What the apprentice or art student learns are skills and techniques: established ways of drawing, painting, carving, designing—established ways of seeing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mother was an extremely intelligent person. Quite sensuous, in many ways.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Of all the ways of starting a fire, the best is dry matches. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spoken with him before about inappropriate comments on campus and ways to make minorities feel more at home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Behind them the curtain closes.The spiders return to their killing ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was night, and the citadel was in the sky this time, but the moon shone down regardless, as though the dreamer wanted it both ways. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We were Christians, but we were mimicking the ways of the Israelites when they wandered in the desert without a home. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep the old ways or make a change—a big change. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, in many ways the black man sees the collective white man in America better than that white man can see himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord does work in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

An accident—say from a moose attack or the like—perhaps because there is more time to dwell upon it, does not lessen, but in some ways grows, fills out. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When he visits, we just be two bachelors with different ways. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, he thought, just like how authors always wrote things in ways other than how they actually happened. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And his conduct in providing clandestine instructions to Adams’s cabinet undermined the constitutional authority of the executive branch in ways that would have landed him in jail in modern times. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Food is, after all, the center of our lives in many ways, even if we no longer pay very much attention to it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It had opened his eyes in a lot of ways. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of all these ways, none came to symbolize this national evasion of the anti-drinking laws more dramatically than a brand-new and illegal type of drinking establishment that replaced the closed-down once-legal saloons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Primary qualities are objective; secondary qualities are subjective, in that they depend on our ways of sensing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It seemed that he was learned in old lore, as well as in the ways of the wild. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The teacher was startled but not unbelieving, for she had long ago given up trying to fathom the ways of the colored people in town. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One next step for those interested in the subject is to become familiar with all the ways notes may be added to basic triads. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There were probably so many ways to die in destruction like this. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

According to Burr, the immediate incident only proved that Hamilton’s libelous ways were incorrigible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘God works in his mysterious ways,’ she said, which was her stock reply whenever she didn’t know the answer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creative problem solving requires that you be able to see and manipulate your lesson material in unique ways to reach all types of student learners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There were codes Ginika knew, ways of being that she had mastered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a task that was growing in complexity as I handled more cases and saw the myriad ways that things could go wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I have my ways, but sometimes we all got to change. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They should be ways to let us stay in and survive. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

To find ways to accelerate the work, Burnham called the eastern architects to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The whole affair was a reminder of how our country’s distortions about race could be two-sided—that the suspicion and stereotyping ran both ways. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From his mother and father the boy learns to trust spontaneity and nonrational ways of knowing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there must be other ways to enter the palace,” he thought. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When a widely useful invention does crop up in one society, it then tends to spread in either of two ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Join me and learn the ways of sorcery.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Terrance took a more active hand, ever scheming for ways to increase the loads sent to New Orleans. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I remember thinking that First Wife would make Second Wife bow to her ways. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take this entry on noun plurals, from, of all books, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: Nouns derived from foreign languages form plurals in different ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In these various ways, books brought me academic success as I hoped that they would. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of ways I could lose pressure in this mechanical abomination I've created, and I don't want all my water to boil off if that happens. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran down the block to the corner, where they could look all four ways, but still there wasn’t a person in sight. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In how many ways would my authority be challenged inside the prison? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just stared at her as she clenched her fists and thought of a thousand different ways to tie his mouth shut. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And the dramatic advances in technology in the twentieth century affected popular and classical music in very different ways. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The marsh fiddlers are important in other ways as well, being useful scavengers and aerating the mud of the marshes by their extensive burrowings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You paint slightly the way he spoke, in many pleasant ways, in my opinion. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He further recommended that parents who allowed their children to join the Swing Youth and who supported liberal, individual ways should be sent to concentration camps and should have their property confiscated. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was left to Elizebeth to help him heal—and in ways large and small, she did exactly that. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was a gruff man with a good sense of humor, quiet, and stuck in his ways. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something to pull me out of my limited mortal ways and thrust me into a state of exalted wonder. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I supposed to feel inexperienced in jungle ways? I covered Asia for three years,” the redhead said, and smiled. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable—except that she had jumped first. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She often works in mysterious ways, organizes and orchestrates things he never sees coming until all the threads come together. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Let every last one of them glean themselves, and we can be done with their self-loathing, sanctimonious ways. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Highways closed both ways,” he said, suddenly sounding all businesslike. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She sat with you, showing you ways to tie pretty knots and braid strands together. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nin had always said that there were four ways to get information out of someone who didn’t want to give it: bribery, fear, force, and trickery. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, I pull into a gas station, and the boy there—who can’t be much older than me—tells me there are some lakes up north a ways off US 150. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But Granny was a fine lady anyway, never mind her grammar or her country ways and never mind how plain she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He had adjusted his habits in a dozen small ways. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I think about the many ways I ignored what was in front of me—how blind I was, how foolish not to be on my guard. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

See how long a list you can make of the different ways it “talks” to its human companions and to other dogs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

For example, we are learning more efficient ways of catching fish, and that is good because it means more people can be fed from the oceans. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent most of their time working out better ways to grow pot. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Education was her escape in more ways than one. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

While he hadn’t found steady work, he always had mysterious ways of hustling up pocket money, and he’d come home at night drunk and gunning for an argument. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People trying to escape don’t act in the smartest of ways. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The issues I was working on weren’t simple, but still they were manageable in ways that much of what kept my husband at his desk at night was not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Rhetoric itself is, in many ways, a bit of a mess. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was regarded as a wise old bird who knew the ways of “them,” and who was handy when it came to filling out a form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He told no one what he did all day and Mrs. Lapham was convinced that he had taken to, or was about to take to, ‘evil ways.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe has cool parents, there are no two ways about it. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s just real set in his ways. He collects those stupid lunch boxes.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We worked it for a week and after the money was split four ways, I had fifty dollars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed at the unladylike ways we all sank into the mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wouldn’t give me the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, you know. Seemed to think it might, ah, bring about a relapse...tempt me into my old ways.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It now stretched out for another good ways, maybe forty rods or so. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him that I believed him, that Celia could have found out other ways. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I took about five steps and looked both ways down W. It was 425 feet long and three and a half feet wide. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was always looking for ways to improve my Afrikaans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of all the ways I could have kept Olga from getting on that bus. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This reshaping of events happens in a dozen ways every day, contesting reality. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, we devised many ways of obtaining them, but back then we were not so adept. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she tries to understand who I am, and that we’re all different in our own ways, right, Mama?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, Pacheco’s pig in certain ways had become just such a scapegoat, taking up some of the slack created by the Abuelo’s demise. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They aren’t there anymore. The ways in and out of this place. They just went flat.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I back away, pulling Izzi with me, knowing that the quicker we go our separate ways, the better it will be for all concerned. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

According to the standard ways by which we measure persuasiveness — by the logic and appropriateness of the persuader’s arguments — that should make the people using the script book every bit as persuasive as Tom Gau. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways old Perry was “spooky as hell.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are many ways to accomplish this. You could tie the ship’s anchor to your leg and let it take you down, perhaps.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Only in two ways could I account for it: sedation and seasickness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Magnífico and Gerineldo, contemporaries of Aureliano but more skilled in the ways of the world, drank methodically with the women seated on their laps. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Only Voxy has a helmet, and even though it’s a ways away, I know the winds could carry it to us soon. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Splitting the check so many ways took a long time, and now they’re late. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He follows Buttercup day to day, month to month, as she learns all the ways of curtsying and tea pouring and how to address visiting nabobs and like that. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Taylor M. Martin knew this because she asked questions, she observed Maxwell, she uncovered all the ways to make him better, and then she drove the 1,330 miles to take him home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And he was really bad at puzzles, so it was a struggle in all ways. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I understand that your old-fashioned ways are not working,” Lady Isobel said harshly, clearly frustrated. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It involved being told no in a dozen or a hundred different ways before hearing the “yes” that would make all the difference. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There are other ways he could have disappeared, aren’t there, Professor?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t there an access path leading back up to the streets a little ways back?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Ada, what’s it matter? We’ve just been going out for a couple of weeks. Quit being so serious,” I joked, in an attempt to distract from my own melodramatic ways. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Actually, there are two ways to write each letter," Stanley said, as he realized this was going to be even harder than he thought. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dr. Philobosian stepped out into the street, looked both ways, and ran straight across through the door opposite. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe not about money, but in other ways. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

And once you have found America, if you were trying to get to Asia, then the search will begin for ways round it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I thought about my body, all the ways it had changed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of the ways the Soviet government successfully put this into practice was through a school system that integrated boys’ and girls’ education. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

While musicians and instrument-makers were finding ways of expanding the expressive range of what they could play, historical destiny was going to hand the bass line an unexpected boost. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Once we got back into our daily routine, it was evident that segregationists must have spent their holidays thinking up ways to make us miserable. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small, round person with a big, round laugh, neat in all ways, he is a maker of tejas, roof tiles, the kind I sometimes helped Papi make. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood on the corner, looked both ways before crossing. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, in many ways, it was a relief: those animals staring us in the face when we were together would have only made things more awkward. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artists have several ways of representing radiant light. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I become an expert at finding ways to avoid being alone with him. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, in most ways, this is the best place we’ve ever lived. Hideo says the same. We sure hate to think about leaving. Starting all over again.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They completed their walk in silence, and when they parted ways, Celaena quickly wished Nehemia a pleasant evening before striding to her part of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to argue with Perez, and entertained no illusions that it was within my power to change his ways. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways the article stirred up more emotion across the United States than the murder had. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hurrying to the corner, they looked both ways. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a lot of ways, it was a new feeling for me—that sense of trust, of loyalty. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For having to do what I have to do next, which is figure out all the ways to not be completely alone. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Look both ways before you cross the street, okay? And be back in an hour.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After the rot cleared up, once I could think straight, I devoted a lot of time to figuring ways to get back at him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to see that there were ways I could be happier and that they didn’t necessarily need to come from Barack’s quitting politics in order to take some nine-to-six foundation job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Ivy’s right again. The Lord surely does work in mysterious ways.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We tracked down her sisters and arranged a visit where Trina could see her son, and it seemed to strengthen her in ways I wouldn't have thought possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That's what seemed weird now, Park thought; they walked the same way every day, her locker was just down the hall from his—how had they managed to go their separate ways every morning? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I thought of the ways Nils was perhaps falling short. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tested it, moving her arm in several ways, and the dressing stayed firm. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You should probably instruct members of your clan to behave in similarly considerate ways. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We think there must be better ways but we never learn them—always the whip, the rope, and the rifle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s strong in other ways; she makes intellectual leaps that leave him openmouthed in admiration. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that I could react in one of two ways: I could scold them for their impertinence or I could listen to what they were saying. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried not to think of all the ways she was broken. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are two ways in which thoughts can lose their moorings in the land of the concrete. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Vessels, during her time at the Birthing Unit, had done the same thing: found things to joke about, ways to pass the time. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think about running with Erin, sprinting, climbing out onto my roof—her using her knee in all sorts of ways. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though not nearly so spectacular, this manifestation of grief for Bunny was in many ways a similar phenomenon—an affirmation of community, a formulaic expression of homage and dread. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I knew that Rosie was evil, not evil like a witch, but evil in other ways. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second was that in many of the most important ways, white men are no different from Navajos. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The source of this confusion is simple: from its first appearances, the term ‘the Scientific Revolution’ was being used in two quite different ways. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There’s a bridge, just up a ways, that marks the edge of the Thicket,” Ayanna whispered. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the fourth and fifth days, my eyesight sharp with hunger, I saw deer and used their trails when our ways coincided. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally get it undone, and creep back out into the hallway, looking both ways before—POP. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid that, after tonight, we must part ways, children.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Thus, in various ways, I learned various things. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ways she was unconcerned with trying to be like everyone else. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There was a wide curve in the tracks and when I looked out the window, I could see a ways ahead of us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This was my evening dress for quite some time,” Marian recalled, “and in some ways it made me happier than the one that would have cost fourteen ninety-eight.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Whoever these people were, he eventually concluded, they could not be Maya; their ways of life seemed too different. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With the aid of a few bald lightbulbs that hung a ways down, he made out figures running. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“The crystal fire is one of the ways from the First World,” Wind Being said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The truth, seldom mentioned but there for anyone to see, is that nature is not so easily molded and that the insects are finding ways to circumvent our chemical attacks on them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In countless ways, he cheered her on, telling her that “I adore, adore, adore You!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Change your ways when fear seizes,” he had said, “for it usually means you are doing something wrong.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here in the North I would slough off my southern ways of speech. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall did not invite confidences; Dumbledore, though in many ways more intimidating, still seemed less likely to scorn a theory, however wild. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The men were soaking wet all the time and had to become ingenious in finding ways to keep their possessions dry. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But the consequences of Bantu Education came back to haunt the government in unforeseen ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time he accepted this as untrue and went about the business of consoling himself in various unsatisfying ways. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Counterspies have to have ways of identifying themselves to other counterspies. Like secret code words. Or wearing a special kind of flower. Or—tying their shoes a certain way.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The ways of sin are curious,” Samuel observed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because once people could author their own content in digital form—in the form of computer bits and bytes—they could manipulate it on computer screens in ways that made individuals so much more productive. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could stand my ground in calculus and physics with any straight-A student, and I was very proud of that, because in many ways I was self-educated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always open to new gestures, new ways to use the stage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It is a way the Olinka can show they still have their own ’ ways, said Olivia, even though the white man has taken everything else. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s happy I comforted Grandma, but unhappy with Grandma’s southern ways. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

As land values rose, landowners sought ways of improving the return on their investments. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"She is right in a thousand ways," said the father to himself. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An illustration from Foxe; one of the less attractive deaths, I have always thought, although who can fathom the ways of martyrs?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I must forget about my secret name and all ways back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In plenty of important ways, she was a part of their family, too. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We went down the parking lot a ways, to an old Buick. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was everything those heroes were, and in some ways, she was more. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And the participation of Marina’s aviators in the war effort would help present a picture of the nation as equal in all ways. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He prepared for his part of the plot that morning by walking past Secretary of State Seward’s home on Madison Place, checking for the best possible ways in and out of the building. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

From all the movies I’ve seen, bouncers are normally stubborn in their ways and absolutely intimidating, but here at Clint’s Graveyard there’s a young woman wearing a fitted cap backward welcoming everyone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone who came into the room was asked the same question: How many different ways can you come up with for tying the ends of those two ropes together? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There are two ways to fix a sentence like this. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all end up laughing, and the night ends with card games and Scrabble, and I go to bed, full in so many, many ways. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable,” the Sicilian reassured him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was awful to say, but in some ways walking in the desert, at least when we still had water, might have been easier for him than being cooped up like this. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

How many more ways can my careful world be upended? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had thought about ways he could make it right. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In many ways she was as cool and competent as Henry; tough-minded and solitary in her habits, and in many ways as aloof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Increasingly, the nation’s richest are spending their money on personal services or exclusive experiences and isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He closed in one of his favorite ways, by quoting a peasant: “You want to stop HIV in women? Give them jobs.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That one was a little harder, because there were so many ways to make the long-a sound. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

His life is vexing in some other ways. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The nights without number she spent up in the miserable loft, tossing about, kicking the woman next to her, devising ways off the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I felt I had never left Birmingham and the church at all. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that different people prayed in different ways: had his aunt always prayed in such a silence? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It hinged on them maintaining the appearance of their fight, so they parted ways before they reached Booker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a fast way to go. Other ways could have been worse.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Now he reads me in ways he never did before. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Now I have found a language even more cynical than my own: in Kilanga the word nzolo is used in three different ways, at least. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was mistress of all the ways of warfare, unexcelled with the javelin and the two-edged ax as well as with the bow. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They followed him a good ways but at his pace they were losing the day and finally he just sat in the road and did not get up again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We parted ways, and I fought down a wave of guilt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Children everywhere have similar ways of entertaining themselves. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In many ways, both Charles and Emma had been preparing for his death since they were first married. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he wasn’t hanging out at the scene of the crime, Genie was down at Tess’s, using her Internet, obsessively looking up other ways to capture birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Released from jail, French immediately reverted to his old ways. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the third day of the riots began, some leaders, black and white, horrified by what had taken place thus far, began to seek ways to bring the mayhem and slaughter to an end. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She ended up kneeling on the small of his back, careful to avoid the spikes along his spine, squeezing and kneading and applying pressure in diverse ways. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In many ways, the Green Revolution was a tremendous boon; harvests in many poor countries soared so fast that despite burgeoning populations the incidence of hunger fell dramatically. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Public speaking, like writing, is in many ways a confidence trick. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was feeling kind of strange, like, I can’t really explain it, like as if hypodermics were in the air again, but thrown all ways and still traveling. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s lots of ways, like I said. I hadn’t realized before. I thought there was only one.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would conspire with him to hide from me what I desire to know? There are ways, be sure, to make you speak.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways, it was a system barely distinguishable from the slavery it replaced. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

While we waited for her to return, the clown and the snake girl debated the best ways to torture Caul. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There are a number of ways to establish someone’s approximate survival expectations without actually asking. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were, it turned out, an untold number of ways that bodies could intertwine. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Of course you are. And I’ll walk down the beach a little ways, look for mama some more there. Okay?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The more you learn how to leave your backward ways behind, the easier things will be for you. Your days of being an idle farm girl are over.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

To her ways of doing things — the way she rolled up the washcloths, the way she dusted with a feather duster. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t learned the ways of the new caretaker. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Being held hostage—suddenly finding yourself prisoner on a volatile inmate- run Death Row—could damage a person in fundamental ways. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned to the beings of land, eager to begin learning the ways of the water monsters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hina is ten years younger than Mom, has short hair, a zillion funky pairs of eyeglasses, is this amazing graphic designer and cool in ways I can only aspire to. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Despereaux's brothers and sisters soon abandoned the thankless task of trying to educate him in the ways of being a mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At the same time that he was force-feeding us tribalism we were learning other ways of life, modern ways, from mingling with children whose parents had shed their tribal cloth and embraced Western culture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a small building, not much bigger than the privies we passed a little ways back, and Gideon turns to Bill when we arrive. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He kept finding new ways to betray her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Tammany owed much of its power to the fact that it got the children young and educated them in the party ways. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As hard as we try to keep our thoughts out of the old ways, the old patterns, the old ruts, any little jog or jerk will send them right back down into the mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

So I had to stop, relieved in some ways. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his agents were looking for ways to attack the United States and its allies, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Yes, in those ways, life in the temple was similar to what Pong was used to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We run back down the road a ways, looking for a good climbing spot, find one, and make our way up. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Shawnee, having seen the separatists’ brutal ways of war, moved their people to a place of relative safety. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are more nuanced ways to inflate students’ scores. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They never really talked to me about what happened with Ocean, even though I knew they knew, but they were kind to me in other ways. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Was I getting used to his bullying ways? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. We’ve all got our ways of keeping people out, right? Want to play something?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Shedding our childish ways! All for the great life as teenagers we’re about to have. When we get boyfriends, we’re going to go to Fall Ball!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

If we were to speed the rotation, we would see that the Galaxy is a dynamic, almost organic entity, in some ways resembling a multi-cellular organism. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of ways to go; both involve a lot of stairs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look both ways before crossing the street. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Those who do not commit themselves can be evaluated in two ways. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

If this is the case, I cannot avoid saying that I think it was very rash of him in more ways than one. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But the rest of the men found ways to keep busy. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Popping and gyrating her little body in ways that would get me slapped. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Emmett’s friends had stayed behind him a ways in the water, close enough to hear, but far enough away to escape if they had to. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m going to stop thinking about the ways I wish Grammy were different and love her for who she is, just as she loves me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My parents were a little conservative, a little traditional, and, in some ways, surprisingly progressive. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But in other ways, it feels pretty real in there—the enemy soldiers dressed in Peacekeepers’ uniforms, the confusion of a smoke bomb. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I’ll never get to the end of all the ways I want to be with him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They walked for a ways in awkward silence. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I’ve had an exceptionally irritating couple of days, my head hurts in ways you don’t have the full wit to understand, and I have a friend who might be in trouble.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In my heart, I just believed there were better ways for a good person to have an impact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And with all the hurt I felt for her, I also struggled with the idea that maybe...couldn’t be...but maybe me and Lovey somehow shared that day, in different ways. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She mapped out all the ways this could go wrong. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You with an old father, and you with pleasant and playful ways?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had been knocked back quite a ways and rolled down a steep hill. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In essential ways, the station was still the same. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Their lives, which had almost gone their separate ways a week ago, were now drawing together again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You came quite a ways to be here.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The first issue to arise was in many ways the most crucial, and that was the armed struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you wanted to get out of gym class, there are easier ways.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Now, the rough ways and clothes seemed cozy and familiar. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Big domestic mammals also interacted with domestic plants in two ways to increase crop production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We had not known of plastic when I was a boy, and though it surely improved life in some ways, its presence in Qunu appeared to me to be a kind of blight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can think of ways to find almost anything. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now she had to hold both ways together, the everyday and the trance, just as you have to look in two directions at once to see the 3-D pictures among the dots. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hinduism had started off as a polytheistic religion, a set of tales about warrior gods and battles similar in many ways to the Greek mythos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was a legend in the school for dreaming up ways of avoiding Phys. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

David, with the floral notes of his clean clothes and the minty smell of his soap and the intimate, familiar ways our bodies fold into each other. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but for heaven’s sake, look both ways.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Once again, we tried to help in whatever ways we could, even though time was quickly running out and there was little hope. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s play ‘white,’ ” Bigger said, referring to a game of playacting in which he and his friends imitated the ways and manners of white folks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun dropped low behind the hills and we were done playing for the day, Hassan and I parted ways. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I felt different from the others. But I was already different in so many ways.”He nodded. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She grinned, thinking that she’d allow her sister to return with her to plunder them, but only if Angeline changed her ways. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Though his siblings worshiped in a variety of ways, Zeitoun was perhaps the most devout, missing none of his daily prayers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In so many ways, I was living his life. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He is heading toward a house a little ways out from a town named Vienna. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have my ways," he says, closing the gap between us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The people around went off on their own ways, carrying their own heavy bags of groceries. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despereaux’s siblings tried to educate him in the ways of being a mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

There may have been—there must have been—influences, both subtle and apparent, working in their several ways to induce her to do this; but the most obvious was the influence of Adèle Ratignolle. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

They leave one at a time and go their separate ways. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well, but that don’t signify. ’E might be a long ways off by now. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel fills the void in his parents’ hearts in the ways that he’s able. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Papi likes the old ways and the silence of the fields. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a ways to go. Now come on. Let’s take the bus to the mall. I’m not up to driving.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That should have warned me, but I was not yet wise in the ways of the world or the road. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was light with Hrothgar’s goodness, and leaden with grief at my own bloodthirsty ways. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bah,” she laughed, “I have many ways to keep me safe—Now promise you will tell no one about this.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older Vaughan siblings were adjusting to the changes that had expanded their lives in some ways and contracted them in others. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But then, I guess most failed attempts aren’t entirely sincere, because, let’s face it, if you want to off yourself, there are plenty of ways to make sure it works. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There are many creative ways to use these inexpensive instruments to help and inspire you, and which will fire up a child’s imagination. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I started thinking about ways to find out where my mother might be and how I might contact her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Careful? I thought that was when you remembered to look both ways before crossing the street.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There might not be gold in West Virginia, but there were plenty of other ways to make your pile. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he veers into father mode, he stumbles and looks in many ways like a mirror image of Mother. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He had been working hard for thirty years and, bad as it was for him in some ways, camp did allow him time to dabble with hobbies he would never have found time for otherwise. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, I think so, in some ways. One wonders,” he said carefully, his light brown eyes resting on Dicey’s face, "if there isn’t a strain of—mental weakness.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you bar this, and don’t let anyone in. Certain death can make a man act in unusual ways, forgetting right and wrong.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I suppose, the Square today isn’t so different to what the pool was back then. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The well-dressed woman was “the epitome of what we were fighting,” McCain recalls thinking: white, middle-class, old, and probably set in her ways. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had changed the face of our village beyond recognition and altered the lives of its inhabitants in a myriad ways. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

These ways twisted and turned in every conceivable direction, with no logic that I could grasp. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her arms around me, then kissed me on the top of my head, probably to let me know she was taller and that I had a ways to go before catching up. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She cheered me on and made me see things in ways I hadn’t before. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It needn’t be surprising that he was sensationally good at it, and that the rest of us were more or less bumblers in our different ways. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Kelanna were like you in many ways—they spoke and worked and loved and died—but they were different in one very important respect: they couldn’t read. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But by and large they modified their landscapes in stable, supple, resilient ways. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The two men stood there hammering at each other until the army got to its feet with a roar, and no decision, wanting it both ways. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t tell me God works in mysterious ways,” Yossarian continued, hurtling on over her objection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was almost six o’clock, and he had a ways to go still. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Put out by the Royal Baking Powder Company, “Best War Time Recipes” was packed with ways to cook to save flour, eggs, and such, what with the war on. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if the three of us found each other because we were so alike in so many ways, or that because we found each other, we’ve become so alike in so many ways. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Theo resembled him in many ways: tall, wide shoulders, slim-waisted, the same thick, straight black hair; but age had chiseled the father’s face into sharper planes. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. There must be safer ways of annoying your father. Now which way is it to Alice’s house?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It struck him as he lay here with his arm slung across his eyes, that the girl was tied up in Weep’s problem in ways he could not yet understand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And the truth is that our unconscious is really good at this, to the point where thin-slicing often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, in some ways it was strangely exhilarating, and she shivered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I say, “the Wardraft was interesting in more ways than one. Look what I found.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She tended to show off excessively during these visits, rushing to help Mother out in ways she would not have dreamed of without an audience. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each church had its own school and social clubs, affirming and maintaining the ways of the homeland, serving as the anchor for community in the new land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond the Gate there was a crowd of men along the verge of the road and of the great paved space into which all the ways to Minas Tirith ran. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then the period is over, and we go our separate ways. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“No, definitely Ares. Otrera lived long before Rome, in a time when all demigods were Greek. Unfortunately, some of our warriors still prefer the old ways. Children of Ares... they are always the worst.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Once I dared to say as much to Kenny and he looked at me a little sadly and said there were other ways which he could not explain to me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend the rest of the night planning all the ways I can kill them, rolling the ideas around in my head and savoring them, as though I were fingering smooth stones. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“And it’s not about stereotypical girl topics written in sappy, cliché ways.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

In many ways, these were the glory days for the accused, for our own people were on the stand fearlessly enunciating ANC policy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Older folks have their ways,” Wash said, but his mind was already on something else. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I still wanted to take care of her in certain ways, but it was more than that now. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s Jenny Leech’s wall of text about how Jesse touched her life in ways he didn’t even know, despite the extent of their relationship being the one class they shared in tenth grade. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Down a ways one of the maids had draped her underclothes on the wall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She coughed to clear her throat as she quickly looked both ways at an approaching crossroads before driving right through the red light. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their conviction of Sula’s evil changed them in accountable yet mysterious ways. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I say the words like they’re an oath; in some ways they are. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At prayer meeting she moaned and sighed over Cholly’s ways, and hoped God would help her keep the children from the sins of the father. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he recognized in his heart how he had changed, he had to shift his mind-set, his angry, mean-spirited ways. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The letters are tall enough to be read from some ways off, though people still walk right up to it to read it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not a single story has a magical priest who is terribly to be feared because he knows ways of winning over the gods or alienating them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were people standing a ways off to the side, also waiting. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The terrible visitation, they argued, had been a warning from the Almighty to mend the city’s spiritual ways. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees tin they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

David managed to find work as a plumber's helper, carrying his tools and assisting him in a number of ways. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Amalgamation occurs instead in either of two ways: by merger under the threat of external force, or by actual conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Southern colonies did not hesitate to invent ways to extend the terms of servitude, and the planter class accumulated uncultivated lands to restrict the options of free workers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But she would never give me her permission, and I wouldn’t betray her, so I started to think about other ways... Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had read how these forgotten folk had been encouraged to keep their old cultures, to see in their ancient customs meanings and satisfactions as deep as those contained in supposedly superior ways of living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examples of different ways children can categorize instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There are two ways to specify a tempo. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have an upper register, so to speak, but only the middle range of our shared experience and ways of behaving, of joking around. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In some ways it’s familiar and works like back home. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I mean, on good days, what I was learning in college excited me in ways the street and its erratic and petty rules never could. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The Institute knows ways to stop a monster virus before it ignites an explosive chain of lethal transmission in the human race. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was soon to learn a lesson in country ways. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Africa has a thousand ways to get under your skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country developed ways by which some could become formal citizens of this nation of laws. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Help us to know your ways. Teach us your paths. Lead us in your truth and teach us, for you are the Lord of our salvation, and for you, we shall wait. Amen.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Word was they had psychological experts training them in ways of forcing us to respond. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he would hunt small stones and throw them with his feeble arm into the little pool to scare the fish, and in the mean ways of a mischievous child he expressed his anger. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She could this in many different ways, with Kleenex or soap bubbles or maybe even a blade of grass. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let them tell us if they don’t like it. They have their own ways here.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Impostors? What impostors? I thought Gringotts had ways of revealing impostors? Who were they?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Radiation, of course, went on and on, literally and in ways nobody expected. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She heard him muttering as he clicked the beads on his abacus, figuring out new ways to pocket a cent. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, you’d have to row quite a ways to find my ducks somewhere in Italy, or France, or maybe Czechoslovakia, so that presents a problem, doesn’t it?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The four of us got up and went our separate ways—me up to my room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feared them for their devious ways, she mistrusted their instincts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He promised to seek ways of helping me and the family. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they went their separate ways that night, Houseman hoped the challenge of the role would appeal to Welles. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He stood on the dock for a long time, gazing at the lake, oblivious to the rain, thoughts assembling themselves, connecting with other thoughts and drawing together in new ways. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As the nine of us turned to go our separate ways, one by one a soldier followed each of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s been all kinds of ways. It’s been worse.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having the school’s god as my relative helped in some other ways too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the night a ways back, and therefore was the only one to see the approaching hunter. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father used to work behind those double doors, working hard to find new ways to combat the plague. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He tried to break out of the building a thousand and one ways. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, if I wanted someone to illustrate for me all the ways that this could go wrong, I’d just tell my parents.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The different ways to teach a song are related to children’s different learning styles, such as aural and visual learning, and the child’s appropriate cognitive development; e.g., age and grade development. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

On one of those trips I heard Shawn telling Charles about his guns, and on another, about all the ways he could kill a man. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I carried out armloads of fabric and wood and metal put together in all their puzzling ways, and marveled that I’d ever felt comfort in having such things. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel touch in ways I never did before. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

A little ways from home the Preacher came running at us holding on to a long sharp blade from off a scythe. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I was running out of new ways to fix fish, and he’s bound to bring home more tonight.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if she had been walking a long ways when the wall ended abruptly and a draft of cold air blew past her cheek. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If we truly want to end violence in our communities, we must come to understand, as discussed in the final chapter, the ways in which mass incarceration increases—not decreases—violence and multiplies its harms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of Bunny’s favorite ways to start a sentence had been to let drop, quite casually: “When Dad was lunching with Paul Vanderfeller the other day...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There are still plenty out here, biding their time, pretending they’ve seen the error of their ways.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He had a potbelly and slicked-back, greasy hair that matched his slippery ways. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Mrs. Popper, “those penguins may have heathen ways at the South Pole, but I declare I think this one is going to be quite a help around the house.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Among other praises bestowed upon him by writers, Philopoemen, Prince of the Achaeans, is praised because in peacetime he thought of nothing except the ways of waging war. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The analogy is illusory in two ways: the original buildings were not ghostly white as moderns seem to prefer them, but as garishly painted as a Hindu shrine. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I picture myself eating my noodles in silence as my parents talk to Thaya Jaan in Urdu about the proper ways to raise children or about Pakistani politics. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Africa has a thousand ways of cleansing itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, Luna’s ability to break rules in new and creative ways was an astonishment to all who knew her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You choose different ways of referring to yourself depending on what is convenient,” she says, leaning back in her chair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was, in many ways, for me a lifesaving understanding. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d noticed before that April, in spite of her sophisticated ways, really didn’t know much at all about certain kinds of things. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was grief over the waste of life, the stunned wonder at the ways of God, and the restoration of order in nature at the graveyard. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using his knowledge of the ways from the First World to hide himself, he folded a nearby shadow like a blanket and draped it over his furry body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the art’s just one out of all kinds of different ways.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth frowned Last summer, before my quest, I’d visited the.strange spirit that lived in the Big House attic and it had given me a prophecy that came true in ways I’d never expected. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The answer, I’m guessing, is probably the best and most sustaining answer to nearly every question arising inside a marriage, no matter who you are or what the issue is: You find ways to adapt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ugwu preferred Jomo’s solemn ways and false stories, but Harrison, with his insistent bad English, was mysteriously full of knowledge of things that were foreign and different. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ways to order material are as plentiful as the ways to tell a story. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Because there’s only two ways to treat a door in a scene: Slam it shut or fling it open. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One person in particular, Ucho, had changed his ways toward me as quickly as the air turns frigid once Inti sets from the sky. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay, Con. You should go with Mom. Hold her hand in the parking lot, and look both ways when you’re going across the crosswalks, okay?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think they even knew that we had two ways of talking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were listening to them talking about the loss of the old ways in the changing world. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We are looking for ways our stories fit together. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This department, the second largest at the Ministry of Magic, deals with the varying needs of the many species under its care in a variety of different ways. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And one of the best ways to find out about moles was by interrogating a high-level defector like Yurchenko. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Among the new circumstances were the ways that treaties were written and viewed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I knew then that I loved him as much as I did Mama and Papa, maybe in some ways even a little bit more. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he went back to Proteus, the latter had to think out other ways of disposing of him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked for ways to widen its perimeter as I could. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was merely one symptom of her revolt against the Party and all its ways, and somehow it seemed natural and healthy, like the sneeze of a horse that smells bad hay. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Born in Columbiana, Alabama, my grandmother had a gentle nature and soft-spoken ways. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not the kind he likes, where there are multiple ways to win. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The ground was flat, and not much brush had grown back yet, so I could see for a ways in every direction. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"So you have more ways to deal with the world out there." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Military biohazard specialists have ways of describing this occurrence. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, he was my only real friend. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were many doors and giant entrance ways, and the wind gusts sometimes reached gale force. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think Leah and Adah also believed these things, in their own different ways, and that is why none of us moved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was really with Patel Global, there should have been ways to contact her people, right here on the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta’s cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was something sympathetic about him; and both of us, though in different ways, were outsiders in B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus he brought me back at last to the secret ways of Khazad-dûm: too well he knew them all. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but she’s saying that if the school is changing the way they usually do things in some ways . . .” “But they’re not changing anything!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But Levanthal and Wunderman’s examples suggest that there may be simple ways to enhance stickiness and systematically engineer stickiness into a message. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped reading and writing letters for migrant workers, but still helped them in other ways. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

City boy with your dty ways sitting in die sand trying to read the tracks and not knowing, not understanding. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the process of inventing new ways of fusing Western and Non-Western music continues today in countries all over the world. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I hope,” laughed Elizabeth, “he done changed his ways at least.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He’d slept in a chair that first night, and Fujiko had stayed awake pondering ways to extricate herself from this situation. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The world where I part ways with Tanisha before the sun goes down in Newark. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He told him he had to go to college, there could be no two ways about it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were, in our separate ways, looking to establish our respective identities. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Granting them authority over newly defined regions would help in two ways. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

So, in order to save time, ink, and page turns, common notation has many ways to show that a part of the music should be repeated exactly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ma must’ve heard me screaming from a ways off ’cause she was running out our front gate by the time I got there. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They stopped at the hallway crossroads where they would part ways to their separate rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Milo, of course. We all want to spend more time in combat. But people like you and me serve in different ways. Look at my own record,” Colonel Cathcart uttered a deprecatory laugh. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Freak scuttles back a little ways but he can't really run and even if he could, there's no place to go. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was in many ways Americanized, but in this respect she was Chinese still — when family marched, she fell in step. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reformers, Gold writes: strove for ways to reduce time spent studying, because long periods of respite could save the mind from injury. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was probably dreaming of ways to order me about. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tugged him down to the ground and we walked hand in hand for a ways. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As a diplomat, he negotiated with the confederacy of Five Nations in 1744; in those days, knowledge of Indian ways was an essential part of the statesman’s toolkit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It changed my life, just opened my eyes in so many ways,” she says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I quietly push open the door, looking both ways before sneaking out of the pre-op area and almost running smack into a nurse. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When you start to think of the world as flat, or at least in the process of flattening, a lot of things make sense in ways they did not before. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

There are so many ways to kill things, it turns out. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

With that, both the Fugees and the girls laughed, though no one seemed quite sure why, and went their separate ways. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Holy Mother Church took us under her wings and instructed us in her ways. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

To break through the smug veneer of those who use their brains to find amusing ways to kill us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that I actually spent hours lying on the couch watching Grandma knit, plotting ways to sneak into the kitchen and steal some meat. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's like five hundred different ways to say "thank you" in the Farsi language. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Card playing, guessing games, impersonations, listening to gramophone records, slide lectures, reading aloud—the men found ways of entertaining themselves and keeping their thoughts occupied in the long, dark winter months. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I have been given opportunities to answer this call in my own city in smaller, daily ways. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we were a little ways down the path, she reached in her pocket and offered me a folded note. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little ways up from the bridge with the Column. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Cora had savored this fact in a multitude of ways over the months, but the provision for colored education was among the most nourishing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On most questions Descartes is a rationalist, but as far as the laws of nature are concerned he appears to want to have it both ways. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the rub is that there are two ways he can win and only one way you can win. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, humanity and its unreliable ways could not be counted upon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lockhart was getting to his feet a little ways away, covered in slime and white as a ghost. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Where there are vituperative priority disputes, ways of resolving them must be sought. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t pretty, but there are other ways for a face to be excellent.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The tea break was one of the ways the brutal sugar-slave world of the plantations and the new work rhythm of the industrial factory were linked. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wild animals that are captured when they are fully mature are another example of escape-prone animals; often they are too set in their ways to reconstruct their subjective worlds and adapt to a new environment. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were only so many ways this could end. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And so, if I wasn’t in the mood for their boyish ways, I’d go downstairs and knock on the wall between our house and Safina’s. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, searching for the concept of evidence pays off in unexpected ways. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was taken to the Huffer Funeral Parlor to be identified, but there was no identification on the body except for many colorful tattoos which revealed his devil-worshipping ways. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Only Tayo could hear it, like fingernails scratching against bare rock, her terror at being trapped in one of the oldest ways. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Not until you mend your ways,” my mother said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in some ways he is just that. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My daughter, as she grew, was learning to use her voice, discovering her own ways to reinforce the boundaries she needed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They found ways to lose I didn’t even know existed.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

This chasm makes itself known to us in all kinds of ways. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’d had years of staring at ceilings from my bedroom to the ICU, and so I’d long ago found the most hurtful ways to imagine my own illness. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’m now so desperate to lay eyes on her that I find myself trying to figure out ways of peeking into the window without getting caught. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were a few ways to get cash. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then she shows us slides of her art gallery when it was just an abandoned building, and all the ways it’s transformed into what it is today. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I loved my country for all the ways its story could be told. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“At least, not in any of the important ways. Tell me, Songbird...do you still sing?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now I will walk there, to the place where, in some ways, it all began. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

If I tilted my head too much, I felt my whole body start to roll, and on the long list of unpleasant ways to die, “facedown in soaking-wet white boxers” is pretty high up there. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

But there’s also magic 'in the ways people find to overcome their curses, and maybe even find a way to make something beautiful out of them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As a lawyer who had litigated numerous class-action employment-discrimination cases, I understood well the many ways in which racial stereotyping can permeate subjective decision-making processes at all levels of an organization, with devastating consequences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

George and Dr. Martin have phone lights, and this helps, but not like it makes it clear, more like it shows ways not to go and leaves the choices up to them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘Dark ways, doubtless,’ said Gimli, ‘but no darker than these staves are to me.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Quarantine and massive chemical campaigns are only extremely expensive ways of buying time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They are so clever at finding other ways to do their research. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I decide not even to complain about having my first paycheck withheld or the ways we’re shortchanged every day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat there trying to come up with ways to justify it to Brian, I began smelling the bologna. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The how-tos were what we called the three ways to talk so I could understand: face me, don’t cover your mouth, and speak clearly. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I had found all sorts of ways to incite a quarrel between Phil and Gay, which gave me a perverse satisfaction—until Phil lost his usual cool and stormed out to his workshop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This is what my mother told me when I was old enough to know why I was so heartstrong in my ways. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

R.C. ate as we walked, stuffing himself with the loot Gramma had packed When we were still a ways from our fishing hole, he belched and handed the half-empty bag back to me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And in certain ways, he might have been right. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although set in his beliefs and ways, he was kind to others, gentle, and exceptionally generous. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And with no controls—no aperture control, no focus—she learned to be creative in the ways she manipulated her camera and her scene. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And split four ways—that was just $2.40 for each boy. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I could still trust him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The world has changed in many ways since Daniel Ellsberg gave the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And when they’re not setting up to attack us and lay the torch to our homes, they’re aping our fine ways, eating elfin foods, trying to be just like us. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s natural, I suppose,” said Colonel Julyan, “for all of us to wish to look different. We are all children in some ways.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know all the best dog parks in Manhattan to go look at dogs, and all the best playgrounds, and which avenues go south and which go north and which ones go both ways. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And he realized that he lived in a Santiniless world now and he trembled when he thought that he was, in many ways, relieved that his father was dead. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We needed to make the complexity of the case and the multiple ways that Walter's rights had been violated coherent and understandable to the judge. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to standard doctrine, there are basically three ways to stop a virus—vaccines, drugs, and biocontainment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin stopped swimming and took his exercise in other ways. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Other objects were positioned in unusually impossible ways. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It makes us sniff in idiosyncratic, recognizable family ways. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"You know what I'm talking about. The ways I frustrate you. The way you look to your father for reassurance when you can't stand my questions." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I actually thought his quiet ways meant that it would be a piece of cake to ride him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got stuck and began looking for ways to procrastinate. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One of the ways of fostering creativity is to encourage students’ improvisation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The odd ways I catch him looking at me—his eyes lingering too long over my face and body—makes my stomach queasy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the English began to invade their homelands, Indigenous peoples brought their ways of diplomacy to their interactions with the colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then Petey found herself pondering the ways in which she might annihilate other people and get away with it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But although his ways were mischievous and bold, Pinch loved his mother deeply, and he clung to her side. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And in standing at a lectern in front of students who were thinking about the future, I offered testament to the idea that it was possible, at least in some ways, to overcome invisibility. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So instead we flew to him, for what would be a sort of attempt to have it both ways—a family day spent mostly in full view of the public. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But it was awful in two ways, he said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

This is why, in many ways, the choice of Paul Van Riper to head the opposing Red Team was so inspired, because if Van Riper stood for anything, it was the antithesis of that position. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The retreat house was a little ways out of the village down a path through flower-dotted hillsides. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some migrants resisted these attempts by northerners to rid them of their southern ways. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The rest of you are to be executed. There are several ways to determine who among you will be least useful to us.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I sure don’t know why you can’t let Esther have her little whisky, and have her little ways without all the time trying to make her miserable.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Here was a show that eschewed what turns out to be the most important of all ways of reaching young children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabbinic literature can be studied in two different ways, in two directions, one might say. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their ways and accents often marked them as Californians, Europeans, Yankees, even, God forbid, “New York Jews.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This felt personal, and in some ways the studio was an accomplice, or at the very least, a witness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mostly, she looked for ways to make extra money and hassled him and Pegs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without speaking, he pointed toward a hill some ways across the nearest field. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A ways off the path, two enormous oaks grew close together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a mystery to me how his stick-like legs supported the weight above them, but they did, though they moved in surprising ways at times, as if his knees could bend in any direction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see that wishes come true, in roundabout ways. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jump back in, tell the cabbie to keep rolling until he's down the block a ways. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

An act of great wizardry is not worked without arousing such men, and they had ways of coming very swiftly when need called, though none had been so swift as the Archmage. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Or figuring out ways for people to live in outer space, so they wouldn’t be too crowded on Earth and chop down beautiful woods just for houses. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

But then I do not mean to imply anything derogatory about Mr Farraday; he is, after all, an American gentleman and his ways are often very different. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’d imagined today going badly in any number of different ways, but wow, wow, I had not been expecting this. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In some ways, beginning a song is similar. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Lefty and Desdemona, accustomed to living in their own house, were forced to adapt to their new landlord’s ways. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I run along the lane, all the ways I think Helena could have gone, but I see nothing, no one. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Zola. Peoples find ways, they find things, interests, you will find ...” I am all tangled up with the words. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was always announcing itself in ways she didn’t sanction. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The new history of science, beginning with Kuhn, tried to ground these new ways of thinking in intellectual communities: the success of new ideas depended upon conflict and competition within and between communities of thinkers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Graduate, get a good job, save, buy a house—but those ways were slow. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In some ways, these convicts were the most frightening to contemplate, for they demonstrated that badness could take hold of anyone. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Cable was already working on ways to change memories, a way of erasing the Smoke forever from people’s minds. When they took my father for the operation, he never came back.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Though she is poor, like us, she has a sharp fashion sense, matching unusual colors and patterns in ways that somehow make sense. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For Locke there are ‘three degrees of Knowledge, viz. Intuitive, Demonstrative, and Sensitive: in each of which, there are different degrees and ways of Evidence and Certainty’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was finally a member of the Arcanum, in some ways exactly where I had always wanted to be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This team mattered, he said to me, in ways that I could never understand, because he was sure that wherever I came from didn’t have basketball. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I think it’s because she’s a teacher—always looking for ways to make something better than it is. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked over his shoulder as Jack had done at the close ways behind him and glanced swiftly round to confirm that he was utterly alone. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Teacher of strange ways is Love, that knavish boy, maker of mischief. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them had been brainstorming ways to speed up the demolition of Riverview Middle School. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was a labour of love in more ways than one. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the cottonwood leaves were so still they could hear Indian Creek bubbling over smooth stones across the road a ways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kentucky that prosecutors could be challenged more directly about using peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner, giving hope to black defendants—and forcing prosecutors to find more creative ways to exclude black jurors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer and Langan might both be geniuses, but in other ways, they could not be more different. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There are worse ways to die than drowning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like other sons of noble family, he would be sent away from his mother and father to live in the household of another knight, where he would learn all the ways of knighthood. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Marie, with her oddly light hair, was startling in other ways. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It rolls a little ways across the floor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He chased us down the beach for a ways, but when he saw he wasn’t gonna catch us on foot, he spun around and ran back toward his car. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘Let us drive through such foes as are already between us and the fastness. There are caves in Helm’s Deep where hundreds may lie hid; and secret ways lead thence up on to the hills.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Near him he could hear Tom Chamberlain talking to one of die new men from the Second Maine, explaining the ways of this regiment. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way, the early unconscious stages of crop evolution from wild plants consisted of plants evolving in ways that attracted humans to eat and disperse their fruit without yet intentionally growing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant spat on the ground and continued on, until he was sure that he had mentioned all the ways the rebels had hurt every person in the gathering. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Let’s explore ways to utilize familiar pedagogies to approximate the core cultural values associated with music in West African culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The hunting trail continued through the forest for a ways, until buildings began to appear. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that’s described in these books. Now . . .” “How does he manifest himself now?” asked the Savage. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, in many ways, it felt as though everything had changed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four hours ago, he was still thinking of ways to kidnap the president. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were some poorer kids too, but even they had some Western, urban ways about them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horses are unique in many ways, though—and I know there will be wild disagreement here—not as smart as dogs, certainly when it comes to math. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This little effort of mine, I thought, has been a disaster in more ways than one. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

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’m sorry,” Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn’t let it go. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Older women lowered their eyes in sympathy; many of them had lost children in cruel ways and they knew what strong, lasting grief came with such a loss. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He resigned himself to losing whatever he had invested in these schemes and locked himself in his room to plan new ways to make money and amuse himself. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is how our life is. It can be cool in a lot of ways, you have to admit.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The old man trundled off a ways into the shade afforded by dusty, silver-leafed cottonwoods and sat down on a log. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had apologized to me many times in many ways before, but his apologies had always been oblique, “Eat with me, Dana. Sarah is cooking up something special.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And in many ways the animal method of doing things was more efficient and saved labour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we were going our separate ways.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The infant country, not even fifty years old, was thinking hard at the time about better ways to punish its criminals. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they don’t have a lot of other ways to get it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of the ways you know there might be a hollow hanging about,” said Emma. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Those old men have ways, Lorraine. Sometimes they touch you, and you may not even notice what they’re doing.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rumor was, though, that they were working on ways to reset right down into the teens—which Rowan found ridiculous. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The young Jewish girl who at one time could not allow herself to walk into a gentile church now couldn’t do without it; her Orthodox Jewish ways had long since translated themselves into full-blown Christianity. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The requirements of the American Revolution, in effect, cut both ways at once. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They taught reading and writing and arithmetic; they also taught Christianity and other Western ways of thinking. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways she felt like she was constantly saying “I’m sorry” for something she didn’t do. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I scuffed down the brick path a ways and thought about how some things had changed forever that morning my parents found Amanda in her crib, not breathing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was eager to once again experience the Lord’s mysterious ways. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We proposed a variety of ways to get rid of her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Tally knew only two ways out of the Smoke by hoverboard. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Similarity and contrast link two propositions that are similar in most ways but different in at least one way. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If he had found out Fezzik was making rhymes, he would have laughed and then found new ways to make Fezzik suffer. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways the hunt had returned to their city, but no one argued with them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I realize that I have not had great exposure to other people's ways of living. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Matt remembered someone saying, when he first arrived, You won’t get away with your swanky ways here. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is amazing the ways they watch you here. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spending time with these people had made Charles think of ways that pigs, children, primitive peoples, Englishmen all were related. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel bad, ain’t no two ways about it, my skin’s tingling and sometimes I’m shivering and sometimes I’m sweating and sometimes my head weighs a million pounds. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He touched her in ways that made her glance apologetically at Minnie. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I must mend my ways or the Lord will punish me.’” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like pieces of fried chicken, waffles found ways to fly out of the serving pan and into the hands and pockets of inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, apart from other ways, I know from this game of words that my brother loves me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in every pocket of the city was having to figure out new ways of doing things. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Or, it occurs to me, one of five predetermined ways. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After he left his boys’ school he reverted to his old, unkempt ways, and goes around in his moccasins and his sweaters with the worn-through elbows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It came out confident, but now that the words were floating between them, Luke worried she’d dismiss the idea of coming with him in a hundred different ways. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I could escape the stage-managed multilateral meetings and sit-downs with leaders and find new ways to bring a little extra warmth to those otherwise staid visits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The black diaspora was not just our own world but, in so many ways, the Western world itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I have tried to address you differently—an idea begun by seeing all the other ways of love on display at The Mecca. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He had, like David Copperfield, been so long on his own that the ways of his peers were alien. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pictured this conversation in my head, I could imagine it going in two ways: revelation or revulsion. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I thought as we went our separate ways. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

During descent, for example, if the Gemini’s parachute did not come out when scheduled, the astronauts really had to hurry to try other ways to get the chute out or, failing that, to eject themselves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the ways of the world, there were still rocks to pick in my field. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s really not my specialty,” I say, trying not to think of all the ways people get eaten in the dinosaur movies I’ve seen. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Using new tactics, with more frequent attacks that in-volved more people, the segregationists watched and fol-lowed us constantly, looking for ways to isolate us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were different ways of saying no. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty minutes?—forty minutes before we started recording this, Senator Rafael Luna tweeted he was parting ways with the Richards campaign. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As the years passed, we watched them grow apart in odd ways that made us sad. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pondered a while over their mother’s inscrutable ways. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut the seaweed into different types of strips, which she wrapped around the onigiri in pretty ways. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“How you feelin’?” The truth was, I was feeling two ways. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cathy was different from other children in many ways, but one thing in particular set her apart. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many ways for things to get better. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which do you prefer, then? Please show me the error of my ways.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some Americans barely notice it; others feel its weight in powerful ways. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He seemed to relish her company and even to enjoy her country ways and lack of knowledge about city things. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways it’s almost reasonable, but I can see the holes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

One of the most important papers in the history of code breaking, it introduced powerful new ways of using statistics to break codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All across the continent - and beyond it - people were constantly thinking up new and ingenious ways of making music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And though the authors admitted that it was unlikely that terrorists would act during or after a hurricane, they nevertheless enumerated the many ways they might do so. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Before we went our separate ways, though, Samantha had one more thing to tell me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I therefore conclude that, since Fortune varies and men remain obstinate in their ways, men prosper when the two are in harmony and fail to prosper when they are not in accord. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are, of course, other ways to account for the songs of whales. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five children and nine grownups pushed their ways in—and oh, what an amazing sight it was that now met their eyes! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This is how our life is. It can be cool in a lot of ways, you have to admit.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In some ways, it was even worse than if he had told me I was mad. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At that moment Esteban saw clearly the ways his sister used to keep him down and how she managed to make him feel guilty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ruined my life fifteen different ways, but the suit still fits perfectly. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I distracted myself by trying to think of ways to pay Tucker back for the Coke. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I hope he’s actually telling the truth, how he wanted to see how I was doing, and not that he’s here to say goodbye and suggest we go our separate ways. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Like any explosion of modernity, outsourcing is challenging traditional norms and ways of life. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Children often come up with very imaginative ways to group instruments based on characteristics other than sound production. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I began to change in subtle ways and quickly lost patience with people who owned too many books. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was talking to Mary Elizabeth about how Craig might be “the one” and how she was trying to think of ways to keep it going long-distance while she was at school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The younger children are restless, and the older boys stir up trouble in small ways, wherever they can find it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, to its intense gratification, Pennsylvania had also discovered oil—not only discovered it but devised ways to make it industrially useful. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Still, with two children like Janie and Bill and a husband with such untidy ways, there is no denying the fact that she had to pick up the place rather frequently. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

But, when I asked if there could be ways he didn’t know about, he said, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Sophie Brown, than are dreamt of in our philosophies.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, there are plenty of other ways we can handle this one,” Colonel Kom assured him confidently, and continued to Piltchard and Wren. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The first sentence, which says that most Internet users go to news sites in their own country, subverts its attempt to express a resemblance relation in three ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My parents are always looking into new ways to fix me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then they changed on us, like the New Agers, looking for ways they could take what we had and administer it themselves. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In the movies, you can achieve slow motion in two ways, first, by overcranking, basically capturing each frame at a much faster rate with your camera than it will be played back on a projector. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Her rough and childish ways were almost gone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I also knew I wanted to continue studying the Arabic language and find ways to practice so I didn’t lose the momentum I’d acquired in Morocco. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“What ways? What did you show Cain? How did you manage to keep him out of your head at will? Zak!” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Knowing Juanita and her quixotic ways, this could turn into one of her many harebrained schemes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You said dreams are one of three ways to reach Beyond. What are the other two?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Arthur did not notice it, but I could hear the deep hiss of indrawn breath which is one of Van Helsing’s ways of betraying emotion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Every race, dozens of ethnicities, different ways of dressing, and, certainly, widely varying opinions about politics and life and Islam. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos made answer: “No two ways about it. Will I pry you from our gunnel when you are desperate to get to sea? Come aboard; share what we have, and welcome.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to follow behind her for a ways, not knowing whether I’m the ghost of her past, present, or future. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She might have had him die a hundred new ways, each more gruesome than the last. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So every day we stayed in the house, thinking of ways to amuse ourselves. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I wave bye to my friends and we walk toward our buses, it feels like we’re each moving in different directions in other ways too. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

If he’d been born again once, what was to say that he couldn’t be born again a second time, back into his old ways? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was off below us a ways but climbing fast, its muscular tongues punching into the mud and propelling it up the ridge like a spider. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

If you’re nice, I might even tell you a couple of different ways to get there. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, she could have accidentally hurt him, but he could have stopped her in any number of ways. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle had decided to divvy up his gift card five ways. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

This was extraordinary, but we were too well versed in the devious ways of the state to celebrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going outside didn’t mean I had to cross paths with John and his citified ways. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once again music and songs helped the sugar workers to keep up their spirits—to speak to one another in ways their bosses could not understand. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for helpdesk avatars to leave their cubicles, but I found other ways to pass the time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Knowing him convinced me that the white man of South Africa could change his ways of oppression if he wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning in Defense Against the Dark Arts, while copying down different ways of treating werewolf bites, Harry and Ron were still discussing what they’d do with a Sorcerer’s Stone if they had one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Instead of many ways, among which he could pick, they came out one way. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was one of the ways I found out how life is different for an Indian and a white man,” Danny said. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Somehow, one way or another, we find ways to stay alive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in snooker there are other ways to win points, as Alex knew only too well. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In all ways the Gambler was very good to look at. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Communication with the outside world was accomplished in two ways: through prisoners whose sentences were completed and who were leaving the island, and through contact with visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Croteau remain conscious of the class differences between them, and the ways in which their lives have been shaped by different experiences. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Publicity works both ways, sir. If Quinn wants to call me a robot, and has the nerve to do so, I have the nerve to play the game his way.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Of all the ways today could’ve gone, I couldn’t have predicted this. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you mean, redundant, like saying the same thing over and over but in different ways?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took the broom from me, put the stuff away, and we went our separate ways. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were only two known ways to resolve the soil problem: Build short and avoid the issue, or drive caissons down to bedrock. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Life in this vision of early America was hard but pleasant; in most ways, archaeologists said, it was not that different from life elsewhere on the planet at the time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Almost without exception the men criticized the Hell’s Angels for their lawless ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They supported one another, helped out in all the small-town ways. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There are worse ways to be remembered. At least they won’t antagonize you.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We share an unspoken understanding, two people from similar backgrounds raised in similar ways in America. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of them up the river, north a little ways, so she followed the sound of the water away from her farm. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

This is what happens to Chantal when she studies so hard and she still has to find ways to pay for school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“And how—” “We have our ways,” Uncle said with a secret smile. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like Nazario’s and Bodega’s ways, they held no guarantees of success just because they were legal. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Lott finally had to tell us that it was best for us to try and take classes from other professors more to be exposed to other ways of teaching graduate material.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But sometimes it broke out in other ways, this danger, these pent-up things, as from an overheated boiler. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anger. There are ways among bears of turning away our anger with each other, but I was out of my own control. So I killed him and I was justly punished.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Charley was torn three ways—with anger at me for leaving him, with gladness at the sight of Rocinante, and with pure pride in his appearance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two ways for mortals to become permanent subjects of the Court: marrying into it or honing some great skill—in metallurgy or lute playing or whatever. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re either for us or against us. There’s no two ways about it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As the months at Manzanar turned to years, it became a world unto itself, with its own logic and familiar ways. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see too many ways to spend our precious money if we walk on Fifth Avenue. All those gorgeous stores.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Muslim saints, and saints in lands where they worship God in all sorts of ways.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The state did its utmost to harass me in ways they thought I would be powerless to resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Think about other patriotic songs you know and the ways a covenant between the American people and the Christian god is reflected in those lyrics. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’s spoken out twice today in ways that make me think he would rather be friends than enemies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A large group of people greet Dray in all different ways—girls kiss him on the cheek, guys slap his hand and hug him with one arm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

People turn and stare as I run to the next street corner, skidding to a stop to look both ways. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was another example of how Sahil saw me in ways other people didn’t. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It's a silly thing to say, when I didn't know her, either, though I felt like I did in ways that aren’t worth explaining now. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And it may have gotten Elizebeth thinking about other ways she could tell her own story. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was a town boy, knowing little of country ways. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer door would hiss shut and relock itself; then the package would be scanned, X-rayed, and analyzed eight ways from Wednesday. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I talked to my various human rights and refugee groups about ways I could get more involved in the future. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the early 1620s, as the Thirty Years War temporarily shifted in favour of the Catholic side, the political situation in Italy changed in ways that would affect Galileo dramatically. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is a land of rocky ways and stony hills and rugged mountains, and in such places the exquisite vivid bloom of the wild flowers, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as Bunderson thought through the possibilities, he figured there were some very good ways around that ever happening. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In some ways, he seemed so much happier. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Human lives are priceless in many ways, but in order to reach reasonable compromises, we must, in effect, place a finite economic value on them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the most interesting of the recent work is concerned with still other ways of forging weapons from the insect’s own life processes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Thinking up ways to kill me was more like it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This bike is three ways ours, says Rachel who is thinking ahead already. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they let it run its course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways either to alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It meant dealing with my disability in ways that were quite real. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Every thing that concerns you concerns me” went both ways. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t naive about the ways of the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For Vincent, God is ever present, guiding him in all ways, helping him do what is right. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the past half hour, I've collected a mental list of approximately 412 ways I might kill Tiny Cooper, and I'm not going to leave until I've settled on just the right one. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He’d like to be like Dr. Martin in that way, and in so many other ways too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’ve tried out all sorts of different ways to get away with my being in the Free Lunch Program. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Vivienne shrugs, and I am reminded of how, despite her being my sister, we differ in ways that are hard to comprehend. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mouth tastes like copper, and my heart starts drumming, and when I get off the bus and start running, right away I'm thinking of all the ways I can sneak into the house. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to perform and surely He has a special purpose for Mikey, fits and all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Times article about the Fugees also changed things for the team in other ways. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“In my reading. There’s a lot of work been done on dreams. It’s one of the ways they have of getting to a person’s unconscious.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, Ren is no amateur at dealing with his security, and he knows how to protect himself in ways far beyond the average player. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Funny how peoples show they feelings in different ways. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“There are probably worse ways to die than falling into a river, having a great time with your friends right up until the end,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

You know the scent of pine and the many ways root bark can heal. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Schiem collared a young pig and carried it off a ways, where he killed and dressed it using a long knife from his bag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Within a week he would find a hundred ways to make himself useful. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In their own different ways, all the radicals in the post-Wagner meltdown - Mahler, Debussy, Strauss and Stravinsky - were dismantling the previous system of musical organisation, whereby ideas carefully unfolded, one developing into the next. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Once the shock wore off, Mom got around to listing the various ways Zooey and Charlie were ruining their lives, and Charlie’s only defense consisted of shouting loud enough to drown her out. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was an artful child in many ways, and more than a match for us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In subtle, almost inconspicuous ways, Buster ridiculed the empathy boxes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was large and vigorous, impatient with Willie, who had to be told things more than once, but, as the days wore on, won over by Lyddie’s hard work and quiet ways. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf’s evil in loco parentis ways. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

You have added much in several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I suppose it was a year for opening doors in more ways than I ever imagined. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

With an inward agony, with a flaming, outspoken revolt against the ways of Nature, she witnessed the scene torture. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

On every other continent as well, certain native societies have proved very receptive, adopted foreign ways and technology selectively, and integrated them successfully into their own society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about to get knotted up in the worst possible ways. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Well, this new kind of particle was elementary all right, but it was very hard to measure because it didn’t react in any of the usual ways. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was also their greatest treasure, in more ways than one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Foods such as these, which are eaten on holidays, often preserve tastes and ways of cooking from earlier times. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Papa told us after we got here, after we settled down and were safe, that thousands of people have died crossing the border both ways. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were always exploring, going places I couldn’t go and getting there in ways I couldn’t—on their bikes, or running. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And the two would part ways—the child returning to his family, and Antain leaving alone. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They had speculated that growing up in the American military could affect the personality of an individual in one of two ways. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The style he developed soon proved to be in many ways superior to the traditional longer stroke taught at Eton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But they are still babies in many ways. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either I could stand more mental strain than formerly or I had discovered deep within me ways of handling it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept trying to figure out a way to tell her that, but all of the ways I thought of were weird and wrong. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds broke and boiled in the sky, and the ship’s master roared out ragefully, “This fool’s gale blows all ways at once! Only a magewind will get us through this weather, Lord.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before I can stop him, ’80s Finch says, “There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Through the ways of the city, I heard the call of the drums, beating the soldiers into formation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The airplane set down in the capital; he took the Trail ways bus up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t want to fall asleep thinking about all the ways he’d failed in life, so he decided to imagine what he would do differently if he was ever rescued. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Women have ways. I’ve heard. You can refuse him—” Her mother shrank away from her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was still a child, but in some ways she seemed older than Briana. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, the ways that lips could know each other, and tongues, how they could tease and tingle. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As we went along some of the streets, boys and girls who shared the same fears about school as I were making their feelings known in a variety of ways. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many students began to feel embarrassed by their parents, who didn’t understand English and still lived by the old ways. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Simply having an ear well-trained in "relative pitch" is extremely useful in many ways. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I’ll walk with you a ways,” he says, not even asking if it’s okay. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Legalistic debates over federal versus state sovereignty were just the most accessible handles to grab, the safest and most politically suitable ways to talk about alternative national visions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And all the while my Mrs. de Winter, my lady with her smile and her lovely face and brave ways, the real Mrs. de Winter, lying dead and cold and forgotten in the church crypt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Did I really need to cook the pig two different ways? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

You can do these kinds of experiments a thousand different ways and the answer almost always comes out the same way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d imagined his death a thousand ways, but never sleeping through it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, these people’s minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they’re not like you and me,” said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Just showing up here as if she wanted to remind him of every stupid mistake he’d ever made, all the ways he’d been disloyal and blind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But introspection gives us far more insight into the ways of other humans than into those of dinosaurs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Where I had youth and energy on my side, she had cunning, and she figured out different ways to keep me in line. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Gaur was indeed a “troublemaker,” in the best sense of that term, and was an influential man in the African community in ways that Mr. Sidelsky did not know or suspect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was right in all ways but one. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning they went out, but each dusk they were back in the park complaining of no work to be found and talking feverishly of ways to get into the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

These writers are incurious about the logic and history of the English language and the ways in which it has been used by its exemplary stylists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Not just there with her in the cave, but with her in all the ways that mattered. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I do think of them as my children in most ways. I never could get over my mothering instincts — did Edward tell you I had lost a child?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This, despite her easily hurt look, her ingratiating ways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was very short-tempered, al­ways shouting at me and insulting me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Montez teaching everyone how to read after lights out, coming up with clever ways to remember the more complicated stuff. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Those parts are put back together in new ways to make the sweetener in your soft drink or the starch in your hamburger roll. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even though he still held on to his instinctual ways, he was comfortable enough that he ventured around the cage and made quite a bit of noise. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“There are only four ways you can miss. Short, long, right, or left. That’s it.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cherie recalls that they were in custody for a time and then one by one they went their separate ways. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You will also read of the many ways in which Native nations and communities have fought for their survival. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, the number of useful ways of putting nucleic acids together is stupefyingly large—probably far greater than the total number of electrons and protons in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this girl waded right in and hit him between the eyes with her words and ways. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And about each hill a ring was made facing all ways, bristling with spear and sword. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And however rapidly technology may invent new uses for insecticides and new ways of applying them, it is likely to find the insects keeping a lap ahead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They could coerce some of us into fighting with misinformation, or by appealing to greed—any number of ways. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Now I want to sit in my old backyard, which was in some ways a jungle. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

All of this is to say that I saw ways to connect with Americans that Barack and his West Wing advisers didn’t fully recognize, at least initially. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I have done things I deeply regret, said things I wish I could take back, and disappointed people in ways that still embarrass me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was a refugee camp in other ways, though. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We learned the ways of investigation, of interview, how to listen, how to persuade, how to threaten. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘All of them is having their own special ways of catching the human bean,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Muses lived not far from them, such were their ways. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just have a little ways to go, children. So try to get along.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m like Dad in a lot of ways. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The ways in which nature pushes back alter as we alter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The window is the answer; it looks both ways.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian Chavez, starting both ways at tight end and defensive end after missing the first game of the season because of an ankle injury, walks through the locker room shirtless, his body drenched with sweat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The danger which he presented was, after all, not immediate but slow and simmering, a sort which can, at least in the abstract, be postponed or diverted in any number of ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Almost at once popularizers of science tried to come up with ways to make these concepts accessible to a general audience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

By 1903, fully 25 percent of the 'Big Three” meatpacking companies’ profit on beef came from their ingenious ways of using what had formerly been thrown away. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“There are ways to kill people like me,” he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I start thinking about ways I would make her shut up. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I parked the car a ways back, half hidden by the trees, and began to walk toward the lone black van in the parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’d found there were ways to keep a low profile when I needed to, helped by the Secret Service’s willingness to be flexible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I knew all the ways I was supposed to meet this imaginary friend too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just me; there were crimes strewn six ways to Sunday, and I had my own mouths to feed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might look nothing like me, with his olive skin and hazel eyes, but he was my dad in all the ways that mattered. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His brother would stop at every hole and bare his fangs in rage, but the ways stayed closed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Barack had kicked things off earlier in the year with a government-wide audit, asking each agency to find new ways to support military families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Our mother knew, I guess, dozens of ways to cook things with bread and out of bread. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their father was Ares, the terrible god of war, whose ways they followed and not their mother’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Vietnam, too, we had ways of making the dead seem not quite so dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Microbes have evolved diverse ways of spreading from one person to another, and from animals to people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“With the right licenses, you can get butterflies through customs. When you can’t, there are other ways to cross borders.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Far too much. He can’t seem to come out of it. In some ways Tom is a great big baby.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The properties of historical systems that complicate attempts at prediction can be described in several alternative ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We found other ways of expression, explored other genres, and shared the podium with other voices. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No,” said the father, “we’re not poor at all. In fact, I would say in a lot of ways we’re rich.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the many ways we are opposites. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“But what other ways could I look at it? What other things could I do?” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Lots of different ways to pretty up the same old evils.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We’ve got this down to a system, Natalie and I. In some ways she is very predictable, more like a clock than a human being. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Professor Snape sets so much of it, and writing the essay in two different ways. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Katherine and I are just in time to see Jackson tackled by the three men a little ways down the street that leads away from the rail yard. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was simply that he had not spoken very well, being new to it, and they felt that he was not up to their fine ways? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long ways down and I had to hope we were going to be all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Egyptian civilization was bad for math in more ways than one; it was not just the absence of a zero that caused future difficulties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The street was empty both ways, with quiet lawns and houses neat among the trees, but no one at all except back there. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In more ways than one—I really do believe in myself because of him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then looked down the block both ways, like she was trying to figure out where she was. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They marked his first consideration that there might be other ways of living than the one he knew. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had made it only a small ways in when they heard the voice and stopped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She always cried when she thought we were learning the ways of my father, the ways of the Márez. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would understand if I keep my ways and don’t put my name on nothing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia knew that hundreds of people who lived in her town worked in offices in New York City and could afford to pay full fare both ways every day. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He realized the numerous ways that they could serve their country by performing socially useful tasks. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the bartender, the tavern, and the musician share your money three ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ralph cleared his throat “Now we must return to our own abode and deal with our private grief in whatever ways seem to bring us peace.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now then, their colloquy at an end, they went their ways—Athena toward illustrious Lakedaimon far over sea, to join Odysseus’ son. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately I began to think of ways that would allow me to sit next to him at lunch. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But every so often there is a year when events converge in surprising ways. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We take it slow, and out of all the ways I’ve lived today, maintaining eye contact with Rufus is really hard; it’s easily become the most intense intimacy ever I’ve ever experienced. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of the Dothraki, whose ways seemed alien and monstrous, as if they were beasts in human skins and not true men at all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Red Jack meets us a little ways from the barrier gate to the homestead proper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It rained for a few minutes, a cold, driving rain that chilled you in ways you wouldn’t forget very soon. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I come a little late, and all those people were so crowded around, I just stayed back a ways.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He said that all kinds of people—men, women, and children—have been killed in unthinkable ways and are still being killed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote a friend: “I’m doing the dearest little serial for Pearson’s new magazine, in which I completely wreck and destroy Woking—killing my neighbours in painful and eccentric ways.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas; he learned many ways of losing the Self. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a tool he could use, a process that could reduce the mysterious ways of politics to scientific testing and evaluation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But right now he was filled with both, in ways he had never felt on those streets. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She’d been thinking up ways to get them in and out of trouble all summer long. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord certainly does move in mysterious ways. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There are also gray areas and various ways to lump and split the relations, which give linguists plenty of things to argue about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As you type, Enigma encrypts your message—and the number of ways it can do this is mind-boggling. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thought that because of her sharp tongue and unloving ways, she would not find a welcome in her brother’s home. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I know you’re thinking, “Okay, Mr. Sad Sack, how many ways are you going to tell us how depressed you were?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways it’s much too early to introduce Daniel to my house and family. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In string theory different particles are really the same type of string, just wiggling in different ways. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Third week, I am satisfied and settle in my ways. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She finds ways to get what she wants. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the people sang in all the ways of the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that Charlie’s face appeared before me, awakening memories of his kind and tender ways. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Otto and I followed a short ways behind, careful not to lose sight of them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we go our separate ways here. I hope it’s not forever.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Research shows that these religions differed from Christianity in many ways, including the power that women could hold in rituals. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In a world of atoms and the void all natural processes result from the ways in which atoms jostle together. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In some ways, his entire life had prepared him for it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“My Lord”—his arms were spread open wide before the congregation—“your Lord, works in mysterious ways.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

That was, in many ways, why he rowed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Lord Snow, as Lady Val is a stranger to our ways, please send her to me, that I might instruct her in the duties of a noble lady toward her lord husband.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In some ways the best description of it would be to say that it looked like a photographer’s negative, for he was seeing one ray beyond the spectrum which is visible to human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called Thomas At-the-Bridge, who knew the ways of the woods and the tracks of the animals, to help him discover what sort of beast had been prowling about while they slept. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways, Vincent’s move to Paris has been good for both brothers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s all up to you, isn’t it? Change your ways or visit the cellar.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Bo coming back into my world, if only in the tiniest of ways, turns my brain into a vacuum, where nothing else can exist, because I’m so consumed. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

One of the ways he thought the deportation might be prevented, or at least delayed, was for him to become stateless by legally renouncing his citizenship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember I would wait outside his door at night, listening to him as he slept. I was seventeen, remember. Childish in so many ways. I thought myself in love.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“In some ways,” she says, “this country is like Haiti. They talk out of two sides of their mouth. You can never know what these people are going to do.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But Mami says how is she supposed to remember all the crazy ways the Americans have changed Spanish around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He went quite a ways down the mountain but still didn't find the shovel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A lesser mind would have accepted defeat, since the odds were stacked against me, but the best military leaders always find ways to eliminate obstacles. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried a bunch of different ways, but I couldn’t make the words come. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The letters A, C, and T convey very little meaning by themselves, but can be combined in ways to produce substantially different messages. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I doubt it. I think he owns everything for a long ways.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

For my mother, married life was in many ways similar to how her life had been with her parents. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, new disciplines and new technologies were creating new ways to examine the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Different individuals responded in different ways to the new pervasive spirit of competition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

No Czech revolutionaries jumped out from behind the bushes to free us, but the Czech people fought back in less violent ways. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke so well and with such warmth, always touching her in small affectionate ways, even in public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy found a deserted barn a ways off the road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The chowder had blown both ways and he still felt weak and crampy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In truth this came as a relief to the other children, who were already more than tired of Constance’s ways, and who gathered in the boys’ room to discuss this very concern. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

That included baking a wild yeast bread and cooking a wild pig two different ways. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We spread our arms like wings, and when we fall down in the grass, we breathe hard and laugh and the world moves around us in dizzy ways. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were other ways to get back to her high school dorm from the Upper East Side, but Annabeth liked going through Grand Central Terminal. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cynthia, after looking both ways, ran across the street and into the cemetery because through the graveyard was the shortest way home. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

In some ways, this is where the story begins. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’s slipping up on the grooming too, reverting to her old sloppy ways of years ago. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways, running a zoo is a hotelkeeper’s worst nightmare. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My class was, in some ways, the equivalent of seventh grade, perhaps even sixth or fifth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In so many ways, we’d been manipulated from the very beginning—from the moment we chose to leave the island and I chose to go along. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I had had more experiences than a dozen men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"OK,” he said, "listen carefully. We’re going to have to tack out a ways, then we can reach over to St. Mikes. Tacking means we zigzag, going as close to the wind as possible.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t always like hard work, goodness knows, and sometimes they figured all kinds of ways to get out of it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The job is unpleasant and forbidding in at least two significant ways: the likelihood of violence and the lost opportunity of having a stable family life. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was time to put my straitlaced ways to rest. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In many ways, “unlucky thirteen” was the pivotal game of the Fischer–Spassky championship encounter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They cinch together in all the worst ways, until they are impossible to straighten out. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But their troubles were just beginning, because the yard is, in many ways, like the mess hall: a place where many inmates come together, and passions are easily inflamed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, her vision altered in terrifying ways. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Over tea, we’d compare notes and be unsurprised by all the ways we are different. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He preached against the Apothecary’s use of the old ways, and the Apothecary’s foul temper and greed made certain these sermons fell on eager ears. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even in Paris, I could not shake the old ways, the instinct to watch my back at every pass, and always be ready to go. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Besides, you don’t use stones to build barrows. Even if you did, you wouldn’t use quarried, finished stone like this. This was brought from a long ways off.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even now, though I live as a man, I remain in essential ways Tessie’s daughter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hearing the news as we drew near our destination, Mother said, “I think I’ll park here. The meeting place is quite a ways away, but from the looks of things we won’t get any closer.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This outburst does little but boost the boy’s status in the eyes of his friends, who take to devising ingenious ways to irritate Mr. Curran without giving themselves away. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing moved in some ways into the future, incorporating a small number of vocational programs, a few school courses, a counseling staff, and expanded opportunities for inmate recreation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With utter disregard for the Indigenous ways of thinking about the land, both sacred and nonsacred, the colonizers viewed all the land and resources they saw as things to own and to exploit. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most people follow us back to Gram’s house once we’re done in the graveyard, although some of them go their separate ways. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They had left dinner defrosting on the counter for her, and seeing the Tupperware sweating on the countertop made something tug at Graces heart in the most painful of ways. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Boys sometimes show that they like girls in strange ways. When I was your age, boys showed interest in girls by ignoring them or treating them badly.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They wrap around me in ways I hadn’t considered. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he was prepared in other ways: Though nobody had told us to, he had brought along an iron and ironing board, even spray starch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mentally…my mind was twisting in so many ways. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They are not so much components of language as components of reason, identifying the ways in which one idea can lead to another in our train of thought. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

One of the few ways that a foot soldier could distinguish himself—and advance in the tournament—was by proving his mettle for violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They expected her alone to keep the traditional ways, which her brothers, now among the barbarians, could fumble without detection. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways it would do exactly that. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Still, it wasn’t uncommon for certain innocent, excitable girls to respond to my presence in ways they weren’t aware of. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No matter what Joey said, I wasn’t ever going to be able to stop thinking of Megan Renshaw as smoking hot, and in some ways she was more accessible to me than Annie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had dreamed her own death a half-dozen different ways, as though her mind were making up a list of choices. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, maybe I will. I’m going to tell him he needs to get his act together and drop Meg and her punk ways,” Jasmine says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It happens in small ways that most people can barely notice. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They both, in their own ways, so desperately want to see the good in people and the world. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Branwell must have been up all night trying to think of ways to stop her from getting another job as an au pair. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both major types of insecticides, the chlorinated hydrocarbons and the organic phosphates, directly affect the nervous system, although in somewhat different ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were small, these creatures, with dead-looking eyes and gray-white faces, and yet in some ways they were like us, except ridiculous and, at the same time, mysteriously irritating, like rats. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Caesar, this is a natural place to segue into all the ways we did get hurt in the arena, from burns, to stings, to wounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he looked for ways for it not to have happened. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took her years to learn better ways to thwart the Sorrow Eater. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were two ways to get at the place, he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of them had suffered in one way or another at the hands of whites, some of them in appalling ways. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In so many ways, I’m still older than the old man before me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Viking search for life on Mars can be traced in more ways than one back to Leeuwenhoek and Huygens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I think we all sensed, standing there, just how far we were from where we had come, in ways both good and bad. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The winds are blowing opposite ways, and each one is riding a different wind, and there’s only this one moment when they can meet. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Frank asks, like he just can’t imagine the ways these clues could ever line up in the right order. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they’re in seventh grade. High school’s still a ways away.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but there are so many ways of saying that,” he replies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In 1693, they made a proposal to the Admiralty for an expedition to find ways of improving navigation at sea, in particular by studying terrestrial magnetism in different parts of the globe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are—have always been—heroic in really quiet ways. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I love the serious look on his face; how he’s trying to find ways to make this work. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A round of gunshots echoed in the distance, signals from the night guards who had no other ways of speaking to one another. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And when I thought about it enough, I decided that maybe everyone I knew was looking for something in different ways. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My avatar was still only first level at the time, and it was one of the only safe ways for me to level up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He sought to provide authentic ways for children to express themselves and developed scaffolding to better harness and understand children’s musical development. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s that direction, but still a ways south. It’s actually between Chatfield and Bruins.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I got a little ways along the hall I could see light peeking out from under an interior door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pranks we played; the ways friends could be cruel. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’d head down to the wire and stare out at the darkness, out where the war was, and think up ways to make Bobby Jorgenson feel exactly what I felt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the messenger, after all. I know back ways to go, where no one will see me.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After their first year at boarding school in Albuquerque, Tayo saw how Rocky deliberately avoided the old-time ways. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways the rain is a blessing, as it lightens the humidity in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, I was stubborn in ways the teachers could not see. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In addition, food production contributes in at least three ways to specific features of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Philbert, too, held his back to me, and I wondered how many more ways this day would hnd to cut me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chose to be stubborn in other ways. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The space extended right down to the hull and ran some little ways into the side benches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Rook Hill, however, the small northern village where Aisling lived with her father, kept to the old ways. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a good and loving father inside. Learn to understand him and his ways. Learn to understand the pain of his life.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

People can get old all different ways, I guess. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Always looking for ways to spend more time with me.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She had run out of ways to fill time, so when I said, "Yes, I'll be fine," she had nothing left to do except try to believe me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

He had so much to respond to, and in different ways. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This distance feels wrong, awkward, yet in some ways it seems easier than acting as though we have a bond. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom reminds me that Terence has hurt me six ways to Sunday. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

People would think that she was up to some of her crazy ways when they missed her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, It’s amazing how life works in mysterious ways. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in most ways, time has not been kind to Alexandria. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Although you may never meet, the three of you will work together in ways none of us can predict. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He is generous in most ways, but not this. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mind is clear, the plans for the museum becoming cohesive, ideas for future projects aligning themselves in ways that seem completely manageable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But in other ways it’s totally wild and different. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“We have to find more ways to see each other,” she says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All but Loo, who’d wandered off a ways, to hunt something in the high grass nearby. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She has to have a reason for her ways, but whatever those reasons are, I don’t know them at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Nazis didn’t sell food in the labor camp, of course, but there were ways to buy food smuggled in from the outside. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, he wanted to tell Minho about how he and Teresa could talk, to share what was happening before it made his brain explode. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She said, “I’m trying to find ways to be happy. Laughing makes me happy.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The alleys and streets meandered in ways that bewildered me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In chapter 4 we reminded ourselves of the many ways in which big domestic mammals were crucial to those human societies possessing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In order to understand the way in which the physical world enters the negotiations that produce beliefs, we must look at the ways in which we communicate with and about it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From the sounds of things, we're a ways off from the zone of advance. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"You can use a shovel in many ways." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She has moved on from Katrina in many ways, and yet the residual effects arrive at unexpected times. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I began seeking ways of distancing myself from my father’s rituals. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in some ways it had been worse when my father’s lute was broken in Tarbean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wash was so busy finding ways to be with Naomi that he all but forgot the scheme to get money to improve the colored school. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos was my first dad in some ways. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Let’s follow the creek a ways,” he said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

"You have to look both ways and all ways. That even includes, despite what your dad says, down." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It waren’t till you went into the houses that you saw the different ways that folks set ’em up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then, every bunch of streets, there were fat yellow streets, like the avenues, that went both ways. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Now it was down a ways to the right. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The birth had left her too raw and tom to take him inside of her, as she would have wanted, but Doreah had taught her other ways. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Times have changed, and you’ve half convinced me there’s room for both ways.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Both had spent their time in prison camp thinking of ways the Atlantic might be crossed nonstop by air. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

His face darkened: he would, he said, find ways and means. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel reminded himself that Brangwain Spurge was his guest, and was probably just going to take a day or two to get used to the ways of goblins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s not funny! I don’t like trickster ways. I like the truth.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It stunned me in the happiest of ways. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The priest’s refusal meant the church was taking its stand and that the evil ways of the Trementinas were known to all. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, not only did she not get worse, but she did get better, in more ways than one. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then another mutation severed this last connecting thread, and they went their separate evolutionary ways. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most went their several ways, some back to the fields, others to their cottages. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you could make yourself useful to Mr. de Winter, if he wants anything done. You’re a capable child in many ways.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

You, with your quiet farming ways, would be quite agog over all the activity here. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A book could be read a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, but the words on the page would never change. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Only for a moment. He—well, I suppose we all have different ways of handling these things....Edmund looks a great deal like him, doesn’t he?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was just about to call out a friendly “Good morning!” when he noticed that a little ways off through the trees, Spurge was sitting on the pine needles and crying. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Old wooden signs with kanji, the most complicated of the three ways of writing Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Me neither. We won’t go far. But this thing seems to like trails. It followed one all this way. We may be close to a discovery. It’s worth going a little ways just to check.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He was far better and helped me a lot, showing me the trails through the forests and the best ways to move from one valley to the next. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I am so glad you two are seeing the ways of the world. Now if I could just convince everyone else, we’d be all good.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

But in many ways he was a bad pony. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am counting my blessings tonight and thinking about all the ways love is a big deal, how it is the honey, lemon, and eucalyptus oil that Ollie Mae makes for a scratchy throat. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Or the Ninety-first Psalm: “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to be unhappy. But there are different ways of being that. Don’t you think it might turn out that you would be more unhappy if we lived together?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can play straight, so that your number has to come up exact, or you can split your bet six ways to cover the mixes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

See Simple Rhythm Activities2 for easy ways to encourage children to explore rhythm. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were in their sixties, but in many ways the world was opening up for them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He decided he needed to make absolutely sure that the people of the Soviet Union were loyal to him—or at least, that they behaved in all ways like loyal people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

See if you can develop other ways of classifying these instruments in addition to the ways listed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The stylistic parting of ways that started to become evident in the early twentieth century, though, was on an unprecedented scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I look both ways again before crossing the empty street. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I wanted you all to connect to these words in personal ways, not just the scientific ways that we read about.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

That’s because television plays to our attention systems in extraordinary ways, using light, sound, and story. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In my mind’s eye I saw reduced to soot all those wonderful books, which had revealed to me other ways of living, which had sustained me in a world of degradation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a lot of ways, Sherman was the least handicapped person I’d ever known. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I was frightened in two different ways. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The city had transformed in more ways than one. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The paths made from years of walking the same ways, from Ray running the routes, back and forth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Malik and I hug and go our separate ways. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Being his confidante, she felt essential to him, in some ways closer to him than ever. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t spend hours staring in the mirror, thinking of all the ways I could be better. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Mend your ways, my young friend, mend your ways.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would have been a more trying companionship in some ways. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Greeks also had a base-10 style of counting, and there was very little difference in the ways the two cultures wrote down their numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We all looked at each other for a while, then went our separate ways. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As they walked through Caras Galadhon the green ways were empty; but in the trees above them many voices were murmuring and singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My mother said, “Well, but, sugar, it goes both ways. You know how to speak English and they don’t.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, we weren’t best friends or anything, and he was mostly a psycho who I was definitely gonna part ways with the second we got to Mexico, but still. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There will always be, in emerging nations, an enduring attraction to the ways of the colonizer — I myself was not immune to it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened, as things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

There are lots of ways a person can move on. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But some city leaders made an effort to step up in new ways. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To these thinkers, Indians were living demonstrations of wholly novel ways of being human—exemplary cases that were mulled over, though rarely understood completely, by countless Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He slices the egg five ways and gives each of us a bit to put on our bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Gee, you sure can see a ways from up here.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you're kind of my best friend in a lot of ways, and I really want to keep you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When an Osage chief was asked why he didn’t adopt the white man’s ways, he replied, “I am perfectly content with my condition. The forests and rivers supply all the calls of nature in plenty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

These boys were like adults in their knowledge of the ways of the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of the pleasantest ways to pass the time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top, a wide, flat plain dotted with huge ant mounds stretched for a mile, and Joe left the dirt ruts to slalom between the mounds for a ways. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways the story made less sense each time he read it, the scenes he pictured so vividly, and absorbed so fully, growing more elusive and profound. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons we go our separate ways. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So she learned ways of conserving bits of seconds. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that guard they chose mostly archers who knew the ways of Ithilien and would lie hid in the woods and slopes about the meeting of the ways. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Their children resembled mine in all ways except the superficial one of skin color, as indeed they resembled all children of all humans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in so many other ways, 1919 would be a pivotal year in aeronautics, too. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The outer core is in many ways even less well understood, though everyone is in agreement that it is fluid and that it is the seat of magnetism. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If I attempted to account for scenes and characters, to tell why certain scenes were written in certain ways, I’d be stretching facts in order to be pleasantly intelligible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her spirit in Barack in big and small ways. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If the extraterrestrials stay at home, there are at least two ways in which they might find out about us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have religious items for those eager to get back to their old ways. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

From the moment I heard Lembede speak, I knew I was seeing a magnetic personality who thought in original and often startling ways. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She channeled her anger, which wasn’t hard—she hated that gold, she hated her curse, she hated thinking about her past and all the ways she’d failed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After I made up with my parents, my brothers and sisters began to open up to me in new ways as well, talking about their challenges and concerns. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The people in front of him began to part ways, to push to either side instead of toward the sounds of human suffering, and then he saw it in action. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When tusks were discovered, they were forced into the animal’s head in any number of inventive ways. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We appreciate the abstruse concept of equations breaking down through an example, division by zero, which we can understand for ourselves in either of two ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They’re finding their own ways now, and finding truths other places than in you.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“May I walk with you a ways, Mr. Goodspeed?” he asks. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rough . .. though ... fought... through ... bough—the same letters were pronounced so many different ways! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Thunderhead achieved consciousness, when it was merely known as “the cloud,” criminals—and even public agencies—would find ways into people’s private doings, against the law, and exploit that information. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We adopted the religion of our colonizers, but most people held on to the old ancestral ways, too, just in case. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had grown in many ways, but especially in love. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They must try to confuse their offspring as well, who, I suppose, threaten them in similar ways—always trying to get things straight, always trying to name the unspeakable. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though in a million superficial ways it would be identical to the day before—the same breeze would blow and the same tree limbs would fall—my experience of it would be new. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This is where Scythe Faraday spent several hours a day schooling them in the ways of a scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I have a place we can get to in Mexico. On the beach. I have a ride for us. If you want, once we get down there we can go our separate ways.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had to find ways to block out all of the distractions in order to fully focus on the goal ahead of me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Echoing Dr. Gazzaley, she said she was thrilled at the idea of turning the tables on the technology, making it a slave in new ways rather than have it challenge the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That was a whole nother ball of wax—twice as long and in many ways more than twice as hard. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of the morning, they went their separate ways and Burger returned to his hotel room. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Tool pushed Moby a little ways away, both of them bedding down in the nearby bushes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Telling her that Latin women were undergoing a revolution and that this would force the Latin man to change his ways and reinvent himself. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Yet not wholly without understanding. Our ways are not your ways.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accident was already defining him in big and little ways, like on the date with Elise, the girl who had the article about him taped to her mirror. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I said, “I’m not trying to find ways to be happy, and I won’t.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In art, as in language, we are above all inventors of symbols that convey complex thoughts in new ways. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter how many times we look both ways. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was a man well versed in the ways of animals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re all going back to the old days and the old ways for a week.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know. Maddy told us all to go different ways. Since I was flying solo, I went all the way around the greenbelt first to get them off track.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Had we wanted to sell you out,” he said, “there have been many easier ways by which we could have accomplished this.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The next pirogue was heading upstream, much more slowly, and I watched it go a ways before deciding whether to call out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The name Jean was so short, there didn’t seem to be enough room in it for all the things I wanted to do, all the ways I wanted to be. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modeled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

‘Bilingual education, two ways to understand...,’ television and radio commercials glibly announce. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not in ways any of us expect. But it will not be forgotten. Every voice leaves an imprint.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Their blood and their ways had kept them at odds, and yet for all this, we were happy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we can better embrace the ways we are the same. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even in the deep bush, where you could die any number of ways, the war was nakedly and aggressively boring. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Isobel’s prohibition of the old ways had not, Ash realized, been followed by everyone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave me advice on how to succeed in America, yet cling to my Dinka ways. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Estha gave her a Chinese Bangle, twisting the skin on her wrist different ways with each of his hands. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was curious about the ways she had of getting a man excited, but this was no time to start experimenting. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So I’ll invent my own ways to tell him what I long for, and what I can give. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always surprised him in the simplest ways. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

These were vast, airy marshes, some of them thirty miles wide, as splendid as fields of ripened wheat, yet as desolate in some ways as the dark side of the moon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can fly and dunk all special ways. I can run and fake all special ways,” said Boobie. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said good-bye and left, checking both ways down the corridor before departing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He described all the ways the Library was suited for the blind—the routine, the unchanging furniture, the textured knobs and cupboards in the kitchen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I think you have slipped in any number of ways since last year. I understand for example that there was gaming in my dormitory this summer while you were living there.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of terrible ways to die, and even if Ophie didn’t know what all of them were, she had a feeling this boy knew at least one. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We might want to say that these virtues and this limit can be summed up in the word ‘objectivity’; but objectivity is a nineteenth-century concept and implies new ways of observing nature and recording information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An hour’s listening disclosed the fanatical intolerance of minds sealed against new ideas, new facts, new feelings, new attitudes, new hints at ways to live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two ways to stroke one’s beard. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Keep her then, but keep her safe. If these animals think they can use her . . . well, sweet sister, let me point out that a scale tips two ways." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then Mama and I cooked six tuna casseroles six different ways, and we baked four chocolate cakes and dusted them with confectioners’ sugar. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In some ways, though, it’s better now. They have to keep thinking of ways to keep the people satisfied. All sorts of fancy tricks they got—well, you’ve seen ’em. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In some ways, my silence was more telling than anything else. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

To the extent that the groupings were racial, it was because of the ways race overlapped class and geography out in the real world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was smart enough to learn ghost ways. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a nice lady up the road a ways. She’d be proud to take you in.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His strict rules were designed as an invisible form of protection for us, and in many ways they reflected Birmingham’s segregation laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that with his lively ways, he would make a fine playfellow. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For a quarter hour I sat on my bed, enjoying the quiet and trying fruitlessly to think of new ways to break the curse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This she had learned in childhood, and it was one of the old Eskimo ways that she liked, perhaps the only one. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many ways in which animals are mistreated, many that people don’t even know about. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at night, in secret, I still limp purposefully around my apartment, like Mr. Hyde, trying to recover my old ways of seeing and thinking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay followed Doc around the cabin like little ducks while he told us more ways to get rid of ghosts and monsters. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I shook his hand solemnly and we parted ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chip followed me the first mile, laughing about the awkwardness of saying good-bye and then not actually parting ways, until he turned right at the Safeway and I kept going straight. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In similar ways the liver deals with the majority of the toxic materials to which we are exposed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was mangled in all sorts of ways. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pocket had invested the Prince’s treasure in the ways of the world ever since, and it was supposed to have brought him in but indifferent interest. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He held the cold, limp hand that had thrown the pitch that had struck out Willie Mays, that had betrayed the old man’s stoic ways by giving him a squeeze. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks in part to a young mathematician named Alan Turing, they came up with new ways to tackle Enigma, including much more powerful decoding machines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We need to find ways to duplicate the kinds of support that come from an encouraging partner.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As my husband and I began to raise our family, and as I sought for ways to live agreeably in Anglo-American society, my memories of Manzanar, for many years, lived far below the surface. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are all ways to be away, to set aside the images that scream and pummel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I went a little ways down, closer to the water where I could see better, and wrote and wrote and wrote. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I saw nothing but a flock of wood pigeons swirling high above some ways beyond where we were. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad gave me the book. He knows all the criminal ways. I’m teaching myself how to crack a safe.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then Frith said to El-ahrairah, ‘Prince Rabbit, if you cannot control your people, I shall find ways to control them. So mark what I say.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Aborigines modified and managed the surrounding landscape in ways that increased its production of edible plants and animals, without resorting to cultivation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were a million ways to ask what I wanted to know and I chose the worst one when I said, “What in Sam Hill are you going to do with a doggone rock?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not just because of the diseases, but because, she said, “sex affects emotions in ways you’d never expect.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt professional salt gatherers have better ways to purify their salt, but I had no clue what these might be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Patience with the ways of nature had been instilled in her by her father. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about ways to keep my secret, so no one knows how stupid-poor I am. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Up until the 1960s, prison employees could afford to live in and around Ossining, and in many ways they set the tone for life in the area. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know my parents were so old-fashioned European in their ways it wasn’t funny. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was he noodling around in his mind the best ways to get a war going, he also had to constantly have affection shining from his eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It would be wrong to read it back into the Scientific Revolution; before the precision instrumentation of the Industrial Revolution impartiality and judgement were virtues, not ways of re-describing professional competence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The dairy industry has its own ways of forcing animals to do its will. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained the ways of people to her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Grief can twist people in ways they’re not supposed to twist. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So life went on in Philadelphia, in many ways changed forever, in many ways sadly the same as before the yellow fever epidemic began. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the street, down a ways from the jewelry store, Shorty slaps my hand. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when I thought of ways to escape from my environment I no longer felt the inner restraint that would have made stealing impossible, and this new freedom made me lonely and afraid. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are other, more direct ways of keeping low-wage employees in their place. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She probably knows how to make eggs ten different ways. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I bet if I looked for signs about parting ways, I would find them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Justice and I became the best of friends, though we were opposites in manv ways: he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deftly he reversed the sheets in all possible ways, putting the top one on the bottom, and turning them over and upside down. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I know. Trust me, we teachers hate them, too. But it’s how the system is set up. With less funding, we’ve had to turn to alternative ways to get through the year.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Brown was a union worker and a former Klan official who had changed his ways and offered to infiltrate the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She had dreamed of dying any number of ways since her lull stopped working. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I try a few different ways, but none seems right. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, we were well suited for living together. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Other than the horse one, you have to nod and agree with them that cancer and heart disease are totally normal and respectable ways to eat it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But she seemed lacking in so many ways, and the realm of colors was one. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was Farmer’s style not to openly argue with authority, but he usually found ways to get what he wanted. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The well-off indigenas may be valued in some ways, but they keep to their own circles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I write sometimes—mostly about stuff that happens to me, and occasionally different ways the world might end—but I’m not a writer.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Practice stringing them together in ways that make sense to you, but are different from what you've heard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Bapi had been light crew himself once; he knew their ways, knew the tricks of laziness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are ways to tell with absolute certainty whether someone is having a heart attack, but those involve tests of particular enzymes that can take hours for results. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Iron monsters sprinted in our direction, and though they were still some ways away, I could tell their numbers were greater than before, back in the Drowned Forest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Mercy makes fools of us. I’ve had eleven years of torture to think about all the ways I was made a fool.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When we got to Tangerine Middle, the bus doors opened, and the War Eagles got out to find their separate rides, to go their separate ways. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the other children got wise to Ruth May’s bossy ways and drifted off, one boy stayed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it affected me in a lot of ways, what he did to me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways Spokane was not then far removed from the rough-and- tumble lumber town it had been in the nineteenth century. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We said goodbye and went our separate ways to class, and I was like, Okay, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was set in my ways, he in his. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We will bury it in our fields to renew their fertility and to assure that the baby will follow our ways. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew my brother, but that didn’t stop him from finding ways to torture me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They walk together to the circus afterward, past red-roofed buildings glowing in the dying light, going their separate ways only once they reach the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Will you show me the ways of your culture?” he asks, and then adds, “Please.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, from about 1994, people started discovering what are called dualities: different string theories and different ways of curling up the extra dimensions could lead to the same results in four dimensions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not even looking round no more for ways to get away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And in many ways, the role that lay ahead of him that fall, as it did every fall, was that of an educator. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There are several ways to say it, but the most common is also the most obvious: BONE-uh-fied. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long ways down and the water was running faster and deeper than I had figured. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pearl thought about Moody, about Lexie and Trip, the threads that still bound her to each of them in different ways. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a predator, all right: a red-tailed hawk, right here on my farm, just a short ways from my chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

My mother and I blow each other kisses and go our separate ways. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t look so surprised. How else are you to learn the ways of the shaman?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In many ways he knows how she is feeling, and he is very worried about what might happen to her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I resumed my old underground ways in London, not wanting word to leak back to South Africa that I was there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that some of the other popular kids aren’t nice, but they have different ways of showing it, depending on who’s on the receiving end. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He gave me a book before we parted ways, sir. He inscribed it to me and signed his name.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maria's artwork has been used through the centuries in many different ways. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

People said I had some of her feisty ways in me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I couldn’t care less how Scythe Nehru feels. Old-guard scythes have obsolete ideas. They’re too set in their ways to see the wisdom of the Change.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I scrabble back a little ways, grabbing Manchee by his scruff and taking him with me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘Long ways to go still, south and east. Hobbits must make haste!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Only the torching and the fat fellow arrived by the front door; the rest came by secret ways, through tunnels and hidden passages. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry to be in such a hurry, Joey. But until I get all those test results I can’t make a decision in regard to medication, and there are a lot of ways to go.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had stopped eating, not because of Arnold, whom I had long forgotten, but to be fashionably anorexic like all the other thirteen-year-old girls who were dieting and finding other ways to suffer as teenagers. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, "Mom, come on, pull it together. I'm not sick or anything. I'm okay. See, I'm eating a healthy breakfast to help build strong bodies twelve ways. Really. Mom. I'm okay." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They helped explain why the community could grow so close, the families in the cities so interdependent, and their ideas in some ways so insular. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. To be honest, it’s been hard to talk about this with anyone. I keep finding ways to avoid the subject with Esperanza, and I usually tell her everything, Mama.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When they reached London, Captain Clarke lodged Essie with his mother, who treated her in all ways as her son’s new wife. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They could see people running about through the streets embracing one another, tossing caps and hats into the air, and in other ways showing their joy at being freed of the Welsh invaders. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Her friends laughed and echoed her, cursing at Kathy in half a dozen different ways. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I did. I wasn’t sure I would, because it’s been a hard week in a lot of ways.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I have a list of all the ways there are to make a wish, like seeing a white horse or blowing a dandelion. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

"Well, actually, it's in the spinal canal. I mean it's quite a ways down in the spinal canal." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They just have different ways of saying it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Was it the stone, my antics, or the Lord once again moving in mysterious ways that had turned the horses? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Declaring the pig nearly done, Schiem brought out a round farmer’s loaf and shared it three ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I recalled a preacher in Des Moines who had warned folks who had come for a soup supper to give up their evil ways and stay off the path to perdition. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Indeed we have been scrutinizing your ways,” adds the captain, “and fiercely reckon that you be the ones to play a crucial part in this mission.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

After trying many different ways of matching up her colored letters, she finally found something that worked. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The details of his business slipped away from him, and managing work became complicated in ways he couldn't understand, which depressed him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about the situation from all different angles and in all different ways. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

States found countless ways for individual victims in particular crimes to become decision makers and participants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Can you think of time when you have heard people speak of a group or person in ways that dehumanize them, ways that make them a threatening Other? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There the ways of civilization prevailed, and the meals in this hospital were found to contain as much DDT as those in the most populous city. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And here are 2 ways you can show this. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most guys around here find ways of showing colors. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I thought how the press constantly sought ways to discredit the Nation of Islam, I trembled to think of such a thing reaching the ears of some newspaper reporter, either black or white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had convinced Stephanie that there was strength in numbers, and that splitting a ride three ways from school would cut our Lyft fare considerably. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the United States differs from Europe in ways that can gum up the mobility machine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Want to see all the ways my mommy and daddy have fun?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We all have our own ways of coping. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I felt it was important to reach out to kids multiple times and in multiple ways in order for them to feel that it was all real. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“What ways? Whom have you put your trust in?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In many ways my parents seem so different from each other, but they possess this intimate mode of communication—a gesture, a look, a tone—that I envy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

So his conclusions about the human body were mostly based on studies of other animals and were incorrect in many ways. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Julienne, Arturo. Julienne. It’s sliced long ways and thin. Like this.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Even though my sisters and I came from Cecile and looked like her in different ways. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The ways of men are strange, and hard to learn,” I heard her say. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They then had to devise ways to represent sounds by symbols. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My other sisters, in different ways, have become stricken with strange behavior regarding men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never experienced one college session that didn’t show me ways to improve upon my presentation and defense of Mr. Muhammad’s teachings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are more moves, more options, more ways to kilL I thought back to Chiron, who’d told me to stay at camp no matter what, and learn to fight. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, too, she would have advised against my marriage to Lelia, the lengthy Anglican goddess, who’d measure me ceaselessly while I slept, continually appraise our vast differences, count up the ways. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That perhaps the ways of his mother and his father had occupied whole regions of his heart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, of course, we went different ways and drifted apart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie didn’t care one way or the other about the neighbors’ radical ideas and peculiar ways, she minded mightily being beholden. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ma looks both ways before pushing me into the empty street with her cane. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Better than waiting tables in a restaurant because in a hotel there’re more ways to get tips. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wars change people in ways that they do not see right away. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the captives on this ship, as she found out later on the journey, came from all over Africa and by many different ways. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paths, which in daylight seem clearly trodden ways, twist and turn in the night, looping back on themselves and vanishing into dense thickets. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In place of the old system, Wanner said, have arisen “new ways of transmitting advantage that are beginning to assert themselves.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It told me all the ways life could go wrong. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see your father has taught you his world-famous flattering ways.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rondell looked to me, but I just did the same thing as Mong, stood against the fence, a ways down from him so I didn’t have to smell his puke. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Both nations scrambled to build more missiles and to devise clever, and lethal, ways of launching them at the enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Societies have always had their own ways of marking calendar time. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to exchange phone numbers, talk for longer, behave in all the expected ways. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With time she lost her prudence and began to let her adoration show in many ways that did not go unobserved by Esteban. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, now that I’ve thought on it,” Newel said, “we may have needed a new rigging on the chimney anyhow. How about we go our separate ways and call it even?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They weren’t unhappy exactly—I’ve got plenty of memories I treasure from them—but they were more serious, and in some ways darker. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One example might be to think of as many ways as possible to play a musical instrument. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They have immense power not merely to poison Tut to enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If they had access to DNA from Henrietta’s children, they could not only solve the contamination problem but also study Henrietta’s cells in entirely new ways. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While he was being carried on Wind Being’s back to meet with Pond and Darkness, Nathan had practiced many different ways of saying that he wasn’t going to the Third World. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And when your term is up, when you leave the White House on that very last day, you’re left in many ways to find yourself all over again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Callum, it’s supposed to work both ways. So also you have to keep twenty feet from me.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In some respects he repeated the error of his ways in the third game as well: letting a potential—or at least a possible—win slip through his grasp and drift into a draw. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We were a ways down the highway before we rested easy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys shook hands, though they didn’t look as if they wanted to, and when they parted ways and the crowd began to melt, I heard a woman behind me mutter, “Dirty Jew.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now envision this kind of fertile back-and-forth happening in a hundred ways with a hundred cultures—the gifts from four centuries of intellectual exchange. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We did not object, for church was not where we learned of God or His ways, but where we met our school friends and continued our long, rambling talks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I owed Moniek my survival. He had helped me in so many ways, and his optimism kept me going through the darkest days,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am familiar with the cards, but they do not speak to me, not in ways enough to properly read.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Picasso here suggests this visionary truth in several ways. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hedgehog was now sitting quite a ways from the others, staring at the crowds with a face like thunder. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her sister is rocking this clear and strong and powerful voice, while Stella’s is breathy and soft, smooth in all the right ways. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Should we not then be willing to explore vigorously, in every nation, major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental redesign of economic, political, social and religious institutions? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some kids stood in a little circle out back, beatboxing and freestyling, inventing brand-new ways of putting one another down and sending up wild cheers when a dig found its mark. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You keep doing things that make it impossible for me to trust you—even though you know it has to work both ways.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen other types of farms and other ways to treat farm animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There are better ways to track the information, but this will work for now. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the heat and the drought were in some ways the least of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They quickly bounced off each other and went their separate ways. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the reckless, freewheeling ways of the First National Bank of Midland made it a trendsetter in the American banking industry during the eighties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the small ways Stanton showed solidarity with her feminist friends was to wear “bloomers,” the controversial new fashion, a below-the-knee skirt worn over loosely fitting pants. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But instead of finding sad and mournful people pondering all the ways that others annihilate themselves, Petey found the Rude boys lurking around the front of the cafe. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Each week we study the ways in which the students in the group interact with one another, how they respond to anger, jealousy, attention. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Garner had sown the seeds of Caesar’s flight in many ways, but one instruction in particular brought him to the attention of the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She taught me how to color inside the lines and the proper ways to shade an object. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And they went up by steep ways, until they came to a high field below the snows that clad the lofty peaks, and it looked down over the precipice that stood behind the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There are fascinating ideas all over the place, irresistible experiments beyond numbering, all sorts of new ways into the maze of problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the negotiations were concluded, the gods and Skadi had agreed that she would be recompensed for her father’s death in three ways. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She suggested that I try to make a sentence sound in as many different ways as possible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of ways to greet the morning—maybe more than we need. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to Chinese ways of thinking, the guest bedroom is the best bedroom, where she and her husband sleep. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Georgia Boy one night as we bedded down, trying to arrange our netting to keep out those buzzing bloodsuckers that always seemed to find ways to get to our skin. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in some strange ways, the experience made me better, not less, equipped for college. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the season written about in Outcasts United, Coach Luma has continued to expand her programs for the Fugees in amazing ways. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Even a young girl who knew nothing of the ways of war knew that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know—maybe you can say something like ‘We can make a difference together’ and start lists of ways to volunteer.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Of course, adults helped them in many ways, but basically the boys knew that drawing as little attention to themselves as possible was their best chance of survival. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

These meetings are supposed to make me feel more powerful, and in some ways they do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until that moment I’d thought I could have it both ways: to be one of them, and also my husband’s wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have ways of getting back at my mom when she annoys me.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We look both ways constantly and stop for red lights, like now, even when the street is clear of cars. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have discovered sites where entire herds were butchered annually in such ways. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked Secretary McNamara to invite you here to counsel with you on these problems and the ways to meet them,” the president began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“How do you learn all the proper ways? I never can. Isn’t that music gay?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But praying wasn't going to change the fact that I got to see whole new ways in which white folks were in charge. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He took pride in knowing the ways and mires, and was, after his fashion, content to be employed away from the eye of censure and the lash. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They have tried different ways of dividing the bills, at one point splitting the $1,475 rent and sharing the utilities, at another point, one paying the rent and the other the utilities. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the path to the main road, I brainstormed ways to stay in school—every single solution ended with Caitlin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And now in Hawaii, I could see his character reflected in other small ways. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him and his gyptian companions that the inundation had a stranger source than the weather because it had begun to cause curious illusions and to behave in unexpected ways. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I refused to talk to anyone about my affairs, because I knew that I would only hear a justification of the ways of the white folks and I did not want to hear it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, in many practical ways, the Romans were much more advanced than the Elizabethans—better roads, central heating, proper baths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s always the same story but it happens a thousand different ways. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Horses, and all the ways of life that had grown up around them, were slowly being pushed out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways she remained naive and immature, still a kid, but Cleveland Heights now seemed very far away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was really like a big box kite in some ways. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theoreticians then study the resulting music and discover good ways of explaining it to the audience and to other composers and performers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

"Well, he was. Just in more ways than you thought." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The truth was, there were ten thousand different ways to die in the Fishery if you were careless. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And something told me that they probably liked their own ways and religion just as much as the priests liked theirs. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I have loved your e-mails about England and they have been so good for me, in so many ways, and I cannot thank you enough for writing them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some Sumerian syllables lacked any written signs; the same sign could be pronounced in different ways; and the same sign could variously be read as a word, a syllable, or a letter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of ways! Because it was one kid who was just saying things. And Mr. McCabe wasn’t his basketball coach.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere beneath those roofs, the Sons of the Harpy were gathered, plotting ways to kill her and all those who loved her and put her children back in chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We go two blocks up, looking both ways at the crosswalk to spot a subway entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If only he had had some greatness of mind as well, at least enough to lead him along the ways of reason, he would have been the perfect hero. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Him and a lot of guys before him. But he proved it in new ways. Mostly to disprove it, I think, but still, yep. That’s what he meant.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It became a sick sort of game, imagining ways to kill myself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Edmond on the other hand was totally up-front even if he did surprise you in about half a million ways each day. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there are ways to kill yourself, listed with extraordinary detail. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In middle school, you pooled your money most days after school and shared a slice of pizza and a Frappuccino three ways, giggling and taking turns with the straw. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I disappointed my father in the usual ways. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom slowed to the stop sign and looked both ways. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It hinged on them maintaining the appearance of their fight, so they parted ways before they reached Booker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then he walked on down many winding ways. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was actually pretty good at finding ways to turn the vegetarian ground beef, beets, feta cheese, and apricots into something edible. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caruthers said nothing, just glared at Ophie as she left the room, a quiet stare that chilled Ophie and reminded her that the old woman was dangerous in so many ways. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When I’m with Ben I eat at regular times because he does, I eat regular things, but when I’m alone I indulge In junk food and scavenging, my old, singular ways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Not at all. That would not—in any way—be better than realizing that there are many ways to see one thing. I love this painting even more now." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I’m like my dad in a lot of ways, even if I’m not him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Additionally, in this book we will explore ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If it was a long ways and a day game, we rode all night. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They probably figured we were still booking it down the beach, a long ways down there by now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ways of the centaur are shrouded in mystery. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The probability of obtaining exactly one 4 among the three dice is likewise determined by breaking the event into the three mutually exclusive ways it can happen. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted us to ask each other hard questions—to question ourselves and our ideas about the world—and he wanted us to engage directly with each other in ways we otherwise never would. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gradually, we started talking more, confiding in each other and expressing ourselves in ways we never had. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This day has already gone wrong in too many ways for me to risk sticking around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I look both ways, dash into the room, and head straight for the teacher’s desk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The park is closed to traffic, so I don’t have to look both ways before I cross the road and follow Trub over to the other guardhouse. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The bees began to light on my shoulders the ways birds sit on telephone wires. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crick could then buckle down to his thesis task of investigating the ways that hemoglobin crystals shrink when they are placed in salt solutions of different density. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we were outside, everyone was already going their separate ways. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that new environment, a microbe must evolve new ways to live and to propagate itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old ways were simply not working anymore. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, thinking about splitting the money three ways, instead of just two. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The well would change their lives in many ways. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael and Hatsue went their separate ways to pick among their friends. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pause in the wrong place and the sense of a religious text can alter in significant ways. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

That’s all she would say except, “The old ways are best.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were quieter expeditions ashore, other days, with the Master Herbal who taught the ways and properties of things that grow; and the Master Hand taught sleight and jugglery and the lesser arts of Changing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There are boys who have already found holes in the wall, ways to get out. They can buy things on the other side. For a price,” Aunt Fela said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But we pulled our weight in other ways. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Hope Springs has always been special to me. My time here shaped me in ways that to this day contribute to my success, and for that, I’m very grateful to this community.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“What a hopeful disposition you have!” said I, gratefully admiring his cheery ways. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only she couldn’t show it in the ways that Papa could. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking both ways, she flicks open the lid to a keypad and punches in a code. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Foraging in the woods and rubbish heaps, gathering fallen grain-heads in the autumn—these were honorable ways to gamer a meal, requiring time and work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I coaxed you into ladyhood, Ophelia. I taught you the ways of the court, and watched you grow into a clever and learned woman.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"But I can, can't I? I want to learn both ways to pray. I want to bring both religions together inside me." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, I want you to know,” she continued, as if I’d answered her, “everybody grieves in different ways. There’s not a right way or a wrong way to grieve for someone you loved.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When we get to the end of the block, I look both ways and start to cross. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nervous about attacks, we took whatever food we bought upriver a ways before pulling into secluded reeds to eat. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It devoted itself to developing protective vaccines, and it concentrated on basic research into ways to control lethal microorganisms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the ways a black man could die. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The enemy has many spies and many ways of hearing.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was learning in the obvious academic ways, holding my own in classes, doing most of my studying in a quiet room at the Third World Center or in a carrel at the library. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Because I don’t know how to make it. Many years ago, my family used to work the roots, like yours. But before I was born, they made a decision to leave those ways behind.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I look both ways before slipping it under the door, and lean against the wall, listening. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I think they are saying China has changed in other ways as well. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially because it can make people really uncomfortable, if you have something wrong with you, and you keep bringing it up in certain ways. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse and Eric were thankful for their deliverance, but it was shocking, even disheartening, to see that while they’d ridden the Internet hallway across the country, in some ways they hadn’t gone anywhere. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most reliable ways to acquire papers was through bribery, and this was the only area where I tolerated what were often unethical means of obtaining information. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we must avoid the European error; we must not suppose that, because the situation, the ways, the perceptions of black people so radically differed from those of whites, they were racially superior. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In many ways, it was not much different from the ship- breaking yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps we simply do similar things in different ways,” Mr. Barris says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In some ways, it started over a year ago. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But in a multitude of tiny ways, he was of a slightly higher quality. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In some of his portraits he imitates the Japanese style he loves: framing the head in surprising ways, using strong colors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The mill, a little ways down the valley, was up and running again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Art enables us to communicate our understanding in ways that cannot be expressed otherwise. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some scientists are working very hard to find out ways of testing substances without using any animals at all. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was in the middle of chores, I’d learned enough about Montana ways to know I must invite him in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The fear that my nearest and dearest American friend might influence me in ways they didn't want me to be influenced. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In some ways he was just as competitive as her father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They thought about it a dozen ways but couldn’t find a better way. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there are ways in which to use pedagogies that you already know in order to teach the material, without compromising its integrity or authenticity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When I got to the top, I looked both ways. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Here to learn their ways, or for something else entirely? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Third, there must be ways of establishing priority—Tartaglia’s coded poem is a device to demonstrate that he already has the solution even though he is keeping it secret. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Modern life had come to Wolf Point in other ways, too. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without the use of his weapons. Though I’m sure one would be quite sufficient.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The ways of God are mysterious, but if you live it out, just live it out, you see that it always works out. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rest of you must help this aristocrat see the error of his ways. We do this because we love him and want to welcome him into the hive.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not grasp exactly what to do next, but she kept moving as if her life depended on it, which in some ways it did. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways, the hospital never goes to sleep. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many ways to know the world for those who cannot see. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I guess we’ll just have to invent more ways to say it,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not thought that this thing could cut two ways. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Say what you like about southern social structure, but at least in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing both ways. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In many ways, even though we were separated, I kept up a lifelong conversation with him in my head. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the weeks went by, I slowly changed my ways. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon he would stop a good ways away and stare up, a question mark curling over his heart. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

You shall be remembered for your wise and pacifying ways. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He waited for an opportunity, when the talk was going again, and Tom was telling an absurd story about badgers and their queer ways — then he slipped the Ring on. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was embarrassing, in so many ways, to imagine him reading my personal thoughts. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Okay, in many ways these frogs were a lot like what I’d seen back at the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cow is different from us in many ways. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And then I extended my prodigal ways beyond Chinese food. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Kuhani, he alone led the temple’s Brothers of the Order, and in more ways than one, he was the city’s leader. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As the wind, I watch myself journey to Cuzco with the Villac Uma to study the ways of the shaman. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds I’d look for cop cars even though we were a long ways from the store and I supposedly didn’t care. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Nontraditional ways...but we’ll need a map to get us started.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It has changed, certainly, and it is now experienced in all sorts of ways that would have surprised, for instance, Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer who died a few months after that historic transmission. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ve hoped all this year that you would forget your odd ways and learn to fit in here. If I thought you would just try — ” She shook her head. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

In other ways I had never felt further away. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The branches holding them were twisted in odd ways. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Puerto Rico when Mami had laid out the same general rules, I’d found ways of, if not completely ignoring them, at least bending them to suit my curiosity. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My days were spent looking for things to steal and ways to entertain myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before we go our separate ways after work, we sit in my car. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But she felt restless now, and different, in ways that she didn't understand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And in all the other ways I don’t know quite how to name. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Big mammalian herbivore species react to danger from predators or humans in different ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt things were often connected in ways that no one could yet explain in scientific terms. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

"When you leave, you'll need to be smart in other ways, not just book learning. One of the most important things you need to learn is whom to trust." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I once owned a book designed to provoke the imagination and help bored children discover constructive ways to pass the time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I was going to list every girl I could possibly remember, hundreds of them, all so incredibly hot in their own ways. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The appearance of new ways of thinking and communicating, between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago, constitutes the Cognitive Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That can be taken a number of different ways.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Agreement is one of several ways in which one branch of a tree can be demanding about what goes into another branch. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“If they argue—and all loving couples argue—they’ll never be alone to recollect themselves, to find ways to forgive each other.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver, who was nine years old and wise to the ways of the world, put down his book and squinted. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It never occurred to me that they were thinking other thoughts, feeling other feelings, putting their lives together in ways I never dreamed of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been, in many ways, the true architect of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Seem a long ways off now, but January ain’t but... two...four... six... ten pages away. Gone be here before we know it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘We couldn’t have got so far, not even within sight of the pass, without him, and so we’ll have to put up with his ways. If he’s false, he’s false.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But when he gets around his white friends—especially the boys—he puts on a voice and uses slang and acts in ways that seem so opposite of who he really is. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In a small fraction of the time it took her to form her plea, Our Father irritably countered that the Lord operates in mysterious ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I kept forgetting, of course, was that high school was home to infinite cliches for a reason, and that Ocean was, in some ways, still inextricable from his own stereotype. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mother saw her children as a dozen individuals, a dozen different personalities, who eventually would have to make their ways separately in the world. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought, maybe I just felt that way because in some ways I was convinced that Annie was going to throw me away again. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their relationship echoed, in many ways, the bonds of trust and mutual protection that kept prisoners alive and sane in Nazi concentration camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And he taught me the best ways to hide. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third — and perhaps most important — implication of these studies is that persuasion often works in ways that we do not appreciate. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were Alpert a plumber, he would be just as exacting and thorough and knowledgeable about the ways of the marketplace. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way they could justify treating the Indigenous peoples in much the same ways they had been treated when the nobles displaced them from the commons. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy let me off Jingle Boy a ways in the woods so’s I could walk up to our house. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Miss Love having worked for Grandpa at his store for two years or more, she must already know he was stingy and set in his ways. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They’ll feel how I do when I think about how the oceans are changing in all the worst ways, and how jellyfish will starve even whales. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He and his grandson favored each other in a lot of ways. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That trip opened my eyes to other ways of living beyond my small town. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said, “you never gave up any of the old ways.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

That she is more capable in a thousand ways than he is. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lunch hours, she often walked a ways down the road to the shopping mall. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I explained that it was Edmund, my childhood tormentor, and described his menacing ways. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one’s daily life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m too stunned to consider ways to salvage any cell-block pride out of my misstep. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sean and I have a lot in common—we love graphic novels, Stephen King, the Celtics; we both have jet-black hair; neither of us has a dad—but we differ in some ways too. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Being Goth wipes away any expectation of conventionality, so Molly finds she’s free to be weird in lots of ways at once. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rather than come out, he managed to set it in the defensive huddle and played both ways the entire first half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were different, but most days we believed Ms. Laverne when she told us how special we were, how smart, how kind, how beautiful—how tons of successful people had different ways of learning. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were not men who were free with their compliments, but because I was the first of their sister’s sons who had come to learn their ways they were happy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They had connections, they had ways of researching that weren’t accessible to just anyone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. King made me think in ways I had never thought before. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Baachan had already cut a lot of carrots in three different ways, to make them look pretty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Spitballs can travel both ways, you know. You don’t have a force field around you.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The bell rings then, and Fina and I have to go our separate ways. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She’d have to start thinking of ways to make being the “poor girl” part of her charm and appeal. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A menu, as it were, of ways to die. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Being so young in your magic, you wouldn’t know this, but there are ways to make truths spill from lips like water from a fountain.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But in many ways, the true problem had begun years earlier, with a scandalous secret agency that once had been at the heart of American code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That fulfills part of our definition of plant domestication, as the genetic modification of an ancestral plant in ways that make it more useful to consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some ways it was worse than the whole three years put together. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After the foreman had gone, O’Malley looked both ways and leaned over to whisper, “Don’t try to be a speed king. You understand? We all have to work faster that way.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The first three of us were bom close, but in other ways, you see, we were so different.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z