard in a dark gray uniform like my dad’s is behind the wheel. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a khaki uniform strides in. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He wore the typical junior engineer’s uniform: a canvas shirt with baggy khaki pants tucked into brown leather miner’s boots. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn, I took off my uniform and was surprised, again, at how skinny I was. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the panel that questioned me—a group of six psychiatrists—and the official who'd led them, the man named Chian, who had a uniform adorned with medals. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

About the older man, who only wore the uniform to please his brother, there was a homespun blackness, the true, despairing dark of mourning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy thinks that they began to calm down when they saw a female Army colonel in a uniform. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that face bashed in from the car crash, his disguise could be simple: a baggy uniform, a chipped front tooth, broken eyeglasses.” The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man would have passed through Mrs. Hubbard’s compartment just before one o’clock—and the Wagon Lit uniform would have been found cast off in one of the toilets.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, with the orange uniforms completing the picture, the similarities were too strong to ignore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was glad they didn’t ask if I intended to put on the white man’s uniform, because I didn’t. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for my clothing and jewelry, I was issued a military-style uniform made of cloth that was rough and itchy, and a stiff cap that was shoved down onto my head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let go and stomped off, and the rest of the team grumbled and peeled off their uniforms, getting ready for the showers. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The motels are always far from anything, set against a dark wall of forest, their lights glimmering in the uniform obscuring night like those of ships, or oases. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

School was already expensive enough, so the uniform, he'd have to grow into. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I put on my clean uniform I washed in the tub last night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I could tell because he wasn’t wearing a uniform. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking at my uniform. Is it right? Are things crooked?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Conor fell to the ground, scraping his knee on the concrete step, tearing a hole in his uniform trousers. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in his uniform—choking high collar, ill-fitting tunic, and wrapped leggings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing an ordinary denim uniform with no insignia of any kind and high boots with spurs that were caked with mud and dried blood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The silhouette of a uniformed police officer loomed in the doorway. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But city things were disposable and replaceable, as interchangeable as the T-shirt, jacket, and skirt combinations of dorm uniforms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I remember the two of them were in full uniform—Metias with his jacket open and shirt hanging loose; Thomas neatly buttoned up, with his hair carefully slicked back. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There are no uniforms, no holidays, the pay is less, and if you stay out sick a day you can be fired. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were two soldier boys in green uniforms who didn’t look any older than Uncle Darnell—high school cap and gown one day, army boots and basic training four days later. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed her and placed my folded uniforms on the table in the hallway, where Sisi would get them for ironing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My uniform has obviously known some previous owners. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and Immie were lucky the uniforms changed. Did you do music at Greenbriar? You sounded so passionate about Gershwin the other day.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The room was full of solid men in black uniforms, with iron-shod boots on their feet and truncheons in their hands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At first he seemed to think Horan, still in his uniform, was part of his platoon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mother looks surprisingly pliable in those old snapshots, as though she liked nothing better than to have her man in uniform arrange her against the porches and lampposts of their humble neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Rydell ready to rip my head off stood a uniformed deputy. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a ratty black trench coat over his Westover Hall uniform, which was torn and stained. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

At that moment Amari looked up as a tall, dark soldier with black and gray curly hair, deep-set dark eyes, and a spotless uniform walked purposefully from the fort toward them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man approached her, in a uniform like a policeman’s, but tan not blue, and without the badge. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The uniforms of the new cadets are stiffer and cheaper than his own; no longer do they have access to live ammunition for marksmanship. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And I knew how to keep moving about so as not to attract the attention of any vice squad plainclothes- men or uniformed cops. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat man wearing the same uniform as the prisoners thundered through the barracks, a truncheon in his hand. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A month after that a guy in full uniform came to our apartment to tell Moms the bad news. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I don’t have pockets in this uniform,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Arcadio is a serious man now,” she said, “and very brave, and a fine-looking young man with his uniform and saber.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His short, powerful body took to a uniform well. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have two new Messenger slots to fill, and as a matter of urgency I am promoting you a day earlier than planned. Here are your new uniforms.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though this was supposed to be a chartered train that the deportees had paid for, a mass of Japanese soldiers in their khaki uniforms and caps pushed on board. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We can’t afford uniforms or boots and Billy says, How will the world know who we are? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I always thought it was black, but when I look closely, I see that it’s actually green—the color of the support staff uniforms. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

During this time the other employees arrive, about twenty of them, already glowing in their uniforms, and breakfast on the free coffee, bagels, and doughnuts The Maids kindly provides for us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a lovely gold-patterned robe and said softly, “This was a government official’s uniform. I remember my grandfather wearing it.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gotten promoted to detective at work, so he didn’t have to wear his regular police uniform like he used to. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you put your uniform in a paper bag, Ben?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Candor man wears a black suit with a white tie— Candor standard uniform. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He then walked to his room and dressed in his uniform from the Great War. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Neel sighed—fishing all day sounded like bliss compared to wearing a hot, scratchy uniform and struggling with math problems. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The number of Palace Guards and city police on the streets of Erhenrang seemed to multiply every day; they were armed, and they were even developing a sort of uniform. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman police officer, in uniform, came into the room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they waited their turn to speak, dark sweat stains blossomed under the arms of their uniforms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Princesse slowly removed the checkered blouse of her school uniform, followed by a spotless white undershirt she wore to keep her blouse from getting stained with sweat. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A bunch of kids from the wrong side of town couldn't afford uniforms or equipment with parents working two or three jobs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I pick it up and throw it back at them, watch the unidentifiable mush splash against the bars, messing the clean pressed uniform cloth and white ruddy cheeks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helped that his clothing and his woolen hat, stolen back in Gilju, were the dark green of army uniforms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Carole, a member of Girl Scout troop #264, pinned the numerous badges she had earned to a long sash that draped across her chest and proudly wore her uniform to school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Get out of your uniform,” he said, “and get into civilian clothes. They are beating up people who are in military uniform.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had been talking about this day for two weeks, going on and on about how uniform day was important because it meant you were officially on the team. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He was smiling, as always, his hands clasped in his lap, his dark school uniform without a wrinkle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She points to the white guy in uniform. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suiting up meant having to buy a uniform just like his and wearing it for P.E. every day. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He changed out of his uniform, and the telephone rang. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Liberty Belles could parade in white caps and uniforms of white sharkskin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To prove his family was patriotic, and because he thought being in uniform would attract girls, Country Joe had joined the navy in 1959 at the age of seventeen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nearby was a cluster of men wearing mismatched uniforms, the greens, grays, and blues almost indistinguishable from my distance. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Talking about how women love a man in uniform.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Crew members in crisp white uniforms strolled the deck, tipping their hats to the passengers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The car door opens and a uniformed policeman steps out, adjusting his sunglasses. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Here, behind the name badge and uniform, was her true self, secretly hoarded, quietly accumulating. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was the uniform all the boys wore in the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no official- looking adults or uniformed Arkansas National Guardsmen inside. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her blue uniform shirt stretches over her big chest and two buttons look like they will pop. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For Christmases and birthdays she requested wigs and makeup, hospital gowns and uniforms. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

People say the rebel leader sleeps in his uniform and olive cap, that his hair and beard are one, like a bear’s, and his eyes are just as fearless. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he quickly took a shower and dressed in his Scout uniform. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had a color snapshot of her in a Tangerine High School uniform. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Milgrom was at her job at the Jackboot uniform factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Scarlet stood beneath the scoreboard with a boy with dark hair, wearing a football captain’s uniform. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I guess I have a uniform small enough for this girl.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as I heard him banging drawers and looking for his uniform for his soccer game, I went to the kitchen for my own bit of packing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I fidget with the pleats on my uniform skirt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t recognize any of them and they don’t have our uniforms on. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His uniform has enough badges and medals to sink him to the oceans bottom. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We made a sharp turn, and when I rounded the corner I saw, not far away, a lone man wearing a military uniform. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I was little, the wall had been covered with a picture of a woman dressed in a cook’s white uniform and white hat, and holding a large tray of food. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His seat was located near Keith’s in the mostly uniform batch of cubicles. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I let my hair hang loose and abandon my uniform of loose shirts in favor of one that cuts across my shoulders, revealing my tattoos. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

These were security guards, dressed in the same uniforms as the men at the gate. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She got out of bed quietly so as not to wake Jaime and showered and put on her uniform. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore an actual maid’s uniform, black, with white apron. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“What if you don’t like what? The uniform?” she asked. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

White women never looked at me until I put on that uniform, and then by God I was a U.S. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I'll be back in a minute,” she told the uniformed man, who had placed the newly changed infant back in a swing and was now taking small bowls of cereal from the warmer. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When the ghost of one of Mrs. Caruthers’s sons finally appeared, in uniform with his hand tightly gripping a bottle, Ophie laid a hand on his arm, which was naught but chilly vapor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Birth records are not kept in a very uniform or organized way for Africans, and Winnie found that it was not hard to modify her documents to show that Zindzi was bom a year earlier. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough for today. Everybody get here early tomorrow. I’m giving out the uniforms.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half wore army uniforms and half civilian clothes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I started to unzip Mamá’s uniform down the back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The boys in front of Gaines, out of uniform and away from the hue and cry usually sparked by their appearance, looked strangely vulnerable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our drab uniforms, the only difference between us boys was our size. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach had given me my uniform the day before, after humiliating me at the sports store. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Of course you hear nothing. Too busy strutting around in stupid purple uniform.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Callie leans across the counter and says, “I am so sorry, but those uniforms are the worst.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I went into uniform at the time when our enemies began to recede so fast that there had to be a hurried telescoping of military training plans. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at Alfred in his janitor uniform. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I use “maize” because Indian maize—multicolored and mainly eaten after drying and grinding— is strikingly unlike the sweet, yellow, uniform kernels usually evoked in North America by the name “corn.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of the closed-off bedrooms held the ghost of Alvin Caruthers, still wearing his service uniform and drinking to numb the pain of a heart broken by a war fought in trenches. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, their wild ancestors required very little genetic change to be converted into crops—for instance, in wheat, just the mutations for nonshattering stalks and uniform quick germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he’s not going to work anymore, he’s still in his teaching uniform: navy V-neck sweater and jeans. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she is still arguing with those uniformed people and if she has thrown those important documents in their faces and cursed their children’s children. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I’m wearing my Renegades uniform today because today’s the day. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Every school day, before Jack put on his navy blue uniform and walked to his public school, his mother insisted he eat a big breakfast. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like the idea that he had to wear a uniform—a white shirt and pressed pants. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita finished her food, being careful not to get a stain on her white uniform. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A Japanese man in uniform was telling them, in Japanese, to go inside the barrack for their ken. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mind saw a clean and pressed uniform, with a nest of wicked snakes sprouting out of his neck, or a skull with hollow black eyes, smoking a cigarette. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With us at each elbow, she walked carefully into the hall, where a large man in a nursing uniform started with alarm and quickly produced a pair of crutches. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gold royal emblem embroidered on the breast of black uniforms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A pair of white youngsters in school uniforms leaned over the fence and requested my autograph. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards who stood at attention wore elaborate white uniforms accented with silver fur and less than intimidating silver lace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Aside from family and friends, the men I most trusted all had something in common: they all wore the uniform of the United States of America. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He turned swiftly to see Alice trying to get between Mrs. Boatwright and a man in a dark uniform, and three other men behind him spread out to prevent anyone leaving the cave. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time the uniform would have earned you some respect. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Herr Bremann first visited Darlington Hall very shortly after the war while still in his officers uniform, and it was evident to any observer that he and Lord Darlington had struck up a close friendship. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls on his coat, buttoning it up to cover the Gestapo uniform. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Russian doctors and health officials—male and female—all wore olive drab uniforms. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They don’t like too many locals in their stores when they are trying to sell to tourists, and they hate children still in their school uniforms who aren’t going to buy anything at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only fifteen boys had been chosen to wear the red uniforms of the Tigers Varsity. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beige uniform was clean and pressed sharp. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even in 1943, when they received skirts as parade dress uniform, they weren’t issued with stockings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The blue uniform tumbled away down the slope. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and apparently I need a school uniform.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She worked on Space Mountain, proudly wearing the uniform, a red, white, and turquoise polyester jumpsuit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Once down the hill we saw figures in khaki uniforms moving about. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumpy and muscular in her smudge-fronted uniform, the wall-eyed nurse wore such thick spectacles that four eyes peered out at me from behind the round, twin panes of glass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was cute and always looked impressive in her uniform and badges. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His daughter, in her primary school uniform, was sitting across the table from him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The point is, it was Friday, “uniform day,” and right after the final bell rang I ran to the bathroom with my duffel bag full of clothes to change out of everything green. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A man in a uniform calls out from behind the gate, scaring the living daylights out of me because I didn’t see him at first. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even the students, many of whom were former prisoners, wore the same uniforms as they had before, with new patches over the pockets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I could see him through the window, crammed into his polyester uniform behind the desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We ordered the new company uniform last month. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

You’re handed the application form and, a few days later, you’re being handed the uniform and warned against nose rings and stealing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later we had another visitor only this time he wore a British Army uniform and brought a lackey with him to take notes and check things off on a list. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a grim, overcast day, and when I stepped out of the plane, the cold winter wind whipped through our thin prison uniforms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, I move around the Commandant quietly, setting down her breakfast tray, clearing her tea from the night before, laying out her uniform. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had last seen him at her wedding, him and his brother, in their militia uniforms. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

An octoroon in Gamma-green uniform saluted and proceeded to recite the morning’s programme. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lake had been formed and dug to a uniform depth of nine feet, with small wooden boat docks fingering out from its waterless shores where the most desirable concrete slabs had been poured. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She wore what seemed to me to be a nurse’s uniform, was blonde and had a tawny skin and gray eyes. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Since they would not be working, the girls did not want to wear the long beautiful dresses which were their uniforms. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time I stare at the floral wallpaper and shelves full of books, then I notice a framed photograph of a boy in uniform. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When she introduced him to her stewards, three men in ill-fitting khaki uniforms, she told them, with that wry smile of hers, “You will be seeing Mr. Richard often.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The half-American with the Arab eyes in the navy blue Armenian school uniform. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She brought back another woman, who wore a similar uniform except that it was pink trimmed in white. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opening his eyes, he saw a military officer with four stars pinned to his uniform. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I saw all around this forest hundreds of evenly scattered, identically sized ponds with trees sparsely distributed in a uniform way between them, the whole arrangement giving the un­mistakable impression of following a design. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juan had his hair slicked down and was wearing one of their dad’s white uniform shirts; his smile was serene for maybe the first time ever. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The dust rose in clouds around him, clinging to the lapels of his khaki uniform. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Wherever you go in Germany, you see their mustard-colored uniforms and hear their heavy boots pounding on the cobbles, clop, clop, clop, clop.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Gym teacher, Coach Clapp, found me a uniform but didn’t make me dress down for today’s class. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was an ace student, and I wanted desperately to put on my school uniform—navy-blue knee-length skirt, white button-down polo shirt, white socks—and get back to class. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Across from us, against the far wall, the blue uniforms of the band members filled two sections from top to bottom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But walk we would, some in bare feet and some in odd-sized wooden clogs, in our thin uniforms, in the middle of winter. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the front of the girl’s uniform, she said, “Gimme that fifteen cents, or I’ll turn you every way but loose.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, during which Luba carefully kept the laser tube on him, a large harness bull arrived in his archaic blue uniform with gun and star. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Guards pushed him inside and tossed him a prison uniform. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He hoped he’d gotten all the garden mud off of his uniform. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The uniform is a requirement for members of the fold only,” he said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Unbuttoning the green uniform as I ran, I stuffed it, in passing, into the washbasin with the rubbish of dead flowers. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a party of maybe twenty people, and even at a distance I could see that some of them had on blue uniforms which meant that they were Continentals—the Rebel troops. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my wearing the uniform helped; once in uniform, I suspected, a person seemed more standard-issue, less an object of curiosity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave me a new school uniform, light blue, the color of sky. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered a rotund black man, with a bald head and a crisp blue uniform, watching over him on the train, bringing him sandwiches, and tucking him into his berth at night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The waitresses have white uniforms with black tab trim, although the shade of their red lipstick isn’t quite right and they should have run it around the edges of their mouths. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Girls stood in bunches in their long, fine evening dresses, and the boys roamed around in clean duck pants or R.O.T.C. uniforms or new dark fall suits. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lourdes is pleased with her uniform’s implicit authority, with the severity of her unadorned face and blunt, round nose. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their buttons glinted like morning stars on their uniforms. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Two cheerleaders in purple-and-white uniforms were standing at the side entrance, waiting to ambush freshmen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

—We should remind our mothers to be prompt in buying us books and a uniform and other school paraphernalia. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was issued the standard prison uniform for Africans: a pair of short trousers, a rough khaki shirt, a canvas jacket, socks, sandals, and a cloth cap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’ll be okay, I told myself as I walked back down the cold hallway, down the steps, to the girls and men in uniforms waiting for me below. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A locker lets you leave your uniform at work. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, we lay on the floor in our pressed uniforms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stay focused on the movement of the PSF’s shoulder blades beneath his black uniform, but it was difficult when most of the curtains had been left open for anyone to peer inside. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When Atchley retreated from the latrine, Bull straightened his uniform, winked at the mirror, and spoke again to his reflection. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men in jet-black uniforms were patting down a student who stood outside of the metal detectors. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Wearing his dress uniform, polished black boots, and clean red sash, Lee rides forth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Having discarded his work uniform, he wore gray khakis, a matching shirt, and, like Perry, ankle-high black boots. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a new ugly, awkwardly exploding into unfamiliar height, tugging at his dorm uniform like it was already too tight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“But won’t they arrest you if they catch you out of uniform?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I said stop!” the voice bellowed again, and looking over my shoulder I saw a uniformed soldier standing on the platform, his knees bent in firing stance, rifle aimed at us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The next time we saw him, he was in uniform, assigned to motion study training in assembling and disassembling the Lewis machine gun and other automatic weapons. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, they asked a uniformed guard whether they had arrived at the right place to speak to Mr. Poe, and he led them into a large office with many file cabinets and no windows. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

My eyes follow a certain Youn in a green camouflage uniform as he openly approaches a young Khmer woman in black pajama clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His trim, beautifully uniformed soldierly figure made its appearance in every paper every day. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was still in her nurse’s uniform; she hadn’t even bothered to change. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“This button, Madame, may have dropped from the conductor’s uniform, either when he searched your cabin, or when he was making the bed up last night.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the uniformed police fetched Evie, who miraculously had slept soundly through the whole thing, and they took us all to the police station. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman in a uniform blocked the doorway. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There is no last-second shot, and we all wear its cruel midnight uniform, starless and unfriendly. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The sky above the circumference of the jungle is tinged a uniform pink. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A uniform where Ibtihaj would be totally covered without having to alter the uniform in any way? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The man wore malevolence and formidability as though they were part of the uniform of the day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I grew, I longed to wear the uniforms I saw the big girls wearing when they arrived each day: shalwar kamiz—a long deep blue tunic and loose white pants—and white headscarf. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A soldier climbed out, holding a gun, wearing a uniform so smart that the lines of ironing were visible down the front. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her Girl Scout uniform, which she had sewn herself, and it made her look like a shiny green leprechaun. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For instance, the Catholic youth groups were not allowed to wear uniforms, to take excursions into the countryside, or to print or distribute journals. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes just enough to see her standing over me in her white uniform. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the fence were armed guards dressed in green uniforms. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And here I just bought this new uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At last I pluck up courage to enquire of the guards—it needs courage, for they are in uniform, and have lathis strapped to their wrists. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

That said, when I put on my uniform for squash matches, I represent Granger, but I don’t feel our mascot necessarily represents the best of our community. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A man in a dark blue uniform stood at the threshold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a strange opposition: the hard-bitten private-eye expression on the face of a girl wearing a uniform for private school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In uniform circular motion, an equal angle or fraction of the arc of a circle is covered in equal times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look like an American colonel. You look like a fat man with a pillow in front of him. Where’s your uniform, if you’re an American colonel?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She had blue and gold ribbons hanging from her pigtails but was in her school uniform. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Students wearing uniforms and swastika armbands are tossing books onto the burning pyre. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“These are her sons. This one is in the Marines,” I said, placing my finger on the guy in the military uniform. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A portrait of an older man in uniform hung crooked on the plaster. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I went to my room and took off my school uniform so I wouldn’t soil it on our trip. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Wednesday, September 25, at 8 a.m., as we turned the comer near the Bateses’ home, I saw them, about fifty uniformed soldiers of the 101st. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cop's hair hung on the sides of his face, his uniform was dirty, and I watched him without emotion, hesitated, hearing the sound of footfalls approaching. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers moved a barrier and allowed the vehicle of well-dressed women and officers in uniform to pass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Coach went on and on until he got to the last uniform. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They were outfitted in a uniform C.P. didn’t recognize: white helmets, heavy black boots, light blue shirts, and dark blue pants with what appeared to be webbed Army belts, some of which held holstered guns. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that the universe is so uniform and homogeneous on a large scale, it contains local irregularities, such as stars and galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks different from how I remember her, dressed in her soldier’s uniform and heavy army boots, her long dark hair swept back under an olive-colored headscarf. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was a good runner, and I thought of going out for the track team, but you had to pay for your uniform, and Mom said we couldn’t afford it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“At least there was an extra uniform shirt in there. You can’t see the spot on my pants, right?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was in a German officer’s uniform, but his Polish was very good, only a trace of an accent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was hard not to stare at his involuntary movements, but Joseph smiled at the boy, and the boy adjusted the tie of his school uniform and smiled right back. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Only North Korean soldiers on patrol everywhere, their tan uniforms looking drab and dusty. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The gym uniform at Meriwether is sky blue shorts and tie- dyed T-shirts. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

At least, I would try not to, especially judging from the way I felt holding that electric-blue uniform. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Workers in white uniforms were hauling crates from a nearby storage shed and loading them into a big truck. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At our school we wear uniforms so our parents do not bother buying us as many clothes as you have. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Far off at the other end of the platform, he saw the navy blue of an officer’s uniform. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When Lina came back, there was a shiny medal pinned on her uniform just above her left breast. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood from his injuries quickly blossomed on his uniform. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He remained comfortably unperturbed by the uniforms in the background. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A man in a khaki Army uniform steps into my room, hand extended. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A man in a blue uniform comes over and asks her, What’s up, missus? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Who was the man or woman masquerading in Wagon Lit uniform? Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From other people’s point of view, it was ridiculous when I appeared in my slippers in uniform!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in his uniform except for his shoes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her first day, I'd rambled over to her in my regular uniform of jeans and sneakers and offered to answer any questions she might have to help her get acclimated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A maid in a green uniform was setting the tables for supper. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The box is as big as a man, and the officer inside is being baked alive in his uniform. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Besides wearing ties and uniforms, all students were required to play sports at PM. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the seconds during which they looked at each other in silence, Briony, partly obscured by her sister, shrank into her uniform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"This is my track uniform. The Defenders," I explained, pointing to the gold word printed across my chest. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They had paid the tuition for the first term and bought the uniforms and had exhausted their savings. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Standing on deck, leaning casually on the rail, was a Norwegian man in a Nazi uniform—some Norwegians were Nazi sympathizers who aided the invading army. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spot a flock a maids in they uniforms walking by my house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He saw white drill, epaulettes, a revolver, a row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The next load is for all the dark clothes, mostly Daddy’s work uniforms. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We who were in uniform controlled nearly every aspect of their lives. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other boys in uniform snickered behind their hands. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The large vehicles weren’t driving very fast, and the children could see the faces of the American soldiers sitting in the backs of the trucks in their green uniforms and hard helmets, holding their rifles. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He feared anyone in uniform: the meter maid giving out parking tickets, a museum guard approaching to tell him not to get too close to his favorite Goya. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Children stopped their playing on the grass to stare, and nurses at the nearby hospital came out on the roof to watch, their white uniforms glowing in the now unveiled sun like lilies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Talk of the people, Voice of God November 25, I960 The soldier was standing on the side of the road with his thumb out, dressed in a camouflage uniform and black, laced-up boots. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her uniform was so white it made my eyes hurt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her middle son in military uniform, smiling and holding a baby. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Simple and comfortable, and close enough to my everyday uniform. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They came accompanied by soldiers in blue uniforms with silver epaulets. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The remaining shamblers are practically ancient, wearing uniforms from the war, and it takes very little effort to separate their heads from their bodies. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And Roger, heading to Eastern Washington University on a football scholarship, had willed his basketball uniform to me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps of his college and he looked very handsome in his uniform. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My drawers were so empty, I was wearing an old soccer uniform. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They are thin-legged and are wearing uniforms—striped pants and tall baseball socks, blue and red jerseys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tally noticed the other rangers were cleaning their boots and uniforms, searching for any trace of the flowers among the mud and foam. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was already in his school uniform, his rucksack packed for the day and waiting by the front door. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Through fence slats, he watches a column of uniformed schoolgirls walk double-file in the winter sunshine. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Another soldier gave me a pair of wooden shoes and a blue-and-gray-striped prisoner uniform made out of a thick canvas material. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vietnam veterans, some wearing their combat uniforms, protest outside the US Capitol, smashing toy guns, 1971 About a thousand veterans took part in the weeklong antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The uniform isn't in here; I check twice. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Needlelike claws were scraping at the toughened material of her uniform. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They are gone, left in cars that came for them, driven by pale Americans in white uniforms with gold braids on their shoulders and on their caps. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Wish Father would come home so I can stop daydreaming that he will appear in my classroom in a white navy uniform and extend his hand toward me for all my classmates to see. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The only uniform he wore was that of the Boy Scouts, where he was a troop leader. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next thing I remember is a uniformed woman lifting me into an airline seat and cinching a belt over my lap. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Like those thundering drums, their hearts were booming through their sad green uniforms. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Out dashed armed men dressed in green uniforms. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, in the case of the universe, could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best part of the uniform was the mask. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She has on a light blue uniform with white blouse. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell they were new because they stepped off the trains in real clothes, not camp uniforms, with their luggage and children in tow. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each weekday morning Durham’s white neighborhoods were invaded by an army of black women—all dressed in identical gray-and-white maid’s uniforms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt Anne in her nurse's uniform, my aunt Ada in her university sweater Buckeye to the hone . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Some wore Greek armor, some British redcoat uniforms, some camouflage with tattered American flags on the shoulders. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

First young Sam Walton, in uniform, comes back from the war. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her uniform on, so that was an extra blouse and skirt. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, a gray uniform appeared among them, and an officer in his early thirties plodded up, stuck a key in the gate, and pulled it aside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds the door of the stateroom opened and two uniformed crew members came in, armed with nightsticks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was escorted to a forty-by-forty-foot room where more than two dozen incarcerated men sat sadly while uniformed correctional staff buzzed in and out. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The policeman brushed the dirt and grass burs off his uniform. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She quickened her pace on the dusty stretch that led to the main road, but five of them, all in tattered army uniforms, soon surrounded her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your copy of the receipt. Any problems, you just call the eight hundred number,” the uniformed man says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In her room, Nok changed from her sweaty uniform into a fresh one. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They were not very bellicose-looking; their columns were straggling, their suntan uniforms had gotten rumpled in the train, and they were singing Roll Out the Barrel. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, planting these bright yellow kernels that were uniform in shape and size didn’t take long. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Seeing him standing there dressed in his school uniform changed something in me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dad rose from the recliner, decked out in his usual stuck-at-home uniform, a faded Fishbone concert tee and running shorts with worn-out elastic. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The gruff cop pointed first to a hairy stretch of wrist beyond his uniform's cuff, then to his pink, hairless palm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She had her field-hockey uniform on and a bag of hamburger rolls in her hand. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A white officer stopped him and recommended he stay in uniform. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For two days and two nights, in my bare feet and a uniform that looked like men’s pajamas. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Dude, can you believe how sick the uniforms are?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Those who’ve reached the counter hand their tokens across it, to the two men in Guardian uniforms who stand on the other side. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he emerged, he was seated at a table and given a plate of tortillas and beans by a man in a black uniform with the emblem of a beehive on one sleeve. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uniform doesn't feel as tight as usual. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Pepettes looked intimidated, scared, as the Carter Cowboys moved closer and closer in their bloodred uniforms, the claps getting louder and louder, the chant rhythmic and taunting. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the dark uniform knelt down in the snow, his eyes hidden by sunglasses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He has four stripes on his uniform, which means he makes good money. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly changed quickly into the stiff black uniform, inwardly praying that perhaps this would be the start of her move up to the main house and out of the kitchen with the slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others wear stiffly pressed SS and military uniforms. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z