They polished the bright work on the stove and they washed all their clothes and blankets. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew so bitter that I decided to have it out with Granny; I would tell her that if she did not let me work on Saturdays I would leave home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And this dog is her muse. She’s working on the animation.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A painter had been sitting on the riverbank, working on a water scene. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Would human medicines even work on a Holy Being? Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They dotted the globe, those who had worked on Project Apollo, those who had made possible the day that had come. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The two of them lay back and let the warmth of the water work on their tense muscles. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You were the one who made it so that Travis could meet G. M. Pennington. He said that was the best night of his life. Will you send me that story Travis was working on?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I lolled on my back and worked on my tablecloth listlessly, to preserve my mother’s fantasy that I’d be getting married one day, and after a while it began to draw me in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he assured Paul that there would be 575 police officers on patrol during the parade, significantly more than the 367 that would be working on the day of the presidential inauguration. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Also aiding our cause was my work on tobacco mosaic virus. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Stranger still, she was one of the very first volunteers to work on the paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Standing at the checkout counter with an armload of sock monkeys, I told the cashier, "These are for a piece I'm working on. It's a performance commissioned by the art museum. I'm an artist." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had often gone home alone late at night when working on the night shift, she explained. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was done working on him, Winn-Dixie looked a whole lot better. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I was talking to Mr. Land who works on the kichen floor and went to school with me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Venia goes to work on my hair, weaving strands of red into a pattern that begins at my left ear, wraps around my head, and then falls in one braid down my right shoulder. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Washington Post suspected that something funny was happening at the monkey house, but the reporters and editors who worked on the story couldn’t quite get to the bottom of it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she’s working on Friday night. She works pretty much all day every day and every night. So as long as I’m home before ten...” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Once they got down near the layer of fossils that Louis and Mary wanted to work on, Mary insisted on doing the last of the heavy work herself. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cross the river to the north, and you arrive at the King’s College labs, where Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins began their work on DNA crystals in the early 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The surgeons who had amputated my leg were now working on the skin, bone, and cartilage they had removed. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“One thing I know for sure is, we can’t work on an empty stomach. Let’s grab a burger to go,” Trouble says. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

How she would do that after getting in trouble, though...that part she was still working on. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When she worked on the quilt, head bent, awkward fingers guiding the needle carefully through the material, she experienced a strange, tender feeling that was new to her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I set to work on the leg and thigh bones, snapping them at the joints and peeling off the tendons and digging out the marrow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the classroom working on my holiday center. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“He and his brother worked on a top secret project to make the atom bomb during World War II.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The boys are working on an impressively large Lincoln Log house that’s made out of pretzel sticks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We continued our work on issues involving children by pursuing more cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d always worked on understanding the plague viruses, of course, but he must have uncovered something that upset him enough to make him quietly file for a change in work assignment. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then he started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the hot bags of colored guts, pushing them into a pile on the rock while the others watched him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“What about tonight? You out there working on honey sitting on the lawn?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cash ran out, he’d work on them until they had staked practically everything they owned, right down to their horse blankets. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Osh went straight to his easel, where he’d been working on a painting of Mouse curled up in a lightship basket, her tail hanging over the rim. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Morrow made cryptic announcements, saying the company was working on an ambitious project that would move them in an entirely new direction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They worked on, moving together—together—producing the fruit of this earth—speechless in their movement together. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Who said I was talking about you? Did you hear me say Fabulous? No. See? You need to work on your English comprehension.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Some new project my mom’s working on,” Pearl had told him. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As if that sort of trick could work on her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“We even have to work on Sundays,” I said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw two kids younger than me working on a snowman, except it was so cold, the snow wasn’t packing and it looked more like a snow heap with branches sticking out for arms. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The series they were working on when I showed up was for the Disney Channel and called Higglytown Heroes. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’d decipher a phrase, read it over again, pocket it while he worked on the next, until a whole sentence, a whole page was his. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy and the judge were still at work on the heirs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rushing is my number one problem, and since figuring that out, I actually began slowing my prayers and working on my “conscious awareness,” as Ghazali calls it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Her hair looked even crazier than it had this morning—more frizzy than curly, like she was working on a big red Afro. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I tell them I’m heading for the gym to meet Coach and work on my layup. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not uncommon for work on a building to begin even before the architectural plans were completed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

At half past six the next evening—she worked on Saturday nights, of course, while the rest of the staff went to the pub—she set up the camera again with Gosling’s help. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But you do, Helvar. I want you working on the plan of the Ice Court every minute until we sail. No detail is too small or inconsequential. I’ll be checking on you regularly.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After leaving Tokyo and the Washington Post, I had moved back to Seattle to work on this book. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had his generals get to work on a springtime plan for crushing the Red Army near the city of Kursk, and hoped to get to Moscow that way. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Do you have any idea how long I’ve worked on remodeling this palace? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Shay had been working on the project since she’d come to the Smoke ten days before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I cannot control it completely yet, but sometimes when I’m busy reading or working on a problem, I get a feeling of intense clarity. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The storage room, Harmonee, working on our two cities...it helps. I still think about doing bad things sometimes. I’m not completely better, but I feel like I could be better.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Dad couldn’t do any work on his computer because of the power being out, so he stayed in the living room, not in his office. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a science project that I’m working on and he kept stealing my seeds, First Turkey. I’m sorry but I didn’t know what else to do.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We’ve been working on Safer’s list for the past couple of weeks, adding things one by one. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s good to know, but we can’t do much about it right now, can we? So let’s get to work on these candies. The kids will be excited.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just as well—I remember all too well what it’s like to work on a circus lot when the weather is foul. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I’m still working on the Spanish-language formulation. Tweaking the protein mix.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, my father, whose name was also Phillip—Phillip Enright—returned home from the refinery where he was working on the program to increase production of aviation gas. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad has been working on the file again. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s working on his new message,” Sticky said, finally understanding. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She said she had to work on the play. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Standing by the door, I asked, “What are you working on?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I think I’ll bring it along so I can work on it with him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Longridge had his conviction to work on he wasted no time. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re back where you started, in the city where you were born, only now you go to work on the forty-seventh floor in a downtown building with a wide plaza and a sculpture out front. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I can tell how hard you worked on it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After twenty years of working separately, the younger members of both groups began to see the wisdom of joining ranks and working on suffrage together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“If you must know, I’m sorting herbs for a big project I’m working on.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He would come early to pick up Adria and me so he could come inside to see what we were working on. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was Wilkins who had first excited me about X- ray work on DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“It is worthless! Look how hard we worked on the garden all summer, and for what? Two baskets of chile and one of corn! Bah!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard Baba tell Rahim Khan that a judge had bought the land and that an architect was working on the design. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps working on the scim, shining it, then sharpening it with a whetstone until it gleams. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project I'm working on. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You work on her at home and I’ll make a novena once a month.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you and Devon used to work on the chest on weekends you got up early and— I know. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother decided she would enroll me in music lessons to distract me and give me a new creative goal to work on. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“My dad wants you to sign a statement telling what you saw when you worked on the Coral Queen. You know, about Mr. Muleman making them empty the dirty holding tank into the water.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Big Ma thought Bible school was “working on” Fern and that Fern had caught the spirit. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the morning that we left for Mattru Jong, we loaded our backpacks with notebooks of lyrics we were working on and stuffed our pockets with cassettes of rap albums. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Today I told Ms. Francis about how I’m working on a screenplay.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Malcolm Henderson, working on the cyclotron in the next room, was used to hearing the X-ray workers shout to make themselves heard over the thrum of the tube’s oscillator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Still — while Old Chao worked on turbulence, Ralph lectured on about all that had been exciting and important and new in the nineteenth century. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at his baby, he was working on a revolution. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a new communication system I’ve been working on. A secure way for you to contact me.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the same way he worked on the mat, quick and decisive. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was plenty of war work on the mainland for both men and women at what seemed to us to be unbelievable wages. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper, I can work on Dream Time again.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Alvarez’s own record, he argued, proved that the lab had reached the optimum balance between work on the cyclotron and work with the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ophelia worked on gathering data, which meant walking from village to village, sometimes with Farmer, other times with local youths he’d recruited. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He’d been stupid to think he could understand the generator just by looking at it, when other people had been working on it their entire lives. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We still have a few weeks left to work on behavior and homework.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony called Stone “Saint Lucy” and criticized her as lazy, because she didn’t like to work on petition drives. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The work on the boats suggested that the men would not march out through the town gates. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seeing as how you’re still working on your dinner there,” he said none too casually to Chronicler as he wiped his mouth on his sleeve. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Strauss was saying: “The problem, Mr. Raynor, is getting sufficient funds to work on projects like these, without having strings tied to the money. When amounts are earmarked for specific purposes, we can’t really operate.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to school with his son and I used to play pick-up basketball games with Marines who worked on his plane. Do you know what was different about him?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a slow learner. But I’m working on it.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“You’re shaking like a leaf,” he said, watching Howard work on the fourth match. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was working on a poster that said tammy! in Day-Glo colors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That evening when I got home I worked on the paper. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Crosby and Lin worked on Howard for the rest of the meal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could look through it and see Maniac calmly working on the other side. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent all of Thursday afternoon working on my cereal cupcake recipe. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Not me, exactly, but the work on my tiny house. We’re building tomorrow. Maybe you can use the footage for your submission...if you wanted. A killing-two-birds-with-one-stone sort of thing.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A few hours before I leave for work on Monday afternoon, my mom asks me to fill a prescription for her, because she’s scared the pharmacy will be closed when she gets off work. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At the Pentagon, the team working on Robert McNamara’s secret Vietnam study was finally finishing up. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I, uh, was already going to ask you if you could maybe sing the hook for another song I’m working on. I just need to figure out how to record it.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the moment I’m reading Emperor Charles V, written by a professor at the University of Gottingen; he’s spent forty years working on this book. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ron and Harry stood quite still, both thinking the same thing — did the Cloak work on cats? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When they—you—send me a specific question to answer, I work on that, taking time out of my five hours. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was working on a blanket for somebody's baby shower. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You don’t work on that at all, do you?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most important, it allowed them to get to work on a moment’s notice, should they suddenly be called up from one of the frequent temporary layoffs. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Been working on myself so far,” he said. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set to work on my dissertation, again choosing Mill as the topic. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a cinch that you can’t do that kind of work on an empty stomach, so I’ll send your oldest sister down with a lunch bucket.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm still working on figuring that out, I guess." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At night, she worked on the expanded version of Dollywould that Dahlia and Chloe had put up the money to launch. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

All was going fine until Barack got a call from someone back in Illinois, letting him know that the senate was somewhat abruptly going back into session to finish work on the crime bill. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why—I worked on circuses for nearly seven years, and if that isn’t fodder for conversation, I don’t know what is. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

First, she finished clearing Luke for adoption, then she started working on getting me relinquished as well. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

No doubt the food scientists at McDonald’s are right now hard at work on the one-handed salad. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But George kept working on the rope, trying now to break it away from the crate. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” I ask, “what are you working on? Any new tricks up your sleeve?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

While we work on the boxes I work on convincing myself that Billy will turn out all right without any interference from me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I did math for the next fifteen minutes, finishing all but two problems, which I knew I’d never get even if I worked on them all night. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'll have to put my "little gray cells" to work on the problem. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had ended up working on the railroads, and he didn’t regret it, because now he had a small pension. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

We’ve been working on this chain for weeks, churning out millions of links on our journey to six million. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Chips just work on every level, you know? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The winds from the west will be too strong for us to work on the surface now.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I found it lying on a curb in my neighborhood a couple years ago,” he said of the couch as he worked on setting up my PlayStation 2 on top of his footlocker. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Shamika lives there now, but years ago, there used to be this one dude who would always work on his cars in the driveway. And I was convinced that he was a robot.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went to work on his beef bone, making an awful scraping sound. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone else pulled in the boat while Carl and Jimmy kept working on Ben, even as they carried him to the ambulance. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Charles went back to his notes about geology to work on a book about volcanic islands. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t really believe I could keep anything from the Gestapo if they got to work on me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Can I trust you to sit here and work on those problems while I go inside and write?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Her father is some sort of math professor and sent her to East Prussia where she might be safer. She ended up working on a farm.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Amil only does his best work on the paper after he practices on his bits of flour bags, ends of newspaper, whatever he can find. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You ever think about teaching your kids how to work on cars someday?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Alter, you’ve been working on it for weeks now. Have some confidence or you’ll end up running the printing presses forever.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I must show my work on Mount Olympus.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The talk was more likely to be about becoming a postman or working on a farm. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car trip, the weird dream-that-wasn’t-a-dream, working on the farm....By the time I went to bed, my eyelids felt like they weighed a ton. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s working on it, Elizabeth. I promise,” Mom says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If just working on the outside won’t fix it, you think, maybe you can work from the inside out instead. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But her mom let her walk over to the inn, and she immediately started working on her Resilient Helenwood project, pulling papers and colored pencils out of her bag. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I reconnected with Mike Tanner, who had worked on a machine near mine in Schindler's factory in Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like she says just about every time we’re working on this. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I would come directly home from Bible school and spend two hours working on math problems with Frank. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“What are you two working on, Amina? A project for what now?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He loses it because he goes to the pubs on the third Friday of the job, drinks all his wages and misses the half day of work on Saturday morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He limped on to his bench to resume work on the jewel box he was making for the tomb of a wealthy Theban. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The next day we continued our work on the presidential election project. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I work on my app, double-checking that I worked out the programming error that kept coming up when I tried to run it on my phone. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

While most everyone else was home visiting family for Christmas break, Benton Sage opted to stay behind and begin work on what would be his first novel. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He’s still working on the inside of the men’s room when I finally reach him. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Hardly had we begun to eat when we were ordered south to begin work on building a fortification and barracks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

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

Immie always left him cash for the previous week’s work on the kitchen counter. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She gets a lot of the stones from the river that runs through the woods back there. She’s been working on it ten years or more.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up at five a.m. and start working on the stories. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“What were you working on until the bitter end?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then he read physics at University College, London, and had commenced work on an advanced degree when the war broke out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“What the hell are you working on that you need two computers going?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Time to eat, work on personal projects, conference—Rae’s big on that. You can do whatever you want.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She thought about the word “humble” because Poppy had told her it was something she needed to work on. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest’s colleagues observed his “obvious distress” all weekend long; Compton suggested that he was excessively swayed by the friendships he had forged with Japanese physicists who had worked on the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, boats aren’t meant for beaches, so let’s work on getting her back in the water.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I even stopped working on my next petition to do this. You can’t let this happen.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

If it annoyed Mom to see the costume she had worked on for two weeks tossed on the floor, unused, she didn’t show it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her head ached from filling out college and scholarship applications, revising her admission essay, and working on a lengthy blog post critiquing the designs shown at Paris Fashion Week. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"Nicole, I'm honored to be working on you. Your bravery inspires me. It truly does. I'm sorry, I meant I'm grateful to be working with you." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The comrades had his permission to work on that book. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the government and the ANC were working on two tracks: military and political. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time I was at work on a new novel, Going After Cacciato, and one morning I sat down and began a chapter titled “Speaking of Courage.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Men who work on cars all the time are robots.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After working on his statement for about ten minutes, while the audience—in uncomfortable sympathy—sat waiting, Euwe read his confession aloud, signed it, and handed it to Efim Geller, Spassky’s second. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Y-you can leave our group. You and Libby can work on something else.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

From there, he could begin to work on a solution that would keep the lights of Ember burning. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. This is something we can work on. A goal.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The deputy’s daughter was in my class, and we had worked on a project together. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I organized the men into different crews, and after they had finished working in the fields we set to work on restoring the main house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked on energy contracts for the government, which sounds as mysterious as it was. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He hardly got any sleep because at the end of the day, after taking care of the clocks and working at the booth, he would stay up until dawn working on the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Patricia Marx moved back to her New York City apartment and continued working on her radio show. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In my laboratory at Cornell University we work on, among other things, prebiological organic chemistry, making some notes of the music of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why else would Maegor the Cruel have ordered death for all the builders who had worked on his castle, except to preserve such secrets? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“So that our propos will air in the Capitol, too. He’s down working on it in Special Defense now. There’s live programming tonight. Snow’s making an appearance or something. I think it’s starting.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I had known a writer’s loneliness before, working on my dissertation in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we work on it later? Maybe around four or so?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Kira must work on the robe; others would do the watching for the old dyer. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I’ve started working on my bar mitzvah stuff,” he tells me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I got him his filter, and we worked on with no more talk. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working on a few. I think we should call it Colored Domestics and the Southern Families for Which They Work.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As HeLa grew like crabgrass in laboratories around the world, a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought: What if Henrietta’s cancer cells could infect the scientists working on them? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of working together, however, those working on behalf of each group undermined one another. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. You need to work on some of your soft skills before I send you off to MIT. You need to be around your peers. Now, come on.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bep and Miep went grocery shopping with our ration coupons, Father worked on our blackout screens, we scrubbed the kitchen floor, and were once again busy from sunup to sundown. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dad was at the drafting table, working on some calculations, and Mom was going through her stacks of paintings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a brilliant thing to put my idle mind to work on: making a bomb. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Later that evening, a few hours into working on the dress, Tommie put down her scissors suddenly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then you better get to work on building a bike that can hold a family of three and keep us dry when it rains,” she’d demanded. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of— “Why don’t you bring your chair up to my desk, and we’ll work on it?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It worked on a timer: When a code was entered the electricity went off for a few seconds, long enough for an attendant to get inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But they continued to work on Pike, to pressure him, and over time he began to reveal, little by little, a hidden dimension to the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some miners, desperate to make some money, tried to enter to work on the hoot-owl shift, but were chased away by union picketers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen her since Thursday because of the holidays, but we’re meeting after school tomorrow to start working on our project. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mary MacLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, Charles Hamilton Houston, and so many more had built their life’s work on Du Bois’ foundation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He dragged it out of the heap of fence posts, hauling it loose from the ones it was stapled to, and began to work on the paddle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The more she worked on the dress, the better she felt about it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the book on top and open to a song I was working on with my teacher, Ms. Nancy, before I had to stop my lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I’m thinking of Prim, who was not yet fourteen, not yet old enough to be granted the title of soldier, but somehow working on the front lines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

More were at work on their boats, polishing brass, sitting on deck splicing ropes, hosing down the sails. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consider what defoliant will work on both the harmless ground cover and the elephant leaves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They just got together and worked on the mystery of James Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I turned the page on our lesson in business correspondence, and began to work on an elaborate pencil drawing of Noah’s ark. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s something I need to work on. But you know what?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rules are simple, you get to catch your breath every few minutes, and you can work on your tan. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We always work on projects together and were thrilled when we got our schedules during orientation and saw that we had three of our classes together: social studies, music, and science. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Oliver who works on the mixer quit yesterday. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But every day, whether I was on the headland or gathering shellfish on the rocks or working on my canoe, I watched for it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Nathan saw the truck that Uncle Jet had been working on. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy goes to the backyard to work on this old pickup truck he’s been restoring since I was a kid. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He liked working on projects of his own choosing, at his own pace. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As my heart calms down, as my breath softens, I get up to work on my altar. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One day we worked on verb tenses: “I surf the Net, I surfed the Net, I was surfing the Net.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I work on the newsletter, wishing I was working on the stories instead. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The paramedics were working on Mrs. Wheeler, so she heard the whole thing, too. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nights I’m not working on the ambulance are the hardest. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he would just let her get to work on it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the steps for a while, not talking, watching Howard working on his puzzle. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Florida smoothed her hand over the piece of trim she’d been working on. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

After seeing the technical and nontechnical sides of the job, I began to picture myself working on a mission like this one. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the dances, Dad would sit by himself against a wall, as far away from the orchestra as possible, and work on papers he had brought along in a brief case. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Money’s supposed to make things easier, but it’s always doing the opposite. I sort of wish we worked on a barter system.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

With that small victory, Lydia resumed work on her admission essay. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Throughout the whole course of my working on this book, it is the only question I recall Volpe not wanting to answer. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"If they were so smart, they wouldn't be working on Christmas day, would they?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, but there’s so many possible accomplices. Pickett has, like, thousands of employees. And who knows how many people working on that property. I mean, they have a zoologist.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The story included a couple of quotes from me—one was about Dad needing to work on his self-control, and the other was about how he wouldn’t hurt a flea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The street was torn up and men were working on the car-tracks by the light of acetylene flares. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I figure I have enough attitude to kill a few people myself, only it never works on the right ones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m calling regarding a case Mr. Riley was working on quite some time ago.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I cannot work on you when you are this big, Lord. You must reduce yourself to . . . oh . . . about twelve feet.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A string of gray yarn stretched across them, and the last woman was working on a large wooden spinning wheel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We worked on the assignment because we knew Mr. Fordiani would be back and there would be consequences. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear me? Tell them that nobody’s medicine will work on my son. He will not marry an abnormal woman, unless you kill me first. Only over my dead body!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That takes me back. It certainly takes me back. I remember when I took home my first pay. I was a boy at the time...working on a farm in Manhasset, Long Island. Well, sir....” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was less sure he had done the best job possible and immediately began work on a wholly new draft, which he submitted to Washington two weeks later. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On his way to work on November 5, Shyam heard on the radio that someone had been set on fire on the bus. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Everything you been working on, Titid,” says Marcel, in a sudden silence. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In case you want to work on it at home.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was a Head Start teacher and did not work on Saturdays. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The friend had been working on the car when he mistook a container of gasoline for a container of water and tried to use it to douse a spark. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I think Summer might have assumed that I had made the list myself, which I didn’t correct because I had helped Maya work on the list, so I thought it was fine. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The story included a couple of quotes from me—one was about Dad needing to work on his self-control, and the other was about how he wouldn’t hurt a flea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I will keep working on this, Moose. I promise you I will. But I don’t want to give you folks false hope.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All human drugs work on bonobos, so whenever his wheezing kept him awake at night I gave him precious cough syrup I bought from the US embassy commissary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t mind doing something like that when I’m twenty, working on movies. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He told me his story, a South African story that was all too familiar to me: The man grows up under apartheid, working on a farm, part of what’s essentially a slave labor force. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the great waves had cost me all the food and weapons which were stored in the cave, as well as the canoe I had been working on and those hidden under the south cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch her in the kitchen as she works on getting Hector’s formula ready. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I do. Whenever I play, even in the play-ground, I’m checking out how to protect the ball and do all the other stuff I do. You got to work on your game, man.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that he was working on a sequel set in the Netherlands—maybe Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Man end up moving there and trying to start a new life. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He began work on a series of rules for thinking which would help him establish the truth; he sold some property so that he could be self-sufficient and concentrate on his great enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we left camp to chop ice, shovel snow, or work on roads. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She was telling me about school, how she too was working on her gen­eral education classes, at Ohlone Junior College in Fremont. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine had loved to work on my hair. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I, on the other hand, needed to climb the ranks in the Fishery quickly so I could earn money working on my own projects. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No, they just take some blood and let the animals go. But I’d like to work on figuring out how to make man-made crab blood so we can leave them alone completely.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

On my laptop, I open our folders of notes and sort through all the ideas we were working on before last April. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He threw papers and worked on Saturdays and read. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had announced on the first day of school that she had no idea what they were going to work on that year, or how. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A kid in a gray Members Only jacket leaned against the wall, working on a Rubik’s Cube. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Velma T.’s working on some hot packs to help clear the lungs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Amari had very little time to worry about the future, however, for she heard Bill, the redheaded sailor, who was working on the tallest sail of the ship, suddenly shout, “Land ho!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he could swallow, at least liquids, food seemed the next thing to work on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Nah. I work on stuff at lunch sometimes and after school, so I want to have it with me.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

On the scientific side, apart from the work on gravity, in 1678 Hooke came up with his best-known piece of work, the discovery of the law of elasticity which bears his name. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Lee began work on a plan of withdrawal. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be fair, Maya was working on an essay. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A large number of males, some a little older than he, some older than his father, and many in between, worked on a chaha’oh that was much bigger than Nali’s. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe the others would have accepted their meals, but Di, who is deep into her third Michelob, insists that everything else go back while they work on their starters. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying unsuccessfully to pat down his messy hair, he says, “I’m still working on that part. But I will make the world a better place. Somehow or other.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know if the book I’m working on now will be a good book or a bad book. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad says, I thought I might get work on some of the farms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She would be working on a sketch of something familiar but drawn at such close range so she could attach a special nozzle or handier handle, the thing looked peculiar. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Their publication of new discoveries had been halted during the war, but they had not stopped thinking—or absorbing the knowledge gained from work on the physics of the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Not remembering can be difficult, but I’ve had a lot of time to work on it. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He has stopped working on his canvas, the painting we all thought was going to be this awesome, earth-shattering piece of art that would be auctioned for a million dollars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All he does is work on the model for the new junior high school. He goes over and over it. He moves a pillar here, then another one there. It’s not classical enough,’ he says. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Working in a rice field is ten to twenty times more labor-intensive than working on an equivalent-size corn or wheat field. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And if the Germans learned how seriously the Americans were working on an atomic bomb, they’d surely double their own efforts. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she wanted to be an architect someday, but I’d learned the hard way not to ask what she was working on. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Malik wanted to work on his documentary in the lab before school. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“But before I go, I wanted to ask...did you ever finish that drawing you were working on?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dad showed me some of the calculations he’d been working on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We kept working on our project, finishing up our paper prototypes and playing around with some app-building software. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have a mysterious admirer; it appeared they both had a mysterious matchmaker, which set Citra working on another mental list—at the top of which were her own parents. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Beckendorf and his siblings were working on a line of defensive spikes and trenches. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Although his salary would be paid for the coming year from the medical school budget, he would be near enough to be summoned for work on the cyclotrons when needed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if they normally work on a Sunday afternoon or if the noise was laid on specially for us. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"It's okay, amor. Just work on your homework. That's more important. I can finish here." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At eight o’clock in the evening he will eat some miserable rubbish they get in exchange for their food tickets, then he will take a powder for his headache and work on. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ended up being a present for Isa’s twelfth birthday, and Jessie had spent nearly all of June working on it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“That gives you one whole night to work on your sorry excuse for a resume.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on getting it lighter,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“So what are we working on tonight? Adding fractions?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

After working on it for three years and seven months, he had sent the manuscript to his publisher in January 1842. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next couple of weeks I work on finding my lost traps. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

While the other mothers forced my sisters to trace their cursive letters, I worked on shades and spectrums. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He works on little else, though the sum of money involved makes that arrangement more than manageable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her mouth never stopped working on her gum. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ones they thought they could save they worked on, the others they marked their wounds down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day that winter, I went to a classmate’s house to work on a school project. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Funny, because I spent all weekend working on that, too.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Fifteen or twenty minutes later, sergeants were interviewing DiPaola and Davis—they had been working on those same galleries—as well as other officers who had been involved. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Pierre Michel actually working on that train, the chance was too good to be missed. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have already discussed his work on light and colour, which led to the famous row with Hooke. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Had he been working on that all night? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Of course, you know that at the exact moment I slammed into the track, everybody else—who had all been off working on their specialties—just happened to be looking toward us. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone was so focused on what they were working on that nobody noticed me walk into the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She worked on it for a week, using a sharpened Popsicle stick to shape the slightly bulging eyes and the goatee and earring and longish hair. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped there was something in that haint-blue paint that would work on people. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The students flew every day as long as the weather let them, working on flight skills and cross-country navigation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He ate alone at the end of the table, then returned to Gryffindor Tower, thinking of all the extra work on Summoning Charms that he had to do. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Because of the time difference with India, they can work on it while you sleep and have it back in your morning.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

On Jackie’s last day in Colby, she and Bertha sat together at the sewing machine in my room and talked about boys and clothes and movie stars while they worked on a zipper. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He will start circling soon and then I must work on him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were various collections of Poe’s work on the table, along with other mysteries and scary stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

By the end of the month, April and Melanie were beginning work on their own alphabet of hieroglyphics for writing secret messages, and at the library they were beginning to be called the Egypt Girls. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they had eaten, Nat spread his work on the table. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came to apportioning work on an aptitude basis, the smaller girls were assigned to dust the legs and lower shelves of furniture; the older girls to dust table tops and upper shelves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to stay with me, or work on your own?” she whispered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying we should talk about it. Not everyone has private islands. Some people work on them. Some work in factories. Some don’t have work. Some don’t have food.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He said, “I'm working on it. Liyana, don't worry. I’ll be out soon. It’s a big mistake. Take care of yourself! Go home! Stay safe!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, you know I’ve been working on keeping a sunny lookout on life, but I must speak to you about Violet, who is more devil than cow.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-two and working on his novel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be able to work on the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were working on a slope and I could look down toward the cabin. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a background in math and physics, she brought to the job an understanding of the physical phenomena behind the calculations she worked on. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She spent all day working on oil paintings, watercolors, charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink sketches, clay and wire sculptures, silk screens, and wood blocks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hiked up his backpack, worked on forgetting. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She flipped it open to the drawing she spent all afternoon working on. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But he carried it back and forth to Boys' Lodge and was able to work on it there in the evenings: carving carefully, smoothing, shaping. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No? But you figured an easier and more accurate way to check longitude. Astronomers and scientists have been working on that quite a while—for several hundred years.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For the record,” he said, “I save my prayers for after work. That’s when I’m feeling contrite. Why not work on our guilt and shame together? What do you say, sweetheart?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the odds, “my staff refused to do anything more with it. They said it isn’t worth working on; there isn’t enough material. We can’t do anything with it.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lon was supposed to be working on his letters, though he’d memorized the alphabet before the end of his first week, and now found these exercises dull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s working on some plumbing modifications to stop it.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Seems like they were going to let him live,” he whispered as he got to work on the lock. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a joke. David is afraid of the same thing. His dad is working on some way to get you out of here before you turn eighteen.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Chloe asked me, as I worked on copying a saint picture. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I traveled all over the country,” he said, “talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic energy enterprise.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I volunteered. The Tiger Emperor took all the men to work on the wall,” Yanna said, “so that left only old women and girls here at the palace.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He instituted a regime of “compartmentalization” in which physicists working on one aspect of fission were denied access to research on different aspects, even if they might be relevant to their own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Annabeth tried to hide it, but I could almost see her mind working on the possibilities, maybe starting to hope. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“So Max and I are still working on the game.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Anderson himself worked on contracts, primarily in the cotton trade. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I force myself to work on my Lord of the Flies book report. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

For one week all of Hyper Base had stopped dead, barring some paper work on the subsidiary asteroids of the group. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Or else Pharaoh must have rewarded the stonecutters handsomely indeed for the work on the temple. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

All that afternoon Stuart worked on the canoe, adjusting ballast, filling seams, and getting everything shipshape for the morrow. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to accept your resignation, Hagrid, and I expect you back at work on Monday,” he said. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now he could see only two courses of action: he could give up and do nothing, or he could start to work on a different kind of movable light. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had not set off any alarm bells when Zeitoun had provided an estimate and begun work on painting her stairway and guest bedroom. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And obviously we need to work on friendship skills in the fifth grade as a whole. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My experience with endless frustration and having to work on things for so long has actually paid off. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He’s working on something else: a growth hormone that will throw their systems out of whack and make them pupate before they’re supposed to. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was also working on setting up a website, with the help of the kid who fixed computers at Wilson’s Furniture Store. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

To her delight, William wanted to work on the book with her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I went to the machine shop, I expected to see the machinists hard at work on my rockets, but I was disappointed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Painter Chen," the magistrate said, "I commend you on your work on my son’s project. The paintings in the Long Walkway are beautiful to behold." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How about we take these two little bunnies downstairs, and you can tell us all about what you're working on while we stuff our faces with cake?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Selden supported female suffrage and never charged Anthony for the time he spent working on her case. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

During class, I couldn’t help but sneak looks at Dorothy at her desk while she worked on a drawing of frog intestines. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we left our building, several hundred people who had worked on our spacecraft were there to say goodbye, waving and shouting. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drinks coffee and brings his policy work on the campaign trail and drinks more coffee, reads emails from Henry, and drinks even more coffee. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His cabin was only for storage . . . and for working on his most difficult projects. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dad was working on something for work and Mom was doing a crossword puzzle. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I spread my math homework out on the table and pretended to work on it as Mama cleared away the last of the supper dishes. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“When I finish my work on the survey,” Nat said, “I’ll have a hundred and thirty-five dollars. Could I invest that much in a venture, and have room for it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kisses both of us on the cheek, sits down on the kitchen stool, and gets to work on her magical caption. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could sit here and eat and nerd out with you two, but I need to work on my blog tonight. My audience awaits a back-to-school post.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I want to work on friendships for YOU. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to get to work on the boxes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“She be spying on you hard every day you leave for the storage room to work on Harmonee....” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Klein ran a consulting firm in Ohio and wrote a book called Sources of Power, which is one of the classic works on decision making. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And my grandparents figured if these rules had helped their children successfully navigate the world, they would work on their grandkids too. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“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

Still unaccustomed to thinking like a pig, we had agreed that raccoons had been at work on some farmer’s crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It closely connected to our work on criminal justice issues; I believe that so much of our worst thinking about justice is steeped in the myths of racial difference that still plague us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I worked on some sketches for the field guide at the kitchen table. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She looked a little bit like a Saint Bernard that just lost its keg, but since she agreed to work on this, she’s gotten a little livelier and more opinionated. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I'd already worked on lots of death penalty cases in several Southern states, sometimes winning a stay of execution just minutes before an electrocution was scheduled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the world had forgotten “a certain Mendel” and his work on pea hybrids in Brno. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We worked on algebra until four o’clock and then made posters for about half an hour, using school supplies from the church. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We were going to work on Mr. Quisling’s challenge, remember?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The change was a complete mystery to my parents, who made jokes about the lawn fairies who work on the grass when everybody is asleep. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

First she starts talking about all the people who work on my case. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the paintings that she was still working on, that she’ll never get to finish now. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had no idea if those traditions would work on something so clearly inhuman. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m going to practice with the Cathedral swim team and I’m going to work on some paintings and I’m going to get a job.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He worked on his car himself, a used green Impala with carburetor trouble. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved everything to the platform and began working on her ladder. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I'm going to spend today working on some mad science. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Grove worked on the book, White asked him, in a letter, if the narrative could be told in the third person. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All semester, you work on building it, and then your parents come to see. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The only thing I can do to distract myself is work on my piano theory workbook, but even it can’t stop me from worrying about what will happen now that everything has changed—again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, you might to want work on your looks then.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The engineer corps was working on a new arch that would commemorate the victory over Polybotes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Today we were just going to sit quietly and work on a practice section for the next test. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

While a few of the center staff and the DJ started to break down their equipment, Rose and me quietly went to work on our masterpieces. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I think working on the chest helped him too. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, the rest of us had our hearts set on Winkleman, but I quickly volunteered to work on Cap’s election campaign. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Fred sprawled himself on the floor and began working on a new page in our field guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The real thing will be six feet long. I’m still working on it.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In jest, Boseman imitated Jasper’s singing, to mark the change in mood; the black scenery had worked on them more than they knew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

See, back then it wasn’t just the porters and the conductors and such that worked on the trains. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Voice took over, giving Hazel orders, putting her to work on their horrible project. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I was so relieved when Charlie bought it. My dad wouldn’t let me work on building another car when we had a perfectly good vehicle right there.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For a month he had worked on these papers, scribbling them during working hours, typing and making carbons on the typewriter at the New York Café, distributing them by hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I think there are several aspects of our marriage we’re going to have to work on.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He went to work on the highway and on Saturdays after they collected their pay he drank with his crew at the Longhorn, but he was never close to the men of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather write a poem than work on your dumb maze for your dumb mouse,” answered Brad. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to work on a new edition of his Journal of Researches, putting in some more hints about his species view. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started working on it, trying to focus hard so I could get rid of other thoughts. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The dentist there worked on her teeth until finally she had a new set. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were already working on my father, so we were sent to the waiting area. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This left only the nights to work on them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They quietly occupied the stores, some sitting at tables reading and working on homework assignments, until the owners shut down their establishments in the middle of the afternoon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After Wu Tsing and Fifth Wife arrived home, my mother often stayed in her room working on her embroidery. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that didn’t happen, Roosevelt became further alarmed when he learned that Rondon had not only told the camaradas to take their time working on the canoes but had also hidden this fact from him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

As for myself, I was treated as a man and not a boy; and the long hours I worked were really no worse than the hours I had worked on our farm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All summer, he helped me work on how I pivot and stall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“What Eduardo was working on,” John says softly, his voice lower, honorific. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lights a cigarette and goes to work on his miniatures at a workbench in the corner of the kitchen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was crazy, too, and had gone every free day to work on the officers’ club that Yossarian had not helped build. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I was working on S’meggs a little more and I added just a few tweaks. We didn’t test it from the height it’ll actually be dropped from, so I adjusted the angles a bit.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’ll have to get to work on that tonight,” he said, deflated. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After my last class, I went to the public library on Broadway and worked on my homework. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I told Junior, “I just did what I thought would be the best thing for my family. With the city of Dallas, I worked on a road crew. We filled potholes and fixed roads.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m working on one of her front feet when I’m suddenly aware that all human activity in the menagerie has ceased. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I come back with the requested items, and she’s already at work on the box, slicing through it with an X-ACTO knife. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She worked on a little smock for Muff’s baby and imagined that Wash was teaching her the tools. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact there’s a space conference coming up that Old Chao wants me to attend. But I’d rather finish this paper I’m working on.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled as he saw the ladder that led to where the crew had been working on sealing the hold. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But work on the farm had to go on although armies faltered and leaders fell in disgrace. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel stuffed a towel under the door, lit a cigarette, and said, “Fair enough, kids. We’ll work on a need-to-know basis.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had enough challenges each morning—waking us, feeding us, and making certain he arrived at work on time. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had never acted, never painted a set, never worked on a stage crew, never ushered or as much as sold a ticket. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Shouldn't you be working on your stitches, little sister?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kate was already working on it—she pointed to a large petrified tree limb lying among the stony rubble nearby. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

One frigid winter he worked on a clam boat on Long Island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

That is because he is not working on the posters. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

After Election, the politicians forgot their promises and enjoyed an earned rest until New Year, when they started work on the next Election. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a tough task, since Soviet agents didn’t know which American scientists were working on the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she powered through and finished the job, and was soon beginning work on a fourth lodge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Can I just stay here and work on this?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

While the cupcakes baked, we worked on a buttercream frosting and danced some more to the Little Tomato playlist. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, Jenna, you saw me squatting because I was working on this. Come take a look.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius filed his overcoat, scarf, and cap in one of the file drawers and began working on the cross. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experimental work on making such creatures from scratch may begin by the end of the century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he worked on the animal in the loading chute, but the bull stood still and never fought while Romero worked on him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I sat on my bed and munched on the carrots while I worked on my homework. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The “white room” must be protected from dirty people, yet it is full of people working on the spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Sounds like a good Marine to me. Let’s try to get Harter a few stripes. I like a happy man to work on my bird.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only after years of working on criminal justice reform did my own focus finally shift, and then the rigid caste system slowly came into view. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Barack, meanwhile, worked on his own documents in a shared office down the hall, increasingly fawned over by partners who found him impressive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty people were working on the Huaricanga mound, shoveling away the obscuring loess. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had worked on government orders, camera lenses, and microscopes, earning twenty-five dollars a week. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He had worked on it and used it and it was nice to think of him as part of it. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Das would grow silent, for he couldn’t bear the thought of Mala’s clever fingers at work on Mr. Gupta’s saris. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You are too inexperienced to cut cane," he says, pointing at me where I stand next to Donay, “and he’s too old. Both you work on Lagurie’s team." Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of continuing to work on our research projects, he pops in a documentary about World War II, which we’ve already covered. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Clearly the ring had an unwholesome power that set to work on its keeper at once. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell killed about five hot dogs each, mowed through half a pack of beef jerky, some donuts and were working on our second six-pack of beer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Brew’s arm came from between the two guys working on him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His case was one of the flood of cases I'd found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Were almost done here,” Osh said, so I worked on, faster than before, while Miss Maggie found a seat on the rocks and spread her skirts to dry. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Some folks may not like the idea of working on a weekend, but it never felt like work to Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He went right to work on the bars. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I would go to work on the streetcars and wear a blue serge suit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes works on a cleaning crew, then on a factory assembly line. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Would his message work on a larger scale? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Summer blessings were saving money to buy fabric and practice, practice, practice with the patterns that Mrs. Collins gave me to work on till fall. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mother started working on the pants and shirt to make them fit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still working on that,” he said crossly, tapping his forehead. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That left Father all his free time to work on flying. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fetched a mop and worked on it. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up a pastel and pretend to work on a portrait of the naked English guy that I finished last night. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Dixie Mafia”? I'd met Walter McMillian two weeks earlier, after spending a day on death row to begin work on five capital cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He reminded us to keep working on our long-term project. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That Saturday night, Fred called me over to his house to continue working on the field guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he saw himself hunched over his rooming house desk, working on his master’s thesis; he remembered the lonely desperation with which he’d worried the equations. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister works on her business plan, and I play Final Fantasy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thomas goes to work on him, and after a while, the other soldier in the room has to join him to hold the spy in place. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He promised me he was going to take me there one day, hut he said it would have to be on a holiday because I couldn’t miss school and he doesn’t work on the weekends. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He does consulting work on various matters, including the design of pressurized hot zones. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked on her reading, making the best of the education that had been cut short in South Carolina, squinting in the spy hole’s dim light. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Um, hello,” I say, which I realize I need to work on. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Carmen and Uncle Frank had been working on a blog for kids who had lost a parent to sickness. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The first experiments on reproductive incompatibility and species formation were carried out before the selection experiments, but Dobzhansky and his students continued to work on both problems in the 1940s and 50s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mom spent a lot of time reading, and Dad got the shed set up so he could work on inventions, and I made a couple of new friends. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one day, working on the ninth floor, we knocked on a door covered by graffiti. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they begin walking to the house, Jeremy works on smoothing out the birdseed on the table. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We worked on our fort for a while but it was too hot, so we went inside and laid on the living room floor in front of the fan. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Short stories, so far. But I’m working on a novel.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Having been immersed in the development of the atom’s destructive potential, they were hoping to shift as a team into work on the generation of electricity and other such peacetime aspects of the embryonic science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This book was written by Mr. Manzi to explain physics to college girls, and if it worked on us he would try to have it published. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then I made the mistake of inviting her over to work on one of our Domestic Arts assignments together and Mother got a good look at her stitches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1902, working on grasshopper sperm and egg cells—which have particularly gigantic chromosomes—Sutton also postulated that genes were physically carried on chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But it is the sand paint from working on the ceiling. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He wanted to spend the first few weeks working on fundamentals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The kid waited patiently on the kitchen table with her hands folded in her lap while her mother worked on her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every morning as soon as there was enough light to see by without turning on the lamp, I’d work on my hands. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sisters and senior nurses had been drafted in to help, and five or six doctors were working on the most urgent cases. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

First, Kappe hinted that something was soon going to happen that would expedite a plan he and his office had been working on for some time. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He chuckled and kissed me good night Maud patted my cheek and told me I had to work on my pronunciation a little, but all in all. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

About the same time that the Soviets began working on putting another woman in space, they also began talking about a space station, built from separate modules. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s that they had a skill that they had been working on for years that was suddenly very valuable.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I’m not ready to work on the chest. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Francis went back to proteins, obliging Bragg by working on his thesis was not to his liking. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I feel like if I could work on an aria, I could shed some of this nervous energy building up alongside my gnawing hunger. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A few people in the pottery room, another person working on a stone sculpture on their own. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pulled our coats up over our noses and got to work on the door of Julie’s cell, and we dragged its bewildered inhabitant out with us through that horrible room and into the corridor. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were ten children now, either living in the cabin, because they worked on the master’s plantation, or else living so near it that they could visit Ben and Old Rit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We get to work on this assignment with someone else, she says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I still quite often go for walks on the trail near my home, especially if I am stuck on something I am working on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mama worked on flowers, and Daddy helped Tidings mow grass and wash the windows of the Serenity Suite. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny knew that working on the Sabbath was against the law as well as against all his religious training. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked if this is what Hall was working on. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Samantha,” Sam finally said as his friend of the forest and wilderness left the mill house, carrying on his head the exquisite wild-cherry rocking chair he had been working on for eight months. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He studied theoretical physics and threw himself body and soul into work on entropy, a process at the heart of thermodynamics, which seemed to hold much promise for an ambitious young man.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She worked on the cucumber with an air of barely concealed triumph. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got the word that the first hamlet we had worked on the pacification patrol was being harassed by the VC. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks working on behalf of the company-sponsored Efficiency Clubs could be seen walking through the neighborhood, posting signs on trees declaring the riot to be over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t long before we was working on a mess of eggs, grits, and biscuits. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Cardinal adjusted his position in the armchair so that he was a little more upright, and for a moment he seemed to be contemplating his unfinished work on the desk near by. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The moment Mom got home from work on Friday, I told her that I was going to a concert with Radar and then proceeded to drive out to rural Seminole County to see Collier Farms. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He dismounted and went to work on the wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

No. Let’s try to pick someone you like and we’ll work on a friendship with that person. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I was pretty messy because he never let me work on his Camaro before. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I worked on these for days. I really hope you like them.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We know why. Starts with B, rhymes with ‘when,’ as in when are you going to start working on the Shumaker files?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Then why don’t you do some work on it?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I been working on the generator for twenty years. It’s always managed to chug along, but this year ... I don’t know. The thing seems to break down every couple minutes.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The welding torches of men working on the steel cofferdam flickered on and off, glowing orange and electric blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Let me know about starting work on that new kennel.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, Nathan lay in his bed and worked on the protection song that Pond was teaching him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“If I could take the stuff home and work on it, all right.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At home, I continued to work on my own progress as a musician. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Hisao and the small man went outside; Wilson worked on the tags. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was not, compared to many cases he had worked on, that big a deal. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got a job as a waitress again, only at nights, at a bar this time, and during the day I worked on getting the theater going. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Sohrab nodded and handed me one of the knots he was working on. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They worked on it in the late mornings and in the afternoons before the boys from the sardine fleet came in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in Manila for two days, a question of fresh feed, new cargo and, we were told, the performing of routine maintenance work on the engines. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of those times, I worked on a ship unloading Brazilian nuts and coconuts. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would rather work on other codes—of nature, of crystals, of invisible structures. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had been a sailor once, but when I was born, he gave up the sea and worked on the docks in New York. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the two men were working on another deal together. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month ago he’d been an ordinary guy, a construction worker who did some extra work on the side at a friend’s T-shirt shop. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The interview is multiple-choice: Do I have anything, such as child care problems, that might make it hard for me to get to work on time? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is it, what Elizabeth and I have been working on for so long. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I started out with some simple beats.When my hands and feet started to loosen up, I switched over to this really complicated Latin rhythm I’d been working on. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her intentions of making me work on her garden hadn’t budged either. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I only want white people working on my house.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, we could go to dinner or something . . . and I could work on it later.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Brazil is the land that imported more Africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in Brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And when George, the scholar, came home for some dental work on his horribly rotting teeth, Charles watched him lose consciousness from the chloroform. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go back and work on your figures,” M r. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grin because I figure he peeked through the door and saw me working on my awesome craft project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

"Come back this instant. You know your father operates in the afternoon; why don't you go to your room and work on stock market reports or whatever you do in there." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a reporter for El Diario/La Prensa working on an investigation of a drug lord in East Harlem. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Private companies are working on different ideas, ranging from space tourism to mining on asteroids. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, work on the hospital did not progress smoothly; twice the contractor was changed, and each man in turn appointed new foremen, and these brought their own labourers. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the painters showed up to begin work on the exterior of her home, the woman immediately called Kathy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He pays the bills on this baby”—Forrest tapped the card—“till I’m twenty-five. So I can work on my novel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After work on Friday night, Bo gives me a ride like he has for the last two weeks, but this time he’s not taking me home. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I worked on a small portion to be sociable, for I was not especially hungry. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to school, I hang out with Camila and Mya, I work on my app. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I could see the paramedic with the sandy blond hair working on my too-still father. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Sure seems funny, though, to stop all the work on the Drive for this robot deal. I thought nothing was allowed to stop the Drive.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

On a certain occasion Aureliano was there working on his silver, and Pilar Ternera leaned over the table to admire his laborious patience. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I mean, we worked on the poetry project and all, but she never said she wrote poems. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Hugo set to work on the clocks, but no matter how he tried to distract himself, he kept seeing the handkerchief filled with ashes. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Another C.D.C. doctor who worked on the unknown virus was Frederick A. Murphy, a virologist who had helped to identify Marburg virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe work on the boats or the railway.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We were already working on the third week. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, then, they all set out in the canoe they had worked on a year ago. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Emily tried to look busy at work on the Maltese Falcon cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“To work on them and modify them and all that. Don’t you think?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel and I worked on our project some more during Mrs. Friedman’s class. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

After working on the project for a few months, I was made acting supervisor of essays and straightway I ran into political difficulties. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Till then, I figured to be working on the river my whole life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Listen, Chris, can you hear me? Just overnight. I found a neurologist, a nerve doctor, who works on problems like yours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilkins and Franklin had prepared a report on their most recent work on DNA and included many of their preliminary measurements. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I tried to work on Greek but it wasn’t much good. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His voice was strained as he worked on the jar. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the room, a female graduate student evidently immune to the smell sat working on a spectrograph, an instrument for measuring electromagnetic radiation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Lelia immediately dragged a mattress and a floor lamp in there and went to work on the rest of the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I work on his body, feeling the lines and curves, muscle and bone, feeling every last bit of him travel through my eyes to my fingers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He worked on other men’s boats as strenuously as his slowly healing body would let him, eking out a meager living for himself and his widowed mother. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking an extra five or ten minutes to finish whatever art project I’m working on. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her father was working on something in the basement. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the winter of 1950, the head of the Biophysics Unit, J. T. Randall, recruited an additional young scientist to work on crystallography. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We knew we wouldn’t sound perfect, but we’d have time to really work on the song after we got into the talent show. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He tells me to work on the bird but keep thinking tree. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

After my mother had gone back to the kitchen, Quentin worked on his cookies for a while while I waited impatiently. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she goes to work on a night shift, she constantly reminds me to lock the doors and windows, and sometimes she calls on the phone if she gets a chance and tells me again. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Three people, working on an archaeological dig in the blazing sun, smiling together for the camera. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Exactly!'' Victor gathered the money from the floor and stuffed it back into the bag. “And that's what we should be working on right now. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have a big new sign made for the entrance and hire a design student to work on our windows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He did not care to set Gebu’s suspicious mind working on any unusual behavior of his. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Day after day, in rain and cold and heat, Erik worked on perfecting a two-step kick. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huygens worked on the mathematics of the pendulum and the design of watches, but he also discovered the rings of Saturn. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After she left, I worked on my drawing of the Large-Billed Puffins. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sheed had been worried about whether a human trap would work on someone who wasn’t human, so he was really enthusiastic about Petey’s Giant Flypaper. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“What are you—what are we—working on today?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I worked on him until the first guests arrived and we had to line up again at the front door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Kendra despised working on Nero’s feet the most, from the roughness of his cracked heels, to the smooth pads of his calluses, to the lumpy bunions on his toes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But the breeze that moved them more swiftly was working on the other balloon, too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annemarie was busy with her pebbles and her extra-strength glue, working on a stone wall for the park that Jay Stringer had approved the week before. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Doctors had worked on his foot for seven hours, but finally they gave up. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake was working on his phone, slicing watermelons in a game app called Fruit Ninja. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this connected to that ‘science project’ you were supposedly working on this afternoon?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to go. But we can work on this at lunch tomorrow.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Professor Kylmer had already started working on a variation of the plastic—a thin, slightly porous membrane that you could filter water through. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad works on the door detail and the internal floors, which make him swear a lot but he finally figures it out. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

One will be on the wall Alice and Miss Turner are working on, the other will be inside.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think this might be something we need to work on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two summers later, a dozen or so blacks struck a deal to work on a lumber dock. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some guys from another squad came over to find out what the shooting was about, and Walowick told them a guy was working on his rifle and it went off. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we called and asked about the progress being made to catch the bombers, we received the same answer: “The FBI is working on the case.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From the written evidence of Newton’s own papers that can be dated, there is nothing about the Moon in the work on gravity he carried out in the plague years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

June was hard at work on her project for the Resilient Helenwood art show, her excitement at nearly nuclear levels. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, the bar he was working on looked unchanged, but he’d pulled enough iron from it that the cloud between his hands was nearly black. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Occupational therapy. David works on writing, jumping, stuff like that.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1960s, Henry F. Dobyns, a young anthropologist working on a rural-aid project in Peru, dispatched assistants to storehouses of old records throughout the country. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d told her we were working on a school project, which was technically true. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Danny was working on an experimental psychology project that had to do with the relationship between reinforcement and rapidity of learning, and I was doing a long paper on the logic of ought statements. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Perutz was working on molecular structures, and it was the closest that Watson could get to Wilkins’s image, whose haunting, prophetic shadows he could not get out of his brain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It made sense to work on the boat—but Tag’s offer of friendship had made a deep impression on Nhamo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or at least what he was working on. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Emily tried to look busy at work on the Maltese Falcon cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I have to let off some steam before homework, so I open up my self-insert fantasy novel that I’ve been working on since January. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Santos is snared in an INS raid of day laborers waiting for work on a street corner and deported. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed like they were always working on some kind of engine. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And then it hit him: Kyle Keeley’s team bad to be working on some other solution to the bigger puzzle of how to escape from the library. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Your ummi said you were working on a movie, so I didn’t want to interrupt. But I’m dying to hear about the brunch with Kareem and his parents.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I would say, in all, she must have spent two weeks working on the stupid costume. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Vanderbilt worked on Riddle for a few days to get the owner to rescind his boycott of Pimlico and bring his colt back to meet Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was still theoretical, but the brightest people in the world were working on it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They worked on efficiency badges in sports, Nazi ideology, nursing, household training, social work, and later, air-raid training. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Other kids set up a voting system and tallied the results, or worked on letters that they would post on the Internet. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That afternoon. We did some work on my car, and had a bowl of chili at the West Side Cafe. It must have been around three.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doggedly continues to work on his technique, to improve his portraits. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Maya, whatever happened to that giant game of dots you were working on?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was just that she wasn’t working on it right then. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I couldn’t wait for Dad to be home to help me, because I just wanted to work on the plane so bad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I'm being too adversarial, considering they spend all day working on how to save my life. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked on the diagrams for my playground proposal. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Pasha’s Favorite burped as his stomach worked on the sardines he had had for lunch. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a serious matter. Now come to the kitchen and let’s put some ice on your bump. Afterwards you can work on that apology letter.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hungry, Mom was at work on a painting, and no one else was there to fix them for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said he would work on a sermon that would clear up all the misunderstandings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to get to work on time. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you might want to work on your grammar,” Ruthanne added with a mouthful of egg salad sandwich. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I worked on an assembly line at a factory that made shopping carts. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She worked on Space Mountain, proudly wearing the uniform, a red, white, and turquoise polyester jumpsuit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He keeps working on perfecting the human figure using all these media and opaque white paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1951, Maurice Wilkins gave a scientific talk at the Zoological Station in Naples—at the laboratory where Boveri and Morgan had once worked on urchins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think it would come to this, but I can do some work on that. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I found him four hours after setting off, sitting on a rock by the turnoff for West Chairback Pond, head inclined to the sun as if working on his tan. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You might want something more than cold cereal to work on.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

George and Frank working on the barn, or Byrd making mint tea for everyone, or Axel learning to walk on George and Emmett’s front porch. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Hell, no. Rabbit Holman was working on it, and he told me Trask called them all in and fired them. Told them not to come back.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth and I have made plans to work on our Secret Award-Winning Recipe at her house. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Is it okay if this kid comes over to work on a project after school? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Cas crossed the room and handed a pair of scissors to Z. Rashid put his head down and got back to work on the stretcher. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Must you distract me at every level. I am working on something with wonderful movie possibilities. Highly commercial.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she couldn’t keep the tears back when she realized she wasn’t even going to get to work on aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We’d never seen colored people eating with them, and here was our mother eating with chopsticks like the Chinese men that I had read about who worked on the railroads. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, Mr. Morrison went inside to work on his own book—a mystery, he said, which he hadn’t quite solved. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harry seized its folds, but it made no attempt to escape: The Summoning Charm had not worked on it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Chess, you go ahead and start eating. Emma and I will go back upstairs and work on her hair together.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come on! I worked on this one for a long time. I think I’d look great this way. There’s a whole Cleopatra thing going on.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Ah, she has gone home. Señor Aguilar sent her home when Captain Ortega’s son came here to the hotel for her. I am doing your mother’s work on this floor now.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We’re working on a cake that involves three varieties of milk when she turns to me and smiles. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was late at night, and the only person to receive the breaking news was a lone botanist working on the floor below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Apart from that he’s enjoying himself, as he is hard at work on The Nature of the Universe. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He teaches one class a semester, but most of his time is spent in the Biotech Lab, working on the Genome Project. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned to the University of Chicago to brood, declaring that he would continue working on the Super independently. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“My mama says I lead with my heart, but...that I have to learn how to think with my head. I’m still working on it.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“My mother and I have been embroidering linens for my trousseau for ages ... what have you been working on?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A former navy officer was working on his B.S. degree in special education when he saw Luke’s listing on Florida’s adoption website. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A study he’d been working on for four years could any day be accepted into Nature, perhaps the most prestigious journal in his field. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mother asked when she was going to work on the new boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch during the following days, Quentin and I worked on how to build a rocket, sketching out crude drawings and theorizing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Mehra’s working on her first movie, which will explore gender relationships in old cinema,” Sahil said, stroking an imaginary beard. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All day, instead of laying up in bed, she works on decorating the ten-foot Christmas tree in the foyer, making my life a vacuuming hell with all the needles flying around. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“All right, then. I’m gonna go work on my book. Night is when my brain works best.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Masons who worked on the courthouse downstate came back hungry, seamstresses returned from daywork for local white ladies and put on their nice dresses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I headed the boat downstream to Rock Hall and kept working on Ben. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Freddie got on the stand and went to work on his own shoes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because of the months he spent absorbed in working on the clock itself, the circus feels familiar, comfortable. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I spent an hour last night rehearsing, after Baba helped me work on my speech. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ninety minutes later, the doctors were still working on Makalu when David Breashears’s voice barked over the radio: “We’re on our way down with Beck. We’ll have him to Camp Two by dark.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It might seem therefore that my more recent work had completely undone the results of my earlier work on singularities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marie Curie won a Nobel for her work on radiation.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Joe was still working on the shackles on Mom’s legs that bound her to the chair, but he hadn’t even managed to pry away the first one. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I begin working on the skirt Mrs. Collins taught us how to make. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say much, but showed Thomas the ropes until he could start working on his own. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then I went to work on the net, untangling it section by section, getting lead weights and fishing hooks straightened out, yanking out knots around the cow serpent’s hooves. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“If we could get everybody working on this, who knows how high we could get?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Father and I are currently working on our family tree, and he tells me something about each person as we go along. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It's Technique Tuesday, and usually at practice I would be working on my stride, but now I don't really have a stride to work on. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, after that first day the pills only worked on and off. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

These questions everyone asked while the Aleuts went about their preparations—everyone except my father, who said nothing, but each night worked on the new spear he was making. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said he was working on something for you but he wasn’t that good of a writer.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Our guests are at work on the problem of the citadel,” Eril-Fane reported to the five Zeyyadin, which translated as “first voices.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Or planned to work on it as soon as the season calmed down. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The thought of turning my ideas into an actual song, with a melody and harmonies, and the lyrics I’ve been working on, sounds exactly like what I’ve been dreaming about for weeks now. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Michael was a brilliant theorist and was working on policy matters for the Communist Party and needed a quiet and safe place to work on this full-time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hard work on Battle Cry was a brief glimpse into the real-life drama that was happening on the other side of the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Although I had worked on several death penalty cases with clients who had execution dates, I'd never before been present at an execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And because Dari’s parents wanted to meet his new friends and see what he was working on for school, we met at his house. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After ten long hours of working in the sun, my father would come home and then start working on building our new house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

We worked on the tree all day again today. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One night he was working on the machinery of the swings when suddenly he was roused from thought by the sounds of angry voices. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her hand went back to work on my forehead. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘That guy,’ he complained, ‘hit me for nothing. He said I was to get to work on his campaign saddle.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat was working on his second piece of Oh! The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erastis was working on his own Fragments now, copying sections of the Book no one had read before, to preserve the writings in case the Book was lost—or worse, destroyed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He’ll work on them for a week and send them back to me by next Thursday. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There were as many as 400,000 African miners working on the Reef, most of them making no more than two shillings a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Powell wanted me to work on the bills and the feet, since they were at crux points in the composition, he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It took time away from her work on the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s a sister thing. Give me some time—I’m sure I can work on it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"No, it’s for this other thing I'm working on," Rich said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is no sign of Papin working on an atmospheric steam engine after 1704, or of news of the version of his engine recorded by North being disseminated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a period of silence between us as Grandma India worked on the globe. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had to work on that a minute until I said, “Stop her getting a job?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These particles were named quarks by the Caltech physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work on them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, please call her parents this evening, and I’ll be sure to talk to them as well. I am going to work on this problem right now.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Under the glare of floodlights, no doubt powered by the generator that was thudding just outside the door, half a dozen men were working on a long, slender boat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"So, if it's okay with you, I think I'm just gonna go over the girl, Becca's, house to work on the group project now. That way I don't have to stay long." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

At home that night, I was working on my mythology report when Phoebe called. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mom kept working on her painting in the kitchen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She is flustered, when she shows up after about a ten-minute wait, because, as she explains, she just works on the floor and has never interviewed anyone before. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked on the Theorem from the time they got home until 11 P.M. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I worked on them last night, after we came home. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Peggy seemed kind enough, but maybe she was being kind in order to shove her part of the work on him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she’s like this for a few miles, I say, “What are you working on?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Or we’d work on the little shoebox dolls we were making out of matchsticks and bits of fabric. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I worked on it for almost an hour. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I worked on the field guide. I’m having lobster for dinner.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But this stick was intricately decorated, and from the shavings on the table she could tell that the boy had been working on it. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What enemy was at work on the other side of the hedge? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Slash was just fourteen, the merchant ship he worked on was destroyed in a storm. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then spend two hours working on my hair. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray went on to tell me that when Mr. Price found out his lung cancer was terminal, he started working on what he thought would be his best role ever. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dad watched me work on the stickers even longer, and I guess his legs must’ve got tired of squatting, because after a while he scooched down on his stomach, his elbows on the carpet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll work on it for the next few weeks, she says, right up to the winter break. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I work on consuming my hot turkey sandwich. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why had Captain Ortega, the captain of the tuna boat Papá worked on, sent his oldest son here to Mamá? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Also, we worked on reports and materials that seek to deepen the national conversation about the legacy of slavery and lynching and our nation's history of racial injustice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They set at the dining room table and work on the Benefit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The next night, he went cruising again, and came home after midnight to find Colin working on his Theorem, which now worked seventeen of nineteen times. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Martin grumbled to himself as he continued to work on Moss’s fade. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The TV was on, but now she was busy flipping through magazines and cutting out old photos, working on her scrapbook. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He wore a wide belt for support, and when he could no longer stoop over, he worked on his knees until his back gave out completely. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He even made a joke that because of me he got to skip an afternoon of school and asked me if I wanted to help him work on his Camaro. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have a justification and something that I could work on. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was in the living room humming away as she worked on a poster. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, DuPont began work on the next stage of the manufacturing cycle: a full-scale production plant located on a bend of the Columbia River in central Washington State, near the little town of Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Styx took the wrenches and went to work on the broken wheel. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Barack, meanwhile, was working on filling positions for his cabinet and huddling with various experts on ways to rescue the economy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But I bought another five hundred sols of life with my potato farm, so they have more time to work on it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, I spotted all three Baker sisters sitting at a round table with several other girls, working on lanyards under the direction of a community center worker. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She mulled that over a few seconds, but she had to get to work on time and couldn’t devote her full energies to interrogating. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee is revising her poem one last time, and I am working on the images. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Just for a second. My man been working on a trick and he wanted to show us." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was working on several of these cases, including one in Gadsden, Alabama, where jail officials claimed that a thirty-nine-year-old black man had died of natural causes after being arrested for traffic violations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Billy was working on this letter in the basement rumpus room of his empty house. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the room was a haphazard dress Dad was working on, pinned to a bust in a dozen places. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Right. Well, I can just work on my sketches. I don't mind.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m still working on it,” Cady said, leaning forward on the edge of her stool, watching him chew. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He tucked the pages away and, back in London, continued working on the problem of finding a place for his growing family to live. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’d planned to work on my part in the play.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He knew that Hob had worked on Cully for fourteen hours a day to teach him his trade, and that his work had been like Jacob’s struggle with the angel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra dabbed dark green paint along the neck of the dragon she was working on. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He got one hand free, forced it behind her back and leaned hard against it while he started to work on her other hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s this I hear about you not working on your rockets anymore?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty much everyone working on the hut looked at him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I pretended to work on sketching stuff while I asked her seemingly random questions, like: Hey, Mom, have you ever been to Los Angeles? I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A. Mancuso told reporters that he had been working on the case for some time, that he had already contacted one of the Lee woman’s agents. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia went to work on her spot, using her cell phone light. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They knew that Sea- biscuit didn’t work on wet tracks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

More work on this provocative thesis is clearly needed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was back at the beginning and they were starting on me all over again, a side effect of having to watch them work on someone else. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"Shouldn't you be working on your stitches, little sister?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My dad was the first doctor who got to you, after. He went with you in the ambulance and worked on you in surgery that night. You know he’s a cardiologist, right?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I already had dessert, and I’m going home to work on my English report.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“C’mon. Let’s go down to the beach. I have a tan to work on.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t have to work on Christmas Eve day. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

But people in laboratories are working on new materials, such as ceramic or carbon compounds, that could withstand such high temperatures without melting. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like they might have been working on a boat all day and just stopped off to grab some brews. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clamped him between my knees, pulled out my knife, and went to work on him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clues, they had to work on those clues. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly something was working on me, and profoundly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’ve got to work on the engine,’ he said, which was true. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But working on stuff the teachers in the regular classes assign is just plain awesome. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

After a while, Auggie and I got tired of working on our projects and went to hang out in the living room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I want you to work on this gull now,” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Genesis. His choice. By the way, what kind of an experiment were you working on this afternoon, Mrs. Murry?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was working on a small wine cup. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“We are working on solutions, not adding more to the problem.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I’d expected her to tell me that she was still working on her revenge scheme, or that she was afraid their weapons were too strong so there was no use in fighting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Malcolm wasn’t put out; he liked his idea and thought he could work on it to improve it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Elinor told her before setting to work on the alarm system. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice came over to lean against me while I worked on Colonel Lindbergh. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Care to show us what you’ve been working on It must be good, because your pencil’s been perpendicular for a good part of my class. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dance we spent the most time working on was the shingaling. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Ralph firmly; and just as it had worked on the dog, it worked on his daughters. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s working on it,” Gabriel whispered to himself, lying all the way down on his back and staring at the ceiling to see the all-too-familiar rough whiteness sprinkled with the tiniest flecks of gold sparkle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“In college, your grandmother was a physics major who dreamed of one day working on spaceships.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just like Mrs. Galley said: Why don’t you try working on the things you CAN change? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said at school that they could make the operation work on fifteen-year-olds now. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I say, “No, but maybe I should go work on that now. Do you guys mind?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I finally found him in the garage, working on Mom’s car. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He’d gotten himself certified to fix air conditioners and work on trucks, but he still wrestled with anger and drinking, and on the rare occasions when he found jobs, he lost them quickly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I went back to my room and began to work on the irregular second aorists. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to interrupt when you’re...meditating,” I said quietly and, I hoped, peacefully so that I wouldn’t ruin her calm mood, “but I want to volunteer to work on the musical.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like working on a complicated jigsaw puzzle without knowing the final picture. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Afterward I got to work on the New Zealand project—alone, since Lil left because she had a stomachache. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The loggers are going back to work on Monday. And the police are even letting people with cabins on Spirit Lake go up there today.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt about it—if they hadn’t been going out, she would’ve spent almost all of her free time working on her prototype. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I snapped my one brick into place on the building I had been working on. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But Kira knew the robe well from watching her mothers meticulous work on it each year. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would she go so far as to paint swastikas just to rally the troops and get us all riled up to work on some project? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There’s a third thing worth celebrating but which she hasn’t mentioned— she’s been awarded a research fellowship to work on her dissertation in France for the year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he was picked up by a black foreman who worked on one of the large tomato farms owned by Philip Turner’s father and driven to the nearest house with a phone. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made his way to the Presbytere Museum on Jackson Square, where he had another crew working on a delicate restoration of the two-hundred-year-old building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, if I ever did! Her going away and leaving you poor dear children in the lurch like that,” said Mrs. Brill, a moment later, bustling in and setting to work on them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Torrance hosted yet another discussion in her English class, instead of working on an essay she had assigned for the following week. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately the German government recognized the value of these same chemicals as new and devastating weapons in man’s war against his own kind, and the work on them was declared secret. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His mother said she couldn’t imagine how Roy had got bitten by a dog while he was working on a science project. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison sat at his desk, working on his computer. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

After supper I wrapped the toady-frog in the sweater Ma had been working on and put it in her knitting basket and ran ’cross the road to hide in the drainage ditch with Cooter. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-five and had already been working on the tea estates for six years. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked on the drawing for a while, until my hand started to cramp up, which is just one of those things that happen when you work with pencil. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sparrow kept her eyes on her hands and worked on her present, humming softly to herself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Can we please go work on this now?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

If everything works out, pretty soon I’ll have an exciting project to work on. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the queen learned that I had been schooled in Latin and French, she bade me read aloud as she and her ladies worked on their embroidery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He’d retired by then—he was seventy- two—but he did odd jobs and worked on heating systems with his brother Walter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do groundbreaking work on important subjects, reason well about clear ideas, and are honest, down-to-earth people, the kind you’d enjoy having a beer with. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And in that moment I’m glad that the Sol-Glo never worked on me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Men like me were working on the shore. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these circumstances there had not seemed much point in working on my Ph.D.—I did not expect to survive that long. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m supposed to be working on scholarship applications. Plus today I have a chance to tutor a kid in chem for some good cash. He called me, desperate.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"We worked on our teacup dogs and the stray teacup cats at home," I remind her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I rushed back to my room, skirting past my parents and their ever-growing dark matter, and got to work on mapping out a plan. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Here, you need to work on your nines.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When he first started his work on distracted driving, he just assumed people would stop the behavior when they realized how dangerous it could be. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sure, sometimes they watched videos in science, but today they were supposed to continue working on their theories and experiments. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“The doctors want to do some more work on your face,” Mom said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve been sewing all afternoon, practicing making pockets and handkerchiefs so I can work on getting the stitching perfectly straight. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There is a dreary chain of causality: The Germans were working on the bomb at the beginning of World War II; so the Americans had to make one first. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Lucky said, “So I guess the car’s all right for a while. I just put sixty dollars’ worth of equipment in her and spent all of last Sunday working on her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Rabiya and I talked about my lyrics the other day, but I haven’t had a chance to work on them since then. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He said, for those willing, there was always work on the coffee haciendas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monod and Jacob had compared notes and found, to their astonishment, that both were working on two aspects of the same general problem, and they had combined some parts of their work in the 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Charles was busy working on his species book—he had hundreds of pages written—though he still was in no rush to get it done. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agents working on Roan’s murder case later showed the creditor’s note to an analyst at the Treasury Department, who was known as the “Examiner of Questioned Documents.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What happened was that a few days after they split, I was in the Art Room with some other girls, working on a still life. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Eye’s stuff had really done its work on this one, I thought. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She peeked out the window, near the one Nigel was working on. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

What skills and attitudes do you need to work on? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“He asked me to do the work on you, but he didn’t say where. Arm, thigh, back . . . where do you want it?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Look here,” he said, “while our boy Ned has been up in shady Honolulu we’ve been down here in the sunny South Pacific working on our tans.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just knew that she was ready to show Layla her drawing, because every time she worked on it, she ended up crying or her chest would tighten and she couldn’t get enough breath. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he blurted, “Thanks,” then rushed over to continue work on the shelter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I wished we were sitting on my bed together, working on our homework, listening to some terrible pop song Emily loved, giggling about something stupid. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Running a small business was a heavy load to take on, but I loved working on Louellashop.com so much, it didn’t feel like work. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She was working on a tan—smearing Coppertone all over her face and arms and aiming her face at the sun. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Master Watson won’t give me big problems to work on my slate, just little ones I can do in my head.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The usual night-life crowd, who worked on regular jobs all day, were at home eating their dinners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton had asked her to work on the project, but Anthony had refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a mess and more complicated than anything she’d worked on before. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Are your friends working on their projects over the summer, too?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was huge, with ripped muscles from working on the forges every summer, two years older than me, and one of the camp’s best armorsmiths. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s already so busy working on all of his college applications this fall.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I believe,” said Mrs. Brewer, “that Mr. Shelton—he’s a colored teacher at Horace Mann—is working on filing a suit with the NAACP.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men had left the villages to work on road crews and in mines far, far away, sending money home when they could. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And through the Firebus ride to the game, as the mirrored softball spins, so does my brain: Maybe he was working on the cure for some disease. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The rest of the month I spent my lunch hours working on English with Mr. Lema, my best friend at school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She goes into a ramble about how we have to get together to work on her campaign speech, because the assembly is on Thursday and we need time to consider every golden word. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the doctors were working on it, and I wasn’t supposed to be afraid, because I was her granddaughter, and I would be fine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They sometimes worked on the installment plan, taking little or no money up front from a defector or his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Today was the first day I ever stayed home from work on purpose. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bolles was working on his master’s degree in history, and it seemed unlikely that he would want to leave the university until he finished it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nobody on the island worked on the Sabbath. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a little bit like requesting people not to work on the golden hamster! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a rehearsal one day, I give a ride home to Tyler Kelch, who had worked on the Good Boys and True stage crew and would land a lead part in Volpe’s next two productions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We need to work on you,” she said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I asked, but Amil didn’t answer as he ran into the house and to our room where he worked on his drawings until dinner. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While Tony doesn’t classify as a close friend, we have worked on a couple of assignments together so I know where he lives. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was satisfied that all was well, he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then she would tell them to go off and work on their step-ball-change for the opening number and they did. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Sharp effort from Beta! Penn’s been working on his defense!” an analyst shouts over the noise. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

However, with the first deer to work on, the rest of the season passed quickly. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Launching a satellite was something the United States had been working on without much success. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The following Monday Jenkins informed me that some of my hours were being reassigned and that I was to work on a media advance team. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When me and Doris got upstairs to our apartment, Jazz was sitting in the window drinking a glass of iced tea and working on her scrapbook, which was one of her favorite things to do. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And I was the student at Stanford who remembered to notice the Mexican-American janitors and gardeners working on campus. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t come with us that day as he was helping his father work on their kitchen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I would,” Nora says, “but I want to work on my screenplay before I do my homework. I came up with a good idea for a scene today. During gym, actually.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Eighteen miles and sixteen minutes away as the falcon flies, the repair work on the Margaretville Bridge was nearing completion. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he added, “That puzzle you were working on was interesting. Did you like the one I sent in the bucket?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a close-knit community, but fine. I can ask later. So...what are you working on?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Nights she sat up to work on her tinkering, fixing clocks, pots, hand tools. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I came back to the Hab, had some lunch, and worked on my crops for the rest of the sol. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she showed you what she was working on, did she?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the last bell rang, Ryan asked permission to work on the maze at home because he still hadn’t figured out how to make the partitions stand up. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Dad and I have been working on him.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The lady used to bring her home after work on the days when Mom didn’t drive. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, I worked on new hairstyles in front of the mirror. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Printing created a community of astronomers working on common problems with common methods and reaching agreed solutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Can I begin working on the first drafts?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Just making sure, honey. And I remember asking you to stay inside tonight and work on homework.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But most important, I work on my essay for Howard University. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, we got to the base and the sergeant doctor went to work on me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

George was out there with a chisel-toothed bucksaw, his wool hat perched on top of his balding head, working on it in the storm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf longed desperately to win parades and sat up half the night working on it while his wife waited amorously for him in bed thumbing through Krafit-Ebing to her favorite passages. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Instead he seemed to be working on some kind of inner resolve. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I get to work on Monday, Miss Celia’s still laid up in bed with her face buried under the sheets. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even noticed them, but now I think about the random passerby on the sidewalk, the gardener working on the hedge. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After cheating death, Burger was assigned to Germany's political division, where he worked on journalism and propaganda for the Nazis. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Once he started a project he would work on it for years, often going days without sleep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be working on Auk XXV plus a variety of nozzles, casements, and nose cones for display at the science fair. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like she’d done a lot of work on it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Oil promised money through work on drilling rigs and frac crews and acidizing units, and it meant people were willing to live here whatever the deprivation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The kids who work on the News noticed that about fifteen years ago Mr. Larson was chosen Best Teacher of the Year three years in a row. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brook says people have a hard time understanding me because I have Asperger’s so I have to try extra hard to understand them and that means working on emotions. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Army now had its own trainers, all she could do was work on the few messages that continued to come in. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I preferred to help my father work on his garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pascal’s new hydraulics is an extension of his vacuum experiments, but Galileo’s work on floating bodies is not path-specific in this way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I refrained from explaining that I was too busy working on the case of an innocent black man the community was trying to execute after a racially biased prosecution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Likewise, my grandfather preferred to spend his mornings working on a modern Greek translation of the “restored” poems of Sappho. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“NASA must be working on a solution day and night.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He worked on the tables, and the thought of Elizabeth stayed somewhere under the figures—most of the time. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked on it every day while the others were in school, but slowly, with many pauses, while I stared out the window. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But working on the species sketch at Maer had gone well; he now knew that he would not be idle in the country. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often brought a book to read or a legal brief to work on. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at my seat, I worked on a zine for the rest of the period. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

We stay up till four a.m. working on Germ, me on my laptop, Brenda flat on her back on the floor, legs up the wall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No doubt the old lady employs people who work on it constantly, a queen’s army of worker bees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I've got some pieces I have to work on tonight anyway.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the personal histories of the Soviet women who flew and worked on aircraft during the war, there are many stories of gender discrimination, but there’s practically no mention of sexual aggression or assault. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She would be required to work on weekends. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not if we work on building a better rocket engine. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“But the American customer service can be so annoying. Someone hovering around and bothering you all the time. Are you still working on that? Since when did eating become work?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was like working on a complicated jigsaw puzzle without knowing the final picture. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, not working on “Pirate Medley” would be—what had Ms. Platt called it? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

While Miss Leefolt’s gone, I get to work on Miss Hilly’s silver. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“But he needs to work on his manners.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Let the government worry about that, I thought, and started to work on the unopened buckets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schools all over the country are working on their own chains to send here to help you get to six million! Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Buckland, it may be recalled, was foremost a geologist, and he showed it with his work on Megalosaurus. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It is queer to see the painters at work on ladders & scaffolds in this heavy rain,” Olmsted wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was bent over a table, working on some kind of long metal patchwork—like a swath of chain mail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He tells me stories about the summer, during college, he spent working on the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All the best scientists and engineers have been pulled in to work on it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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 told Swope to work on it, and if things moved forward, they could talk again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you rest, Abuela? You look tired. We can work on mine this weekend.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As I settled down to scrape the rabbit skins of the day, my neighbor the skunk marched right into the campground and set to work on the smoked rabbit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was working on a sermon and kind of muttering to himself. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Is your dad ever going to stop working on your house?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

William Faulkner was excited to be working on a plot that starred men and women flying together to defeat the Nazis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, this is the standard work on the subject,” the assistant would say. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re always welcome here to work on your music. How are you finding ‘Pirate Medley’?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It works on a spring to hold the gas in. When I pull it down, some gas escapes outta the top, and we lose buoyancy and go down.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then he looked up in my eyes and said, “But I don’t want neither one of y’all looking for no work on the Tanner place; don’t no one need to get involved out there.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And as if their wretched Rally and their wretched Olympic Games weren't enough, do you know what they've got his lordship working on now? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He worked on his knees, cutting away the wire at ground level, where it continued under the surface six inches deep to discourage coyotes and wolves from digging under it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Monday morning, I was back at work on the railroad. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen May and Rosaleen were working on pancake batter. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably, German physicists were already working on an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me laying on Ice, and Trip and Nick working on Fletcher. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I won awards for my work on the school newspaper. And I’m a member of the National Honor Society.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Polly said, “I hope you have something to work on—hard.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam sat in the far corner by herself, working on her heels with a pumice stone, insulated by a wall of steam from the passing shapes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I started working on another batch of cupcake batter so I could try that, when my phone chirped. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Back in 10, he’d worked on one of the beef ranches, maintaining the genetic diversity of the herd with the implantation of long-frozen cow embryos. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“He changed his Kansas City address soon after it became known that we were working on him. We feel sure he has been paid to skip.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to work on the cutout puzzle while I get your breakfast?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But they liked her, and offered her a role in a different thing they were working on.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were already working on November’s orders and here it was only the middle of October. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me if this is out of line,” she said, “but you sure don’t look like you work on a crab boat.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fingerprints, silly. If Michelangelo worked on that statue, his fingerprints would be on it.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one or two in the morning, I was fully awake, fully alive, and busy working on my novel. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of them are. They might be out filling up the smudge pots, or hauling out pipes for the water pumps. Whatever a family has to fight with, that’s what the kids are working on.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I even heard they paid off their roommates so they could move in together to work on this stuff twenty-four/seven.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, during the day, I got an associate’s degree from Onondaga Community College and began work on a degree in public policy at Syracuse University. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cheerleaders are working on annoying chants that end in lots of buzzing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should try working on the rest of the face, I thought. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Papa, who was working on the ledger. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I'm going to spend a year in California, working in the café, working on my art, and saving up for school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s just working on summoning up courage until she talks herself into submission. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. Now, look”—I gesture at my stack of work on the floor—“now I’ve got all this.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I recall once working in our courtyard on a sunny afternoon, while some men from the general section were working on the roof above me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Klosner tells everyone to get back to work on their projects. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I started working on the mule some more and pretended I didn’t see that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Rondon wasn’t working on the ranch, he went to school. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Clocks and wristwatches. I’m sure someone’s working on a product for us to automatically know the time.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I have serious doubts that trying to amend the Constitution would work on an actual level. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Big Tony had taken the dogs to an abandoned warehouse where he could work on their “intruder attack” skills. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For scientists doing research that wasn’t cell-specific, like investigating the effects of radiation on DNA, not knowing what kind of cell they were working on might not affect the outcome of their research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not Nala sore, but working on the show made his muscles ache. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For instance, I was working on a new story in my head. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was assured he would be able to bring his music and have time to work on his lyrics. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I shivered worse when the wind hit my bare skin, but I knew it was better than being in wet clothes, so I went to work on my shoelaces. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All the top scientific minds of the age worked on the problem. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drained like I had been working on a chain gang, breaking rocks in the hot sun. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had cut a very long piece of strong vine and coiled it over one shoulder and was busy working on it as they moved. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“So they said that he was working on a story around here. He was investigating a possible drug lord and then they found him dead.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dedd had appeared with her shears to work on the hedge and keep her eye on “things.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped working on it three years ago, when he married Linda, his administrative assistant. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

All through the fall, I thumbed over to War every Sunday afternoon so Dorothy and I could work on plane geometry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the idea that he thought I’d be able to do those math classes, maybe work on a spaceship someday, well, that made me feel awful good. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was in bed working on his laptop when I opened the door of the guest bedroom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The schools led to a marked decrease in use of Indigenous languages, but in recent years, Indigenous people have been working on language revitalization programs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Through it all, he continued to read deeply in philosophy, mathematics, and physics as he worked on a sprawling treatise he calls the “CTMU”—the “Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And we need to get to work on Haley’s hair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“With data. For a while now, I’ve been working on developing the perfect artificial intelligence, an algorithm that, when implemented through the NeuroLink, can fix our flaws better than any human police force.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He would end up working on the farm as well. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She pretended to be still working on her work sheet. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The lobby was very small and contained only a desk at which a female Attendant sat working on some papers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it took some work on my part to uncurl the ball and get to the tasty cooked meat inside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I really don’t understand. Everyone wants to save the peregrines, but no one will do what it takes to save them—from stopping work on a bridge to returning chicks to their parents.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

For this reason I worked on the canoe I had abandoned on the spit. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the end of my first week, it became mindless work and I could relax enough to notice who else was working on each side of me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the grade got assigned an Egyptian artifact to work on for Egyptian Museum Day, which was in December. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Darin nodded, but later that night, I caught him working on it in our room. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I have to work on my personal statement. Mom will be mad if she finds out you left without saying.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Arturo came home later and kicked off his boots, he asked what we were working on. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I can’t work on that assignment just now,” I hollered back without looking out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would pantomime putting the hat on my head and work on just the right bland lines for the press: “Our team works hard in practice, and it pays off in the games.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She is still working on her food when Dell returns and flags down the waitress. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I told him about the book I was working on. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Aron’s questions he replied that he was working on a surprise and was duty bound to tell no one. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Engineers were working on everything from weapons to sound waves to X-rays. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I worked on the problem in my head. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “No, I’m not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I’m working on that.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t have class for the next week so that we could go to the library or the computer lab to work on our projects. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out over the class, I remember some of the other poems I heard people working on. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

After all, she had told him that when she was working on the house with Bill. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m, uh, working on a project at this other kid’s house.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

There were six well-trained efficient men working on each giant and within ten minutes eight out of the nine giants had been trussed up like chickens and were still snoring contentedly. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend the weekend working on my portfolio. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Right now I am working on a series of collages about police brutality against unarmed black women and men.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The boys from earlier reminded her of a short story she’d finished working on this morning, something for her eyes only that has kept her distracted in the quiet times at work. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We are at school early, waiting for Ms. Lucas to arrive and open her classroom so we can work on the blog and create a schedule of posts. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And between bites of food and sips of coffee, he’d tell them about his work on the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not for school. It’s just...something I was working on in my free time.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Frank with his dirty clothes from a day of work on fixing their house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Tally, hoverboards work on magnetic levitation, right? So there’s got to be some kind of metal around or they don’t hover.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To enter a mind and show it at work, or being worked on, and to do this within a symmetrical design—this would be an artistic triumph. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Together Mr. Jeet and Laney worked on “COME,” rewarding Paganini with one small piece of carrot every time he successfully completed the command. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s probably still working on his statement,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He set down the wing he’d been working on and wiped his mouth with a napkin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jackson starts to work on the lock, glancing up at me, his expression nearly unreadable in the dark. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be working on a book about Vietnam, but was far more focused on figuring out what to do with the Pentagon Papers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I am pondering these things when the medic with the freckles and red hair who has been working on me answers my question. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe now you can start to work on Grandma—she’s going to be a lot tougher to persuade. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Rafik was working on definitions for his English vocabulary list and asked Liyana, “When does a person go from being an acquaintance to a friend? Where is the line?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even with fishing, I had a big garden that I worked on, grew my own vegetables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta turns to us, panting from his work on the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But come by the movie theater next week when I’m back. I’ll be working on Tuesday. I’ll sneak you both in.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

They don't work on the Sabbath, but they have a fairly loose understanding of what constitutes "work" anyway and usually spend their free time dancing to jazz records. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’s working on a small bowl and a horse. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It makes me think that they’re working on solving these problems. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I heard you’re working on a graphic novel of the Prophet’s life,” she continues, ignoring me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I already have. He’s working on it now.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But while in the past she’d been a civilian working on the edges of the military, now she made a positive decision to follow a military career herself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was still acting funny and overheating, in spite of Neil having worked on it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could maybe help me work on Ernie’s birthday cake for when they get back,” Grandma added, her voice suddenly high and singsongy like a little kid’s, coaxing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He saw Billy working on the last of the haystack. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stoker sits at his desk working on papers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Andy traveled frequently and was currently in Hong Kong, working on a construction project. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When she used to come home from school she felt good and was ready to start working on the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rest of Blackcliff’s slaves live and work on the main grounds. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer couldn’t work on the Manhattan Project until he got security clearance from the army. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other story Judy was working on was about eighteen new trees that were going to be planted along East Main Street. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, a larger number of volunteers show up to work on the paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

That evening, I was working on Shona verb conjugations when my father arrived with news. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He kept a stony silence as Jorge pranced around, trying to work on Matt’s nerves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those blank stares may work on other people, but I’ve lived with you long enough to know what you’re up to,” she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I pulled myself off the cot and wandered outside, I found the tallest Negro man I’d ever seen working on the truck, bent over the motor, tools scattered around his feet. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wiped off the floors and the walls, then went to work on Our Lady. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime I asked Mr. Harding if we could work on algebra every other day, so I could still see the other kids too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always think of the right punch line thirty seconds to three days after the setup; Libby’s working on my reflexes. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He gathered the papers he had been working on and tamped the bottom of the pile on his desk to neaten it, and then laid the stack down on the right side of the desk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The reverend says he is working on that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Or that he once found an index card in Byrd’s potting shed that said Terms of Separation, like it was some kind of legal document George or Emmett once worked on when they were lawyers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was already the middle of January, and we still hadn’t even chosen what science-fair project we were going to work on. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As with Knighthood, Smith settled in to work on the horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked over to him and started working on the glasses, and we stepped through the kitchen in silence, with nothing but the sound of clinking dishware. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was a molecular biologist working on identifying genes associated with complex genetic traits. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they’re working on their books, Esteban finding the English words for his dad as he writes what he sees. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Newman is making us work on a business flyer next. I never knew art could be boring.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“No worries, dude. I can work on my back-to-school blog post.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He’d seen her kneeling and working on her daughter’s shoes, and it had come to him what her life was. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve never called a boy before and asked him to hang out or work on a project or anything. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We got busy working on our paper prototypes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My parents are taking a big piece of fence out of the rodeo arena so the food trucks can get through. I’ve been working on that stupid report for language arts.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He hummed a new song he was working on as he walked from Floyd’s to Lydia’s house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone’s nerves, but no one gave in. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s working on his temper, darling. He knows he’s got to work on it. We’ve got to help him work on it.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What did they know of us, except that we numbered so many, worked on certain jobs, offered so many votes, and provided so many marchers for some protest parade of theirs! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that what you were working on in your sketchbook?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Many of the men I had known went off to work on radar and other aspects of military research,” he later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll be the messenger boys on bicycles who deliver their groceries or we’ll go to England to work on the building sites. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we start working on the music,” Mrs. Hidalgo said, “and give Malú time to get the lyrics down, all right?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was empty except for built-ins all along one wall and a long table perfect for working on projects. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Every night he was busy, working on a large piece of board and two small pieces. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Avery had his easel set up, and he was working on another picture of a little Conch house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides all the people working on tour, there were record company executives, friends of record company executives, children of lawyers, brothers-in-law of security personnel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma in. He’s got a lawyer working on it, too. It’s all on the up and up.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I take my knife and go to work on a pine tree, cutting away the outer bark and scraping off a large handful of the softer inner bark. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘But I must have something to work on. I cannot burn snow.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shin, on the few days when he did not have to work on the farm or in the factory, had rarely taken advantage of camp rules that allowed him to visit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Adults and children alike worked on the farms and in the factories. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I worked on my remarks while sitting in a hospital room at Walter Reed, where my mother was having back surgery, my thoughts flowing fast. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on a project for school,” I said, because adults love when you talk about school. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But it’s okay. Ess is my job. I’m responsible for her, not you. And we’re working on the reading right now. See?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"But it's something to work on, Bobby, and it's not like you've got some other big plan, right? And you can't just sit around and feel sorry for yourself, do nothing for five days—right?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you need to work on not giving up so easily. How about we make a deal? I quit Jon; you don’t quit the program.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Saber came much more naturally to me than épée had, and I almost felt guilty that after two years of hard work on the épée squad, I abandoned it with no regrets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She became absorbed into the compound, and then worked on its behalf for the rest of her life. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She had worked on the stitchery throughout the afternoon, after her return from the forest. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I entered the room, he swung the bat for the last time, splintering the headboard, then began working on the bed frame with karate kicks. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“No, he went to a friend’s house to work on a science project,” Mrs. Eberhardt said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time to start getting the bacteria to work on these minerals. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton asked Anthony, trying to persuade her that they should work on women’s rights issues before temperance and other reforms. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I suppose he was working on the famous sermon he’d promised, which would clear up all misunderstandings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We saw them working on the turbines! And we saw that truck the Helpers were loading!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of going to school, they worked on their raft. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bursting into her own apartment in triumph, Shirley found her mother still working on the accounts for the Señora and her father mixing paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was very, very quick and had a lot of power; but when I suggested he work on the gaps in his game, he refused to listen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon we work on combat skills, throwing knives, fighting hand to hand; I even teach them to climb trees. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The best you can do is forgive yourself, take a deep breath, and get to work on the next challenge. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Okay," Gregory said, pulling away, a little embarrassed by the attention, plus, people were walking by watching Gregory get worked on like some kind of car. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For once, no one was sent back to the washroom for more work on his neck or her nails. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That night when we're working on the chest I tell Dad, I have to go to school tonight. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would spend a lot of time working on our technique, practicing a series of footwork or a particular move over and over again, so at game time, we would instinctively be able to execute. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you work on that down here?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was working on a large painting on an easel. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Pena worked on the Botocudo project slowly and intermittently— it was a longshot idea, and he had much else to do. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was now on long-term disability from Kalbro, where she’d worked on the line for fifteen years or something like that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Like a skulk of foxes taking to its dens, the soldiers had retreated to their trenches: a few still digging, others working on equipment, still others talking together over charts. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

You didn’t have to buy a uniform or a musical instrument or pay any dues to work on the Wave. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Those two are working on their fall festival costumes together.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Therefore I have told the head of the Transportation Department of the State of New York to work on Bridge 92 at Gilboa until the little family is on wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was working on her series of superimposed photos, images of tools in the shadows layered over more tools in the shadows. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In another pocket he carried a sketch of the island bridge, which Reynie had spent most of two class periods working on from memory. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she was working on a plate of it, and made me have one, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe this could be the topic of the story for the film Amelia, Serenity, and I are working on. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My flatmate doesn’t know that I’ve lost my job. So I go into London, as usual, and I go to libraries, to job hunt, to work on my CV.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would put down the hammer to pick up the “How to” book and then lose the hammer between there and the project he was working on. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working on a project at night,” I tell her. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The work on the trunk’s completed just as we hear the wave begin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But one day, I had been working on this new bell tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

His hair is matted down from sweat and work on the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If they had homework, we worked on it together. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Although Charles continued to direct the battle for evolution behind the scenes and work on new books for his publisher, what gave him the most pleasure was doing experiments with his orchids and other plants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to work on my new idea to change the world even though I could feel my meds wearing down like they do every time I eat something. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both started working on the dead girl’s rings, tugging them from the cool flesh, trying to get them off. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Cole pulled out his schoolwork and began working on his math. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Her life had always been strenuous—field work, internment, more field work on top of housework—but during this period under Mrs. Shigemura’s tutelage she had learned to compose herself in the face of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the scent of the bogweed worked on her, her smile faded, and her expression became vacant. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I always got my cars secondhand and did most of the work on them myself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was working on a painting and he’d gotten a job at the drugstore in Kern Place. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Frustrated parents attempt to use my serum on their children, but it doesn't work on people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A knitter working on a very long Christmas stocking that dragged behind her on the floor. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They must’ve had twenty guys working on that boat,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When Warner Brothers offered him a contract to work on patriotic war films, he took it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When they finally went down, Rosey began working on Cole’s wounds. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“He must be working on his novel,” I whispered. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The decon shower takes seven minutes, and you are not permitted to leave during that period, because the shower needs time to work on viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively, I place her work on top of mine. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was a world of difference between working on models in the classroom at Engels and having to go to work on the real thing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The first and most boring part is about a place called Mesopotamia, so it’s taking some work on my part to look interested. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The instructor, working on the knowledge that his students either had taken it before and flunked it, or had already had it in high school, sluffed over the preliminaries and got right down to translation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I liked the story you were working on. With your uncle.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when Mundín and Sam are out working on the car and Mami and her friends are playing canasta on the patio, it seems as if things might be going back to normal. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Because all I ever think about is Jamie, and I’m supposed to be working on rehabilitating my mental health. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then there was Howard, working on a crossword puzzle on the steps. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“You know, still working on my music. Trying to finish this demo with Jon.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go do some more work on my bar mitzvah.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what his diagnosis was, probably that I was working on some act. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him all about the chest Dad-oh and I are working on. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night soon after we arrived, I was working on the puzzle and Grandma was drowsing in her platform rocker. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dragged the branches to where my father worked on the platform. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'd like to do more work on Long Island if I could get the entry. All I ask is that they should give me a start." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to change clothes from working on the porch, but I went up anyway. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate one egg with his hands as he flopped into a chair, and then set to work on the rest of my breakfast. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I get back up to the parade grounds, Jimmy is at work on his machine and Theresa has my extra glove. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most interesting part of the day turned out to be late in the afternoon when the class worked on their projects for what the children called the Great Mouse Exhibit. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. Harper asked me to go work on something else. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only deep into the play’s final act did he notice a white scrap of paper visible behind a flickering, holographic prop stove he’d been working on earlier. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The house where Pasqual’s relatives lived was more or less a big box, with a good yard because they worked on it when they had time off. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

While we were working on a project, Luke would follow Grandpa around like a baby duckling behind its mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I ain’t never called her house except two times cause I had no choice, when I told her I’d work on the stories, and then to tell her Minny would too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And now it looks like we're going to have to start working on getting you on a train to Arizona.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Through it all, I only missed two days in the gym, although I only worked on uneven bars and upper body conditioning until the doctor cleared me to do more. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He used that word, “lazy,” often, for his students who did not hand in work on time, black celebrities who were not politically active, ideas that did not match his own. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“In a minute. He didn’t care anything about those Africans. They could have been rats. He was in a laboratory testing himself— proving he could work on human dogs.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family continues to live as before, with the men working on the farm and the girls selling food in the market. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older children worked on nearby farms, so they were still together, as a family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thank God every day for you and me,” Stone wrote to Anthony, praising her independence as a person “who can work on and take care of oneself.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I filled pages and pages in my notebook, working on just the right words for Mrs. Holton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Still, as he pondered Fred’s letter, the notion began to work on him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t believe that somehow he would not be working on those cottages earning three dollars an hour. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie peeked over from where she was working on her fruit battery experiment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For a while they talk about the projects they are working on, the architects they both admire: Gropius, van der Rohe, Saarinen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The women in our culture are known for working incredibly hard, juggling so many things—raising the children, working on the farm, harvesting, fetching and chopping firewood, and then cooking dinner for the men. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Royal did not go to war, but he went away that summer to work on the docks in another town. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I taught at a special school in the compound for Americans who came to work on the Inga-Shaba power line. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until he could grow a Talent for making mail disappear, Zane decided he should probably work on a good lie to tell his parents when they actually did open the mail. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

This was a trick he’d learned from Gran, and unlike with rattlesnakes, it actually worked on bee stings. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as Huxley and the others battled on, Charles stayed home at Down, working on a new edition of the book, with some revisions, and arranging for foreign publication as well. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do observe and chronicle my mom and dad, but they will not let me do much diagnostic work on their behalf. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When she got home, Stanton started work on the second volume of History of Woman Suffrage, which covered the period of the division of the women’s suffrage movement in 1869. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Bloom, addressing us in the chapel on the eve of our graduation, asked for a show of hands from everyone in the room who was scared about starting work on Monday. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you used to work on the Coral Queen?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

That same night, I start work on my secret project. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

George’s mother, vacuuming on the other side of the living room, hopefully watched her son work on his school scrapbook. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop warns him that we can only work on the pageant when Daddy’s not home, which is easy enough since he’s been doing a lot of overtime lately. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Lelia had already worked on the house once, this a while ago, after his funeral, so we could sell off the things we didn’t want or need. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent hour upon hour working on drafts of his speeches— indeed, he devoted fully six weeks to preparing his first major speech in the House of Commons. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

"No, I want you as beautiful as possible while you work on me. Perhaps it'll inspire you." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He came up with some scattered coins and went to work on the desk, where he found a few more. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his left wing was sealed to the straps, Daedalus began working on the right. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I there,” Uncle said, “working on Central Pacific.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked on my homework while Samira pored over job applications for a dozen or so retail stores at the posh Valley Fair mall in our hometown of San Jose, California. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My mother manages to feed me bits of food and sips of tea while they work on me, but by the time the shoot is over, I’m starving and exhausted. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But then what is left? The Machines themselves are correct and the premises they work on are correct. That we have agreed upon. Now you say that it cannot be disobeyed. Then what is wrong?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

We would get up before it was light and go down to the warm kitchen where Poosh’s mother, a comfortable Scotswoman, was already beginning work on breakfast. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad compromised by taking moving pictures of each of us, first with colored fingers practicing on the paper diagrams and then actually working on the typewriter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time he wrote these words, he was holding down a full-time job, flipping Quarter Pounders at a McDonald’s on the main drag, commuting to work on a bicycle. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soviet spies in American cities began working on what they called “agent cultivation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, my mom works on the eleventh floor. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I started telling people in school that I wanted to work on a newspaper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No acceleration—which means the ship works on a principle different from any known.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

At length, I just closed her envelope with care and placed it to one side of my desk, with the exciting plan to work on it that night, in my own time. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But I want to leave you with one thing to think about: Instead of agonizing about the things you can’t change, why don’t you try working on the things you CAN change? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he went off to work on his resume, I decided to stay out of the plants and the sunny places for the rest of today while I get used to things around here. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Mom and I get to work on the side tables. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working on it for Roman Political Thought all week. And I thought we agreed Nora is our best friend.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he’s not helping his parents, he still works on his art, painting weavers and winter landscapes and gardens and views around the village of Nuenen. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Does your mom always work on the weekends?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on a... a few—” “Eugenia is writing about the life of Jesus Christ,” Mother pops in and I recall my most recent lie to cover my nights out, calling it “research.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“When is date number two?” he writes, and I smile, glancing to my notebook at what I’ve actually spent my day working on. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He put his eldest son, John, in charge of the Brookline office and left Harry Codman in Chicago to guide the work on the world’s fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He used to work on the docks, back before he realized he could make more money taking “odd jobs,” as he calls them, on the roads between Baltimore and the outer settlements. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“So, I did my part. I quit. Now we have to keep working on your learning how not to quit on everything and everyone because they disappoint you or hurt you or make a mistake.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The following year, Isaac Newton published his epic work on light and colour, Opticks, having deliberately sat on it for thirty years, waiting for Hooke to die. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Under apartheid, if you were a black man you worked on a farm or in a factory or in a mine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Other scientists are working on the so-called “juvenile hormone,” a powerful substance which prevents metamorphosis of the larval insect until the proper stage of growth has been reached. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"And it seemed an interesting challenge, so I agreed to try. Unfortunately, I had a lot of other work on, so it was eight months before I could get to it." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That was why Emma had been working on her mother’s code as close to around the clock as she could. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Been working on it all weekend and I’m heading over now to do more before morning. Just a li’l piece for Javier.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Even this morning. I couldn’t help freaking out about your hair. Guess I have to work on letting you be you. And being less uncool.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Like, you’re supposed to give him his propers by going home and working on what he wants you to work on. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Very few people on earth had seen Ebola do its work on a primate, but she knew exactly what it could do. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, with the rover back on its wheels it was time to work on the trailer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ears listened to his words, but my tired brain was working on something else. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Goat, this is Horse. Horse, this is Goat. I’m still working on your names, but that’s all I got for now.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The problem with these was they worked on gas canisters, and unless it was really cold, Keffers wouldn’t bring many in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, a big handsome man just slightly shorter than his wife, worked on the railroad and was gone for days at a time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Initially, I didn’t tell Jake I was on a national team, but I told him I was a fencer and that I wanted to work on speed, strength, and agility. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rufus does a mock Harlem Shake to either impress me or make me laugh, and it works on both counts, mainly because his confidence is glowing and admirable. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Fuller based his work on the principle he had learned at Case Western, the belief that if conditions were to improve for poor people, they themselves would have to implement the necessary changes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later the same day, Truman announced in a nationwide radio address that he had instructed the AEC to “continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Let’s work on fixing our friendship. We can’t do that if you and my disgusting brother are hanging out.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Yow really have to stop following baboons around and work on the boat, said Mother as Nhamo buried her nose in the comforting bag. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t wanted his kids to work on the sea, but many of them, including Zeitoun, had. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Worked on it and worked on it until I got the rollers to turn and the gears to turn. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about doing homework like I told Mom I would, but decided to work on a zine instead. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Just—maybe you could remind her how awesome Nick is, and how great they are together. And then I’ll work on Nick, and we can keep each other posted?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She still didn’t feel like working on her blog post, so she texted Dahlia. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then turning to me he said, “You ever worked on a levee before?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flyers urged blacks to return to work on Monday after a weekend of rest. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before the water turned off, my plan for Sunday was to work on my paper on Lord of the Flies. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nancy would carry the hat- boxes into suite AA-5 and work on the monkeys until after midnight with her partner and a civilian assistant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planned to get to work on it right away. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was back to Paris to work on the peace treaty ending the war, an experience that generated his lifelong enmity toward Franklin, who found him insufferably austere and obsessively diligent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“How long have you been working on it?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Hazel, with a delightful sense of having been proved right by events, set to work on a patch of clover. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had worked on ships before, in engine rooms, but this was louder than that, louder than anything he had ever known. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Much as you might work on that and parents might try to push it, you can’t really teach that stuff. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s the ultimate sign of dependency. Someone wiping your bottom. But I’m working on it. I’m trying to enjoy the process.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twig and I were working on the egg drop project,” I said, thinking maybe, when it came to science, she might pay attention. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

GALLEY: “Why don’t you try working on the things you CAN change?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the geek thing to do. I got all the episodes of Matt Groening’s Futurama, too, and I’m working on The Simpsons.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An immense amount of work on the subject of chromosome abnormalities is being done by workers in many countries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“All right, you can use my truck while I work on your car.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We’re going to work on our business plan for the new volunteer club we want to start now that Sunshine Buddies is over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If that was the case, I might even be able to finish work on my blue emitters. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had enough of working on a farm when she was younger. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

This made Violet nervous as she sat on the floor by the window, working on her invention as quietly as she could. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was friendly with the girls who worked on Montgomery Street. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The old one, who had entered ahead of Jonathan, had taken his place at the table and had already started to work on his pipe, trying to light it. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Strong and ambitious, twenty-one or twenty-two years old, he lobbied hard to be allowed to work on the upper mountain as a climbing Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Right now I really wanted to be back at the crib, working on it, instead of tromping through the middle of Central Park in the wet snow. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was only one day at lunch, when I saw her hard at work on some kind of list, that I understood why she cared so much. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Kate’s hands were always busy, mostly at drawn work on the sheerest of lawn handkerchiefs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were working on our projects for Main Street, which is a scale model of a city block that were constructing in the back of our classroom. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We worked on our knees, pulling the carrots out of the ground after they were loosened by a tractor-plow. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Would you let me work on your speech?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working on it for a week and it had been due three days ago. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You could work on your poster,” Mrs. Newman calls softly. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This difficulty greatly hampered the work on the “cranberry chemical,” aminotriazole. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Even had Miss Rose work on the hair.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The apple rolls in the dirt, but I can already feel it working on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Arriving in Washington with the same sort of desire and energy to contribute, though, she’d been roundly spurned, pilloried for taking on a policy role in the White House’s work on health-care reform. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to come over after school next week? We could work on our project or think of more names for you if you want.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought the emperor took him to work on the Vast Wall...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’ll rest now while he goes out on the circle and then stand up and work on him when he comes in, he decided. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

However bad the rest of the farm, the barn and the house looked, her grandmother had worked on these fields. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So one night, after everyone was asleep, I came downstairs and worked on the combination until it opened.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought you had a project to work on?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But healers don’t waste their time saving the Reds, or even working on the front lines keeping soldiers alive. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

And after that he let us eat in there every day while he worked on lesson plans. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

His head throbbed, and his arm felt as if the Burgerton boys had been at work on him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, I know she should be better by now, but it’s so hard, and we are working on it. The reading is just...going slowly.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had worked on music in this notebook all the winter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s either California, or going to work on the highway with him—” León thought aloud. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had worked on fund-raising for the Southern Prisoners Defense Committee almost as soon as I started there, so I had some experience asking for money to support our work. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get to work on the ladder first and then stop for lunch.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Charlotte, vaguely, “I don’t really know. But I’m working on a plan.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron took their copies of Unfogging the Future back down to the common room, found a table, and set to work on their predictions for the coming month. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I figure I have all term to work on it so I can do what Mr. Van Deusen suggested: write down whatever, then go back and tighten it up before I turn it in. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I’m working on pictures of cupcakes that talk for an ad campaign for Keisha’s business. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I start working on one of the workbook exercises, and then Mom pokes her head into our room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I am always doing, always at work on something. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She had been working on the painting ever since Dad took over the mine and we moved into the Captain’s house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the late 1870s, Stanton and Anthony continued to work on behalf of a constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Most important work on a ship,” they told him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he would like to work on his own poem. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“We can stop. I understand completely if you want to stop working on it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The soca music played on as she worked on another section of her hair, hectic steel pan and percussion thumping through the air, her spine prickling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

This black box of genetics was pried open, almost accidentally, by an unlikely scientist working on an unlikely organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I had to tackle a whole couch cover and still wanted to work on my craft room. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

For all of us who work on The Landry News, he already is. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe by then they’ll have figured out a way of clearing the ash from the sky. The scientists must be working on that.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then I’d go to work on the halves, splitting them apart. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You boys need to work on your hunting.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

All right but it’s bedtime now and we need a good sleep before working on it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew him and helped him to work on a story called The Reivers.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He just went down to his workshop in the basement or to the garage to work on his car. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who lived and worked on the farm was in attendance, as well as the families from the neighboring colored farms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to work on a top-secret space project someday, I couldn’t have any blemishes on my record. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow, I’m going to get in touch with the board of directors at the Welberg Foundation and ask for permission to do some independent work on the project. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some that night worked on a small notice announcing the opening of a new hotel, clearly another hastily built affair meant to capitalize on the expected crush of exposition visitors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One day last December, Pap come home in a turrible state after he spent a afternoon working on the Tanner plantation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Even Alfred Russel Wallace, the naturalist who had also come up with the theory of natural selection, was a spiritualist, now working on a book that would be published soon—Miracles and Modem Spiritualism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at his house, sitting on a small patio lit by battery power, he set to work on speeches, grant proposals, and reading through a pile of clinical studies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He told her about a cancer scare his dad had, and about a robotics project he was working on. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I ran over to Jessica, and we worked on moving the ball back and forth between us as the other girls took their turns at the net. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Other crews—carpenters, masons, electricians, and plumbers—worked on the interior. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Then they let up on Francie a little in order to work on him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want to see her before she works on me," Sylvie demands. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln had ordered work on building the Capitol dome to continue during the war as a sign that the Union would go on. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within thirty seconds, it oc-curred to him, O’Brien would be back at his interrupted and important work on behalf of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When Arnold took the photograph, hundreds of men were at work on the building, but its scale was so great that none of the men was immediately visible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But first I needed to work on my roundhouse kick, so she paired me with Samira. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He gives us the last 10 minutes of the period to work on our projects. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lived in Atlanta, Georgia, but I had been admitted to the Alabama bar a year earlier after working on some cases in Alabama concerning jail and prison conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He wanted to share a marriage of equals, a relationship that would not interfere with her work on abolition and women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When she’s working on a project, she gets so involved she doesn’t bother to come to my tree for meals. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can someone from my class come over to work on a project today? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Partly by design, then, and partly by custom, blacks and whites were kept apart in the tobacco factories, working on different floors and even in separate buildings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The invitation came through a group called RefugePoint, which works on behalf of global refugees. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She is working on a thought about her bossy older sister: Carla has a tendency to lace all her compliments with calls to self-improvement. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

All I hear is the click of keys as Cara works on the task at hand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

To earn more, he did carpentry work on Saturdays. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Back on the barge that night, Louis said, “There’s gonna be more work on the river. And if you stick around a long time, a job will turn up.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stopped attending due to working on the weekends. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The rain had slowed to a drizzle by the time Liam got to work on the back tire. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I worked on my singing in the shower until Mom said she didn’t know what she was going to do if she heard “that song” one more time. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The mechanics were working on one out in the yard. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What case are you working on?” asked Zach, stuffing the envelope of honey money into his pocket and setting the box of jars on the side table by the window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mountain villagers, as if being punished for the ruler's humiliation, were forced to work on it—many dying in the harsh cold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Back in Cange, Farmer continued to work on his anthropology PhD. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So that’s what I was doing when Rain fell—working on a vocabulary lesson. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And I, slowly, delicately, went to work on Rufus, began to push him toward freeing a few more of them, perhaps several more of them—perhaps in his will, all of them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Today, few people know about Huygens’s work on clocks. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Rachel hardly ever comes to meetings, with three kids, working on her master’s in English from Millsaps College. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

William had emptied three bowls of soup and was working on his fourth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not yet thirty, she’d already worked on a presidential campaign and also for Hillary Clinton when she was First Lady, which made her experience doubly relevant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the chemists who did work on DNA were almost always organic chemists with no interest in genetics. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Nor was Galileo, when he invented the hydraulic press, working on some new, practical problem that only a competent engineer could tackle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s probably still working on his statement,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Goldman worked on his decision tree for years, steadily refining and perfecting it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There is a team in this very city working on it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went upstairs together to work on the Black-Backed Gull—or Mr. Powell and I did. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This is what Joel means when he says the animals do the real work on his farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I heard you two are working on some type of summer project.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The first priority was what he wanted done,” shrugged Brobeck, laying aside his work on the Bevatron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I once wrote to a significant minority of the Forbes 400, a list of the four hundred richest Americans, asking for $25,000 in support for a project I was working on at the time. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know how hard y’all have worked on your egg drops,” she continued, “and I want to tell you, first and foremost, you are all winners!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was working on something more important: the second edition of The Landry News. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you and I should go catch a movie. Let these three work on whatever hysterical project it is they’re working on.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Starting tomorrow, we’ll be back to working on our dance numbers and our walking, talent, swimsuit, and evening gown presentations, just like nothing ever happened.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

From there, I can work on fixing stuff that broke. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teacher and pupil speak to one another, type messages and use digital “pencils” to work on problems, highlight graphs and erase mistakes. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

After his release, he went to work on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico but was laid off in the fall of 2008. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Still, she worked on, clumsily at first, until she had fileted all four fish. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple ogled the drawing, the rich detail of the boys brocade kurta and pants, the intricate metal work on the gada. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The China National Space Administration abandoned a project they'd worked on for years just to provide a booster. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and James worked on figuring out how to make patches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I heard Mrs. Galley’s voice saying, “Instead of agonizing about the things you can’t change, why don’t you try working on the things you can change?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great joke about Puttenham, though, is that he survives not only for his work on rhetoric but as an instance of its effectiveness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on everything he asked me to do,” my mother said with a self-righteous attitude. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She looked like she was going to say something, but then Mr. Gardner started talking about the project we’ll be working on this month. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My daughter and I worked on it for months. But when we finished, my daughter said, ‘Father, the horse is so beautiful, but the man is so ugly! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The men who were working on the canoe had stopped and were watching my father and Captain Orlov. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a second. Are you working on your lines?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“And I’m dying to meet her. I’ll tell my mom we have to work on a project after school next week. We’ll go then, okay?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Perilee and I are working on one together,” I told her. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now, working on it in the so- called den in the basement, he applied a last coat of varnish. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, thinking about it, “Or would she be Fork? I must work on that.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Jenna stayed after school to work on her newspaper editorial about sexism in gym class, so she’s not here for me to hide behind. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I have to go. But we can work on this at lunch tomorrow.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was around this time that Aaron Giebel had begun work on his house—although calling it a house was the same as describing the Statue of Liberty as a figurine. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I slide next to Mom, who is working on her computer. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

These works on optics were about ‘perspective’, a term which meant ‘the science of sight’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Reggie died in Georgia. According to Coach Douglas, he’d found work on a shrimping boat. There was an accident out in the water. He went overboard.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In other words, they were working on multiple fronts not to have me around. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Miss Johnson, can you give me a problem to work on?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Coach then told the relay teams what Coach Whit had already told us at the last practice—that we would also be working on baton passing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had to pick one thing and work on it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a while, Justice’s charm worked on her and she would occasionally laugh at something he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could carpenter, so Jody hired them to go to work on his store bright and soon the next morning. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two years into life at Thurmond, the camp controllers started work on the Factory. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were only three men working on the small ship. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

They’d found it worked on Nico better than nectar, helping to cleanse the fatigue and darkness from his system with less danger of spontaneous combustion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Sonny, I just got told by the union I can’t work on your rockets no more,” Mr. Caton said on the black phone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he was still working on that bulldog transformation. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He and the greater part of his men were across the river, working on Pharaoh’s new addition to the Great Temple, shaping and fitting stones as they were needed for the walls. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“What are you supposed to be working on?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly without means, his father began casting around for boatbuilding work on the London waterfront. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We hoped to open it in Tuscaloosa and begin working on cases in the next year. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But all of us work on our rockets,” I protested. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not all of Shack Town’s residents worked on the dam itself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have it for you—my mom’s working on it, and I’m helping. If you give me a little more time, I'll raise the rest of the money. I just need a chance.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And while you’re working on that, give your mom something special this holiday. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had worked on a dozen or so homes on this street, and knew he would return when the waters fell away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It takes several weeks before both Mom and Dad are off work on a Saturday, but Thanksgiving weekend ends up working out for everybody. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

"When was the last time he worked on the trailer?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forget about working on my “Who do you want to be?” project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He reminds us to put our homework in the basket and gets the class helpers working on lunch counts and stuff. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I’d ride home to dinner with my parents, sleep and head off to work on my mower again. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He said, “You understand, Mrs. Johnson, we’re working on the assumption that your brother will contact you. Write or call. Or come to see you.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you email me Mom’s letter, and then I can work on it over here? Maybe I’ll see some clue to help you.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This girl taught me how to do manicures and also to work on hair: how to finger-wave, shampoo, and give permanents—but this was on white people’s hair. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down at the dock, Jason’s friends were working on the Argo II. The main sail had been repaired, the rigging replaced. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But we worked on him the whole night; and I think that in his heart he realized that we were right. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the dining room where First Families ate their meals and popped my head into the tidy kitchen, where a culinary staff was already at work on dinner. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Walking to board the parlor car, we had passed a dining car toward which he jerked his head, “I used to work on that thing.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be, though, that the medicine worked on women and Mama would have to protect herself and Amala to make sure that only Olanna died or became barren or went mad. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Josiah worked on his mustache again; it was a habit of his when he was thinking. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We do on your dad—health, life, disability....We’ve got the works on him.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They think the coach is tough, some girl named Serena needs to work on her serve, the hotel they are staying at this weekend has a pool. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Every day, as he worked on the survey of Salem, he heard more stories of trouble at sea. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then for good measure: “It’s for my Sunshine Buddy. Michael and I worked on costumes for the fall festival together.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her own parents, locked up for robbing a family-owned movie theater, inspired her kleptomaniac urges, but Aimee discovered working on herself made her feel more powerful than stealing from others. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were various collections of Poe’s work on the table, along with other mysteries and scary stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When my skin glowed pink and clean, I began working on my hair. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working on this one for a couple months now. I thought maybe you could add to it if you wanted.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They’d been unable to send one the night before—a night crew of Helpers had been working on the plaza, filling cracks and replacing broken stones. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The camp worked on me in a much different way. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now getting close to the middle of November, and as the sun went down in the afternoon and traffic jams built up on Leesburg Pike near his office, Dalgard worked on his diary. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of working on my favorite landscape, or my sweet little dog. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed my solitude, and besides I had a lot of work on my hands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Zora was working on would certainly have fit this list. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I started working on weekends, carrying luggage for people at the nearby bus depot. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the troupe knew my father was working on a song. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the products I work on at the ad agency. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Meanwhile, Diondra, you can start working on portraits of these sisters so we can use them for our report covers when we’re done.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s really nice to work on this project together. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If Cora worried about one of the white people who worked on the twelfth floor questioning her when she got off the elevator, Martin told her, she could take the stairs for the final flights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“See? I told you it wouldn’t take long. It was my coworker. We have to give a presentation on Monday, so we need to finish working on it this weekend.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mother was less sure, seeing the injury, but the pair of them went to work on it, grinding up herbs and coaxing brews down the animal's throat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Under Robbie’s rules, kids who took piano lessons were allowed to work on only one song at a time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Week by week, he worked on his computing—his lengthening MP3 playlist, expanded hard-drive power and memory, the cable modem and webcams. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you have any idea what Halliday was working on all those years he was in seclusion?” another reporter asked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She turns back to her notebook, but I can tell she isn’t really focusing on whatever it is she’s working on. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Wait. How did you know I was working on a puzzle?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I work on my Ibo report and peek out the window at all the little witches and firemen and brides and monsters. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Francie didn’t tell Evy how she was afraid the baby would be born crooked because Mama had worked on her hands and knees up to the last minute. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought a piece of the sympathy lamp I was working on in the Fishery, it was a disk of bright metal covered with intricate sygaldry on one side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The farmer put up quite a stink over having to bring the machine over to our place, but Pa said he could only work on it when he had the time away from farming. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But we’re already halfway through the quarter, I’ve done so much work on her, and our big performance is less than a month away. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I figured he must work on the levee and I jumped out of the ditch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d carried notebooks full of notations to school with her, and worked on the code every time the teacher looked away. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Min began work on another set of inlaid vases. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Taisin looked at the guard, who was working on the wagon horses several feet away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Still working on his man, right in the old jungle locale, in dives that you wouldn’t believe existed, the Muslim often collects audiences of a dozen junkies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid looked down at the braiding Diana was working on and the stretcher he and Tad were creating and smiled. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I worked on her for three days straight. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then he worked on them so much that they were ruined. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After she returned with the scissors, Omakayas quietly took up the deer bone from her mother’s skin bag and began working on the moose hide without being asked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

While I ate breakfast and Calista sipped her coffee from downstairs, we worked on our superheroes, and I was extra careful not to drip any milk drops on mine. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had worked on the fish spear until it had become more than just a tool. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men spent a lot of their other time working on their new identities and rehearsing their cover stories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Either we go as a family, or none of us goes,” Dad says, which gets my sister working on me, complaining that I always ruin her life. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He looked at the fire marshal and said, “You have no idea how hard my kids worked on these.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

When Kabuo had finished telling his story on the witness stand, Alvin Hooks rose and stood before him insistently working on a hangnail. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not ready doesn’t work on my mom and dad anymore. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Uh-huh, but I think there might be a way to reverse it. At least that's what I'm working on. And now I found you. If we figure it out, you'll be the first to know." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty- hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had been working on the machinery of the swings and had stopped to get a glass of water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She asked me why, and I said we were working on a project, and that turned out to be the truth. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were going to work on Mr. Quisling’s challenge, remember?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At first, they were working on a desperate plan to get a probe here before Sol 400. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They lived a different lifestyle, Mama—you know that. They worked on farms and walked everywhere, so they got plenty of exercise.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Dr. Anderson has worked on many of the most popular children’s shows, and is far less critical of television than some researchers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the Sanctuary, we all had to work on his care. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Two old women were at work on one of the burned- away roofs, beating thatch against the earth to clear it of bugs before twining it to the roof timbers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it don’t look like much. Claim shacks never do. After you get proved up, you can work on a proper house.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Before that an older woman, Mrs. Linden, greeted him when he came home each afternoon, sipping coffee from a thermos and working on crossword puzzles while Eliot played on his own. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That’s good news for him—he wants to work on people. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“All I know is I want to work on rockets,” I added, just in case we were having an argument that wasn’t apparent yet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I'd been working on something in private and now began to imagine bringing it to a live audience. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

These were interests that I worked on developing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, he might not say stuff like, Jazz is a cornball," I teased, looking over her shoulder at what she was working on. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"What if I worked on her organs? Made them youthful again. Perhaps there's some failing within her body that keeps Charlotte in this sleeping sickness." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They worked on white farms and in white businesses, something that was looked down upon by the more established Xhosa tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her screwdriver and went back to working on her printer. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know you. I don’t know you,” he stammered as I worked on the knots in the rope. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When a log came ashore, as happened once in a long time, it was always carried to the village and worked on where a chance wave could not wash it away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew that because he was working on his car, throwing tools around the garage, and he didn’t say anything as we walked into the house, even after my mom said, “Salaam,” three times. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The spare tire and jack were buried in the trunk under all our luggage, so everything had to be taken out before my father could even begin work on the tire. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get home, I work on Grandpa’s video until very late at night, but I find myself thinking of more questions I have for him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When we hung up, I sat down at my desk to work on a zine. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Her work on language revitalization led Congress to pass the Native American Languages Preservation Act. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his days in a borrowed office, working on a study of recent international crises that he hoped would be useful to government policymakers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then we’d go to the library, where Mr. Powell was waiting for us and where we had started to work on gesture. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I went upstairs and tried to work on my mythology report. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Not being able to visit my land or work on my house means that now I can think only of leaving. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He looked like exactly the kind of detective I wanted to have working on the case of my murdered parents. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The one that used to work on Mama. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The way he worked on those square holes, he might as well be chopping wood. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The sea hissed like sandpaper working on wood. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was fine to celebrate past accomplishments, but there was nothing more exhilarating than getting back to work on the next thing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Father and I were working on a mound next to the house. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ray went to work on the jaws, prying them loose. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was also working on his new book, Pathologies of Power, of which he had a completed first draft. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Krupp, Germany’s legendary armament and munitions manufacturer, had begun secretly working on an initial order of 135 Panzer I tanks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Man, how long did your ancient ancestor work on this project down here?” remarked Kojo, admiring the carefully crafted corridor of stone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z