All about them now, as if there had been a sudden flood, wide pools of water lay beside the road, filling the hollows, and rills went trickling down among the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Ransdorp is a village on the other side of the river, with farmhouses and a few little shops lining wide gravel streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had his hair cut short, cropped above his ears, and the drawing was in pencil so you couldn’t tell what color his eyes were, but they were dark, and wide, and sad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was so soft, his hands warm and wide, knuckles bruised and torn with brittle scabs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her feathers are flattened to her body, her eyes wide, neck stretched, and her wings are lowered for flight. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before he had finished speaking, the stone was rolled aside and a fifty-foot giant, more than twice as tall and wide as the BFG, came striding into the cave. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am in the bell tower of the high school, standing on a ledge about four inches wide. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But no, it’s a storm petrel with its wide black wings, soft gray underbelly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, Xan threw the doors of the workshop wide open, a look of grim satisfaction on her face. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Bigger that no sooner had he closed his eyes than he was wide awake again, suddenly and violently, as though someone had grabbed his shoulders and had shaken him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His vixen dæmon lay at his feet, her eyes wide open and watching. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I knew it!” she says as her wide eyes come into view. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But the curse of knowledge ensures that most writers will overestimate how standard a term has become and how wide the community is that has learned it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Jody thought of the wide plains and of the wagons moving across like centipedes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It zigzagged diagonally up the slope, getting wider and skinnier as I went. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Hardly taller than I, she was much wider—not stout, but wide, which is the direction gnomes grow after they reach adulthood. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a door leading to a steep set of stairs, and at the top is a wide landing and a large metal door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I slid behind him, next to Ernie Hupfer, who was looking out the window like it was the most important thing in the whole wide world. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes went impossibly wide, her mouth shaped into a perfect o. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She says gods live in everything, in the whole wide world, so every place you are is holy. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Pecola and I followed, making a wide arc to avoid the kitchen doorway. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd in front of the initiates splits in half, making a wide path for us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There the green floor ran on into the wood, and formed a wide space like a hall, roofed by the boughs of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide open and a pale blue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

After a hundred yards, a glisten of gray ripples appeared beyond the trees: some wide body of water. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Hurry,” the doctor said, opening the door just wide enough for them to come in, “be quiet.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the wide veranda that encompassed the obsidian clock tower, Celaena tried not to shiver. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To curtail Caesar’s annoying interrogations, Lumbly quickly unhooked the boxcar door and slid it wide. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I glanced up and there it was, big and chipped and wide like whatever words were hiding behind those teeth, he was struggling to keep in. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The alleys were narrow, barely wide enough for a car to pass through. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Inside the building Lyra found a wide desk at the foot of the stairs, with a porter behind it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following her up the stairs, I can barely see around her wide behind, swaying from one side to the other. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I was finished, we had an extraordinarily strong dam, which, like the beavers’, was much wider at the base than the top. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julia races around the edge of my painting, her arms spread wide. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they came out of the shadow of the trees, and before them lay a wide space of grass, grey under the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The front of the courthouse was red brick with great white marble steps going up to a wide door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked down the wide aisle and followed the signs to the fifth-grade staging area, which was in a big room to the left of the stage. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was a big man, with a head as wide as his shoulders. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lyra barged open the door, dragged her rickety chair to the window, flung wide the casement, and scrambled out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide, his skin mottled pink and white, his mouth invisible behind his mustache. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They would be beautiful anywhere, but Greece is not a rich and fertile country of wide meadows and fruitful fields where flowers seem at home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camera One, not there at first but getting it now, the long shot, nailing her as her hands came off the chair arms, fingers spread wide, you could almost see her fingertips smoking... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The soldiers can't see me up here, with our wide chimney and the shadows cast by the taller buildings around us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what to think,” Natalie said, spreading her hands wide, as if to show how much she didn’t know. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In order to reach Australia, humans had to cross a number of sea channels, some more than 60 miles wide, and upon arrival they had to adapt nearly overnight to a completely new ecosystem. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guam was only thirty miles long and seven miles wide. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the guest of honor, Roosevelt led a parade of important politicians and diplomats down a wide boulevard dotted with palm trees. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Loo sat on the ground in the high grass, legs spread wide. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the wide dirt road in front of the station, there was a row of bodies covered by dirty straw mats. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His cup, his bread and meat, were spilt and scattered far and wide, and his head slammed on the ground. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass through thickly wooded areas and farmland until eventually the bus pulls off onto a wide grassy field. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They looked as though they would never open, never be thrown wide. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were rounded, wide, and her teeth were bared in a fixed smile. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell you of her death? Not for the wide world!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Here there were wide spaces interspersed with thickets and huge trees and the trend of the ground led him up as the forest opened. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Prettier than your grandma by a wide margin.'” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Leo realized that a much larger figure was looming behind Bythos, with a shadow so wide, it filled the entire cave entrance. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was tall and wide, covering the whole end of one building and looming over the street. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I burst into tears and ran to Teacher Sarah, who opened her arms wide and rocked me back and forth. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edward asked, but no one answered, as they had just appeared at the top of the wide staircase. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I saw that the door leading to the west wing was open wide, and that someone was standing there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the back stands a wardrobe so large, she cannot reach its top nor stretch her arms wide enough to touch both sides at once. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her bracelets clinked as she opened her arms wide and gathered me to her. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow part seemed to be getting wider, spreading out at the center of the star. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were given a wide berth after that. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They reached the edge of the poppy fields as the last streaks of sunlight slid behind the hills.The dirt path gave way to a wide lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Calvin, “We have to go down six feet? And wide as the tube? And you brought that little-bitty trowel?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She was wide awake, sitting cross-legged holding hands with Grand-grand Uncle and his wife of sixty years who, for as long as Bandit could recall, had refused to address her husband. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The four of us walked to the lower level and into a wider hallway, a brightly lit area of what appeared to be a basement corridor leading to the biggest cafeteria I had ever seen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a definite current in the great wide flood, not all of it, but a stream within it moving with what felt like purpose. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“He sees a man looking all afraid at something. His face all pale and eyes wide. That man was petrified.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even this wide latitude wasn’t enough for some. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Yet still before it there stretched a wide region of fuming, barren, ash-ridden land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She looks at him like she’s seeing a ghost—eyes wide and scared. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The haven now was sunk from sight and Lookfar’s painted eyes, wave-drenched, looked ahead on seas ever wider and more desolate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before them stretched the wide basin that had once been full of living water and was now filled with dead whales.The bones stuck up like a gigantic bowl of thorns. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s that wide puffy cloud that looks like your face when you wake up after falling asleep with all your clothes on. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sleeper had only a second to look startled, eyes wide and confused, before Aru shouted, “ATTACK!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I feel like a book laid wide open, where my story is written in plain words for her to read. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the wall to their right was a wide double door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At five thirty in the morning, my eyes are closed but I am wide awake. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But I was still pelting through a particularly narrow lane when a man leaped out in front of me. he cried, his arms spread wide enough to prevent me from passing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor George smiled real wide when he saw us. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too busy planning a wider war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he couldn’t see them, even if they circled to his front, because the newspaper he held was opened wide, blocking his view. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a large breath and looked at his wide, brown eyes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As my stats continued to increase, I honed my avatar’s combat and spell-casting abilities while collecting a wide array of powerful weapons, magic items, and vehicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The same could be said about a wide variety of other unlikely events and coincidences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are wide open, searching, and when her gaze alights on Vivian’s face, it is startling in its intensity, stripped of any pretense or convention. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His body was exhausted but his mind was wide awake, buzzing with the day’s turbulence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finch’s Landing consisted of three hundred and sixty-six steps going down a high bluff and ending in a wide jetty jutting out into the river. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s late, but I’m wide awake thinking about my plans for tomorrow. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Granny’s wide and innocent smile was shining on me and I was filled with dismay. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up, and his eyes got wide when he recognized me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He hasn't been back since we put the broken glass on the skylight, but he obviously remembers what a wide- open space it is. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Finally one of the creatures spread his wings wide. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wide round space surrounded by benches and sprinkled with trees. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And he discovered that she had an unusually wide vocal range. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I watched my mother’s eyes grow wide again, watched her chest heave as she breathed faster and faster. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How could they?” he asked, opening his hands wide. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned over and sat up, Lina saw that his face was scratched and his eyes wide open in fright. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

My eyes get big and my mouth opens wide. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

While her mom worked the key in theirs, Emily noticed the door to the right was wide open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now give those kine a wide berth, keep your thoughts intent upon your course for home, and hard seafaring brings you all to Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded then stuck the stem of the gardenia in the open buttonhole, where it flopped in the wide space between my soon-to-be breasts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The card, like all the others, was four inches wide by five inches long, blank on one face, with postal insignia and a printed one-cent stamp on the other. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Verin said it wasn’t pretty. Like someone ripped him wide open. He passed the body on his way here.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After the ransom—enough gold to fill a room 22 feet long by 17 feet wide to a height of over 8 feet—was delivered, Pizarro reneged on his promise and executed Atahuallpa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were all dressed alike, in either denim jackets or the big, black loose cotton tunics that reached to their hips and had wide, winglike sleeves. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we followed them to the middle of a wide grassy field where there was a lake and hundreds of other geese. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As she does, the crabgrass begins to grow, pushing gaps in the asphalt wider. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rain sang its gentle song against his wide windows, and outside, the lights of Brooklyn made a blurry haze in the night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And Misha obliged, grabbing one in each arm and turning wide circles with them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She went to the bed, and from under it pulled out a wide box. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Seven shook her head and held a finger up to her lips, eyes wide with panic that Valley might hear. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A vast meadow sloped down for at least a mile before flattening into another mile of wide green floor. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Where the maple tree stands over the wide lawn. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She spread her arms wide and threw back her head and closed her eyes and gave every impression of thoroughly enjoying herself. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In the Philippines, my grandparents had acres of fields where they raised tobacco plants with wide, full leaves. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was more of a town, with wide roads and clean air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She walks slow from the crowd and her mouth was tore wide open. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Then we would stroke its long face and gradually, over more weeks, work our hands around its wide neck and down its muscular body. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The door of the house stood wide open, and Mr. Chris was putting wood on the fire. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know I need to go home and work on the stories, but I turn onto the wide lanes of State Street and just drive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was wearing one of her minidresses, a navy blue with a wide butterfly collar. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I lit the lamp beside the bed, turned off the gas, and opened the wide windows. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I liked driving with Mom or Dad in the tiny, private space of our car, and the bus felt wide and open and crawling with other people’s lives. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His pate opened, his eyes grew wide, and his mouth froze into an O. He fell to his knees and then toppled forward into the straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In those miles, along the twisted roads beside the steep mountain, I feared that I would never get back to America, civilization, English and wide streets again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cobb looked at him, startled, with eyes as wide as daybreak. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

At first the Gangulis sleep most of the day and are wide awake at night, gorging themselves on toast at three in the morning, unpacking the suitcases one by one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig was wide awake on the instant and Hazel had never felt so glad of his sturdy readiness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hell pretend he’s a hypnotist, opening his eyes wide and lowering his voice the way he used to do with me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were more brilliant and wide open. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He smiles and closes his eyes while he sings, stretching his arms wide and twirling around. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A wide expanse of lush plains turns into a crystal-blue lagoon, surrounded by towering cliffs and smooth, steep rocks, their tops covered with vegetation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It opened its mouth wide and reared up on its back paws, trying to get away from me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The inside of my hab-unit was an eggshell white injection-molded plastic coffin, a meter high, a meter wide, and two meters long. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Teddy’s face broke into a wide grin, showing off the gap of his missing front tooth. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when they ordered him to put his back to the wall did Arcadio see Rebeca, with wet hair and a pink flowered dress, opening wide the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Frightful screamed as she flew around the mountaintop in wider and wider circles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the left, down a wide lane lined with trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The warm, smoky smells in the apartment are a big, wide hug. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He did not understand her at once; but then he sat straight up, his eyes wide and angry. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The diminutive woman stood up and spread her arms wide, tilting her head back. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

G., he had a wide circle of friends, including several mistresses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie clomped over to the wide staircase that led to the second floor and plopped down on the bottom step. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The hair along my arms stands on end, and Miss Anderson gives me a wide grin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So they built a broad, straight highway, six lanes wide in places, with concrete dividers down the middle and outsized sodium street lamps that light the night sky for miles around. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler knew this might ignite a much wider war, but he was not worried about taking the blame. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stuck her foot on the bottom row of wire and pulled up the top row, making a wide space. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It’s chunky and wide, and it looks like it might fit me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Major was standing in the doorway, his muscular hands clamped to his wide leather belt. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance hall was wide, with a tile floor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Jessica!” she squeals, and charges at me, her arms spread wide. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then a wide, wicked grin spread across his face and he bent to tuck his lute safely away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her entire face flushed with color as she gazed at her alleged best friend with cold-blooded murder in her wide, rabid eyes. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the moongate stretched wide, just as a cloud cover lowered itself out of nowhere. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They peered down into a deep canyon with a wide river rushing through it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Faizah came up to me breathless, her large brown eyes wide with emotion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The locker room was empty at this hour, row after row of dull green lockers separated by wide wooden benches. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lil opened her eyes really wide, and maybe I did the same, because it kind of surprised me too. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The coat must be one of Pri’s, since it hangs wide and loose over my body. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She says it like she expects him to relent, but her wide eyes and ashen face suggest otherwise. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Darcy shows up behind her, and it's only then that she opens the door wider. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In spite of Big Ma’s fussing, I knew my grandmother was happy, but no one grinned wider than Mr. Lucas. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The broken-down street before them seemed a million miles wide and a million miles long. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

By the time the students graduated—those of them who persevered—their range of knowledge would be wider than that of any other doctor in history. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made two more pots of graveyard dirt mixed with brick dust and some rock salt; then we poured it in a wide circle all around the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Miss New Mexico adopted a fake-cheery voice and an artificially wide smile. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The woman looked around, her eyes wide and unfocused. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

From the cedar stock he found there—long, tight-grained, straight sections cut from massive, ancient trees—he could mill elegant planks of wood twenty inches or more wide and sixty feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Arturo was going with us to the wide, silent lake and the butterfly fishermen who glided over its surface. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Gimli gazed with wide eyes for a while, as step by step the figure drew nearer. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lincoln, watching the group start to rally, picked RiRi up and threw her over his wide shoulder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And if I laughed louder for the sake of angering him, if I smiled wider, and kissed Locke longer, that is a kind of deceit that even the Folk cannot condemn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now, very cautiously, he poured the precious dream into the wide end of his trumpet. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread his arms wide and turned to the whole triangle. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The river is two miles wide at this point and patrolled by Union warships. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly the parachute filled with air and stiffened; there was a violent jerk as it opened wide above me.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clover’s wide, dusty Main Street was full of Model As, and wagons pulled by mules and horses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The horse’s head was lifted, and its nostrils were wide and red as it neighed, smelling battle afar. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He opens his eyes wide and screams, staring at the empty air, and I know what he’s seeing, because I’ve seen it myself, in Erudite headquarters, under the influence of the terror serum. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The tall arched windows were wide open, but it was still uncomfortably hot and stuffy in the Convention Hall’s auditorium, located on the corner of L and 5th Streets in Washington, D.C. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Now, he watched the kid Renault, looking as if he was ready to faint with fright, his face pale and eyes wide with dread, and Archie having fun with him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still wide open, and though I don’t see or hear any of the dogs, they could be anywhere. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He opened his mouth very wide and yawned aloud, sighing heavily afterwards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped from the upper bow to the wide, horizontal girder. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“So, this is my little sister!” he said with a wide grin. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But all she found, inside one of the pockets, was a small ceramic bird, its yellow beak wide open in a whistle. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Word about this cure spread far and wide, and sometimes patients would walk for miles to get treatment from the wonderful white woman-doctor. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I flung them wide, letting in the cool fresh air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were dazed and wide enough to drink from. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The little girl, her beautiful brown eyes wide with interest, never seemed to mind these remarks of her mother, but they made Cilia cry. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that's about ten miles wide and ten miles long. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

On her feet were sensible, wide, flat shoes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Preston yawned wide, likely on account of the late hour. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She pulls the door open wide but doesn’t come in. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Frozen gryphons stuck out of the ground like feathery Popsicle sticks, their wings still spread, beaks open, eyes wide with surprise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

People came from far and wide to have their pictures taken with me. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The room inside looked like the mouth of an alligator—gaped wide open to swallow something down. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The river ran deep and wide from all the rain, covering up rocks and fallen trees. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The others all look at one another with wide eyes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His eyes seemed so wide and helpless, it made my chest hurt. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His legs are wide, his arms folded across his chest, his face tightly muscled. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Now the root cellar stands with its mouth wide open. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

When you enter a room, mentally divide it into sections no wider than your reach. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes are probably as wide as theirs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As I’m getting done, a squat black nurse with a kind wide smile and tightly braided hair steps in. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gat and I went down to the perimeter then, and walked until we got to a wide, flat rock that looked over the harbor. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The trails were wider, deeper, straighter, more businesslike than the human trail, and they reeked of buffalo urine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I met his eye, he gave me a wide smile. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The alley opens up to a wide street. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Li’l bruh, you gotta get up, man. It’s almost time to go,” he said, cracking the door, peeking in before pushing it wide open, just as everyone had done at the hospital. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Potter doesn’t mean that,” he said, his red eyes wide. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Like what?” she said after a pause, her eyes wide under the covers in the dark. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The opening’s not wide enough for me to sit on the curb and swing in....I can’t step over or hop over.... The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment, they stared at each other—Nali’s eyes narrow and angry, Uncle Jet’s wide and ashamed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘I believe I owe you eight shillings?’ he said, with a wide smile on his dark, ruddy face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the light grew a little he saw to his surprise that what from a distance had seemed wide and featureless flats were in fact all broken and tumbled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shelly’s eyes got as wide as saucers when I flew past the bar. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Why doesn't she wear wide comfy shoes with square ends?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A narrower track, barely wide enough for an oxcart, continued on, straight toward the mountains. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When they reached the wide, raised path that circled the whole outer rim of the island, Headmaster stopped to catch his breath. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Keepers exchanged looks, shock clear in their wide eyes and raised eyebrows. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The wide featureless land denied all sense of progress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The entrance to the valley is wide enough that I couldn't see the canyon walls in either direction. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he dared not reach out his hand, he lay stiff, his eyes wide open. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Its nostrils were wide and red and its sides were spotted with foam. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus stood in front of him, legs wide and irritation in his shoulders. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Now it looks like something that belongs in the suburbs, with its wide double doors, sparkling windows, and tiny manicured lawn. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes got mad wide and he tilted his head a little, said: “Excuse me?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe I could hate someone who looks so kind—his eyebrows turn upward naturally, and he has a wide, white smile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Tats asks, before opening her mouth wide to shove a piece of sushi in. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Now at night, I held you and a great fear, wide as all our American generations, took me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes as wide as I could. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Grady froze, crouched over his burger with his pinkies extended and lips spread wide. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ellis Spear had come sleepily up, disarranged, eyes wide. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at us, his eyes wide. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time I dreamed about the boat, imagining it finished, its sails up, its eyes wide. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he’d been known to sleep on Trotter’s couch with his eyes wide open, there was no way under heaven to tell if he were wide awake or dead asleep. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Frank takes his big, wide hands and places them over his face, like he’s hiding from the truth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He held the gate open just wide enough for her to slip through, then pulled it shut behind her. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And on top of that, it was daytime—copperheads were wide awake. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes are bright, and his smile is so wide when he looks at her that it’s contagious. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Bureau of Genetic Welfare isn’t tall, but it’s still huge, wider than I can see, a mammoth of glass and steel and concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s easy,” I answer, with wide, soulful eyes and a totally straight face. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the wide expanse of flat desert, which reached toward the edge of the horizon, where massive sandstone plateaus stood that were as faint and round as orange clouds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Again we find that only by looking at some of the smallest units of life, the cell and its chromosomes, can we find that wider vision needed to penetrate such mysteries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I stop talking because her eyes have gone wider than eyes should be able to go. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was also his plan to shorten their journey by cutting across another great loop of the Road: east beyond Weathertop it changed its course and took a wide bend northwards. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They stopped at some wide steps leading to another ruined building - the Temple of Zeus, according to Frank. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And then more of the head, then the long bony crest stretching back over the wide neck. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for that reason, it has attracted the wide attention of researchers and theorists since the mid-nineteenth century. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swallow quickly and open wide so he can pop it into my mouth. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The wagon made a wide turn around the bend in the path, the horses straining mightily. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we found him in a corner; hanging up he was, but he was wide awake and glaring. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I walk around the room, looking out the wide front window at all the green grass and tall trees in this place. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The road was wide enough for two wagons to run abreast, but I moved to the grass at the edge of the road anyway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide and terrified as the crazily rolling beam of light struck his face; the handcuffs slid back and forth on his wrists as he reached back for his older brother. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She smiled wide enough to eclipse the sun. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the citizens hesitated as to what to do, Juno herself swept down from heaven, smote with her own hand the bars and flung wide the doors. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

El’s eyes are wide as she watches us file through the door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The barriers were seemingly endless miles of ditches, eighteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a red stain on my bed, wide as an open notebook. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not thinking about Henry in the shower or at night, alone and wide awake in his bed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s finally here,” Sahil said, smiling at me and spreading his arms wide. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The parchment was wide and filled with what looked like writing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The streets were wider than Peshawar’s, cleaner, and lined with rows of hibiscus and flame trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were too wide for him to pass through. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One day in A-block, I found my first example: an electric heating element, maybe eight inches wide, such as you’d find on the surface of a kitchen range. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settling herself on a wide limb, she leaned back against the trunk, knotting a rope around her so she wouldn’t fall. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The guy crashed into an abandoned pile of trash bags, and before he could get back up, Sargon was on him, jaws wide.... City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Theodora and Eleanor and Luke explored the tangled thicket behind the house and found the little summerhouse, while the doctor sat on the wide lawn, writing, within sight and hearing. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the front, it was wide and bright with light from the windows beside and above the door. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the door cautiously, then swung it wide open with surprise. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes went wide when they found her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They sat side by side on the thwart, yet Ged looked at him now as if from a distance, across a wide abyss. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It is like our house,” Finn whispered, peering around, his eyes wide. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He drove us into a wide street with fairly clean sidewalks and walled homes on either side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were so wide I thought he’d have trouble getting in the door. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes grew wide with shock, but a glint of admiration twinkled in their depths. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Thin hands shoved the curtains aside, and Petey’s wide, angry eyes were framed in the window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My nurse takes my left arm, bunching the wide sleeves of my night robe, and ties a red string around my bicep. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like a wide trapezoid, and there were two indentations in the middle. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ahead was a deep washout about ten feet wide. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stomped through the marsh grasses, wings spread wide, honking loudly. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t get how people walk through life with all their windows wide open. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The rhododendron leaves grew wide and green and when their color was at its deepest and waxiest, they suddenly surrendered it and lapsed into limp yellow hearts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had believed that on certain nights, when the moon rose full and wide as a corner of the sky, a person standing on the high sandstone cliff of that mesa could reach the moon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge over the gorge is only wide enough for two people to walk side by side. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to watch as the little girl ran toward the car, the wide purple bows of her sundress flopping on her narrow brown shoulders. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A wooden match flared, and he saw James, crouched like a cat, his eyes wide, sweat bubbling on his face. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face looms across the screen, the same wide sparkling eyes, her curly hair longer than I remember it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I took a few steps up the cold wide stairs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My mom still isn’t looking at us, so I open my eyes wide and gesture at Hina to go along. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He hissed at her like a snake, and Juana stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before the butcher. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When he returned from his first political posting, as quaestor in Sicily, for instance, he imagined his fame would have spread far and wide. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Guitar opened his eyes wide with horror and grabbed his throat. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suma’s eyes open lazily, and she flinches back, eyes wide in fear. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

June took a deep breath, her eyes wide. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She smiled a very big smile and opened her arms wide, and Raymie walked toward her, stepping on both white tiles and green tiles. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

They started up a flight of wide, marble steps that shone softly in the darkening air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the wide expanse ringed by grand buildings sits the president’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ernst runs with his arms nearly straight and his legs wide and unhinged. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were simply colossal, far taller and wider than the Big Friendly Giant upon whose hand she was now sitting. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon arriving at the Teklanika, they scouted the banks until they located a wide, braided section with relatively shallow channels, and then they steered headlong into the flood. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louie would long remember sitting there with his eyes wide, his mind floundering. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beige and cracked and knobby, as wide as a rib of celery and as long as a pencil. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was nice to know there was some shred of decency left in the wide world of Granger sports. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The wheelhouse in which they had ridden, a huge double-decked carriage of oiled oak and gilded metal pulled by forty heavy draft horses, was too wide to pass through the castle gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Looking west they could see, below them in a haze of light, lowlands and broad meads, and glinting far off in the westering sun the wide waters of the Anduin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’d flipped the ends and chosen a wide orange headband that matched the checkered dress Mrs. Baxter had fixed for me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I can see Lydia peering from behind him, trying to see better, her eyes wide. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He turned from her and lay on his back again, stretching his legs wide apart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Insectile limbs stuck out from a few of the jackets, and mandibles clicked from grossly wide mouths. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes scanned her, wide and fascinated; then he grinned again. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She made the torn edges kiss and held them together with the closures, then put a wide bandage over all of it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He succeeded in imposing his authority over the career officers in a wide sector along the coast. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The peacocks slender neck moved this way and that, and then, as though it had heard her, it cawed, its beak parted wide, the sounds pouring out of its throat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dicey grinned at him, unable to stretch her mouth wide enough to let out all the feelings his silly stubbornness let her feel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon Mary took Will and Lyra along the riverbank, past the fishing posts where the nets were tied, and through the wide salt marsh toward the sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aech smiled wide, then began to bob his head and press his palms to the sky, as if dancing to some unheard rave track. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide open but did not see, and she knew at once that he was blind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Of course. Fatima had that chubby nose and wide face.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Every lyric of “Amazing Grace” is consuming me, opening my eyes real wide. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As you walk closer, you can see that it sits in a wide black iron cauldron, balanced on a number of clawed feet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Red awnings with thick green borders hung across the wide windows of the large, squat building. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The stream is a couple of feet wide at most. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Kyle squinted at the wide swath of shiny white, he noticed a series of evenly spaced glowing green LEDs at eye level on the wall. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fledge came lower and lower in wide circles. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Running along the entire length of each shed was a grassy yard maybe fifteen feet wide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And because they come from a much greater depth, they tend to propagate over much wider areas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Breathing hard through his nose, he lay there, eyes wide in the darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wooden bridge was nearly three-quarters of a mile across, and the river, that usually ran in narrow channels in the wide stony bed far below the bridge, was close under the wooden planking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I lay back on the tarpaulin, arms and legs spread wide. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her wide, mournful eyes had settled on me, and I could tell they weren’t going anywhere until I explained that a little better. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Big and green, with wide fields of high grass that swept back and forth with the breeze, turning the blades into gentle waves. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he saw me, his face broke into a wide smile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A wide copper bowl and a white cloth were brought to Faramir and he washed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“But they have been known to, for all your wide experience, Thlayli. Anyway, why did you go near it?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Jumper snort and the clatter of his hoofs as he went galloping in a wide circle to come up behind the cabin. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked stunning, her hair back, her smile wide, except I could see her lips were quivering. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“How’s my favorite only niece in the whole wide world doing?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It forbade Germany to place soldiers in the Rhineland, a wide strip of unprotected German land that bordered France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The triumphant first woman was halfway across the wide avenue before the second woman reached the curb. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I draw a woman with wide shoulders and a picture hat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fire roared, at least ten feet wide with its tongues of flame licking far up into the air, almost threatening the lower limbs of the trees surrounding it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She pulled her towards the far end of the room, but Annabeth moved sluggishly, her eyes wide and unfocused. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As he soared up out of a dive with wide wings white against the gray, something blade hurtled at him and struck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth opened wide and she let out a piercing shriek. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She caught a quick glimpse of Wick by the far wall, his eyes wide and desperate. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They dodged streetcars and buses, swung wide around each corner, peered out from under the shell from time to time to get their bearings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling, I rushed to his basin and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nico’s eyes grow wider, and he instantly seems more comfortable with me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And even though her head is bowed, humble in defeat, her eyes are staring up past the camera, wide open. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering myself, I kneel and kiss the heavy jeweled ring that squeezes his wide finger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Frowning, she pushes the door wider and steps inside. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the long length of the wide hall I heard someone unseen skipping down the stairs singing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice sounds awkward mimicking Connor’s happy bubbliness, but Hector’s eyes are wide and he keeps giggling. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Ruth walked in her even-paced way down the street and in just a few minutes was at the wide winding lane that led into Fairfield Cemetery. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news anchors came back on, showing off their best surprised faces—mouths open and eyes wide, like the emoji. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wide area of the meadowland was burned black and scorched flat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was as if we’d stepped into the larger crosscurrents of culture and history, reminded suddenly of our relative smallness in the wider arc of time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Already taller than Conor’s window, the monster grew wider as it brought itself together, filling out to a powerful shape, one that looked somehow strong, somehow mighty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She leaned over Liyana with a rocking motion, back and forth, rubbing her own hands together over Liyana’s body and opening them wide. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three sols later, Lewis Valley opened into a wide plain. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s trees all the way up the side but a well-tended path and a wide clearing at the top. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much more than three feet wide. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Might as well just throw open the cabin door full wide and invite that black bear right onto the hearth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The coach snorted and opened his door wide. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest tree Jem Snow had ever seen, the trunk near eight feet wide, the branches spreading so far that the entire village was shaded beneath their canopy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She gave me an anxious expression, but the wide grin kept spilling out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His mouth and eyes were opened wide, and his face was as white as chalk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the overcoat came off, Mr. Gonzalez saw rings of fat squeezed into a tight white shirt that was vertically divided by a wide flowered tie. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked about him far and wide, but could get no word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily Cal’s eyes were squinted and cautious, but now they were so wide that they seemed to look around and through Will. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He scoured the newspaper job pages, made calls, and hoped, until the agency offered him another job, cleaning wide passages in a detergent-packing warehouse. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The nearest police are about twenty miles from here in Altamont,” Mr. Milo says, his eyes wide. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes, wide and frightened, as if at one word from me he would turn and run deep into the dimension of the mirrored world. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Luna walked across the circumference of the room, running her hands along the wide table and the smooth counters. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The wide streets were lined with tall elm trees. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

They gave the watch-fire a wide berth, and wormed their way forward bit by bit, until they came to the edge of the river, gurgling away in the black shadows under its deep banks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He set it down on his desk and took his seat behind it, flicking back the wide sleeves of his black robe. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In his biography, it said that to this day, in Colombia, people come from far and wide to whisper their wishes into the cold stone ears of a Guillermo Garcia angel. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He patted her cheek and turned away from her wide, dark, pleading, hollow eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door cracks open just wide enough for an adult to squeeze through sideways. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a misty, gray lake, wide and ringed with firs, its calm surface smooth as slate. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Gabriel stops chewing, and his eyes grow wide. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I smile so wide that I feel tears in my eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was laughing at something hysterical—her shoulders bent forward, her big eyes crinkling at their corners, her mouth open wide. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It's as if this is a whole backyard, complete with a wide canopy, outdoor furniture, plants, and string of gold and silver Christmas lights that Darius turns on from some hidden spot. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And after the invasion, they would be giving any cities a wide berth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The wide gaps in his gums were tinged a subtle tawny color. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Across the valley, set on the opposite hillside, was a handsome manor house surrounded by a wide expanse of velvety green lawn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The roads here are so wide and straight and clean. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This opened wide vistas of scenes and locales that I did not so much visit in my reading, but rather possessed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The narrower their lives, the wider their hips. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Right there, with her bright green eyes wide open, is Noelle. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even a god who found this place would gaze, and feel his heart beat with delight: so Hermes did; but when he had gazed his fill he entered the wide cave. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She marched up to our porch and opened the screen door, then unlocked the front door, then swung it wide to allow Deputy Collins to walk in first, the rest of us behind him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He raised the volume and sang along with words he had memorized from a lifetime of listening—“La la la la life goes on!”—smiling wide and clapping. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

John stared at me, his eyes wide with confusion. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Object pointed at the phone and then, opening her mouth wide, stuck her finger down her throat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She wore skinny jeans and a long white gauzy shirt cinched around her tiny waist with a wide leather belt. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Caroline’s eyes went wide, and, as we listened, she did something she had never done before. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squeezes the green disc tightly, then she blinks—once, twice—opens her eyes wide, and looks straight at me. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They all had the same wide smile, the same chalk-colored teeth, the same sun- dried skin the color and texture of groundnut husks. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The drawing-room French windows still stood wide open to the night. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes opened wide and his mouth parted slightly, then he looked over his shoulder and shifted from one foot to the other. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she has the same wide brown eyes, the same confident gaze, as the man Mom was talking to in the bookstore the day she took me shopping. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For many years we used to go out every now and again and look for the Entwives, walking far and wide and calling them by their beautiful names. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were wide and she kept opening her mouth like she wanted to tell me I was wrong. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Crawling through the thorny passageway was easier this time because their bodies had broken a wider path. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

About two or three hours after we fell asleep I woke up to find Piper sitting up next to me wide awake with a look of naked terror on her face. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folk with less curiosity or more propriety stayed outside, peering through the wide windows and gossiping over what they’d heard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I dance and laugh and I am a balloon going up and up into the wide blue sky. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Right in the middle of the sofa, with his legs spread wide. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were a wide, hard, granite blue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread his arms wide, as if to hug all of Logan County. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide and Gay looked frantic. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And this I know for sure about my husband: You don’t dangle an opportunity in front of him, something that could give him a wider field of impact, and expect him just to walk away. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Kamau swung his spear in a wide arc as something horned charged at him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a feverish gleam to his eyes, and his wide grin hasn’t left his face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then I press my foot to his chest, right under his throat, and our eyes meet, his wide and innocent and nothing like what’s inside him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had cut a wide swath through the girls of Big Creek High, leaving behind him a crowd of broken hearts. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Designed for a single passenger, it was wider than it needed to be, presumably for additional stability. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mac looked at Alex in surprised recognition, then broke into a wide, gentle smile, his eyes dancing in the warm glow of the flickering flames. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I followed their trail—footprints, hoofprints, and wagon ruts cutting a wide dirty swath toward the east. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he had seen him once, he could picture the fish swimming in the water with his purple pectoral fins set wide as wings and the great erect tail slicing through the dark. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two inches wide, two inches high: a white block, waiting for me to appear inside. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw boats with fan-shaped sails floating on wide coffee-colored rivers, a barricaded university, newspaper offices burnt to the ground. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Eventually he yawned, wide enough for me to count all thirty teeth. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I just stood there for a second, staring at Adam with my eyes wide and my mouth hanging open. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You had no choice but to have the sugar mill right there, and sugar mills require a wide range of occupations. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Dasch stepped out and walked in a wide circle, trying to look through the fog. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He spread his arms wide and rotated in a circle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A wide and echoing passage led back from the door towards the mountain-side. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

At 3:20 in the morning, wide awake in his bunk, Ishmael heard the order delivered to the troop hold: “All marines lay topside to your debarkation stations!’ Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was wide awake now; he sat up and said, ‘Who is it? What do you want?’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dark inside, and little wisps of mist came swirling out as the gap grew wider. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She tore the red marriage cloth into three wide strips and folded them around grass from her bedding to make pads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know,” the girl said, opening her eyes wide enough so that Talc could lose himself in their blueness for a moment or two. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She balanced the bowl on the wide sill and said to me, “I saw you right away when you came in.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked up at her and saw that her wide smile had returned. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The little boy is smiling so wide and open you can see his tongue. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

By the time Daddy opens the door, my books are open wide and spread across the table. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, that was—” Helene’s eyes go wide, and I lunge to one side without needing to be told, turning just in time to see a knife hurtling through the air. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The throne room was reached by climbing one last wide flight of stairs that culminated in grand redwood doors. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As he had put it often, “We seek no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A barge, right on time, swinging its back end wide, near enough to throw up waves, but too far to reach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It’s just me up here with the fading fathead moon and every screaming seagull from far and wide visiting Lost Cove for a dawn concert. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The abbot’s eyes had grown wider and wider. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a rill, a rivulet, a trickle, no wider than her arm ... and her arm had grown thinner every day she spent on Dragonstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The patch kit is a cone-shaped valve with super-sticky resin on the wide end. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his free time he designed a wide variety of airships and spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept awake with them, but not very wide awake. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It went wide, sinking into the trunk of the willow tree with a thump and a splash. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The street was only wide enough for four people to walk abreast. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antain remembered the little black curls, framing those wide black eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty wide conspiracy, involving everything from his car’s faulty ignition to his father’s nagging about college to his English teacher’s “gay way of talking.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Collins turned to look at me, and his eyes were wide and full of fear. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I say to him, planting a wide, naïve smile on my face. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the Old Lord answered without opening any wider the crack through which he pursed his lips, “Now curse him, that dog left me many months ago and he is not here.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The river in the valley was wide and green. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its ugly mouth gaped wide enough to hold a human body. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and put back the curtains and opened the windows wide to let the night air in. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pauses again for a moment, and then a wide compassionate smile stretches across her face. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His uncle’s green eyes, which had been as hard as jewels, suddenly went wide. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’m wide awake now, lying on my back, looking at the ceiling. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As time passed, the bands spread far and wide, pursuing mammoths, mastodons, rhinoceroses and reindeer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls it through a short length of wide PVC pipe, then folds the top part of the sock back over the pipe. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She covered her unease with a wide smile. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The younger men leaned back on their stools with their knees wide apart, taking up all the room they needed, and were quick to yell out what was on their minds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then all I can see is the shape of his thin lips and wide, black nostrils that flare once every few seconds as he talks to Ma. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of them lay thrown off the shelves, open on the floor or the wide dusty tables, and others had been thrust back higgledy-piggledy. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Summer? August?” she said, smiling, her eyes open wide, as she waited for me to get it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The opposite wall is made up entirely of screens, each a foot tall and a foot wide. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

These applications operate like traditional software programs and can handle a wide range of business tasks. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I lean close and open my eyes very wide, trying to see beyond the sagging flesh. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Man, that hole, it was five yards wide!” said Billingsley as he came off to the sideline, his eyes ablaze. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aragorn searched the ground in a wide circle, but no other traces of the fight could be found. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But when I returned, the gate was wide open and they’d let themselves through—a significant offense, I thought. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about fifteen feet tall, and it was growing in an enormous plastic tub full of black dirt that was almost as wide as the trailer. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got a bit of a belly and shoulders wider than most door frames, but people don’t look at him and think fat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a wide arch leading to a courtyard between the two wings, and on the left under the arch there was a large doorway reached by a few broad steps. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat, making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank-notes and a stream of gold fell out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead,” Ryan says, opening his arms wide and putting his face forward, as if he wants to be hit. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Out, out, out he went, then back again, each time with a wider arc and more dizzying sweep. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I open wide, and it's there on my tongue. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he swung the creaky door wide, he didn’t hear the hysterical cheeping. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t think twice about it, because the sky here seems wider. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward with his elbows on his knees and fastened a wide, searching gaze on Singer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And it lunged across the cellar toward her then, its toothless mouth opened wide. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I was well repaid by the love and adoration I saw in the wide blue eyes of my three little sisters. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and walked to the window, and stared over the wide bleak darkness with unseeing eyes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

College students don’t have as wide a circle of acquaintances as people in their forties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shotgun houses with wide spaces between them, a few dogs, chickens, children, and the women with nothing in their hands. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diffidently Ranofer raised the latch, opened the gate just wide enough for them both to squeeze through, and closed it carefully behind them. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We could see the wide Channel & even Boston-Town, & — my God, I do not jest—there, drawing up, was a Sloop & a Schooner, discharged Boats with Parliament’s Marines to protect their seized Animals. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Abe Goodstein, our first baseman, retrieved the ball and whipped it home, and the batter stood at third, a wide grin on his face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They might have been on the Amazon, which was so wide, Malcolm had read, that from the middle you could see neither of the banks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I could see the wide gauze bandage across his eyes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And this was a shame, for Samuel was a laughing man, but I guess Samuel was wide open to the devil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spread my arms out even wider, and tried to imagine long robes with sleeves that flowed down along the arms of Prospero. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He looked at us with wide eyes while we told him. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are taking me down a wide hallway that seems to be a mile long. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There is a wide, flat machine balanced on top of it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The chicken made straight for the bed, and Seth tossed his other handful of salt in a wide arc to cover their retreat, scalding the flying centipede in the process. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Even if it were an absurd rumor, 40 miles wide of the truth, it would be useless to attempt to alter ‘the verdict of history.’ The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I make sure to go around the bumpy parts of the sidewalk, giving a wide berth so that the wheelchair is easy to maneuver. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

When she said “stop” she meant it because she had extra-short hair and a big head on a really wide body that there was no getting around. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large rectangular hole dug in the dirt, about six feet long by four feet wide and three feet deep. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The city darkens as I reach its border, a wide dirt clearing a few yards wide that separates Lkossa from the first of the Greater Jungle’s towering black pines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now he must be clean and presentable if he wished, to walk, not run, stroll calmly across that wide boulevard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just the most famous librarian in the whole wide world!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I stared in disbelief as Edward sprang from the fringe of the trees, ball in his upraised hand, his wide grin visible even to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mom’s eyes got all wide and shiny when she heard that, and I felt sad and embarrassed for her having to be my mom. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She came up to me, smiling with wide open eyes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled wider and Grace thought she saw a glimpse of Peach. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The place will become known far and wide for its great food and fast service. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The queen had a wide face, perfect for broad smiles. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could see his mouth wide open and his eyes wild. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bag was empty and riding high, its open end gaping wide like the mouth of a cave. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I tucked her under my arm and went for the first time alone into a white neighborhood where there were wide clean streets and big white houses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breaking into Miss Joe’s office isn’t as easy as I thought it would be, seeing that she always keeps her door wide open for anyone to come into, even when she isn’t there. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Come in,” she said briskly and she opened the gates wide enough to admit him and then behind his back, while he stood astonished in the court, she barred them securely again. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Each Sunday she wears a different hat, sometimes one with netted lace hanging over her eyes, sometimes one with a big, wide brim. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes opened wide in their dark pits, and his thin, skeletal arms flailed the air before him as if he were striking at the furies of hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at that,” he says politely, pointing to a photo of the Jongs’ tour group standing on wide slab steps. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady was wearing big sunglasses, a wide hat, and a pretty striped dress. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panting, Archer stumbled back against the wall, his eyes wide with fear. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once he stopped his truck he hopped out quickly and opened the wide garage doors. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide with wonder and surprise as they lifted him to his feet and dragged him out of the cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dad’s body froze, his wide eyes zeroing in on the thin, sharp point. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The future for both of them was wide like an empty highway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dimple shook her head, her eyes wide as she studied him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ms. Port greeted me with a wide smile. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The colonel wore his khaki shirt collar wide open, exposing a shadow of tough black bristles of beard on his egg-white neck, and had a spongy hanging underlip. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She threw the door wide, almost stumbling as she did so. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She opens the door wider and steps out of the way. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wave back, lifting my arm high, spreading my fingers wide. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the comer of a wide street and waited to cross. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All are furnished only with beds and low, wide dressers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The bow was a vast wall of metal that was getting wider every second. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him lift his head and arch his back and stretch his arms so wide it seemed he was hanging on nothing but blue sky. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her eyes opened wide, but she narrowed them almost at once. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But here, there isn’t even a slice of happiness big enough to fill up all these empty houses, and broken buildings, and wide roads that lead to nowhere and everywhere. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A huge man, taller than Ser Jorah and wide enough to make two of him, the priest wore scarlet robes embroidered at sleeve and hem and collar with orange satin flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Not when we were afraid, but when we were wide awake and lucid, my mother funneled China into our ears: Kwang- tung Province, New Society Village, the river Kwoo, which runs past the village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wide awake and ready to go. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mama’s eyes opened wide, registering shock, but Stella just kept rinsing the holes in her mother’s leg. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Milkman opened his arms wide so he could hold all of her in a warm embrace. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the travellers lay a wide ravine, with great rocky sides to which clung, upon shelves and in narrow crevices, a few thrawn trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We walked down the hall and down the wide thickly carpeted stairs. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But if you try to catch all of it with wide hands and fingers spread apart—it will slip through. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I think perhaps she saw the wide twisted mouth and embarrassed eyes of Martin Hopps on her and felt that in some way she was reimbursing him for his stolen life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She threw wide its doors and wound it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth seemed inhumanly huge, like his jaw had twisted itself out of place to allow for a wider expression of fear. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The mule pulled the wagon so that we was on top of a wide wall of rocks and dirt. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reba put her hands on her hips and opened her eyes wide. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember clutching tightly to Pa’s fmger as we walked along wide crumbling corridors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lines of the mixture were thicker, wider than mine. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She found a game trail that meandered until it met a wide grassland divided by a stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, through the memories, he had seen oceans and mountain lakes and streams that gurgled through woods; and now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She took away her hands, balling them into fists, opened her mouth wide and screamed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“A man on a horse, in front of that line. George, he’ll be the only rider in a line a mile wide. They’ll have every gun on that hill on him.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were wider than a man’s hand with his fingers spread and the fish’s eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no opportunity to bring the parcel of clothing with me beneath the seat; for the intruder swung wide the door and entered. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My eyes went wide, but Doc’s voice remained calm when he asked, “Jezebel, honey, how are you feeling?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’s an earnest, dark-haired boy with a deceptively innocent look to his wide blue eyes, and his fiancee’s name, AELIA, tattooed in block letters on his bicep. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The window is open a bit, so I jimmy it wider and climb in. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Adam walked up the wide veranda steps and rang the bell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men cannot overtake the wounded beasts which fly in their pain, their wide open mouths full of anguish. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Bay is wide, and sometimes safety is too far away. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My reluctant steps took me to the center of the wide foyer, where I waited, a hook baited to catch Hamlet unawares. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Papa was holding me with one wide hand, pouring the water carefully with the other. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Muthu showed me a grave that was wider than the rest, beneath a banyan tree. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We stretch our arms wide, as if we are embracing the wind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Human” is feathers flattened, eyes wide, neck pulled in, wings drooped to fly. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty years in the future, those girls would still be young, would still be smiling or smoldering or simply looking stupid, with their legs wide open. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosie curls her trunk and opens her mouth in a wide smile. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Quisqueya stopped talking, her eyes wide, her face nearly as red as her hair. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Angeline stood behind the cornstalk room with the other net held wide, and Omakayas ran to the other side of the field. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“For example, just by looking at it I can tell this room is twenty-two feet long and sixteen feet wide.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He began to sweep with a wide broom while the radio poured forth sad songs about lonely highways, broken hearts, and jail. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

She has a wide open face, like a child, but her generous hip bumps against my thigh as she works to get me camera ready. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jan Sorensen leaned against a plywood garbage bin; Marty Johansson stood with his feet planted wide, his forearms folded across his bare chest, his T- shirt tucked into his pants waist. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After the lunch break we even got matched up together, just the two of us, digging main line—eight inches wide, eighteen deep—where they were gonna install a fancy sprinkler system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like the bedroom and bathroom, the study was squashed under the apex of the bungalow’s roof, and was little more than a corridor between the two, barely six feet long and five feet wide. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The whole wide world spun under me, trying to pull me back down to its dark center. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The central limit theorem states that under a wide variety of circumstances this will always be the case—averages and sums of nonnormally distributed quantities will nevertheless themselves have a normal distribution. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s one where Marjorie and another girl are laughing with their mouths open wide in unattractive poses while Lauren smiles serenely at the camera. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She looks up as she does and her eyes go wide. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And she was perpetually irritated by Joe and his teenaged friends and their makeshift bands, out on the wide front porch, making a racket day and night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t get the words out fast enough as I stare up at his very alive face, a big, goofy grin sitting below his wide eyes and uneven hairline. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His face had broken into a wide and dazzled smile at what I had said, lighting up his whole face. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes opened wide, and she found herself whooping with excitement. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m lucky enough to catch him between roommates, my old room wide open and waiting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes get real wide when she sees my name. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

First, you take construction paper and cut it into strips about two inches wide and eight or nine inches long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s eyes grew wide as he listened, and Frankie said, “Oh!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Just outside the door was a wide bucket full of sand, with several torches jutting out of it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Abbot Mortimer rose and solemnly spread his paws wide, encompassing the festive board. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He walked over and threw an arm around my shoulders, flashing a wide grin at the others on the stage. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The hairs that peeked out of his wide nose quivered as he smiled at me and said, “Our daughter, kedu?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The gateway to the industrial heartland of Southern China runs up through the wide, verdant swath of the Pearl River Delta. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then, he opens his mouth wide, and blows his air out like he’s pretending to be the big, bad wolf. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

A pair of blue lasers shot from the device, tracing a tall, wide rectangle—a door—in thin air. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I was becoming more outward and social, more willing to open myself up to the messes of the wider world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Corso sat at the desk, his legs open wide, straddling the entire thing, as if his crotch was the mouth of a giant whale, and had his arms crossed across his chest. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’s wide around the middle, a little like our snowman, but Maria talks all the time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the top was a wide echoing passage. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We as a society have been leaving the door wide open. Why wouldn’t the devil walk right in?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Fig flipped onto his back and stretched his front legs long, toes spread wide. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Capone takes Rocky in her arms and rocks him gentle and wide like a large cradle. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to keep my eyes on him, but his smile—how the piercings pull wide when his lips spread—is almost too awful to take. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But her mother’s lips seemed almost white, and her eyes were wide and full of tears. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had meant to fill that wide crack with thick mud and let it dry and harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There are bits of grass mixed in with the mud bricks to hold it together, and the wall is at least half as wide as it is tall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s attempt to find some deeper, perhaps religious meaning to his life took a wide and twisted path. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished, there will most likely be nothing left. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His beret is pushed low on his forehead, and his mouth is stretched wide, with big square teeth like a horse. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of Mr. Smith and his wide blue wings transfixed them for a few seconds, as did the woman’s singing and the roses strewn about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stumpy, gnarled beast, alone in a wide area of open woods. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Jack! Jack! What shall I do! The whole of life seems gone from me all at once, and there is nothing in the wide world for me to live for.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Eyes wide with terror, he ran straight into the paws of his mouse friend, narrowly missing injury on the sword blade. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Forgot the lessons of a lifetime, and concentrated on the wide, shining blade, because who knew? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, as we sailed around a bend, we came face to face with a camping trailer swinging its wide body around the curve. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Menemsha house had ceilings so high and windows so wide that everyday activities seemed to have extra room and light. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her mother opened it, and her eyes were wide and surprised to see me standing at her door at nine in the morning. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The next time down on offense, when they leave me wide open, Coach yells, “Shoot!” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant next to Luke must’ve been fifteen feet tall, easy, and so wide he took up three seats. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Very busy, I see,” my dad says, smiling wide. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The ground grew soggier, the grass grew taller, and soon the robot and the gosling were looking across a wide, murky pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a kind of local celebrity in the way that a longtime educator can be—always recognized by someone at the supermarket—but he never sought or expected any wider acclaim. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A marvel of miniature engineering, the T-50 had a lens only four millimeters wide. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in silence, they came to the wide crossing where the streetcar line ran. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Sphinx smiled so wide her fangs showed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Much was said of events in the world outside, especially in the South, and in the wide lands east of the Mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

That’s how it feels here, somehow—wide awake at midnight in a strange place, duty-bound to make it work. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You know. At first I believed that project was quite useless, as you are sometimes quite useless, Alaric, but now I realize it was actually clever,” Jonafren said, and he opened his eyes wide. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

All of London she hadn’t yet seen, all of England, all of the great wide world—and to feel free, powerful, and yes, entitled, to witness and understand what was out there. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bar girl was lying on her back on the floor, her wrapper bunched up at her waist, her shoulders held down by a soldier, her legs wide, wide ajar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The central staircase is wider than ours, with a curved banister on either side. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge log, with a nice, flat top almost as wide as a sidewalk. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The very walls of the room made her feel trapped; even with the window opened wide it felt as thewgh there were no air to breathe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That was when I started going back to Grandpa and Uncle Stanley’s apartment for a weekly bath, though when I was there, I made sure to give Uncle Stanley a wide berth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t convincing, and once we came out onto a wider street, we all shuffled to a halt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seized the opportunity to show off her wealth and gain a wider sphere of influence in the eastern provinces. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I could see a large gold tooth staring at me like the blinding sun and then the rest of her teeth opened wide as if she were going to swallow me down in one piece. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handsome, he’s got a wide nose and big smile. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Thalia already had Aegis on her arm, and even our own teammates were giving her a wide berth, trying not to cower before the bronze head of Medusa. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Big, like two kids tall and two kids wide. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was grinning now, enjoying himself as he jumped up and landed with his feet wide, then shimmied across the room, nodding his head with a heck yeah expression on his face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We waited in line until we were ushered into one of the glass-enclosed cabins, each wide enough to hold sixty people. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boundaries of Ngoma’s Tropic Region were stencilled in dark, wide brown and swept about a gorgeous interior labelled “jungle” and “desert” and “here be Elephants and all Manner of Strange Beasts.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He saw as if his eyes were still open wide the bones, the tufts of hair, the knots of thread, the despair. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She grins so wide I can see her back row of teeth. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was small, with wide, staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless, nervous tension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before their eyes had time to grow wide, they suddenly found themselves falling to earth. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She drew strength from the older man’s steadfast support and intellectual nourishment from his commanding intelligence, which grappled with a wide range of issues, from anticolonial movements in Africa to presidential politics here at home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beside me, Nero tensed his long black body and twitched his tail, his green eyes wide with curiosity.Georgie was still breathing hard from running to warn me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It always boggled my mind to think of the great mountains and wide rivers across which he had people bring the papers just for his reading pleasure. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could have seen all the cities of the Archipelago,” Ged said as he held the sail-rope, watching the wide grey wastes before them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The last bit of distance was a wide sand plain, revealed in low tide, and made easy walking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first snag came about an hour later when we had to cross a wide stream. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bored with waiting, he was just getting ready to go to bed when he noticed that Blanca’s window was wide open. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that, as if responding to the name, the child opened its eyes wide in wakefulness. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Leslie turned to face him with a wide smile on her tanned face. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

For a moment he was tempted to throw them wide open, then he sighed and closed the gap. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The river was swollen and wide from recent rain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My ears still poke through my hair, and my nose still seems too wide for my face, but I don't see the ugly version of myself I normally do. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had gray eyes and his irises were very wide, the muscles ridged out on his jaws. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo’s eyes opened wide, for there in front of him was a large dog with a perfectly normal head, four feet, and a tail—and the body of a loudly ticking alarm clock. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whiteman’s bones were in Blackwater Draw, which during the Pleistocene served as a wide, shallow regional drainage channel, a kind of long, slow-moving lake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Richard yanks her close, whispers in her ear, and her eyes go wide. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She steps back, holding the door open wide. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I clench my fists and then stretch out my fingers as wide as they will go. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man turned his head back towards his captor, eyes wide, mouth opening to speak again. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Shoulders slumped, I step into a massive, darkened theater with endless rows of seats curving around a wide stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mitch is dressed like Indiana Jones in khaki pants and a bomber jacket with a wide brim hat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Slightly dizzy, he nevertheless kept his eyes wide open, rain was speckling his glasses and ran up his nostrils as he hung upside down, avoiding another fierce dive from the Bludger. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

Then the Mask’s gauntleted wrist flashes once, leaving a thin red line across Nan’s throat, a line that grows wider and redder as she falls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wide arena in front of the main group of buildings, a hundred or so people, adults and children, were milling about: some in excitement, some in irritation, many just bewildered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The double doors to the town community center are propped wide open, a rectangle of yellow light spread on the sidewalk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bellatrix watched, her wand upon their clasped hands, her eyes wide. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ivy turned this way and that, hoping for some clue to where her suspect lived, but all the houses looked the same with their wide porches and stone steps, large front windows glowing warmly. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was only when Jinny moved to pick her up that she realized Ess was still wide awake, eyes staring at the bright stars overhead, the soft night all around her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A little wind stirred outside, swinging the door wide open On creaking hinges. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just about as wide as the three was high. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was stretched out on the wide girder, under the burlap camouflage. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All at once his white shirt blazed out, and I came out after him from shadow into full sunlight on a wide green meadow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This door he leaves wide open to the night air. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Very well,” he said, spreading his hands wide on the table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sooner the better or he’ll look like an idiot when he grows up with that gob wide as a boot. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hodor slid his arms through the straps and cinched the wide belt tight around his chest, then knelt beside the bed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I notice how much wider the skies are in Detroit. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With that, Bongo started snoring—for real this time—but I was still wide awake. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She knew the fishermen used water magic to pull the edges of their nets wider as soon as they hit the river’s surface. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I pull the heavy door open a bit wider, the hinges creaking loudly as I do. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The wind was in the East and all the mists had rolled away; wide lands lay bleak about them in the bitter light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then she opened them wide and said real loud: “There’s only one apple.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairwell isn't wide enough for two scims, so I sheath one and pull out my dagger, driving it into the kidney of a third soldier and the heart of a fourth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Baba was bending over a large pile of wood, which he seemed to be carving as part of a wide veranda on the new building. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nick kept his eyes open wide and nodded, adjusted his glasses on his nose, and began to read. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wandered along the river until they came to the wide beach, bright under the moon, where the low tide was turning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The edge of the highway isn’t very wide, you know, and people get in a hurry sometimes, and I didn’t want to fall down into the grassy ditch next to the road. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I fake smile as wide as my face will stretch. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get the chance: the wide beach with fine, golden sand, the calmest waves and the clearest blue water, a few blocks away from the hotel, was reserved for whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thriving commercial center had taken root on the south side of the river, replete with stately brick hotels, sturdy limestone banks, and a wide variety of fine emporiums and reputable mercantile establishments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I laugh at the expression on Caleb’s face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The rip at the brim opened wide — “GRYFFINDOR!” the hat shouted. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The floor was of wide, heavy planks, almost black in color and unlittered, so that if the key were there it would have been instantly visible. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when he saw the wide, old-fashioned tie I gave him compared to the lovely, silk tie he gave me, he probably thought I was merely trying to improve my wardrobe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the guy in the old vaudeville skit, the guy in the folding cot that won’t stay folded, Jerome flipped straight up, wide awake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes opened wide at the sight of her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I said nothing for a minute, staring at him a long time, trying to memorize every inch of his cocoa brown face; his wide shoulders; his thick, black hair. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I pass wide open bedroom doors, one, two, three. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So I crawl round once again in a wide curve. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood beside her as she traced patterns in chalk on chambray and calico, and I learned to make the wide simple chain stitches to guide the emerging shape of the garment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes went wide for a moment, then narrowed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The 1800s section and the 1950s high-rise were connected by sort of a tunnel, maybe six yards wide and probably half a football field in length, or it seemed that way. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Fossilized pizza, snack puddings, lunch meat, and a wide array of condiment packets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A wide wrought iron gate that had every manner of doodads welded right into it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The guards marched Lina up the steps of the Gathering Hall and through the wide doorway. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees, and giant oaks just putting out their brown-green buds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“No. Not a soul in this whole wide world, Mr. Britten,” Peggy wailed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was possible to kneel but not to stand, though on the other hand the room inside the tree was wide enough to lie down in. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My eyelids were growing heavy, but she stayed wide awake, staring unblinkingly at me, even as I fell asleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It stopped the three of us in our tracks as we looked at each other, eyes open wide, and started laughing hysterically when no one took credit for it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

After fighting back the urge to gag, he told the confectioner, weakly, “You have ruined my tongue for all other tastes,” and saw her eyes flare wide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dad examined the gash in my leg, which had been ripped wide as the spike had fallen away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the top they found, as Strider had said, a wide ring of ancient stonework, now crumbling or covered with age-long grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Alice was lying there, her blouse open where I had unbuttoned it, her face flushed, eyes wide in disbelief. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And this time, as he played, Shadow smiled; and whenever Czernobog moved a piece, Shadow smiled wider. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes look like black pits, and he wears a smirk that spreads too wide across his face, forcing wrinkles into his cheeks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I notice, because I can’t help it, that some of the people we pass on the way to the meeting give me nasty looks, or a wide berth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The glass doors to the red and green balconies with the gold joy symbols were left wide open so that we could run out and climb the fire escapes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he fell dead in there the jaws of hell would open wide. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She nodded caustically at that and stood surveying the two of them for a moment, her hands on her wide hips. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked one wide eye, and then the other, before rolling both toward the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He stretches his arms wide as Zeke shoves him down the steel cable. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“But he’s there; see for yourself” He pulled the door wider to let her see. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wide, and at least ten feet deep. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

How about five columns that are each two inches wide? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I bulldozed blindly through West Virginia, plunged into Pennsylvania and grooved Rocinante to the great wide turnpike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slughorn’s eyes lingered for a moment on the ring too, and Harry saw a tiny frown momentarily crease his wide forehead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

By the time I struggled through the midday crowd and caught up with him, we were on the northern edge of the University, following a wide dirt road that led into the forest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The boot went wide and hit the bridge’s edge, then dropped into the river. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was as if she had erected an invisible wall and I was secretly groping each day to see how high and how wide it was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Peekaboo!” she sang, her ghastly smile stretching wide. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A quick, muffled snap made Sefia pause, eyes wide, in the brush. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The other had skin as smooth and black as polished jet, wide dark eyes, small pointed breasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We bounce and rattle over the dusty tumbleweed-ridden terrain, until we see another concrete channel up ahead, not quite as wide as the Santa Ana River. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They trooped into Minsky’s Burlesque and came out with wide eyes and sheepish grins, though Johnny White confided his personal opinion in his journal: “It was foul.” 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 afternoon, Frightful left the bridge and flew over the town, the river, the mountains, in wider and wider circles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The seventh floor looks like what I’d expect a hospital to look like, with wide white corridors and nurses stations. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He looks at me in the rearview and his eyes go wide. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A couple of guys walked hand in hand to his right, both of them black, wearing wide smiles on their faces. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much more than a meandering dirt lane, one car wide in spots, cutting through the blandness of sagebrush and ducking down to an anemic border river. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert stands at the snack counter in his swim trunks, with his little towel draped over his wide back, and contemplates his selection of ice cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lee looked, saw the ludicrous man in the lustrous hat and the wide gray coat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The muddy trail turned into a wider, even muddier trail, with a scattering of trading stores on either side. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A hole one meter across, three meters wide, and one meter deep. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frog pool was square—fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wide, airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel, so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A wide grin spreads across her face, pushing her cheeks up and out. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Grunting, they pushed us in a wide circle. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked how Mrs. Borkowski threw back her head and opened her mouth wide and whinnied when something was funny. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Moss saw Javier’s eyes go wide, saw that his mouth slightly open. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Without work my schedule was wide open, but I didn’t really have anything to do. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The wide frame made it an awkward size to carry. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The left one is wide open, but the door to the room on the right is almost closed. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Now, he was free to go forth and make a name for himself in the wide, wide world. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes go wide, and she stumbles back. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We made a wide turn and pulled in behind the other wagons that was up against the slope of a hillside. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over it a trickling water dripped, through a wide cleft that seemed to have been carved out by a fall that had once been strong and full. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had a wide mouth, crooked and generous. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dari’s cheeks were flushed with the cold, but he was grinning so wide. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He walks to the window and opens it wider. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There are tall white columns at the front entrance, and the windows are so wide that they might as well be walls. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Adam pointed to the left where a wide flat place was covered with a low growth of sagebrush. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she made him two everyday hats of the coarser, widest braid. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad opened the door wider and he, Mom, and Grandma walked into my room. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

All those layers made her look almost as wide as she was tall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was no mistaking their wide eyes and dilated nostrils. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a wide smile, and she was surprised again, for it was Yishan’s grin on the old man’s face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lydia examined a wide, flat spot and brushed the dirt away. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They wanted to maximize support for the shoulders, so the back of the chair was wider at the top than at the bottom. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

To the north the Rhoyne was a broad black ribbon bright with stars, five times as wide as the Blackwater Rush at King’s Landing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her next lunge to the surface brought her forehead smack against a wide log, floating free in the water. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a while we came to a wide clearing circling a pond. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She saw that his hand had moved and was stroking the wide unadorned section of fabric, the section of the cloth that fell across the Singer’s shoulders. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next time down Pennsville leaves me wide open, and I call time-out. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bianca looked no different, but she took a deep breath and opened her eyes wide. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then she held it, upside down and wide open, over the fruit bowl. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The hulking figure slashed down wide swaths of alfalfa at a relentless pace, both scythes hissing and chiming without pause. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Admit it, Jupiter: your love for me runs as wide and as deep as all the oceans combined.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the next building, under an elegant domed copper roof, a ten-and-a-half-foot marble statue of Jesus stood, arms spread wide, holding court over what was once the main entrance of Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then the world had turned upside down: I had entered a university, where I’d wandered into an auditorium and listened, eyes wide, mind buzzing, to lectures on American history. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was as long as Nali’s mobile home and twice as wide. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I avoid the conference table and perch in the wide windowsill that has a view of the mountain in question. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, it remains an open question how wide and lasting the effects of idiosyncratic individuals on history really are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was my job to keep her there, usually, with one eye always on the lookout for her to fall out of a tree and crack her head wide open. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giddy with enthusiasm, Werfel rushed forward, his arms spread wide. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And across the wide silence of the bay came the sound of their engines, tiny but clear, an insistent mosquito whine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years this cooperative approach had been met with wide, if not universal, acceptance, but it wasn’t always so. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the firehouse on Grinnell Street, Fire Station No. 3, the doors were wide open. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed on the verge of making some joking remark, but when he saw me his eyes got wide and his mouth fell open into a small round o. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The hobbits led the way; and they passed under the arch and came to a wide door upon the left, at the top of a stair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Also, his ties were too wide, and they were all painted with strange and lonely pictures of deserted beaches, haunted-looking forests, or UFOs. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps eight feet wide and eight feet high, and would have been invisible from anywhere else in the Pipeworks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I turned the comer, I noticed two large white boys sprawled on the front steps of a house across the wide boulevard. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone at the table is leaning in, our lips open, our eyes wide. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They walked a short way with nothing to see but the hedgerows, the wide blue sky overhead and the swishing, frock-coated figure ahead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Up on the wall, somebody yelled, “Open wide, losers!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Half the stores on the wide street seemed to be pawnshops and check-cashing agencies, and the other half were shuttered. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

August stares after them, his mouth open wide. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

On my way out, I glanced up at the wide windows of Mr. Katz’s office, which overlooked the processing floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The library windows were open wide, and when we did not talk or touch one another we looked at the dark dull sky. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Garrett’s rind is still on his plate like a wide green grin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Winterfell was encircled by two massive granite walls, with a wide moat between them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Were setting down in that park,” Leo announced, pointing to a wide green space dotted with palm trees. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He'd call me Fat Face, blow out his cheeks, and do a little dance making fun of the parts of me that tend wide. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A smear of light mud shaped like a handprint had dried on the side of the black leather, stopping where the wide splash of blue paint covered the top. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She makes a very wide shadow on the frosted glass. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved to look at his wide, long, sinewy back with its bronzed, unblemished skin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the devil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m aware of tile changing to concrete, of crawling through a tight, stinking pipe onto a ledge about a foot wide. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But Meggie lay with her eyes wide open, listening to the sounds outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Without a second thought, Stella ripped it into wide strips, which she wrapped loosely round and round her mother’s leg. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Rowan-trees grew about it, and in the midst was a wide flat stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Nuts!" cries the fearless leader, his eyes as wide as a flying saucer. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He is a couple of inches shorter than I am and somewhat wider. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

Alfhercht paced out a long, wide area, and dug his fingers into the soil at four points. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The granite walls of my windowless cell are a foot thick, the iron bars two inches wide. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I almost run down the hall, the stairs are like skiing, the front door is wide, today I can go through it, and the Guardian stands there, saluting. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes wide, Mrs. B lurched forward, her messy bun falling over to one side. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

"No," she says, her eyes wide but her voice calm. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It must have gone wide, because it never hit the car, not that I could tell. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was an enormous bubble around his head, which made his features look oddly wide and stretched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sat in a slotted swing on his porch, rocking in his brown three-piece, his wide Panama nodding in time with the whir of insects. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wide mouth began to open and close, and out rumbled a series of gravelly roars, some long, some short, none of them bearing much resemblance to music. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Even so, city life was comfortable and pleasant, thanks to the wide streets, parks, gardens, and extensive system of canals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The tidings had gone far and wide that Gandalf was missing and the horsemen had been seen. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Aspirant Aquilla—” Her eye is wide, and I know then that I didn’t dream the Aspirant’s presence—or the fact that she healed me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His eyes are wide with panic, but he says, "I will do my very best." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Behind her glasses, Fina’s eyes grow wider and wider the longer I speak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He headed down a wide road away from the river, and I trotted after. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was flushed and sweating, his eyes wide and darting back and forth as if he expected a monster to leap from the shadows at any moment. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I lie down on my back, stretch out my arms as wide as I can, and whisper, “Help.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I look at the girl, her eyes wide with fear. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She pushed him away from her, pushed hard against that steely arm, and her eyes were wide. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In Welch, the Pentecostal neighbors provided for her, and now in New York, with her long blond hair and wide blue eyes, she found various men who were willing to help out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Henry fumbles with his shirt tail, eyes wide, and starts humming “God Save the Queen” under his breath. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Wise Masters had established their slave pens and auction block just south of the Skahazadhan, where the wide brown river flowed into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The zoo is close to the edge of the park, so within moments we're back out on a wide avenue. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He swam deeper and deeper, out toward the middle of the lake, his eyes wide, staring through the eerily gray-lit water around him to the shadows beyond, where the water became opaque. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Thomas realized his own mouth had dropped wide open. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ged lay sprawled on his back, his arms flung out as if they yet kept the wide gesture of welcome and invocation. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them stretched a chasm so wide, Hazel couldn’t see the other side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I push the door open wider and take a single step over the threshold. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Its spiny wings were huge compared to its skinny jet body, it had a long snout with wide nostrils, the stubs of horns and bulging, orange eyes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Nhamo’s eyes grew wider and wider as she took in the unbelievable scene. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were taken outside, downstairs, and into one of the wide grassy areas at the back of the school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The lapels on his velvet jacket were as wide as landing strips. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the fifth vertical from the mountain shore, he eased onto the wide horizontal girder and lay down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon had become a lemur, and was gazing at him with disconcerting wide eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next second, the sink began to move; the sink, in fact, sank, right out of sight, leaving a large pipe exposed, a pipe wide enough for a man to slide into. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“He thinks he’s so scared he almost fainted in front of all those people,” Shorty said with a wide grin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something better than “crawl through a slot that’s barely wide enough for your wrist.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And all about, stone, cracked and splintered into countless jagged shards, was scattered far and wide, or piled in ruinous heaps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

About it the ground was busy with folk going to and fro; a wide road ran from it south-east to join the Morgul-way, and along it many lines of small black shapes were hurrying. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It had left a trail of destruction wider than a tunnel excavator. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The same figure, his arms wide, still wearing the box, but this time it was cracked open. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“This walk is not wide enough for our party. We had better go into the avenue.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I scream after him, feeling a sharp pain, knowing my cut’s ripping wider. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Beneath a tangle of dark brown hair his face was almost feral, with a wide mouth, sharp nose, and pointed chin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He has curly blond hair and a familiar nose, wide at the tip and narrow at the bridge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His tongue was stuck to the top of his mouth, the tip half out, his eyes were wide and his hands were reaching for a berry. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wide open, free of pebbles or fallen branches or even the thick padding of last year’s leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood there by the mantelpiece, his eyes wide and staring, looking in front of him, not seeing anything. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But these were wide, flat, and shallow, like baking pans for enormous pies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was talking all this time, but my mind was on the wide, endless roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Vaguely I wonder what he sees in my window—strange girl in white with wide staring eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was tall and his chest was wide; at one time he had been heavier, but old age was consuming everything but the bones. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s funny because—” Her big hazel eyes get even wider than normal. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

At the bottom, upon a low pedestal carved like a branching tree, stood a basin of silver, wide and shallow, and beside it stood a silver ewer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My eyes are so wide, they forget how to blink. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was wide awake when she heard the shouting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It slammed into the side of Sigurd’s head, exploding and raining water in a wide arc. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It stood, in profile, wide open, in all its black, Steinway enormity, opposite the couch, its bench almost directly across from Franny. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was lit by deep windows in the wide aisles at either side, beyond the rows of tall pillars that upheld the roof. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bigger was staring straight before him, his eyes wide and shining. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She hitched the blue silk dress higher on her wide hips and held the edges of the fabric in both hands as she arched her back and tossed her head. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no Belle—” I looked up then, eyes wide. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Waiting for someone to bust his window wide open. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The world was wide open—and hers for the taking. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He came like a pig to the trough if a pig had a mouth so wide that you could put your head in it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded narrow corners and passages wide enough to allow them through. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For half a moon, they rode through the Forest of Qohor, where the leaves made a golden canopy high above them, and the trunks of the trees were as wide as city gates. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cliffs here fell away easily to a wide shelf that was partly covered when the tide came in. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the wire screen was a wide area, and Mr. Galanter kept us busy there throwing balls around. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

At some point in the rise of Hush Puppies, the shoes were discovered by Connectors, who broadcast the return of Hush Puppies far and wide. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door next to the bleachers was wide open. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It is a wide cement building that overlooks what was once the river. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My gaze remained fixed on someone who, eyes wide open, stared into space. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the end of the seventeenth century, through sermons and lectures, through popular textbooks and dramatic dialogues, the new science was disseminated to a wider audience than ever before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the second story of the Exchange, she hoisted herself onto a window ledge just wide enough to perch on. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was enough to burst a man’s heart wide open. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The way it works is, you shove cotton into the seam between the plank and the keel with a caulking iron, which is like a dull chisel with a wide blade. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And he told me about the odd feeling of being a minority, not because you were African-American but because you were an American in the wider world. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At first I didn’t understand why she was looking at me like that—with wide eyes, rimmed with a raw pink. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We sat behind a wide desk on a raised platform and surveyed the expansive, cafeterialike space. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a wide circle around the house, afraid now of the front windows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wide lapels of her blue, A-line dress smelled of lavender. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb detonated moments later, killing more than 70,000 Japanese people in the explosion and the resulting firestorms, which obliterated an area nearly five miles wide. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

‘Good morning, merry friends!’ cried Tom, opening the eastern window wide. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So it’s back downstairs, to the market and back again, her wide behind swinging in my face all the way up the stairs with me dragging a heavy cart step by step. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It looks like a gaping wide dragon’s mouth. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was going to have to spend many days on a great boat out on the wide waters of the Pacific Ocean. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack, with a piece of chalk, drew five oblongs on the floor, each seven feet long and four feet wide, and in each square he wrote a name. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize Abby’s car—or Abby’s mom’s car, I guess, but today, the driver is a boy with the most gorgeous cheekbones I’ve ever seen—wide eyes, brown skin, maybe early twenties. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

A Chicago landmark, the building drew readers from far and wide. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was rolling down a mighty corridor, a kilometer wide, full of glorious, golden light, roaring with laughter and shouting out confessions at the top of his voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Hand in hand, we walked up the wide front steps, and my grandfather opened the door for me, bowing me through. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The next morning, out on the lake, Stanley listened as Mr. Sir told Twitch the requirements for his hole: ". . .as wide and as deep as your shovel." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It is wide and high enough for me to walk in upright. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above there seemed to be another hallway, going the width of the house; she could see a wide landing and then, across the staircase well, doors closed along the upper hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The horned toad looked at Nathan, its eyes wide and its mouth open in shock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The old man saw the brown fins coming along the wide trail the fish must make in the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try and sit up, but some sort of wide restraining band around my waist keeps me from rising more than a few inches. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She smiled wide, still rolled her eyes just a little, and wiggled her fingers in the air. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, Tally had eight hoverboards connected side-to-side, twice as wide as she was tall, no thicker than a stiff sheet of paper. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once you were inside the curtain wall, you found yourself in a kind of wide alleyway, probably full of frightened sheep, with another complete castle in front of you. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cutting straight across the meadow was a secret tiny river no wider than the length of my arm. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And then she looked at him, her mouth open, her eyes open wide, too. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s pretty cool,” I say, smiling a little too wide. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

He struck on the piano one last, wild note, and threw up his hands, palms upward, stretched wide apart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his mouth opened wide and then closed again. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the lawn, Bunny had finally made his shot; the ball went wide of the sixth and seventh arches but, incredibly, hit the turning stake. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton looked round the entire kitchen, not at anything in particular, but just round the entire stretch of four walls, his eyes wide and unseeing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the dentist seemed more conscientious: he asked me to open my mouth wide. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opens the door wide, and we both go in. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A man with wide eyes and unsteady breath approaches me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But it’s Sunday, and we can tell from the tall and wide windows that the lights are off and it’s closed. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe we’d never seen each other; the marsh was big and wide, but it seemed so unfair that we’d never met before. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All were nearly four feet high and just over seven feet wide. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A wave as tall and wide as a stadium rolled toward us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wide, round face, and the other kids teased him that he looked like those grilled rice balls on sticks that old ladies sold from their boats. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

However, she held the door open wide enough for him to enter. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The big door finally popped open, and with a deafening squeal of metal against metal, the boys swung it wide. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he’s just nine, he’s got a special wheelchair that’s extra wide, and it takes two aides to lift him in and out of it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Walls of evergreen trees fall and rise, breaking open to reveal wide meadows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Jefferson's inspirations were wide and varied," said Grant wearily. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When it feels like no air can ever pass through our mouths even though they are wide open from laughing, the Blob finally lets us go. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He pushes a wide broom to clean the floor. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As soon as the falls start falling, the valley opens up, wide as the sky itself, taking the river that starts again at the base of the falls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had lots of curly gray hair and a big wide nose, and he was very friendly. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The old man opened his eyes wide at us and turned in a circle, surrounded. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He perches close, watching her with wide eyes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The cleaning woman shut the door and opened the window wide. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were too wide and his arms too long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

OP Vernon had a big smile, and his eyes were wide open like he expected something great to happen at any moment. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He took his rain poncho and folded it over and over again until it was only about eight inches wide and a foot long. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sliding door was wide open, giving me a perfect view of where Chubs and Liam stood in front of a small fire, which was ringed by a series of mismatched stones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was a hole in the cobblestone street about a yard wide and twenty feet long. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s first rays flung wide the gates of dawn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her wide smile, her hair in a braid over her shoulder, her bare arms, and the way she's leaning into him. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I take a giant bite of s’more, peeking up at him with my widest, most innocent eyes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The wide passages made our house feel like a hotel, as did the impersonal smell of doors kept locked most of the year, of unused bathrooms and kitchens and toilets, of uninhabited rooms. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s eyes were watching him, wide with anguish. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge of her immediate surroundings than most of her modern descendants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shows me a wide range of photos of rooms ranging from fancy to simple, elaborate to plain, ugly to beautiful. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the car, waiting for them to push him in, his eyes wide with astonishment, his impulses deadlocked, trying to remember something. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You named this duck? Biddy, I swear they gonna lock you in a loony bin. Biddy kept on a-chattering. “You the prettiest baby duck in the whole wide world. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the mirrors his fiery eyes were wide open, and his mouth was moving as if he was shouting at them to leave and beware, and then he faded and was lost to them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her wide eyes were traveling around the boarded windows. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Water makes an ideal solvent system for organic chemistry to work in and stays liquid over a wide range of temperatures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa finally finished the greetings, and, with the wide churchyard now mosdy emptied of the cars that had cluttered it like teeth in a mouth, we headed to our car. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was about eight feet long, five and a half feet wide, and floated well out of the water, and had not taken him more than two hours to build. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I do, my eyes open so wide, I’m surprised they don’t pop! out of my face and roll across the floor. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He wanted to reach a wide range of people. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And then he threw his small body against the swamp monster’s great, damp back and flung his arms wide in an attempt at a hug. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Exhaustion and grief inched heavily into every fiber of my body, yet I was wide awake. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Although studies are still under way to determine the exact cause of this epidemic over so wide an area, the best evidence is said to point to some agent present in the prepared hatchery feeds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Everything was covered in a thick layer of dust except the floor, where a wide shiny stripe had been made by something being dragged upstairs. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A hand appeared through the curtains and forcefully swept one aside so that it rolled a bit, making a wide opening. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Yes, and I'd let them swallow me until they vomited or burst wide open. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needles smiled so wide, you could see all of his teeth. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Also a scoop- neck short-sleeved black jersey top that shows off her breasts, a full cotton skirt of a dull blue-green with abstract black swirls and squares on it, a wide black belt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes got wide and he swallowed his mouthful. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I peek out at Sekani, whose eyes and mouth are open wide. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Once we were able to stop, he looked at me with wide eyes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was the king of his wide and spacious life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Urvashi and Hanuman were perched at the edge of their thrones, their eyes wide. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mom had the widest, funniest grin on her face. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was a catboat, twenty feet long and almost as wide. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d be a sort of extra-concentrated ghost,” said Ron, chortling, as they passed the Bloody Baron going in the opposite direction, his wide eyes staring sinisterly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Its branches reached high and stretched wide, and under it sat a little girl who resembled both Charlie and Zooey, staring at the stars overhead, a secret smile on her face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Delsa took one look at her, then at Mami, and her black eyes opened round and wide like those on a doll baby. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then that same cow took and stepped in her mouth when she was a baby and left it wide and flat with her chin and nose almost meeting. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There they went down a long cool stair into a wide alley lit with lamps. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They stole to the gates and threw them wide, and into the sleeping town marched the Greek Army. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took Wednesday’s forty-five dollars and insisted on writing him out a receipt for it in wide, looping handwriting, on the back of an expired soft-drink coupon. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Soon’s he heard my voice, the man’s eyes got wide and his nose flared. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

From far and wide people came to admire the wonder, and always wreaths of flowers hung on the branches in honor of the pious and faithful pair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clutch my laptop and stare at those wide double doors. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hands cupped in front of their faces, heads bowed, murmuring a prayer: “Merciful God, forgive him his trespasses. Make wide his grave and light his path. Raise him unto the highest heavens.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He stood up against the railing and opened his ears wide. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Girl, you in trouble now,” Char says to me, her eyes wide. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I just stand across the wide oak table from her, my hands on the back of a chair. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wide treeless space before them, running in a great circle and bending away on either hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dark hair remaining ran in a wide strip down the top of his head, and he had braided it down to the top of his neck. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was known far and wide for hosting huge parties and fancy banquets. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She looked us over carefully, then opened the door wide and beckoned us in. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Oh, not long,” she said, giving Jilly a wide pageant smile. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I imagine my uncle doing his smooth dance steps down the wide road, smiling as the music plays loud. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I force myself to keep my octopus eye pressed against the hole, wide and unblinking. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, we decided it was getting late, and we started down the wide marble staircase. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everything's closed now, and the tourists who flood the wide sidewalks during the day have gone back to their hotels, towering fifty stories above us. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes flew open wide, then she slammed the door shut and ran away. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is tucked beneath a colorful satin scarf, and her wide gold hoop earrings almost touch her shoulders. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Frequent changes of shape in a child’s dæmon, and a wide variety of forms to assume, were a good indicator of intelligence and curiosity. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The window’s wide open and the wind cuts through me just as if I were outside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A white couple pushing a stroller gave Moss a wide berth, and he had to laugh at them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A liver damaged by pesticides is not only incapable of protecting us from poisons, the whole wide range of its activities may be interfered with. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was enormous, wrapping its serpentine body around the outer wall of a cavern, wings spread wide across the ceiling. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Below the Wheel Tower, they made a wide turn and knifed through the churning water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He froze in place, eyes wide, jaw slightly ajar. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For the last 33 years my fieldwork as an evolutionary biologist has brought me into close contact with a wide range of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was slow moving—the water was about two or three feet deep and some twelve yards wide. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was four times as wide as the other fliers and shrieked at the runts in the pterodactyl pack. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He spread his arms wide and rotated in a circle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His visor had been removed from, his helm, to better show his dour face; pouchy bags under his eyes, a wide sour mouth, rusty hair spotted with grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s eyes open wide, and her mouth stretches into an O as she figures out what I’m hinting at. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I remembered his wide smile when he teased me in the ration line. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Signs and figures were carved above its wide arch too dim to read, and fear flowed from it like a grey vapour. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bloody Miles stood at the end of the bed, blue eyes wide and piercing, blood oozing from his freckles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The hall was the grandest space she had ever been in—higher roofed than any church, wider than most fields, filled with hundreds of diners at scores of long tables. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I advanced through my bracket, eliminating some heavy hitters on the world circuit, including my teammate Dagmara, by a wide margin. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I lie in my bed, wide awake, listening to the faint sound of drums coming from Madrina’s basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I hope you brought your fresh minds and open hearts this afternoon,” Ms. Hawkins says, smiling wide. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And waving her hand, she ran away across the wide flat roof towards the hangars. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack Dandy’s smile grew wider and chillier and even more perfect. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“They are coming this way, the children of the night, traveling forth from the ancient world, coming from far and wide to avenge their mother.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Edward slapped wide the snowy linens and flounced the pillows. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burnt district was over four miles long and one mile wide; 17,500 buildings and 73 miles of street had been destroyed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dome was wide and shallow, all silver filigree and glass. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She had a square, honest face, a short, broad nose with large black nostrils, and her mouth was wide as a gash in her face. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Hang on, I think, my eyes opening wide. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The four hobbits stepped over the wide stone threshold, and stood still, blinking. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And there in all his glory was Petey, or Belle, stretched wide on his twig, enormous wings filling his jar. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The idea is you have the valve open and stick the wide end over a hole. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s cropped Nora out so it’s just the two of them, Henry sporting a wide, teasing grin under his sunglasses and June planting a kiss on his cheek. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

According to law, the trashman had to dump his baskets outside the city limits, where the river made a wide bend. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He showed Richard the wide rectangular ditches where the excavations had taken place, the shovels and pans that had been used to brush the dust off the bronzes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed to his face, patted it, and grinned a wide, toothless grin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His hair, still the color of afternoon sunlight on ripe wheat, fell to his shoulders, revealing a high and wide brow over his frank brown eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were open wide; she felt once again as if she had never been so alert, so here. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was staring at Adiah as she thrashed, eyes wide, but he didn’t move. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Without the people passing back and forth, the streets seemed wider and darker. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an empty hallway, wide enough for a grown man to lie across with his arms stretched up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The last word came as a hiss and a snarl and the golden doors of the locket swung wide with a little click. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He spread his legs a little wider and pressed his feet down firmly, because he feared that if he didn’t he might find himself reeling, colliding with her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when he finally was successful in getting his head in front of the door opening, it became clear that his body was too wide to go through any further. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky stretched wide and blue, and laun­dry drying on clotheslines glimmered in the sun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the sword up, twisting it in a wide arc, and said, “None of your heroes are here to save you now. You’ll die at the end of my sword this time.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was reading the story with wide eyes, gulping the words down. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The pastor’s eyes go wide with terror and I shrug. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was a rocky sandbar a mile wide at its widest and a little longer than that, fringed all about with shoals and rocks. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

What stopped her was an image — naughty Mona, nosy Callie, padding sleepily to the doorway, only to be jarred wide awake. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Corcoran began to pick at the house plants and I, ears burning, was staring at my lap when a door slammed and two young men sauntered into the wide, high-raftered hall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The driver's eyes went wide, and he put his hand over his nose and mouth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

I was seconds behind her, muscles pumping, face smiling, watching her break free and throw arms forward and back in wide strides. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It was narrow—the first floor of the house was only as wide as two windows and a door. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She comes toward me with her gloved hand outstretched, her mouth open and trembling, her eyes wide. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He's as tall as me, only wider everywhere, and for some reason, maybe because we're not far from Freak's house, I'm thinking this weird thought: He doesn't need a suit of armor. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then we reached the crest of the ridge, and there, across a wide river, was a huge island jammed tip to tip with skyscrapers, their glass glowing like fire in the setting sun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he kept out of sight behind the inkwell as he watched her open her mail box, which was about a quarter of an inch wide, and pull out her letters. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She looked at her friends’ faces, all wide eyes and mouths hanging open. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Thus, when someone got killed, as Curt Lemon did, his body was not really a body, but rather one small bit of waste in the midst of a much wider wastage. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our smiles are wide, our chins square, and our tennis serves aggressive. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Now he emerged into a sort of wide circular chamber, formed by the meeting of six different tunnels, all coming together in a star shape. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She was slim in the hips, with a wide mouth and gray eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The two big doors that opened to the outside were standing wide open, and every now and then, I could hear beats booming from the DJ setting up out there. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I made sure to check before I rounded any corners, and turned real wide along the sidewalks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once he pushed back his hood, I saw that he had a smooth brown face, dimples that threatened to pull out a wide smile, and tight curly hair so black it shone. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She was about as wide open as a fist. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A wide valley is opening up around us, flat at the bottom where the river is but distant hills beginning to climb up on either side. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a wide expanse of rock that sloped back into the darkness on one side of the pool. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, it’s just wide enough to fit a rope pallet and a crate that serves as a side table. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth wide and vomit spewed forth in an arc that started at Jeff’s shoes and splattered all the way up to his face. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Until he galloped out from the woods and saw ahead of him a wide river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eye opened his lids wide and scanned the hills and hollows. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the cup, it seemed that far down in the gleaming shadows I could see two wide blue eyes glued to a windowpane. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sticks out of the ground three feet tall by four feet wide. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have the widest backs. They measure them. How do you feel, Tenente?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sammy looks at the team, and his eyes go wide: “I think I’m going to Tweet that later on.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The palace was as big as the city on Mount Olympus, with wide courtyards, gardens, and columned pavilions. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The gap was as wide as her little finger on the inside, but it narrowed to a hairline outside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It maddened him to think that he did not have a wider choice of action. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To make it much wider, they would first have to move some of the surrounding dirt piles out of the way. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Anya struggled to her cold feet, eyes wide as smoke began to seep through the floorboards into the cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A bench, or shelf, just wide enough to sit on ran round the wall, broken only by the door and, at the end opposite the door, a lavatory pan with no wooden seat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The field guide!” he said with wide eyes, like a strawberry-shaped, wobbly goldfish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

On either side and in front wide fens and mires now lay, stretching away southward and eastward into the dim half-light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As soon as she thought a safe distance had opened up, Briony swung out boldly from the house in a wide arc that took her toward the stable, block and the swimming pool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Running wide around turns offers the best chance of clear sailing but exacts a high price in extra distance the horse has to cover. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were wide, and there was a terrible bruise on the side of her face from where she had fallen. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make a wide circle around the dead cat. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Joon goes over the line again, making the black outline wider in that one spot. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I loved the way her eyes grew wide with shock and the way her voice went all high-pitched with excitement as she asked me a bunch more questions about my charred arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His legs were sprawled wide in helpless relaxation and one of the buttons was missing from his grease-caked pants opening. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I filled the basket, the Aleut ship had sailed around the wide kelp bed that encloses our island and be tween our two rocks that guard Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gripped the tree tightly in his jaws and looked up at Roz with wide, frightened eyes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The speech received wide publicity in both the local and foreign press, and was printed, virtually word for word, in the Rand Daily Mail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or rather she doesn’t look the way she did when I last saw her, in her wide cotton skirt and barbaric bracelet, elegant and confident. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So I clutched my throat with both hands and stared at him with wide eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The mouths on the masks were wide open, as if in the midst of a scream. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a thin stream getting wider and wider. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The least sideways glance, the merest toe stub, could pitch them into those creamy haunches spread wide with welcome. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wide, genuine smile that made his face look like a little boy’s. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The supplies were stacked on large wooden pallets and stood as tall and wide as four homes in Kaunas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He wore the wide- brimmed hat of a Quaker, and she thought perhaps he is really a friend, and yet one could never be sure. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the muddy tracks that passed for roads in the Seven Kingdoms, the Valyrian roads were wide enough for three wagons to pass abreast, and neither time nor traffic marred them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was a large person, as tall as Nick’s dad, with wide shoulders. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was led back along a passage, past more works of art, up a staircase, and then along a wide corridor with thick wood-paneled doors and chandeliers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I see a woman's bare legs spread wide with a man between them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I am awake, my eyes wide open, my hands warm. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Between bench and gunnel there was twelve inches, and the side benches were only one and a half feet wide. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She extends her wide, cool hands over the table. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A creative action shot, it showed a skydiver falling backward into a wide expanse of crystalline sky. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Turn around,” she instructs, and when I do, she loops the sash around my waist and ties it in the back with a wide bow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jake scowled and pressed his knuckles to his soft, wide, trembling mouth. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We pad up a wide stone staircase without rails. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a while now she had been dreaming of deserts, of cactus and wide, red skies. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He leaps in the air, his arms thrown wide, his mouth wide open, yelling; he staggers, in his back the bayonet quivers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stalls opened wider and the toilets wider and darker. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung his right arm wide and Mr. Blake was laughing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candice opened the door a little wider to let him in. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tunnel behind her had already narrowed to just a few feet wide; soon it would be closed completely, and we’d be sealed in. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The symposium featured a full-scale reproduction, fifteen feet wide and thirty-four feet long, complete with actual artifacts and bones, of a particularly profitable section of Howard's excavation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They flew straight for Regalia now, down wide, open caverns. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A big fishy mammal with a wide grin. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep that hole wide enough for the tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The River Kwilu is not like the River Jordan, chilly and wide. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Binks smiled wide, flashing the whitest teeth Genie had ever seen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Out of the window were wide fields with wonderful rail fences just like in the pictures of Lincoln splitting rails. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Holding a plate in midair, she looked at me kindly, smiling that big wide smile as if this was no bigger problem than getting the stove hot enough to fry the croquettes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was so wide awake he felt someone must have called his name. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found a spot near the navigator’s panel that was just wide enough to allow my body to stretch out, with my arms over my head touching one wall and my feet another. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie is loud, a full orchestra playing while Anna and the king of Siam twirl around and around a wide, shiny floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moody watched, half hidden by a tree, as she picked her way around to the Rabbit, which sat in the driveway with its doors thrown wide, and extracted the footboard from the backseat. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I look around, taking in Day Street, wide and tree-lined, with a combination of dilapidated Victorians where college students live, warehouses, the occasional business, and the church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Guosim was seated upon the open ground, her eyes wide with fright, teeth chattering madly, her whole body trembling like a leaf. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The only thing in the house that was clean was a mirror of black glass, as high as a tall man, as wide as a church door, which rested against one wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Quick as lightning he thrust the big stake into the Firedrake's jaws, jamming them open even as the creature gaped wide to let loose the first foul gust of flame. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He locked the door and shuttered the wide windows of the inn, as if to distance himself from the stars and all their varied names. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The parameters of the award are wide open. Excellence is the only criterion.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Without answering and before he realized what he was doing, he whirled, his eyes wide with fear and his hand half-raised, as though to ward off a blow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah grabbed her long black raincoat, opened it wide, and raised it above her like an umbrella, nodding for me to come under with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually I came to rest on a stone bench in a wide courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends—daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross-legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They pressed up against her, their red and yellow mouths wide open, their wings fluttering. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Who could possibly trick me?” the second voice said, all wide eyes and breathless wonder. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Where the pass grew wider he stopped, as if he had found what he was looking for beside the trail. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Again and again he declared, “We seek no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t worry if I were you,” Rick said as the two Rosens led him down a highly illuminated wide corridor. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their wide leaves trembled delicately as they lay one on top of the other. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The night before September i, when my brothers began school, Mother bathed us all in a wide tin tub the way she did once every week. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They barely cry, staying awake and alert, with matching pairs of wide blue eyes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The ends of the row moved in a little, so she stood in the center of their wide half-circle. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When her eyes opened wide, everything went back to normal. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Rondell opened his eyes a little wider and told me: “I just figured out alls I want out of anything, Mexico.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was an eerie smile on his face as if he were mocking her, his black eyes wide and staring. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If Clovis was not first, the archaeology of the Americas is wide open, a prospect variously feared and welcomed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I put my arms out wide, just to feel the pretty. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Prince Brat's mouth fell wide open at the whipping boy's nervy mischief. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet outside his window, the wide world still called. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the hole grew wider, parts of the surface kept caving in. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dorian made a wide sweep of his sword, and Chaol took up the defensive. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already open very wide without him yet being really visible. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a wider brush she splashed blue across the pond, making it sparkle like the one on the back of Father’s rickshaw. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was late May, and when Tayo went to the outhouse he left the door open wide, facing the dry empty hills and the light blue sky. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

His brown eyes were wet-looking and wide open with a dazed expression. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A young fellow, skinny with wide eyes and a scared look on his face looking up at the store sign. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone gave his corner a wide berth except to feed and water him and change his paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was about as black as a human being could get and as thick as he was wide. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Will didn’t seem to understand, but suddenly his eyes went wide. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, we reached a wide square where the carnival was in full, rollicking swing, packed with masses of people and brightly colored tents and more activity than my eyes could take in at once. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On its back, a grim-looking mustached man in a cowboy hat brandished an old-fashioned blunderbuss, its wide metal mouth extending back over a wooden handle. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her eyes cast wide, holding in their gaze the final remnants of a sky the color of blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They went into the farmer’s kitchen, and sat by the wide fire-place. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dormice were timid gnomes that looked up at her with wide eyes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She nodded, opening her eyes wide though it was too dark to see anything. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still the best grandpa in the whole wide world. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked at each other, our eyes kind of wide. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Their wide khaki shorts were rigid with starch, and bobbed over the tall grass like a row of stiff skirts, quite independent of the limbs that moved inside them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with other human learning potentials, there is a wide range of music aptitude levels distributed among the human population. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Abel opened the sea doors wide and a gray light flooded in. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My smile stretches wide enough to show teeth, and when they laugh, I laugh. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We were in a wide, deep valley, surrounded by forested hills. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The material they had isolated would be the most important biological isotope of all, and the key to a wide range of research requiring precise biological tracing and dating. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At the same time the palisade was also intended to welcome the citizenry—anyone could freely pass through its dozen or so wide gates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had actually wanted to say something more, to express a wider gratitude for the meal we were about to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I see him between second and third period when I walk past his locker; his hair looks unwashed and his eyes are wide. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

With my eyes open wide, I put my arms up to shield against another assault. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cracks open her notebook just wide enough so that she can read and I can't. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was almost a perfect cube, 2 meters long by 2 meters wide by 2 meters high. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Both tossed and turned for hours, and whenever little Willy looked over to see if Searchlight was asleep, she’d just be lying there with her eyes wide open, staring back at him. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A monstrous wall of filthy water is pouring down the wide steps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Half the fleet was spread out before him, running hard for the fishing grounds at dusk and throwing wide silver wakes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She sat looking down at her folded hands, reluctant to lift her eyes to the young man who sat on the bench across the wide hearth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But Hood’s eyes, normally so soft and sad, were wide and black as round coals, shining with a black heat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as they plodded along the dirt road past wide stumpy fields, her last hopes died. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s wide and also high: it goes up several stories to a skylight at the top. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a navigator knows his coordinates—the degree of latitude and degree of longitude he is at—he knows where on the wide, blank ocean he is. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

And as the sky grew brighter, his mouth began to open wide—in horror or delight, I could not tell. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been hard to persuade Jumpsteady to work in the daytime if a millionaire had gone out for lunch and left his front door wide open. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was looking past me, her eyes wide in disbelief. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Graça Machel ushered us through a courtyard shaded by trees and into the house, where in a wide, sunlit room her husband sat in an armchair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Its square base stretched maybe fifty feet wide and ten feet tall, with an intact facade of Corinthian columns rising another twenty-five feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Our car had plush leather couches, a dining table, and wide picture windows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were wide, and she leaned forward on the edge of her seat. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Five massive swimming pools—longer than fifty-meter Olympic pools, and wider—were dug so the children would have a place to cool off in the summer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They stood looking and looking, the whole big bunch of them, with round, wide eyes. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Nathan sang the first chorus, the ice block melted into a wide pool. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If she opened her eyes wide and glared at us, it meant “I see you and you must stop what you’re doing immediately.” Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I just stood there with my mouth wide open. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Jay held out a bag of Devil’s Shoestrings, his face still in a wide grin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The nut tree, wide above my head, stretching its cool black limbs to take the sun, sends darkness down my chest. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This changes everything,” says Agent Magnus, his eyes wide and panicked. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the end of it there was a great wide spot, dark on the frozen ground. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turned sideways on the ledge that was no wider than her two feet side by side, she wriggled the pack around so that she could reach in and grasp the gourd. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maurice DuPre is six feet high, six feet wide, and has more fingers and toes than he has points on his IQ. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She then pulls out a small plastic object a little wider than a Post-it note, and she snaps it into the machine. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I must’ve scared him, because his eyes open wide, wide, and he shuts the door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Although our spacious dining room gave way to an even wider living room, I felt suffocated. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They forded the Red Fork late the next day, upstream of Riverrun where the river made a wide loop and the waters grew muddy and shallow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her boots scraped against the cliff wall until suddenly— finally—her toe found a tiny outcropping in the glacier wall, no wider than a hand span. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He leaves me in a wide, windowless corridor crammed with people sitting on metallic folding chairs set along the walls, others on the thin frayed carpet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We may need to cut our way through them, she thought, as the south gate swung wide before them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To lend him support, Grandma stood beside him, her feet planted wide. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He and Werfel fumbled with the man’s wide belt. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

If the pan is too wide then the batter gets too thin and the cornbread can burn. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it crept out wide and gently swung back in. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were shining and without the eyelashes they were pretty, wide and blue. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spreads his hand wide over the table, as if inviting me to just dive in. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at the very moment I fall back for good he glimpses who I am, and I see him crouch down, like a broken child, shielding from me his wide immigrant face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy, Levi’s son, blinks hard, and then opens his eyes very wide, like he’s peering into another world. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Its main building was red brick with white columns, its porch decorated with wide chairs and chandeliers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A charro hat, big and wide, glistening with gold and silver braid. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes were very wide and he had a beautiful soft mouth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Long tusks curved down from a wide, lipless mouth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The smooth glass as wide as George and Emmett’s table, wider, maybe, and tall too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I turn and look up, and the wide white face says in red letters, I was here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The well itself was twice as wide as Anya’s shoulders and shallow, reaching only about a foot before it hit the fresh, clear water of the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was around noon when the wagon turned onto a new road, this one wide as a river and paved with cobbles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It had a wide terrace overlooking the goblin city. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The streets seemed wider on this side of town. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were looking down a broken, rugged slope toward a cluster of wooden buildings beside a wide stretch of snow as flat as could be, which Lyra took to be the frozen lake. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I would blow him wide open. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he wanted to touch the whole landscape in front of him, because it was too wide to take in through his eyes alone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding like crazy and I was out of breath as I climbed the wide front steps and stood on his porch, knocking on the door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She ducked behind a particularly wide one, and slowly peeked around to see who else was in the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Out back there was a swing with a seat wide enough for him and his father and Thula to ride three at a time on warm summer nights. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

The pull suddenly lessened and I was sure that he was gone, but the next instant I saw the string cutting the water in a wide circle. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was still a new course record by a wide margin, and Tom Bolles remained undefeated on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The distance between himself and Calvin’s lamp was getting wider and wider. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat looks no more than fifteen feet in length and perhaps five feet wide. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her hands on her wide belly and smiled. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ten days from the Cape, Billy came to Nat with wide eyes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, with game like this that’s where me and JB are headed.The new girl comes up to me after the game, her smile ocean wide my mouth wide shut. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He felt humbled by the size of the full moon, by the chill wind that swept wide across the foothills of the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then, suddenly, the great, wide net of a fisherman reached out and grabbed the rabbit. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Anyway, some couples were so abandoned—flinging high and wide, improvising steps and movements—that you couldn’t believe it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their house looks like a smaller version of the White House in Washington, D.C., without so many pillars in front and not nearly so tall and wide. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bookcase was half open, and behind it was an even steeper set of stairs, only wide enough for one person. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Once we had that basic interoperable platform, then the killer applications— spreadsheets and word processing—drove its diffusion far and wide. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Commons lawn stretched out wide and desolate like some Napoleonic battlefield: churned, sordid, roiled with footprints. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I watched as he picked up speed and ran toward his mother, who saw him and opened wide her arms. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just asking that you try. That school was an opportunity for you to see that there’s a big, wide world outside this neighborhood. A chance to broaden your horizons.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Instead I headed south a bit to where a few docks, a seedy inn, and a handful of houses perched on the bank of the wide Omethi River. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Javier shouted a greeting, and Moss couldn’t help the wide smile that grew on his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“At your age, you already have a wide reputation. I have a journalist friend who has stayed in this house. He told me you are the only person who would take me to the yard.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Now and then she waved, even though the streets, as wide and as straight as the airstrip in Chungking, were empty. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Too late, the girl looked up just as the snake opened wide and swallowed her down in a giant gulp. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He stared at Kiyo, his eyes wide with both outrage and admiration that his son had the courage to do this. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed the channel as it got wider and wider, cutting a little more deeply into the earth, and the water deeper, first splashing up around his ankles, then his knees. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The beam was strong and cut a wide swath of light through the blackness. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the moment the lights in my hab-unit went out, I felt energized and wide awake. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tamika leaned in with eyes as wide as the fake flower behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

At one side the boards had separated and there was a wide space he could jump through. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my arms stretched wide to feel my way through the hallway, careful not to run into the logs, I stumbled back to my mattress refuge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Dylan spins around to face me, eyes wide. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

People crowded around me, trying to pat the baby who had caused all this excitement—although he was no beauty, with puckered face and mouth opened wide to emit shriek after shriek. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Abbot folded his paws within his wide sleeves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he bought a wide and deep carven bed, big enough for a small room in itself, and he bought flowered curtains to hang about it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When he reached the entrance, he spied, with a feeling of good fortune, Colonel Korn trotting up the wide steps alone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We were permitted a fairly wide range of newspapers and magazines, and could receive such previously contraband publications as Time magazine and The Guardian weekly from London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This birthday party is at a nightclub—a plain, short, and wide building. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her wide oval face is cast downward like she’s gazing lovingly over a child, and her wings rise from her back like freedom. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The waitress is a big woman with a wide mouth and a hankie in her hand. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nathan was wide awake and wouldn’t be able to go to sleep for hours. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He looked up quickly, his eyes wide and startled in the dome light. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We must make wider use of alternative methods that are now known, and we must devote our ingenuity and resources to developing others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I resisted the urge to throw my arms out and spin in a wide circle, Sound of Music style. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Bridge’s face looked, yes, undeniably pretty but also slightly stunned: eyes wide, face blank under the automatic smile. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

One of your arms is stretched out wide, and your chin is tilted upward. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Everything in Park Forest was new and wide and uncrowded. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For they were leaving the shoreline now, and their course was taking them out over a wide bay thirty or forty miles across. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlise says while balancing my small laptop in her wide hand as she reads my poem. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her big dark eyes were wide and begging. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lily’s eyes went wide, like something from a cartoon. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He did not know his own face well enough to recognize her mouth and little teeth and wide cheekbones as his own. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We watch through the wide window as Kasim serves coffee behind the counter. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The mattress was so soft that she sank down a few inches, and it was wide enough for three people to sleep without noticing each other. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The figure heaved a long and melancholy sigh, and the portal opened wider. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Griswald, her stringy, gray-streaked hair falling halfway down her back, stood up and tugged a snug blouse over her wide hips. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The actual site of the duel was a narrow ledge, about ten feet wide and forty feet long, located only twenty feet above the water. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The doors to the building are wide open. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Others sat frozen, their eyes and mouths open wide. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear glanced back over his shoulder, a foolishly wide grin on his face. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Aurelia and Marcus, blithely ignorant of what was happening, hurried back to the atrium, to find the former sleepers wide awake and one, at least, in a state close to panic. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He cuts me off and gives me a slow, wide smile. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The shot goes wide, but it gets the girl's attention, and her head snaps down, yellow eyes locked on Bill. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They passed between fluted, white pillars to a porch with wide stairs leading down to a driveway. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the guard into the back, all eyes on me, where I found a man with red kinky hair and a wide nose sitting at a low desk. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mark had ripped a wide strip of cloth from the bottom of his shirt to wrap around his nose and mouth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She forced the doors wide apart, so she would have enough light to see. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cut off the top neatly. Cut strips down into the can the length of your finger. Let each strip be so wide.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It moved at a slant, one side swinging out wide while the other tilted toward the corner of the room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her finger muffled his voice, so she pulled her hand away and sat up to stare at him, his wide chest, his sleep-swollen eyes, to make sure she had heard him properly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taller taller it grows, to fantastic size, till its wide shadow shelters a small corn plot. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The L.L.Bean duffel bags are splayed wide, and Molly’s small collection of books, including Anne of Green Gables, is piled on the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Shoulders seem wider than the four walls caving in around us. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The otogar is a collection of little huts and low buildings on the side of two wide sets of train tracks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then The Mac stops talking and drifts off, staring out your window and you’re left wide awake, thinking of all your broken pieces. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So now he zoomed past Lake Merritt, thankful for the wide and smooth bike lanes, the wind threatening to tear his hat from his head. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sarah Ruth looked first at Edward and then at Bryce and then back at Edward again, her eyes wide and disbelieving. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He sprinkled the soil with red liquid, tossed the can away, and held his arms out wide. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Its triangular, speckled head angled up, jaws wide, stuck mid-hiss just inches from Mr. Reynolds’s toes. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The new house was taller than it was wide, as if it held its breath to squeeze between the neighboring homes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Matt’s eyes opened wide at Tam Lin’s choice of words. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide, as if in shock or fear, his nostrils flared. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If he’d wanted wide open spaces and silence, he would have stayed on the frontier and become the farmer his father had hoped for. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Here was some opening in the rock far wider than any they had yet passed; and out of it came a reek so foul, and a sense of lurking malice so intense, that Frodo reeled. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The pantry door stood wide open, giving the sight and smell of goodies on the shelves, and Black Susan came purring down the stairs from the attic, where she had been taking a nap. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spoon Man, whose real name was Terence Oglethorpe, was a large, almond-brown man, almost as wide as the wagon itself, his belly ballooning over his belt. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The pressure made me more clumsy than usual, but eventually I made it out the door, feeling the same release when I saw him standing there, a wide smile automatically spreading across my face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was fortunate for us, I suppose, that his wide circle of acquaintance included few people whom he saw on a regular basis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Axel opens the black bag, wide like a hungry mouth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The river was wide and pleasant, bordered with trees and edged with a pleasant meadow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally reach a wide patch of solid ground, I nearly kiss the dirt in thankfulness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She opens her mouth wide, growling low in her throat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I always say,” she said, her brown eyes wide. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes never leave me and the wide open part of them is starting to make me uncomfortable. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kiley opens his hands wide, palms up, fingers splayed. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bull swung the door wide and Edward walked inside. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Marriage is one long fit of compromise, deep and wide. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not fast, and not wide—perhaps forty or fifty feet across—the river still seemed to possess force, strength as it ran. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But I have tree!” said Sai Fong, and his face curled up in a smile as wide as a Halloween pumpkin’s. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shawna’s locker was wide open, and she was swearing up a storm. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ray’s pointer nose and wide eyes stay on the sky. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘The Black Riders?’ said Pippin, opening his eyes, and they were wide and dark with an old fear re-awakened. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

These figures are merely for illustration, but accurate estimates may be made for a wide range of dire possibilities. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sack ripped wide open, of course, scattering my belongings, but I made it to the ground with nothing more serious than a grass stain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its side had been laid wide open, and in the white-hot light from the moon, I could see bones and the fetid yellow coils of rotting innards. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We wore black capes fashioned from dyed pillowcases and conical hats with wide cardboard brims. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jordan, a wide man, blocked the gangplank by standing right behind my father. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Watch this,” Two Step said, standing in the middle of the wobbling cart and lifting both his wide arms to the sky. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She sat upright and her eyes grew wide with interest I longed to read her thoughts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This is Elizabeth now, twisting a napkin, eyes wide like she’s staring at a car accident. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The doctors were worried my face would prove a huge problem when I ventured beyond the safe walls of Fortress Hoge and into the big, wide world. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He realizes it’s probably the only time he’s ever invited love into a conversation with Henry on purpose, and it must be lying wide open on his face. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ess gasped, her mouth open wide, but when the buds blossomed into petals of fire, she screamed and clapped her hands, and Jinny couldn’t help laughing with her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.23: There is unfortunately a wide variation in the use of chord symbols. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She wakes with a start, her eyes wide until they find me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A man of striking ugliness; fat, with a bullet-head set on a short neck, with a nose much too wide for its face, upon which he wore black-lensed glasses. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the cracks would spread into treacherous gashes, sometimes ten or fifteen feet deep and wide enough to trap a man’s leg. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

My name would be heralded far and wide; the governor would shake my hand; the university would award me a diploma. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The nurse had a wide smile on her face and seemed to be interested in the lieutenants jokes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were wide, and she didn’t even turn to look at Jinny. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Blunt was equal to them all: she was as tall as the tallest boy in the class and twice as wide. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The head has short horns and the wide mouth, which appears to be grinning, is full of razor-sharp teeth. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold out my hand and lead her up the embankment and down the hill to a wide, round pool of blue water, ringed by trees. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Max's eyes are wide and bright, too close to her simple wish to believe anything could go wrong now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The steel platform on which the trailer rested was only slightly wider and longer than the trailer itself, leaving a ledge about a foot and a half wide all the way around. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Christina points at the screen, her eyes wide and filled with tears. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Suddenly before them the hobbits saw a wide opening. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Toomer’s eyes were wide open but there was a strange depth to his stare. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She steadies her can of beer on the carpet and places the envelope in her wide lap. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone bright on the edges of their blades, and sharp on the points of their terrible hooks, and luminous on their eyes, which were wide with horror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“True or not, I’m in the middle of a big, wide lake, with my feet kicked up on the edge of the boat. I could get used to relaxation like this.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Debris was spread out in a wide circle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The door is heavy but between the two of us, we are able to pull it open wide enough to slip through. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He looked around, eyes wide with confusion, muttering in a language I didn't understand. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Argus was waiting for us with his hundred eyes wide open. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We had left the back door of Aunty Ifeoma’s kitchen wide open although flies buzzed in, circling over a pot of old soup. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was just wide awake on coffee and cigarettes and Mini Thins, which are these small pills you can buy at Quick Marts or Truck Stops. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten o’clock, I saw a pumpkin as wide as I was tall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was made of wide, thick slabs that Grandpa had hewed from the logs with his ax. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the towers rested on a single column no wider than an elevator. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Two huge mango trees laden with fruit, shading a bench on a wide, grassy space in front of the house. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just before dawn they reached the outskirts of Savannah, but they made a wide detour to avoid the populated areas. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Daniel’s eyes grow wide, and not in a funny way. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Amy’s nose still afflicted her, for it never would grow Grecian, so did her mouth, being too wide, and having a decided chin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, pushing and shoving, he got him on to his side, and began to rub and push his back, in wide, inexpert circles. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He was a big man, with wide shoulders, brawny arms, and a thick neck. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon was wearing away when they scrambled and stumbled into a fold that was wider and deeper than any they had yet met. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I sees I’m sitting in a jail cell with the door wide open. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Still, I remained a few feet back, as the hallway wasn’t wide enough for all six of us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He stares at me with wide, earnest eyes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With her delicate frame, thick auburn hair, and wide green eyes, she looked like a woodland pixie from a storybook. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. Dudley’s voice, and Eleanor, pressed against the dining-room door, stared and opened her mouth wide against the wooden panels of the door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up straight and looked at him with wide eyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I struggled to keep him in focus, but he was bobbing around, sporting a grin that looked too wide, too excited, given the way I was feeling. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Daddy laughed and opened the door wide for her to go running in. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The little fish swam into the wide end and slipped through to the pool. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no bed, only a wide and inviting black leather sofa. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Flora was still smiling when she unlocked the door and opened it wide. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop spreads out his arms real wide. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It is three stories tall, with beige stucco walls and wide fieldstone panels flanking a varnished oak front door with leaded glass. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Polls consistently show that programs based on class backgrounds have wider support than those based on race. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My eyes wide open, I clutch her sleeves while the rest of my siblings look on awkwardly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bite my lip to keep from smiling too wide. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Outside a wide desert stretches into the horizon. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her features are concave, her face a wide platter fringed with red hair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was one in the morning and hardly anything stirred in those wide downtown streets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his trust in Kehaar and his respect for his wide experience, he felt still more disturbed as they came into the open. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their father’s face is pierced in several places, nose and ear and lip, but his wide, bright smile and dark complexion are more familiar to me, because he passed them both to his sons. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Georgiana almost started, and she opened her blue eyes wild and wide. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The promenade wasn’t much to look at, a wide, crumbling paved area, dotted with litter, evidence of the island’s half-hearted attempts to attract tourists. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I hold my eyes wide, hoping to contain the rest. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But they knew by my wide grin that in my mind I was seeing stinking dead rats on Aunt Loma’s stage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Lizabeth’s face got all in a bunch, then it went all kind of wide when her eyes open out big. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The jaws of the widest C are 3,950 feet apart, an expanse so big that scientists did not recognize the ridges as constructions until they took aerial photographs of the site in the 1950s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Below, the wide plain blazed with torches and Taran saw a great ring of flames. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But at least we were back together, and our future in California was wide open. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He took Ivan’s staff and the sword into the ember-lit depths of the smithy, and then sunlight spilled in as the front door opened wide. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It’s high and wide, carefully built to keep us in and others out. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

One night, in a dream, I saw my own corpse, hair stiff with ice and eyes wide open. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Through the bare branches he saw a wild waste of gray water, surging from left to right across the wide open space that had been Port Meadow: he could see the city’s spires beyond it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she opened it, the door framed a man with shoulders as wide as the door itself, wiry red hair, and a bushy red beard. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point it ran nearly from South-west to North-east, and on their right it fell quickly down into a wide hollow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We circled around the drive and pulled up by the wide floodlit entrance marked Emergency. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

However, this silence was too deep and wide to be made by just one absence. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide with horror and he held his hand clapped to his open mouth. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We stopped running, and walked through wide fields of knee-high grass that made our legs wet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A quick slaughter of the defenders would leave Redwall wide open to them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In front of the wide, raised speaker’s platform were two nearly life-sized photographic blowups of Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the right of them the gym meditated behind its gray walls, the high, wide, oval-topped windows shining back at the sun. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin’s eyes, just flat and uninvolved. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave ground before the charges, still orderly but giving, and were shepherded along a glade of Sherwood forest—a wide glade like an estuary of grass with trees on either side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands, with long tapered fingers and wide nails, grasped pots and cooking spoons from shelves above the stove and placed them soundlessly on the glowing hot-plate burner. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to blink the tears back when I see the terror in Tobias’s wide, dark eyes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were printed on cheap tan-colored paper with the most lurid paper covers, and they ranged across a wide variety of subjects. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was that the river-mouth was very wide and it would be far too long a swim for Hwin to do, especially with a rider on her back. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He lit out after her with his wide leather belt already coming out of his pants as he stomped through the dirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernini’s intention must have been for the water to trickle musically from the wide shell with its irregular edges into the basin below. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a long walk through the woods, longer because I give the encampments of the Folk here for the coronation a wide berth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is six stories high, with wide windows arranged into a grid, divided by pillars of brick. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Simmon showed the effects almost immediately, laughing louder, grinning wider, and fidgeting in his seat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But he was not free, and the next morning he set sail, going straight south over the wide seas of the Reach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Angel, eyes wide with fear, yanked free of his grip and ran screaming toward the door. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cross the lot, making a wide arc around scattered piles of canvas. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They went along many paths and climbed many stairs, until they came to the high places and saw before them amid a wide lawn a fountain shimmering. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And soon everything Mason Darlington Burgess had ever wanted slipped through his fingers and floated up into the air, where it spread like a fog throughout the entire wide room. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The broad shoulders make me look wider and tougher. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys, flashing wide grins, said little but began handing out miniature totem poles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He knelt beside her, his curls tumbled and his eyes wide. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Egyptian farmers raised a wide variety of fruits and vegetables—harvesting rich vineyards, tending extensive orchards, and producing record amounts of grain for domestic use and for export. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was tall and brown, built thin and powerful like a wide receiver. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Morningside Avenue, where our new apartment was located, was wide and beautiful. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly, with many halts and detours, the Costas’ boat drew nearer the fens, that wide and never fully mapped wilderness of huge skies and endless marshland in Eastern Anglia. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He then asked how wide and I wasn’t certain about that, so I said an inch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Manny’s tortured face, his mouth opening wider and wider until it took over the whole world. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“So it’s like five in the morning, and suddenly I’m wide awake, which is weird, and for some weird reason I’m thinking something’s weird.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

One was clad in ragged brown and was armed with a bow of horn; it was of a small breed, black-skinned, with wide and snuffling nostrils: evidently a tracker of some kind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes’ walk took them to a grand stone-fronted building where they sat in a wide dining room with snowy cloths and bright silver on the tables, and ate calves’ liver and bacon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The habitat of the zebra is in wide open plain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was shorter than Alfred, but very wide and muscular. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she marched with him toward the long wide stairway straight in from the main entrance, which leads directly to the Hall of the Italian Renaissance. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the gate just wide enough to pass the paper back. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ears are wide open while my eyes stay shut. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes opened wide as he gasped for breath. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Isabella’s eyes go wide, and she opens her mouth to say something, but instead she shoves a big handful of grapes into her mouth. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They went up, dragging their gear along with them, and Ishmael felt wide awake now. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a wide blue tarp hidden beneath an old wooden slat on the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Immediately before the travellers the widest of these glens opened like a long gulf among the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The woman’s eyes opened wider, and she stared at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes these brought a smile that wrinkled Elnora’s wide, round face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She is doing that on purpose, he thought as he tried to force his own smile away from his wide, damp jaws. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He looked up, eyes wide, and then stood quickly. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But the sad truth was that we couldn’t afford the more expensive wide casket. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as the whole company was assembled, standing in a wide circle round Treebeard, a curious and unintelligible conversation began. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A Clock Watcher whose whole body seemed a shifty cosmos of dark skies, dark clouds, and stars, with a lopsided fingernail moon where most people had faces, raised its arms high and wide. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Sarah and Miss Rose soared over the glade, their brilliant black wings spread wide. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It went wide left, but at least he ran after the ball. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby’s eyes grew wide, then she dropped her face into her hands and started wailing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At once they found themselves in a rock-chamber, wide and rough, with an uneven stooping roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At first I thought she was rubbing it in, but her wide eyes like black olives made her seem sincere. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Tradition, my boy,” he said grandly, throwing his arms wide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He held it up, waved it carefully back and forth in a wide arc, left to right and back again. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cafe feels loud and hectic, the table between them too wide. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

His head snaps up and his eyes are wide. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

The block castle towered over the foot of my bed, stretching so tall, it nearly touched the ceiling and so wide, we could only partly open my half of the closet door. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The walkway that encircled the abyss in the center chamber was about four feet wide, and as they inched along, it creaked and groaned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ron was not unique in this respect; interest in the Gryffindor-Ravenclaw game was running extremely high throughout the school, for the match would decide the Championship, which was still wide open. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

No more silver-gray flashes, no more flat, wide, unhurried look. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

So, instead of speaking, I take a step toward the wide concrete stairs that will carry us to the door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It made him open his mouth wide in wordless anguish. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s no reason this girl needs to tell the world far and wide that she’s a Catholic.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He stretches out, clasps his hands behind his head, elbows wide, and crosses his gleaming black jackboots at the ankles, saying, "The Führer this, and the Führer that." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Silver nudged her hand, Miyax opened the flap wider, and the beautiful wolf came in. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window was wide open, and the screen, which had been removed, was propped against the bedroom wall. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how,” he replied, spreading his arms wide. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seth spread his arms wide, stomped a foot, and growled. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Along its brink there now stretched a wide tumbled flat of scored and weathered rock, cut every now and again by trench-like gullies that sloped steeply down to deep notches in the cliff-face. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The archery grounds were actually a wide field where Dyedka took the goats to graze during the warmer months, after they exhausted all the grazing nearer to their house. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Each bed is eighty inches wide, and smooth and flat as a tabletop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I call Rue's name in a hushed whisper and the eyes appear, wide and alert, at once. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I point to a wider crossing with fewer whitecaps a short walk away. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She shifted herself around at this so she could look at me, trying, not very well, to keep the smirk on her face from stretching wider. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Others give me a wide berth, look at me with narrowed, suspicious eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, his mouth wide open like a barn door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the little one’s eyes opened wide, and she let out a chortle. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mother was elegant and beautiful, stunning in fact, with an unusually wide smile that lit up everything around her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes were as wide open as his heart. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They are exposed to the music of their parents and siblings, friends, and relatives, casting a wide net over multiple experiences and genres. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t not no dream. I was as wide awake as I am this very minute.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing higher than its neighbors, at an altitude of about eight thousand feet, is a wide pillar of rock with a rounded, convoluted top that vaguely resembles the rounded, convoluted top of a human brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then he walked down the alley, which was just wide enough for his bulk, to the rear of the house. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it feels like just about the loneliest place in the whole wide world. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lyra found Lord Asriel in a room whose wide windows overlooked the frozen sea far below. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She saw that Miss Armstrong wasn’t pretty; her face was almost simian with its wide mouth and flat thick nostrils, and her figure was merely passable. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mosque had just opened, and he could smell the faint scent of fresh paint in the wide, airy prayer hall. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Dawit stepped into the doorway, and his eyes went wide as he saw the rush of reporters. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tad looked at Rashid with wide eyes, then back down at the phone display. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Its sides were scraped and dented, and a wide gash ran across its top. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I spread my arms out wide and take a moment to enjoy how pretty the sky looks without anything blocking my view. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

June waved her hand at the heap of a house, her mouth open and eyes wide. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So they sailed on their narrow course over the wide forsaken waters. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She stood, her arms flung wide for an embrace. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked up at me, her grin was wide. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a small room, taken up mostly with a wide plank desk and three stools. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His head and shoulders were in the room before he caught sight of the creature curled up a few feet from him, fast asleep in the gloom with its large mouth wide open. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee opens her arms wide like she’s known Sam forever. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My eyes are wide open but the compass has gone blurry. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kronos stood in the middle of the throne room, his arms wide, staring at the starry ceiling as if taking it all in. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A cold mist hovers on the surface of the wide and treacherous Potomac. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is bright but my eyes is wide open. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He looks me over, a black knit cap pulled down over his ears, and pushes the door open a little wider. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tim’s eyes go wide for a second while El studies the floor. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Nothing at all like the tile and clay oven I had in Pátzcuaro with its wide wood mantel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was hardly more than a footpath, just a few feet wide, so the soldiers who’d been riding alongside us had to park their jeep and walk, one in front and two behind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had gasped when he touched her, and her eyes had flown wide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her brown eyes were wide and frightened, her skin pale. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A wide variety of microbes, which would have been indetectable with conventional scoring techniques, was found in essentially every site examined. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So by the time my mother discovered it while vacuuming, the stain was as wide as a garbage can lid, and dark with mold. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z