Out in the woods now with Sairy, Dallas pulled out his own block of wood and studied it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I block out most of the stuff about the tournament that there’s absolutely no way I’m going to. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The printing press blocking the stairs was vibrating: Xenophilius was trying to shift it using a Hover Charm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"We probably just missed it by a block." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Missiles hit the theater last night—it’s blocking the highway.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because the Berlin Wall was not only blocking our way; it was blocking our sight—our ability to think about the world as a single market, a single ecosystem, and a single community. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Abraham and Aunt Fela had covered every window and door with towels, sheets, blankets, anything that would block out the light—and the smell. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was very proud of his perfect health and was always telling me it was psychosomatic when my sinuses blocked up and I couldn't breathe. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s unusually quiet for a Saturday afternoon, but part of me wonders if the whole block is a little sad that we’re leaving. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds as I step down and walk to the front of the block. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The sick were allowed to stay in the block. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car swept past soot-blackened buildings, stopping at each block, jerking again into motion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So let us get up early and stay late, and, brick by brick and block by block, let us get that work done. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Entering, he knocked into one of the police escort, who was blocking the mouth to make sure that Blackavar did not try to bolt as he was taken down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Beecher Prep is just a few blocks from our house, I’ve only been on that block a couple of times before. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, the mob was a block behind me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Earmuffs don’t block the squeak-teasing, but the sound rolls off me now. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Wystan Pippin put down his ale, picked up his staff, and blocked the gap with it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s only a few blocks back to my house, they have to pick me up in person. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Throngs of people were jockeying for position in ticket lines that snaked up and down the block. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Keep your stride wide, and remember to breathe. Come off the block like you got a point to prove." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Here three city blocks were crowded with vendors calling their wares while eager shoppers studied merchandise or haggled over weights and prices. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Without going near Rabscuttle, he must tell him to hurry ahead, reach the rabbits in the warren and warn them to block all the holes and stay inside until King Darzin’s army was destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re within a couple of blocks of the office, Marge turns to me with what looks like compassion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cleaning of the blocks had not been completed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian hefted up the trailer again and the coach slid the board and the blocks underneath it, straightening out the tub. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived less than a block from the swimming pool in a big old house across the street from the park. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A section of wall blocked off most of what lay beyond. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they had really wanted to, they could’a kept on following me, right up the block and straight into St. Nick projects. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A block before the cemetery, the car broke down and Felicia’s coffin had to be carried the rest of the way by eight pallbearers in white. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children pointed at it and blocked its path. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Jimmy swiftly drove the four blocks back to his apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then it happened again a little farther down the block. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Chancellor’s combination of Cog and tonic neural blocks have made sure of that. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It could be on this street—it could be several blocks down, from a higher floor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

No one is allowed to walk on the block ‘C.’ The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spun toward the guy’s voice and yelled back, “I’m in here and there’s something blocking the door! I’m trying to move it and need some help!” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The buildings are blocking the sun, so it’s starting to feel cold. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ms. Brenda was walking up the block, stopping every few steps to chat with someone else. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The rest of them circled around him to block the wind. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A block away, past a line of hibiscus bushes, the ocean churned. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Usually we walk together to the end of the block, then he goes left for the el and I go right for school. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then the block party and the music will move in, and everyone will eat and dance late into the night. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The front of it was raised by some invisible agent and he came out with one bound—only to find his way blocked by cold black stone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

After walking several blocks, I saw a big frame house with a sign in the window: ROOMS. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tongue was wedged between his lips and he was frowning with concentration as he balanced a blue wooden triangle on top of a pile of square red blocks. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We can get it,” I told her, hopping from one block to another. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

A breeze swept down the block and around me and Lovey as we started on our journey home. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Eight o’clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I find his block, so I pull out my pocket mirror to make sure I look okay. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His shaggy head blocked out the stars while they kissed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were blocking the road and Mr. Norton was gasping for breath. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window is entirely dark except for the outlines of block letters, shining, brilliant words that hang between myself and whatever is on the other side of the glass. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was half a block up Sycamore before he stopped tiptoeing. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finish with the investigators I slip away and call Jack from a deli down the block. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought down the blade on the monsters enormous backside when out of nowhere another sword blocked my strike. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A man with wrinkled brown skin and a long white beard blocks the path to the elevator. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At once Ranofer removed it to the stone block, dropped the blowpipe and seized the mallet instead. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It had solid tires on its back wheels and blocks held its front wheels off the ground. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smallest kid of all my cousins, shortest kid in my kindergarten class and on my block too. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the crowd is huddled tight, blocking my every attempt to reach TJ. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s heavier than an alphabet block, but I think it is a shape with all flat sides. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Quicker than lightning her mother appeared, her long red curls whipping around her as Fox grabbed Seven’s cape off her with ease and precision and used it to block the spell. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The ten blocks seemed like they lasted forever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As Meir emerged from the tree line, Frankie stepped in front of me, raising his arm to block Meir from getting close. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can smell an excellent meal being prepared, but it doesn’t block out the odors of mildew and rot. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I cover my good ear to block out the strains of the anthem, but then I hear the trumpets and sit straight up in anticipation. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She came to a tangle of fallen branches that blocked her way, and in order to continue she had to leave the path to pick her away around them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at the rear windshield, but it was blocked by boxes and bags. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I saw the Japanese wood block of the ocean waves and shifted the loose stack with my fingertips. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She, her husband, and their grown children, whom we worshipped, lived a few blocks from us in Providence. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large enough place to hide someone, a place easy enough to block access to. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the next block there was the sound of kids skating. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The view was still blocked by a Venetian blind, which he hoisted clatteringly. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he saw us, the driver blocked our way. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dust was there, and the dirt too in places, but there were no ropes or blocks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Laundromat, junk store, drugstore, windows and cars and more cars, and around the block back to Mango. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two late-'70s Ford sedans were parked in the driveway, one of them up on cinder blocks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The next time they dovetailed, they stayed that way for two blocks, then three blocks, and so on. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near that, maybe twenty feet to the south, stood a squat building made of rough concrete blocks, a menacing iron door its only entrance—there were no windows. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Now everyone in the block knew there was some problem with the officer running K-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lurvy arrived with breakfast, there was the handsome pig, and over him, woven neatly in block letters, was the word TERRIFIC. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I walk about ten blocks toward the gas station and past the mechanic shop. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Charles did his best to block out Andrew’s rant. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Malfoy elbowed past Hermione to block Harry’s way up the stone steps to the castle, his face gleeful and his pale eyes glinting maliciously. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The horse was steadily dragging a score of blocks of granite, so heavy that the sled made deep ruts in the black earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He looked out onto our block, the kids, the elders, the craziness and the strange calm of it all. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Minutes later they were in the hayloft, with Håkon blocked from the door by some hay bales stacked three high. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, though, Zion and I would have to do some serious ninja blocks when a pretzel or grape flew at our heads. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He ran down the block to Mrs. Gindler, the midwife, and begged her to hurry. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you arrived, he wasn’t there, so you practiced: side punch, knife hand block, roundhouse kick. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once I turn down Seventy-Fourth Street, I look for Auntie Seema's building, my eyes scanning right and left down the block. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sire lets Lois ride his bike around the block, or they take walks together. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama treats our special family dinners as if they're a block party—she invites the whole building, and sometimes even all of Jefferson and Bushwick Avenues too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The people from our block nod, and tears spring to my eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The head of my new block was a German Jew, small with piercing eyes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a couple of blocks down and not too far out of my way. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She picked me up an hour later and I watched, perplexed, as she drove right past the hospital a few blocks from my apartment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Saved from the block in some cases or purchased at estate sales. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The crowds were such that you could pick your feet off the ground and be carried for blocks in either direction. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t think so much about getting out of the blocks.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He continued past a tent with a luminous pearl-gray cat sunning itself outside and past another trailer on cinder blocks and then burst into the clearing of Yossarian’s squadron. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But it’s still an unimportant residential block with nothing of strategic consequence. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember at least four blocks of Washington Street. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He does not look away until she is through the intersection, down the next block, and out of sight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then I came to a block where they were distributing black “coffee.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Gebu had come, a solid form blocking out the sunlight in the doorway so that everyone turned to look. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This is the block, I know that, and it’s this side of the block, but Hannah gave no address. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She passed between us again, and for a moment longer, because Madame’s back was blocking the view, I couldn’t see the person in the wheelchair. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re young, it sometimes seems as if the world doesn’t exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Or he will walk nine hundred miles as he might walk five blocks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just a kid, a girl with Barbies and blocks, with two parents and an older brother who slept each night with his head about three feet from mine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now they shot hoops at a park just a few blocks away from Rowan’s home—where he wasn’t allowed to visit, and might not have even if he were allowed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then I left the block for roll call. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the center of the web, neatly woven in block letters, was a message. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He stops the car a block away from her house, though. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then later that day, Reggie went over to visit the Parks at their two- story, five-bedroom house just a block from the high school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter's cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child's wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Intensely interested, he tried to block out the shouts and chatter rumbling through the Glade as others found out about the Map Room being burned. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As if she’d conjured it from her thoughts, another slender gray creature, slimy and covered in what looked like sticky, prickly fur, blocked their path forward. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She made us wait at every single block for the light. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few more cars start to drive down the block. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Foremole and his crew moved in to block off the hole with rocks and rubble. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With Peeta’s grisly account fresh in our minds, we crunch through the streets of broken glass until we reach our target, the block we are to take. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Boulders blocked the way to a narrow strip of sand, with more rocks beyond. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Before me a gathering of people were almost blocking the walk, while above them a short squat man shouted angrily from a ladder to which were attached a collection of small American flags. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never learns to sprint barefoot down the block to become the fastest girl on Madison Street. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people flood the Midway, rushing to the relative safety of their blocks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A clan of Gypsies lived down the block in a big, falling-apart house with plywood nailed over the porch to create more indoor space. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You see what I see?” he asked, pointing to a body lying halfway down the block. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We passed a barrier of dark trees, and then the facade of Fifty-ninth Street, a block of delicate pale light, beamed down into the park. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Our friends, also around age three and four, lived a block away. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Malik whips his ball at me, but I block it with mine, and the ball goes right to Ben-Ben, who catches it with both hands. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him a very strange location to choose for a house, or else an odd decision to leave the trees growing nearby, blocking all light and the view of the valley below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I rounded the corner, was halfway up the block when I saw Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When you put a block of wood into a tank, the level of water in the tank rises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

At least I know I'm on the right track and just three blocks away from Auntie Seema's street. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I make it one block before I have to stop. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The church was not very far away, four blocks up Lenox Avenue, on a corner not far from the hospital. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

So we walked up the block to my house. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There used to be an ice cream store, somewhere in this block. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top part was already taking shape—a row of neat block letters, carefully drawn to look like newspaper type. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could pull the shutters closed, blocking out this moment from the prying eyes of Panem. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She walked thirty blocks and passed out at the hospital. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire and her family were staying in the South Division of the city, many blocks from the fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

George reached a hundred telephone poles with blocks to spare. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wandered the streets, watching the German soldiers and their tanks, the breadlines that stretched around the block. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

And once, turning onto a broad street, he had the feeling, more sense than sight, that something had just flashed around a corner two blocks away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and the other suffragists argued that they were being jailed because they had opposed the government and not because they had blocked traffic or stood too long on the sidewalks or city streets. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He grunted as we carried the small desk over to block the door. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The thick tarp wasn’t much, but at least it would give her something to block the chalk-dust phantoms with if they caught her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We walked two blocks in silence before she exhaled. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The street was filled with people and the bus had stopped a few yards down the street, blocking traffic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to block out how the last invitational ended. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Huge blocks of stone lay everywhere, piled against the mountainside, threatening to fall, strewn about as though hurled by giants in some dreadful battle. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all laughed as the panhandler staggered back up the block to look for sympathy elsewhere. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She hurried a block east on Fifty-ninth Street and glanced back. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beowulf knelt by the boy Hardred, who was playing with some blocks upon the floor. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh, actually, you need to go three avenue blocks that way,” Oliver lied, pointing in the opposite direction. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But our block has three johnny pumps and a guy with a wrench to turn them on. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lines of heads circled the block looking for their next hit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This morning, I am stuck at a noodle shop a block from our apartment in this big chair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re in the same block, three trailer homes down from you.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The snow was piled high, the blocks’ windows veiled in frost. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian and I wheel around the block, around the block again. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She made her way round the stable block and stopped under the arched entrance, beneath the clock tower. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Raising a block of wood high, she brought it down on his head with all of her strength. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The house was filling with people and the hours passed in a dreadful streaky blur of relatives, neighbors, crying children, covered dishes, blocked driveways, ringing telephones, bright lights, strange faces, awkward conversations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad and I jogged down the stoop stairs and headed down the block. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As he approached, the boy squinted and raised his free hand to block out the setting sun’s glow. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A block away, every emergency vehicle in St. Louis was surrounding the Arch. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of trees blocked some of the sun, so it was cooler there. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Embers of “red snow” were falling everywhere; some landed on St. Paul’s Church four blocks behind the firefighters. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chris was walking up the block toward me, his giant umbrella now being used as a cane to put some extra cool in his bop. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was lying on a cold floor of sandstone blocks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All the roads leading to the courthouse had been blocked off to normal traffic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wallace told his supporters that he’d physically block schoolhouse doors rather than allow black children and youth to enroll into Alabama’s all-white public schools and state colleges. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was careful to keep the hole itself blocked so he wouldn’t notice it as she hooked his billy goats into their traces. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

My dad rolled his eyes, gathered up his gear to drive a couple of blocks to the beach. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the travellers rode up they left the wall and walked into the road, blocking the way. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a stop two blocks from my house. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Enrique can hear cars at a U.S. entry checkpoint a few blocks away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She yanked him off balance and tossed him several blocks down the Calle San Jose, to the general consternation of several dozen more cats. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Once, it was said, they had quarried immense blocks of ice from frozen lakes deep in the haunted forest, dragging them south on sledges so the Wall might be raised ever higher. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock, when the offices closed, I walked a few more blocks to the gas company, which was on West Main Street. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Way, way down the block, they could see a long black car driving away into the night. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I spot Mr. Turner from down the block, standing outside Hernando’s with his cup of coffee. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Down at the bottom, sitting on a block of stone in the middle of the stage, the god Apollo hunched over a ukulele, plucking out a mournful tune. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Another is painted in red, white, and blue stripes with La Casita written across the side, and a third has Kebab Express in green block letters. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd continued cheering and waving until he was far down the block. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anything to block out the noise from the street below. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

So I push off and run Rosa around the block. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Being with Jody and Mark and Cal was beginning to weigh on my nerves, like a dull wooden block on the strings of a piano. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

With another block behind us, the cell phones have once again disappeared into pockets and handbags. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Oak Park is a couple of blocks away from my grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

With Rachel on my right and Ema on my left, I looked down the block and spotted Ashley in the distance. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I blocked out all the light by putting shades over the windows, and I trusted the experts in Houston to watch over my equipment while I was asleep. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to find ways to block out all of the distractions in order to fully focus on the goal ahead of me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They only got a few steps before Luke jumped forward and blocked the door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Great Prosperity Market was on Nanjing Road, Shanghai’s busiest shopping street, only two blocks from our alley. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The block was cleaned from top to bottom. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were made of rough-hewn stone blocks chiselled with Greek inscriptions - thousands and thousands of them, like graffiti. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was in the fourth block we came to, a tall, bland building with peeling blue paint and with television aerials sticking out from the verandahs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The guys on the next block think you're going to get 25 to life. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The atomism of Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius implied that the universe is made up of building blocks that function through their size, shape and solidity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Somehow I’ve almost blocked from my mind that I’m an assemblage of nuts and bolts and carbon graphite. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I'm pretty sure they don’t do the paperboy thing anymore, so instead of walking to the library after school, I go three blocks over to New Growth, the place where Sneaky gets his hair cut. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

So Debussy’s hanging chords, with the dampers kept away from the strings, represented a kind of return to nature, a move away from the more artificial sound of block chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At Brooklyn Hospital, he was given a drug to break up the clot blocking an artery to his heart. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They gathered such small boulders and broken stones as they could find to hand, and under Gimli’s direction the Westfold-men blocked up the inner end of the culvert, until only a narrow outlet remained. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They had not spied us, but they knew we lingered, and they blocked our route to safety. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Run my thumb down the side of my nose, the way I’ve seen the cats on the block doing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky has brightened by the time we arrive at the first buildings on the outskirts of Reyhanli: blocks of apartments and houses, mosques and schools and traffic. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We brought the ice cream home, and Brian pulled apart the carton and cut the block into five even slices. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If a visitor was still waiting after an hour— this was common—we would call the blocks to learn the reason for the holdup. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb to my feet and we make our way the few remaining blocks to the university in silence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The runners are set and the gun goes off, and the guy with hook legs fires out of the blocks just like the rest of the runners. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A lump blocks my throat, and I swallow it down right hard. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A stone block rested squarely in the center. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Having been in the block just a few months, Smith said, “That’s the first time I really understood where I was.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood is gray and dingy and littered with trash, but all the row homes are occupied and therefore not condemned, so our blocks look pretty healthy compared to most around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cradling a few dusty blocks in her arms, she holds one up in front of me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They contributed it to the biggest bonfire on the block. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breathing hard, I stood among the spilled blocks, surveying the damage I’d done. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The whole week is blocked out from my memory,” he says. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sweep was an almost leisurely circumnavigation of the block on ground level, to check that all inmates were in and all gates were locked, that everything was in order. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Anatomy House of the Proctor Medical School was three blocks away from the main building, second from last on the dead-end street. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We ran the few blocks to where Leroy’s car was parked. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I don't really see the big deal, but that might be because no white people live on my block yet. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We turned into it with our hands up in front of our faces to block the camera, but the flash had come from the sunlight’s reflecting off the window of a turning Coast Guard speedboat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But the words were blocked by the wild thumping in his throat. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breath is coming out of me like I just run ten blocks. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He heard the twisted animal-machines come closer, so close, waiting on the stone blocks below. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Henry turns to look at me, then stops to block my way. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We began looking for people we knew, asking the “veterans” which work Kommandos were the best and which block one should try to enter. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loosened more bricks until I could make out the neatly folded piece of fabric hiding inside the block tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Look up the track and see if the block’s turned green.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I chased him for blocks and blocks, calling out, “Charlie,” convinced that he just forgot to invite me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Only now did she feel truly unsafe because the brutalizing men and their brutal women were not just out there, they were in her block, her house. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scene were blocking takes place in a tavern, and I’m basically just making notes reminding myself to act drunk. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A van from a company that installs security systems blocks his parents’ driveway, and so he parks on the street, by the mailbox on the edge of the lawn. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-two lines per block, twenty times five blocks is one hundred, and two times five is ten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They don’t want to stand near and compete with the old uncles positioning themselves in the middle of the block to play a six-string guitar. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bass thumping down the block was impossible to shut out. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His large body took up most of the area and completely blocked the door. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every block has at least one combination deli/grocery store, windows almost entirely covered in beer and cigarette posters. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park was a natural place for the quintet to land, its endless city-within-a-city blocks a ready-made brew of neighbors, social organizations, and advice for newcomers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Leo and Frank blocked her from view as best they could. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her truck was parked a few feet away, blocking any traffic. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We passed through several road­blocks to get there and three different security officials conducted a body search on me after the wires in my jaws set off the metal detectors. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Atzerodt walked along Booth’s escape route just two blocks from Ford’s Theatre, he tossed his knife under a wood carriage step, into the gutter. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mess is also divided by blocks—small cardboard table tents are labeled with block numbers so we know where to go. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the light that streamed in a square block from the hole he wrung a small towel from the steaming water and he scrubbed his dark slender body vigorously. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He could block fifty thrusts; the fifty-first flicked through, and now his left arm was bleeding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You must block me; don’t let me enter your circle.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Third reason I don’t like him is because he was at the fairgrounds last year same day we were, and seemed like everyplace I was, he was in front of me, blocking my view. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be consistent, buying seven bags of balls and seven bags of blocks from one toy store has to be the same thing as buying seven combination packs from the neighboring shop. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I pull my jacket closed to block the wind. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Along the block some people were out on their porches looking at him and the motorcycle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stack of new floorboards was suspended between cinder blocks near the door. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Gramma and Grampa lived in a big white two-story house on Market Street, just a block from the Yazoo River and four blocks from the courthouse. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see another person for blocks, not even a grave digger or a physician. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d wait until he had ten or twelve, then tote them to a garbage can a few blocks away, because if Dad saw the empty bottles, he would get furious. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

James grabbed her arm and marched down a block to a screen of trees and overgrown bushes that concealed a small park squeezed between two buildings. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The traces of their jaws had looked like tiny bullet holes, and Mo had gotten out his book block, carefully fixed the pages back together, then, as he put it, gave them a new dress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I have to go five blocks out of the way and use up a lot of quarters, but it’s worth it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Frear had no choice but to follow the movement of the crowd as it struggled to find a path not yet blocked by smoke and fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cars creep up to the intersection and the driver will see the party blocking their way and shrug and make a U-turn. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t go two blocks without passing one sputtering along in the slow lane. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Bunnicula was out of his cage on the floor, while Chester stood in front of him, a piece of garlic around his neck and his arms outstretched, blocking the kitchen door. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tigris’s shop sits about five blocks from the City Circle and Snow’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, March 7, some six hundred people set out from Brown Chapel, walking two abreast in a long, orderly procession that stretched for several blocks. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Day and the cousins walked home from Sparrows Point after each shift, they could hear Henrietta from a block away, wailing for the Lord to help her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Patients were locked in poorly ventilated cell blocks with drains on the floors instead of toilets. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Virgil had to go several blocks out of his way to avoid 1417 Elm. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A row of feathery footwear blocks Gale’s view. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Later that Wednesday, Guiteau took the borrowed money to a Washington gun shop a block from the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Triangular color blocks sit on tiered trays like a series of sugary petit-cakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The division commander told him, “Understand this very clearly: you will lay your head on the block for the safety of these girls.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I crisscrossed my arms flat across my chest and blocked the Carter Prep goon with my whole body, allowing Todd to cut to the hole. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They lift broken masonry blocks, shovel dust and shattered glass through strainers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By midnight she couldn’t wait any longer and, with three of her daughters who were feeling distressed too, stumbled out into the darkness of the desert in the direction of the block latrine. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And straight ahead of him, the way was blocked. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

My feet felt like cinder blocks as I made my way across the yard toward the house. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I love my neighborhood of North River Heights, which is why it was so strange to be walking down these blocks feeling like it was all new to me suddenly. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When we got to the end of the block, Vega and me could see their faces. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The taxi driver, a sallow, yellowish man, shriveled like a chickpea with the cold, said, “I wouldn’t take you more than a couple of blocks near. I don’t go to have my cab wrecked.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped the ropes free of the pulleys and rehooked two of them to the front of the block. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can spot the renovations happening to our old building from a block away. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It sits on a quiet street several blocks from the center of town. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was like I had this well inside me, but every time I saw Mamou, it got blocked up. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Crossing her yard to a large rust-colored stump, she quickly drove the two nails side-by-side into the block, then sat down on a nearby sawhorse to sharpen her ax with a file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem with the block is that there is no way to correct mistakes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We block all this out, and enjoy ourselves. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Toby held the Lunchables high above his head, trying to block their punches while still keeping the boxes high enough. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the next Saturday morning, Russell, Piper, and Maniac set out for Finsterwald’s house, about seven blocks away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass the transition blocks, where North Portland becomes Northeast. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the lawyer deserted the East Coast after that divorce he was a stunned human being, a twenty-nine-year-old man on the block and ready to give up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see his reflection better than anything outside the train, so he pressed his hands against the glass to block out the light from inside the car. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Corporal Reynolds is talking to the guards posted at my block. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He accepted the parcel for the Ryans without once glancing at her face, and Mia headed back to the Rabbit, parked several blocks away. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One time, this girl who used to live down the block, Sasha Lee, got hit by a car. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was a three block area with stores facing the street, the river visible in fragments of green through the alleyways that cut through to unseen parking lots by the water. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if half of Bucky’s demonstration had shifted over a couple of blocks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

From Ben’s descriptions I knew what it would look like: featureless, grey, and square as a block. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I scored eight points, made two assists, had one block, and got three rebounds. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“And your school is only five blocks from here,” Don Julio said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were these huge trucks, like road tanks, blocking us at either end, locking us into a seven- or eight-block rectangle. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You block the line of vision. I don’t want everyone seeing that I can open their lockers.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Every corner has a story; every block asks a question. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At first, the changing cityscape frightened me, but after the first several blocks, I looked at the buildings in dazed awe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

We were standing inside the block, waiting for an SS to come and count us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it crawled up the steep incline, a young man jumped out and ran alongside, carrying a wood block, ready to throw it behind the back tire if the lorry were to roll back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few more blocks and I reach Main Street. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They found just what they needed behind the doughnut shop and the furniture store in the next block, and brought them back to Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes’s home was among the few on the block without flowers or colorful decoration in the front. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Deafening gunfire as Gale and Leeg 1 begin to blast a path across the stones toward the far end of the block. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It’s still dim enough that these spotlights continue to follow us around, but a bit of light reaches us from all the great big rooms blocked off by dark red curtains. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A cool breeze started blowing through the block on this winter night. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big cheeses who own the various blocks and districts make a killing off it every single day. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"According to your latest satellite data, the dust storm in Arabia Terra isn't abating at all, and will block eighty percent of the sunlight?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marlena climbs into the car he calls her name and tries to follow, but Earl blocks his way. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He blocks out the jangle of keys, the clang of cell doors opening, closing, the words, "Come with us. It is time." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

These streets were still blocked by the rubble of ruined walls, and it wasn't very safe to walk there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I first moved to New York, I shared a reasonably priced two-bedroom apartment half a block from the Hudson River. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Half a block from Erudite headquarters, I come to a sudden stop. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A blue-and-white Austin had blocked part of the road; the Jeep had been forced to a stop; the women were being led away peaceably, so the truck driver said, peaceably to the car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The area under the bed had been blocked off so guests wouldn’t lose their keys and underwear. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now he knew where he was; soon, if he continued without turning, he would come to the dry fountain in the middle of the boulevard, then to the officers’ apartment seven blocks beyond. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The center was housed in a brick building on a corner lot on Prospect Avenue, whose prime blocks were dominated by the grand, mansion-like stone and Tudor-style eating clubs that substituted for fraternities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“What are you waiting for? The 800 block of Mulberry Street is this way!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Eye was able to look around confidently: ninety-five percent of his eyesight was blocked out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Where once a mighty curtain wall had stood, only scattered stones remained, blocks of black basalt so large it must once have taken a hundred men to hoist them into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He followed him for several blocks—over fences, through shrubbery, weaving through yapping dogs and lawn sprinklers and hot tubs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was like a figure hewn out of one of his own blocks of stone. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She takes the train and we meet her at the station, which is a few blocks from our apartment. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Vik just laughs and says, “Strange things happen all the time on my block. I could tell you some stuff you’d find hard to believe.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Below the dune a giant boulder blocked the roadway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve gotten used to the smells by now, and so has our block, and maybe our whole neighborhood too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He runs to block her before she enters through her door. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Woody held on to Wes’s arms and tried to talk sense to him, but Wes’s rage blocked out every word his friend said. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Its axles were set on piles of cinder blocks and the formerly yellow vehicle was painted a rather haphazard eggshell white. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the man until he went in the back of a butcher shop six blocks from the park. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Her family had been the first colored family on her block, just like us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It feels milder outside, the air pleasantly damp, and instead of taking the train he walks the thirty blocks, up Park Avenue and over to Madison. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Toby blocked everything else out until the intercom crackled and the office assistant’s voice broke into the classroom. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For a number of blocks the driver had repeatedly given those of us bunched up near the front door a curt order to “step to the rear of the vehicle.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

All night he tried to choose his way, to plan where he should go, what he should do: but each choice, each plan was blocked by a foreboding of doom. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The cop, swinging his club, gallantly escorted Sissy and her charges around the block. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Owens blocked his path and said, “Walk, don’t run.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I leaped across the room, throwing my body into the tower, thrashing my arms and legs until it was nothing but a cascade of blocks upon the floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Right at the doorway stands Sheriff Ocasek, -blocking the way of a short pudgy man with a tripod resting on his shoulder. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Clarisse must’ve lost a fight with a Hyperborean giant, because she and her chariot were frozen in a block of ice. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Not even to the stoop to hang out with my boys on the block. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had an overwhelming desire to be alone; he walked to the middle of the next block and turned into an alley. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He blocked the doors with the drums and built a fire in the floor and he made beds out of some flattened cardboard boxes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A few old, rotting fireplace logs blocked the hole mouth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We made our way around the massive windowless block that was the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They flew over apartment buildings fifty stories high and as long as city blocks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had to jog the last block to get there before it pulled away, and he was the last to board. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folks from the neighborhood crowded around, gazing down the cordoned-off block to see who had been shot this time. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was dragged the entire length of the block, bouncing along behind the cab, past the sewers, past parked cars, and all the way to the corner, where the cab was stopped by a light. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I turn on the radio to block the noise. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Of course I knew which block was bigger than the other. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I was a good six or seven blocks up Water when the K-Car caught up to me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And she lived at the end of my block. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The walls were solid blocks of stone with no major cracks that she could see. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was the only building on the block that wasn’t locked up with boarded-over windows. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If the vaccine worked, the serum from a vaccinated child’s blood would block the poliovirus and protect the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Do you know how many blocks there were before the houses started thinning out after the library? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now that it was daytime, and I wasn’t quite so sleep deprived, I could appreciate how each house on Mamou’s block had its own character. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless sprawl across the street, blocking the path of a bus, and I sprint to catch up to the back of the crowd. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Escort officers spend a while in the mess hall and then get to leave the block for chunks of the day, taking groups of inmates to other buildings in the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The minder looks around, his eyes blinking wildly at the others on the block, now gathered in a semicircle around him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It doesn't take that long to cross one block, I remind myself, so crossing one hundred streets is not impossible. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I first got a room at the Harlem YMCA, because it was less than a block from Small’s Paradise. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then this bus that looks like a house on wheels cruises down the block and comes to a halt in front of us. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, they trailed down the block after Tab’s parents, who walked arm in arm to their car. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be built of cement blocks covered with a kind of mustard-colored stucco. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the house for the first time at the age of twelve in a coach and horses that had to travel only two blocks to take her to the convent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Division was forming on level ground, down the road—great square blocks of blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was as wheedling as ever, but there was an open threat in his eyes as he stepped in front of Ranofer and blocked his way. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Before us looms the theater room’s giant Cube, a four-sided projector screen with one side pointed toward each block of seats. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They can also understand some of the basic vocabulary and building blocks of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

His stomach blocks his view of his feet, and since his wife passed nobody tells him that his pants are too short and his socks don’t always match. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He assumed people could focus on what they wanted and block out the rest. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He drove me eight full blocks past my original stop and pulled up then only because some white passengers wanted to get off. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your normal sexual outlets have been blocked for so long that now the sexual overflow is seeping out into the wrong channels. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been waiting a while when Gat came out of the shop down the block. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Growing up and learning his trade from his father at Eton, he had used simple hand tools—saws, hammers, chisels, wood planes, and sanding blocks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Every time I tried to get into your head, it was like a white curtain blocked me.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The rollers turned and the heavy block slid forward easily, like a truck on wheels, in the direction of the new hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It becomes impossible not to feel Tiny's immensity as he stands over me, shoulders back, his width almost entirely blocking the school behind him, his body a bundle of tiny tremors. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Rufus is riding his bike down the block, his helmet swinging from the handlebars. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the same moment two strange rabbits, running together, leaped the bank into the wood and disappeared down one of the blocked tunnels. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he opened his car door, another car skidded to a stop behind him, blocking the exit. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her walls looked like an art gallery arranged with block prints and dreamy watercolors by her friends. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I glance up the block and wonder what Ambrose and I would talk about if I chose to stay behind with him instead of going who knows where with Ma. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“This is Ben,” I say, trying to raise my Noise to block all the askings coming from the men. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Outside had been warmth and chaos and color, but here was the crisp sharpness of a newly split block of ice. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He drives an enormous old Chevy Impala, which is as large as a city block. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“To help ease your transition, each block has its own minders. And the minders speak your language, for the most part. So they can understand everything.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instead we find there monumental stone structures of a different kind, called megalithic because they consist of huge blocks or boulders placed upon each other without mortar. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three blocks from their house, he was blindsided by a drunk driver. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was written in clean block letters, perfectly formed, the way a kindergarten teacher would print. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stretches for blocks, and there are three tiers of stairs leading from the sidewalk to the heavy doors farther down from where I'm standing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Luna, stop,” Xan said, putting a simple blocking spell on the girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was vibrating strangely, her enormous hat blocking out a good part of the horizon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The baton rushed down through the air and connected with Sophia’s right elbow as she began to bring it up to block the blow. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It stood at the far end of the block, panting. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I scan the circle of tributes, looking for Peeta, but he must be blocked from my view by the Cornucopia. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On our block, everybody knows me and I know everybody. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Off-season business can't be easy to come by, especially not since the Germans have blocked so much of the coastline with barriers against the invading Allies. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was only two blocks down from where we’d seen Red egging that house last Halloween. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because our school was so close to the water, we’d regularly walk the block down to the shore for a quick excursion. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As we come to the gate of my community, I can see that it’s blocked by a barricade of sorts; another sign of how deep the crisis has cut. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I cradled the blocks in my left arm, picking up one at a time to place it. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

To be strong enough to block the shrapnel from hitting the others. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Bill Russell invented blocking! He helped the Cs win eleven championships and was MVP five times!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Each family had found a new home, all in nearby trees on the same block. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I try to block it out, but the thought keeps springing up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They made their way up six blocks to where Frank had parked the truck, and then Zeitoun heard Frank’s quick intake of breath. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We were still a couple blocks from the shop, but I wanted to put the brakes on the just-in-time lecture. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t entirely coherent, and apparently the whole block had grown hushed at the commotion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we could build something to block off that corridor.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Ricketts’ was located in a quiet residential area many blocks away from the docks where the pestilence had first struck. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Behind the enemy troops, a few blocks to the east, a bright light began to shine. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Still, I followed the girls back to their block after dinner and gave them the washi tape I’d brought along for some reason but hadn’t bothered unpacking. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Alex chased him to the corner, but Radar was already long gone, blocks away and out of sight. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A block away was the state capitol, adorned with three banners: the American flag, the white and red state flag of Alabama, and the battle flag of the Confederacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, seated near, but not blocking the door, was Lincoln's servant, Charles Forbes. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tape of Nixon and his staff plotting to use the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate break-in proved to be the smoking gun prosecutors were looking for. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It had tidy columns with block letter headings and drawings on nearly every page. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped on my sneakers and Orlando Magic cap and headed down the block. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When we hit the fifth block, I'm really worried we might not be in the right place. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“His blocking and stuff, we worked on that even in Pop Warner. “ Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They led the dogs across the muddy field to the cinder block building. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Like you blocking me this time, not the other way around. I bet it’ll be easier for you.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Before me stretches a whole block of offices that look like gingerbread houses. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The address that Patrolman Mancuso was looking for was the tiniest structure on the block, aside from the carports, a Lilliput of the eighties. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

People came from miles around to walk down the block where Petra and Calder lived, and families took pride in becoming as frightening as possible. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he might slide his block over, but he didn’t. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had fewer friends than ever, having lost anything of common interest with the boys on my block who were my age. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As far as he could guess the Orcs had turned and gone into the very opening which Frodo and he had tried and found blocked. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The fire was so intense that piles of pig iron melted like wax left in the sun, granite blocks split in two, and limestone and marble turned to powder and blew away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had no time to count, but there were ten at least, a line of them, on foot, blocking the street, with longswords and iron- tipped spears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Across the field, Vanessa is making a show of getting into her blocks, running through her psych-out routine. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The finding indicated that he had a blocked urinary tract. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We strolled on, to another block, before he had something else to say. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I referred some of my e-mailers to peacefire.org, a children’s rights website, for help in dealing with blocking and filtering software. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was blocked; the key sat in the keyhole. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I lunged for it, tugging away blocks so hard, the small section of wall tumbled to the floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Grasping my gun close to my chest, I survey the block. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A servant rushes me behind a screen and helps me up on a dress block. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When I was walking out to the Mess the other night, I overheard two girls, probably from seventh or eighth grade, from Block 3—another desi block. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Winston let out the water and disgustedly removed the clot of human hair that had blocked up the pipe. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I said nothing, merely waited, blocking my mother by stretching out an arm when she came near. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zak called to her again, but she ignored him, and I stood in the path, blocking their way. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When we get to my door, he leans against the frame, not blocking my entrance exactly but insisting I pay attention to him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My eyelids aren’t enough to block them, so I have to press my palms over my eye sockets. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the other men on the block—Bobbito, Wayne, and Hernando—have always teased him for being such a lover boy. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At dusk, he tried another farmhouse, newly built of cinder blocks and surrounded by pigpens. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But Nick clamps his mouth shut, blocking it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He has been around the block, let me tell you, being born in South Africa and spending his youth here and there, partly even in Texas, from what I gather. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s ten to ten, and I need to get to the Ripley-Grier Studios, now just a block away. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of receiving word that the Moore brothers were back in the house, police had cordoned off the entire block. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I focused on trying to untangle whatever mental block he had thrown on me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At five years of age, I knew just enough English for my mother to trust me on errands to stores one block away. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radio man get loud again, say, . .policemen everywhere, blocking the road. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We reach the first barrier, which is like the barriers blocking off roadworks, or dug-up sewers: a wooden crisscross painted in yellow and black stripes, a red hexagon which means Stop. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled to the end of the bed, near the block tower, and closed my eyes, longing to be engulfed in the magic protection of its walls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The roadside sign said 15 MPH, SO I drove slowly past the blocks of buildings looking for the administrative offices. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I circled the block, over and over, the houses and trees and cars a watery blur. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me. I have to use both hands to move the stuff that’s blocking the door so I can get out. So I have to hang up now.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then I see her tapping toward me, and I start trotting the half block to meet her. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A baby-blue Ford Torino rests on blocks in the unkempt yard, weeds sprouting from its engine compartment. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she liked being in this kitchen, mothering and praying over this big machine and these blocks of backward letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as farther down the block a white-haired man tosses a business card into the trash. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jenny and Abby walked the dogs over to their first location, which was only a few blocks from the hotel. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Either that or find something thick and suitable for blocking up both my nose holes. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She and Harry walked fast along the dark sidewalk, and when they came to the end of the street they turned down another block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he moved once more, to a former hotel, after a tall man started walking a dog on his block; and yet again, after a dream about Mr. Fitt poisoning his water with lead. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where they're guaranteed a bloody fight to the death with nothing to block their view. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Inside was a hard brown block that had a design of six squares. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He got up and went out through the back and sat on the mound of cement blocks beside the house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was probably the equivalent of two or three stories high, and maybe the width of a city block. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I feel a slap on the back of my neck and they start to move away down the block. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The plant’s windows were covered with black paint, blocking light from escaping and making the building nearly invisible to enemy bombers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning the photographer gave Mudgett a broken block of wood and asked him to take it to the town wagon maker for a replacement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Block after block of ceiling lights snapped on, electricity pouring through them after years of existing as nothing more than hollow, dusty veins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At one end of the cove, an enormous pileup of wreckage from years of storms provided a steady supply of firewood: block and tackle, hatch gratings, spars, masts, lockers. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He carried on hauling his blocks toward the unfinished gateway, his face a mask. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I dressed in every stitch of clothing I could find, all the time knowing I’d be an ice block the minute I stepped out that door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were quiet for a full block before Njemile cleared her throat. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He tried to walk around me, but I blocked him again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aru blinked and looked up to see a wall of flames towering above them, blocking the cave entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of all the stumbling blocks inherent in learning this language, the greatest for me is the principle that each noun has a corresponding sex that affects both its articles and its adjectives. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He tipped the brim up and pointed to the pyramid of cinder blocks by the front gate. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I kept pointing in the direction of those blocks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Barry couldn’t walk half a block without someone shouting hello from a porch and waving him up for a chat and a glass of iced tea. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I inch my hands along the ledge, trying to block out the terrifying sounds from below. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It’s right down the block from Lola’s, which is the only reason our parents let us come here by ourselves. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A few blocks over is Grand Concourse, the borough’s main thoroughfare. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A police car stops at the intersection one block away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One block, then another, then a held, past a line of trees, and into the bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I make it one block when something the bearded man said echoes in my head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Only three blocks from Giti’s house, a stray rocket struck the girls. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lourdes tried to run past him but the other soldier blocked her way. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colt’s body, built low to the ground, had all the properties of a cinder block. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My school, Swanlake Elementary, was only two blocks from my house. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A block before she got to their house, her eyes were dazzled by the sun glinting off the brass handlebar of a handsome tricycle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw his unfinished biscuit into the pile and they scattered around, like fallen blocks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maya tried to step around her, but Claire stepped in time with her, blocking her path. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from home, he was accosted by two robbers. one said, pulling a gun. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes another two blocks for her to say what she should’ve said immediately. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Only when they were about a block away did the scythe speak to Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Just down the block an after-hours place had opened up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His favorite senator is Rafael Luna, an Independent from Colorado and the newest kid on the block at only thirty-nine. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Over 90 percent of the energy coming from the stars is blocked out by our atmosphere and never reaches the ground. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I at least had wooden clogs to keep my feet off the frozen earth, but without socks my feet were blocks of ice anyway. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We found her crying halfway down the block, walking fast. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She leads the way down the block, past the candy store, the bakery, the diner, to the park on the corner. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, I reached over to block Pita’s sight with my hands, but she pushed me away and stood staring at the gore before us without so much as a single tear in her eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was the second gravedigger, the hefty old man who had blocked my way on the stair. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How many times do I have to tell you, I—” “CO, because you can do better than this!” he said, gesturing at the block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of small-leafed weeds ran along the edge of one of the stone blocks, tiny yellow flowers peeping through as if searching for the sun, long disappeared behind the enormous walls of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I raced down the block from where the number eight bus dropped me off, around the corner from our house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They gave chase for a full block until the gray flyer vanished over the rooftops. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some blocked our path to the bridge on the north side of the clearing, right where Gum Baby and I stood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If they find out you put cinder blocks in your shower so you could sit down while you wash, they will shout at you and take them away. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When they got close, they saw that the fire encompassed an entire block. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He lived in the apartment building at the end of the block, and let me tell you, living in a brownstone and living in an apartment building are very different. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A block away, people stand around in a four-way intersection, watching something on one of the other streets. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I need to see her. I texted her, but she might have blocked me.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sparrow had, in fact, tried to visit Sarai, but ghosts blocked the corridor and wouldn’t let her through. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was something he’d sworn he would never tell her, and for six months he had done his best to block it from his mind. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Eventually you learned how to block some of it out, to build up a thin wall between your mind and others’, but not before everyone else’s poisonous thoughts were in there, staining your own. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Without the cruise ship blocking their view, she saw a mountain jutting from the sea less than half a mile to the north. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You people are living on borrowed time in this block.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy’s feet felt like blocks of ice—very sore blocks of ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

When King’s staff learned that state troopers would almost certainly block the march, they advised the civil rights leader to remain in Atlanta. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peasant farmers had watched the dam being built, but even when it began blocking the Artibonite River, forming a reservoir that flooded their farms, they felt stunned disbelief. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Two middle-aged women blocked Robbie’s path to the sitting area and escorted him back to the dance floor. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

With that last verse, Papa Legba’s cigar lights up, the streetlight buzzes, and as if God suddenly threw a blanket over this part of Detroit, a heavy cloud blocks the sun and it becomes dark. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Should we go out to the street at the last block? At Chestnut?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was at the door, blocking Johnny’s escape. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few “well-dressed” inmates were wandering between the blocks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booker Middle School was a monstrous brick building that took up an entire block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Four blocks from her home, Lourdes smells her father’s cigar behind a catalpa tree. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I usually took a shortcut across a vacant block, through a grassy field filled with persimmon trees. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I cross the street to my block, I notice Coach Wilkins’s old Ford pickup truck parked in front of our house. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked the two blocks to the store, stepping carefully trying to avoid the patches of ice, looking down, trying not to skid into a fall. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The stomach-jump of possible love is nothing compared to the ice floes that block up her veins now. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny was too feeble to walk across the block three times a day, especially during heavy weather, so May brought food to her in the barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thass it? You don’t want ta think it over? Drive it around the block? Kick a tire? Spit on the windshield?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It takes up half a block behind black iron gates. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Armed with only a knife, he could not have fought the soldiers who blocked his way. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wes would often visit his paternal aunts, cousins, and grandparents when he went to Shake and Bake—they all lived in two houses on the same block. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At first, glaciers blocked the way from Alaska to the rest of America, allowing no more than perhaps a few isolated pioneers to investigate the lands further south. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nods over his shoulder, down the block. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He only stops when the train pulls into the station, blocking us from their view. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So does Butterscotch, who jumps up, gives three short barks—almost like Mom using three names—and calmly walks in front of Penny to block her path. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the next block, she tore down two more, and Doon ripped one off a lamppost. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

So when the weather was nice, instead of taking the bus home, most kids walked a few blocks from school to where the shops were. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A series of arithmetical calculations was interspersed by blocks of text. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had been in the position of a husband who could, by a single command, solve the problem of eternal triangles by reference to the headsman’s block or to the stake. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why? As long as it’s a better block—” “Because I want to know!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nixon tried to block further publication of the Pentagon Papers through the courts, but he lost. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Although Frieda Banks lived a few blocks around the way from us, off Atlantic Avenue, we joined hands and swung them like we hadn’t seen each other in ages. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He struggled to get into the box through the door, which was barred by a piece of a wood blocking it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to go google it right now but I feel Mom turn the corner onto the block. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

O’Neill nodded noncommittally and walked me out of the building and two blocks to the nearest cab stand. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just two blocks away, we stopped in front of that gray trailer with the men out front and the Reverend jammed his car into park, waving for me to get out. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wandered often about the four main business blocks that were brightly lighted and then through the black, deserted alleys behind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether he was daring me to jump off the top bunk of our bunk beds or racing me down the block, I was always one step behind him, trying my best to keep pace. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Over and over on the news, it’s the same image: the massive neoclassical building that used to take up an entire city block. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

All the sounds were faint ones from distant traffic or from the humming of air conditioners up and down the block. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got off, sick, wondering how I could ever walk those eight blocks back to my original stop. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had used a block and tackle and two hooks to raise the pig by its rear ankles. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When we got to the door Father stopped, blocking the way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ice lived on l4lst Street, which used to be one of the best blocks in the hood. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

While Dorothy walked several blocks each morning from the Lucys’ house to the bus, the women at the dormitory enjoyed special bus service. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A block up from Oranjee, we stopped at a park bench surrounded by old rusty bicycles locked to bike racks and to each other. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were no shops that she could see in the direction she had to walk, only dull mansion blocks of flats in deep orange brick. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We drive into our circle, and a small branch blocks our driveway. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“We can’t get on, Hazel,” said Dandelion, “without leaving the ditch. It’s blocked.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once outside, I realized I had forgotten a math book, but when I tried to get it, she blocked my way, telling me that I should go on with the others. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What you wanna do on the Internet?” she’d asked, blocking the front door as if Genie might just rush past her and barge inside. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The dry cleaner’s on the next block over had been held up, the white owner severely beaten. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They found Queen Cersei in the council chambers, seated at the head of a long table littered with papers, candles, and blocks of sealing wax. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I fled, I saw my father, his arms held wide to block Edmund while he declared in a torrent of words that he was doing the king's bidding. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t get any closer without a ticket, and the streets were roped off for blocks. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A carriage turned off High Street and stopped halfway down the block. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, I realized two things: I had been blocking his way into our apartment, and he had somebody with him, what he called his doux-doux, or new girlfriend. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

That first morning, on our way to the chow line, Mama and I tried to use the women’s latrine in our block. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody is going to snap it up soon, tear it down, and put up a gleaming block of overpriced luxury flats.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The three women sat in the enormous kitchen with the butcher’s block and two refrigerators. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A towering black curtain had been swept across half of the room, blocking the other half from sight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When the inmates are all locked in their cells, most of what is stressful in the life of a block officer goes away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fanned out to such a tremendous breadth that they made a canopy over the city, blocking out the sunlight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only a block ahead of them shone the lights of the Palace Theater. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No way, that’s not far from me. I live a couple blocks from Union Square.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In June, both the House and Senate approved bills to block all funds for U.S. military activities in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from Lake Michigan, the three-story red brick building was grimy, the halls airless. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of a block of writing describing women’s shelters are Sarah’s name and phone number, as a support person. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He blocked the hallway with his long arms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Giant trees that almost totally blocked out the sunlight. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as he hopped the rails and disappeared up the path, the cars moved back to block my view. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

We drive past half of Batalla sector and through a few poor blocks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We see a man coming toward us, less than a block away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The boys approached another group of kids toward the dead end on Wes’s block and asked them if they wanted to play. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I walk out the door, jog a half block down Clark, and then sit down on the curb and wait for my pulse to slow down. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Three are burning far to the east—one completely blocking the road to Big Bear Lake. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Reynolds came over and stood blocking the narrow passage between the benches; he folded his arms and stared at me solemnly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth waved to Chiron, who was talking to some centaurs down the block. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you know we’re going to build a clinic? Right on this block, where people can come for free?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Four stories tall, the building stood on a quiet, tree-lined block enclosing a private garden. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I backed up, let him make his push, then blocked him out with my left elbow and put up a soft hook off the boards. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of turning back or spurring the horse in a bid for escape, the stranger reined in and slowly approached the bandits, who stood in a crescent, blocking the path. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And three blocks behind me, bobbing through the people on the sidewalk, is the police hat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mary turned sharply at an intersection, a place where a hedge ran along the right side of the road, blocking the view of anyone who might be following them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes, blocking out her tears, but he couldn’t extinguish the anguished sounds. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When she tries to follow me out, a guard blocks her way with a thrust of his bayonet. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three blocks from home you look over your shoulder to see your father’s car slowly following you like a silver shark. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She followed the brick path that led round the outside of the stable block. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if you didn’t insist on blocking all the circuit boards.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Anybody come to a block away, they faint from the smell.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The janitor took pity on me and cleaned off the wall above my locker, even though I can still see the flecks of red crayon embedded in the crannies of the painted cinder blocks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now we’re standing up again, grasping at each other’s collars and lapels, both blocking and landing blows. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mattie’s Ramble Inn looked like all the buildings on its block; it was low, unpainted, imperfectly vertical. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now the preacher made it walk before his eyes like a ghost in the night, creating within him a sense of exclusion that was as cold as a block of ice. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the gun, now tinted red from the gaslights, partly blocked his vision. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she sees us coming up the block, Mama rushes over, kneels down, and hugs me hard. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was a lot to do, because an inspection of the block was scheduled for the next day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two blocks from the party there’s a Stop sign. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With a turn of her arm she brought the sword into blocking position, her legs bracing for the impact as steel struck steel. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

About three blocks down Twenty-third Street was a dirty-looking house with the front curtains drawn and the old white Chrysler parked outside. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I make to push past her, my scythe still an awkward weight in my hands, but she blocks me once again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Today, they’re all wearing their jerseys, red with white block letters. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My block is my block and any- and everybody can come chill on our stoop. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And though it would certainly add color to my story to present a descent into a seamy underworld, I can’t fail to mention that the North Beach Strip is only a few blocks long. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Like his target, Andrew Johnson, Atzerodt is staying at Kirkwood House, on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Twelfth Street, four blocks from the White House and just one block from Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She lived less than three blocks down the street. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

His right arm covered his eyes, blocking out the light of the bulb. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Half a block away, Tony’s Mustang stops at an intersection, takes a left, and drives away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

One of Chicago’s main hospitals was four or five blocks away, down toward the lakefront. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s possible that Claire, feeling self-conscious, decided to stroll down the block. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of blocks up Breweries Street I turned off towards my lodgings and suddenly, there where the crowd thinned out, found Tibe walking beside me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her anywhere in the block besides the OIC office provoked comment, because Mama’s physical stature seemed to keep her from venturing very far. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you think I sailed all the way from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea to be mocked by the likes of you?" he fumed, blocking the way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hours later, Russell and Piper spotted him three blocks off. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time cops came to our block, it was because Doña Rosa from across the street had died. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I wrench myself free from the man’s grasp and take off running down the block, turning left, then right, trying to lose anyone who might be following me to the Beverly. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When we turn the corner, just ahead of us, about a block away, we see a police car, its lights flashing. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He handled the car expertly, picking up speed at the beginning of each block and slowing slighdy as he approached each street intersection. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A roped-off room in a castle somewhere, a room made entirely of blocks of stone, icy and cold, even though a fire burned low in the hearth. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His heart froze, encased in a block of ice. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I bring up a grid over Brennar and his mech, and data about them pours into a green, rotating block of code over my view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Stewarts had two kids and lived down the block on Euclid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s a place a few blocks away I heard the busboys talking about. Sounds happening.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On days I intended to go, I would wait till they were half a block ahead, so I wouldn’t be seen arriving in their midst. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then we ran to the pizza place down the block. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When he wanted to escape, Rosy had blocked the door and had moved out of the way only at the last moment. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The house was made of blocks of cream-colored stone and was wider from side to side than Jenny’s tavern. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent our time, significantly, between the three- block section on Auburn Street where Negro financing and industry controls some eighty million dollars, and the section of the six Negro colleges. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all his efforts, he was sticky with sweat after walking the five blocks from home to school. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Diamant has been looking for a girl. Just a few blocks away.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They sit in their black Volkswagens at the top of our drive, blocking our way out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We then had a short nap in the shade of the block. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, Mr. Trepid had parked his battered old car several blocks from the Cadillac showroom. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It meant that she had to walk forty-eight blocks each day but she loved the walk, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why were some of the streets blocked off by big dirt walls? I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way of knowing if the distribution had begun three blocks north of them, and no one was willing to leave in order to scout ahead and report on what was happening. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We formed a semicircle around Emma to block her from view, and she heated her hands and placed them against the ice wall that filled the hallway. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’m going to walk the two blocks home.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve checked into the Camden Hotel on 41st Street, a block from Times Square. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and I raced from block to block, trying to shore up our defenses. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had cut two grooves the length of the board, and laid the board on blocks, one end a little higher than the other. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guests were blocked at the door and they formed groups on the front porch and in the yard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He felt nauseous and shut his eyes to block out the churning water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their initial frantic retreat southward had been blocked. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

They plodded quietly through the dim afternoon light, heading two blocks north on University Avenue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had proposed something about her sister accompanying her on blocks, but that scheme was quickly dismissed as too complicated. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past a block of brown and gray slab homes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then, just when I thought we were going to go on down and get back to the block party, Peaches started back up the stairs again. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carrier shifts to the right at the same time I do, inadvertently blocking my path. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A fireplace had been blocked up with a metal sheet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I point to a big white house at the end of the block. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I’m still halfway down the block, Nora spots me and runs my way. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I ran across the field to a fence on the far side, popped through there, and then I was right on the road, three blocks from my house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A squad sends a car down a block, setting off four pods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She headed into the main block of containment zones, traveling through a maze of corridors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton, in turn, opposed Burr’s candidacy for the vice presidency in 1792 and two years later blocked his nomination as American minister to France. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nately charged after him, but was blocked by the first officer, who plodded back in holding a pillow in front of him, like a bubble dancer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Y'all vets better look out for this girl. She runs the eight hundred like it's a skip down the block," the coach said, giving Patina a high five. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was a long, one-story building with several offices, located a few blocks from Main Street. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We sat there like that for a while, staring out over the block without saying anything. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The dogloo walls were made from blocks of ice, and the roofs were frozen boards of sealskin with snow piled on top. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“We used to be able to see all the way down the block, past Carlos’s Corner Store to the church, and then down beyond that the hospital. ¿Ahora? Carajo. The blankness of void vacant estupid.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Instructed by Smith to wait behind Special Agent’s lead, he quickly saw that the pacesetter was blocked and was not going to be able to get to the front. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The game’s artwork depicted a first-person view of a long dungeon corridor blocked by a hulking blue giant with a large stone ax. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Veins of copper running through the blocks of stone that made the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sigh and block my face with my hand. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m mulling over the wisdom of this latest role as we sprint across the intersection, but by the time we reach the next block, it no longer matters who we are. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dolorous Edd planted a foot on his back to keep him on his knees as Emmett shoved the block beneath his head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Not margarine, like the place down the block.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the hotel courtyard was taken up by circles of old men or women sitting on cinder blocks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Down the block from the Shaws lived the town’s mayor; kitty-corner from the mayor lived their LDS bishop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A few yards in, a tumbled heap of rocks blocked the way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the utmost concentration, Bobby seemed to block out everything and everyone around him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A summer when love was everything, and we didn't talk about college or geography, and we rode buses and hopped in cars and walked city blocks in our sandals. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I ran after her for a couple blocks before stumbling to a stop. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A man emerged from the shadows and blocked her escape. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship had blocked most of the wind but enough flurried around to make the Frog's sails slap a bit and they jerked the boom gently. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

To block out the music and the voices behind me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The gunshot was much closer this time, only a block away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They wander partway up and down the block, look on the other side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While people went to the movies and came out and went to the Golden Poppy, he walked up and down the block. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been living five blocks away from me all these years, and I never knew who you were,” I said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Papa took Aunt Carrie home after dinner, then let me drive Pink and them around the block by myself. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Entering Matrosskaya Tishina, I found a confusing maze of cell blocks, low doorways, endless tunnels, dingy corridors, and ancient metal staircases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The line at Voodoo Doughnuts that wraps around the block. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Shoot, black people don't even like to move on this block. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the building I met a group of men, women and children lugging loot from the welfare office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She painted them very plain, with great big block letters and a picture of a clock. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was panicking now: He could see no way out, and it was easier, as his fear mounted, to block out Voldemort’s thoughts, though his scar was still burning. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It's not a good idea for an escape route to rely on bridges; they're too easily closed or blocked. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Today my earmuffs are blinders too: I pretend I don’t see Jax and Deb walking together a block ahead without me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I drove around two blocks and blundered my way back to 104, traffic or not. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She petitioned local politicians to provide funds to have a new bathroom block built on the lower level, to no avail. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Now there’s footage of Rosa in the running wheelchair as I push her down the block. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He pushed her to the side and started scanning the block for a sign of the dude who’d just worked out on his face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I slipped the last block under my pillow. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We didn't say nothing to each other until we got to the top of the block, and we waited for the light to change. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

We drove a few blocks before he said anything. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were pale yellow, made of octagonal stone blocks framed by redwood siding along the roofline. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he even cruised by late at night if he went out for a snack; conveniently, there was a minimart only a few blocks away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet he walks along the track, and then...he gets down in the starting blocks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Volpe did not give him any blocking; he told him to listen to the show and pop up wherever it seemed to make sense at that moment. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Go away,” he says forcefully, his voice as big as the whole block. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Thula continued to hold the door just half open, her body blocking the entrance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was a master at it, breaking them into almost perfect blocks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am nestled between Amar and stacks of equipment that block our view of the front of the truck. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence for a few blocks, her concentrating on her huffing and puffing, me trying to figure if I dared go up to the tavern. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tad looked at Rashid, then back at the blocked stairs and the hallway near it, which was hazier than it had been before. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then I said, "All right. What do they do, the fish and all, when that whole little lake's a solid block of ice, people skating on it and all?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One block from the house was Sacred Heart Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was terrified that he was going to die and block the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On and on, block after block, through all these neighborhoods that Freak says are really secret kingdoms. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he opened his eyes again, his view of the tree-tops and the sunlight was blocked, by a man's head. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They blocked the alley so that Victor had to push past their large behinds. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked block after block without so much as seeing a cab at all, let alone an empty one. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He crawled on for several more yards, and then suddenly—bang—the top of his head bumped into something extremely hard blocking his way. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He picked a match from his block and scratched it on the side of the block. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nok backed up, but more people gathered behind her, blocking her way. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I rolled a log up to the fire for him and shoved it against a tree that was blocked from the raw biting wind by a stand of hawthorns. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said it was such a lovely day, we should walk the twenty blocks. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The church up the block was just letting out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like to venture far from home, he said; crowds made him nervous; two blocks away, he said, and he started to feel as though the buildings were going to collapse on him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the next intersection, his way was blocked by two unmarked cars, which had stopped side by side. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The crater’s rim blocked their view of the wasteland behind. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Adam walked the two blocks to the City Hall, picked up Cal, crossed the street to the post office for his mail, and then the two walked home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The researcher texts how to get to the party, what street to turn left on, and how many blocks Maggie must go. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It's only ten blocks I have to walk, but right now it feels like a gauntlet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My bare legs move like cold molasses, my hands like wooden blocks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had somehow trained herself by now to block her ears to the ghastly sound of the dreaded box. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before too long, Mr. Poe drove his car down a narrow alley lined with houses made of pale brick and stopped halfway down the block. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The crowd stood its ground, and then more policemen arrived, shoving and herding us back out onto the midway, where our view was soon blocked by emergency vehicles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But half a block down, the bus made a noise like someone had punched it in the gut and knocked its wind out. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha keeps his eyes on the television and says: "What if you move to the left? You're blocking part of the TV." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The car stopped a block from Bessie’s home and he got off. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dacus walked into the cell block and faced Junior Palmer nose to nose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped directly in front of us, blocking our way. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At a church a few blocks from the site of the bombing, the residents of Springfield create a makeshift memorial. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Please. We don’t need that,” a mother of a first year said to me, using her forearm to block me from handing her daughter one of my pamphlets. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My arms fly up to block his gaze as he scoots back, startled. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He had a wooden Indian outside his store which stood in a threatening stance on a wooden block. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stores were shuttered, blocked with crisscrossed grates knotted with chains and enormous padlocks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She swung her attention out across the building tops, along narrow alleyways, and finally toward that familiar corner at the edge of her block. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

After we had gone two blocks, we heard footsteps behind us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her only outings were her weekly trips to Sunday mass at the Church of Saint Sebastian, which was two blocks from her house, whence she was conveyed in a wheelchair by Ferula and the maid. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of this tube, kids could scoop out blocks and pay for them by the pound like you would grapes or nuts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She set up a chopping block across the armrests of her wheelchair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One night, as he walks twenty blocks back to the river from washing cars, it rains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Mighty early for a visit, Sheriff,” Mama said, blocking the door with her whole body. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They turned a corner and walked to the middle of the block to the grill, and went in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My head held high, my shoulders back, my feet that glide block after block, on a mission, with a purpose. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And the walls of the corridors were similar to those that surrounded the Glade, the ground made of the same massive stone blocks as in the courtyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But while Paul’s arms were as thick as my neck, I beat him off the dribble, and twice in a row I got a foot around him and nailed fadeaway jumpers Guzzo couldn’t block. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I turned down the next block, whizzing past the cookie-cutter houses painted in one of three shades: bitter brown, sour cream, or sullen yellow. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Anya clapped her hands over her ears to block out the sound, but it was still there. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Premo had a good point, I thought, but with the blossoming cynicism of a few weeks in Sing Sing’s blocks, I could see he’d understated his case. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rent’s going up this month. On the whole block. You think this ain’t hot property?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For example, a wood block corresponds to a hop, a xylophone glissando is a leap, a shaker means to shake. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

At Albany I thought about heading down the block to check on my father. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The dark, narrow strips of ground between the stacks were clogged with the skeletons of abandoned cars and trucks, their gas tanks emptied and their exit routes blocked off long ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The mountaintop was never free of it, the gorge was blocked; only on the warmest days could I hear, deep under the ice, the trickle of water seeping over the falls. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re a high achiever who fulfills my narcissistic need to outshine the other mothers on the block. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

So she merely implies it—perhaps by telling you about the much bigger, nicer, newer house down the block that has sat unsold for six months. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene and I riffed about it all the way down the block. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Papi and Lolo are working on the other end of the hall in the men’s room; I can hear their voices echo over the music as I swirl circles with the sandpaper block. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He sat up quickly and looked over at Colin’s bed, but it had been blocked from view by the high curtains Harry had changed behind yesterday. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The lumbering Time Suck had just reached the base of Fry High Boulevard, where its path was blocked by the cars. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

Her view of the nurse was blocked now by shoulders and the backs of heads. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, Hyacinth heard the sounds of merengue music coming from one of the apartments down the block. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I rose and hurried toward a little Negro cafe in the next block. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stop at the end of the Schouwburg's block, close enough to see the theater’s entrance without looking like we’re actively watching. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He left her and wandered through the darkening camp, dragging the heavy block of cement behind him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only feature was the dark green block of Washington Square Park, sporadically lit by lightning flashes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The walls were gray cinder block, and the floor was painted concrete. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next morning halfway down the block, away from Mother’s eyes, I hear the clink clank of Brother Khoi’s bicycle. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But he doesn’t try to block the dagger. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Alex and Kevin walked back to West End, then down the few blocks in silence, lost in thoughts about their families and their needs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Trouble nods and steers me up the block with his hand still on my shoulder. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

A woman stands at a butcher- block island by the appliances, snipping the ends of a pile of green beans with a pair of scissors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick’s yelling something back, gesturing to the end of the block where we entered. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“How did you get it over here? The nursery is at least five blocks away.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Following Mom’s instructions, I went to a telephone kiosk a few blocks from our alley so the neighbors would not overhear me asking about Dad. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a glassiness, observed before only in new marbles or a bottle top embedded in a block of ice. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoons I would see her coming from blocks away, heading home, her tiny figure warped by heat waves and that bonnet a yellow flower wavering in the glare. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the one-eyed wolf answered with a growl and moved to block his advance. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But being inside still blocks the wind and cuts the sharpness of the weather. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot envision snow because the only two kinds of ice I have ever seen are either the blocks we use to cool our meat or the crushed ice we use for snow cones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We've made it about two blocks when the sidewalk traffic thickens even more. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

According to a printout in Cradle’s office, he was the block’s longest-term keeplock, having spent the past seventeen months in his cell, with three more to go, a sentence within a sentence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique watches workers pull strips of meat from a vat, put them on large chopping blocks, and cut them up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As White walked along the cell block tiers, he could see figures from his past, their eyes peering out from behind bars, their bodies gleaming with sweat. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We pull onto our street, but for some reason it doesn’t quite feel like the same block I grew up on. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He teased an ant that tried to run across a stick at his feet, blocking its way with the big toe of one foot and then the other, chuckling a little at his own mischief. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slam the car door and run down the street, my speed picking up as the road slopes down, blocks and blocks, straight to the ocean. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The sound of his triumphant laugh is infuriating, and carelessly, I go for an undercut that he immediately blocks. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Up ahead a Road Closed sign blocks the street with a cop car in front of it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

From the outside, the Merciless Mart is a squat block with a narrow raised portion in its center. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The determined squirrel is pushing aside Ma’s breadbox to reach the cupboard it’s blocking. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s so tempting, I actually take a few steps in that direction, but Tom blocks my path. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran across the street and down the block, his stomach spinning. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"After about two blocks, we flagged the driver down and climbed aboard. And you won't believe what we found?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Daddy turns on the news, and we see a row of protesters blocking the freeway. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street and started down a block he hardly ever walked on, a block of low apartment buildings, a store-front church, a delicatessen, a pawn shop, and on the corner, a bar. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the homes on the way to the quarries were built from huge blocks of granite, containing quartz, feldspar, and mica, all visible to the naked eye, as Fred once showed me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

One night Yovani proposes as they sit outside her cinder- block hut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I think about the old woman from our block, Khadijah auntie, who raised her fist to bolster me when some of the others were yelling at me about the fast. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s just a few blocks past me,” I offer. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Drew got in in front of me, blocking Eric from my line of vision. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She turns her back to me and holds up a towel, blocking my view of the rest of the bathroom. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The camera around my neck feels like a cinder block as I turn in every direction. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

One block from the library I hear fast steps behind me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes to try to block out the image of Aurora in the street with that car coming toward her and Bryce screaming from the side of the road, but it’s no use. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We rode to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital, which was a few blocks away, and Mr. Galanter paid the cab fare. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A couple of other stragglers ahead of me jog toward the Mess, but when we turn toward my block, it’s empty. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When the stone man moved aft, Duck blocked his way, pole in hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The blocks build into a column and then we shift over one space to repeat the same sequence.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Jermaine’s rectangle block eyes stared at me from out of the bricks and I realized that this was crazy and that was also when my own eyes opened. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

For the kids who lived on the block, costumes were a big deal. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kids playing blocks away said they saw it whiz by, and legend has it that people fighting in the burger joint parking lot stopped to watch. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Half a block from the station, a cab pulled over on our side of the street and let out a passenger—a woman wearing a patterned sundress. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I don't argue with her because I feel like this is an idea she's been working on for a long time, an intricate idea she's carved out of a block of wood. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From Santa, he gets building blocks, some clothes, and a book. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Liana and I walked a couple of blocks without saying very much. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The gnomes weren’t helping either, lumbering along with their big swinging behinds blocking two lanes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Here!” said Lyra, reaching forward to touch a sheet of rock that blocked the way, smooth and wet and cold. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Today, four blocks from the building, he eyes a slow-moving police car in his rearview mirror. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

At first the way wasn’t difficult, but soon it was blocked by boulders they had to climb. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Jenna’s mom picked her up, I took Lumpy for a walk around the block. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was also one of the few rentals on a block full of homeowners. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The entire school would—conveniently—be inside the bathroom block at the time. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A powerful guilt blocked my spoken words; an essential glue was missing whenever I’d try to connect words to form sentences. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps sun block on the kitchen counter and slathers it on each morning before he leaves the house. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Two hours later Dad had blocked off half the kitchen with plywood sheets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hurry the two blocks to the church, keeping my head down and my hair in my face. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Those remaining blocks were called pillars, which were also eventually mined. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a picture of me and Ty'ree walking together down our block. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

As the new guy on the block, Dell was given the kids who the other two counselors didn't want. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If the sheriff hadn’t been there, I don’t think we’d’ve got off the first block. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He’d break into a trot and often Flittman had to run more than half a block to catch up with him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prune makers sent along a full-scale knight on horseback sculpted out of prunes, and the Avery Salt Mines of Louisiana displayed a copy of the Statue of Liberty carved from a block of salt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dad blocked the door and finally, finally turned the knob that said “Start.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute of assessing how level I am, he takes another, thinner block and slips it under my left foot so that it’s on top of the first block. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the block it resumed a straight path that could be followed all the way across the city to the bay and Coit Tower on the other side. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As I try to pull apart a red flag from a gray block, the flag breaks in my hand. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I found a motel made of cinder blocks and checked in. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

All that mattered was to be far from the block, far from the crucible of death, from the center of hell. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It was right at the end of my block.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The plan was as follows: We would drive by Connor's house, and if anything seemed fishy, we would park down the block. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When we saw the bus about three blocks away we all got in a line—old thugs, young thugs, regular kids, then me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew out a large black key from the pocket of her skirt and unlocked the cellar door, a massive block of thick oak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the block, the Baptist choir was rehearsing Christmas carols, their rich voices spilling out into the neighborhood from the open church door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The hospital’s tower looms just a few blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They waited for him in a group, and when he entered the chicken coop they blocked his path, surrounded him, and pecked him half to death before he knew what had happened. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the present they were no longer climbing, but the ground was now more broken and dangerous in the dark, and there were blocks and lumps of fallen stone in the way. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When he looked back at the end of the block, Brannon was watching from the sidewalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Under Arthur’s direction the ladder-like structures became a scaffolding—four small towers standing one near each corner of the block. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I'm in the middle of a good people-watching spot, on a busy block of fancy stores. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Harry!” breathed Hermione behind him, but he had already pointed his wand at the crate blocking his view. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Before Nick could step into the hallway that led to the bedrooms, Z stalked forward and blocked him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

William Bell, waving his arms in the street, pursued Powell on foot for a few blocks, yelling all the way. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned around then and looked at me urgently, and only then did I realize I was blocking Margo’s exit. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ten stories high, then thirty, it blocked his view of whatever was behind it. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The catcher blocks the ball with his chest protector, gobbles it up, and checks Luis down at second. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

David holds his hands over his ears, blocking the tiny squeaks of the windshield wipers against the glass. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nell walked between us for a few blocks, then asked me to carry her. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stacked another cinder block and scraped the ooze that came out the sides and bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Desdemona looked in awe and terror at all the faces filling the windows, all the bodies filling the streets, nearly a half million people squeezed into twenty-five square blocks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Ma sees me eyeing the box, she moves her empty old-lady purse in front of it to block my view. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Junior answered, “Yeah, we did. All of us graduated high school and all seven of us graduated from college too. Our school was just six blocks from here. 1 graduated fourth in my class.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over by the broken wall, Tyson groaned and stood up from the pile of cinder blocks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Probably the suspense is killing me, but I will just have to wait a few years till he works out the final answer, tune in for the next thrilling installment, he writes, in block letters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day, a little girl on Francie’s block was killed and it had to come out in the open. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boy rides his bike from the community center to his home like he’s always done, only this time, before he even gets a block away, he meets trouble and ends up walking. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now, if I were back in Chicago, I’d just stuff a pillow over my head to block out the noise, figuring it was a neighbor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The bathroom seemed to shimmer before his eyes; he struggled to block out all thought, but try as he might, the Half-Blood Prince’s copy of Advanced Potion-Making swam hazily to the forefront of his mind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dad parked the car a block away from the bakery. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I try to slip past him, but he slams his hand against Christina’s bed frame, blocking my path. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The blazes that block the path to Big Bear Lake have already claimed countless lives. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We drove a few blocks and parked in front of a closed diner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I recognized Duncan from B-block—a short black man with dreads who apparently was a perpetrator in a recent fracas in the B- block yard in which officers had been injured. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard and house haven’t changed except for the walls, which are now made of cement block instead of earth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to his old thought experiment and began to study it carefully, this time with the help of real tanks, real blocks of wood and pieces of marble. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not in learning Italian or Swahili or Mandarin, but in language itself, its shape and structure, the Lego blocks of sounds that snap together to make words and sentences. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

No organic molecules could be found—no building blocks of proteins and nucleic acids, no simple hydrocarbons, nothing of the stuff of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t have a cell phone, and I don’t see any pay phones on this block. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He found himself against a pile of soft earth—evidently the end of a blocked run leading out of the burrow—and turned. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the business block, people were still just getting up off the sidewalk. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slid into holes in some of the blocks were small pieces of uranium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We aren’t halfway down the block when I’m vaguely aware of the multicolored flashing lights behind us. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

From 145th Street to 149th Street, policemen had blocked off all automobile traffic except for their own cars, the newspapers’ cars, and the equipment trucks for radio and television on-the-spot coverage. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were trying to get through the door but people blocked the way. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car pulled ahead of him, and for a second he thought they were through with him, but then it swerved sharply into a driveway, blocking his path. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Rather than ring the bell right away, Werner laps the block three times. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I read the words in large block letters out loud: “Team Apptitude.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Just a high tide, one block away and six stories below, lapping at the base of the city walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His office was in Staten Island in a two-family firetrap just four blocks away from the ferry stop and only one block south of a supermarket, three beauty parlors, and two corrupt druggists. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of Weavers Lane there was a vacant block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And though the metal detector and the dog were still there, no deputy stood at the door to block black people from entering the courtroom. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To make things easier, we’d hidden cinder blocks in strategic places. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There had been an armed robbery in the block of flats next to theirs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The closest spot Dolores could find was outside Grand Central Terminal, several long blocks from the convention center. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her sisters had all been enrolled at the neighborhood Catholic school only one block away from the house the Garcías had rented at the end of the summer. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They drove a few more blocks, and then Dad pulled up in front of Lightning’s, the club where he and his band played most Thursday nights. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

After sprinting a hundred yards, we ran into an enormous boulder that completely blocked our path. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even if somebody ties me to a chair, sticks headphones on me, and pipes “Link Rowley!Link Rowley!”in an endless loop at top volume, I will train my brain to block it out. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes I was several blocks away, having moved to the next avenue and downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to each was a small sliding block. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She broke away to take Tippy home, to let me walk Feather the rest of the way around the block, and turned back to say, “Don’t get into any trouble around the neighborhood, Nate.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was five years old when we drove into town, passing block after block of colonial-style brick homes with tidy lawns and manicured gardens. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The women moved toward the door, but the door was blocked—by loyalty, by obedience. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If the night were not so black already, she would have closed her eyes to block out any light. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But since this is Brooklyn, and I’m Matty Miller, of course my quiet walk was interrupted before I even got to the end of the block. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He listened to the sound of the car picking up speed two blocks away on his right. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family fled to a vacant lot a block away where they spent the night watching the fire’s terrible march. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost a block away, but suddenly Smith and the other men turned from the main hallway and began descending stairs into passageways that became more and more dim. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were now only two blocks away from our new home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If there was a mother and her children on the block, she would buy the whole lot, cutting a deal with the auctioneers before the family ever went up for bidding. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When I took my bicycle out and down the three flights of stairs to the street, I decided it would just be for a spin around the block. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn closed the door and blocked it with a table she found in the hall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I squeeze my way through another few blocks of traffic before I finally arrive, pulling over along the curb beside a newsstand. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walked on the concrete path toward the front door of the school, the same path the Arkansas National Guard had blocked us from days before. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tan-and-black car made its way up the road as far as it could before reaching the trees blocking its path. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, from my bedroom window, I could observe most of the real-world happenings on our block of Euclid Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was always praying, in the block, at work, in the ranks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe some were peeking out, wondering what that crazy Puerto Rican girl was doing in the middle of their block. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It looked as though a tornado had blown through the main floor of the cell block. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

One day in May there weren’t any kids on the block to play with except Clyde Johnson, who was too young to play with. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A moan escaped him as he pressed his palms against his head, trying to block out something she could not hear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At her block, she paused to make sure the creepy guy was gone for real. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There are a few lines of writing in block letters right below the doodle of the apartment building that I noticed the other day. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But some days, when it's raining and Mama won’t let me go outside, I see them on the block, their fingers laced together, heading around the corner to the bodega for candy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

To Arm, the world was a seething ocean of human desires that he tried to block out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Will you look at this? It's like I'm looking at an old picture of myself. You really are a chip off the old block, you know that?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a patrol car at the end of the block, moving in the opposite direction, the sound of the engine fading away. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We slipped and fell, grabbing on to rocks and blocks of ice.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Industrial Canal was just two blocks from their house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of a car horn could be heard from two or three blocks away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later—after a long debate with Rachel and Ema that I clearly lost—I found a parking space across the street and down the block from the Plan B Go-Go Lounge. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He walks her to her apartment, which is on a run-down but pretty residential block, close to the bar where they’d met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was Mirabelle’s playroom, a whole enormous bedroom devoted to her toys: wooden blocks in all colors of the rainbow, a rocking elephant made from velvet, an entire shelf of dolls. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were standing in a windowless, lightless, cinder- block corridor that had doors at either end: this was the makeshift air lock, the gray zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreaded the roar of the ignition, and placed her hands over her ears to block out the sound as she pressed her slippered feet to the gas, revving the engine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

People are blocking the doorway; some stretch behind them to get a better look. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was stuck in traffic two blocks from the party where I was heading. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And once it got dark enough outside, and quiet enough on the block, he made a dash into his apartment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Those rare times when I found a tunnel that stayed true to its course, the way was blocked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Good,” he said through his teeth, blocking her thrust as she forced him to take a defensive stance. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We’ll do that later. Poke up the fire a bit. Now, do you see this block of charcoal, with the hollow in it? And this funny-looking mold?” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was so frightened, and at the mercy of so many conundrums, that inevitably, that summer, someone would have taken me over; one doesn’t, in Harlem, long remain standing on any auction block. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I was transferred to the children’s block, where there were six hundred of us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked ahead and thought he saw the glint of a diamond about a block away. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe she is sharing a place with unrelated immigrants, and they have blocked the telephone to collect calls. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He took with him only two helpers, assuming that residents of the threatened blocks would eagerly volunteer. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had the foresight to park it three blocks away so that the salesmen wouldn’t see his battered old car. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

According to this paper, they were but a few blocks away. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His left and right fists took turns hitting their target while Wes tried to block the blows. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The car was parked a couple of blocks away, very close to where the meeting had just taken place. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They stretch for a couple of blocks in either direction, then turn into dirt roads, then into wavy fields that rise into mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went a few blocks out of his way so he could walk down an avenue where he knew he wouldn't meet Major. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana gave her short shorts to Sandee Lane, her friend down the block who kept saying how great it was that they were going to live in “Jesus’s hometown.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On most days, my brother and I stayed in the house, pretending we were other people by dressing up or playing with paper dolls, puzzles, and blocks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Northern congressmen, led by Fisher Ames of Massachusetts, accused him of threatening the survival of the republic by blocking the centerpiece of Hamilton's fiscal program, without which, they believed, the union would dissolve. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My stomach sinks when I hear sirens coming down the block. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The black man called a black guard, and my mother was forcibly removed from blocking the line. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blocked all of my e-mails, phone calls, and chat requests. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We park a few blocks from the bookstore. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was only a short block of brick buddings: the bank, the insurance agency, Moore’s Store, and The Coffee Pot Cafe, where the old saloon had stood. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Children’s Village,” where Sister Suzanne and Sister Bernadette put in a good deal of time, was as near to us as their chapel—two blocks away in the opposite direction. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parts of Skylab that fell to Earth would—conveniently—fall on the bathroom block at Guardian Angels. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

From these bars they now hung pulleys wound with strong, thin cord, and at the ends of the cords they fastened hooks, which they slipped into the oval-shaped holes in the block and pulled taut. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I leapt up and raised the locker lid again to block the open space between bow bench and tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach hurts and I feel like the blocks are yanking on my feet, holding me back. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Over there they were hurling their bodies at a blocking sled, trying to drive it backward. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane might have slain the gods and freed his people from thrall, but that thing remained, blocking out the sun, and lording their long torment over them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it howls and flashes terrifically, the dug-out cracks in all its joints under a direct hit, fortunately only a light one that the concrete blocks are able to withstand. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s lovely, Malcolm. Look, Lyra! It’s a—It’s a block of—What is it?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As a result, they’ve secured block after block with very few casualties. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We pushed them for several blocks until Chiron yelled, “HOLD! On your promise, HOLD!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I mopped the floor once the papers, letter blocks, and mess had been cleared away. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They smarted from the weight and the grooves that the block had dug into my skin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ahead was a gang playing stoop ball, blocking her way. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Monday dragged me into Mr. Chang’s Carryout—the Chinese food spot a few blocks away from home, our favorite Friday after-school snack. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then we would wait for the bus that stopped in front of the school, present the transfers, and ride the few blocks to the subway. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I get right back up to my feet, knife in hand, a few feet away from him, far from the back door now and with Matthew blocking the front. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I get my cards ready—I’ve written everything out in fat block letters so Richard can read them from a distance. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s the vegetarian diner a couple of blocks from the church, the place with chill music, hemp bagels and petitions at the cash register. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I see him bend forward, spewing out his life, until the guards block him from my sight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And best of all, it’s real, just a few blocks from the Plaza de Ponchos in downtown Otavalo. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while they were blocking the door, until the banquet hall manager asked them to move. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a wall of debris blocking the opening. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the wall, I push my index fingers deeper into my ears to attempt to block out the sound. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to take a left, then go back to The Dump along another block so people didn’t think I was lost or something. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the center of town, it is a simple, two-story Victorian in the Queen Anne style, with a big cottonwood towering over the front yard. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I stepped out from the shadow of the tree and hurried around the block to our house. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d see it in DeeDee, the tough girl on my neighborhood block, and even in Dandy, my own grandfather, who could be rude and pushy even with his own wife. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The piano is old—found on the street a few blocks away the day my father moved back home. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Jack dragged his sled around the corner and down the ten long blocks to the good park. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court upheld judicial override in an earlier Florida case, which left us with no constitutional basis to block Michael Lindsey's execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wrote a short story about an old man who lived all by himself in a house down the block. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm halfway up when he suddenly blocks my way. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Survival was such a habit with him that he put away his cleaver, moved down the block, this time to a building under siege by its owner’s ex-wife. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are thick bluish stone, and the only way in is blocked by a huge iron portcullis. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They often carried steel reinforcing rods to older workmen who tied them together with twine or wire as the dam rose from the riverbed in a checkerboard pattern of concrete blocks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Tasha and MoMo lived just a block down, but it seemed like a whole other borough just because the blocks were so much different. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They walked halfway down the block in silence before Benny mumbled something. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“This interview is over,” she said, and she blocked Tyree for a moment, but the man switched off the light, lowered the camera, and gaped at his partner. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the summit of the hill, the mighty blocks of stone lay as if crushed by a giant fist. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He then returned to the school district offices, and this time parked on the street and walked two blocks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mother Fletcher, who might be the oldest woman on the block, was just passing by and saw them. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compound was like a prison, all pavement and block, enclosed by razor wire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held up the dress so that it blocked the blood stains on the canvas, which were stark on the fabric from the streetlamps outside. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Six blocks away at the telegraph office, Marie-Laure’s father presses his face to the window to watch two German motorcycles with sidecars roar through the Porte Saint-Vincent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered his saying: “We’ll give them another rear exit to block.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Marin screamed and we ran down the block to where the cop car’s siren spun a dizzy blue. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell them I lived down the block. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We reached the restaurant, which was down the block, just opposite where the Cosmo used to be. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Here we are!” he said, parking in front of a shabby block. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then came the time to go to sleep, and slowly the inmates returned to their blocks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reaches the end of the block, he stares up at the Ribaults’ house and makes several more notes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood of Indian Village lay just twelve blocks west of Hurlbut, but it was a different world altogether. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A second road block diverts us to the ring road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I cross the street on the next block, a car pulls up next to me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thula’s father had died in 1926, but her mother lived in a large house just a few blocks down the hill, across Aurora Avenue, near Green Lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You remember the conversation we had, Headmaster, just before — ah — the start of term?” said Snape, who was barely opening his lips, as though trying to block Percy out of the conversation. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The parade actually leaves the school grounds, where it loops around for a block before coming onto the track circling the football field. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When I take a good look across the sector, I see that red tape lines almost every block, and plague patrol soldiers with gas masks and black capes stand at every street corner. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We stopped at this bodega a block from her house. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

However, it is possible to do so during an eclipse of the sun, when the sun’s light is blocked out by the moon. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t try out last year, did you?” asked Harry, taking note of the breadth of McLaggen and thinking that he would probably block all three goal hoops without even moving. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A man pushes in front of him, another woman blocks his way to the side, and he loses sight of the girl completely. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Booker Middle School was a monstrous brick building that took up an entire block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s great. Giants who can use mountains like building blocks. And you say Bacchus killed these guys with a pinecone on a stick?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s only a handful of blocks from Tyler’s house. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of blocking Octavian’s troop ships as planned, Mark Antony’s warships sailed to defend supply stations that were under siege. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We stared at the mess in Digger’s front yard: tires, rusted wheel rims, an old automobile frame up on cinder blocks, a large wooden spool from some wire Digger’s father had hauled once. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dauntless graffiti is scrawled on the cement- block walls in black paint. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The road was blocked by a line of slow-moving carts, each pushed by a man with a rag tied over his face, each holding a corpse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the first chef in our block had been a gardener all his life and suddenly found himself preparing three meals a day for 250 people. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rick joined him, and they snorted across the playground toward the gate, where parents sat in cars in a line down the block. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

George watched him push the wagon a few feet down the block, stop, and tape a piece of tablet paper to the front of his wagon. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I block it by slamming my backpack on the desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Billy drove his Cadillac down a back alley in Ilium, and he found his way blocked by dozens of boys and their bicycles. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Help me wet down some paper towels and shove them under the door to block out the smoke.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Eight blocks to travel between home and school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“And they’re getting worse. They love standing in front of doors to block us and calling themselves the wall,” Marisol chimes in. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ma looks up and down the block and sadly shakes her head. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

About a block away from the peak of the hill, a hum like a massive swarm of bees rose above the distant sounds of traffic. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The kids proceeded to push and shove and block and dribble and fake each other out. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I make it to the end of the block and back no problem. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At first Garden Heights looks the same, but a couple of blocks away at least five police cars speed by. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The light changes and we drive two more blocks, passing Mr. Malloy’s shoe repair store. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The cap’n and me walked the five blocks from the livery stable to the ferry that would take us into Canada. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Back to your dress blocks," the servants say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Columns that reminded me of Lego blocks supported it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

With resolve, she made to leave, but ghosts blocked her way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Trevor and I left the theater and walked half a block to the T station. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the way home, both Grandma and I were silent for the first block. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I knew it was that bodega because I heard the owner, Hugo, say one time that they’re the only ones for fourteen blocks who use the blue cups. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn raised his arms to block the punch, but when Dad saw this he lowered his fists, perhaps remembering that Shawn had only recently regained the ability to walk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I even weigh in on scene blocking and storyline issues. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She lived on the opposite side of Jefferson Park, a mile away from me, in a nice condo on top of a stationery store— the same block the dead guy had lived on, actually. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It's only ten blocks, but eight of them beeline through the heart of Stinger territory. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I got it right and went up strong with their center coming over to block out for the bound. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Greene Avenue was only, like, ten blocks from me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They decide to walk to the restaurant, thirty blocks north of their apartment, four blocks west. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the low table beside it lay a stone hammering block and a coil of gold wire. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Coach Warner ducked into his office beneath the bleachers and came out with a board and a pair of cinder blocks. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes and raise my hand to block out the glare. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Eleven stories tall. Forty-five thousand tons of steel. And longer than four city blocks.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold turned to go through the fare gate, but the tall one stepped in front of him and blocked his way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We headed away from my house, down the block. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Elbowing the grandmothers out of my way, I leap off the couch and block my parents' escape. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The gavel cracked on the block of wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these stacked blocks of portraiture, Annie stared at the camera, unchanged from frame to frame. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My house was two blocks away, but it might as well have been ten miles because I had no idea where it was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

April 27 blocks the shot, but it’s rebounded by Vancouver’s March 6. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A tank blocks the width of the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watch Officer Khan move farther down the block. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You’re the only kid on your block at school in THE. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jordan, a wide man, blocked the gangplank by standing right behind my father. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d knocked him over, my body blocking one arm, his body falling on the other. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

This is certainly possible, but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have, or are very near to, a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry down the block while my held-back torrent of tears splashes down my face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As I near my block, I see Jake helping my neighbors into their trailers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I learned which blocks in our neighborhood were thought to be more dangerous than others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After one of their meetings, Lydia and Dill set out the few blocks to Riverbank Books. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Soon they lost sight of the mountain; the tall trees blocked their view. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

They are huge, stacked in rows of twenty and thirty along each block. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She said he could ride two blocks away, but by the time it was dark, he had explored six blocks in each direction. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Tad were in the hallway nearest to the front of the school right now, but both sets of stairs leading down were blocked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Woody sensed where Wes was headed and ran to block the back door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I was at the mill at dawn the next morning and saw men lifting huge logs with tackle blocks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were five blocks away from their Harlem home. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The 1946 Plymouth was parked in the front yard, its bumper pressed against the porch, its taillights blocking the brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decided to take a restrained approach, letting their presence at the meeting—a block of 100 black citizens—speak for them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Body shopping on the block where you live. I feel that way, too, even though I don’t understand why. Father Mulrooney could probably explain it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had been ordered to go outside to allow for cleaning of the blocks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was as good a climber as anybody on the block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Ruined houses and bombed blocks of flats made gaps in the vista,” remembered Haukelid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“During the whole show, I was never stationary. Sometimes it was fun, but I got frustrated. I was like, ‘Everybody else is getting basic blocking, so why can’t I get blocking?’ Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He brought out a stack of well-used, hopefully not lead-tainted, wood blocks, then leaned in so close to me, I could see the pores in his face. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the end of the block he saw a crowd of people and fear clutched hard at his stomach. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within moments, they remove a block like a puke-green Hershey bar and break off smaller squares. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On particularly desperate blocks there are three or four bars at every intersection. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My escape was blocked by Maurice, who, searching for me, had just then stuck his head through. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Thalia looked around cautiously as we picked our way through the rubble, past blocks of marble and broken archways. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But now that she’s up, showered, dressed, walking down the street, a latte from the deli on their block in one hand, she’s invigorated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sat down on the blocks on either side of me and at first they didn’t say anything more than “Hey.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She made a gesture with her hands like she was putting two blocks together. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The knife comes from a little pawnshop three blocks from his house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance up and see my parents and people from different blocks kneeling in a semicircle around us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We cover another block, and the sirens begin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He’d gone less than two blocks when he came upon a scrub-covered lot with a dented work trailer in one corner. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Westward the view was blocked by the base of the great turret that stood at the back of this upper court and reared its horn high above the crest of the encircling hills. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“More like kicking the people in the face,” Young Square Cop said; he was short and square, built like one of those guys who blocked tackles in college football. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Pollard tried to rally him, but he was blocked by traffic until deep in the stretch, when he shook loose and flew up, almost catching Professor Paul for the win. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long journey through the snow today, down a couple of neighborhood blocks, then around the funny lime-green house with the tiny white fence, down the hill to the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was but a couple of blocks from the park which she visited every day, but for some reason or other, Francie had never gone back to see it since the night she graduated. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was slow on the block, and he tagged me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Morris was lending this house to George and Martha Washington and had moved himself into another, larger one he owned just up the block. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But the trailer was blocking the view of the house, and no one would buy a house where an immovable leaning trailer was parked out front. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If there’s someone acting strange down the block, looking drunk or dangerous, cross to the other side of the street, but don’t be obvious about it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I walk the three blocks in my dress and heels. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now there was the Camaro up on blocks and an old couch pushed against the wall. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I try to follow her, but Sis blocks my way. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I like blocking out the rest of the world, muffling all the chatter I can’t understand. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the peace and quiet of the sudden calm, the man yelled, “Surround the block!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We all take turns riding Justin’s bike around the block with the ice cream maker rolling on the front wheel. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Sailors and soldiers on their doom-lined road to war cracked windows and broke locks for blocks around, hoping to leave their imprint on a building or in the memory of a victim. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even have time to block before he sucker-punched me in the gut. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The bookstore was now a hodgepodge of rooms that spanned nearly a whole block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the zombies were helpful just by standing in the way, blocking monsters and taking fire. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Of course everybody on the block soon knew that Kitty was staying home from school. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We speak in Navajo. You write in English, just as Corporal Benally just did. Be sure to print in block letters.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A holographic image of a block of the Capitol projects into the air. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I look at their shapes as they walk, the way shadow moves from one leg to another, the blocks of color, a red square of cardigan, a blue triangle of skirt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each color block is a different type of lettuce. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He walked five blocks before he saw a two-story flat building with a “For Rent” sign in a window. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t mention that misguided trip to Baton Rouge. That incident, I believe, caused me to form a mental block against working.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wonder to watch Miss Whitlaw sail up the block and gather people behind her like a hen collecting her chicks. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you noticed that this block doesn’t have dealers on the corner? All four corners of this block are quiet. Have you noticed that, Julio?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it—hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You lost two friends. You may have blocked it out.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But I was going to do my best to block out all the noise on the outside, and all the noise on the inside. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

We both busted out laughing and he gave me dap before heading back down the block to his crazy building. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He walked five more blocks and saw no “For Rent” sign. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Falconer took the right-hand prong, and we walked another several blocks before we stopped under a sign which depicted St. George slaying a rather pitiful-looking dragon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t dependable, and we don’t have much time. To be safe, we ought to move that block tonight.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Usually I’m able to block out the noise, but the latest news story breaks my concentration. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was nothing I could do at that point but try to block my face. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When Finch doesn’t move, my father pushes forward a little, and I have to block him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Harry and Hermione followed him out of the clearing, staring over their shoulders at Ronan and Bane until the trees blocked their view. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It’s their tension, their hair-trigger excitement and blocked adrenaline that fills the plane, despite the lax bodies of the passengers, their fatigue and resignation. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the buffalo boy blocking most of her view, Minli could see his friend was beautiful, even more beautiful than he had described her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Any other kid would have hopped on the bike immediately and taken it for a full block skid. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I see its awning from a full block away—its white stone exterior gleams in the sun. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After I get the plank cut out, Mr. Woodwell has me set it in his bench vise and he takes up a block plane. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the blinds blocking every window, the room he entered was airy and bright. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She's a solid block in front of me and just squeezes harder. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the centre of the crowd stood an empty, makeshift throne of twisted scaffolding and stone blocks apparently yanked at random from the ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He turns onto a remote, tranquil block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Citra was ready to hurl herself in front of her to block the blade, but instead of swinging the knife, the man held out his other hand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The block was safe to play on under the watchful eye of housewives who sat in the windows in the summer, catching whatever breeze there was in those days before air-conditioning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

About five blocks down, she had a low convertible. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no shooting from the blocks, no arm pumping, no push or strain. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Pressed up against steel ribs and timber blocks young boys strangled when the oxygen left them to join the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Other evidence, however, is necessary, for it is known that Michelangelo did not carve all the marble blocks which were quarried for him and which bore his mark. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge’s father, who owned a coffee place a few blocks from their apartment, had to be at the store by seven a.m. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seeing that the large doors to the firehouse were totally blocked by wreckage, Gillespie made his way to a window and jumped out. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I blocked the doorway with my body and said something that seemed to float up from a place beyond my worst nightmares. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road to the gate was blocked with barrows and handcarts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pull forward one of my two blank cards and write in big block letters an unbendable, sharp-cornered David-word: RULE. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one block was this hard, how will I ever make ten miles? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There is only one other house on our block where a father doesn't live. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She looks down the block and whistles softly. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

After each block, Brent retreats with quick, small steps. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In front of them, the tunnel ended in a huge block of stone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She entered the fenced area and shooed the thankless chickens to one side, blocking them with a large board Papa kept just for cleaning day. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I'm halfway down the block when I dare to look over my shoulder. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It is presumably hollow but with no discernible hinges, no nails, no attachment points; it looks like a solid block of highly polished wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still a block away, but the only thing I can focus on is the Stop sign straight ahead. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a quiet block on 141st Street, inside a brownstone made of deep red shale, the Vanderbeeker family gathered in the living room for a family meeting. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, I wonder if the Gamemakers are blocking out our conversation, because even though the information seems harmless, they don't want people in different districts to know about one another. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Hunters had set up a defensive line on 37th, just three blocks north of Olympus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ahead of us are three entrances, two that are blocked and one that just looks blocked. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Around it was a hodgepodge of classrooms, a hall, a library, a tiny chapel, a science block, a manual arts workshop, and more classrooms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Abe’s grandma used to have a yard full of flowers you could smell a block away. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cars were blocking her view, but she could hear the sound of tennis balls bouncing against the ground. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He talks a bit about high school being a time of feeling things out, and after that I kinda block him out for a while because the spotlight is just so hot. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Although Grandma approached the grocer in a calm, respectful way, he shouted back at her in an angry voice—loud enough for everyone within a block to hear. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when he emerged from the woods facing Elm Street, he immediately veered left, even though he could’ve walked one block right, crossed the street, and been at the Tanakas’ in no time at all. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The police officer must have taken a shortcut because he's back in view, but nearly two blocks away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They blocked a full view of Lilian, whom I instantly liked because she smiled as she uttered every word. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I shove my phone into my pocket so I don’t obsess the whole way home, but it starts buzzing with texts before I even reach the end of the block. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I was standing in the middle of Oxford Street, half a block from my dorm room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can see Union Station several blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She sliced the soft, fuzzy plomms into quarters on the big wooden chopping block. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But all that was broken when we reached 109th and Third, three blocks from our home. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But he had to speak his mind before the NO NO contingent carried the block. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sister Daniels comes into the foyer, in a floral dress with a matching hat that’s big enough to block the sun. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were stepping out and blocking me so I couldn’t get past. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re two blocks away, I say, “I lied to you.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was raining, and we got pretty wet, walking home with Otis Bottom too, since his house is only a couple of blocks away from James Russell’s. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We gained some distance from the center of the crowd and made our way down the block. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then when I’m about a block away, throwing all dignity to the wind, I start checking the pockets of the jacket, finding nothing but a film canister, candy wrappers, a pen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He and another nun, named Sister E. R., drove Sister M. E. in a Land Rover to the town of Bumba, a sprawl of cinder blocks and wooden shacks that huddles beside the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked into the warm fall air and neither of us said a word for the next block, the sounds of school growing fainter with each step. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was another car turning off the highway, a small silver Volkswagen; both Liam and I threw up a hand to block the intense glint of the sun against its windows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When me and my mom got to the next block, we started talking again, but my mom was whispering and I was sad that that guy with his red angry face made my mom quieter. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I try to block the thought of running from my mind. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Exchange stretched nearly the length of a city block. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Every single day I still find myself wishing I hadn’t left, reliving the moment of walking away, my legs like cement blocks, being pulled like a magnet back to her window. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I was so used to ignoring my phone, though, it was easy to block out the noise. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Apothecary jars labeled in childish block letters are filled with pungent spices. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found one in a recess partially blocked by a giant fern in a stone pot. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her joys, her plot, that block of sugar maple she perched on like a vulture. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I circle the blocks again and again, trying to take it all in. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there's a blinking "ALERT" on the screen next to a block of text: The Earth's environment is currently bombarded by high-energy particles accelerated by a powerful solar eruption last night. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These blocks might have been long like the blocks on Herkimer Street, but we were far from Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in some, the shape of the instrument — usually a tube, block, circle, or bell shape — allows the instrument to ring with a standing-wave vibration when you strike it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That was when my mom appeared and blocked my path to freedom. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His exit from the station was blocked by Officer Kearney, who a few minutes before had shown Garfield his watch. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That’s fast, and you were able to perform that experiment quickly because you were able to concentrate on the task and block out distractions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday morning we walk down the block to church. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My mother also reminded me to invite Mr. Chong, my old piano teacher, who still lived three blocks away at our old apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, up for bid on the block. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

After walking half a block, they were ordered to stop. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a one-story cement- block cube with sliding doors in front and back. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of blocks from home, and I don’t know where to go. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She said, in a similar tone, “The devil is a liar. He wants to start blocking our blessing, he will not succeed,” when Ifemelu's father lost his job at the federal agency. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When they were a block away William began playing his harmonica again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pedaled down the block toward the front entrance of my neighborhood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They soon learned that for dining out, everyone in Shaker seemed to prefer Pearl of the Orient, just a few blocks away, but Lucky Palace did a good takeout business. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, just before the War, whole blocks was let to colored. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you think they call my girl when they sold her? What kind of baby they call her from up on the block?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t make any small blocks, just big ones—the kind of blocks where you’d find lumber shops and factories and bars where Humble would hang out at and work. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Yet after only three blocks it became evident that Dana was in even worse shape than Roy had anticipated. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can hear everything in this world and others, every sneeze and creak and breath in the heavens or the harbor or the gardenia tree down the block. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my family mostly lives on the same block, one house next to the other. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

One night he parked his motorcycle a couple of blocks away, crept up to the house, and climbed a cherry tree near Ernestine’s bedroom window. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gives him the idea to step closer and prop one hand up against the wall, blocking me from the stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She pulled the visor down to block the sun and slowly turned the wheel to head down the hill. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The train station is still a few blocks away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The blue bookcase on the bottom holds my favorite books that I could never get myself to purge when I did my monthly book donations to the teen health clinic down the block. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the caravan was blocked by a boulder, it had to go around it; if there was a large rocky area, they had to make a major detour. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was no longer in the same block as my father. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to leave, but Redemption darted around him and blocked his exit. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t even tell you if Elle is actually a Decker, but I blocked her without investigating because she spammed me with links to “funny snuff videos gone wrong.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I neared the gate, a sentry stepped out and blocked my way. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I got closer to the fence I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

You have to understand that I never would have used the library computers in the first place, except they block the wireless here. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But when we had put several blocks behind us, he said, "Could you explain, now?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We were the people who not only lived next door to one aunt but down the block from another. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now the older one was blocking her way, too. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo went to the end of the empty block and sat down in a grassy spot, hidden from the house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

While most of the guys on the block played basketball, Mack, which was what everybody called him, played baseball. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his school polo shirt and khaki pants, holding a book at an angle to block the sun as he read. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The courtyard was of stone blocks and all the trees were dripping with the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ben’s shoulder hurt until the bell rang at three o’clock releasing the students like a pistol at the starting blocks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since she lived only a block away from me, we saw each other almost every day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her he was thinking about the new block of flats he had just completed in Parkview. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But she just sits there, silently watching as Vanessa adjusts her trademark racing glasses, rolls her shoulders and neck, shakes out her legs, and finally gets down in the blocks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The church rose up from the dust of the road, huge brown granite blocks rose skyward to hold the bell tower and the cross of Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air moving through the windows—it was getting cold in the block—didn’t seem to diminish it at all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He wasn’t looking at Manhattan, Kat. Or the sun. He was looking at something that reminded him of Manhattan. A big tower block. He was looking at the Barracks.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge was four blocks from school when she saw Sherm standing on the comer ahead of her. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"So," she says to me after we've reached the end of the block, "tell me about yourself. How do you know Judith? Are you in university? What are you studying? Do you have a boyfriend?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I slide down into the water, letting it block out the sounds around me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lake’s edge sits just a few blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Computer: “You snake crawl for thirty yards. A trickle of water runs down your body. You reach a mound of small rocks blocking the passageway.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As do black people on summer blocks marked with needles, vials, and hopscotch squares. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Stay on the block and be back within fifteen minutes, please,” Papa said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We, the children, remained flat on the floor of the block. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he spotted her, circling above a stretch of parkland that ran for several blocks between rows of old stone buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She returned with an idea to have some fun with the people on our block she suspected of being prejudiced. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The image of it blocked the alpana designs that used to dazzle her mind with color. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

It stretched from Fourteenth to Sixteenth on Park Street, and was two blocks across. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A crowd of people at the edge of the harbor blocked my view. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A couple mornings later, I get off the bus, walk the block to Miss Leefolt’s house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Presently, groping and fumbling in the dark, they found that the opening on the left was blocked: either it was a blind, or else some great stone had fallen in the passage. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’ll stand on the blocks hidden in the toes of my satin ballet slippers, pink ribbons sewn into my calves, and rise above up in the air: magical. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

After two blocks of what Jamie would definitely call awkward silence, Bridge said, “Em isn’t mad, you know. She’s sorry she threw that stuff at you. She feels bad.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He sits on a sidewalk one block north of the station. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I sat up in time to see the backs of Harp and Gully making it down the block. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It got so bad that when the concerts were over, he took to crawling into the matchbox and pushing up a piece of Kleenex to block the entrance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I want my family, my block, and my whole hood to see us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I squatted down, pushed my feet back against the blocks, stretched out my thumbs and index fingers and placed them on the edge of the white starting line. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But up flies a loud bit of his sermon to block it out and I look up into his eyes and suddenly I don’t wanna know. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Every three days, he went into town to buy a large block of ice, which he wrapped in burlap and placed inside a hole he dug in the ground by the entrance to our tent. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of roast beef made Harry’s stomach ache with hunger, but they had barely taken three steps toward the Gryffindor table when Professor Slughorn appeared in front of them, blocking their path. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was there at the comer of Spring Street and South Grand Avenue, one block from home on a September afternoon. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was four blocks from Hector, deep in the East. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got into her car and I followed her for a dozen blocks, watching the back of her head, her signal lights, until I accelerated beside her to get another look at her face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I almost said, “You block, you stone, you worse than senseless thing” to him. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I said, rifling through the basket to find my favorite board, the one with La Luna, the moon, in the right corner block. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They walked a few blocks to the corner of Rye and Tenth streets. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I’m passing a Restoration Hardware, and Mom says rich families on the other side of Jankburg buy couches from there, so I’m probably safe for a few blocks, at least. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I only have one more block to walk with them before I have to turn and go a different way. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She blocked him, and when he tried to slink away in another direction, she restrained him with a heavy paw until he stilled in defeat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She refused to write down MAN, even though it kept smacking her in the face, blocking her view of other words. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yoyo stood before both of them, blocking their view of the soldiers in helicopters landing amid silenced gun reports and explosions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It seems that Claire’s family had not been in Chicago very long because her father had his wife and children wait while he asked directions from a man and woman who lived down the block. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes their owners stay for years in one place, plant gardens, build little walls of cinder blocks, put out awnings and garden furniture. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In about four blocks we found the cafe Artis was looking for. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just walking down the block with him, I knew couldn’t nobody touch me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

According to Archimedes’ principle, if water were to occupy the volume of the block which is under water, that water would weigh the same as the whole block. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God—the letter was delivered right down the block.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I look up the block and see a tall man with a bushy gray beard and furry gray eyebrows coming our way. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Four blocks of houses as tiny and beat up as ours. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The drama sponsor, a woman named Joan Mott, a “very nice person” and his colleague on the English faculty, was staging a scene and blocking the actors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We’re to the steps out of the hall when three knights move to block our way. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once when me and my mom were walking down the block speaking in Spanish, this guy yelled at us, ‘This is America! Speak English!’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He dipped right, and tried to flick the puck to the corner above my opposite shoulder, but I snapped my head and blocked it off my face mask. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heave my book bag onto my shoulder, and we start walking up the block—slowly, because that’s how Ma hobbles along with her cane. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had to close my eyes to block out the sight of my room swaying in the darkness. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her mom had put up an old baby gate to block the stairs leading up to the bedrooms, and Paganini had been removed to safety upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Thomas followed him to the steel door of the big concrete block and Minho turned to give him a wan smile. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Luke showed me thrusts and parries and shield blocks the hard way. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I'm back on my feet and heading down the sidewalk as if I'm a block from home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it’s the Montreal satellite station, being blocked. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

This method is based on the slow decay of radioactive carbon 14, a very minor component of carbon, the ubiquitous building block of life, into the nonradioactive isotope nitrogen 14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was being held at a small community church a few blocks away; it had seating capacity for no more than fifty people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Boobie had very much played under the shadow of Crow and spent much of his junior year blocking for him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only they could act more like a filter, blocking words I don’t want to hear. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As they passed the last of the sad wooden buildings something whistled past his head and clattered off the street and broke up against the wall of the block building on the other side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I walked around the corner, and way down this side, which seemed to go on for another mile, was the moose, blocking the path between the brick and a dense thicket of bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I walk the next blocks, turn the corner, expecting to see the familiar dingy oblong of the school, in weathered red brick the color of dried liver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the creature’s skin began to catch fire, she turned away, pressing her hand over her nose to block out the smell. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is distinctly his room, even without the huge banner that says, in red block letters, Lou Is Back. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the door finally opened it was noonday light that poured inside, and Ash put a hand over her eyes to block the sudden glare. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shale, in particular, breaks into perfect building blocks with the tap of the hammer in the right place. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suitcase blocked some of the airflow, but at least I knew it wouldn’t creep up on me while I was sleeping. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I did not see the two youths until they were directly before me, blocking my path. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You can talk to your neighbor. She seems to think we’re stealing your cinder block. She bit Arthur in the leg.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

"I live south and east of here . .. but I could take a little detour. Four blocks isn't so far." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I gather the pillow around my ears to block out Al’s crying, and fall asleep with a circle of moisture pressed to my cheek. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You broke it, Stef. Your brain blocks the nerve signals to spare you the pain.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stores them-selves had fared little better: it was a single-story building with a flat roof, and bare cinder block was visible in places. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I liked a lot of things about Harlem, especially the block, which was how we talked about 145th Street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Snow Sand had his ears and nose blocked, and he hoped she had not panicked, had remembered to spread-eagle her body, so that he could catch her quickly with his headlong dive. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can swim, so the flotation belt’s not really necessary, but Brutus blocked my arrow with his, so I buckle it back on, thinking it might offer some protection. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds as I look all up and down the block for any of Papi’s friends, or Mama’s friends too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had no phone service in this cinder- block dungeon. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A few blocks away, swarms of emergency vehicles gathered with their lights flashing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The reasons, to be a little simplistic, are poor education, psychological blocks, and romantic misconceptions about the nature of mathematics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say you break your ankle and don’t feel it hurting till you’ve walked another block. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad lays the turkey on the chopping block and picks up his hatchet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have to go find this block, this street, this house, this door to the club, to this underworld where Dray resides. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like Malloy said, the streets had been talking, and the whole block knew, or at least thought they knew, about Needles being beaten up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

His block is nicer, too, with lots of big houses and even bigger driveways for the nicer cars. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Fifth grade was easy—old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took Groundsel over to the two blocked runs along the eastern wall. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with their big, fancy house on the corner, those Darcy boys couldn’t care less about what’s happening on this block, much less this neighborhood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When Rush applied for a position at the medical faculty of Columbia University in New York City, his appointment was blocked by another enemy of his cure, Alexander Hamilton. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I walk to the end of the block. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Dill’s pulse quickened as they walked the couple of blocks to campus. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She slammed against the blocked entrance with all her might, and the bricks gave way. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There is some shoving, and finally they force people out of the way, using their nightsticks as blocking bars. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re right near the basketball courts, but the entrance to the park is on the other side of the block. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, the garden ended, a few blocks from where Peris lived. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Next morning a little kid from three blocks away came knocking at the front door. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the Blocklilteste remembered that we had forgotten to clean the block. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had caught a glimpse of her before being blocked off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Even half a block behind him, I could see Sal’s body hunch and slow down. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

When the road is blocked with fallen masonry from a collapsed building, Hamza scrambles over the scorched bricks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A solid block of buildings with rooms and rooms and a gymnasium and everything, with policemen to help all the children across the streets. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It hung down from a glowering sky behind London’s tower blocks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I said we could walk around the block near the Baptist college. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy curtains hang over her windows instead of rugs, blocking the dangerous light. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the auction block they tallied the souls purchased at each auction, and on the plantations the overseers preserved the names of workers in rows of tight cursive. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But more than a few blocks away, north of the raucous automobile traffic and elevated railway on 86th Street, was a strange unknown territory, off-limits to my wanderings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two blocks before Canal, the bus makes a left turn off Claiborne. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police were setting up barricades blocking one whole lane of cars. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, I used to stare at the posters on the wall and try to block out the sound of his breathing while he waited for me to talk about my feelings. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can block my ears and pretend nothing happened at all. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I cupped my hand around the wick of my candle, blocking his line of sight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once started, they could leave three blocks behind them in about fifteen seconds. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a raptor emerged a few blocks away, its shiny, bloodred body bent forward in a low stalking position, the hooded rider leaning all the way back to stay balanced. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other’s existence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A long tan car idled up the block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While blocks away, I could still hear that music. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

On the next block, a cop car slowed down and eyed us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“All right,” breathed Hermione, as the broken printing press blocking the top of the stairs began to tremble; Xenophilius was feet away from them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On top of this the horse chewed up vitamin blocks as fast as Onofre could pitch them in, and of course the animal was always licking away at a salt block. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And nor did Feral consciously summon the sheaves of cloud that coalesced around them, blocking out the sky, the horizon, the Cusp, shrinking the world to here—this garden and this garden alone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The block is empty, so I inch over to make room on the metal steps in front of my trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I carry the linoleum block to the garbage can and throw it in hard enough to make everyone look at me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Our destination is several blocks away,” Scythe Goddard told them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Craig immediately threw his hands up as if to block the words that had just come out of my mouth. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After a few blocks I turned left on Fulton Street and walked onto the bridge that crossed the river. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t think no one in the world was ever happier to see a jail than I was when we turnt a corner and the Dee-troit jail was jus’ a block away. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The old lady on the block needs help, everyone pitches in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Water is better than running because it blocks everything out. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This was a very ancient thing: an old and terrible spirit was prisoned in that block of stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We talk about music, his school, my school, and soon our little block in Bushwick extends all the way out to here too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He has passed up graves covered by foot-high rectangular blocks, called mesas, with triangular headstones that would make good pillows. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I felt certain the police would circle the block and check on me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We head outside and walk down the block to the trolley. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A man stood in front of him, blocking his way. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I turned the corner from our apartment complex and walked a few blocks to the main strip, where all the restaurants and shops in Canal Grove were located. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, they appear in the sky, two blocks down, maybe a hundred yards above us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had to move two blocks up the hill to a dahlia garden where they put out traps every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three times he circled the block and saw nothing unusual. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my nickel in my hand, I walk right past the pew where we were sitting and keep going, right out the door, down the block, around the corner to the candy store. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tony yelled back over his shoulder, “Home,” and kept walking down the block. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The deserted sidewalk rose steeply and continuously for several blocks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Voices could be heard from inside the blocked fireplace. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Mirian walks her children down the block, they beg her to buy them a soda or an ice cream cone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But he must have wanted to share his pain, because two blocks later, he began talking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Duncan hiked the ball and went into his pass block stance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three blocks away are the tennis courts, the pool, two soccer fields, and the two-story community clubhouse. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When we return to her car, it’s sitting on cinder blocks, and all that’s left is a shell. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

A great sheet of white paper was pinned on the wall, covered with curious lines, and little coloured dots, in blocks, together. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Carlos acted like he was Lisa’s daddy. When I got locked up, he moved y’all in with him and blocked my calls. Even took her to a divorce attorney.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then I saw a picture that I remembered in my mind when I was a kid and the children in the block let me play with them, hide-and-go-seek and I was IT. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had ten stone blocks on the stone-boat, all he could manage, and he was hauling and heaving the stone-boat and cursing the stones, but with each heave he got closer to the wall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“This is the brain,” she says, waving her hand over the block section in the middle. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He throws it off to Jackson, who is blocked by Stefanski. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to block my face with my hands because I know that’s where he’s going, but the stomach punch makes me slow. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But as I walked into B-block one afternoon, I saw Sergeant Murray es-corting him out of the block with all his belongings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She might not be up to it,” the woman protests, blocking the way. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He exited the brownstone and went down the block to the park. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

No matter how much Mom knew or understood, her plan had failed before she even got off the first block. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Bail out, dress the dead, pay the rent, find new rooms, start a school, storm an office, take up collections, rout the block and keep their eyes on all the children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two closest ones are up a block, chatting. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The baton came up again, and Moss had no time to block it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then there was the clasp of the key ring to wrestle with, and the perpetual risk of the hail, which for a Gallivespian was deadly: blocks of ice as big as his two fists. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds of inmates’ lives. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bottles of champagne sit in a molded block of ice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the plug that blocked the opening, the Mark of Athena began to glow—the red outline of an owl. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As I continued down the street, it dawned on me that I was only blocks from the Arbeiter-Zeitung’s office. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he doesn’t say it, Mom gets up to block the doorway. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lied: He did everything possible to block ratification, and he tried to time the vote to ensure its defeat. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He began to frequent the Reykjavik Public Library, only a few blocks farther from where he lived. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s this fellow loose that killed the little girl on our block.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From blocks around kids came to see his arm. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tonight she and Lazlo had sought solace in each other and found it, and they had hidden in it, blocking out reality and the hate they were powerless against. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We had ripped the wire down, and every kid on the block, girls included, could climb onto that roof. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He waited for only two or three blocks to go by before saying to Mr. Beale, “This is it.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After crossing the river, I hopped aboard a streetcar in passing, clinging onto the rear bars for several blocks, until it slowed at a corner. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He merely sat exhausted on a block of stone and watched dully while Gebu conferred with Pai or strode about examining the progress of the work. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The previous June, Hitler had awarded Goebbels a sumptuous personal residence on the recently renamed Hermann-Goring-Strasse, just a block south of the Brandenburg Gate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A block ahead, on Onerfin Avenue, a big group of Stingers is gathering across the street. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I could only picture the gun, the block tower’s magic destroyed by foreign invasion. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the back of this room, a row of thin metal slots looked out onto the main hallway of the cell block. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I was only going to ride them once around the block and then take it back. Honest, Sarge.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been around the block enough times to know when someone’s hedging. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You, Julio, just have to walk three uncomfortable blocks, with me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Sweat poured down Bull’s face and Ben caught an elbow under the left eye when he tried to block one of Bull’s hook shots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usual crowd was present—Singer, Blount, various men who worked in stores along the block and in the mills down on the river. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catches it and holds on tightly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like my elementary music teacher, banging on a handheld wood block with a little mallet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We left the block around ten o’clock so it could be cleaned. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood to push past Dante, who threw his legs in my way as if he were blocking me from scoring a basket. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The prison was ten blocks away from the wharf. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d wish I could buy about sixteen blocks of land and build a kind of Disneyland of my own.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Alec held up his hand to stop Mark behind the last house on the block. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had seen the exact same photo at another guy’s booth a block away. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Tylers mom drove them the few blocks to their houses. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, whole, great new blocks of information are being brought in almost daily and put precisely down in what were previously empty spaces. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught up with Prosper and blocked his path. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we reach the next corner, the entire block ahead of us lights up with a rich purple glow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Bod pushed through the trailing ivy that blocked the Walk and into the northwest corner of the graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When they finally turn on the lights, Lorena tells me that we can walk to the after-party because it’s only two blocks away. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the trolley came to their stop, the ghost was gone, and the old man got off in front of them and began to hobble down the block in the opposite direction. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A block that was safe and fire free one moment, might burst into flames a second later. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Very Friendly Animal Center was a building made out of cinder blocks that were painted gray. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

When we stepped under that overhang, it blocked out the sun. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

If a stranger is hanging out in front of the building, don’t ever go in—just keep walking around the block until he’s gone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You could have done that without running around the block.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

More than twenty families from one city block raced outside with faces covered to protect themselves from the gas attack. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Peeled flesh hung down and congealed blocks of blood and particles of sand clung to each hanging bit of skin. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I drove it around the block, testing the brakes, the radio, the turn signals. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Maniac and the rest of the vacant lot regulars got there, Chestnut and Green was a cross between a block party and a swimming pool. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cross the street and I can’t help but realize that two blocks back I thought I knew my Daddy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And the other servants always gossiped about everyday sights they had seen in town: the back stoops of stores always blocked with the frozen bodies of beggars. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By coincidence or out of some malignant expression of humor, the house was located right behind the city morgue, a few blocks north of City Hall. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Free blacks carried proof of manumission or risked being conveyed into the clutches of slavery; sometimes they were smuggled to the auction block anyway. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We were unpleasantly surprised to find that our application was blocked by a delegate from Uganda who complained that we were a tribal organization of Xhosas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turkish troops block the exits from the quay. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a worn wooden block from a kindergarten class and read boys in thick green permanent marker on one side. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

For a block or two, my brain played with that: What were they selling in there? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced up and down the block—the rest of the Raptor Claw was quiet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We come to a stop, and I can see that there’s no visible entrance—it’s blocked off by a tall chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They traveled practically half a block that way. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meir moved to block me, and I darted past him to head straight for the door. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled the car off the Outer Drive at Seventh Street, drove north on Michigan Boulevard to Lake Street, then headed west for two blocks, looking for number 16. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we make our way to the theater, five blocks away, it occurs to me that Lillian never had any intention of going to the picture with us. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was spreadeagled on the stone terrace on the east side, his head crushed and mangled by a great block of white marble. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She scoots forward, getting ready to get up even though there are at least four more blocks to go. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I got back to the block, some kids had set up a hoop in front of the bicycle shop and were playing some rough three-on-three. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A block away, we could hear the muffled music coming from the Dugout. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was only half a block back, when suddenly the bus turned a corner, and the dog disappeared. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the top of the block were the words Tear here to open and a black arrow pointing to the edge of the plastic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We turn time here, get to the tournament, block the spell, and then return safely. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

People had to drive three or four blocks north of the mosque to find a spot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, don’t stand there blocking the door. Get out of the way,’ said the farmer, but the goat didn’t answer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I throw up my hands, using my forearms to block the weight of her torso before she can take a bite out of my face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, they would block off a street, round up healthy Jewish workers, and send them deep into Germany as slave labor. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She took Elm Street, parallel to Main, until she reached the Drift’s block. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I was talking to some of the others on my block, and one of them works in the Mess.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the locker room the coach was talking about how we had to overload one side of their zone and block off the defense when we swung it to that side. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It would be lovely to cuddle up beside her while Georgie sat nearby, building block towers and pretending not to listen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, the big Death Eater had just fired off a hex that caused half the ceiling to fall in, and also broke the curse blocking the stairs,” said Lupin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I grabbed up a block of wood—but then, twenty-five years of self-imprisonment took control. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A big, fluffy Persian leaped, and I thought I glimpsed...wings as it sailed over me and landed by the door, blocking any escape. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The restaurant is part of a whole block of Korean businesses lodged in converted row apartments dating from the fifties, when the population was still Italian and Irish and Jewish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today at lunch Tommy and the only other Mexican kid, Rene, walked over to where I was sitting, on a cinder block in the far corner of the yard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

No one would have to find out—Winnie would not have to find out —that Mae could not . . . but Winnie blocked the picture from her mind, the horror that would prove the secret. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because everyone in that room had not one mind but two, and all the while their conscious mind was blocked, their unconscious was scanning the room, sifting through possibilities, processing every conceivable clue. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

That was getting the whole block in your business. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One had a car up on blocks right on the front lawn. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what. Let’s get our feet wet and walk up a couple more blocks. Then we’ll turn this stuff in. When all this turns into loaves and fishes, you’ll have a different outlook.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“One of them may inherit us. Or we could end up back on the auction block.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some inmates, for example, would try to flush something huge, like a bedsheet, in hopes it might foul up the entire block’s plumbing or allow them to flood the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make it down to the end of the tree-lined block where the street sign says that it’s Fifth Avenue. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Nights, when she isn’t working, she sings gospel at the New Life Church, a few blocks over. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inside the old city, mountains of stone blocks, sacks, shutters, branches, iron grillework, and chimney pots fill the rue de Dinan. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Up to four, I think. Then they’re moved to the main block. The nursery’s in the kitchen block, like, right over the kitchen on the ground floor.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It was your idea,” Rufus says, walking his bike down the block. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Might work. But then you’ve got a five-million-kilo turtle carcass blocking the entrance to the straits. If we can’t fly with the oars broken, how do we get the ship out?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A doctor came into the room and announced: “Tomorrow, right after nightfall, the camp will start on its march. Block by block. The sick can remain in the infirmary. They will not be evacuated.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while they came to another wall blocking the way. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an emergency, I was supposed to step outside the block into the corridor and lock the door from there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how many blocks we walked. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He cut a sharp right on Piedmont Avenue to head up to Fentons, and the neighborhood changed within a few blocks. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We continued on down the block, and he kept glancing at me sideways. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of the shooting, policemen hustled Charles Guiteau from the railroad depot and dragged him two blocks to the police station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z