The heat from the fires washed over her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One of the attendants was washing the sea-lion manure off the middle platform of the pool, and at least he was able to do that with a certain degree of proficiency. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“James, go wash up while your sister finishes breakfast. Then you two can go. I need some time to myself today.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Europeans expected me to regularly wash my hands with prepackaged towelettes and to automatically reject all unpasteurized dairy products. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I was washing him in the stable and I was washing under his belly and he went and wet on me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brains—not genes—had to be washed clean. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once we all washed up, everyone loaded their plate, talked, laughed, and ate in between. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Ivy stole down the quiet streets, newly washed in the morning sun. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I made my last errand to the post office, put my bag away, washed my hands, and pulled on my cap. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I always demand a show of respect. Before I let my victims leave, I insist that they wash my feet.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A gash above one eye had sent a wash of blood down across the Hound's old bum scars, masking half his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The glasses he’d washed had drained dry, so before going upstairs, he took them back to the bar. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She seemed to understand and answered by washing my face and hands. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he dries in the sun, I wash his filthy shirt and jacket and spread them over boulders. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Another time he came to tell Ana Diaz that he needed a volunteer to wash one of the prisoners’ clothes and clean out his cell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. This first morning I don’t work in many long time. I get up early and wash clothes so you and your brother have something to wear today as soon as it dry.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I washed my face and my body with the soap. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Henry shook a few aspirins into his hand, along with a couple of mystery pills from his pocket, and washed them down with the glass of whiskey Charles gave him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine those who wash our clothing and bedding then carefully drape it over magueys to dry. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing how Dad disliked make-up and perfume, we were afraid he was going to make Anne’s friend change her place at the table or, worse still, order her to go upstairs and wash herself. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Houses are burning at Parame, mademoiselle. They’re scuttling ships at the port, they’re shelling the cathedral, and there’s no water at the hospital. The doctors are washing their hands in wine. Wine!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One after another, I washed pairs of feet, not bothering to look up, entranced in my prayerful listening. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother washed the dishes and I dried them and put them away. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The school maintenance crew hadn’t washed it off, and what made it all the more powerful was that it was still true. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She bathed her face and washed out the sink and put the mustard back on the shelf. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The taxi passed within a few yards of one who was sitting at the edge of a lake washing his feet, but the driver didn’t panic. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he came down, the more capable women of the household were out in the yard hanging up the wash. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa and Mama were already seated, and Papa was washing his hands in the bowl of water Sisi held before him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had never washed a car at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my clean uniform I washed in the tub last night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was on close terms with her washing machine and ironing board. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders washed his hands again, and others spilled what was left of the water in their paper cups over their hands. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had a profound moment of helplessness before she hefted the ceramic pitcher and went to fetch water so her mama could wash her face. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered who she was, poor unclaimed soul, washed up by the wind and tide. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the laughter followed, and it washed away the terror of the interaction. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Heavy rains washed the outside mud plaster off their house, and he was too feeble now to mix up fresh plaster. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, that evening, as she was washing her face before bed, an idea occurred to Mrs. Richardson, a way this luncheon might serve another purpose, too. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She washed the shrouding clean as sun or moonlight. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since none of us are alike and are all plagued by varying degrees of modesty, each member of the family has selected a different place to wash. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and let the sound of her voice wash over me, forgetting about the girls calling me names this morning. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He washed them down with a swig of water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I washed my face and hands in it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They washed the mud off themselves, from when they had fallen down the bank, and then raced about, lifting their knees very high, splashing and yelling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m gone get the wash. You all stand stock still right there and don’t mess up nothing.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susannah didn’t look strong enough to wash a teaspoon, much less a tub full of clothing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we ate our spaghetti, I washed the dishes and wiped the sink down. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evenings, after a long day working at the Winn-Dixie, she restocked the boat’s small refrigerator, fixed dinner, and washed dishes in the brackish water of the bayou. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was with a mixture of osha that Ultima washed my face and arms and feet the night Lupito was killed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barber gave her the washed and dried cup. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma pushed me off of her and said, “Go on and wash up so you can help me with this mixing bowl.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

People also washed clothes and other things in the river, so it was not exactly clean. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amid political graffiti scribbled in red paint on trees and rocks, we passed a group of women washing clothes in a gully. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A wild rain lashed down upon his black brother as he tore at the flesh of an enormous goat, washing the blood from his side where the goat’s long horn had raked him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I throw another piece of coal on the fire, give Max some of the warm water to clean up with, heat more, and wash his clothes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

After I washed up I looked through my closet at clothes I hadn’t thought about in three months. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She did the proper cooking, and I did near everything else, like washing pots and plates and beating eggs till my arms fell off for Madam’s almond jumbles and plum cakes with icing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of anger washed over my mind. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

At night, after Ash had washed the supper dishes and banked the kitchen fire, her stepmother called for her to come to her chamber. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re sitting on the vinyl sofa in the common area of the trailer while Dad washes the mugs that were in the sink. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“She cook and wash and iron. Come here, gal. Let the folks see you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His soft hands washed each other in a gesture of helpless distress. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He showered and washed his hair and wore the shirt that Birdie had bought for him when they’d first started dating because she said it made his eyes look good. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Pastor Tom’s wife must have washed his clothes before they sent him home because everything was clean and pressed like he was going to church instead of coming home after half a week away. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I shot some of the action in the car wash. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's been a while since I washed . . . anything. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her duties were lighter as Lord Bolton's cupbearer than they had been under Weese or even Pinkeye, though they required dressing like a page and washing more than she liked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

How hard can it be to wash dishes? Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He’d go home to eat dinner, then bring the horse and wagon back to the stable where he was supposed to wash Drummer and the wagon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eat one slice of each and wash it down with a can of cream soda. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me — even before I was off the street — as soon as I heard his voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We have to go downstairs to Ireland to wash our faces in the basin under the tap and try to dry ourselves in the old damp shirt that hangs over the back of a chair. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t see Ellis until we meet in the hall outside the bathroom on our way to wash up before bed. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I lay contentedly in her arms as the rain washed away my humiliation and shame. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s at the sink in the kitchen, my apron around her middle, washing the dishes in water she’s warmed on the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Neel’s sister got up early to pump and haul water, feed the animals, make patties out of cow dung for fuel, wash clothes, tend the garden, cook, and clean. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, after they had buried their garbage in the soft soil and washed briefly in the creek, they set off. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue water washing up to gray sand and nothing else. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been a young girl when she was washed from the sea to the place where she had lived for years. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Olanna gently placed a pillow beneath her head and sat thinking about how a single act could reverberate over time and space and leave stains that could never be washed off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jake took a deep draught of the toddy and washed it around in his mouth before swallowing. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to wash my hands and take cover.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For starters, there was the time a buxom blond cheerleader with flawless skin and adorable freckles very loudly declared in science class that students with acne should "just wash their faces." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Oh, sure, it’s been washed off and painted away for months now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was a little swift-running stream filled with white pebbles and rocks where he undressed and waded in for a brief washing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white people had to wash her, dress her, prepare her and finally lower her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Momma washed my last jersey right before Finals, and Miami lost to the Spurs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Each holiday meant taking all the dishes down from the shelves, even the ones we never used, and carefully washing and drying them, as well as the windows of the dish cabinet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“July 29 “A big storm dumped so much water on the mountain the last three days that the dam washed out—logs, rocks, and mud. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know if I was developing an interest in boys, or if I would have washed my hair and put on my new blouse anyway. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She'd had to wash her jeans out in the bathtub last night, so they were still kind of damp. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

On Sundays After Mass, After the car Is washed And the lawn cut — blades Of grass standing up In salute — we go To the park. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pain lanced through his skull, and a sudden wave of exhaustion washed over him, a heavy, dragging thing that was like a two-ton blanket draped over his shoulders. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was a glass door, and as he opened it, he felt the unnatural heat in the building wash over him, and he heard the familiar screeches of monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put that bag down,” G’ma orders, and as soon as he does, she’s dragging him over to the kitchenette sink by his good arm and washing her hands. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot of wash, because Grace has two younger sisters who get her skirts and blouses and also her underpants passed down to them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelia sat under the ministrations, familiar from her early childhood, and felt the fight drain out of her body as the water washed over it. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She squatted by the water to douse herself with the calabash and to wash out her dress-cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got a bottle of Clorox bleach and scrubbed the room from top to bottom, washing countertops and sinks, everything, with bleach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t wash ashore in Sweden. He rowed there I He rowed there, chaplain, he rowed there.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Theo will wash your face for you and make you all neat for breakfast.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two others had died in a fall storm and washed up on the mud flats of Lanheedron Island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

By this time, I would’ve had to wash and rinse out the bucket from the bathroom to bring it outside and pull clean water up from the well. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We walked a weaving line around the plant life, up and down washes and gullies, the Maricopas looming lavender in the distance. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Really. And his wife used to wash her underpants and hang ’em on the antenna of her car and then drive around town till they were dry.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Instead he followed her to the washing line and sat by the basket, purring. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the water closed peacefully over the turbulence of Chicken Little’s body, so had contentment washed over her enjoyment. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the blankets were drying and I had washed the three smelly children, Eliza had gone out to care for the sick and Mother Smith had taken control. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evy settled it by saying one could wash it one day and the other, the next day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed it out and put a handful of cumin seeds in the bowl. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We’d get more light if I would only get around to washing that lampshade.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He washed the hedgehog down with a lump of hard cheese and a slightly vinegary white wine. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer felt a sudden wash of hatred for her. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Cook dinner, wash my hair, set it,” she said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran inside, combed my hair, washed my face, and tugged here and there so that the bodice of my dress lay flat against the bumps on my chest. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the car wash started, I thought I’d have a minute to lose myself in the loud darkness of it all. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We washed, put on sweaters, and came down-stairs into the dining-room. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You must have some of your clothes that you want washed, too,” she says as she secures the tape around the plastic supports. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The previous winter the town had been underwater several times, deep enough for a small boy like Bo to be washed away. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There wasn’t much left of your clothes, but I had them washed up anyway to take with you.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

After the dishes were washed and the beds made, the children went back outside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was panting when the black hull loomed over her head, and at first she could barely raise her voice above the wash of the ship. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I wash my eyes three times a day and I blink till I get a pain in my eyebrows. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To make money he worked nights washing dishes at an Italian restaurant in his parents’ town. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the next ten hours they would fry eggs, grill burgers, pour coffee, and wash dishes for a stream of customers from the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Fresh and shining in the army fatigues Sweet had washed and pressed, he had tramped along feeling ready for anything. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But remember, so far as the company is concerned, he must remain Young Griff until we cross the narrow sea. In Westeros we’ll wash his hair and let him don his armor.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I am preparing a list of items for you to purchase. You may leave as soon as the dishes are washed.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when his thirst was quenched, he swam about in the remaining water, washing all the dust and dirt out of his fur. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Clancy leveled me with a look of annoyance that I had only seen him wear once, after realizing one of the remaining Yellows couldn’t zap one of the camp’s few washing machines back to life. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had washed the cut, poured some boiled vinegar over it, bound it up, and thought little more of it, trusting that the pain would fade and the hand heal itself in time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Moses’s first whipping for stealing a potato, and his second whipping for idleness, when Connelly had the boy’s wounds washed out with hot pepper until he howled. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I had to wash the floor in the hall in preparation while Mum Olga came by frequently to supervise. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tidal wave of silver friendship bracelets poured across the catwalk, washing Doris and Lulu right over the railing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m trying to wash my tears—past, present, future—down the drain. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A memory washes over me—Maddy’s sleepover birthday party in fourth grade, when her favorite younger cousin asked if I’m going to hell because I’m not Christian. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After washing my face, I join the other kids in training. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explored her slowly, learning by heart the smoky scent of her body and her clothes, which had been washed with ash and pressed with a coal-filled iron. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I want this to wash up and connect me with Griswold’s shooting?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Uhmma’s hands washed our dinner dishes, cleaned the kitchen floor with a rag, folded load after load of laundry. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

"Your hands are filthy, Nigel! When did you last wash them?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you get your brother and wash up for dinner? I made my special flan for dessert. Today I didn’t forget.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mango jumps off my lap and chases halfheartedly after the pencil before lying down to wash himself. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I worked for a long time on my new design and laid the rake behind the wash pot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gray mist washed over Mark’s face and disappeared. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“These cows are...never you mind. Idea is, this ain’t just any milk. It’s highly contaminated. I wash my hands good after even handling the stuff.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Presently he felt calmer and set himself to washing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the always full crates of Coke and Fanta and Sprite in the kitchen store back home and then quickly gulped my water down as if I could wash away the thoughts. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two men got into a fight over who should wash the wagon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When nobody answered she went to the sink and washed her espresso pot. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There, alone in the darkness, without a mirror, he had washed his face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I thought of Perilee, washing for her family of five. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I could smell the stench of the intruders and the soap Grandfather had used to wash his face before he went to sleep. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, washed and refreshed, the hobbits were seated at the table, two on each side, while at either end sat Goldberry and the Master. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a spectacle to Moss, seeing his mother’s eyes wash over the people in that church, jumping from one raised hand to another, always knowing when to shift the conversation to the next person. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Fern stood at the kitchen sink drying the breakfast dishes as her mother washed them. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When everything was ready and they had only to wait for Sammy to catch something, Dicey and James and Maybeth went downstream to wade and wash. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

About twice a year his mother washed a lot of curtains. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed the words from the mirrors and the floors. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She kisses the top of my head and points me to the sink so I can wash my hands. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I washed dishes over and over, and Martín yelled at me a couple of times because I was taking too long to move the dish racks through El Monstruo. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The other thing that rain did, it gradually washed away the gunk from the underside of the kayak. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Francie was the only one wearing a gingham wash dress and she felt like a silly baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some had to keep hopping along the wash for fifty yards, beating the air with their huge wings, before they could finally take off. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brings the bedpan and a basin of water for me to wash my hands. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, I say, “I can’t stand the ocean washing them away.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The road narrowed and was not in good repair, rocky in places, washed out in others. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Leaning forward over the tub’s rim, she tried to wash but the procedure was awkward and unnatural; it was easier in the stream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hunch over the toilet moaning and hacking, but it won’t come so I wash my mouth out and get into bed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The washers stirred the clothes in the washing machines with long poles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what. I’ll give you ha’penny and one of my old shirts for your slot. That way, you’ll have something to wear when you’re washing that one in the river.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now she took the empty pot outside to wash it at the pump. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then her frown was washed over by a puzzled blank look, and she began to talk as if she were trying to remember where she had misplaced something. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The day they brung you from the sea,” the old woman said, “I washed you like this.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Trina had a smile on her face, and little Deedee was giggling heartily.The sound of it filled Mark up and washed away the doldrums. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I washed my bleeding shoulder in the creek, tucked the torn threads of my sweater back into the hole they had come out of, and set out for my tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came the next day when my mother and I were washing up the dishes after breakfast. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I glance skyward, praying for a storm, a rain to wash away the hate and dust and pain. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Father washed his face and hands, and gave her a kiss. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was busy with the wash and did not come to the door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guest understood, and immediately walked off to the river to wash his feet. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Nan touched my arm, and that worried look washed over her face again. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn't washed my hair for three weeks, either. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The ‘Silkies’ have been washed and curry- combed, and I think you will find their appearances much improved.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When I finally took it off to wash it a week later, I stood guard as it dried to make sure no one stole it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Wish you could see yourself now, Prince of Dribblers. Let's go visit your mirror so you can wash your face." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the morning the king would be gone and I would assist Gertrude as she washed and dressed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After we have what we need, we go to the laundry room and wash the cans and containers in the deep sink. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He wished he were as calm as she was, that his hands would not shake as he washed them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I know what an ordeal this will be: no more school, my hair gone, hours of labor, washing the bedsheets . Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As we rolled out of our makeshift bed and looked around the sunlit room, we found our clothes washed, neatly pressed, and laid out for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to wash off my baptism. Go. Do you need money?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His other, stained, was in the bundle of laundry to be washed, and he, delighted with the game, was running through arched legs to find his father. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The tide pushes a low riffle through the pool, and it washes over her shins and dampens the hem of her dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spilled the fireplace ashes on the kitchen floor, then kicked over the bucket of wash water I brought in to clean up the mess. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was bathed in the cold, white fight of the moon, washed and bathed in it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to get cleaned up. We been three days on the train with no chance to wash or • • • “Comment t’appelle?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We washed the courtyard; we exorcised the house with smoke and red paper. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sense of clarity washes over me, and all the images I’ve collected of my mother over the years start to morph into something different. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

With deft hands, she slices open their bellies, pulls out their goopy organs, and washes their flesh in a bucket so they’re ready for roasting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a beeline for the wood dock I had discovered the afternoon before, needing to find some way to wash out the jitters racing through my heart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I floated up the white light that washed my sheets and slept on the moon. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They had burst through the shadow, and the sunlight came down in a white-hot wash and poured liquidly about them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Her words echo in me until I’ve washed the final pot, made my way up all those stairs, and climbed into bed. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“He needs a wash,” one of them says. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to wash,” Harry told Bill, looking down at his hands, still covered in mud and Dobby’s blood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Your crimes will be washed away, your debts forgiven. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All that a girl could do was cook, clean, wash clothes, and decorate; she wasn’t allowed to do any work that brought in money. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Herr Seligmann turns and says calmly, "My windows are dirty. Surely I have a right to wash my store windows." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And now that I’m home, I’ve been getting by with haphazard sponge baths, but my hair has only been washed once. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Strawberry and Boxwood were on the bank and he joined them and sat washing and combing himself in the sunrise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was forced to wash them reverently and pick out as much sand as possible. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cora finished her Saturday washing and had supper, it was almost time for the social. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

These uniforms actually fit us and we were allowed to wash them ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch her other parents did the washing up, and Coraline went down the hall to her other bedroom. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The story always left the other twin, the stronger twin, washed and dressed and lying in a basket. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let the dipper crash back into the water jar and started for the small washing trays at the front of the courtyard, darting a glance toward the wiremaker's bench as he passed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Most of the barrio’s women had put in some time dusting, washing the floors and walls, sprinkling agua florida all over, positioning wreaths, bathing Don Berto and laying him out in his box. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hardships of washing and cooking in a drought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t go outdoors in overalls, so she’d pulled a wash dress on over them, and her apron over that. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘What’s up?’ he whispered as soon as he had helped carry out the heavy basket of wash. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some of the thin-walled houses, it was so cold that water could freeze in a bucket before you’d finished washing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There was always something to find fault with for Shasta had plenty of work to do, mending and washing the nets, cooking the supper, and cleaning the cottage in which they both lived. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at me, turned to wash her hands, looked out the window, turned back and looked at the letter, and finally took it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It looked nothing like the foreboding, cliff-ringed fortress I had first laid eyes upon a few weeks ago; now it seemed fragile, a shard of rock in danger of being washed away by the waves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Liza was a good plain cook, and her house—it was always her house—was brushed and pummeled and washed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The minute I get home she washes them and makes me rest them for half an hour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Another woman with a baby tied to her back was washing peeled cassava tubers in a pan of filthy water. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wash the tables or the bar, none had been used. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I scrape the plates and wash up for bed. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Don’t even know if I washed my feet. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the way to the airport, Pa had tried to act like he was dropping off three sacks of wash at the Laundromat. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sang a foolish sentimental song in a whisper as he washed it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pats my shoulder before standing up to go finish washing the dishes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to run upstairs and wash up and get dressed, but my mom always said never to leave the stove. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A wave of sickness washed up from his stomach. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn said they had to be washed before they could be loaded, so I fetched a rag and a bucket of water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She took eighteen photographs of our back garden with the washing on the line and beyond that the shed. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The otak sat itself down on his open hand, and began to wash its fur. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I let him wash in the bedroom while Siunek is on duty at the window, and I think about our time at Christmas, when Max had his arm around me on the sofa. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Their hands and faces were all caked with blubber smoke, soot from the Primus camp stove, and dirt, and some of the men tried washing up in the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I should have danced a jig and said, “Less shirts for me to wash, wring out, starch, and iron.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I washed my hands thoroughly after cleaning up Edward’s blood, but I still feel like it’s on my hands. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The superintendent called him to his office and said that to wash away the sins of his mother and brother, he had to report wrongdoers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We tied our feet in old fishing nets that had washed ashore. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and let the sound of her voice wash over me, but the heartbeat of worry in my chest wouldn’t subside. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You been down for almost two hours! Go get washed—it will be time to leave directly.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Both boys' heads drooped, their faces in danger of being washed in their soup. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Volt said he’d washed the outsides of the bags with Clorox bleach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt so good and cold and clean that it was almost enough to wash everything else away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I washed up the breakfast dishes, left his two hundred dollars on the kitchen counter, got into the car, and drove south toward home. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When washing, do not use hot water. They’ll shrink. Stop shaking them out like that. I recommend you always take them to a cleaning professional.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We didn’t argue; we just washed our dishes, then headed off. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dayah pulls off his filthy clothing and stained blankets, washes him with a damp cloth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time to wash clothes and a time to iron them, fold them, and put them away. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After dinner he helped me wash dishes and thanked my mother for letting him come up and eat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The thought washed over me like a river, sweeping away the dead bees that had filled my brainpan with confusion. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit Wiress in the shallows so she can get washed up a bit, but she just clutches her. hands together and occasionally mumbles, “Tick, tock.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their Noise washes down the hill like a flood let loose right at me, like a fire, like a monster the size of the sky come to get you cuz there’s nowhere to run. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

This sets off a chase, with Oak trying to avoid being washed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s taken a shower, washed me off his skin. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We washed and folded each shirt, each jumpsuit, each sleeper. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mama left the dinner to warm while Father and I washed up, and we all waited for Stick. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She glanced around, trying to keep sharp while Culebra’s lush sound washed over her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Stepping under the shower’s perfect warm spray was already surreal enough without having to hear the click-click-click-beep of Thurmond’s automatic timer to keep my wash time under three minutes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like, “Don’t wash your hair when all you have is bottled water.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This time there was no growling rebuff over the prey: instead, the cat sat down a few yards away, studiedly aloof and indifferent, then painstakingly washed down the length of his tail. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others never asked him to help with the housecleaning and once Hazel washed four pairs of Eddie’s socks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he had washed up and eaten, Estraven sat a long time by the stove that night figuring out precisely what we had and how and when we must use it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the rain pours over us, washing away the dirt and mud. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He washed the blood and dirt from his body, and combed his hair. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed down their chalky, gritty taste with a glass of water, and returned to her room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Caesar’s orders are,” he muttered, “if you will not ready yourself, servants will be sent to wash and dress you by force.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know about Mother o’ God, Minnie, but these twins need a wash.They need clean diapers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he was fed, Brother Luke, who had talked quietly the while, fetched water in a basin, washed him, and in other ways made him comfortable. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I felt a flush of guilt wash over me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they finished pruning the rose bushes she washed her hands and took the package to her bedroom to open it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You speak to them,” Madame said, as though washing her hands of everything. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we left the Store, she ordered me to brush my teeth and then wash my mouth with Listerine. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old marks of accidents and bad food and childhood illnesses all washed away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She washed his clothes and hung them out to dry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warm tides had washed over them for days, and the skin had loosened from their limbs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Melissa was happy with the success of her story until several members of the class asked why the girl’s mother had not used Static-off in her wash. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cook was going to show Ophie how to wash the sheets, but she’d been busy setting up a menu for a dinner party Richard had decided to hold at the last minute. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When supper was finished and Lee had washed the dishes Adam said, “I think you boys had better go to bed. It’s been a big day.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The enormity of our recent stupidity washed over me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They had washed their hands and faces and scrubbed them well with soap, at the wash-basin on the bench in the kitchen. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great fatigue washed over me like a tidal wave, drowning my anger. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Dill put down the dish he was washing, turned, and gave his mother an incredulous look. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I won’t miss having to wash those bugs off the car,” Mom said with a shudder. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Soon enough I am helping too: I set the table for breakfast, clear the plates, sweep the hall, wash the dishes after dinner. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A feeling came over me, like I was lying on a beach at the edge of a lost world with a wave of hurt washing over my body. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the players went to wash their mouths out. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull washed his hands at the kitchen sink, dried them on one of Lillian’s aprons, and joined the family for grace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark’s finger was twitching on the trigger, but relief washed over him when he realized the advancing figures were only kids.They were filthy and had that strange distant look in their eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Dinner is a quarter of a BBQ chicken from the supermarket, unsalted and washed down with a familiar, low- tech diuretic—beer. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the runners are washing cars, some are working the bake sale tables, and some are holding poster-board signs and shouting at cars from the corner. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After washing down a cold biscuit with some sweetmilk, I put on my driving cap and goggles and had just sneaked out the back door when Papa leaned out of his bedroom window upstairs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

An enormous sense of relief washed over him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

So is the car wash on the other side of it, “black owned” spray-painted on one of its walls. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He’d washed himself, cold water like liquid fingernails inflaming the scratches on his face. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, naked, he washed his socks and briefs and T-shirt in the basin, wrung them out and hung them on the clothesline that pulled out from the wall above the bathtub. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Nation and I had to wash the dishes before we could start our homework. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The dawn came quickly now, a wash, a glow, a lightness, and then an explosion of fire as the sun arose out of the Gulf. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go, Virginia. I’ll come early and do the prep for you and stay late and wash your dishes.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 588th, the women might have to wash with water from puddles or melted snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That weekend, I’m in the laundry room throwing my dirty clothes in one of the washing machines, when Miles walks in, dragging a laundry bag behind him, plus a small container of detergent. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma led me into the bathroom and watched as I washed my hands, then directed me to dry them on the rose-colored towel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Well, it wasn’t an entire lie, since she had washed windows that day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, he first washed in a ritual cleansing called wuduu, required of worshipers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was time to wash up for dinner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then he wiped his hands down his face like he was washing that memory away. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Luna sent rains washing down the Protectorate and the wood and the ruined mountain, which helped to clear the air a little. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And right now they need to get to their room and wash up before the general goes over to the War Department. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A fur-trimmed cap obscured the crazy haircut he sported, and he had washed the dirt and paint off his face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Watching the little girl wash up, Jinny couldn’t help thinking about how absolutely new she was to all this. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After a breakfast of grits with flakes of fried shark steak, Jay washed dishes while I snapped a whole colander full of pole beans. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My hands were still too small to make the squishing wet sound my mother’s hands made when she washed clothes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At noon, Mother removes the vibrating cap from my head, washes the goo from my hair while I lean back in the kitchen sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tints of rose and gold and violet were washed upon it as if painted by the softest brush. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We continued our walk, the moon was shining, making the houses and shops around us seem washed and pale. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So could radiations from certain rocks, or arsenic washed out of soil or rocks to contaminate food or water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When his face was cleaned he washed his right hand in the water over the side and then let it stay in the salt water while he watched the first light come before the sunrise. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Lyra had been yelling as Alice washed her and put a clean, dry nappy on her, but it was a shout of general anger rather than distress. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He said Mama has to stop washing for Mrs. McGarrity and I have to give up my job. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sent to the principal’s office and had to stay after school and wash blackboards. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It happened so fast, I lay there on the ground while waves of embarrassment washed over me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You can wash the color out the same day. James will have to wait weeks for his to grow back.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My mother used to scrub the cuffs with a sponge before throwing them in the wash. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lyra was used to washing with hard yellow soap in a chipped basin, where the water that struggled out of the taps was warm at best, and often flecked with rust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"It appears quite old," Mr. Norton said, looking across the bare, hard stretch of yard where two women dressed in new blue-and-white checked ginghams were washing clothes in an iron pot. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picture her the way she looked before the war, and wearing a white gown and washing in the river. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie made up four tumbled beds and washed a few breakfast dishes and swept the rooms. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you bent to wash your face you saw tiny cracks in the porcelain, as in a Ming vase. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then she went to the sink and started washing the dishes from dinner. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Make sure you go completely under, including your hair. Go slow. Take your time. Call anything to mind that you want to wash away." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I give the rocks a pat good-bye and we head down to the stream to wash up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Filth, filth, filth, from morning to night. I know they’re poor but they could wash. Water is free and soap is cheap. Just look at that arm, nurse.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beau was lapping up some river water to wash down his beef jerky breakfast. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He washed out the formaline jug, cleaned his forceps, powdered and took off his rubber gloves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell the sea, hear it washing against the docks and the faraway shores, calling him to wilder waters, to bigger monsters, and to stories yet to be earned. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It needed to be washed, but at least it wasn’t long or straight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Was it one or two? I don’t know. The more you see, the more you learn no two are alike. I’d better get my hands washed.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took such good care of the little girl—making her a spot to sleep, helping her wash up in the stream, telling her a story as darkness settled on the wooded valley. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We ended up at the Dollar Tree, mostly because the day before, someone had stolen our entire load of laundry from the washing machine at the Laundromat. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I said I was doing the washing up and dropped a glass. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jay came in from washing more bottles and placed the box of empties on the table next to where I was working. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As she ate she drank a glass of water to help wash down the swallows. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But, wouldn’t you know, the road to that was washed out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peel and cut up three carrots and wash the lettuce. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His squall was like a whirlwind, like a sudden wash of freezing spray, like a harsh wind, weather like a hot wall of sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

If it was wet, he sold matches because the rain would have washed away his pictures if he had painted them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

After washing out the booze, these cartons were ideal for making the chassis of a toy truck. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mama took the root from Anya and washed it, then ground it up with the chamomile. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

All carried bundles of washing on their heads, and two had children at their hips and the third was expecting. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground until it reached a place where there were no wash lines above it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a diaper draped over her left shoulder, spittle stained, and her hair had not recently been washed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She motors downfield so fast she creates a wake of flowing mud that washes over anyone who gets in her way. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I washed and dressed, then headed to the kitchen to sit at the table and eat a bowl of Cheerios. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Hot spittle dropped on her, and the bukavac’s corpse breath washed across her face. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten to put it back in my pocket after I had washed my jacket yesterday. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When rain comes finally, washing away a low sky of muddy ocher, we who could not control the phenomenon are pressed into relief. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And, uh, I used watercolor paint because it can wash away easily, just like the memory of the Ibo revolt unless we keep studying it.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She pictured its tiny body washed by strangers, wrapped in a tawny shroud, lowered into a hole dug in a patch of windswept land under the disappointed gaze of vultures. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, washed my hands, and sighed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Victor doesn’t need them anymore, and Mr. Portman’s are being washed.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A shearing had brought a veritable mountain of gray wool to be washed and bleached and dyed, enough to keep Mercy carding and spinning and weaving for the next twelve months. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The earth around the porch was hard and white from where wash water had long been thrown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I ask you to wash those pots hours ago?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your father,” she said, “went seal hunting in that ridiculous kayak. He has been gone a month this day. He will not be back. Bits of his kayak washed up on the shore.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guest knew that this was right, but he could not understand why his feet were so dirty after he had washed them so carefully. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The water on the tiles in the shower stall turned pink around my feet where the dried blood washed down from my body. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I still remember my uncle taking a mouthful of water from a bucket, spitting it into his hands, and then washing his face with it,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But War Chief was only battling the paint which wouldn’t wash off, and it had been driving him crazy. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The workday is over, and Lev is washing ink off his hands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

An old, familiar feeling washes over me, Matilde’s tender- ness when I least deserved it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars, their colors washed grey from the toxic water, were strewn about like playthings. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Leo wasn’t even her target, but Piper’s charmspeak washed over him irresistibly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Leaving the building in this condition might attract attention to them, so Harvey had a washing machine and dryer installed in the warehouse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here she is, merely twenty years old and thousands of miles from the pastures of France, washing out the dressings of lepers and awful miscarriages, yet she’s electrified by my narrow escape. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news swept on past the brush houses, and it washed in a foaming wave into the town of stone and plaster. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both turn to the table, where Helena is stacking the dishes to wash. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wish that my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the train slowed, the smell of perspiration washed over him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After I had eaten I felt tired and, though I should have gone to the stream to wash my dishes, I began to write in this journal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I washed, changed my shirt, and went out in the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Let it wash a man’s crop out of the ground year after year, and them up there in Washington spending fifty thousand dollars a day keeping an army in Nicarauga or some place. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys conducted Abra through the house—opened closets to show wash basins and toilets and chandeliers, still crated and waiting to be installed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He used sticks and cleaned it as best he could, covered it with clean sand and went down to die lake to wash his hands and get a drink. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The way you acted. That’s like asking someone to a feast, then making them wash the dishes! But—farewell, anyway. That,” she added, “doesn’t count as speaking.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

A nun at St. Agnes Academy had once washed Hazel’s mouth with lye soap for saying something very similar, so she wasn’t sure how to respond. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A sad kind of acceptance washes over his face, but it disappears quickly. uHere.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My face was almost too swollen for me to ask for salt water to wash my mouth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A blush of heat washed across my face. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There the leaves are sorted, mixed, washed, dried, and packaged. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“She fell down into the sewer and was washed away.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes in whatever traces of blood I couldn’t wash from my nostrils and my teeth, whatever sweat I couldn’t wipe away. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Where the water had splashed him, his coat was washing away, leaving...scales? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You can get a spare for free from the janitor, but it won’t have the school crest. And don’t expect it to fit. Or have been washed.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As you’re walking, sound washes over you, the steady thrum of human activity, people talking in a dozen different languages, chatting, haggling, arguing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid I thought it was silly—going to church to get your feet washed? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My fingernails were stained yellow from the turmeric when I dressed in my best salwar kameez, and I didn’t even try to wash it off. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She paused to wash the taste of bark from her mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he said, “OK. Look. I’m going to go and put your clothes and the bedsheets into the washing machine and then I’ll come back, OK?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, a rumbling sound washed over them like distant artillery. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Much later, after all the sweets had been served and washed down with gallons of summerwine, the food was cleared and the tables shoved back against the walls to make room for the dancing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wash his hands after, by the way; it is a fundamental fact that bullies don’t wash their hands. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and sighed from time to time, the cold waves of his disappointment washing over us even from that distance. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“In the name of Allah, I perform the ablution,” the Muslim said aloud before washing first the right hand, then the left hand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, even after she had washed her hands, holding the crisp, slender hundred-dollar bill he had given her, her fingers still felt sticky; they no longer belonged to her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’d be good for you. Stop you from being totally washed away by grief later on.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If you tuanna play dirty, we can do that, and after I take you down, I’m gonna make you wash my clothes, cut my grass, lace my cleats. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the day of our reemergence, we went down to the river early in the morning to wash away the white ocher in the waters of the Mbashe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mop the floor, she washes dishes, and we go about our cleaning like this is a regular day. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The puffs will be ready in five minutes, girls. Please wash your hands first.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

After Lupita had come home from the fields, she showered, washed her hair, and got into her petticoat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“And it’s going to take forever to wash that off.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I ran ’round to the back stoop to wash my hands quick as I could. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

After she helped her mother wash and put away the dishes, Stella curled up on her bed and pulled out her notebook. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Only the bass fiddles rested as the entire orchestra washed the forest in color. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d really like to help, so I made a list of names and addresses for you. Joey got me out of that bad crowd. Even washing urinals is better than hanging around with those people.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in his office, he wept; and when he finished weeping he washed the blood from his mouth and nose, scrubbed the dirt from the abrasions on his cheek and forehead, and summoned Sergeant Towser. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After they ate, they washed up in the sink outside the house in the warmth of the summer night. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I washed and dried my dishes and our mugs, then wiped down the counter. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, a brief flicker of joy had washed across the thin, embittered face. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to write my story, how I had washed ashore in an old skiff, a ruined letter and a ruby ring tucked into my swaddling. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I rushed into the passenger seat, displacing a toolbox and welding gloves, while Grandma told Dad about my not washing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the girls’ room, I throw away the garbage and quickly wash my hands using 3 squirts of soap. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, and used the cold water to wash the blood off my face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This, strangely, doesn’t get applause, perhaps because big bald Mr. Garret Charles looks as if he eats children for lunch and washes them down with the blood of their favorite pet. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She’d let me cook dinner, wash dishes, and clean up after myself. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skipped hand washing, and instead I pulled on my lime green shorts and my Snowberger’s baseball shirt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a stricken man clutches my face between his hands, I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I washed the dust off my bare feet and splashed the water over me for the coolness. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I washed up the pots and pans and dried my hands. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Samuel came in from the yard where he had been washing himself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sadness washed over him, almost as if he were reliving those few terrible minutes of awakening in darkness to the memory loss. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten my earlier fright; it came back in a sick, bilious wash. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I tell her I’m washing all my blankets and linens and I want to nail up some rope to hang them in the attic so they won’t get dirty again or wet in the rain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Besides all the cleaning, she had washed and dried dishes for hours in Granny’s hot kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Before you go, find some water and wash your face.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Inside is a wicker basket, full of crumpled towels and bedsheets, waiting to be washed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bathroom floor was slimy with too much dirt washed off too many bodies, and the toilet was thick with the smells of strangers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He never committed an indignity on her while she washed him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It yawned and went on with its wash. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

There is not much required of me aboard ship, just to bring him his wash water in the morning and empty the slop buckets we all use. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When Beto asked her what was wrong, she told him to hush and wash his hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he looks back at her, she has picked up a rag to wash the kitchen sink... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to Baba recite the verses from the Quran, his melodious voice washing over me in gentle waves. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Was he weak because of the terror that washed over him whenever he saw a cop or a gun? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With supper over and the dishes washed, Grandpa said, “Well, we had better turn in as I want to get an early start in the morning.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she washed the other dishes in the sink, she looked out the window. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After washing his face in the farm spring, he and Mole resumed their trek into the dense forests of the Catskill Mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In those hours, Ma and us girls wash our clothes in a nearby stream, but without detergent they are not very clean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet he’s been too depressed to wash his hair since the breakup, which is why he’s wearing the hat. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She took a chair by me, washed the blood from my face, and, with a mother’s tenderness, bound up my head, covering the wounded eye with a lean piece of fresh beef. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

He walked along a pillared gallery and through a pointed arch, and found himself in a tiled courtyard where a woman was washing clothes at a well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The memories of the hard work in the rice fields, her father’s careworn hands, the plain rice in the dinner bowls, and Ma’s sighs washed upon her like the splashes of water from the lake. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The welcome hiss of wind washes in, or maybe it’s the sea and the wind, her ears unable to unbraid the two. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He said wash Him away with a little water, Grandma. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to have to do punk some other way, young lady. Go ask the school nurse for a wash cloth, see how much of that you can scrub off.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The washing rocks at the river were empty, and the watermelon patches, if any, were left alone to heat their hidden liquors in the sun. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath in, then out, and tried to let his anxiety wash from him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When I passed through the divider, I felt a tingling sensation from head to toe, and the scents of lemon, ginger, and fresh air washed over me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll wrap her in the blanket for now and dress her properly when it’s aired out a bit or washed if we can.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Malcolm took the soggy bundle and carefully separated what was to be thrown away and what was to be washed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Kira had lifted it from her mother’s neck when she was ill in order to wash the fevered body, and had placed it on the shelf near the basket of herbs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on the step stool, feeling a mixture of triumph and frustration, but when the water rains down on me, I’m washed all over with relief. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was nasty, but the key looked the same after I washed it off. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By morning, I'll be able to wash the damage done by the tears from my face. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled on his boots, washed his face and rinsed out his mouth in the meadow stream, and then ran pell-mell through the meadow, toward the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers swept the compound, washed their clothes, lined themselves on benches to welcome him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bloomberg was now sitting under the piano, on an island of sunshine, rather picturesquely washing his face. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Fine, I’ll wash my sweater after school. Is everyone happy now?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She should go into the bathing room and wash her hand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For years Mama begged him to at least wash his face in the morning and even got him special men’s woodsy-scented foaming face cleanser, but he didn’t touch it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

By the time they laid me on the washing table, I could no longer feel my limbs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the end of the village, the path went alongside a brook, and at the edge of the brook a young woman was kneeling and washing clothes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee had already underwritten the funeral and sent a wash basket of groceries to the stricken families. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma took in some of their washing for free because the firefighters of Station No. 3 never closed their doors like the other firehouses did when their firefighters weren’t getting paid. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are to wash your hands before class. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She was trying to wipe out as much as she could; then I would have to bathe and wash my hair. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She roused them early even though nobody in his right mind would wash his car on a rainy day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked listening to her when she told me to do something—wash the dishes, clean my room—because I liked the smile she had for me when I was done. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I washed up on a tiny island, like a seed riding the tide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the last of the evening light the man across the road was washing his car, but he took no notice of Will, and Will didn’t look at him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have a separate, mulish identity of their own that refused to be washed and folded and stowed. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I guess she did, because she finally pushed the basting pan aside and went to the sink to wash her hands. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept on rubbing and scrubbing the corn between her hands, and changing the water, until every hull came off and was washed away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four families lived in our building, and we all shared a toilet and a faucet where we got our water and did our washing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

That last day, I washed there again in the James and saw the laundresses mashing the clothes and talked real sweet to them and offered to do some wringing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now in Odysseus’ hall untended still our bodies lie, unknown to friends or kinsmen who should have laid us out and washed our wounds free of the clotted blood, and mourned our passing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We quickly washed beside the courtyard faucet and swallowed some dal. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Little Mermaid sheets were the same, and I wondered when they had last been washed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

While the service station checked his oil and tires, Doc washed his face and combed his beard and when he came back to the car a number of potential hitchhikers were waiting. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember anything about washing dishes and clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pax was washed with a relief so overwhelming that he could not move for a moment. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I have to get washed and report. Doesn’t anybody work now?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I miss taking long showers and washing and conditioning my hair. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Cat had been cleaned up, her wounds washed and bandaged, but she was skinny as a beanpole, and her hands shook when she picked up the silverware. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"If my wish would come true,” Mother hastened to change the subject, "you’d all be sitting in bathtubs right this minute, washing soot out of your hair.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when me and Ma come out the field toward dusk, I was washing off at the pump. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Jhiqui, a bath, please," she commanded, to wash the dust of travel from her skin and soak her weary bones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the blood would not wash off; many washings only turned the crystal water red; and someone cried: “Have you been to the river?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After Hugo had finished his rounds, he washed his face and hands in his basin. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She was kneeling at the edge of the pool, washing herself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I remember asking the men to leave while I washed up my girls, and dressed them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim cries then, tears pouring out faster than the rain can wash away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of the last few weeks washes over me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The whitewash was only partially completed, and the kiva murals were veiled under the white clay wash, not yet repainted for the winter ceremonies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I do what she tells me to, taking over the washing and scrubbing, waiting for her to say something, afraid I’m going to have to ask my question again—until, finally, she speaks. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He lifts a second glass to his mouth, this time green, washing away any trace of red. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The friend was now becoming angry, but he ran back to the river and washed the dirty feet again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The ablutions were good, but they were water; they did not wash sins away, they did not relieve the distressed heart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What day did your mother do the washing, Jacob?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Was it to conceal something they were unable to wash away? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She needed time and a chance to wash and change her dusty clothes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I chipped casings off bronze castings, washed glassware, and ground ore for alloys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its door hung open, and I thought I saw movement inside—some reason for hope— and then the lighthouse beam washed over everything. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Horace thought of her now, gray and washed, the needles in her throat and the rubber formalin tubes hanging down from the ceiling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the woman brought them soap, flannels and two enamel bowls to wash in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you wash pots out for people before you cook water in them?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just kept washing it in streams and water fountains as best he could and putting it back on. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She made food that needed washing before it touched a knife, pot, or pan. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The sea presents a barely audible wash on the other side. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His fingernails are rimmed with grime made up of axle grease and planting soil and animal blood and who knows what else, ground in so deep it can’t be washed off. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His neat hair and mustache were both in need of a wash and a trim. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They washed windows and swept floors and cleaned lavatories and put jars into boxes and sealed cardboard boxes in a factory that made malt syrup. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man chewed his lip and regarded me doubtfully, as if deciding whether to help or to wash his hands of the whole thing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Warmth flooded through her entire body, washing over her in a wave. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When Bill and the children had finished razor-blading the last bits of paint off the windows and washed the panes, they called Judy down from her upstairs study to come and see. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It “confirmed all our worries that he had no bed, no bed-clothes, no one to wash his things. But he wasn’t complaining at all, saying instead that it didn’t concern anyone and so on.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No, Rory made a quick round this morning. Nothing to wash, apparently,” she says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There, a nurse let me wash up with antibacterial soap. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can imagine my mom’s freak-out if she’d witnessed this sacrilege, so I quickly wash off in the sink and sweep up any remaining eggshell and dump it into the sink. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

All the pain was washed away, and I was glad I had come. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

For that reason, he urged doctors to wash their hands thoroughly and to sterilize hands and surgical instruments with carbolic acid. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Me and Daddy’s plates barely need washing, we scrape them so clean. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And in the front, where the band had stuck directly to the bare skin, there remained a whole lot of small patches of brown leathery stuff that no amount of washing would get off. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Meals are always being cooked, dishes washed, the vacuum or shower running. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Just shoot him, you see, then tie up to him real easy, then toss him overboard and wash your hands. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wrung out a rag that had been soaking in soapy water and wiped my face and hands before lifting my dirty hair to wash my neck. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want her to notice the bins full of yellowed towels waiting to be washed on Monday, the graffiti on the walls, the loose tiles, and the rusty pipes that dripped continuously. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two sets of cotton sheets are taken from the linen closet and washed, then hung to dry on the long clothesline beside the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It smells like she hasn’t washed her sheets in a few weeks, and the floor is covered with clothes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When he glanced back, a miniature mushroom cloud erupted from the middle of the bridge, rings of fire washing outward, and a pair of voices—Mars and Ares—screamed, “Noooo!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She boils water on the stove and spends a day at a great tin tub washing our shirts and socks, diapers for the twins, our two sheets, our three towels. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother washed my back as if I had left for only a day and were her baby yet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the river, those bodies, the water washing over them and then downriver to my Otto, and wished I’d been quick- thinking enough to stop him from drinking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she had washed and rubbed his feet with golden oil, he turned, dragging his bench again to the fire side for warmth, and hid the scar under his rags. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve had a damp spring. I’ve sprayed them twice, but to get the eggs off it’s best to wash them by hand.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I did whatever it took to wash myself at Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not as long as we get the dishes washed. Valentin has told me how to send money down to Mexico. He knows all of the ways.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Her hands, well calloused from years of harvesting, were stripped of their toughness and became soft in the wash water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell that it was very dingy and the windows were badly in need of washing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would go to the well and wash in the ice-cold, clear water, grease our legs with the equally cold stiff Vaseline, then tiptoe into the house. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It crossed the wash and wound its way up the slope, disappearing into the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna pretended not to have heard and instead said to Baby, “Now, look what you did to your dress! Hurry inside so we can wash it off!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But a few weeks later, Stupid Horse’s body washed up on the shores of Benjamin Lake, ten miles away from Turtle Lake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I combed my hair, and washed my hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The time will come for him to wash his hair and declare himself, I know, but that time is not now. Not to a camp of sellswords.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She brings it to the table, and the fumes wash over me. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of the most persistent problems of the day was “offensive feet,” caused by the prevailing habit of washing feet only once a week. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The large noonday meal must be out of the way and the dishes washed before the housekeeper could spare a moment, she said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hosie had washed himself and combed his hair and put on clean overalls, and I could tell Grandpa liked him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was a bandage on my head but she washed all around the edge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You ought to wash. Where did you go and what did you do? Tell me everything at once.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He would come home, black from the asphalt of the highway, wash himself out by the windmill, then spend the rest of the afternoon doing small, odd jobs around the rabbit pens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forgot that Mercedes ornaments do that—so they don’t get ripped off in car washes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The washing machine is a squat cylinder of white enamel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eva rushed to him and kicked over the earthen slop jar, washing a small area of the floor with the child’s urine. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie sat on the edge of his bed while Grandma folded up clothes that she had just washed for them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A moment later he had scrambled underneath and into the room, which was, as he’d guessed, a scullery, with sinks for washing and racks for drying crockery. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

First I washed it and rinsed it with sugar water. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Uriah looks better than he did an hour ago—he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color has returned to his face. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

That might have seemed like a good idea when he rigged it up, but every time a wave hit he was washed away, then smacked back into his control board like a human paddleball. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Strider judged that it had fallen two days before, and had washed away all footprints. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The island’s censors would black out the offending passages in ink, but they later changed this when they realized we could wash away the ink and see what was underneath. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the women did the wash, my father and the other men, hoping to provide the meal for the day, hunted for porcupines in the areas surrounding the stream. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He smelled fresh and clean from washing and his curly-blond hair gleamed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went into the flower-room and washed my hands in the basin to save going upstairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty nice. She’d wash my clothes and mend and do a little cooking.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two boats that had been washed out of the tunnel before us were now piled against the barricade—one submerged, the other cracked in half. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘Is it the custom in your land to wash the head before supper?’ said the man who waited on the hobbits. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“This one heard die Astapori scratching at the walls last night,” the little scribe said as she was washing Dany’s back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had a basin where I would scrub my dolls’ clothes and hang them with tiny clothespins on the wash line Adele strung at my height next to the playhouse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

While the boy was gone, Melisandre washed herself and changed her robes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You should always wash your hands after you use the toilet.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She took it weakly and washed out her mouth a few times. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She and Shriya walked off together, leaving the rest of the bananas behind for someone else to clean up, and I tried to wash the banana off me wherever I could. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We would sometimes sing while washing, which made the water seem less icy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I washed it with plenty of soap and water, and I put medicine on it. Here, brine will have to be my medicine. It should be just as good.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight slipped over the table in the corner and washed across the polished wooden floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, he ran to the river’s edge and washed both feet thoroughly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I had washed up there on the riptide of my husband’s confidence and the undertow of my children’s needs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket washed palest blue with lighter places at knees and elbows. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have much time, but we need you to wash up and change into something a little less conspicuous.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Bodies washed ashore as far away as coastal Mexico. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

So Roger, wincing and gasping at the heat, got in and washed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wash my hands, wash my face, rummage through the cabinets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Biff went into the bathroom to wash himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stood at the sink washing dishes as she spread peanut butter on saltine crackers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She leaned forward to offer him biscuits from the bone-china platter, which she sometimes, secretly, cradled like a baby after the washing and drying. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed her face, rinsed her feet, and rubbed two fingers over her teeth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jonas squeezed cleansing lotion onto the clean sponge at the edge of the tub and began to wash her frail body. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He washed his hands, removed his shoes, and lay down on the jail bed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I put on my backpack and climbed up onto the washing machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Eliza dragged me inside, saying we still had an obligation to wash down the sickroom. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell, I really can’t, whether I’m seeing this or imagining it—is she there, at the sink, washing up? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were done, they hung the wash on the clothesline and went inside. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the squadron knew that Kid Sampson’s skinny legs had washed up on the wet sand to he there and rot like a purple twisted wishbone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was trying to make my way to the girl’s bathroom because I really wanted to wash my face but Ocean suddenly caught up to me, caught me around the waist. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, her father was washing the dishes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Fish'll eat anything once it's soft enough. Mind you, if he fell into the Thames, his body'd wash up before long. The Thames always gives up its dead, the Thames does.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There were floors to be scrubbed, grime to be washed off windows, broken chairs and rotted beds to be carried off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After I’d gone through it and checked the endings, I washed my face and changed my shirt and went, with my books, over to Bunny’s room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He hoped I would wash overboard and drown. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He is fastidious about his clothing; their first argument had been over a sweater she’d shrunk in the washing machine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I need a cup of wine, to wash the taste of Tywin from my mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And Betty Allen washed my dress for me, which was very nice and thoughtful of her. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A washing machine, because no one here will scrub laundry in exchange for a bowl of rice. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Flavius, too, appears washed out without his purple lipstick and bright clothes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Kin long dead washed up and cast fey sidewise looks upon him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The wife would not stir herself to sweep the floor of their hut, nor did the children trouble to wash the food from their faces. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

This was what Yakov had been feeling when we had washed him, when he had been buried. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Afterward he knelt by the stream and washed the blood off his face in water cold as ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I washed his face and neck with the damp petticoat that didn’t catch fish. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Saturday, wash day, Farmer said, but it was obvious that nothing was going to come out of the muddy water Maytag clean. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"My lord wants his supper, and hot spice wine to wash it down," Arya announced, "and he doesn't want it cold." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But I don’t need to worry because the father responds immediately “Well, what about the state of you? When was the last time you washed that jacket?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The oil and grime had been washed from his legs to reveal an area below his thigh where pieces of shrapnel were embedded in the flesh. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"The point is this. When you haven't washed for a week and your skin is all covered over with dirt, then quite obviously the stink-waves cannot come oozing out nearly so strongly." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

With that promise in mind, Aru had cleaned her room and washed the dishes without complaint. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With our bundles in our hands, we stand before them, our faces washed, our hair wet and smoothed over, and our manners polite and respectful. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Amelia, let me wash them and you can take a break, just for a day or two, while they dry.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Should we move? Get a condo somewhere? Have electricity and heat and a washing machine and one of those air conditioner things?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t change her clothes. She doesn’t wash her dishes.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make “popular price” stuff—wash dresses, silks, and woolens. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His clothes were stiff and damp, like they’d been washed in pure starch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The room was washed in unnatural brightness; they sat us in a cluster on the dirty cement floor, and pointed three floodlights toward us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Penny darts about, chasing Butterscotch, running in circles around the car, which has been washed and shined. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The anger had been washed out of him when he’d dropped the knife. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my blood was pumping furiously through my body, washing away any remorse I might have felt. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For several moments he stood still, letting the abuse wash over him, then he stepped into the pickup and drove off, leaving Dad to shout at the dust. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Alyce found a spot a bit upriver from the befouled washing pool, pulled off her clothes, and waded in. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The kind that comes from washing your hair only every other shower.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t think a single child escaped having his or her mouth roughly washed out with soap. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought they would be washed up close to the shore, when the tide came. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner I washed the dishes as usual and swept the floor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the light turned green, I took a left and drove a minute up the strip, to the car wash. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

If the ooze sits a while it forms a crust that has to be picked off or washed away. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My entire coffee patch washed right off the hill.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I scrub off the dirt and sweat from the woods and even wash my hair. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mark’s attention was fully on the man in the green suit now, and a sudden gray tinge washed over the man’s face, as if he’d been possessed by some ghostly presence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas’s grogginess instantly washed away, replaced with relief— it surprised him how much joy the information brought. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She turns off the oatmeal, rinses the teapot they used the night before, and washes the cups and saucers. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mother told us all about her lesson plans and complimented Judy on the job she’d done washing the windows before she got around to asking me about the first day of school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whined and saved me a wash job on my face. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at me over her shoulder as she stood at the sink washing asparagus. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Obinze secured the washing machines at the back, tightening the straps until they were snug, and then climbed in and studied the map to find the shortest routes to their delivery addresses. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I need to wash the dishes now,” I call over my shoulder, and run downstairs to the kitchen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several days later, in a village where the river meets the sea, there washed up on the banks two blocks of wood carved in the shape of the hooves of some unknown beast. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he couldn’t know that when she’d checked under her bed before dinner, there were fresh chalk marks for her to wash away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The first week of Mr. Quisling’s challenge was a wash, since everyone’s submitted ciphers had been broken. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He says, Grand, grand, and goes to the shed to wash himself though when he comes back you’d never know he touched himself with water at all he’s that black. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sat on an inverted wash- tub and trembled as its metallic coldness seeped through my pants. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wave of inexplicable anger washed over me, which I immediately quelled. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It took the sea a day to wash off the oily smears from the sides of the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

June’s hands are soft, like she’s never washed dishes in her life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like us, their families moved to big houses with big yards to tend on weekends, they owned fancy cars that needed washing and waxing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sparkles my face, washes my lungs, fills me with a sense of fluid motion. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mamá stood at the kitchen sink washing dishes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like skin and hair that weren’t washed as often as free people’s. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Returning, unpacking the groceries, piling the dollars and change beside the toaster, washing the apples before putting them in the refrigerator, Dicey heard herself humming the song about Peggy-o. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the most wonderful warmth wash over me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And she would tell Loomis and her cousin Sissyretta and all her friends who did yard work or cooked in white kitchens or took in washing or nursed white children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to make it believable,” she’ll say, and I find myself reaching for that dirty glass a hundred times to wash it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t wash the shorts, just the underwear and socks and shirts. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed the dishes when they let me, enjoyed the smells of kabob in the making, and waited for the horns to sound. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And there in their midst was Sansa, dressed in sky- blue silk, with her long auburn hair washed and curled and silver bracelets on her wrists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

News from the outside world was like listening to the radio on a drive through the mountains—the distant voices clear for a moment, then warbling, and then washing into static. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the hush of the prayer hall, with its crystal chandelier, gold trim, and big plaques with Arabic calligraphy decorating the walls, a familiar calm washes over me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wash out my mouth with water and then mouthwash and then more water. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

You won’t believe this, but there are peoples who pay money to other peoples to wash their hairs and even to paint colors on their toes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She washed her hair with lots of shampoo so that the suds would cover the surface of the water. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The draccus grunted again, and another wash of fire ran through the narrow gap below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few men are seated with their sleeves rolled up, washing their arms and feet, and it suddenly occurs to me that the ancient mosque isn’t a museum or monument. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When he leaned forward to take the money, his stench—like sour milk and feet that hadn't been washed in weeks—flooded my nostrils and made my gorge rise. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I washed his face, which was cold and sticky. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The one I loaned to Liz. I know I said I did, but...it’s a nice brush. I washed it in the sink, but then I thought, if I hadn’t gotten lice yet...” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, supper was over, the dishes washed, and Nat was still talking. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slice and sew and suction through a river of it, like they are washing dishes in soapy water. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hung a filled feed bag on his neck, then he went to work washing the wagon, whistling, “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just then, Lenny heads for the door right next to where I’m sitting on the washing machine. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He walked to the kitchen and washed his face with cold water. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I put my face against the soft hair at the back of her neck and breathe her in, baby powder and child’s washed flesh and shampoo, with an undertone, the faint scent of urine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Izzi hands me a freshly washed sheet, and I hang it on the line with impatient hands. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As I washed my ankle I thought it was a most peculiar wound, and puzzling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When a body was found decayed or with devastating injuries, we would dress it in burial shrouds but not wash it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rocks were dirty and washing them kept her calm and away from Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo and I read the notices on the board for secondhand Legos, kittens needing homes, good-as-new washing machines for £10 OBO, and ads promising you hundreds of extra pounds in your spare time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She washes her hands at the kitchen sink, wipes a towel across her neck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The ocean was flat then, but when the waves came the body would wash off the board. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sins of the town would be washed in the waters of the golden carp... Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A feeling washes over me, and I forget about everything that’s on my mind. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They dug up all the gorgonbladder in the grove and washed it clean. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The kids wore these clothes until they fell to bits, and then the bits were washed and returned to the cabin, for the ragbag. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I get back to the house, Dad’s just washing up at the pump, using grease to get the oil off his arms. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

By bargaining this way, before she knew it, Dicey had six regular jobs, washing the city grime off the windows of neighborhood stores. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also a holy place for washing and preparing, a last stop before reaching Sacred Sun City at Machu Picchu. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I shall not dilate upon these intrigues; they were washed away by all that followed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t matter, we will wash it again afterwards.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence as he washed my cut with soapy water and a washcloth, one hand grabbing the back of my ankle to raise my leg up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the rising tide washed over my high pier. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first week of Mr. Quisling’s challenge was a wash, since everyone’s submitted ciphers had been broken. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, Mama would sing while washing laundry or cooking dinner or any of a million chores that had to be done around the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sciron, for instance, who had made those he captured kneel to wash his feet and then kicked them down into the sea, Theseus hurled over a precipice. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I washed your rocket things and put them in a paper sack in the cupboard,” she said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then June turned her head, catching Ivy staring at her, and Ivy felt her whole body flame up in a wash of embarrassment. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jay went to wash up first, but I climbed straight onto my bed. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With horror, Anya realized everyone was going to wash their hands. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dicey washed out all of their underwear, using the cake of soap on the sink. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine him getting hit by cars, washed away by rogue waves, attacked by mountain lions. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, while he washed his face and combed back his hair, his mother addressed him irritably. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have not washed my body all at once since the New Year,” said Wang Lung in a low voice. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Hope you washed out that jar real good with hot water and soap. Hope you washed away the dill-pickle smell.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They need water and soap to wash with every now and then, or else they have to struggle with parasites and diseases. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then he washed himself and brushed back his wet hair with his fingers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed my face and hands, but even then I could smell it within the soap stinging, constricting the nostrils a little. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go take it off, hang on . He stumped out of the cabin, and they saw him washing himself vigorously in the water barrel outside the window. “Eau de cologne?” said Hermione in amazement. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, he put the salad things in the sink and halfheartedly began to wash them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And there’s no place to wash, which just adds to the horror. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom he scrubbed the mud from his hands, washed his face, and put on the blue shirt Naomi had made for him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They washed and dressed and went with the others to the canteen for breakfast. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze some body wash into the tub and move my hand around the bottom until bubbles start forming. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He bowed and faced the wall until she had washed in the chipped basin, dried herself on the thin towel, and undressed and got into bed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now it was as if a great wind had washed the land clean of sounds. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conversation washes over me, slips around me, snagging now and then when I’m expected to answer a question or laugh at a joke. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was busy with the growing boys and with keeping the house clean and the clothes washed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sagebrush, exposed stone, and dry washes turned into a blurry mosaic. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

So I finish, flush, wash my hands, and then stare in the mirror and start popping zits. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt nice — the first time I’d enjoyed the constant moisture falling out of the sky — as it washed my face clean of the sticky perspiration. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The children washed the dishes while their grandmother watched them and told them where to put things away. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the fire rustle and the distant clunk of dishes being washed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I washed it, I covered it with a towel while it dried in the sun. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it washes over Misty’s body, the flood is already inches deep. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We wash down the food with cold tea because we have no fire to heat it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I let the warm air wash over me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I said, “Big Ma, you want me to get something washed or cooking?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I wash my hands and shove the apple core down the disposal. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My mother wanted me to help her sweep and do the washing this morning.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She hired a local woman named Minnie whose sole job was washing the laboratory glassware using the only product Margaret would allow: Gold Dust Twins soap. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Behind him the yellow light lay like a wash of paint on the roof of the house. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wash my eyes three times a day with the boric acid powder. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He brings in the butchered dirty meat and washes it in the sink with detergent and hot water. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn't it felt good to wash out whatever nameless storm swept through me? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t like to wash a beggar’s sores either,” said Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kyro asks everyone to settle down, then announces, “This weekend’s car wash is hereby canceled, and those of you who are still baking can stop already!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s just gonna wash back up again in the next good storm.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa kept pouring in more water and washing the gun barrel with the cloth on the ramrod until the water ran out clear. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time she’s, like, supercharged, washing windows and ironing sheets. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The kids who wanted to be kids instead of washing dishes and ironing their papa’s shirts, and the husband who wanted a wife again. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho looked down at his hands clasped to Thomas’s shirt and shame washed across his face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Papa Acevedo’s eyes seemed to glare off at some impossible enemy, and his colors had faded into an almost see-through wash since yesterday. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mom always washes them twice before I wear them. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then when he had washed the ashtray and the glass he brought out a pistol from his pocket and put a bullet in his chest. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Uh, yeah? Are you kidding? Last summer, my mother kept giving me the choice of reading or washing her car. She had the cleanest car in the neighborhood all summer long.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

All I really knew for certain was that a lawyer didn’t wash dishes, as I was doing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed her hands, then looked at my side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pilots would climb out with their clothes covered with castor oil, and the smell didn’t wash off. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then he washed his hands, threw the oilcloth over himself, and before midnight he returned with a few strings of dried meat, several bags of rice, corn with weevils, and some emaciated bunches of bananas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The white dress she’d taken the care to wash out every day was ragged. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was very gentle with us and did not notice a badly washed dinner plate that left a greasy stain on the dish towel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Which 1 bought with your cigarette money. Apply it to wet hair, and it won’t wash out for months.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the medicine cabinet were three kinds of deodorant, shaving cream, a razor, and two bottles of face wash. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She washed and put away the few dishes, then took her cleaning materials into the sitting room. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He washed his cup and plate and knife and fork and spoon and saucepan, put them away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed it repeatedly until it was soft and seemed old. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I washed it down with some Martian coffee. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman squats in the dirt to wash a squawking baby in a metal bucket. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then she runs into the kitchen and starts washing the breakfast and lunch dishes like a maniac, doing them by hand and stacking them away instead of putting them into the dishwasher. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fog lay over the sea, washing against the island in gray waves. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He washes his own equipment and uniforms after every practice and game, though, and he takes showers that seem like the kind that workers get after there’s a chemical leak at a nuclear power plant. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy is washing up the dishes when we hear a knock on the door. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She had come out on the back porch to empty her wash water just as I headed for the barn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Biddy had all the stuff pull out the bottom cabinets and was washing the insides. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I dunk my head into the frothy water and try to let the warmth wash these thoughts all away. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I kissed her on the cheek and crossed the tiny living room to the kitchen to wash my hands and grab a banana. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I think when I’m done looking for my patron to be, I’m going to wash my hands of this place and never look back.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wincing at the pain in her ankle, Sefia sat up and stared at the unmoving tent flaps as the memories of the previous day washed over her again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mother keeps wanting to wash herself clean, but she clings to her clay and her dust. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alys squeezed cloths that she lifted from the pail of water, handed one to Claire, and together they began to wash the thin body. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They stepped up into a larger room washed in sunshine from tall windows. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He saw a receding wash of gray and blue fading in a haze toward the setting sun, like something oriental on a dinner plate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Not 50 loud, or we’ll get our mouths -washed out -with laundry soap.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window was open and the chirrup of the crickets washed in harsh and strong. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She sat up, yawned, stretched, shivered, and washed in the chilly spring before eating a couple of dried figs and taking stock of the place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Decent people everywhere were affronted, and Milo was all washed up untn he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I was as tall as the washing machine, I stepped out on the back porch one night, and some heavy, ruffling, windy, clawed thing d;ved at me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apa is washing the rear bumper and does not see him. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

After the tolling of the names and the ritual washing, the entire morning was dedicated to a heated debate about whether or not fire should be banned as a method of gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He throws his hands out, like they could wash away his words. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he realized it was light, he took off his clothes, washed, dressed again, and went to the chandlery. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight washed over everything like a rich bath of gold and silver, making the fish shimmer like pearls and the girl glow with a magical glory reserved for the stars of heaven. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He washed the mortar and pestle and dried it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’s saying something about washing my face and swishing some water around in my mouth, but her words sound muffled, like I’m inside a giant bubble. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

What the suspect ate, what he wore, where he went, who he talked to, where he sat, how many times he washed his hands—as much as I can remember. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still looked as if he had slept for the last week in his clothes; but his beard had been trimmed, or at least washed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I wade into the water and wash off the gore, from my weapons, my wounds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn't manage to wash a coffee mug, yet they'd been more than willing to criticize the detergent manufacturer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

That is, he had washed the palms but not backs of his hands, his mouth but not the eyes of his face. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you must wash the glue from your skin or it will fester.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each town the Hocking touches tells a story: Athens Coolville Lancaster Nelsonville, each waits for the Hocking water to wash through. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

May was on the other side of the porch running clothes through the rubber rollers on the wringer washing machine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

An indigenous girl a couple of years younger than me— maybe twelve or thirteen—appears at the door to the patio, her hands red and wet, probably from washing clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow washed away for good after that one dangerously icy day. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother at this time seemed to be always working- cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning, and fussing over us eight children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I smelled the chicken roasting and I ran off to get washed up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s expecting you. Don’t forget to wash your hands.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mother got up to bring us some hot food from the stove, which she put before us when we had washed and sat down. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I washed my hands in the sea, my hands became solid again. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that meant he needed to help with the sweeping or washing, he was willing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He got out an enormous empty glass jar that was the size of a washing machine. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah ignored them and kept on bringing mason jars out of the cellar and washing them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun climbed the eastern sky, I gathered with the others in the tahara house’s washing room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a pitcher of water and a washbasin in each bedroom for washing up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed my hands and started for the door just as I heard Lily come out of our room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then the waves “with their soft, white hands” wash out the travelers footprints. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I can work. I can wash dishes and stuff?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

His response was that it hadn’t washed away my sin for all that. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I washed out my handkerchief, packed it back into my nose, and went out to the bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the very least, we speculated excitedly, there would be vending machines and rest rooms, where we could wash and get fresh water, look in a mirror—briefly be groomed and civilized. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred went to the back to wash his hands while Lou filled out the deposit slip. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day he kept busy cooking, carving, soaking in the pond, fishing, carrying the ancestor rock, washing clothes, doing schoolwork, and cutting firewood. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

At the word wash Matt wiggled harder, trying to get free. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine. If you throw in some buttered toast. And you wash the plate after.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

One of the out-of-work men had apparently worked there after me and he said, “I used to feed and wash these dogs every day. They love meat.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone paving was still wet from the washing down after market, and the last of the farmers gathered baskets and gear before going home. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He also asked Amil to sweep the floors and wash the windows. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He leaned under to wash the horse’s belly and the horse tensed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not want the gold to wash away in the dishwater and the laundry water and the field water. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A search revealed that the socks they had arrived in were being washed, and that in the obliterating thrill of passion, Aunt Hermione had omitted to pack more than one extra pair. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

By the time I was done with the washing, my hands felt raw, but the dishes were clean, and the teashop man grumpily agreed I’d done more than enough. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And I still washed dishes and helped with dinner. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Without anyone asking, Blake or Josh would saunter in, wash a stack, and then go back to playing bluegrass music or working in the shop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Lenny never has time to drive me, and this washing machine isn’t about to start working again.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Or I could build the canoe here on the rocks and take the chance that another storm would wash it away before I was finished. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skies looked newly washed, streaked with light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green velvet curtain was drawn back to let the thin winter sunshine wash in. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As I hold the detachable showerhead for Pop, he washes his hair, and I watch the suds run down his neck and over Grandmom’s green rosary beads. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even sit down to the meal, just went straight from serving to washing dishes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to wash your feet with glass cleaner?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She says my clothes are a disgrace and what did I wash them in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the Cranes left for the concert, a murky white washed the sky. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I ate at the kitchen table while my mom washed dishes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he washed the boy’s hand with a soft white rag he said, “You musta slammed these fingers in a awful heavy door or gate.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearer the door, the Queen’s Hand was attacking a brace of capons, sucking the meat off the bones and washing down each bite with ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On a well-worn rock nearby, Enrique’s grandmother washes musty used clothing she sells door to door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In any case he can’t whisper back, because he has to look straight ahead at the horizon, or at the white lines of the road that washes toward us, wave after slowly undulating wave. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heave the baton into the air high as the pennants wave over the stadium, and the hurricane finally catches me and I close my eyes and let it wash over me: “COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGAN!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

We washed our hands and dipped fresh naan from the tandoor into the shorwa—it was the best meal I had had in months. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left to wash up, I glanced at the paper and saw what Aunt Tuti was talking about. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Bob washed his bowl with his squirt bottle and rag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘Leaves out of the elf-country, gah! They stinks. He climbed in those trees, and he couldn’t wash the smell off his hands, my nice hands.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Today, Mama picks me up early from the library and we drive to Sudz-O-Rama to wash clothes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mama and Papa stood in the kitchen, washing dishes, filling glasses, and forcing more food onto their guests’ plates. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But since then, people with pools used the remaining water in them to wash their cars and water their lawns and such. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I put the key in the door, I said, “Go wash your face and hands real good. Play Go Fish until I call you for supper.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night, after I finished practicing trumpet, I put my sweater in the washing machine. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas turned to look back into the Maze and dread washed through him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Flittman couldn’t stand it so he got in the habit of washing the horse in front of his house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that Suesetta is waiting for me and there’s no telling how long it will take for all of these dishes to get washed, dried, and put away. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wash my face in the sink until there is nothing left of it, no eyes, no nose, no mouth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He carefully removed the bandage on his shoulder, threw the foul-smelling thing in the chamber pot, and replaced the lid before washing his shoulder clean in the hand basin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, after they ate, Josiah would wash up, change his clothes, and go out again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It held the nursery, and none of them could bear the sight of the empty cribs, even if the blood was long since washed away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk to her that way. She told you Capone washed them, Capone washed them.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I dumped and washed out the chamber pot, I gave thanks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat stopped walking, sat down, and began to wash itself thoughtfully, apparently unaware of Coraline’s existence. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I’d wiped down the counters and mopped the floor, and Elizabeth washed the pans. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The soiled clothes were dumped out of the wash basket and it was lined with a ragged but clean blanket and set up on two chairs near the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I want this to wash up and connect me with Griswold’s shooting?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You know that hole in the wall over the washing machine,” I start. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I washed the outsides of both bags with bleach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond those canvas walls, each man got a heel of bread and a chunk of black sausage no longer than a finger, washed down with the last of Galbart Glover’s ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finn walked a little farther than the others, till the voices of the people of Bone Gap washed over him the way they always did. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her backpack was gone—lost during the fall, or maybe washed away in the river. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I washed my face and braided my hair like I did every morning. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if I wash it, it will make it better.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His wavy blond hair gleamed and he smelled clean and fresh from washing and shaving. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

These thoughts preoccupied her as she washed her hands and face and chose a clean dress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She is constantly making demands on Ann: Heat some water, wash these clothes, get supper on the table. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

At length, she prompted gently, “If Sir wish his clothes washed, he must needs give them to me in my hand.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I toss my stuff to the floor, wash my hands at the kitchen sink, and fill plates for us both, a double-large portion for him. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“But nevertheless, I don’t want electricity and all that it will bring—radios, TV, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, washing machines—noise. I want to hear the birds.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave him his pain pills, washed his clothes, read him the international section of the newspaper every afternoon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d think they’d at least offer to wash up since they had nothing to do with the cooking,” she said in a low voice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Yet she stayed there a year, cooking, washing dishes and pots and pans, scrubbing the floor. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fruit then. Or vegetables. Make sure they’re washed. I don’t want any of your chemical poisons in my blood.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Either that or it was washed up somewhere along the bay’s shore, maybe even as far south as the bay bridge. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Harry looked up at the stars still glimmering palely in the dark sky and listened to the sea washing backward and forward against the cliff: He was going to miss the sound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

First came a blast of water jets, which washed traces of blood from her space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do that sometimes,” S.Q. reflected, “only I usually forget I wrote something on my hand, and I wash it off before I remember. What are you writing?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had no dishes to wash, no carpets to vacuum, no floors to polish, no nappies to change and no bills to pay. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when I have survived the worst, opening my eyes underwater, sniffing water into my sinuses and snorting it out, and even gargling repeatedly to wash out my throat, I’m functional enough to help Finnick. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she washed and mended, she only ever heard them say, “Don’t worry, Aziz joon. Soon you will come of age and claim the khan’s inheritance.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We could prepare the platters and wash the porcelain plates and glasses, but we could not eat from them. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s a change of clothes and some necessities in there. Don’t take a million years, but feel free to wash that camp off you.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He said that the instruments, tubing, and solutions used to wash out Garfield's wound each day were disinfected as Lister recommended. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And if we weren’t doing all that, we were filling candle molds with beeswax and washing mason jars till my hands turned stiff as corn husk from detergent. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have fed you and washed you and nursed you if I’d known you were going to turn around and steal my husband.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But no, first the fruit had to be washed; these strange, so-called blood oranges were gathered wild from the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, she snuck out of the house with rags to wash his cuts, and gave him food and water. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ruffling her brother’s hair, Rupa took the sifted rice outside to wash it and put it on the stove. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mixed with the spin of holographic stars, glimpses of pale faces with red-tonic-lined lips wash by like anemic vampires. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She took her meals to her bedroom and annatto water for her to wash in and she kept her up to date on everything that happened in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Black and swollen with rain, enough water to wash the city clean. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bacchus told him to go wash in the source of the river Pactolus and he would lose the fatal gift. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst part of being on punishment isn’t the cleaning up and washing dishes and raking leaves, it’s not being able to go over to Suesetta’s house after church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They hit you if you wash your hair on certain days, or tap somebody with a ruler, or step over a brother whether it’s during your menses or not. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can wash, sew, even doctor the sick a little.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we got up, she stripped the sheets from the beds and washed them too. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But the task she’d set herself was only half done, so Ophie finished washing the remaining windows as quickly as possible. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

By the lower river where the wagon came were washing pools, with water all year flowing in limpid spillways that no grime withstood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wash it and put it to the side of the sink with the others so I can dry them and place them back in the cupboard before we leave. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Good thing Mom makes me wash my own clothes,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His teacher had warned him that he would need to work harder than his classmates to wash away the sins of his mother and brother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile I was there and not there, cringing at Luce’s touch, sprouting goose bumps, and worrying that I hadn’t washed properly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rest he threw in the water, saw the small round fish begin tearing at it, and washed his hands. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She prepared a new potion and with this she washed the cuts on my face and feet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Says a white shark washed up on the Cape. He’s wondering if you want to watch the biologists cut it open.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I spent the whole day working beside her: shelling peas, kneading bread dough, turning the handle of the wringer after she’d washed clothes, feeding the chickens, sweeping the porch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father lay on the beach and the waves were already washing over him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped that the washing and the scrubbing at the house and the factory and warehouse work back in my own time had made me strong enough just to survive. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wash the dishes quickly, because I don’t want to miss it when Mamita comes banging on the door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she blew her nose on toilet tissue and washed her face. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And if their mother wanted to wash their armpits, she would have to get a crowbar and pry their arms up, because they sure as heck were not going to move. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had it washed and painted, changed the furniture, restored the garden and planted new flowers, and opened doors and windows so that the dazzling light of summer would penetrate even into the bedrooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I washed my face, I could see in the mirror that my eyes were still red from crying. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Especially if we spray on our perfume and wash our feet.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As he bathed, the girl washed his feet, scrubbed his back, and brushed his hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rishi sat up, ignoring the lurching of stomach acid and the slow roll of the wave of nausea washing over him, and grabbed her wrists. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Although he washed immediately, he became acutely ill and died the next day. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Get me an appointment with your hairdresser this instant for a hair-dyeing job! Tell them it's an emergency! They've got to boot someone else off their list! I'm going upstairs to wash it now!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

And won’t give you a smile, mope in their rooms, don’t wash their hair, the smell. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite early on my trip, however, I invented a method for washing clothes which you will go a long way to better. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desdemona, finding the scraps in the wash, thought they had to do with the new restaurant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“If my husband wishes me to wash his feet, he must first wash mine. I will tell him so this evening.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He tried to get to them, but his feet were stuck in the ground, and he could only watch as they were washed out to sea. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She washed her hands in the basin, then dried them carelessly on her shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I let the water wash off the dust and the stress and the hurt of the day. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He looked at Peggy; she was bent over the sink, washing dishes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I served the hot chocolate and tidied the chamber, Madam rubbed her face with Venetian Bloom Water beauty wash, said to remove wrinkles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee took the second baby, washed it, wrapped it, and put it in the basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A chill washed over her at the telling of this tale. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had not washed since the day her father died, and she was startled at how filthy the water became. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My goggles wash most of the color out of the scene. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I step lightly, careful not to slip, and wash the grease from my hands using the big industrial sink. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The glass itself had a beautiful iridescent sheen, as if it had been washed in the finish of mermaid pearls. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I slowly, thoroughly wash the makeup from my face and put my hair in its braid, I begin transforming back into myself. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I help Grandpa clear the table and wash up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The washing was done in the basement and in the back half of the first floor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rented a car, and it took us more than two hours to get there, even though it wasn’t far away, because Mom kept stopping to go to the bathroom and wash her face. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We ate our fill that night, washing down the sandwiches with big glasses of milk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We scrubbed the floor and washed the windows and polished the grate and dusted the ledges and wiped the picture-frames and carefully tidied away all the hockey-sticks and cricket-bats and umbrellas. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed, brushed my hair and we started. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I owe you, Filthy, so I’m gonna cut the grass for the rest of the year and pick up the leaves . . . and I’ll wash the cars and I’ll even wash your hair. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He reached up to grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Not long after you were born, someone sent a letter to Penikese, asking questions about a baby who had washed up on one of the Elizabeths. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Guilt washed over me as I realized that this was all my fault. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Seer went to the sink, moved the washed lettuce to the side, and began to rinse the cleaned salmon steaks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She probably thought I was washing all my clothes or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She didn’t realize you were supposed to wash out the mayonnaise, and in the picture that year I was peering out from under one stiff shingle of hair. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We did two loads of laundry, washed out our cups and food bowls and pots and pans, bought and sent postcards, phoned home, and stocked up liberally on fresh and packaged foods in the shop. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I strip off my crumpled dress, dip a cloth in the chipped bowl we use for wash water, and scrub everything I can reach until it tingles. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When she did, he took a gulp, then swallowed the two aspirin, washing them down with more water. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They needed the rivers to rise in order to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands, and to enable their vast irrigation systems to fill with water. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I washed my hands with a foamy pink soap that squirted from a bottle. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he washed the last traces of the soap and the toothpaste from his face with lukewarm water. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I imagined her dress to be a pale, listless yellow from too many washings. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His clothes, still slightly damp from their recent washing, had returned to their usual cinnabar color. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The lake seemed to wash away the troubles of the past, and the grand old mountains to look benignly down upon them saying, “Little children, love one another.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they open, the heat washes over me and it hits me that I’m somewhere completely different. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I ache to pull her to me now and press my lips against hers and wash away the sorrow in her eyes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Go downstairs and I’ll be down in a minute to wash them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He and Herold could not bathe or wash clothes and, unshaven, they looked and smelled worse each day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pecan tree made the perfect reading spot, with its far-reaching arms and its cradle high enough to keep me above fighting sisters or Big Ma when wash day came around. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We make our way round the pulpit, unable to keep from looking where Aaron was, his blood already washed away by the spray. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She falls asleep on the couch as the latest soap washes over the screen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When she reached her grandmother’s house, the old woman did not send her away, but took her in and washed her, and her makgabe, making everything smell sweetly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Ophie shook her head and went back to washing the windows. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He carried me over to the sink and washed the oil out of my eye. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was like a giant bowl, cracked in half, the other half washed out to sea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Every poor person in England used to wash that way until not so very long ago. And they didn't have a Primus. They had to heat the water over the fire in the hearth." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning cracked the sky, and a wash of white color illumined the face looking in at old LaFarge there in the doorway. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, suddenly he was that little kid tearing down a back alley with some housewife hanging wash and shouting, “Look at ’im scoot!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I could hear nothing but the crackling of the fire, the washing sound of the surf. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back on the pillow as relief washes over me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“She can comb my hair and keep house. She can wash the dishes and serve our meals. And she can take care of the little boys.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d pulled myself together, I stood at the sink and washed my face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You were hoarse with crying when you washed up here. You cawed over and over. So I called you Crow.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But he did have access to the storeroom, he did work all day washing the raw gold, fresh from the mines, in the big vats at the rear of the shop. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

So now instead of delivering packiges and washing out the toilets and dumping the garbage. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only the patter of the rain and the wash of the water from the drainpipes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

What if she knew that I sometimes wore eye makeup and washed it off before I came home? When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to zoom out of there so fast and wash my hand. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I saw him—scrubbed clean by a nurse, with his hair cut short and washed and brushed—I could hardly believe it was Muthu. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am,” I say, not wanting to turn till I can wash off my lip. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“When you kneel down to wash his feet,” Hazel said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In late summer, I was washing up in a pond when I noticed the plants growing around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But then I dipped my spoon back into the milk, to wash down the soggy cereal. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had evidently finished feeding and was washing his face with his front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed dishes and tried to scrub the bathtub, but I still had to get after her to hang up her school clothes instead of throwing them on the floor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I scrub myself hard in the shower, wishing that mean part of me could wash away under hot water. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They would let in twice as much light if they were washed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of them at all anymore— they’d broken up and, over the years, washed away into the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The room is dimly lit—a single lamp, in the corner by the couch, washing the deep blues of the walls neutral. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I go in the kitchen where Doctor Tate’s washing his hands. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I washed the traces off me and then put on a pair of chocolate brown slacks, a pair which Phineas had been particularly critical of when he wasn’t wearing them, and a blue flannel shirt. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was going to drink Coke like water all night—she might even wash her face with it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

"I keep telling Jim he needs to wash his knives," said Mr. Pike, who owned the general store. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We washed the sisters’ thin bodies and pulled clean shifts over their heads. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Simply stunning. Though such pale green tends to wash out women of pallid skin.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He allowed the familiar feeling of panic to wash over him, and then he began to think. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She straightened up, sighing, and went over to the sink to wash the coffee from her cloth. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three Domishmen broke their fast in the predawn chill—a simple meal of fruit and bread and cheese, washed down with goat milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wash quickly with my left hand, leaving my right hand hanging at my side. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Take a wet rag to the leather and wash the laces so they always seem like I just got ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wash off my brush and prepare the gray and white paints. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She examined it from several angles before washing the pane, thoroughly. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked away, and two other people stepped up to wash their own hands. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In my semihysterical state earlier, I had not thought to wash it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He went out to walk to the canal to fetch a bucket of clear water to wash in. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up and smiled at him, but she was busy, gently washing a man who lay in the warm water. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Gotta go wash my hands,” she said as she left her hag on the chair next to mine. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I got up and took a few dishes into the kitchen to wash. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe the sin will be washed away, kind of like what’s supposed to happen in baptism. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He delayed washing up so that the running water would not drown out her voice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a long day of roasting in the sun, no one is thrilled about the walk for a wash, so we rarely bathe. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you would like to wash before we eat—the tap is outside, my husband will show you.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had washed the body, but there was still a smell. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that she went through her beauty routine, a cleansing, creaming ritual, which on Saturday nights included washing her hair. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his hair washed and cut and freshly dyed a deep, dark blue, his eyes looked blue as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I would have told you that sooner, but under the stadium lights, everything looked kind of washed out. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom is washing and ironing all of the curtains. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Babi came out of the bathroom, his hair—peppered white with flour when he’d come home—washed clean now and combed back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind not having to wash dishes or mop the kitchen floor. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday night Mam will boil water on the stove and wash us in the great tin tub and Dad will dry us. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Around ten or eleven, I sneak away, back to the hotel to change into my regular clothes and wash the dishes piled in the sink. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A poor student, C.P. had quit school in the eighth grade and had gone to work at a service station, washing and greasing cars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the night, God knew when, Finn’s brother had cleaned things out, scrubbed things down, as if a girl could be washed from memory just by washing the floors. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Warden had tried unsuccessfully to jam Ginny’s washing machine into the already crowded bus. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether evidence is being washed away, whether right at this moment vital clues are disappearing forever: smears of blood, footprints, DNA-loaded cigarette butts. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce was greatly relieved when enough soap was made to wash all the linen in England, and brewing could begin. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Aeneid was one thing—at least there were storms and ships being tossed and people being washed overboard. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their wealth is washing over the upper reaches of society as it did a century ago, bringing cultural and political clout as they take up positions on museum boards and organize presidential campaign fund-raising dinners. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They brought her food and water, emptied her chamber pot, and took away her shift for washing every few days, leaving her to huddle naked under her blanket until it was returned to her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He moved about the kitchen, washed the breakfast dishes, and swept the floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The couple did not speak as he washed his trembling hands in the basin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She blew away freshly buffed nail fuzz, “Oh, and make sure you wash your hands after applying self-tanner. Otherwise, people might think you’re secretly Mexican.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was my own, the very one I’d looked upon in the stream when Bear had made me cut my hair and wash my face. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He let the empty minutes wash over him, lonely and slow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun washed away all the sweat and grime, and what he assumed was a fair amount of oil and raw sewage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He washed his hands and wet his hair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relief washed over me like a gentle surf. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was washed, and she was wearing her favorite sundress, the one with blue stars. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“This is the last time I wash that long hair of yours! Tomorrow I’m bringing my hairdresser over,” she announces. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the three of them could hear her rapid chatter, and a familiarity washed over Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t they make you wash in this place?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A Swift & Company worker washing cattle carcasses on a disassembly line. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He kept getting up to wash his hands. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A long time after he dozed off, I was still awake, watching the blue light of the Nature Channel wash over the stuffed trophy heads on Geryon’s walls. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Vertigo washed over her as she stared upward at the pale towers, so far above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“They will, Joseph. The house needs to be tended to, cooked for, cleaned, washed, scrubbed. It needs to be loved. It’s not like a book you can just close and put back on a shelf.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her body worked all day planting, weeding, baby-sitting, washing—oh, so many chores!—but her spirit had nothing to do. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then, as the cool water washed over me, could I forget Sass’s scalding words and the fiery sun. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was more concerned about me washing dishes and scrubbing floors than keeping my own hands clean. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Another long pause—she’s talking to me and doing something else, multitasking, the way busy wives and mothers do, tidying up, loading the washing machine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting at the dinner table, with Cordelia, his warnings washing over our heads, the ruined water, the poisoned trees, species after species snuffed out like stepped-on ants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I held my shoes under the sink and washed off the glue. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

We wanted to spend every minute of the half hour Papa allocated to uniform washing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wash off the blood and then tiptoe down the hall, to the balcony overlooking the street. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They nibbled on spiced sausage that morning, washed down with a dark smokeberry brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here I am washing my hands and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There may have been others on the bank and in the space behind them, but they would have washed away with the ebb and flow of the tide. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, while rain, instead of hail, fell steadily, they lay in the shallow brook, laughing and joking, washing off the raspberry stains their hands had left all over their bodies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One quick slash opened the seijeant’s throat, sending a wash of blood down his chest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If they wash loose, they will be crushed among the boulders!” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Will you let us wash them, at least?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once Mr. Bow spotted the lice, he escorted me to a delousing shower room in the hospital and I washed with a parasiticide that smelled like licorice. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That evening, he was washing Master’s linen in the backyard, near the lemon tree, when he looked up from the basin of soapy water and saw her standing by the back door, watching him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dawdled at the outhouse and took a long time to wash his face, hands, and feet at the pump. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

What could be easier than to drop a pinch of gold dust, a few nuggets, into a wineskin instead of into the washing vats? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote takes me out there with a pick and teaches me how to pry them from the earth, then wash them off under the pump. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But he smelled like a foreigner, a lamb-smell stink that can never be washed away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the sun has already started to set, washing the landscape from gold into pink. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is my least favorite task, almost as disgusting as washing diapers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a boy. You get to lie around listening to stories. I have to scrub the floor, wash clothes, sweep the courtyard and—and—air out the babies’ bedding. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frank finished washing the horse and stood him under the tree where his head was in the shade. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat trickled down my neck, washing away my sunblock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Quickly, Bandit got out of bed, used what was left in Fourth Cousin’s water urn to wash, dressed, plaited her hair and then began seriously to clean the room. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The women washed the sheets in the galley and wrung them out, and we hung them to dry upon the rails, so our ship flapped gray in the winter breeze. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Jacob dreamt of raising the Jews of Paris in a great rebellion, washing over the bridge in waves of righteous anger like the Maccabees washed over the Greeks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jason washes his hands and runs back to his video game in the living room. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

After school one day in October, Mom came home and immediately headed for the sink to wash the marshmallow off her hands. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the separate kitchen at the back, his wife pours basins of hot water for us to wash. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few flecks of snowy cloud hung high in the morning-blue sky, and already a woman was hanging wash on a roof. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us were born steeped in sin, the sin of our fathers that Baptism and Confirmation began to wash away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin had stopped way down on the beach, a solitary little figure with the waves washing her legs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that no amount of forgiveness would ever wash away his need to be forgiven every day. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At ten years of age, I started washing and pressing my own hair. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t thinking of the kind of dirt that can be washed off. You bring with you evil city ways.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His red suit made his pupils look even more washed out, and his body seemed tense, like a dog scenting its prey. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They don’t spank us or rap us on the knuckles with rulers or wash our mouths out with soap, all of that stuff you read about in old-fashioned books. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At home, I have homework, and dinner to make, and dishes to wash. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then they ran me through a kind of human car wash—a series of machines that soaped, scrubbed, disinfected, rinsed, dried, and deloused me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then Dad placed his credit card on the table before getting up to wash the moo shu off his hands. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind washing a little boy named Brandon because he never fussed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

With it he washed clean the stones that Wormtongue had defiled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Every wash over the side adds more to the water sloshing in the boat. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he walked to the sink and washed his hands and dried them on the roller towel. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“There be no time for washing,” he scoffed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, several small towns were washed away and eleven people lost their lives. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked dinner every night, drove herself to the supermarket, washed their clothes, put them away. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They came utterly weary to the pool, and Juana slumped to her knees and first washed Coyotito’s face and then filled her bottle and gave him a drink. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the warm months, morning began with a quick wash in unheated well water. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed her hands, then patted them dry. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At another open window on the same side of the house, the one next to the sink where Hagar washed her hair and where Reba put pintos to soak, a woman’s face appeared. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the washing machine in the basement was a wide counter and a deep steel sink. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had melted into their hides, washing out the dirt and manure, leaving them silky white; the spots were golden brown. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Caesar finished washing up, Sam gave them their papers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I can feel the bandage on my head detach and wash away in the current. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Waves of dread wash over me, and every internal alarm I have is blaring. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"I sent 'em all out to be washed," said Bud. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One machine washed the clothes, a second machine dried the clothes, and a third machine washed the dishes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my shirt has gone six weeks without being washed and is terribly muddy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor says, “You may dress,” and washes his hands at a sink. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then when the three of them came into the house for dinner, after washing the last of the hog smell off their hands in the mudroom, Dad handed Mother the tax bill without comment. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mud! Get out! If you come in my house, wash your boots first.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they finished, they cleaned the house, emptied the coal ash, and washed everything they had used before leaving. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She asked for help from passersby and swept the streets and washed clothes in exchange for money, but one tragic evening, in a pool of moonlight, her mother died in her arms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep ache washed through Mark, and tears stung his eyes as he cried out even louder. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If she could really see me, I’d be alive and she’d be telling me to “clean my room,” “take out the trash,” “wash my hands.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

A wave of water washed across her fingers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A wave of relief washed over him, and the alchemist muttered some words that the boy didn’t understand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wanted to do whatever I could to take care of Mom and Dad, and part of me just wanted to wash my hands of them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She roasted the bacon and washed up the mugs and knives and sprinkled fleabane about to keep the fleas down. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

An oval Mylar mirror hangs above the sink, and when I wash my hands, I notice my grimy face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“By the time you’re done working two shifts, you’ll smell plenty without any help from me. So be sure to wash up,” he called as he pedaled off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A wave washed over the prow of the deck, knocking him off his feet. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very hot night—Selvam and Ira were sleeping out in the open, in the small square in front of our hut which I had swept and washed with dung that morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my heart had become the broken washing machine at the laundromat. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Through the kitchen window I could see two of the women squabbling about who would wash and who would dry. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit on my knees and wash some of the sweat from my face. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And he had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel took a moment to inhale it all, to let the smells wash over her—not that they were particularly good, but it was one more moment that she didn’t have to be in school. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I had to wash dishes, I would crack one or two. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after that we found a stream and stopped to drink and rest and wash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were washing him and wrapping him in something. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The mouse recognized him and sat up, washing his face with his front paws and chattering effusively. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But though her windows didn’t shine and her curtains drooped with dust and nobody could of eaten off her floors, she kept the bed made, the dishes washed, and things in place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Far beyond, players in whites showed sharp against the red of the courts surrounded by grass, a gay vista washed by the sun. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran far that day, away from the town, letting the wind wash him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world could wash away, and she would still be there with that lopsided smile, the one that made me smile just thinking about it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rotted corpses of fish and of whales, of seals and sea monsters, will wash in the waves. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mum couldn’t hear 'cause the washing machine was on berserk cycle and she was hoovering the living room. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’d be glad to stay at home from school and make sure everyone is fed and washed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She cried when Papa said she could bring only one cat, but losing the cats was nothing compared to gaining Queenie, who would help with the baby and do their washing and cook their food. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“After school, you can come to help prep for dinner, and then after dinner, help clear the tables and wash dishes. And can you do Saturday and Sunday brunches as well?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When dinner was through, the dishes would pile even higher than the mountain Mom and I had washed after Nowruz. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m only saying it one more time. You will go up now and wash and change.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Herbert Hoover had come in spouting equal optimism, buoyantly predicting that a day would soon come when poverty would be washed out of American life forever. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She dried her hands and left the sink, something Luke had almost never seen her do if there were still dirty dishes left to be washed. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The childrens are taking turns up and down the creaky stairs to bathe in the big tub and to wash their hairs. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she says kind of low, “you can talk to me about anything, Minny” I keep washing, feel my nose start to flare. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That reminds me of Chase. Last time he was over, he helped me with the supper dishes. Nearly talked my ear off about how he was going to invent a washing machine for dishes someday.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A wave of sadness washes over her and seeps into every inch of her body, taking her breath away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single day they had to be washed, then rubbed with saddle soap. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I cleared away the table, Madam informed me that my day off would begin after I brought in wood and washed up the dishes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick is washing the car, his hat on sideways. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed and changed into the one clean shirt she had left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Luckiest girl I know. New dress and bonnet, train ride, holiday with a handsome man ...” She took the cloth from Rachel’s hand, tipped up the child’s chin, and began to wash her upturned face. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The lovers make a suicide pact, and are found the next morning, washed up on the beach with their arms around each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We washed our dishes and clothes in the river, and then jumped in the water in our underwear. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Mom,” I said quietly before going to wash my face at the outside work sink, “please don’t tell Dad about the gun accident.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He did not work in the yard, help in the house, wash cars, shine shoes, or anything. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant, called Haedanghwa Korean Cuisine, was hectic and Shin worked long hours, washing dishes and cleaning tables. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“And no, I don’t have your vegetables, or your washed fruit. But it’s not my fault, Artemis in-sis-ted I come right down....” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Salim goes to the bathroom, washes out his mouth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Here by the tall reeds where the blood of Lupito washes into the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of his known victims had been butchered outdoors, but I also remembered reading about torsos and limbs washing ashore the Thames. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The adrenaline was washing out of me, and I was so dizzy I started to fall when I tried to stand. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I don’t want my sins washed away, either. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“So let's quickly wash the little one's ears and neck.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the Charlestown ferry slip he washed in the cold sea water, and because the sun was warm sunned himself as he did what he could to make his shabby clothes presentable. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I dipped my feet into the water, it was so dark and murky, my skin was dirtier than before I had washed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

So used to summers on Beechwood, to endlessly stocked pantries and multiple motorboats and a staff quietly grilling steaks and washing linens—I didn’t even think about where that money might be coming from. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Two TV crews washed her in lights and interviewed her backstage. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

We make small talk as we go, and Max nods and smiles, wearing a hat and coat I found in a trash heap and washed four times. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In a haze I washed up, put on my white dress shirt, buttoned it bottom-up, and slung my black tie around my neck. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The river tore the edges of the farm lands and washed whole acres down; it toppled barns and houses into itself, to go floating and bobbing away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She begins: My mother and your mother were washing clothes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they take Edward away, I carry a change of clothes into the bathroom and wash my hands. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I found some shelf fungus growing on a dead tree and ate it after washing it in the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of going down to the river to wash my face in the cool water when I heard a loud whoop. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The earthquake was in the Atlantic, and lower Manhattan got hit by a tsunami. Big one, too. Like the tidal waves haven’t been enough to wash New York clean of sin.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Henry turns back to him, his eyes silver in the wash of the streetlight. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The number had washed off my hand a long time ago, but that was okay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Here, I’ll draw you some fresh, Miss Love,” I said, emptying the bucket into the wash pan. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mom gets up from the table and washes her plate. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This force washed out the monsters who worked in public spaces, allegedly for the public, but it carried farther, into the homes and schools. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The shower washes away some of my jumbled thoughts, and by the time I step out, I feel a little calmer about being here. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Earlier this morning, in the pitch black, I bathed and washed my hair in the wooden shack out back, crouching, shivering, wincing beneath buckets of frigid water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While waiting for the tank to refill, I thought maybe I should wash my hair. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A league of grass, washed by a slow broad stream, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shirley, the dishes need to be washed. Can you do them?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the narrow street the dark houses of the village gave us some shelter from the wind, but the water of the Bay was already washing across the crushed oyster shells. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martin huffed through his explanation, washing his sweaty gray hair from his face as he spoke. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They washed each other afterward, taking their time about it in the friendly way of certain married people, and then Carl got into bed and slept until one in the afternoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After he was all washed and dried, I brushed him good. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d used one like it back in San Antonio when she went with Tía Cuca to wash and sew for one of the wealthier Mexican families. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told him to go wash his own moron face--which was a pretty childish thing to say, but I was mad as hell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“That excuse is more used than a box of Ivory flakes on wash day.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We drank from a large pot before washing our legs off. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In order to read the books, I had to take them with me, hidden in my sari, when I went to wash the clothes in the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had the Opel washed before Master finished breakfast, and when Master came back from work and was taking a siesta, he dusted the car over again, before Master left for the tennis courts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hey, how about stepping back and letting this gentleman wash his hands?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deluge continues as if the Gamemakers are intent on washing us all away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the girl, washing her filth from her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then, in the raft, we washed one another down with disinfectant, just in case any germs might be on the outside of our garments. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now in the alleys she saw men washing themselves at open faucets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The wind kicked up huge swirling waves of powder snow that washed down the mountain like breaking surf, plastering my clothing with frost. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was in Culpeper, Virginia, washing clothes in a hotel, when she learned that there was a colony of Negro farmers on an island off the coast of Virginia. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He washed his face as soon as he got home and sent himself to his room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Well,” the man said, “a giant white stone washed up from the sea and the Tiger King ordered me to make a sculpture of himself on a horse from it.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t. Not if this has something to do with a virus. I ... I need to go wash myself in the stream.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The thing had frayed in the wash, so the silvery gray now just looked gray, a total noncolor, like something she’d washed and worn for a decade. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Auntie was washing beans now, sifting them through her fingers in a pan of water. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do we know you didn’t have your mom wash these?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t,” I said before washing down the last of my biscuit with some buttermilk. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At home, she took them apart at the seams, washed their pelts, fluffed their filling, repolished their eyes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She made a show of washing out her rice bowl with hot tea, and then warned other restaurant patrons seated near us to do the same. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beggar returned the pan, still wet from being washed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He studied his son like he was trying to memorize his face, and suddenly a cold feeling washed through me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s a first time for everything. Go in the stall and hand over your shirt. You can’t wash it while you’re wearing it.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then take this soft brush and rub over her, yep, just like that, to wash away the dust. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Ash said, continuing to wash her hands. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many years before, two whales had washed up on the sandspit. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a direct path away from the truck—straight up the slope of the wash. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I sat at the table and watched as Helen washed the dirty dishes, tied up the garbage bag, watered a spider plant over the sink, and poured boiling water into two cups. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

While washing up I managed to inform Walter and Kathy about the digging outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To rest and wash and tell about the miracles of the day. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He brings a wash of sea water with him. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got to say, the girl don’t stink, so she must wash those things right often. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The sight and sound of water became a torment; Fitzsimmons habitually avoided areas of the barn where horses were being washed because the spectacle of flowing water was agonizing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d become their emergency selves, in which lopped-off state they felt humanity stretched smoothly between them like one long wash line. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama dozed while Stella washed the dishes, swept the house and both porches, and peeled potatoes for supper. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

How would I ever wash away the stain of blood from the sweet waters of my river! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the foggy glass screening them, his eyes looked bright, washed clear by his tears. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When had I last washed my hands or face? The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Sunday morning before breakfast Abuela handed me my piqué dress, washed and ironed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, after handing Tree-ear the bowls to wash, Crane-man sat down with his knife and a sturdy straight branch and began to whittle a new crutch. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Sand and gravel washed up from the creek. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He nodded in the direction of the kitchen, where Miss Love was washing up pans while waiting for her pound cake to get done. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I got a run in one of the new stockings last night. I didn’t notice it until I washed them this morning.’ The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The water washes away the dirt, but it will never put out the fire of hate I have for the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malachy helps her wash the twins’ bottoms though he’s ready to fall asleep himself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I had to run up and wash. I was playing tennis when the bell rang. Won’t you sit down?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had not washed his hands, nor did he wear a mask. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lake Michigan still washes onto the sand at both Twenty-Sixth Street and Twenty-Ninth Street. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They all scattered for a frenzy of clothes changing, face washing, and teeth brushing. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After dinner one night, as I’m washing the dishes, he studies me with concern. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we find we appreciate you more and more, Mum, now we’re washing our own socks,” said George, waving an airy hand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Doctors often skipped the step of scrupulously washing their hands and fingernails with soap and water before treating a wound or performing surgery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tears wash across my body as I fly away, leaving Pa there by himself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a bed to his right the woman spoke again: “Buddy, get up from there! I got a big washing on my hands today and I want you-all out of here.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After brushing his teeth, and washing his face, and emailing Dr. Martin and Lark, and picking a book, Axel climbs into his very own bed for the first time in over three weeks. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ethan is not in the courtyard as promised, but after several misdirected attempts, I eventually find him at the lavanderia, the ancient washing basins next to the gardens. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Lissa ran water in the sink and began washing dishes with a lot of clattering. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mohammad has plenty to talk about as he marches me through the camp, though his friendly words wash over me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a kind of penance, he did not wash his face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victor looked through the balustrade at the canal below, and at the houses, whose stony feet were washed by the water day in, day out. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now that they couldn’t count on their father’s help, their whole world felt washed away. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I try to let the music wash away that feeling that comes when white people make you feel special or stupid for no good reason. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as Grandpa finishes his last bite, I quickly clear the dishes, wash the plates, and run to set up my phone with the little tripod my dad bought for me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Tree-ear washed in the river and fetched a gourd of water for Crane-man, who never went into the river if he could help it; he hated getting his feet wet. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His car was too skanky—a white boxy Chrysler that hadn’t been washed in months. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the water that had swept over BaiMa had washed away all his hair. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Most foreigners will give money for car wash from time to time, or before they go turn in the car. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d suddenly lost any desire to talk, and his plans for a perfect day washed away with the stream. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I washed Mother’s hair this evening, which is no easy task these days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

You won’t have to strip and wax the floors or wash the windows. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They weren’t client files; they were for family, stuff like birth certificates and house insurance and life insurance and repair bills and receipts for major items like our refrigerator and television and washing machine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then I heard him start the washing machine and I heard the boiler starting up and the water in the water pipes going into the washing machine. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Laika had run off somewhere into the dry wash of the canyon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s only two o’clock but I already done cleaned the house down to the nubs, polished the bathrooms, washed the clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The aching in my belly was like wash being wrung so tightly, there wasn’t a drop of water left in the clothes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, the sheet was lifted only high enough to expose the area we were washing, making it feel as though there wasn’t a whole person beneath the linen, just a puzzle of disembodied parts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He washed it all down with a cold glass of milk. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Even after they had driven over the bumps and washed- out places on the sandy road, and made sure that these things had not happened, she would be satisfied for only two or three days. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I must have been in shock, because the people looked like squid washing up on the shore. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If he closed his eyes, he could still see his mother standing there, washing dishes...when she had been well enough to do something that normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After washing the dishes, I fidget with the remote in the living room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Through the night in the tossing chest she listened to the waters that seemed always about to wash over them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are the oblivious ones, who go about their lives like the Tap-Out was a dream that waking life has completely washed away. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Why should she have to wash the dishes while her sister sits out there chatting away with Our Lord? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rain had just washed everything, seeming to sharpen the plants’ smells. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he would have a faint shadow of stubble on his jaw, waiting for a morning shave, or maybe the circles under his eyes would wash out in the low light. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I washed the dishes, I said nothing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to look decent for my job so I take off all my clothes and stand naked in the backyard washing them under the tap with a bar of carbolic soap. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The conditions usually responsible for these losses in Oklahoma were those made familiar by repetition over the years: the application of insecticides to crops, a heavy rain, and poison washed into the ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The bones of dead creatures sprawled in the washes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She scooped up water to wash the evil taste out her mouth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spit some out, and a big black blob lands on the white blouse Mami washed and ironed for me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My vision spun like a washing machine at the end of its cycle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Twice in half an hour, Montag had to rise from the game and go to the latrine to wash his hands. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a wash in the only water available, which was icy cold, he put on a clean shirt and sat down at the little table. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

With a long-handled, double-edged axe, he split fence rails from massive cedar logs that washed down the Dungeness in the spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His words washed over me as cold as the ocean floor, and my dreams went blade. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But the good clean earth of the room did not wash away or filter the strong smell of death in the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were none of the mean people Seven had come to recognize from the Hill, and a wave of relief washed over her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looked up from washing dishes and saw the river full of small sailboats leaning toward the far shore and knifing toward the bridge which was not in her view. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with sticky fingers washed, Abby and I started out with the lighter aqua color, and before long Wynn was hunched over the frame, helping. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I followed JimmyTrotter inside, where he washed the glue smell off his hands. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I held on to his collar and led him down to the river to wash him off. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pat tells Grandma he met a man who is looking for a place to stay that will let him wash himself morning and night and give him two meals a day, dinner and tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“More like a chaperone, but if you want him to wash your nappies and tuck you in at night, that’s your business.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was installed and humming happily as I loaded Auk XXII-A on top of the washing machine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wash the tomatoes and cut ’em open. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had just begun washing the dishes that were stacked in the sink when there was a knock on the back door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were pale blue, and her hair would be a darkish blond once it was washed; because she was filthy, and she smelled as if she hadn’t bathed for days. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her relief at finding shelter and a way to build a fire had washed away the anger of the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spread her hands and rolled her eyes comically, funny Lucy Ricardo washing her hands of a disaster. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A current washed over him, releasing the knots in his shoulders and back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Collecting water was hazardous again, and she had to wash hurriedly, with one eye watching for the crocodile. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished dinner and dried the dishes that Dad washed, I went out to check on her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Twice a week he would wash the complete change in the tub and would wear his robe until it dried because he had nothing else to put on. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had made him wash, taught him manners, and told him stories. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

While Dudley lolled around watching and eating ice cream, Harry cleaned the windows, washed the car, mowed the lawn, trimmed the flower beds, pruned and watered the roses, and repainted the garden bench. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His skin grew cracked and itchy without the daily wash of his beloved swamp water. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Naomi felt his eyes follow her as she tossed out the burned tortilla and washed the pan. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

What would Kaz say if she suddenly stripped down and started washing herself in front of him? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At home, the big security lights washed out the stars, but here they stared down at him with an intensity that was almost frightening. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Yours would be the same color, too, if you’d let me wash it.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In this migrant dormitory, he has washed his mouth with urine, a home remedy for his still aching, broken teeth. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I washed people’s cars to earn enough money to get by. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You can wash the color out the same day. James will have to wait weeks for his to grow back.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He waved me away with an impatient gesture, as if I still stank, though I had done my best to wash thoroughly. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I start washing last night’s dishes, wishing she’d just leave me be. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“After all these years? Surely it would’ve been washed off, painted over, or just thrown away by now. Why don’t we just set off our firecrackers and go see Hattie Mae about some lemonade?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Audrey arrives at about ten, all washed up and smelling like clean. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Electric lights lit the windows, and inside we could sometimes see a family sitting down to listen to the radio together, or washing dishes in the kitchen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he washed it too, and twice he cut it, with Helen’s help. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

With as civil a nod as he could muster, he stepped to the new boy’s side at the bench and drew a washing tray toward him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Each night in the bitterest winter we were forced to wash faces, arms, necks, legs and feet before going to bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waxed the floor, took down curtains to wash and arranged books on the shelves. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a few more weeks, it was that way, too, at the restaurant where I worked washing dishes, and at the Sweriins’. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun began to set and Minli went home to make dinner, she quickly washed and made the rice. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards they rested in the deep pine needles under the trees, the terrier panting heavily with his eyes half closed, and the cat busy with his eternal washing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After brushing out the long, wet strands, I wash off what little makeup is left on my face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He takes Charlie into the boys’ room and tells him to wash off the blood and dirt from his face and hands before he goes back home.... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Amari said with fear tightening her voice as she carefully washed the child and wrapped her in the blanket. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is a flat gray color, like underwear washed so many times it’s about to fall apart. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She is the color of a bar of naphtha laundry soap, she is like the little brown piece left at the end of the wash, the hard little bone, my sister. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slaves kept her house clean, did much of her sewing, all her cooking and washing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Toby cleaned up the food and washed out the Tupperware in the bathroom sink, bringing everything back to the El Camino, including the wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you wash your face and fix your hair before you came down to breakfast? A lady would never make her appearance until she had at least fixed her face.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was washed up on the shore and Hero, finding it, killed herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind tossed a handful of snow in my face and washed it all away. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had put the cream in the tall crockery churn and set it near the stove to warm, she washed and scraped a long orange-colored carrot. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama will keep some of these papers to light fires; others will be used to wash windows or line our shoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s mostly a big terrace with some sinks for washing clothes and crisscrossed clotheslines. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That it was impossible for him to even consider making the bed, or washing clothes or dishes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed the windows, swept the floor, aired the house, took a long bath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock, the movers had laid out carpets, positioned furniture, hooked up the washing machine and dryer, and filled each room with the stencil-marked boxes that the Meechams would have to unpack. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a horrified look of grief wash over my friends’ faces. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sleep had officially washed away, and there was nothing to do but wait until his friend woke up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When he’d finished, he washed his hands and face at the barrel near the back door, sat at the table, and waited for Mami to serve him supper. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though the rain washed Mammachi’s spit off his face, it didn’t stop the feeling that somebody had lifted off his head and vomited into his body. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, even if he’d had an assistant, he would have washed these flasks himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were done, they washed their hands extra carefully at the pump to make sure not a speck of dirt would smudge the catalog. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beau whined, and I kicked once more, and for the first time I got my shoulders clear of the water for a second, before my legs were washed out from beneath me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A mourning dove called from the tall grass along the wash, and below the cliffs the speckled cattle were grazing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We both washed up silently and put on some clean clothes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied that she was covered up, and that nobody had seen anything, Jinny dashed down to the kitchen to wash her hands from the scalding kettle of water on the cookstove. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Of course you don’t. Very good. Did you wash before you came here?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If I die before her, I don’t know what Miss Sissy gone do about getting her hair washed.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I had to wash the dishes, so I would dash out to the pump. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arya plunged her face down into it to wash off the dust and dirt and sweat of the day. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had assisted in enough washings to know what I was looking at. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He explained that when he washed open wounds with carbolic acid, fewer patients died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, Hard Tack’s raging temper had also come out in the genetic wash. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wind rushes over the lip of the hole and washes over me, and I close my eyes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was a daring, impulsive move on which the chaplain decided after quarreling with Corporal Whitcomb again and washing down with tepid canteen water his joyless lunch of a Milky Way and Baby Ruth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They left their suppers or their washing up or their dressing for the show and they came out upon their now-not-quite-as-new porches and watched the green star of Earth there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed at the dried blood and grime beneath my fingernails, thinking of the remorse I would never be able to wash down a sink. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The coyote had probably been hit by a car on the highway and then limped out here into the middle of the wash to lie down and die. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There is a jowly woman hanging her wash across the alley with a trolling motion of rope. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One mouthful every fifteen minutes will make it last and if I wash it down with water the bread will swell in my belly and give me the full feeling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as Stella was washing up out at the pump, her father joined her, a strange look on his face. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Get over here to the sink and wash yourself,” his mother said without raising her eyes from the stove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying it now because I might not have time later. I forgive you for not washing the dishes when it was your turn.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was still in bed when she heard Rasheed in the bathroom, washing up, when he came into her room to check on her before he went to his shop. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her kitchen reminded me of ours last night before I’d washed a mountain of dinner dishes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I came walking behind; with me other women, whispering words of comfort that the rain washed away as soon as they were uttered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d told me the ring was a little big and kept slipping off when her hands were in the soapy wash water. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He told me Mom used to bust out laughing because there was always one girl who was new to it, and went offbeat, like a washing machine with one lumpy towel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

As for the rest of the extra nitrogen, the spring rains wash it off Naylor’s fields, carrying it into drainage ditches. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Nick is there, still washing the car, whistling a little. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just said they need to get washed. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

You simply turned the ignition switch with your hand and it fired, and one evening a guy did just that as Daddy was standing by the kitchen window washing dishes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie- Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We used the rooms every night to brush our teeth and wash our faces, and, once or twice a week, to shower. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, go wash your hands, for supper. And Papa, put away this litter of paints, because you won’t be needing them for quite a while.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes even the fishermen’s huts were washed away, knocked right off their long-legged stilts and swept down the river. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, while he washed the dinner dishes and I dried, I asked, "Gramps, why don't you ever talk about Birdie with the guys?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I remember changing clothes in my room and washing up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s step right along and get them dishes washed and dried and put up,” she said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lays out his washed socks to dry on the grass. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheets washed down his cheeks, and a finger crept under his cloak and doublet and down his back, a cold rivulet along his spine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There's a stone ghat for washing clothes at the edge of the pond. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Behind his closed eyelids, Pong saw a wash of golden light, as if the sun had flown past his face. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The world seemed washed of color. It felt pointless.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We wash the windows, sweep the floors, and finish polishing the silver. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It shone full on Franny’s hair, which was jet-black and very prettily cut, and had been washed three times in as many days. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In another, she was washing the dishes in the apartment. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t looking so bad after he washed away the dried blood yesterday. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They had also peeled potatoes, scrubbed pots and floors, washed windows, and hauled boxes and broken furniture. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Filthy brat. Go upstairs to the bathroom and wash yourself. Then take an oilcloth and a fresh blanket from the airing cupboard and go back to bed. We’ll discuss your punishment in the morning.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I am very, very tired, but I take a shower and wash my hair. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She let her head tilt sideways, closed her eyes, and shook her massive trunk, letting the laughter fall like a wash of red leaves all around us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

That’s a stainless steel cylinder that resembles a top-loading washing machine with dozens of black rubber fingers projecting from the sides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Naked bulbs washed the canvas with harsh yellow light. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to the table where his dinner plate cooled, his mother asked, “Did you wash your hands?” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was not ashes even, it was feathery dust....I went and washed my hands in the basin. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She washed the laundry in the river, making sure she didn’t break any buttons this time. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

But no, first we had to prepare Mum Olga’s breakfast and wash all the dishes, and Mandy wouldn’t use the smallest magic to speed the process. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We married her to a school principal. The rice was cooked in rosewater. The mayor was invited. Everybody washed their fingers in pewter bowls.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lighting the gas stove no longer took much thought, and she knew how to handle the oil- and mud-stained laundry Henry left in heaps for her to wash. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Babies are the same, no matter what the color. You might as well wash the twins’ bedding. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it stalked over to the corner of the stall and began to wash itself. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Old Nan undressed her and helped her into a scalding hot bath and washed the blood off her with a soft cloth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rain washed the soldier’s blood down off the bus windows and yellow panels, stretching the bloated dark lines, drawing them out as they disappeared completely. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had loved to wash and tend his hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But look at how he insisted on doing the washing up. Of course I couldn't let him.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She told me that girls who don't wash their junk get horrible infections, so I never skipped showering again. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time he cleared the bay, the receding current would help wash him away from the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel said, ‘‘You can wash in there,” indicating a small room hardly bigger than a closet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were no wash things, like a toothbrush, because these were still in the bathroom, I remembered, on the shelf over the basin. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to wash them in the machine, but for that, I’d have to go downstairs and pass by the rooms where Chloe’s family lives. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t get too used to it—it’ll wash out in a few days. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There came a day when Wang Lung returned to his house over the fields and he drew near to her as she washed his clothes at the pool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever they did so, their mouths would be washed out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the stairs, not even bothering to wash off the dirt and dried blood. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then she added quickly, “If you want to wash anything, tonight’s the time. I’m canning tomorrow and the next week.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells us take off all our clothes and she washes the coal off our hands and faces. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She won’t wash her hair or cut her nails on Friday. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I say, grabbing a washed shirt to put on. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I lie there until the first crescent of sunlight appears on the floor of my bedroom, like a seashell washed in on the tide. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I ran over to them and just let their happiness wash over me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They had finished lunch and washed and dried the plates and glasses by the time Father Joseph arrived. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wore the white dress you give me in the kindness of your heart Nancy, and it was washed and ironed fresh and pretty. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We endured pelting rainstorms that washed away our topsoil. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Another group of people got the same passage but with a new tidbit slipped into the instructions: “The paragraph you will hear will be about washing clothes.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She washes the big pots and pans while I take them from her to dry them with a towel and put them down on the counter. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Like every child of an innkeeper, Malcolm had to work around the tavern, washing dishes and glasses, carrying plates of food or tankards of beer, retrieving them when they were empty. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he washed his hands, he laughed because the water was warm. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It washes away all enchantment, all magical concealment! They know there are impostors in Gringotts, they have set off defenses against us!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Just around the corner, in the entryway, the washing machine sits up against the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Dad was hopping round in one sock, complaining about how the washing machine had eaten all his socks and he was late. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could wash its hands of responsibility, placing blame on the poor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Penelope had brought three tin cups from the kitchen and poured each full of milk to wash down the cakes. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She had learned to wash her feet at night without being told, so Jinny no longer had to shake the sand from her blankets in the morning. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Most of them get over it after a couple of weeks, but some never do, and they have to be “washed out” of pilot training. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very gently Mama worked the entrails out and in a pan of warm soapy water, washed them clean of the pine needles, leaves, and grit. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she wetted a tenugui and washed herself with soap, rinsing by pouring the bowl on herself. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And don’t let me catch you wasting any of it by washing your face.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

British ships in the nineteenth century radically transformed native art by giving the Indians brightly colored paints that unlike native pigments didn’t wash off in the rain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Later, we have to stop to wash our sticky hands in puddles on the roadside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wash was done, we heaved the armfuls of wet clothes into the dryers and watched them tumbling around as if they were on some fun carnival ride. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sounded so smooth and calm, at least until I reached for my milk to wash down the peanut butter and knocked over the carton instead. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would weigh the gold, every grain, and pour the ingots and wash the sweep, and he would not carry home the wineskin when the day was done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Neck, face, turn around, wash your butt, and I’m out! It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harry washed his hands and bolted down his pitiful supper. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

If one of them would work the pump handle, he could wash the dried blood off his hand. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after supper, while my sister washed and I dried, she was even more helpful than she had been before. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Someplace cold, where they eat beans on Thursday and hang their wash on the line on Monday. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the room they entered there was a couch and a table and two chairs and a filing cabinet, and a glass cupboard with medicines and bandages, and a wash basin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I go upstairs and wash away the layers of makeup and conditioners and dyes and then go down to dry my hair by the fire. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair could have used a wash and she had a faded pink scar on her pretty neck, but he liked the smell of her, salt and sweat and woman. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“No, dear. Your clothes need a good wash.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I trudge to the bathroom and do what Mama says: swish water in my mouth and wash my face with a cold paper towel. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He washed out of the air corps, signed papers that he didn’t bother to read, and got a job as a movie extra. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then I look under the bed and find enough dirty clothes to where I bet she hasn’t washed in months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She never washes the jam jars or mugs and there are flies in the sugar and wherever there is sweetness. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone is already there, helping to dry and put dishes away, wash pots and pans. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure you want to wash them all by themselves? We usually wait until there’s a full load.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since it wasn’t a school day, he wouldn’t have to worry about people making fun of him washing in the bathroom first. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A scarlet glow pushes into the carriage, washing my arms and legs in red stripes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

After he washed his hands, he shoved the slip back into her drawer and closed himself into his room to sleep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only after greeting and caring for the animals did Baba wash his feet, legs, arms, and hands with the water in the bucket Rupa left for him. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Tonight,” Dicey announced, "we’ve got to wash our underwear. And put on clean. Maybe shirts too. OK?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not well pleased by the Arrangement since we is in some kind Culvert & I am in continual Fears of us all being washed away by Floods. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the house, I went straight to the well, got a bucket of water, carried it up the stairs somehow, then washed, spread antiseptic on my new cuts, and put on clean clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I brought him hot water to wash and shave with, and I washed in his room. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Face pale and eyes beginning to brim with tears, she gritted up a mouthful and took a drink of water to wash it down, grimacing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jamison had suggested that she could wash Matt there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Teach her to wash rice properly so that the water runs clear. Her husband cannot eat muddy rice,” she’d say to a cook servant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effort to recall was too great; there was a buzzing in his head, and a wash of fatigue overcame him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella’s fingertips stung as she washed up quickly and dashed back inside to the warmth of Mama’s fireplace. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I stayed still, ready for anything: a whipping for staying out, a tongue-lashing for missing dinner, getting my mouth washed out with soap for saying a bad word. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen sink, she washed off the dirt and wrapped it again in the crumpled tissue paper. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You have a table to clear and dishes to wash and dry,” I said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’d washed Mother’s china, which had never been used, and I began laying it out, eyeing the distance between each plate and knife. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had slipped herself sometimes at the stream, at the washing place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after you go home, I wash it all out. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They stepped up into a larger room washed in sunshine from tall windows. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I liked busying myself with work all day, going back and forth to the river and continuously washing dishes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The roar outside grew and crested like a wave until, within a few minutes, it finally dissolved against the shore and left behind a blissful quiet that washed over Joseph and his uncle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was hungry again and thinking about the leftover chicken in the refrigerator, how I'd make myself a sandwich and maybe wash it all down with some of Ty'ree's nasty ginger ale. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She still didn’t have a washing machine, forcing a drive to the Laundromat in town. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I wash in Jon’s tiny, greasy bathroom, resisting the medicine cabinet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered the calf bottle-fed, washed himself in a pail, and got back on his horse. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he washed his hands at the sink and came to the table. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

When she’s standing beneath a tree, for instance, listening to the leaves vibrating in the wind, or when she opens a package from a collector and that old ocean odor of shells comes washing out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I wish the water ran so I could wash it. It is so dusty.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she washes, it takes her near all day. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc Murphy goes over to the sink and washes his hands. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Straight to the pump to wash. And then to bed. Here, give me those books. How did you get them?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The Reverend Mother would wash your mouth with disinfectant.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay? But can we wash our hands 1st?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I'd have to play those keys and think, When are you leaving so I can run and wash my hands? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Standing in line wedged among many people, my nostrils are assaulted by the stale smell of bodies that have not been washed for many days. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked like pale ghosts except where rivulets of sweat had washed away the lime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aibileen picks up another fiddlehead, starts washing its long stem, the curly green ends. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They just seemed to stop talking at some awkward, cliff-hanging moment and then Mom would attend to washing the dishes and Dad would silently read the newspaper. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I drink some water and wash the blood from my ear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He did say, releasing Lazlo’s arm to him, “You might try washing your hands occasionally, Strange.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He looked around, but Alice was in the other room washing Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Enrique has had a good night washing cars: he made 60 pesos. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Later everyone washed their hands and sat on floor cushions in the big family circle as platters of steaming food traveled around. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold, as he washed, again following the train of thought that had come to him in the dark garden.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pride washed through him—it was just as good as any other Map he’d seen. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He washed as best he could and then dried himself on the tea towels that hung on a line by the stove. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen overboard as a baby from the side of his father’s ship and been washed up on a desolate shore, where a female wolf had suckled him and kept him alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The apple juice is too sweet, but we need to wash down the dry graham crackers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They’d still smell like her as long as nobody washed them, right? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is so washed out, so slouched, he looks like he might pass out. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If my mother would work at cleaning his house and washing his family’s clothing, he could arrange to pay our rent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth was washed out so often that it no longer seemed to bother him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed my arms and legs and the back of my neck and my ears and my face and I dried myself with a soft, clean rag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cooked and washed, he bathed the twins and fed them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He washed a plastic container in the sink, poured in a dollop of milk, and placed the container in the microwave. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Some riders went past along the river road as Arya was washing her clothes, but if they saw the scrawny naked girl scrubbing her rags in the moonlight, they took no notice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It would be cold, as it always was, and Frankie would be waiting in the washing room like a wax doll, gray and shrunken. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I walk to the sink to wash my hands. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The plant washes and packs 2.5 million pounds of lettuce a week. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I washed my face this morning like you told me.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to be his nurse, washing him with a sponge, changing his bandages, removing his bedpans. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I go in, I shower in warm water and wash away the mortification of finding Michah with that girl. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All the panic he felt began to wash away. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They broke their fast with warm soft flatbread, pink fish roe, honey sausage, and fried locusts, washed down with a bittersweet black ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The woman left her washing and got up from the bank, gesturing for me to follow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was real fast at washing the dishes but I noticed she got kind of slow and was touching my hand a lot when it came to giving them to me. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

So I roll up my sleeves, wash my hands, and start my magic. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then, with one last attempt at humor, she added, “But we should wash first, Mud- face.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A hum like a washing machine escalates in volume until I think my ears might burst. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without looking in the storyteller’s direction, he began to gently, methodically, wash his bottles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Meg, who went shopping in the afternoon and got a ‘sweet blue muslin’, had discovered, after she had cut the breadths off, that it wouldn’t wash, which mishap made her slightly cross. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were washed and in the middle of good deep mugs of beer when Mr. Butterbur and Nob came in again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe because he's older and a boy and maybe because he wasn't really on board with me coming to stay with them, I feel something wash over me when I hear the words. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I wish the Ganges could wash the grief from my heart, but it can't. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At night, each child had to weigh himself, plot the figure on a graph, and initial the process charts again after he had done his homework, washed his hands and face, and brushed his teeth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strange wash of pride covered Julius’s fear for a moment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

And that red plaid dress . . . there was one, a hand-me-down to Prim that got washed to rags after my father's death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ashish’s attitude was as annoying as getting your sleeves wet when you washed your hands, but somehow with Dimple there, it didn’t really bother him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z