| 单词 | cement |
| 例句 | In the Arrivals Lounge, there were four life-sized cement kangaroos with cement pouches that said USE ME. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Treasure had been cemented into castle walls, in the form of gold bars, and the builders had been executed afterwards. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked at the crumbling cement of the roof’s low wall, and a spray of bits fell to the ground below. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a wondrous invention, but it sounded like a cement mixer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After mass, long after the priest’s words stopped echoing against the cement walls, she remained in church, inspecting the pews for forgotten veils or rosary beads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But my feet don’t listen and my hands start itching and I feel like I’m trapped in cement. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes she's tempted to smash a cola bottle against the cement, but she doesn't want to make more work for Kwasi. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The man’s mask was caught by the wind, and it barreled away over the cement. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Dig trenches, unload railway wagons, push barrows of cement bags, construct invasion obstacles in a field or on a beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Your fists go stiff and you stagger up the cement stairs to your door in the unmarked halls to your cement room and you lie down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Wednesday, January 16,1935 The next day at school Scout treats me like a post made of cement. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Jacqui looks around in sheer awe, stepping off the cement path and onto the grass, and when her foot touches the ground, the dirt gives way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I could hear the caps of his shoes clearly against the stone of the stairway, and then against the cement pavement of the sidewalk. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The owners, boys and grown men, raced around the cement shores hoping to arrive at the other side in time to keep the boats from bumping. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The place where his uniform lay made a wet spot on the cement floor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She just kept raising her kids, working various jobs as a barber, notary public, chemical mixer at a cement plant, grocery store clerk, limousine driver. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z When I place all the pieces on the floor of my cage side by side, the cement is almost completely covered. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Liam called my name in a panic, his feet thundering against the cement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She rolls a pencil across my cement floor. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z I relax my muscles as much as I can before I hit the net, which feels like a slab of cement hitting my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z With cement roofs for their thatched houses, and geysers for their parents’ bathrooms. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I land on a cement floor, hard, and pain from the impact prickles up my shins. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The Pine Bluff airport was a new building of cement block. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove through slowly, of necessity, since the campus drives have cement ridges every forty or fifty feet that would cause your car to bump badly if any speed were attempted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dauntless graffiti is scrawled on the cement- block walls in black paint. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It got sunny and warm and there were wildflowers poking up through every crack in the cement. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize that we two are the same, struggling to survive in this place of cement where beauty is hiding hiding. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I lie on the cold cement floor and let all the contaminated dust and microbes and toxic black mold spores do with me what they will. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The thermos crashed to the cement with a loud, explosive clang. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The woman kisses the child good-bye and surrenders him to my mother; then she bolts off, running on the cemented stretches in the park. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The drop...the cement and brick below them...Even with a fire burning and the chance of more explosions, it wasn’t a good option. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I was bracing myself to see a dumb tree branch or cement block somebody had tossed in to anchor a buoy come up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Instead, under almost perfect control, I got a broom and began savagely to attack the sand that was stuck like cement in the corner of the living room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A trampled fence ringed a big yard full of cement statuary. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It was during those weekends that Milton, desperate to cement his restored relationship with his son, urged him once again to go into the family business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He used to tell me things about Panamá that I couldn’t possibly have remembered—like about the scorpions in our backyard and the cement utility sink where my mom used to give us baths. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z "Tomorrow,” he told us at dinner, "I’m going to make a cement bird bath. All those who want to watch me should come home right after school, and we’ll make it in the late afternoon.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “When something heavy makes an impression on something light—or soft. Like when you step in mud or wet cement and leave a footprint.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The entry also notes “ten feet of cement.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Moon’s Gym was just a room off the highway with exposed cement beams and heavy bags held together with duct tape. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “It hasn’t rained in a month. Your dad’s fooling with you, Sonny. Look, there’s the new walkway. All done. They could’ve hauled the cement and stuff away when they finished.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Or the dry Stella D’oro cookies with their cement frosting, which he raves and raves about and manages to find even in the most remote locations. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was a square cement building with a shower at one end and a hole on the floor so the water could drain into the open sewer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The boy moved quickly around the corner and out of sight of the iron door and the gray cement walls of the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was staring down at the cement patio, and when he turned to me, his eyes had a wounded look, like a dog who’s been kicked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A large green tarp served as its roof, and we slept on the cement floor on tiny blankets that two people shared. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Matt had to lie on the cement floor without any covers and, of course, without a pillow. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the cement grouting between the bricks had to be replaced, and he wrote her name in the new cement. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I rolled my head on the cold cement floor, but it didn’t stop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The fear was like cement blocks on his feet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She led the way to the backyard, and after Mrs. Muokelu had explained and demonstrated how to make soap she stowed the ash near the pile of cement blocks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The only other object in the cage was a steel bar in the shape of an upside-down U, cemented into the pavement like a bike rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Cement tactics? That ugly fountain is cement tactics. Bad cement tactics. What the heck is cement tactics?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Where the grass gave way to the woods, I found a stone wall crudely cemented together, not even knee high but nearly fifty yards long. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The front lot was a forest of statues: cement animals, cement children, even a cement satyr playing the pipes, which gave Grover the creeps. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The lights come on, revealing a long, narrow room with busted brick walls and a cement floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z We see an old remnant of a cement wall. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m on the roof in the glaring sunshine, cleaning the Doctorita’s dental instruments with soapy water in the cement washbasin. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Near my heel, a few blades of grass poke up through the cement. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Now, look at the cement on the playground. Is it moving?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A mix of feelings churned in Percy’s gut—grief, sadness, gratitude, and guilt thickening into emotional cement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “That will do you,” he said, dumping out the rest of the water into the cement trough attached to the well. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A few bring bags of cement, to help build the migrant shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One soldier, who sat on a cement brick underneath the kitchen, bowed his head in his hands and rocked his body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He was purple all over, and now that the paint was beginning to dry and harden, he was forced to sit very stiff and upright, as though he were encased in cement. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z By the grace of God and cement our family has been spared that frustration. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Obiora had spread a mat and there was room on it, but she sat on the bare cement, resting her head against the railings. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At the far edge of cement, almost touching the porch, Ben stood motioning for his father to come out to play defense. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she was carried back each time to the weir, where she clung to a rusty iron ring, waiting for him, her white face vivid against the lurid mossy walls and greenish cement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I walk toward him as if approaching a wild animal, each footstep careful on the cement floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers shove me toward a raised block of cement in the center of the platform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The police station was a brick and glass building with an American flag cemented in the ground out front. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Wherever we were, there were still traces of the dead leaves from the fall before staining the highway’s cement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In another tank, peeking out from its cement cave, was a squid the size of an eighteen-wheeler, with a beak like a giant bolt cutter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We parked beside the rusted hulk of a small cement factory. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There’s nothing but cement clear up to the door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The vlei people reached under the cement walk and lifted it right out of the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When you enter the apartment complex, it feels like entering the courtyard of a dead king and his decaying cement kingdom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The ends of the bows were embedded in cement pilings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Thick rugs with intricate patterns covered half the floor, while the other half was raw cement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He threw the roach across the cell to the opposite wall where its back clicked against the cement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We might feel that they’re still there, but it's just an illusion cast in cement. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It cemented a faith in God and eternity that could have dwindled otherwise. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Six cement columns stick up from the ground like they are waiting for something to land on them. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath, walked up the cement steps, and knocked on the off-kilter screen door. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She scraped open the gate against the cement walk, and I quickly buttoned my blouse. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In March, Watt issued a construction permit, and a few weeks later, bulldozers, cranes, and cement mixers swarmed the site. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They had to drag their chunks of cement behind them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners from the general section painted the cement surface green and then fashioned the traditional configuration of white lines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As they ran deeper into the hillside, the cement floor changed to tiled mosaic. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He said she used to run like her feet were made of cement. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The walls turned to gray cement, and die ceiling got so low that pretty soon we were hunching over. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Sometime in the late nineteenth century clumsy repairs were made with unpainted cement which had turned brown and gave the building a mottled, diseased appearance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I ran down corridors littered with bones, past rooms foil of sheepskin rugs and life-size cement sheep that I recognized as the work of Medusa. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z This one had the same plain walls, cement table, and bed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was naked, with shadows for underwear and cracked cement for skin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She was back on Tralfamadore, taking care of the baby, but the magazine, which was called Midnight Pussycats, promised that she was wearing a cement overcoat under thirty fathoms of saltwater in San Pedro Bay. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her beef-liver kishka was as heavy as cement and came out looking the same way it went in, which was never a good sign. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She stood still, her bare feet rooted to the cool cement. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes focused on the bleak, unpainted spectator stands, abandoned for so long that tiny plants had started to push their green heads through the cracks in the cement. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I imagined people jumping out the windows, raining down onto the broad sidewalks and cement basketball courts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The instant my wounded leg hits the cement, I scream as loud as I can. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Cement tactics? That ugly fountain is cement tactics. Bad cement tactics. What the heck is cement tactics?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She pictures clearly the gray cement floor of her parents’ sitting room, feels its solid chill underfoot even on the hottest days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was indeed a small patch of earth poking through the cement. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Tendai saw a dull cement floor on which was bolted a chair. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not a Vam Bam movie. The floor was cement,” she said. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They sat on cement blocks behind the guesthouse, next to what looked like the gateman’s bathroom, a narrow stall which, when the wind blew, brought a stale smell. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sierra saw a cement walking path ahead, aimed for it, and came down running. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It makes pellets out of phonemes, implies that the deep structures of grammar are made of something like cement. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lying on the cold cement floor, he felt his arm throb with pain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But nothing could remain private in the echoing treble of cement walls and ceilings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She walked past the dirty curtain at the door and pushed Odenigbo’s cup off the table; a pale liquid spread on the cement floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Cole struggled to shift his position on the uneven ground, but stiffness had set into his joints like hardened cement. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The chain was attached to a chunk of cement. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Layers of gauze skirts, delicate as membranes, brush her feet, which are bare on the cold cement floor. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The freezing cement floor made us children huddle together near the brazier each night, and my mother would cover us with old newspapers, cardboard and our two thin blankets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle, where the nose would have been, a cement wall jutted from the hillside, with a metal door like the entrance to a bunker. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The yard and house haven’t changed except for the walls, which are now made of cement block instead of earth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She flings the towel on the cement and kicks the umbrella. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There, beside the locked door to the fan controls, sat four bags of cement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Papi dipped his trowel into the cement mud in the wheelbarrow by his side and slapped the mud onto a foundation block. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I went outside and sat next to her, the cement cold through my pants, the ground mostly clear by then except for a few patches of dirty snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The next day workers opened a double grave and filled this too with cement, then inserted Holmes’s coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was cold, its cement walls whiter than I remembered, the window shaded by a breadfruit tree, its large leaves shedding pale reflections against the ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Across a low cement wall is the upper level of our neighbor’s apartment, whose glass doors also open onto the terrace. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Alhaji, lor example, punched the cement pillar of one of the buildings until his knuckles bled and his bone began to show. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Once we crossed the cement bridge, which went over a dry river bed for a quarter of a mile, I stretched my neck and tried to pinpoint the location of Bonetti Ranch. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It spun around on the cement and bumped into a pillar. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She ran off the field onto the cement path and kept running till I couldn’t see her any more. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The rhythmic click echoed down the hall as the wooden block skipped over the thin strips of cement between the tiles. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The gravel had been put down to make a foundation, the pump had been installed, and the cement had been poured and left to dry. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry would have pointed out that trouble didn’t come much worse than having slugs pouring out of your mouth, but he couldn’t; Hagrid’s treacle toffee had cemented his jaws together. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Seven red cement stairs led up to the front door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I can even smell it from under the door as I sit here on the cool cement. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And then I cemented the whole thing together with four words: “What do I care?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Ada Belle Stevens laughed and made room for her on the long cement bench. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “All right, let’s go inside,” I say, nodding at the cement house. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z One by one he pulled out groceries and set them on the small cement table. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The cement is always cold, but tonight it hurts. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He lay out on the porch on the hard cement, soaking it up, while the rest of us read or watched TV. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ignatius limped around Mr. Clyde to illustrate, his desert boots scuffing along the oily cement. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s helping me memorize new surahs and cement in my mind the ones I used to forget. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z They saw him climb the three cement steps to the white door, the portal of death. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I point at the pile of glass he’s made on the cement. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Since these materials are not very durable, they are usually cast in a more lasting medium: anything that can be poured, including molten metal, cement, even plastic. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna did not look at Odenigbo; she carefully focused on one of the men carrying a pile of cement blocks, his thin naked back coated in sweat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I hop over a crack in the cement out of habit. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Whatever his race, each convict is a citizen of a stony village that exists within the prison’s steep, machine- gun-guarded walls—twelve gray acres of cement streets and cell blocks and workshops. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Technically, they were still Witchlings until their circle was sealed, cementing them as a true coven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And this dankness—there’s got to be toxic black mold spores creeping all over these cement walls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He took the small bottle and slammed it on the cement, breaking it into shards and blades. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We found him sitting in a hammock on the verandah of a cement house that faced the forest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The moss and leaves are hard like cement beneath my feet, the moon hanging big and low, beams streaming down like searchlights. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was a one-story cement- block cube with sliding doors in front and back. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The drum, which Gey called the “whirligig,” turned like a cement mixer twenty-four hours a day, rotating so slowly it made only two full turns an hour, sometimes less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z When the red cement floor was laid, the egg whites from nearly nine hundred eggs went into it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked among the giant cement pickle vats to find a place to Think in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This new structure was a one- story rectangular stone fortress with a flat cement courtyard in the center, about one hundred feet by thirty feet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad sat with his right leg sticking out into the aisle, a hard cast wrapped around his foot like a cement boot. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z A cement and brick pillbox had been built down by the river, right on the bend, among the sedges, destroying the nests of the teal and the gray wagtails. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then she takes Gogol by the hand, down a carpeted hallway with painted cement walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The bed, on the side of the room, was made of cement, with a rubber mattress atop it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Rosa cleaned the corner every day, but the stench clung to the cement. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the two jars of honey on the cement and waited for Toomer to respond. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In their pouches, instead of cement joeys, they had cigarette stubs, used matchsticks, bottle caps, peanut shells, crumpled paper cups and cockroaches. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In single file, they ushered him down a wobbly flight of wooden stairs leading to the basement and led him into a damp, gloomy room with a low cement ceiling and unfinished stone walls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He went out and sat on a cement block and wished, desperately, that he could go home, if only for a minute, to make sure that nothing had happened to them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The “boys”? Those cement faces and eyes of hate that burned the clothes off you if they happened to see you lounging on the main street downtown on Saturday. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet in back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He wiped his mouth with the arm of his sweatshirt and stared up at the bridge, which was right in front of us now, a huge mass of steel and cement and wires. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The cement gave way to springy earth, stones, stunted bushes, gullies and hills. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A painful screech of metal on cement raked our ears as the chassis bottomed out. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It felt as if cement had hardened in his joints. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Milkman went with them to the back of the station, where, on a small cemented area covered by a corrugated tin roof, the dead bobcat lay. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Right hand, left hand, right hand, left hand, the ball drummed against the cement as Ben waited for his father to move out against him and Bull held back, fearing the drive to the basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dude, lime. Calcium carbonate, used in cement and a bunch of other—Ah, never mind. The point is, this ship isn’t going far unless we can fix it.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Fifth Harbor had made the old man very rich, and cemented the Dregs as real players in the Barrel in a way that not even the success of the Crow Club had. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He makes his way downstairs with the candle, sleeps on a chair, misses work in the morning, loses the job at the cement factory, and we’re back on the dole again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I heard stories of how they had “persuaded” people with lead pipes, wet cement, baseball bats, brass knuckles, fists, feet, and blackjacks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I stand on cement in the fear landscape room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She turned around to find her crisp-knickered daughter communing with cement marsupials. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They open onto a two-lane entranceway with a cement island in the middle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bones are steel girders, anchored in cement. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Other hands were scratching at the cement floor for no apparent reason. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The thickly padded empty cement bags had special value. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z If you’re setting up, you sit on the cement with your legs spread open and put a marble on a crack in front of you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The outside is brown brick, and the inside has light brown cement floors, white walls, and white sheets on the beds. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Hal sprays the tire with soapy water to locate the bubbly leak, splotches on some rubber cement, sticks in a plug, and charges them fifty bucks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We passed a cluster of lime green houses made out of cement block. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been rowing hard against the wind all the way, and his arms and legs were starting to feel as if they were encased in cement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Without permission, he had walked away from the cement factory, where he had apparently done something wrong. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I could sprint on wet cement in bare feet no problem. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “What are you talking about? You lost me with cement tactics,” Barry said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She scans the rough floors and cement walls. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A small Miami window looked out on a cement yard and the wall of the next house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was no fence around the school yard and the school grounds were grass and not cement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was on his knees, smoothing the cement floor of the new kitchen he was attaching to the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Mealtime portions in the farm’s cafeteria were no larger than at the cement factory, the textile mill, or the mines. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I poured the water for him while he stirred cement and sand together. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I pictured it in our basement bathroom, its delicate wings set against the coarse cement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z With me living forty-five minutes away, Tumblr is supposed to be sacred ground where our friendship is cemented. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z From the second floor, I have to climb an extra flight of stairs to the flat cement roof. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The face of Abnegation headquarters is just a cement rectangle, like all the other buildings in the Abnegation sector. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Now it was nothing more than one storey, maybe two, of jagged edges, melted poles, and broken cement. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There were sheets of ice binding the aspens to earth and cementing the tops of the hemlocks in arches. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Montag walked but did not feel his feet touch the cement and then the night grasses. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Some carried ammunition boxes, the length of two cement bricks, between them, and others had semiautomatic machine guns and RPGs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I dusted the powdery corpses of half a dozen dead butterflies off a cement bench and lay down on the quad under the moonlight for a while, contemplating my sisters and our rebelliousness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She took another step, then, as she got a better look at him, her legs turned into cement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But Francie preferred to believe it was a real plate that had been broken and then made whole again by the miracle of the cement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Every single day I still find myself wishing I hadn’t left, reliving the moment of walking away, my legs like cement blocks, being pulled like a magnet back to her window. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Before Milligan had even closed the door behind him, Kate shrugged and cracked her knuckles, flattened her palms against the cement, and lifted her feet into the air above her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z For an instant I am suspended in nothingness, and then my feet slam into cement and I stumble to the side, away from the roof’s edge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z We saw a low ring of stones built up with cement and wondered who the mason was who knelt there and studied the shapes before fitting them to-gether. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z His feet were blocks of cement, his legs were rubber bands, and his mouth was clenched so tightly that he was breathing only through his nose—but it wasn’t breathing, really. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The men used jets of live steam to thaw dirt and prevent newly poured cement from freezing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I leaned my bike against the tall tree shading over the building and walked up the cracked cement sidewalk. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Now we have to put them in cement. It’s not the same.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We bounce back and forth in the truck as Amar drives over the railroad tracks, staying close to the high cement wall on our right. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Laila could hardly move, as though cement had solidified in every one of her joints. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Every day for two months the line of bullock carts came in laden with bricks and stones and cement, sheets of tin and corrugated iron, coils of rope and hemp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Lauren was tucked under the shade of an umbrella, but Maya was sprawled out on the cement by the pool, sunglasses over her face and her feet in the water. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Father Judge was a “humorless cement box” with numerous stairwells and endless hallways that at class changes became a swirling sea of boys in matching blue jackets and red ties. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They are made of gray cement, with few windows, in economical, no-nonsense rectangles. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It splays across the hot cement and dangles near the toes of her sneakers. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Over the heads of the people Ignatius saw his mother walking slowly out of the lobby of the department store carrying the bakery products as if they were boxes of cement. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dirty, cement floor, wires and pipes, and terrible lighting, but at least I couldn’t see the cobwebs or ghosts who’d probably been hanging around since Lincoln was president. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The tannery stood, its bricks and cement had held it together despite the raging winds; but the workers’ huts, of more flimsy construction, had been demolished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls are on the cement patio, sitting at the redwood picnic table, doing homework. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She thinks she spots the tall, gaping cement arch of the tunnel up ahead. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I feel the burritos hardening into cement in my stomach. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes later, we’re on an abandoned construction site looking at a crumbling cement wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z At some point, several distinct thumps travel into the museum from the gardens or the streets beyond, as if someone is dropping sacks of cement mix out of the clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A lot, very much, so much, except I can’t, because my feet are cemented to the roof. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I stop often, leaning her weight on a cement wall, the edge of a building, the banister. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a gesture so familiar, so routine for anyone who’d ever worn glasses, that my whole body locked up like cement, then went limp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z We filed one by one up a dark cement staircase at the back of the first floor, which was filled with empty beds and limp white curtains. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Hazel felt that he had better cement the grave over the topic of the abalones. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Pawlak would hurry out to the cement landing pad by the hospital to pull loaded stretchers off the choppers and rush the injured into the ER. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A chunk of cement thudded on the street not far away. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z On the cement floor just inside the door, where he now stood, was a large red circle. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We followed the dock toward the shore, where the pipes, now joined by many others, disappeared under the cement sidewalks leading to San Juan. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We could not afford a ring and trained on a cement floor, which was particularly dangerous when a boxer was knocked down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But the back of the cage was a high and smooth cement wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu held back from reaching out to touch the cement wall, to see how different it would feel from the mud walls of his mother’s hut that still bore the faint patterns of molding fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “He gets run over by a cement truck on the way to freshman orientation.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z We have to wait a long time for Dad to walk the miles from the cement factory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Tato rattled lids and dropped a spoon on the new cement floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But it had to do with the careless handling of a blasting cap which somehow exploded while he was setting two dynamite sticks alongside the cement foundation of the Forest Service headquarters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Along one edge, a set of cement stairs descended into the water. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Gasping, clutching his cemented valve, Ignatius continued forward onto the street and into the path of an oncoming Desire bus. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the children who had lost the right to sit on the benches resigned themselves to sitting on the cold cement floor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I studied the big cement columns in the building. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Ferula was waiting for them in their new house, which still smelled of paint and fresh cement and was filled with flowers and platters heaped with fruit, just as Esteban had ordered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It sickened me to watch him crawl across the filthy cement on his hands and knees, soiling his palms and trouser legs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The room was washed in unnatural brightness; they sat us in a cluster on the dirty cement floor, and pointed three floodlights toward us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I had brought them outside because they were shivering on the cold cement floor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I say, my mouth newly unstuck from peanut butter cement. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The back doors were opened again, and through the wire wall of the cage I saw that we had come to a building, very modern, of white cement and glass. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Mam says it’s a long way to the cement factory even if he’s a fast walker. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The cement floors were rough, did not let my feet glide over them the way the smooth marble floors back home did. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She’d heard somewhere that it was possible to cook an egg on a car or cement if it was hot enough outside, and she’d been needling Kaori about it ever since. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Our house is on a cement plot near the East River. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Grover translated: “Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium” Flanking the entrance, as advertised, were two cement garden gnomes, ugly bearded little runts, smiling and waving, as if they were about to get their picture taken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Jake swung the pickax to break up the gravel, which had cemented itself together with caked dust. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z There were no doors, no cement on the floor inside, and it was too small to hold all the pupils. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There were also signs of construction—a barrel-shaped cement mixer and a dumpster filled with debris. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But there's plenty of gravel around thanks to the crumbling cement of the chimney and building trim, so the birds on our roof are doing okay. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Working with a round tin of metal polish, they waxed a dim gloss on the dull zinc pipe rising from the cement on his groin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Two houses had collapsed into dusty rubble and some men were digging frantically through the jumbled cement, saying, “Did you hear that cry? Did you?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The lizards have become smarter. They run faster now and hide under blocks of cement,” the boy who had climbed told Ugwu. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z President Harding stirred me toward the Democratic party and President Hoover cemented me there. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, soldiers carried him into a roadside building and laid him on a cement slab. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The cement was cooling, and the tetherball poles made shadows across the gravel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Poison dripped in pools all around her, sizzling into the cement. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was that night that cemented our friendship. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z We walk over the new cement footbridge, with the willow trees arching overhead, the sound of running water from the creek beneath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Our house is also mud, thatch, cement, and flowering vines. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No trees grow on the property, no shrubs flank the front door, so that the cement of the foundation is clearly visible to the eye. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He would say, “Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floors, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He has his field light and is swinging its beam repeatedly over a welter of compacted wreckage in the far corner-stones and cement and splintered wood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I slumped over on my side, putting my cheek against the freezing, damp cement of the sidewalk, closing my eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Under her feet the cement stoop was cool and slightly damp, as if a fog had just lifted. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Trees, overgrown and huge, grow beyond the cement fixtures intended to keep them enclosed, their roots sprawling over the pavement. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And the whole day turned out to be the most affirming experience—it cemented my purpose in the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In a sweet, cruel, beautiful moment of clarity, I smile, watch a crack in the cement, and speak to Audrey and the sleeping Doorman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He wandered around the cemetery and sat down on the cement curb of the Williams family plot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The cement floor was a jungle of boxes, ragged pants, overalls, jackets, bicycles, unwashed pots and pans, opened cans of fish, empty beer bottles and cartons, old newspapers, greasy underwear and frayed suitcases. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On our right is the outdoor theater—a Greek-style semicircle of stepped cement seats going down to a stage—an area that the upper classes tend to dominate during lunchtime. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I walk back up to the morgue and sit down on the cement slab by a little dab of something red. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of us eating on cement blocks, waving away flies that supposedly puke on you every time they land, wearing the exact same clothes and stupid white shoes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Ojukwu came downstairs and stood on top of some cement blocks on the grassy lawn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They exchanged members, hunted together, traded rare luxuries, cemented political alliances and celebrated religious festivals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Moon Orchid accompanied her to a gray building with a large storefront room, overhead fans turning coolly and cement floor cool underfoot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I liked thinking about how people had managed to create and erect such large cement pillars. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z That cemented his status as sort of the leader and protector of the township kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And it had been installed on a rickety tower of cement blocks, easily four feet off the ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Thanks to rubber cement and oil paint, our toilet could quickly be repaired. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I played in the cement drainage area because Tanner told me someone had killed a kid in the woods last year. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Grover glanced at the cement satyr next to him, and mumbled, “That sure does look like Uncle Ferdinand.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z My eyes follow the chain link all the way up to where it hits the cement yard wall. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He drops his cigarette on the cement and stamps it out with his foot. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She threw her arm around my shoulders, cementing our friendship. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He worked at the camp’s cement factory, located several miles away in the far southeast of the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She waddles down the stairs and onto a cement patio enclosed on all sides by other apartments. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All I’ve seen of the city are concrete buildings, cement sidewalks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down on the cement and howled. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Male teachers whose faces were unfamiliar to Ben helped Red up from the cement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always counted on these friends to loan me the adhesive of my choice, but then, seemingly overnight, their Scotch tape and rubber cement were gone, replaced with odorless computers and spongy mouse pads. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But the back was gray cement and three floors high, with iron bars over all the windows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I also believe that Luke is sitting up, in a rectangle somewhere, gray cement, on a ledge or the edge of something, a bed or chair. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z My heel caught on the uneven cement, sending me stumbling toward the hard ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He climbs the cement stairs to the back door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I curl up on my side and stare at the patches of moonlight on the cement floor. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It appeared to be built of cement blocks covered with a kind of mustard-colored stucco. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood up on the cement parapet that separated the rubber trees from the driveway, and clapped her hands over Velutha’s eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Its fluffy green branches stretched across the cracked cement and hung over the soupy brown water of the Chattana River. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z George walked her bike from the shed in the backyard, along the cracked cement path, and up to the street. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The sweet smell of liquor rose from the sticky cement floor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “He danced into town and was hit by a cement truck and nobody cared.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The ability to communicate with other prisoners through the cement walls was the only thing that kept him sane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At that corner, there was a sidewalk of cement. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rumor has it he disappeared into Manhattan’s East River wearing cement shoes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had slathered wet cement over the “Knowledge Not Shared Remains Unknown” motto chiseled into the fountain’s base. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Down the cement stairs, there is nothing but an entryway. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Matt followed carefully so he wouldn’t slip on the cement. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The tenement was a long passageway of ruined houses, all exactly the same: small, impoverished dwellings built of cement, each with a single door and two windows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Montag, lying there, eyes gritted shut with dust, a fine wet cement of dust in his now shut mouth, gasping and crying, now thought again, I remember, I remember, I remember something else. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re taking a field trip to a place that makes me feel inspired: Annie’s Salvage Yard, a large cement lot full of junk and treasures. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z His white-walled room was bare except for a bed with a gray blanket, a toilet without a cover, a shelf for clothes, a cement table, and a barred window facing onto the center group area. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He had even helped her during her first breakup, at the end of summer the year before, and it felt like they’d cemented a mutual bond that couldn’t be broken by anything. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In fact when they emerged from the train at Grand Central into the underworld of cement and steel that leads to the terminal, Claudia felt that having Jamie there was important. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I started imagining the shoe pushing all the way through, rubber hitting cement. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Both men had heads harder than cement, and both charged ahead full speed with whatever they thought was right. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “What are you—” My shirt feels like cement. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The challenger crashes to the ground, hitting her head on the cement floor, where she lies in a daze. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Ben swept off the cement court that spread from the back porch of the house to the garage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Worn bicycle tires, bottles with peeled labels, ripped up magazines, yellowed newspapers, all scattered amid a pile of bricks and slabs of cement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was the smell of diesel, and the screech of air brakes, and the big engine of the bus echoing off the cement walls and ceiling. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He left her and wandered through the darkening camp, dragging the heavy block of cement behind him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I recall that I stood for the longest time staring at a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We set an example for our fellow faction members, and soon the three of us are engulfed in the mass of gray fabric ascending cement stairs in the half light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z We stood on the runway until another woman in a matching suit led us across the cement to the plane. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood, cemented in shock, pink gloves on the gun, her body trembling. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I slap handfuls of mud on the warm cement. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z His legs felt like wet cement, and his lungs were on fire. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My domain is made of thick glass and rusty metal and rough cement. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z She curls up into a tight little ball on the cement. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The cement shows through the floor where the tiles are missing. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In medium bowl, whisk together cement mix, salt, and gravel. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Hotel Barba, where we lived in Italy, was a cement building plopped on a hill. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z On top of these they laid a grillage of steel, then filled it with cement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Getting to the top was easy enough and not nearly as exciting as falling off, headfirst, onto the cement below. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z After the scorched cement of that parking lot, Kip’s was almost too cold. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Shards of glass coated the cement floor, blown out dozens of feet from the black metal frames. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Depending on where they are, they eat sitting on red clay or cement or terrazzo floors, or at marble-topped tables too cold to rest their elbows on. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “The Transportation Department said it would only take a few more days to finish pouring the cement for the pilings. Then we can relax if... if she’s still there.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She stood up and brushed the cement dust off her butt. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z There was no immediate cover, so we had to swiftly run onto a verandah and hide behind stacks of cement bricks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He falls on top of me, and I smack my head against one of the cement steps. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z From the cement grizzly, Grover moaned, “Percy, don’t listen to her!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She actually preferred to be among the poor, the working-class poor of the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn, the cement mixers, bakers, doughnut makers, grandmothers, and soul-food church partisans who were her lifelong friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But right where the chain link meets the cement wall, I see a gap. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all cement and linoleum, walls and ceiling and floors, and it echoed just like you’d guess it would. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Drawn on the light cement wall in thick black magic marker are three neat swastikas. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The ground-floor windows had been sandbagged, and every skylight cemented over. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Several kids were playing basketball on a cement court that was nestled next to a canyon wall. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z ‘Oh, I see . The doctor’s expression said, I am so, so sorry. Leo’s heart filled with cement. If he’d harboured any last hopes of avoiding what was to come, they now sank. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But the anger courses through me; my feet are cemented in place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z A miner came out of the little cement blockhouse and, at Dad’s nod, pushed the bell three times. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The rec yard wall is solid cement—maybe sixteen feet high. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His towering image stood tall against the cement wall, arms crossed over his chest, his name written in bubbly letters across the front of his favorite hoodie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Arm ducked and crawled along the cement on his hands and knees. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The rotten tiles broke with a noise of disaster and the man barely had time to let out a cry of terror as he cracked his skull and was killed outright on the cement floor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z On a pocked and lichen-splotched cement wall is bolted a small stone plaque. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My footsteps rang hard against cement and tile because of the taps I had nailed into my shoes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whitewashed cement blocks carrying the dead are stacked on top of one another, building a graveyard city that’s bleached like bones in the sun. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Some of them, emboldened by the dark, actually spilled across the cement walk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A recruiter told him they were interested and that a good showing in the playoffs might cement a scholarship, and it was hard to think about anything else after that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Deidre jumped into the pool, climbed out, and ran across the cement to a bag of chips on the patio table. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z If you say anything they strip you, make you sleep on a cement floor without a light. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is it. The Virgin’s sanctuary, her home,” I said, taking in the beauty of the ancient cement building with its stained-glass windows and tall central tower. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Don Joaquín’s voice rose in timbre and pitch, until he seemed to disappear and only his words remained, reverberating against the cement walls, piercing the assembled into delirious convulsions and ecstatic trances. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Lovely, lovely cement,” said Rita, lying down to press her cheek on the cool sidewalk. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Using Holmes’s instructions, workmen in the employ of undertaker John J. O’Rourke filled a coffin with cement, then placed Holmes’s body inside and covered it with more cement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the middle of each plot stood a hut made of mud or cement. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind me was an enormous cement mixer on wheels, its big howitzer revolving as it proceeded. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time she walked into their cemented compounds, she longed for sand in which to curl her toes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Half of the tiny yard was a cement patio and the other half was another patch of grass that our imaginary cow would devour in two bites. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It’s a two-story brick house with black clapboard shutters and a trio of narrow cement stairs leading to the front door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I am literally a few yards from the door of the cement house when I pull up short. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z For the first four days, he explains, he sat on the cement floor twenty-three hours a day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "Everywhere, everywhere cement," he said, his voice dropping lower. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Another of his jobs was to unload cement bags from railroad cars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The cement scrapes my face, and I turn just in time to see a car bearing down on me, like a giant shoe about to crush me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Once complete, this grillage of steel would be filled and covered with Portland cement to produce a broad, rigid raft that Root called a floating foundation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Joon and Spencer sit sweating under the sun in the middle of the outside cement patio. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The floor was a gritty cement and gravel mix, sticky in places, spotted with what looked like oil slicks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Somewhere between last summer and now, our daddy cemented the swing set down. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z On the cement floor were many small pieces of cloth lined up in squares, one next to the other. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z A big agitator twisted back and forth, making the entire machine dance around on the cement patio. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The cement beneath them was filthy with dirt and grease. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “After all, how many of you give to this church, gbo? How can we build the house if you don’t give? Do you think zinc and cement cost a mere ten kobo?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah?” he asks, picking up pieces of smaller glass caught in the grass that grows up through the cracks in the cement. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid felt the tears break inside her chest for the old feet that stepped one at a time onto the cold Greyhound cement. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like somebody had backed the cement truck up to the honey house, swung the pipe over to my chest, and started pouring. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been cemented in her memory that way. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On the roof, I lean against the cement wall and think about my options. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear the sounds on the street—car tires through slush, buses braking and hissing as they lower and open doors, boots striking cement, voices talking on cell phones, radio music from a fast truck. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He got up and went out through the back and sat on the mound of cement blocks beside the house. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ear and Eye dragged him the last few feet across the cement strip that surrounded Vainona. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They reached the cement walk surrounding the suburb. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They ought to take the whole kit and caboodle of these cement parking lots and heave them into the sea, I thought. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They drag the boys out to the backyard, where there is now a large pile of cement blocks accumulated by my father for some future contingency. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad led us up the lower steps, which were made of rocks slapped together with cement. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad gets his first job in Limerick at the cement factory and Mam is happy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It felt like I was swimming inside a cement mixer. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The houses on either side are the same, although the muddy path is gone: in its place is a neat little hand railing, a trim cement walk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Clouds like cement are paved in sections to the sky The cemetery looms up, and I turn to the area where my father’s grave is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr’s fireplace. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “She sold it,” Mom said grimly, “not to some ‘nice young guy’ but to the Hells Angel who was hit by the cement truck. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A shower of matches fell around the shelf and onto the cement floor. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those weird roadside curio shops that sell lawn flamingos and wooden Indians and cement grizzly bears and stuff like that. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he pulled a jug of water, a small bag of patching cement, a trowel, and a plastic tray from the tar pail. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The ground I stand on is no longer made of cement. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z This one is unfinished: gray cement, rafters above. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Yolanda pulls up at a cantina, its thatched roof held up by several posts, its floor poured cement, and in its very center, a lone picnic table over which a swarm of flies hover. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We reach Abnegation headquarters, and its face is just a cement square like everything else in the Abnegation sector. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z My feet print the cement porch with wetness. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The landscape has become gray, filled with low flat cement buildings, old factories, and then tracks and more tracks filled with trains like ours passing by in the opposite direction. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Abuela’s house was two stories high and made of cement, with a front garden on which grew medicinal herbs and flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He grabbed her wrist, and the hammer skittered across the cement. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Dust lay thick on the floor, there were neat hillocks of chipped cement and the earth where bandicoots, for some obscure reason of their own, had dug. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Stores, shopping centers, garages, furniture outlets, restaurants, quick-food stands: the cement procession marched on, broken only by traffic lights dangling from heavy wires over the roadway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They chucked pieces of broken cement at them, trying to knock them down. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “We’ll see about that,” I say as we head back around 64 building, then follow the curve of the hill to an open cement area big enough to park thirty cars. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Since we didn't want the bed of the wagon filled right up to the edge, we emptied some, dumping it out on the cement of the patio. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z You have to imagine a room that’s just a cement cube—nothing beautiful in it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Epic in scope, violence, and imagination, Deathstorm is a new benchmark in the fantasy genre and cements forever G. M. Pennington’s status as the American Tolkien. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Then I sat down on his cement bed again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z We were ordered to dress, and then escorted to two large cells with cement floors and no furniture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on the parade grounds we circle the cement once. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My head slumps against the cement stand, and my arms lie motionless against the chains. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z She felt the earth beneath her feet and then the harsh surface of a cement floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center of Santarem, telephone poles are made of cement, as is usual in tropical countries that can afford them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They dashed up the cement stairs and out into the dimming afternoon light, then bolted across the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z They placed more cement on top and closed the grave. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I push away from the cement wall, and the sky moves sideways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Gradually, the people of Rass built one from ancient memory lavishly cemented with rumor. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the cage, the men had few options: they could stand in the center, they could sit on the cement, or they could lean against the steel rack. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I trudge through the days, as though walking through wet cement. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the base of the stairs, the cement stoop cracked under the man’s feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I pondered the human industry, the paint, the cement truck and concrete forms, all the resources that had gone into that one curb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The cement was cold, he had forgotten his slippers. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It almost reminds me of clay, or wet cement. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “What are you talking about? You lost me with cement tactics,” Barry said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Then, because I wanted something other than the murmured greetings in Yiddish to listen to, I began to hear, distinctly, the tapping sounds of Danny’s metal-capped shoes against the cement pavement. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The path is paved with cement, and there are wild roses on either side, so long that the thorns threaten to scratch my arms. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Hydrants were opened, women were dancing to salsa blaring from a boom box on the cement. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The tracery, all of which was cut from templates, was cemented into place along with iron reinforcing bars as the piers were being built. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z And there he gasped, holding his breath and crouching against the cement. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in a twenty-foot-square cement room, and the opposite wall was covered with metal bars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Friday night a week later we crammed into an old truck with ten other people and an assortment of secondhand goods—cupboards, wardrobes, gramophones, pots, pans, tables, mirrors, cement bags, bricks, chairs and glass windows. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby, dressed in a light zip-up jacket that wasn't warm enough, pressed on despite the discomfort, his pieces occasionally sliding off the cement tables slick with rain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the wild chase around the building the biggest dog struck the tin drainpipe, and it clattered down the wall and bounced on the cement top of the cistern. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The toilet was molded from cement and placed in the center of the cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The cow would shudder violently and blood would spurt down his neck and through his nose into a drain in the cement floor and he’d die. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, all the cement squares were perfectly white, and none of them had a single crack. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “What right? You gave us that lumber, we didn’t steal it. The same with the cement for the launchpad.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As I walked back to my tent, I stumbled into a cement wall. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The boy was by now so full of cake he was like a sackful of wet cement and you couldn't have hurt him with a sledge-hammer. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The house had no bathroom, but underneath it, behind one of the cinder-block pillars, was a closet-sized room with a toilet on a cement floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For the next eight years or so Jojo lived in a small cell with steel bars and a cement floor. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Our neighborhood is gray and white and black cement; you have to peek through metal gates into hidden courtyards to find trees and flowers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This was also true of the cement squares of the walkway leading up to the Perfect House, which were bordered by perfectly matching azalea bushes, all the same height, alternating between pink and white blossoms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And though it was only eight o’clock, the sun was already strong enough to warm the last of the cement steps under her feet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The She Elephant lunged for the door and fell heavily to the cement. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We hear it, slapping harsh, hissing, hitting like cement. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The guards led him to a large cement bathroom with showers along the walls.They gave him a brush and a chunk of green soap. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I’ve just set foot on the cement steps of the front porch when a teenager bursts out the front door. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The streetlights shone on the treeless stretches of asphalt and cement and continuous old slate roofs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius breathed pitifully, bumping the tin hot dog over the low cement sill of the garage. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They have been so very unresourceful, these last few days, I cannot think ...but now they can get together over these games, and then we shall really see the friendship cemented. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It is a wide cement building that overlooks what was once the river. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As he pushed himself free of the table and landed on the floor, the camera slid from his shoulder and hit the cement with a hollow, cracking sound. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Gully stumbled forward onto me, drooling, and we both tumbled to the cement. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The cement was suddenly hard to my seat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about telling Benni I might want to be wet cement to fill the cracks in the sidewalk. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The bond between Fischer and Hall had been cemented back in 1992, when they had bumped into each other on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The cement houses in the town were bigger than the ones I had seen in other villages, and everywhere we looked were unfamiliar faces. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The engines started up, and I watched as Eugene Field Memorial Middle School got smaller and smaller, its bricks and cement gradually disappearing into the distance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A metal panel lay flush against the cement. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Every now and then she stopped and squinted at the cement, hoping to identify the culprit of her sleepless nights. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In no time the roads dried hard as cement, trout were left baking in dry pasturelands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The mud in the roads actually seemed to flow with currents, as in the rivers and streams, but when it hardened it would be worse than cement. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The low cement pickle vats silhouetted in the gloom made the factory floor look like an indoor cemetery for the cylindrical dead. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood on the cement edge of the pool. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The stove Orr was manufacturing out of an inverted metal drum stood in the middle of the smooth cement floor he had constructed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As we get closer, instead of the cement commercial launch pad I expect, there’s just freshly cut grass. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z No brownstones with the cement stoops where you could watch the buses, ice cream trucks, and taxis ride by. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Sometime tomorrow Kara’s and Locke’s futures will be cemented, and I will become something less than genuine, like the first in a numbered series of art prints. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Matt saw the ground ahead change from dirt to cement. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you really think about a basement, it is cement poured over restless earth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In an instant, sheets of water crash on the tin roofs of the clubhouse and flood across lawns and cement. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He mixed the cement and troweled over the hole. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Money for the cement and cinder blocks that rose out of the ground in solid, grey walls and flat square roofs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He was struck down by a ten-ton cement truck and died instantly of a massive skull fracture on the Norvelt road early in the morning on June 24. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The cement factory is miles outside Limerick and that means Dad has to be out of the house by six in the morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He picked up his trowel, slid a thin layer of cement on it, and leveled it on the floor, smoothing and stretching it in arcs that formed half circles, like grey rainbows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The sides, where the metal ceiling curved down to the cement floor, were jammed with wooden crates, sprinkler heads, wheelbarrows, and all kinds of equipment. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to picture her mixing cement, carrying rocks around in her apron. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My new school was a few blocks down the congested avenue, through a gate into a cracked cement yard ringed with hurricane fencing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Now you come home right after you’re done,” Grandma said, pulling up in front of the blocky cement lifeguard shack and changing rooms that everybody called the bathhouse. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z When the steam cleared, she stepped inside and sealed the door behind her, then hosed the cubicle’s cement floor with water and scoured her workbench with alcohol. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was like staring through a thin mix of tomato soup and cement. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Percy’s pizza felt like a cement lump in his stomach. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The walls were constructed of bones and skulls - thousands upon thousands, cemented together. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The cement mixer drove onto the bridge, and blasts were replaced by grinding and tumbling sounds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Unlike the other villagers’ houses, our windows are square panes of glass and our foundation and floor are cement. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were pieces of cement and splinters of wood flying in every direction, and the air was electric with the flash of gun muzzles and the sparks from the bullets. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The floor beneath us changed from cement to mud to bricks and back again. 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