“Don't change,” Jules said into the center, to all of us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They made camp in a sloping pasture rimmed by enormous oak trees and pines and nut trees, a stream moving down through the center, over steps of rock. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He abandoned the noiseless transparencies and pointed at the center of the spreading rings like a setter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They agreed, but only to and from The Courtyard, the fancy outdoor shopping center, during the day and with advance permission. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

After she married John Smith when she was twenty-four, she centered her life around family and church, yet she often told fond stories about her student days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The ka-klick of the unlocking door to the big storage room in the community center. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My avatar would die and game over would appear in the center of my display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were such a dark brown that it was difficult to tell where the color ended and the center blackness began. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But the ferment among the bomb scientists continued—centered, as always, at the Met Lab in Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had seen how the Nazis made the warehouse their own personal shopping center before shipping trainloads of gold and silver back to Berlin. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time he worked at the monogram in the center of the platter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the table sat a small round cake, listing to one side, with a squat candle in its center. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I was about to storm inside when Charlie stood in the center of the room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Behind them the spires of New Pretty Town rose from the center of town, and around them was the greenbelt, a swath of forest that separated the middle and the late pretties from the youngsters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By 1933, their collaboration had poised the University of California to take its place as one of the great academic centers of the world, one of the richest institutions and most ambitious. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They piled their things in the center of a few worn rags and tied the corners together. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie ruffled his sisters curly blond hair and snagged a banana from the basket in the center of the table. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My classmates were all gathered in one oblong mob with Frieda in the center. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Since then Luma has been free to run her program the way she sees fit, and to fund-raise toward her real ambition: building a tutoring center and soccer facility within walking distance of Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They had the magazine open to a center spread of Fabian onstage singing before an audience of mostly girls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My gaze kept being drawn back to the girl in the center of the picture. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It looked like something in the center of Mr. Staphopoulos was on fire. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I carried it pressed under my belt right down the center of my back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the village came out of their houses to see the astonishing sight—pale, unhealthy-looking men who carried large bundles and unusual-looking sticks as they marched into the center of the village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sticks them into the lock in the center of the guardhouse door, and after a few twists of his wrist, the lock clicks open. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. A circular room with a round desk at the center of that circle.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In the center of one knot of elegant guests a cowboy with a little riding crop flicked the crop at one of his fans, producing a response of exaggerated screaming and pleased giggling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old oak table in the center of the weapons den, clearly a relic from the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Arecibo Observatory could communicate with an identical radio telescope on a planet 15,000 light-years away, halfway to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, if we knew precisely where to point it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Paces ran the Perfect Angels day-care center in Plant City, where the younger children went while the older ones attended school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So the centers were shut down and the birds were abandoned to die off in the wild. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Since Aristarchus, every step in our quest has moved us farther from center stage in the cosmic drama. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center is the Cornucopia on its circle of sand with the twelve strips branching out from it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the earliest identified crops were two drought-resistant species of millet in North China, but rice in South China, suggesting the possibility of separate northern and southern centers of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He moved the sugar bowl to the center of the table and pushed it back again. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But things unspoken were the center of interest— the cause, the detectives were convinced, of Hickock’s escalating distress. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in front of the board, and my head doesn’t even reach the center of the target, but it doesn’t matter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But something about the street bothered Mac as soon as he saw it: we were in the center of Cape Town in the middle of the day, and yet the street was empty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My after-school at the St. Nick community center would sometimes take us on skate outings to Wollman Rink. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As the balloon expands, the distance between any two spots increases, but there is no spot that can be said to be the center of the expansion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had read the note standing shamelessly in the center of the entrance hall, immediately sensing the danger contained by such crudity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“My parents are building a visitors’ center and museum. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He captures my hand and turns his face in to my palm and kisses the center. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It will not get hot enough to emit X rays, but it could account for the very compact source of radio waves and infrared rays that is observed at the galactic center. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few were lying in the center of the floor, but there was still room, and when the match went out he pressed down on Turner’s shoulders to make him sit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They do have free food at the community center food pantry, but that’s pretty far away. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Move that guy out of the center,” I told Jimmy. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze gusted softly from the dark center of the forest, almost like a breath. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the center of the crowd that had formed before the department store the hunting cap, the green radius of the circle of people, was bobbing about violently. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its center was an octagon topped by a dome that rose 275 feet from floor to peak, higher than the dome of the U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table, in an earthenware jug, was a bunch of red tulips. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Agent Fiona clears her throat and steps to the center of the stage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lights dim, and a youthful figure wearing a simple dress and horn-rimmed glasses takes center stage. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

That’s what the newspapers had called the place before the revolution shut it down and turned it into a public meeting hall and cultural center. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The very core of him, die very center of Brian Robeson was stopped and stricken with a white-flash of horror, a terror so intense that his breathing, his thinking, and nearly his heart had stopped. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a prodigious idea,” Tamika said, this time wearing a real big grin, like the one she had in the picture with her uncle at the science center. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For example, Russia, once a small Slavic state centered on Moscow, did not even begin its expansion beyond the Ural Mountains until A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sit with the dorks in the center back, by the long, rattling heating and air-conditioning unit. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

To her surprise, the Y offered to commit enough money to rent the field at the community center in Clarkston and to buy equipment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Rotting beams supported on once-white pillars had buckled at the center, leaving a yawning, gaping hole. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They place a large box in the center of the ring. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the idea of using loci for artificial memory was at the center of formal education in rhetoric for centuries. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Three down reads: Force that acts on a body moving in a circular path and is directed toward the center around which the body is moving. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the house and stood in the center of the early, dim morning street. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about six feet tall, even with several inches of slouch, his light brown skin dry and weathered like alligator, his eyes sea green at the center, with deep blue edges. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Will saw the knife lying on the table in the center of the room, but before he could pick it up the old man was limping toward him with a bowl of water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels to Marie-Laure as if they have wound these past four days toward the center of a bewildering maze, and now they are tiptoeing past the pickets of some final interior cell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here between the volcanoes it is about four miles wide, and should not be hard going farther in towards the center, though it is more crevassed than I had hoped, and the surface rotten. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Streaks of blood surrounded a solitary hole in the center of the ice. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We trekked all over Mica, past hundreds of grassless stone-and-cactus front yards, through the Tudorized shopping center, skirting the electronics business park around which the city had' been invented a mere fifteen years before. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Zero and infinity were at the very center of the Renaissance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Johnny, our center fielder, was at the plate. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“He would be alive now if the medical center was not on strike,” Amaka said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s lean and healthy and has as much energy as the Magic’s center going up and down the court. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I feel as if I’m at the center of nothingness, of a black square that is totally empty; that I’m exploding slowly outward, into the cold burning void of space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered me and Rose in the center of the city room and stared at us for a few seconds before opening his mouth again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My bans drove me from the center of the struggle to the sidelines, from a role that was primary to one that was peripheral. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In five, four, three, two . . .” He points at the man at center stage. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He just sat there, and the children were caught in the center of his awe and defeat and resignation and acceptance. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road they were on led through the center of the park until it branched apart about halfway through and went as two roads to the two different beaches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the sky as we drove toward the town center. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They might have been at the very center of the world, or near the end. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Tristran realized, it had a long, ivory horn jutting from the center of its forehead. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don’t have any experience with bringing it back to center? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Every time I look up and see something going on, some distraction. There you are. Right at the center of it. Do you need to take your test out in the hall?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bennie yelled at the phantoms, stepping out into the center of the room with a plastic sheet wound up like a whip. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I just have to stand there, at center stage, soaking up the applause. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Jonas and I held the front, Mrs. Rimas and the man who wound his watch held the center, and the bald man carried the back. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A sliced green pistachio nut has been pressed into its center. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I saw the man being dragged toward the center of the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the competitors tried to look calm as he strode to the center of the curtain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was playing stronger, putting some muscle on me and talking stuff Fletcher missed a short jumper but their center put it back up and in. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the center of the gymnasium, I take my initial position and skewer the dummy right through the heart. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Golden Rule was a fiercely nonunion shop—which would, over the next few years, find itself at the center of a citywide boycott and labor battle—and as a result wages were low. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The two walked carefully, and they avoided the center of the town where some sleeper in a doorway might see them pass. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The altar had an enormous Jesus on his cross at the center, the disciples at his feet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The last place I should have been with a tracking bracelet on my ankle was a juvenile detention center, but I had to get Bobbie Lyles to drop the burglary charge. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We lean our heads into the center of the table. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer plunged into the game with his trusted and thoroughly analyzed opening, the Ruy López, instantly seizing the initiative and generating pressure in the center squares. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were no signs of poverty, no signs of homelessness, no signs of drug abuse, no signs of the social fissures that were tearing apart America’s urban centers to the east and west. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I inhale and brace myself, exhale and fire, and the bullet goes right where I meant to put it: in the red circle, in the center of the target. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By this time the news anchor was gone and Lance was now solidly center stage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They found it was easier to spot errors and get results when you had “different minds, centered on the same problem.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The man in the center was very tall and wore a blue uniform. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The trouble was that lazy daisies needed French knots for their centers and I hated making French knots. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He points at the light-gray behemoth of a building that squats in the center of camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It took Evan half an hour to drag his loaded wagon to the town center—a distance he usually traveled in less than five minutes by bike. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

It took only a little while, though, before most of them seemed to lose track of me, their focus centered instead on the fit of their garden gloves and the worms in the soil. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy stood in the center of the path, snow falling all around him. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And there was the picture of Jan in the center of page one. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad will wear a shirt without a collar, and even jeans on weekends, but he sends them to the cleaner’s, so there’s a crease down the center of each leg, like Sunday pants. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Gathered in the center, around a sacred drum used to commune with Wah’Kon-Tah, were several male musicians and singers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She ran to the front door, to the pane of glass in its center, and watched as a black SUV turned out of the driveway and drove past the house, disappearing from view. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Gladers compressed into a tighter group around him, everyone facing outward, huddled together in the center of the T intersection. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I bought clothes with the money I made from working as a tutor at the rec center over the summer. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If they were sucked into the center of the whirling wind-top there wasn’t a ghost of a chance. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the high altar stood a golden monstrance in the shape of a sunburst, at the center of which—exposed through a tiny window— was the round wafer of bread. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to the center tip-off circle and dribbled the ball four times. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

My feet push me past those haters, toward the microphone, and plant themselves center stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They battled across the green Abbey lawns, right through the center of the maelstrom of warring creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Each step was set on a center newel, and the steps fanned out from it. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

We walked down the valley through the center of town and around a mountainside, past the small, tidy brick houses put up after the mines were unionized. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even college students were having trouble finding decent jobs that summer, so Dad agreed that I could take the volunteer position at the adoption center on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a day of digging up and eating raw daikons, Shin returned to the city center with as many as he could carry, sold them in markets, and bought snacks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some of the talk was ordinary, about the state of the crops or the weather, but often it centered on Khan Sahib, our village's powerful landlord. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Between the curbs, smack- dab down the center, Maniac Magee walked — not ran — right on out of town. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the center was a new set of nested boxes, inscribed with a splendid floral design. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Well then, you’re not like them,” I say, poking him hard in the center of his chest. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

According to testimony, after the bond issue for the civic center failed, Hammond was in on a scheme to torch the building in order to collect insurance money. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An enormous boulder rose up in the center of it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hitched each team to the end of a long stick that came out from the center of the machine. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the previously empty arena, a swirling tornado of stone gray and loamy black whipped up gusts of frigid air and threw stinging clouds of arena dirt into Anya’s face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Crimson doors are spaced out every few steps, matching the rug that runs down the center of the hardwood floor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She smiled—a twisted smile, with a knot of pain at the center. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So it was all worth celebrating over a huge mound of ice cream in the student center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They walked through the center of town, stepping over piles of clothes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She upended the two bowls into the center of the larger container, and the powders came together. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I look down the aisle: A rubber mat runs along the center, with rows of three navy-blue cloth-covered seats on either side. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There were more levers, buttons, and gauges than the mission control center at NASA. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You’ll form small groups and work to create a center focused on a certain holiday. It might be Christmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

An incident later in B-block had called my bluff: I’d discovered a fire in the service area that ran down the center of the block; welders upstairs had unwittingly ignited a length of PVC pipe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was close enough, he saw the front page; his picture was in the center of it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He threw the letter out into the center of the table for all to see. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She spent a whole day redoing the drawing on different sheets of paper, coloring it in, trimming it to size, taking it to the university copy center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The referee blew his whistle, the clock started to tick, and Lake Windsor’s big center snapped the ball. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of our previous bilateral discussions had been laying the groundwork for these talks, which took place at the World Trade Centre, a modem exhibition center near Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A singer on a bandstand in the center of the hallway crooned, “Take my hand, oh, my darling, take my hand and dance with me...” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At the center table she poured cold tea into her cup and carried the cup to the gray room in the lean-to and set it on the reading table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She walked to the center of the room again, and picked up her bag. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in my command center, holding the Jade Key and endlessly reciting the clue printed on its surface: “‘Continue your quest by taking the test.’” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joaquin ran his thumb down the glass, leaving a dry stripe down the center of condensation. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We sprint down the center aisle of the orchard in a breathless pack. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We pull into the driveway, which circles a filthy, nonfunctioning fountain with a stone merry-go-round at its center. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Inmates were crossing from the R side to the W side and back again through the center passage, which I had a feeling they weren’t supposed to do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upper Djerholm had no real center, but the bulk of its taverns, inns, and market stalls were clustered around the base of the hill leading to the Ice Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It had a small keyhole at its very center. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once Grace pulled in at the shopping center, though, she realized that she had made a huge mistake, one much bigger than salt and pepper shakers. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Glob after sticky glob of sap landed right in the center of the blinking gems, dousing the beams of light, and Gum Baby waved her hands urgently. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the center of the clearing stood an old, crooked sweet-gum tree. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A man tows a leather armchair on a handcart, a black kitten cleaning itself on the center cushion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was these tiny details that showed the littlest kingdom’s deep-rooted ties to its Oxscinian colonizers: it looked almost exactly like a copper kispe, except squints had square holes through their centers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I savored it as we drove back to the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, Greasy Sae grabs Gale by the hand and pulls him into the center of the floor and faces off with him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It took a bit of convincing to get Zohra to bring us here, instead of the fancy shopping center we’ve already been to twice in three weeks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ttt was there, watering some flowers that grew in the center of the room. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Egypt by 3000 B.C. was undoubtedly the site of Africa’s most complex society, and one of the world’s earliest centers of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was the center of attention, the celebrity of the moment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The thirteen seats of the table were filling up, and at the center of the table sat the king and Perrington. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Villagers in the satellite settlements exchanged products with the center, sending beans uphill and obtaining llama jerky in return, all the while retaining their citizenship in a homeland they rarely saw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Having other planets with life on them was as silly as having a sphere with two centers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was sweating by the time I got there and anticipating the gust of cool air the moment I would walk into the air-conditioned community center. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Earthmen looked blank and Cutie continued, “What is the center of activities here in the station? What do we all serve? What absorbs all our attention?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He showed Chamberlain the new brigade flag: triangular, white, with a blue border, a red Maltese Cross in the center. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A throwing axe sprouted from the center of his forehead with a solid thunk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think, in reality, I raised my finger to my lips and said, “Shhhhh,” so she wouldn’t say anything else as we spiraled into the center of that wish circle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Far below, like the blood of the earth, From the center of nowhere rushing forth,” he sang under his breath. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras argued that the earth sat at the center of the universe, and the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolved around the earth, each pinned inside a sphere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The messenger cautioned us to stay away from the center of town for another week. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A table and chairs dominated the center of the room. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Take these,” said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course this presumed that Rosy had hit it right in wanting the bases in the center and the backbone outside. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The lake was so deep because the volcano crater and tunnels and lava chutes and all that plumbing went all the way down to the center of the earth. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the altar is the picture I made of little Avik, now in a wooden frame. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The center passed the ball off to Fletcher. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Several soldiers drag a struggling boy out into the center of the yard. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It’s probably some sort of relief center that hasn’t actually seen any relief yet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We were the outcasts, but I was going to change that, so I walked to the center of the room. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew Sasha hated being the center of attention, so after greeting them with hugs they tried to be chill. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the center was one empty display stand, as if the main banner had been taken down for cleaning or something. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dad cut the pizza and placed it in the center of the table. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another use for the center of a rotating town would be a manufacturing facility. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy I founded the Museum, which became a center for scientific study. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I remember the time I said we should invite the Collaborative kids to our holiday centers. I saw Mr. T wipe his eyes after I said that. I didn’t know why then. Now I do.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I pull myself out of the water and settle on a bridge—then yank the bridges together so that they close the gap in the center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, the utmost anticipation was centered on the arrival of the 7:45 train and President Woodrow Wilson. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The hab-unit camera window showed a view of the back of my head, which I’d positioned to block the entertainment center’s display screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was no way to get into the center of the Smoke, where her hoverboard lay on the broad roof of the trading post, charging in the sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The resulting backbone would have to show minor in- and-out buckles depending upon whether pairs of purines or pyrimidines were in the center. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In the center of the magazine were miniature posters you could rip out and stick up in your locker. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When we went outside, in the center of the city among the crowds of people, I said to Uri, “Look!” and crossed the street by myself. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She stops in the center, turns around, and pauses with a smile pasted on her face as Dona Amelia reads a little about her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His office in Building 1 afforded him a commanding view of the large park in the center of the Johnson Space Center complex. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was seawater that had been lifted up into the center of the hurricane by the low pressure. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Niles stands in the center of the room with a needle in hand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My heart raced at the thought of this religious center where only the holiest of priests and the most beautiful of Sun Maidens lived, always in prayer and praise to Inti and the other gods. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Sara snaps her book closed, but not before I see a swirling garden created in black ink, one red flower in the center. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There were no seats in the back, just an Oriental carpet and a stereo the size of a home entertainment center. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“You’ll eat in the canteen with the other kids in the center,” Mohammad says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a serene and slow-paced place, unlike the busy centers of manufacture and distribution where the daily work of the community occurred. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Whispering Gallery, though quite large, was furnished only with a single desk, two cushions in the corner, and, in the center of the room, a strange contraption resembling an old-fashioned beauty-salon hair dryer. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet also he was keen, shrewd, direct to the center of a thing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of York is front and center. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As expected, more pods are registering the closer we move toward the center of the Capitol. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Lord Montjoie had a camp at the center, and he wasn’t seen going in or out for weeks. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Lon walked quietly into the center of the indoor meadow and looked around. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She scrambled up onto the platform, clapping her hands over her head, Dr. Fanning lunging at but missing her as she escaped onto center stage. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The middle was pink, almost red at the center. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the center of the clearing sat a hut with smoke wafting out of the chimney. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Thursday night before, he had gotten a letter from his father, who was still in Florida at the detention center. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The center of the mortar bowl was stained a golden brown from all the spices that had been crushed in there. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He bowled them left, right, and center with his massive strength. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I spent hours in the media center watching movies or flipping through magazines. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I sit in the center of Mr. Bender’s garden. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed to rise up from the center of my whole being and take over. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

All the furniture is roped off from the center of the room, with little signs telling them not to touch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the greenhouse, one tall stem stood alone, brown like all the rest of the plants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The main gym looks like any training center, with coaches for each of the events who drill you on your skills. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily he should have been a magnet for me, the center of all the excitement and influences in the class. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The witch did not step toward them, she did not call to them, she merely stood there, completely still, the center of this desolate universe, while the air bowed to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rapidly Ranofer explained the hearthstone mold, a stone ground flat, with a bar-shaped depression in the center and little grooves scraped from it to let the air out. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The Goddess in The Temple The uneasy response to Caesar’s relationship with Cleopatra increased when he completed a building project of his own in the center of Rome. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

That day, when my father helped him to the clinic near the trading center, they diagnosed him with tuberculosis and told him to go immediately to Kasungu Hospital. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The center was domed with two slots graven into either slope. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen officers rushed upstairs through the center gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be in the control center, Dr. Z,” said the security guard. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Something large and loud in the center of the painting had the hind legs of a goat, fur like grated bone, solid thighs, their surface thrusting toward the ceiling of the studio. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Stand next to me on the center of the carpet,” says Director Horus. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the words “five times five” all stand in place and layer hands in the center of the circle to the beat of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Huge knotted roots sprawled in the center of twisting, creeping shadows. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ty's hand flips over, palm up, on the center seat between us. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Drops the right card in the center, grabs the left card with the same hand. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word the Earth Men stood in the center of the city. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being of simple mind, Dana probably had thought only of his unexpected good fortune as the laundry basket was loaded into the laundry truck, which was then driven out the gates of the detention center. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were up six to four, but our center was shooting threes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday, she went alone to the relief center. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Masks, the only gang remaining after Father’s war on crime, had set off a bomb in a shopping center. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The prophets must have gathered wood earlier because a great heap was already present at the center of the bare knoll. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the birds gathered words, they'd fly back to centers to be recorded. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It glows from the center of every panel, ceiling, floor, and walls. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The path was well maintained, though narrow; the dirt was hard packed in the center, and tufts of brown grasses grew along the edges. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I got back in the car and drove up to a lone house in the center of town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Takes you way out of the center of town. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She walks to the center of the living room, holds her arms open wide and turns a circle. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yandry took them out into the center of the river, where the current was strongest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They ran to the center of the base. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

For my mom, my aunt, my grandmother, and all the other women on our street, life centered on faith. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Today a recreation center there is named in his honor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Players gather at center circle for the coin toss. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said at length, pointing the prow of the Wasp out toward the center of the pond, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do with you. You see that big racing sloop out there?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He might have filled the place at the center of himself with the answer to who he was, but he had lost so much more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The crowd had closed behind the Arbitrator, and they jostled her as she approached the wide depression in the center of the room. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had felt as safe as a king in the center of his realm, protected by lions and dragons—and by the water all around them. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She assigned me to the center gate and Q-south, the gallery next to her office and told me, “I don’t want to see nobody out where they ain’t supposed to be.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would put a strip of paper in the center, then fold the cookie in half and bend its arms back just as it turned hard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they started marching back to the center of town, they passed the Coffin House at the head of Griffins Wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue brought out the coast guard notes and, smoothing them down with the palm of her hand, laid them in the center of his desk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cheers send tremors through me as we file into the center of the arena and wait to be led to our booths. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An unabashed king-size bed made up with a flowered bedspread stands in the dead center of the room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She found herself at the center of a whirlpool, able to breathe but unable to break free. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A stone church with a stubby tower stood close to the village center. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, he lifted the hatchet and began striking the center of the log. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The perimeter of the aquatics center is now guarded by soldiers with automatic rifles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I yelled after them as they waited for the officer down-stairs to open the center gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The center of the valley was covered with a fine black fuzz of peppery dots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We broke apart and took turns taking center stage, each of us performing a different combination of moves; but our performances were fluid—they talked to each other. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cling on to the scarecrow’s pole in the center of the tightening circle. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Hugo met them in the center of the room. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At the center of the Midway, the procession veered around the woefully incomplete Ferris Wheel, which Burnham eyed with displeasure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Yapping filled the air, and three black dogs sprinted from the center of the caravan to greet them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was almost evening and we had to return to the center in time for dinner. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the best one for hiding behind: she’d chosen one in the very center of the room, and unless she kept very quiet... The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You must be Ms. Ibtihaj Muhammad,” a man said as he walked over to us from the center of the floor. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The old woman had paid them no mind as she took Koffi from him and carried her to a large hut in the clearing's center with surprising ease. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Closer examination showed each side to be covered with writing, resting on a curved line that spiraled clockwise in five coils from the disk’s rim to its center. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For decoration, I draw eighteen frosted daisies with white petals and a white center across the top. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And we stood at the center, so it seemed; black men, blackened cart; white, smudged prisoner and officer; viewing the world turned to fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Confinement centers—“colonies”—for the genetically unfit were already planned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the old dog was where he most loved to be—the center of attention among some human beings. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Catherine, you know how the community center’s holding a dance on Saturday?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

An omniscient voice is already calling out each of our names as we enter the arena, the voice deep and reverberating, and as it does, each name rotates in flames in the arena’s center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They chose ten treehouse drawings, along with a new drawing of Ivy all alone, which would be at the center. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Grass, feathers, and twigs,” says Leo, “make for a soft center.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula is an immense atomic nucleus, about the size of Manhattan, spinning thirty times a second. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As you all know, the last few days have been bloody crazy, and quite a bit seems centered around our Greenbean, Tommy, seated before us.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The red-and-yellow straw carpet covered the center of the room, and the honey-colored Formica cupboard divided the space into a living room and kitchen. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

My favorite time of day was always dinner, when each of us was around the wooden table in the dining room, with warm aromas escaping from the hot dishes in the center. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

However, now that martial law has been declared and the national guard has been activated, Alyce has been called on to airlift drinking water to evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All the way to the dining room she had walked precisely, placing her feet in the very center of the cabbage roses that twined through the pattern of the carpet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We were in Paris training at INSEP, the national French sports training center, prior to our World Cup. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Plastic flowers were planted around the edge, and a weather vane topped by a spouting whale stood in the center. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

First she ripped out a few of the orb lines near the center. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A small bakery, its windows filled with decorated cakes and layered pastries, also did business in the second part of the shopping center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was his own little center of attention. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There, smack dab down the center of the street, wobbled Rooster Jim on a brand-new bicycle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Four Dauntless traitors mill around in one corner, and two of the Erudite, one a dark-skinned woman, one an older man, both wearing lab coats, stand with Jeanine near the metal table in the center. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My arms felt like they’d fly off with the next throw of hay, but I pitched it into the center of the net so Pa could haul it to the loft. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She grazed her fingertips across the center console, her nails scraping the hard plastic. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s do the battlefield first, then finish at the visitor center.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Arletta’s show was filming in the community center by the library in a few days, and the thought of it made me dizzy. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Trip tried passing to Nick but their center slapped the ball back. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

When everyone has said his or her piece, they sit down again, leaving Johanna alone in the center of the room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

From Hank, the Colonel told me, it went downhill until you reached Wilson Carbod, the starting center, who was almost six feet tall. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were to sit at a large T-shaped table, with Lyman Gage, president of the exposition, at the center of the topmost table, Hunt on his right, Olmsted on his left. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The threat grew as we penetrated deeper toward the center of the state. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bright yellow petals are now dried and the centers are dark. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Barack and I loved each other deeply, but it was as if at the center of our relationship there were suddenly a knot we couldn’t loosen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the play was finished and after all the players had taken a bow, Arnold-as-Sandy walked in front of all the actors and sat down, center stage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Benin Home had once been called Approve School and been a government- run juvenile center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A fire burned brightly in the center of it, even though the day was very warm, and the man was steering her toward it, Amari realized with fear. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A seismic voice, a volcanic breath, the roar of a cataclysm broke out in the center of the crowd with a great potential of expansion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Max came to the center of the floor and stopped. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The center had all of the trappings of a high-security prison, and its inmates were incarcerated there for relatively long periods. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred thousand wizards gasped as the two Seekers, Krum and Lynch, plummeted through the center of the Chasers, so fast that it looked as though they had just jumped from airplanes without parachutes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the center of the living room floor was a large white cloth with a pile of her mother’s jewelry, her father’s special watches, jade figurines, money, and other precious items. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In 1425, Brunelleschi placed just such a point in the center of a drawing of a famous Florentine building, the Baptistery. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It told the board where Tally’s center of gravity was, and which way she was facing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He grabbed my tape recorder from the center of the table, handed it to Day, and said, “Okay, Miss Rebecca got questions for you, Pop. Tell her what you know.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I ran toward the platform at the center of the lava lake. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We’re going home, Cap. I think the rehab center was glad to get rid of me. Some of my opinions didn’t sit well with my fellow patients. Like it’s a crime to speak your mind.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The long hallway reminds me of the storage center where Dad worked, except inside the lockers there weren’t happy screams and laughter. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nathan practically had to carry Pond to the center of the sand painting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She would not have paid a kobo at the medical center; at least there was still that benefit to being a lecturer. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond all this, or at the very center, was the raw fact of terror. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the weather became warm, he moved into a health and rehabilitation center, not because he was ailing but because the facility had a swimming pool and a gym where he could work out. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the fifth row of pews, she stood, nervous, wondering what was going on. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I want to know what happened to the row of wood-framed buildings that were sandwiched between a day-care center and a grocer. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At the bottom center of the bulkhead just above the seat there was a nylon strap sticking out, the end of it doubled and cross-stitched. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the bridge’s center span, the severed hands of thieves and cutpurses hung like strings of onions from iron stanchions along the roadway. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And yet, the withered mummy that held the Oracle shuffled forward until she stood in the center of the group. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But mostly I could feel the way my hand was wrapped around Faith's and the gentle pull on my shoulder as she led me to the center of the dance floor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Now the slice, sitting on the grid, which was held in place by the tire iron, was positioned in the microscope, centered in the beam of electrons. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little lace doilies were everywhere—on arms and backs of chairs, in the center of a large dining table, on little tables. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

After 19 years of promised and canceled flights, the Soviet Union had just launched the second woman into space from the Soviet space center in Baikonur. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s this guy who works at the community center I take Mr. Ram to. Used to take him to.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Bigger whirled and centered the spot of light on Bessie’s face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m thinking it involves Marlena. She can ride her during the parade and Grand Spec, and then you can follow with a feature act in the center ring. Oh, here!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For millennia the center of Jewish life had been planted firmly in the Middle East, but in the tenth century an opportunity for Jews arose in Spain. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Siobhan watched her father and Adam Douglas saunter over to Reverend Hollister and Coach Turner in the center of the court. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And far from agreeing, the two sets of laws clash at the center of a black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Tom sat down by the round center table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was also the first summer I convinced Dad to let me volunteer at the adoption center inside Zimmerman’s Pet Store at the Pagoda Mall. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sliced a sliver off one of his nails, touched the blade to the center of his palm and pressed enough to open a triangle of skin like a tent flap into himself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on Main Street, about ten miles east of the center of town. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun set behind them, a citronella candle burned in a bucket in the center of the table to ward off mosquitoes. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad agreed that with the money from the sale, they’d be able to build a world-class gymnastics-training center from scratch. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But from the beginning, the question of how to deal with heart attacks was front and center. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A big painting on a canvas, actually, but clearly a glass girl was at the center. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Miss Whitlaw stepped to the center of the street and held out her arms. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earth was no longer at the center of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I go across the center line, and I hit another car.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As we began our slow march through the neighborhood streets, I felt jittery about being the center of attention, but also kind of thrilled. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Indecorous” may sound like the reproach of a maiden aunt, but we all exercise an intuitive sense of stylistic decorum from the moment we begin to speak: it’s at the center of our social being. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a silver ring, simple enough at a glance, but the jewel at its center was exquisite. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The black stone with its jagged crack running down the center sat in the two halves of the Snitch. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stepped off the mound for a moment, turned and motioned his center fielder to go out some more, and waved his left and right fielders out against the lines. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dancing with gleeful anger, foot to foot, his snowballs so watery only the pebbles are their centers were left in a pile around his feet, he nevertheless insisted on his revenge. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then he ran back to the center and ran toward the edge, stopping when he reached the wall. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here men sought their center in God, whereas outside they sought it in themselves. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman stands up, turns her back, and strides to the center of the stage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I pulled off my visor and gloves and opened the maintenance access panel next to the entertainment center console. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table is a platter of food I don’t recognize: circular pieces of meat wedged between round bread slices. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A mechanical sphere about the size of a bowling ball was embedded in the center. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The work camps and chalets, the schools and study centers, were never built. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The debate centers on whether the number of coincidences is more than would be expected by chance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, I stood on a chair and hung them from an iron hook in the center ceiling beam. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The party from New York took up two rows, front and center, on the sixth and final night of Les Mis at Truman. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Kendra really could envision a Fairy Queen living on the island at the center of the tranquil pond. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I made markings only in the center, surrounded by a circle of hands touching fingers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Had it been anyone but a scythe, his broken body would have been rushed to the nearest revival center, but rules for scythes were very clear. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A not unpleasant warmth rushed up from my center. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The walkway that encircled the abyss in the center chamber was about four feet wide, and as they inched along, it creaked and groaned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But instead, she shepherded us out to an open patio at the center of the house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The light emanates from a large bonfire in the center of the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rosie shifts her weight and places her foot in the center of the tub. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mark and Linda would probably look for him, Joaquin realized as the arts center came into view, as the sun broke through the clouds. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And Madison, who had a justifiable reputation for making himself the calm center in the midst of all political storms, was being buffeted by shrill accusations from both sides. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The children tore at the hot firm crust with their teeth and dug out the soft, yeasty white center with dirty fingers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

What is this assumption that the hungry are free all day to drive around visiting “community action centers” and charitable agencies? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, church was always, from the very beginning, the center of all of my life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The market stalls stretched for three blocks in the center of the street. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get to the karaoke center and Arthur is waiting in the lobby. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A massive statue of a peacock carved from turquoise was arranged in one corner, and in the center, an open space was designated as a stage. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the center of the city, Esther pointed out the post office, shops, the UN building, and the Cotton Tree. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Cossacks lined up in the center of the arena, dismounted, and hitched up their horses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She smiled and caught someone coming into the center through the doors from the workout rooms. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

So we took turns getting in close to the center—except I gave Meryl Lee my turn since she had helped me with the pots. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The phone in his hand vibrated, and he hated how his heart jumped, then fell as he looked at the screen and saw it was from Jimmy, the team’s center. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I wondered what it was like to be an only child and the center of your parents' world. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

For my Raleigh concert I'd probably open with the number used to promote the town's oldest shopping center. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the final words left their lips, purple smoke snaked from their mouths to dance in the center of the circle, right above the Gran’s head. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Down the center of the room twelve toilet bowls were arranged in six pairs, back to back, with no partitions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creosote bushes and paloverde trees framed a small, narrow valley, and in the center of this was a pool of water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of the exam I limped to the testing center and sat in the drafty hall. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The black ball missed the corner pocket by a fraction of an inch, spinning back into the center. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Shawnee community of Prophet’s Town, founded in 1807 in what is now western Indiana, became their organizing center. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We rested our elbows on the table's edge and reached toward the center of the table until our hands clutched. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hole was about three feet deep, but only in the center. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

This energy shoots out from the center of the star, causing it to expand a little bit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Whenever I’m playing center field, I always keep a wad of seeds in my cheek and spit them at patches of grass, divots, pieces of paper, and dandelions. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“No, here. In New Jersey. A detention center. But she’s coming soon. I want to throw her a party. Here. This is a nice place.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dad lowered the carrier onto the concrete floor next to the silver table looming in the center of the room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The anxiety spread anew, running from the center of his torso outward as Mrs. Torrance rose off her hands. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Scientists just assume that we can’t really be the center of the universe–think what that would imply–but that the phenomenon must be the same for all observers in all places. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the center of the camp, water from a geothermal well had been piped into a pair of shallow, steaming pools lined with rocks and shaded by palm trees: Oh-My-God Hot Springs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her focus narrowed to the small, black dot in the center of the target. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You will stand there and think, I am in the center of the universe, where everything is sung to life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A space center that housed mankind's most advanced knowledge of rocketry yet had still failed to execute today's launch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was primarily a storage center for crops collected throughout the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Within the decade, Oppenheimer’s theoretical teachings and Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron would transform Berkeley into very much Caltech’s superior—no longer a desert but the preeminent center of nuclear physics in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The connection between Holland as an exploratory power and Holland as an intellectual and cultural center was very strong. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the course of that week, at different places along the coast, his seventeen sons were hunted down like rabbits by invisible criminals who aimed at the center of their crosses of ash. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Three giant figures stood side by side at the center of the clearing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sailors crammed into the cargo hold like sardines, in order to lower the ship’s center of gravity. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

For the first twelve years of the Alexandriaville seventh graders’ lives, school media centers were the only libraries they had ever known. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was half-frightened at the attention she had been receiving and half-squirming with delight at being the center of so many eyes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jeremiah arrived at the center, he joined twenty-two other boys on the small field behind the building. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At the center of the grove an ancient weirwood brooded over a small pool where the waters were black and cold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stood there; I hung in the center of a spiderweb woven of silence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was clumsily drawn, because as good as Moss was, he was still seven—but at the center of the page was an unmistakable sketch of a hibiscus flower. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As part of the diversion program, Hurley was permitted to work during the day and return to the center at night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One day, without warning, Amari and the rest of the women were brought into the center of the prison by the white soldiers, who chained their hands behind them and shackled their feet as well. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the square is a huge hole in the concrete. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The musical center of my family, though, was my grandfather Shields, the carpenter, who was also Robbie's younger brother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The line passed through the exact center of a bright yellow dot printed on the map. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t got all the hay in the center like I should’ve. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ross Bentley and his friend refused to sit, and now they stand to the right of Mr. Thomson at center court because “they have rights, too.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He sometimes wondered if the country had lost its moral center, its sense of benevolence. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tired down into the center of my bones. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I put my head up again, and the tracers were headed toward the center of the squad. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bit into the firm center with my front teeth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soojin grabs my hand and tries to pull me into the center of the cafeteria, which has been taped off to form a dance floor. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mesarthium was at the center of this mystery, so that was where he was going—to the anchor, as though Mouzaive’s invisible magnetic fields were pulling him there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I told her I had a guy playing center field and left field. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The only reminder that I’m inside a simulation is a clear box hovering in the center of my vision. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The single bullet cut a path straight down the center of the minivan, exiting out through the windshield. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On reaching the center of the plaza, Atahuallpa remained in his litter on high, while his troops continued to file in behind him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eye upended the glass, and the ten flies zapped out to circle in the center of the room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

You know that Abrahamic religions are monotheistic and center on differing incarnations of Abraham. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Charles had not written about human beings in his book, it was front and center, as he had feared. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garden was in a strange location, and I couldn’t figure out its purpose until I saw the large tombstone at its center. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But it had done so at a costly price: The poor were pushed farther and farther from the heart of the city — the center of wealth, hope, and potential. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a striking difference between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres: the degree of interaction between their great cultural centers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hum had sunk into the center of him and broken open, flooding him with this new perception—a whole new sense attuned to mesarthium, and he was master of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They reminded Kaede of the doors to the Council chambers; they even had similar handles set in the very center. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen of a Victorian house near the center of town, Major Nancy Jaax, a veterinarian in the United States Army, stood at a counter making dinner for her children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the very center of the coordinate system—where the two axes cross—sits a zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

An officer at the classification center had told me that if I could play ball I could always find a post to play for. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kayak hung from the ceiling, and a little stove glowed in the center of the room. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got it right and went up strong with their center coming over to block out for the bound. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had told us that he spent time in a detention center in Reno for shoplifting and vandalizing cars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Caldwell is forty miles west, in the center of a flat plain known, for reasons that may have made sense long ago, as Treasure Valley. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lump of potatoes and gravy hits me square in the center of my chest. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only things left were the stove and Uncle’s prize chair, looking lonely and forlorn in the center of the empty room. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Ainsley makes her grand, strutting exit from the media center, my friends show up. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

From here, lit by starlight, I can see the maze below and the folly in the center. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He steals a key ring from the horn of a sleeping djinn and throws it to a mermaid imprisoned on a salt stone at the center of a pink lake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In its center, between the untarnished copper plates, a word was chiseled deep into the stone: valaritas. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Today the brother, Etienne, had a great big ugly lump on his forehead over his left eye—quite fresh, a purple bruise with a bloody dent in the center, still swollen. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A tattered American flag still flies atop a pole in the center of the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was mud splattered all over the sides, all over the tinted windows, and even up on that center spotlight. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can look back and make the era of the American Revolution a center point, then scan the terrain upstream and downstream, but they can only know what is downstream. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We walked to the center oh town without saying a word. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Caldwell just puts a fake smile on her wrinkly-behind face and shoos me center stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That was in Hartford, Connecticut, right in the center of town. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fountain she spoke of rested in the center of the green space and was also frozen. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But in terms of the center’s computing operations, Dorothy’s pool now existed on the periphery. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ellipses have two centers, or foci; the more elongated the ellipse, the farther apart these foci are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They both walked to the center of the room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah. She didn’t just sing with her guitar. She rode horses in the rodeos. She loved being the center of attention.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The location of Alexandria on the Mediterranean made it a major trade center. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

My father would take his square of Arabic hareesa, a delicious cream-of-wheat cake with an almond balanced in the center, outside on a plate. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Silently I leaned forward and moved the pieces back to the center of their squares. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He thought of it now as he drove to Umuahia, to the center for displaced persons. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before them in two symmetrical files of stores stood the center of town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was wearing white coveralls, like a painter, and a headlamp glowed like a star in the center of her forehead. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate toward the surface. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went right down the center, where the part would have been if the Brillo pad could have been tamed, then settled both hands on his hips. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I felt, whether I wished or not, the connection, the communication that ran, wordless, inarticulate, through Faxe, and which Faxe was trying to pattern and control, for he was the center, the Weaver. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They know that the pressures at the center of the Earth are sufficiently high–something over three million times those found at the surface–to turn any rock there solid. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

An attractive bloodstone fob hung from the center chain, directing the gaze from silver button to silver button, then downward still. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

So he’s been choosing to fly a little higher above that evac center. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two of us stood in the center of the room, staring each other down. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The painting was a pool of moonlight in the center of the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A carved stone bull’s head sat high above the center arch, gazing down at the stream of humanity that passed below it. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly what he was doing now, crossing to the center of the platform as Carter went down to meet Archie. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was able to do so only after they had walked through the center of the camp. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually on such important visits, so it was said, the nose of every patient had to be in line with the center creasing of the top sheet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I walk stiffly to the center of the room as Tobias leaves it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had at least five bites, each of which would throb for days and rise into a teacup-sized ring with a blister in the center. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The coach called us out to center court individually. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I moved out to the center of the street, running down the trolley rails. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of the talk centered around events to which I was not privy, and even Charles’s kind parenthetical remarks of explanation did not help much to clarify it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He got the handoff from their center, went up and drove through the dunk. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

It feels strange to be in the center of all this beauty when so much ugliness has been happening. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She studied the pattern, shades of dull browns, starting nearly black in the center and spinning out lighter and lighter to a dirty yellow at the outer edge. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the big desk at the center of the room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why was its printing method invented around 1700 B.C. in Crete and not at some other time in Mesopotamia, Mexico, or any other ancient center of writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ran off with all the water in high school pools to use elsewhere, before they realized they’d be turning some of those schools into evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I took my hands off the controls and watched as all four ghosts converged on Pac-Man. game over flashed in the center of the maze. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Our bottles drained, Patrick would carry us back to what everyone but Lyle agreed was the center of the universe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Together they stood and stared at the Joseph Bell where it lay, cracked clean through the center. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the way the bees had flown out of my bedroom walls, stranding me at the center of a bee whirlwind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all available at the health center. What’s the big deal?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had about ten days before I was to show up at the induction center. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Silicon Valley in the heyday of the Internet bubble, London was the center of a speculative mania about the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A clear mountain stream trickled down the center. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My jaw looked squarer, broader, my neck thicker, with a bulge of Adam’s apple in the center. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He even pulled all the ticking out the mattress from their bed and added it to the pile of confusion he was building in the center of the room. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Unlike many other cultures, the Ionians were at the crossroads of civilizations, not at one of the centers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ambudrones began to descend from above, grasping his victims and spiriting them away to the nearest revival center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At the center of all that gear was the opening DJ, R2-D2, hard at work, using his various robotic arms to work the turntables. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The canvas-covered wings, which were forty feet long and six and a half feet wide, were on top of the frame s center. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marcus pulled to a stop, he slid his hand across the center console and rested it on my thigh, slowly inching toward my crotch like he thought I wouldn’t notice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

For a minute she simply stares at the name centered at the top of the resume, laser-printed in an elegant font. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The deserts of northern Mexico similarly separated the urban centers of southern Mexico from the chiefdoms of the Mississippi Valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even if the zeros at the center of black holes don’t provide an easy way to travel through space, the zero of quantum mechanics provides an alternative: the zero-point energy might be the ultimate fuel. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

So tables were placed end to end along the center of the Great Hall, an enormous drafty spot that was given to being chilly even in the summertime. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Its aims were clear: no Jewish homeland without the Torah at its center; therefore, no Jewish homeland until the coming of the Messiah. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Christian Union has bought and maintains new evangelical student centers at Brown, Princeton, and Cornell, and has plans to establish a center on every Ivy League campus. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Before I can ask what a Night Brother is, Elsie holds up the sneakandle to show me her collection of magazine covers, centered around a small Mexican flag, stretching up to the ceiling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Boots was in the center of the big round chamber, rocking from foot to foot as she turned calmly in a circle. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it centers him in a way he doesn’t expect. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Inside, the tent is dark-walled with an immense, iridescent white structure in the center. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a dip in the ground near the center; they rode down out of sight of the Union line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the hill, you could see beautiful things, like the peach orchards of the nearby farms, and the terra-cotta roofs of the town center in the distance. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Cardan holds out a fisted hand and opens it to reveal a royal ring gleaming in the center of his palm. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

My life exists at die center of this debate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the center of the square, under the cracked and headless statue of a dead triarch, a crowd had begun to gather about some dwarfs putting on a show. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Carter advanced to the center of the platform where Obie held a cardboard carton. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The senior center’s parking lot bustles with action. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

An hour later, they reached the outskirts of Hurlock, a dusty, sprawly little town, with one stoplight at its center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In February 1989, Eva Ansley and I opened our new nonprofit law center in Tuscaloosa, dedicated to providing free, quality legal services to condemned men and women on death row in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stood, holding onto the center pole, looking down the length of the car. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The garment center and fighting were connected in my mind, and I couldn’t sort them out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

During this period, too, the city fathers resolved to change Durham’s reputation as a manufacturing center with no culture. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

You could crawl into the center of one and understand everything. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Several decades of mental health have not made schizophrenia go away, nor has it been established that a community mental-health center can yet maintain the mental health of a community. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, a sizeable clearing—about five feet across—had been cut from the center of the bush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room is a skylight that lets in a square of orange sunlight. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The community center used to hold them, but they ran out of funds and had to stop. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was cramped inside, the air a stale haze, the char of many fires scarring the dirt center. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Prosper saw the price tag underneath its plinth, he nearly knocked over a large statue in the center of the shop. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The brown spread quickly toward the center, swallowing Grandma, then the camel, and finally Dad s woolen hat. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commanding voice came from the center of the room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right. If you strike me down, my apprentice will simply bring me to the nearest revival center, and in a day or two I’ll be as good as new.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt was surprised by how quiet it was, so close to the center of town. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Put notices around the neighborhood, as well as in grocery stores, community centers, veterinary offices, and pet supply stores. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Chinwe s light-skinned face was at the center of the group, as usual. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

She became real quiet—which helped us get our center put together smoothly. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Thanksgiving morning at the rehab center, unfortunately, was the same as every other day, except for the construction paper turkeys pasted all along the walls of the waiting room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I heard the cats in the back hissing and the adoption center dogs barking danger barks. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then Lee halted abruptly in the center of the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hall is a big metal door with a keypad in the center. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He should’ve pulled over before he was crossing the center line.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I centered the ball right between the posts and put it down to score a try, and I did think about Annie as soon as I got to my feet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ahead of her she saw Con approaching the opposite bank, and Taisin was almost through the wide, fast center. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

An expectant hush rippled out from the center of the camp as he left her side, growing until it had swallowed the whole khalasai. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This is also part of our birthday ritual: She lights a single candle in the center of the cake. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hands in,” she says, and we all stack our palms in the center. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wonka led the party over to a gigantic machine that stood in the very center of the Inventing Room. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their center knocked it away and I got it at the foul line. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the crowd had gathered in the center of the Square, their faces pictures of expectation and excitement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I sit in the center of the ring of gods, musing on them, pursuing some thought that I cannot make come clear. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything blurs for a while, and then right into the center of it walks a woman. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at it closely, I can find County Galway and even the city center. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Over a three-month stay, defectors learn their rights under South Korean law and go on field trips to shopping centers, banks, and subway stations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Tigers really want to win this one because this is their first home game since that devastating loss of their popular and capable center, Robbie Washington. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Van glanced out the window, into the seminary, a Mormon teaching center where students are allowed to spend a period each school day learning the gospel and earning credits toward seminary graduation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But now Tally was headed into the center of the island, where floats and revelers populated the bright streets all night Brand-new pretties like Peris always lived where the fun was most frantic. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The composition was stable, with his body right in the center against a mound of grasses—also in the center. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The red damask walls of the queen's tea salon display her royal emblem—a six-pointed crown with a glittering ruby and chrysanthemum in the center. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And at the center of it all, Charlotte provided her friendship and wisdom. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“A maze. The third task’s really very straightforward. The Triwizard Cup will be placed in the center of the maze. The first champion to touch it will receive full marks.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t suppose there is an American who doesn’t carry Remington’s painting of the last defense of the center column of the 7th Cavalry in his head. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a mystery fudge cake, Cady was sure of it—a circular chocolate cake with a gooey chocolate center hidden inside it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t say we were together in the center of the river now, happily balanced, but the water between us flowed more comfortably. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t understand. My whole d-day centered on them. We had picnics on the lawn. We gardened. I told them s-stories. Without them I’m nothing!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The singer is hard to miss, sitting, as he does on a fruit crate in the center of the sidewalk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the traffic moving with the lights, and across the street a few pedestrians were looking back toward the center of the block where the trees of Bryant Park rose above two men. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the fact that it’s called an arts center isn’t just a clever disguise.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Smiling, overjoyed to be center stage for once, Father Mike cut a lock of my hair and tossed it into the baptismal pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was rusted through to the center, crumbling away in gritty sheets of red rust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the center was a huge platform with all sorts of machines, cauldrons, forges, and the largest anvil I’d ever seen—a block of iron the size of a house. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the center of the gate was a copper-plated lock with a keyhole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The mate dumped their packs casually in the center of the floor, but she noticed the way his arm jerked back, as if he could not wait to be rid of them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He misses the turnoff, goes right over the grassy center to the other side, and climbs back onto the interstate, heading in the opposite direction. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lenore meets us at the community center and I see the nurse from Jamison who helped me when I hit my head. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

During the time we worked on our center, I found the courage to do something I hadn’t ever done before. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

No smoke came out of the center chimney. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Most of the Central Americans go to reunite with a parent, say counselors at a detention center in Texas where the INS houses the largest number of the unaccompanied children it catches. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He appeared through the thick red curtains and walked to the center of the stage. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the center of her bandage turning a dark red. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a metal table in the center and two thin-legged metal chairs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its rounding metal blades slice the edges of the tin to the right size and shape, while the letter and number forms punch the license number into the center. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed two fingers in the center of Roy’s chest and gave a stiff shove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The room is calm and quiet, and Sloan looms large in the center. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A short way ahead of them, a glow of golden streetlights indicated the center of the village. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In the center of the picture was a pool with bluebells and tiger lilies growing all around it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regent and the queen slept in the right-hand rondavel, the queen’s sister in the center one, and the left-hand hut served as a pantry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the corner of Main and Park, several blocks from the town center, Mr. Yates pulls to a stop in front of a light-blue Victorian house with a wraparound porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The twin jumped out into the center of the train car and made noise. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Lipnitsky stressed the connection between commanding the center squares of the board and seizing the initiative through the mobilization of the pieces. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a round part in the center, and I knew that’s where the bullets went. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The room is small but the ceiling is high, a golden chandelier draped with crystals suspended in the center. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The second interesting thing is that, of course, as seniors they must have already known where the health center was, and doubtless had visited it several times already. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked Tisch Hospital, part of New York University Medical Center, an academic center with relatively affluent patients, and passed up Bellevue, a city-run hospital with one of the busiest emergency rooms in New York. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s voice grows louder as the uneasy feelings start to spread from the center of Axel out into his limbs. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

China may actually have encompassed two or more independent centers of origins of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had this cool trick where she got them into perfect squares, with the sleeves tucked into the center. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We took a noisy lorry to the center of the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His point struck the bag high and, deflected by the metal plate, caught Julian squarely in the center of the chest. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

After De Soto’s army left the Caddo stopped erecting community centers and began digging community cemeteries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was late evening, his mother did not like the young doctor who was on call at the medical center in the evenings, and so she drove to Dr. Achufusi’s house. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After the NIS, Shin told his story to counselors and psychiatrists at a government center for resettlement, then to human rights activists and fellow defectors, and then to the local and international news media. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I can hear them laughing at the center of the maze when I walk outside with Locke, late to his own gathering. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Zinchenko,dressed in a bright red suit, strode to the center of the ballroom. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Most of them stop to watch us as we walk down the center aisle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every time it rained, the plasterboard ceiling would get all swollen and heavy, with water streaming steadily from the center of the bulge. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of ritual may have centered on this figure we can only guess. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched as the guards picked Citra up and carried her, limp as a sack of potatoes, outside where, no doubt, an ambudrone was already waiting to take her to the nearest revival center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The tidy green-painted Newsome Park shopping center included a grocery store, a drugstore, a barbershop, a beauty shop, a beer joint, a cleaners, and a TV repair shop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mother had worked as a secretary for a big garage in the center of town. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The best part of our holiday centers day took place when our Collaborative friends visited. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Coming up from the basement, Kyle saw Andrew Peckleman in the middle of the Rotunda Reading Room, opening a long metal box sitting on top of the center desk. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

As I entered the Bruin Den teen center, I could feel the excitement. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our life fell into a routine that—for once—usually centered on us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

To solve the structure of DNA, Watson and Crick had to first figure out how many zippers were in each DNA molecule, what part was at the center, and which part at the periphery. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“No. I tried everywhere. The relief centers are empty. I saw a grown man sitting on the floor in front of one building and sucking his thumb,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pulls into a shopping center not far from school, and parks in front of Publix. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Whenever he felt like the monsters might be losing interest, he stopped on a rooftop and drew his bow, picking off a few of the katoblepones at the center of the herd. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the chute was a boulder—huge, gray, wet with waves and spray—and the raft aimed directly at the center of it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The officer in charge gave a sign and the doors to the mess hall were thrown open, as a band marched into the cleaned out center of the hall playing the “Foreign Legion March.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus drags two stools center stage for our pretty lengthy song. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But now that we’re standing here like boulders against the relentless flow of people entering the evac center, it doesn’t feel like much of a choice at all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now he was no longer facing the shore and his friends; he was looking out toward the center of the river and across to the trees on the opposite bank. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They clinched in the center of the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Paqo studied my face a moment more before he, too, turned and made his way to the center of the fields. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Fischer, spying the chess table, galumphed to the center of the stage and immediately lifted the white queen, testing its weight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A table stood in the center of Dr. Finch’s kitchen, and on the table was a saucer containing a cracker upon which rested a solitary sardine. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mama liked to set up shop near the docks and the village center. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I remembered the photo of her and her uncle in front of the science center. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, beneath a gigantic chandelier, twenty-eight tables are dressed and ready for the sit-down dinner to be served at nine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once Garvey had shown up at the detention center on his day off, wearing cutoffs and a T-shirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The room went round in the calm, chrome center of the silver ceiling fan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But...there are more important things than what we want. Sometimes it isn’t about us. Sometimes we aren’t the center of the story. This is about Loo, now. Please, let me go.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Finally his lord father gave a command, and two of his guardsmen dragged the ragged man to the ironwood stump in the center of the square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He and not Persephone became the center of the belief in immortality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip my hand in his and let myself be pulled into the center of the room. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the center of the chamber was* the great table from which it took its name, a massive slab of carved wood fashioned at the command of Aegon Targaryen in the days before the Conquest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It stopped in the center of the river. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The center door alone was almost twenty-five feet high, made of heavy planks of wood and joined with cross-ribs. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” she ordered, and with her other hand she pulled the center of the curtain to one side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Joffrey stood in the center of the throng, winding an ornate crossbow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I assumed she was heading toward the student center for her committee meeting before hitting the library. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lead him out of the activity center past the nurses’ station and the phone, to my room, where Muqtada is in bed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Look: It can be proved by observing the motion of objects in the universe that wherever you are is the precise center. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She walks a small circle in the center of the ring, flicking the whips in combinations of signals. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The ANC had decided to personalize the quest for our release by centering the campaign on a single figure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, Your High-High, we will take the city of Tenebrion while it's in total disorder with a smoking hole of Nothing at its center. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

My father sat up there, and the rest of us sat below him at a center table with the wives of the Kiwanis Club officers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A single candle glows at the center of the coffee table. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At the center of her image, the red shoes had seemed to pulse, like her own true heart. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antoine was laughing and pointing his finger at that big center, who was pointing back at him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rusted nail stuck out from its center, over Dicey’s head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creatures of every sort zigzag, bolt, scream, swing, gallop, grunt, and whinny; they are everywhere, swinging on ropes and slithering up poles, hiding under wagons, pressed against sidewalls, and skidding across the center. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She stopped at the big metal tank in the center of the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a low crate in the center of the hold. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She exhaled and sent a ray of power out from her center felt it blitz along beneath her skin and then enter her mom on one side; Robbie on the other. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just look for the moving target, the center of activity, the part that tells you what’s going on. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards were supposed to bring the ball down center court, then signal the pattern and everybody was supposed to run it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He takes center stage, clears his throat, and smoothly launches into his rhyme. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cheeks were swarthy with a permanent shadow, his thick brows joined in the center. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Route 1 looped north, they crossed under the Thruway and spent a miserable night huddled at the back of a shopping center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Dayi Jamsheed’s kids pushed all the furniture in the living room against the walls, leaving the large red and green carpet in the center of the room for us to dance on. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But on this day, to the surprise of almost everyone, 105 teachers from Selma’s all-black segregated schools were making their way along the city’s streets toward the Dallas County Courthouse in the center of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mound of thick gauze, cross- hatched by shiny white tape, occupied the center of his piggish face. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long sideboard sat in front of the shuttered window, and five graceful candlesticks with white candles were lined up in the center. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Directly ahead of them, Nina saw a vast, silvery tree at the center of a circular courtyard, its boughs spreading over the stones in a sparkling canopy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Besides some shops and a cafe, the center of town had a pool with water running into it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls up a ring in the center of the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A hockey chest pad, lying in the dirt, cracked through the center, peppered with holes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the art and all the thought of Greece centered in human beings. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mat pulled over that spot in the center of the gym. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had been playing basketball at the community center when he heard fire trucks wailing, but had thought nothing of it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dana intended to establish a command center there, and from Bryantown launch cavalry patrols through the surrounding countryside, in pursuit of the Lincoln and Seward assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She lay in the center of her bed and dug her fingernails into her palms so hard they left a row of half-moons, to keep tears from falling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the center was an inlay fountain that cooled you with its whisper. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For reasons that made no sense whatsoever, a sizable pool had been constructed in the center of the arena, made by laying a great sheet of plastic over a square foundation of hay bales. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel hoped that they might somehow drop out of the current and reach that side, but the punt moved quietly on, down the very center of the broad pool. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Citra couldn’t help but notice how Goddard and his junior scythes were the center of even more attention than at the Vernal Conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

So Athens became the center of a burgeoning rhetoric industry, and with that came an increasing interest in systematizing the art. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He saw a flash of fuchsia on the other side of the pillar in the center of the restaurant. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was awake, lying spread-eagle in his big platform bed, looking up at the trompe l’oeil painting of a domed and gilded ceiling that was open at the center to a pink sky. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“My guess is that it’s probably considered the center of the jungle, or maybe the oldest part of it.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the center, two stools and a small table of elaborately carved gingko wood waited for them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I glimpse Asher and Hammie hovering near the center to the archway, flying in tight circles as they are trapped in by two other beasts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Lucy’s hand and dragged her out to the center of the dance floor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Standing in the center of the cobbled road inside the iron gate is a giant. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I inserted my key in the center keyhole. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The two winds were pushing them in different directions, but the petrels were using them to meet in the center of the picture. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He picks up the far right card with his right hand, the center card with his left. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day in the trading center, more than three hundred Gule Wamkulu appeared on the road carrying empty coffins, promising to fill them with anyone who didn’t support the Life President. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

So I fixed on the steady, domed light in the center of the roof and told myself to hold on, just hold on. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I put my hand to my mouth and felt my bloodied lip, split right down the center. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a tacky, enormous thing, but rather a slender peak with a blue gem embedded in the center—the only jewel in the statue. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe, if you want, we could visit the Journey to Space exhibit at the science center before school starts. Or, maybe, ride our bikes again sometime?” she asked. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then, as the wide sky became translucently pink and azure with the moon still shining brightly from the center of it, he drove down the hill to Bud Gleason’s house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would occasionally escape from his cage, wander around the house, and eventually climb up inside the hollow center post of the dining-room table and go to sleep. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer, Adam was working at the center part-time while going to community college, where he was studying business. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Harry strode off through the heather, walking in a large circle with the distraught Hermione at its center, casting the spells she usually performed to ensure their protection. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They wanted me to teach a ‘minority literature’ course at some barrio community center on Saturday mornings. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Joseph worked in the garment center, pushing a hand truck through the busy streets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

So now I stood in the center of the center of the universe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, my family members made their way out of their apartments and to the center of the courtyard. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of our conversation, instead, centered on Rosy Franklin. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At midfield Victor turned sharply and sprinted toward the center of the field, as he had done so many times before. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my hands and centered them according to the two black keys in the middle of the keyboard. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They began piling all the books in the center of the room. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Just after Vera’s fourth birthday, I passed my CPA exam and got a real job at a firm in the center of town. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Show me my grandmother,” she said as she stuck her thumb into the center of the knot and stretched it into a hole. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Fern pushed the straw aside in the center of the run to reveal patches of grass but mostly dirt. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

The overhead light in the interrogation room reflects a muddled circle in the center of the table. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

An attendant stood behind each chair, and at the center, raised slightly above the others, was a throne covered in crimson cloth. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

If we designed our orbital town to spin, there would be weightlessness only at the center. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d passed the yellow brick road that led to the center of town and cut through the entrance to the Cursed Forest when Seven heard a low, rumbling growl. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Expensive hotels line the coasts, but the town center doesn’t cater to tourists too much. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At three-thirty the horses began the long walk down the center of the track to the saddling paddock. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on a table in the center of the ruckus, the man held a wide leather volume open, while raising one hand high and calling for calm. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Players gather at center circle, dap each other, pound each other. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“The literacy center is coming along nicely,” her guest said, tucking the photographs back in her purse. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There are those who secretly deplore these great discoveries, who consider every step a demotion, who in their heart of hearts still pine for a universe whose center, focus and fulcrum is the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad would be rapidly moving along up a center aisle from the rear—as once he had entered our humble little mosques—this man whom we regarded as Islam’s gentle, meek, brown-skinned Lamb. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I go in, I smell the sharp odor of cleaner and notice that one of the mats has been dragged to the center of the room. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe--so I decided to go east and learn the bond business. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It sat like an ice sculpture in the center of my chest. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the entrance of the center, my uncle hugged me, and as we parted, he turned around and said, “I’ll see you soon again, my son.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain twitched around to see shells beginning to come over, falling first on the left, then almost instantly on the center, then to the right, then overhead, air bursts and ground bursts and solid shot. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped by the adoption center a few times, and sent Mr. Zimmerman a card when I heard his wife died. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One man stood tall in the center of his cell, staring straight toward the hall where she walked, his hands held behind his back. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed Old Main, swung around the admin building, and took the road to the gym and student center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The place was deserted—no people, no animals—and the only confirmed kill was an old man who lay face-up near a pigpen at the center of the village. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other picture must have been taken at a birthday party, because there was a cake with candles at the center of the picture. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spread that blanket out on the ground,” said Boatwright, and when she did, he packed everything in the center, gathered in the four corners, and swung the bundle over his shoulder. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had swept the ground smooth and placed mismatched tiles in the center for a colorful mosaic floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At Hanawon, the resettlement center in South Korea, job counselors say that workplace paranoia, stormy resignations, and lingering feelings of betrayal are chronic problems as North Koreans adjust to new lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The central players in the drama were not the marginal or peripheral figures, whose lives are more typical, but rather the political leaders at the center of the national story who wielded power. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Archer looked on with interest as she held out the piece of crystal in the center of her palm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"It's on the huge mission clock in the center screen." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It usually took over an hour to walk from Chisamba Singles to the center of Mutare, where several banks were located. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He walks around the room so we can pull red scraps from the center of the earth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

An atom, Rutherford realized, was mostly empty space, with a very dense nucleus at the center. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The floor and ceiling are so black I’d think we were floating if I couldn’t see the metal rails that guide Lord Kensington through the center of the space. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We parked in the center of town, which had big jacaranda trees and was very quaint. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His government created a new network of detention centers for traders who traveled without authorization. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The three-second correction put us back on the center line of our imaginary highway. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The model will be on its bench in the corner, and the sugar bowl will be in the center of the kitchen table, its little spoon resting on the rim. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was relegated to the sidelines as a marginal player while Johnny-come-latelies like Hamilton and Madison occupied center stage. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In one respect, they matched each other precisely, Kamen observed: “They shared a common drive to be center stage.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Visitors in those early years who stopped to ask directions to the American capital were often astonished when told they were standing squarely in its center. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He paused briefly in the center, the highest point, where he could see all the way to Manhattan, glittering like a jewel right down to its southern tip, which remained dark, and empty. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Long hallways, with iron bars from floor to ceiling, ran from the door into the dim center of the building. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, after I had been rehabilitated, I learned that Esther knew what I was interested in through the informal schooling at the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She sat with her knees pressed together, her eyes focused on the pile of newspapers on the center table, her face blank. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He is now spearheading a drive to outsource low-end Japanese jobs to Japanese-speaking call centers and service providers in China. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, dosed with perspective, we arrived at the neu-roimaging center in a nondescript industrial park. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was facing me from the center of the circle. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

That’s when I saw that the fat dude on their team was playing center. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

With our plan agreed upon, we decided to go by the community center on our way back to Montego Drive. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Now the road was paved and had a stripe painted down the center, and it carried a continual flow of vehicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their center, Sanders, was six feet five inches tall and both their forwards were over six three. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was searching for software, brainpower, complex algorithms, knowledge workers, call centers, transmission protocols, breakthroughs in optical engineering—the sources of wealth in our day. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

All the major European capitals—Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna—were metropolitan centers that gathered together the political, economic, and cultural energies of their respective populations in one place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was crawling uphill now, as though the tunnel were leading straight toward the very center of the gigantic fruit. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the boy with no brother stands alone in the center of the city gazebo, an army of zombies approach-ing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Were going to the community center, would you like to join us?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When my ambulance gets to the nearest hospital— not the one in my hometown but a small local place that looks more like an old-age home than a medical center—the medics rush me inside. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already he had seen the inside of a dozen police stations, been through as many counselors, a psychologist, several detention centers, and two residential treatment centers. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows were painted thick at the center, then long and sharp at the corners. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is to be a burning. A great conflagration. Of books. They are to be stacked like logs, or thrown on a pyre, in the center of Paris,” Michelangelo explained. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A large, scarred table is center with twelve chairs around it. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town was built around a square in the manner of midwestem county seats, with the jail dominating the center. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center, a lone golden feather, the mark of a new shaman, stood tall and bright. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

After a while, the squall began to subside and the thunderclouds scudded away from the center of town. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The things were coming out from all around the rim now, millions of them, flooding toward the center of the pool, completely surrounding us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the capital representation resource centers around the country were forced to close. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Evac centers are at capacity—people are to go straight to overflow facilities, blah blah blah. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like always, a few tables had been pushed together lengthwise across the center of the dining room. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I tumble down the aisle between the center console and the seats. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lawrence can be seen seated with his hands clasped on the lower pole face, near the center of the photo, with the omnipresent Cooksey at his left. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She runs a fingertip down the center of my chest and stomach and slips a hand under the hem of my shirt. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

Rising from the center of a large moat, Akapana mimicked the surrounding mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After gathering the remaining fragments of Lee’s body into a single heap, the bear lifted the flower in his mouth and dropped it in the center of them, as humans liked to do. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, Clarence walked into the center of the circle, clearing his throat in sharp breaths. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She had gotten to the convention center much later than she’d planned, due to an unprecedented traffic jam on the highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Stumps instead of proper legs meant I had a lower center of gravity. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The lights now sweep to the center of the arena, where an announcer wearing a Warcross logo T-shirt stands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each marcher carried a flaming torch, creating a river of light that flowed through the center of Berlin. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A child got in the center, bounced, and then was flipped twenty feet up in the air, like a toy rocket. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero was at the center of the struggle between religion and science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They grew on the very top of his head, in the center, shooting up from the thicket of black like the rebels that they clearly were. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles in silver candelabras, burning in sets of three, surround the desk in the center of the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The room is cheerful, filled with light, with a tomato-colored carpet on the floor and people reading the paper around a big, round wooden table with forsythias or cattails arranged at its center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Timothy had taught me to lay the fire sticks like a wheel, so that the fire burned slowly in the center, but always had a few un-burned ends on the outside. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rarely spoke about what we had gone through during World War II. He continued to be the center of my mother's world. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’m out in center field for fly ball practice, and I’m wearing a bright orange wig underneath my Renegades cap. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I said I didn’t need a center fielder. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I think about Webb telling me to be authentic during our catch in center field. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He felt something touch the center of his palm. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tear in his shirt in the center of his back and blood was soaking through the cloth, but sweat was running off his pale face and he was breathing hard. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exhaled a thin stream of filtered smoke and aimed the cigarette’s ashes like a marksman directly at the center of his ashtray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third bullet was for the filthy flamingo, who stopped dead center in the road when the lethal bee buzzed past his ear. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large center hall of the Sillington house had a staircase that curved upward like a stretch of DNA. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kamara, the director of the center, gave a few remarks, and then boys started telling Bra Spider and monster stories and performing tribal dances. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I take Cardan’s royal ring out of my pocket and hold it in the center of my palm. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, Dad didn’t like this idea, but he knew it was a paying position, because I hadn’t stopped mentioning it since the first summer I’d volunteered at the adoption center. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Until she is standing in her own tent, in the center of a circle of empty chairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They looked lopsided and pathetic in the center of the table. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sniffed, and Sahil reached into his center console to hand me a tissue. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Clarkston Community Center was no longer an option due to a rift between the center and the YMCA, and the field behind Indian Creek was too dangerous given Tito’s shooting, Luma believed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then I went back over to my side of the shopping center trying to practice smiling all big and goofy like Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand and a new batch of dodgeballs appeared on the center line—but these balls weren’t made of red rubber. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I approached the RV, a door near the center of the right side slid open and a short stepladder extended to the pavement. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Instead she responded by raising her center of gravity just enough for the kick to knock her feet out from under her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Behind the hands and the needle, an engraving of the sun in splendor occupied the center of the dial. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The sun was peering down at us from the center of the gaping hole in the roof. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The plastic pellet bounces off the center of the target and rolls along the ground. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Here, in the center of the floor, the cellar door with its metal ring. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A high-backed choir bench in the center of the room towered above them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Family Weekend this Saturday at the center,” he said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But from where I’m standing in center, I know Malik doesn’t got it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He could find no flaw: we will go up the center and split them in two, on the defense no longer, attacking at last, Pickett and Hood and McLaws. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him down the hallway and out across the dark gym floor to the veiy center where there’s a clearing in the kids. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure why but assumed it was because he’d been to the center before, albeit briefly, and because he was a little older. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t hear of it, and within minutes the pretty golden baby was lying on his back in the center of my bed, laughing at me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They placed it in a sacred temple near the center of the city next to a statue of Mark Antony as the new Dionysus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the center of the floor, gleaming white under hundreds of spotlights, was the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She said she’d wait for you at the center of my hedge maze.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She stepped closer to the center of the square and looked up at the Gran. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The vans traveled across Germany, from killing center to killing center. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Toting my orange backpack over one shoulder, I crept down the hall in the community center. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Shouts and shrieks go up as a pitch-black puddle slinks across the floor to the center of the room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They made Pollen Boy right in the center of the white corn painting. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man pulled the sheets off the long Empire table in the center of the room and shook them out and made a nest of them in front of the hearth. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

An electronic sign at the center of the room flashes Now Serving C26, and behind it is a long counter with people stationed at little windows. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I stood there on the stage floor in front of the risers, I could barely make out the familiar features of my parents in the center of the second row of chairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept late every day I wasn’t at the center. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

My exhaustion seemed to vanish as I began to navigate through the entertainment center operation menus from memory, the fingers of my right hand dancing rapidly across the touchscreen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Momma wrote the L and K of her newish name with such long lines and loops, they nearly touched my name down in the center of the envelope. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It reads, “The person I love is the center of my life and of my heart. The person I love IS YOU.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mother sat alone in the center of the room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the center of the glade, on the grass some distance from them, was an ornate golden crown, which glittered in the afternoon sunlight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pilots from the other squadron were pulled into the center of their fight simply by their proximity to the maelstrom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Caitlin’s address by heart, and wrote it in the center of the envelope, trying to leave enough space for all the stamps it needed to make it to my best friend’s house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain aimed the pistol, fired, hit the man dead center, down he went, folding; smoke swallowed him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels? Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When his behind hits the center, the edges flap around him, sandwiching him into a tight hug. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He stood in the center of the barn bay and listened but there was nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

One type of damage that revival centers are powerless to undo. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And once she got her bearings and they’d dealt with Wick, she could see what all this being the shining center of the shadowshapers business was about. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He could see the shadowy figure of the bulky security guard slinking away from the round desk at the center of the rotunda. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m relaxed and centered enough,” I tell her, helping myself to a slice with pepperoni. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was on my palm off to the side, and I curled my body as I turned and pushed the ball around their center toward Jose. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The binding is frayed, and the rope around its center barely holds in the contents. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

News spread quickly that the Sixers were encamped around a small flat-topped hill at the center of a remote forest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Jack Dunlevy told Armpit he got the contract to landscape the performing arts center. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were buried in the snow near a clump of evergreens in the center of the park, and Brinker stationed his roommate, Brownie Perkins, to guard them with his life. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time we get to a new town we cruise into whatever shopping center there is and ask random people to make a small donation to help our hoop squad. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Allied bombers also hammered away at Germany’s industrial centers, bombing cities such as Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund, Leipzig, and Essen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The troll had been temporarily blinded by the electric light and was thrashing about in the center of the floor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The crowd beneath the Roberts family was larger than ever; they could see the Ministry wizards trying to get through it to the hooded wizards in the center, but they were having great difficulty. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was in the backcourt with Trip and every time Trip passed him the ball he passed it right back or threw it in to Jose, who was playing center. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They now unwrapped the blanket, and there in the center was a tiny black and white rabbit, sitting in a shoebox filled with dirt. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

A coffin at the center of the room served as a bar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Before Palmer could react, Beans was on the bird, scooping it up and sprinting to the center of the field. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Cain drew his sword, a crooked grin on his face as he crouched in a defensive stance in the center of the ring. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The wrinkle had appeared between her brows again, and she stared hard at the symbol in the center of the cover, as if she could bore through it with the sheer intensity of her gaze. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Werner has been reading the popular science magazines in the drugstore; he’s interested in wave turbulence, tunnels to the center of the earth, the Nigerian method of relaying news over distances with drums. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She paces the center of the room, and her dress blooms around her, the color of fresh blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I pushed into the center of the noisy, milling mob. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went off my man and went after their center. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hypnotized by the image of the fallen president, Keene imagined a scene with herself at the center of it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the media center window before. Watching me as I drove in.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Yet my presence was known throughout the region: I was a gaudy flag waving overhead during all those months of sickness and oblivion, just a girl in love, the center of my own universe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was apparent that the shadow wasn’t coming back he felt the calf of his leg, where the pain was centered and spreading to fill the whole leg. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bond issue to renovate the dilapidated civic center failed not once but twice he could not help but wonder if there could ever be any real progress in a place like that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he was on the floor, he stuck his head around the door of the pantry and saw Cook standing in the center of the kitchen, wringing her fat hands. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Again. The flight of the blade was unsteady last time. Be centered in your body when you throw it.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He and Dumbledore were now standing in what appeared to be a deserted village square, in the center of which stood an old war memorial and a few benches. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Their great beams adorned with splendidly worked gold and silver, the huge structures were jammed together around the center of town like people huddling in the shelter of an awning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A young woman jogged to the center, pumping her fist over her head. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom has moved her crown, which sits in a glass case, from the center of the mantel to make room for Lucy’s urn. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

No paper snowflake that you made in kindergarten, with a picture of your gap-toothed smile peeking out from the center. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the inside walls are gone, and you can see where the center beam was chewed by the fire. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slash a highway across the center of the page and make it meet with another in a beautiful spaghetti interchange. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He centered the spot of light where he thought the window must be. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Irwin oversaw it all from the back of his huge yellow horse, galloping around the center field with his feet jutting out to the sides, hat waving, booming encouragement to his cowgirls. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually they discovered that an elongated teardrop shape, with the wide end oriented toward the magnet’s center, quadrupled the maximum potential acceleration to 300 steps, or 150 complete circuits. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Like a fairy forest hidden in the center of a New York office building. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I had to pause for breath I stood in the open, in the center of a room or out in the yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the cave stood a Roman-style bed, gilded wood shaped like a curly U, with velvet cushions. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I take a tracking shot into the wedding hall, aglow with thousands of candles, red-and-orange bouquets bursting from the center of tables. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, highly placed sources within the Ministry have confirmed that the disturbance centered on the fabled Hall of Prophecy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone is standing around the hole now, with the wooden crate in the center. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were white at the center and shaded blue at the edges. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk down the center aisle, past where Lou is kneeling. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Remember me? I cut off Maria’s nose tip and was sent to the big special-ed center and got a patch. Wanna see?” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the hairline cross at its center, everything was transformed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She gives me an apologetic look before taking the wooden hilt from Brother Lekan and moving into the center of the sparring lawns. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He wore his cuffed, baggy work khakis and a short-sleeved white shirt, and labored at the center of a rising red cloud of dust like a crew-cut genie who’d just appeared there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To be honest, Mr. Rollins, I never planned on leaving,” I say, my legs not even shaking, rooted again on the centered x. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On the floor of the closet, our concentration game was undisturbed—all the center cards facedown. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I could even see myself, maddeningly centered as usual, hunched at the far end of our empty and too large apartment, sipping easy liquor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, in the center pages, Hermione found what they were looking for. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the center of the outdoor work area is one of Guillermo’s massive couples but unfinished, and against the far fence is another mammoth work called Three Brothers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"Suddenly we were at the center of things," Anderson told me, gleaming at the memory of it, when I met him and Witzke in their offices on a dismal, rainy morning in June. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she was done, I felt like a brand-new princess with my hair neatly parted down the center and redone in two braids. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And now all of her curiosity centered around discovering the next treasure. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The three of us have the same almond-shaped eyes with coffee centers, I realized. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The conversation centered around the Marine Corps, moving from one old friend to another, men and women they had been stationed with, whose destinies had crossed again and again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, a few children of all ages sat on straw mats on the floor listening to a silver-haired teacher who sat cross-legged, reading aloud from a picture book. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He places his book on the corner of the desk and pats the center. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center on top I had started building a huge dome that would cover the king’s throne. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“You want to go by the community center and check the results?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Two tiny figures made their way through the center of it: Magister Brangwain Spurge and the goblin archivist Werfel, fleeing from the crashed sphere. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Guns to the left and right, nothing much in the center. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was centered in her belly where her new elilith was, and she brushed her fingers over it again and shivered. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A swirling vortex had opened in the center of the game’s monitor, and it was sucking in bits of trash, paper cups, bowling shoes—everything that wasn’t nailed down. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sand split beneath me, opening up a crevice straight down to the center of the earth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I saw Kaitlin and Z through the window in the media center when I passed by, and the last time I saw Frankie was near the field house. Diana, did you...Diana?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the center, a grocery store sold vegetables and takeaway meals wrapped in banana leaves. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Mister Devine,” the governor said, abruptly rising from the stool and commencing to pace deliberately up and down the center of the room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the appropriate number of desks arranged more or less pentagonally about the floor with the secretaries positioned in the center. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the circular lake, ten steel bridges—none of them connected—extend out to the walls like a star. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most important for the people of 13, it was the center of the Capitol’s nuclear weapons development program. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And there, floating in the center of the pond, was an old gray goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This argument holds everywhere in the universe—in the center of the earth and in the deepest vacuum of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I see it at the same time she does—the blue velvet box in the center of the silver platter, right between the tarts. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A nerve trembled in the center of my stomach. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I remember it’s the monthly bingo tournament at the senior center. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I say, my words garbled because I’m trying to keep the pills on the center of my tongue. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A sergeant stood in the center of the road and raised his rifle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hanging there, a long way off, about thirty feet above the road, warped by the rising heat, was what looked like a plank of wood, suspended horizontally, with a bulge in its center. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of twenty-one years to the center of the Galaxy, they would measure an elapsed time of 30,000 years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes, almost hidden in the shadow cast by the brim of his bowler hat, are fixed on the space in the center of the circle that the illusionist occupied only moments before. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We traveled four hours north to the Wimbe trading center, where my relatives were waiting to greet us. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The center of each block was a square of chambray, for Montana’s never-ending sky. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As they strolled, Hiskey shocked Franklin by saying: “Imagine a bomb dropped in the center of this city, which would destroy the entire city.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people ignored us, jostling each other and craning their necks to see whatever was at the center of the furor. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country schools were the centers of culture then. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the center of the dark room with her hands in her pockets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When we reach the center of the circle, the soldiers force me to stand while they bind my shackled hands and feet to the chains. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He leaped into the center of the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is the least we shall do,” said the harpy in the center, who was No-Name herself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He would pick up a piece and practically throw it at a square, almost as if he were tossing a dart at a bull’s-eye; invariably, it would land in the center of the square. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So he liked to goof around, he liked to imitate people, and he liked being the center of attention,” Grace says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The computers occupied the usual place of honor in the center of the living room, with an array of tangled cables, boxes for hard drives and webcams spread across the floor. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it interesting?” she said again, making a point to show me the tall building in the center. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The call center is a cross between a co-ed college frat house and a phone bank raising money for the local public TV station. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was looking around for the pick when he passed the ball into the center. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the people looked at the group of enslaved captives with pity as they were marched through the center of town, but no one made any move to help them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, ignoring the furniture, he seated himself in the center of the floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Faerie exists beside and below mortal towns, in the shadows of mortal cities, and at their rotten, derelict, worm-eaten centers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She lofted a corner kick into the center to Maya, who controlled it and passed it along the ground to Victor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between them, over the mantel, there’s an oval mirror, flanked by two pairs of silver candlesticks, with a white china Cupid centered between them, its arm around the neck of a lamb. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clock radio in the room—the only thing in the room, other than our beds—was on, a piece of hand-me-down technology donated to the home from a Goodwill center. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the center of town, it is a simple, two-story Victorian in the Queen Anne style, with a big cottonwood towering over the front yard. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gold-and-enamel lapel pin adorned with a ruby was to be bestowed upon her at the center’s annual awards ceremony, which recognized employees hitting milestones of service with the center. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Another said he was leaving to help Fazlullah build a religious center. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Still, there’s not much that can be done if a bullet rips right through the center of one. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Unitarianism was a lenient Christian faith at the center of social reform in England. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her black eyes have turned to a bruised yellow, so no one stares too much when she goes to the counseling center. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he meant was that I could become one of the bodies pushing packages through the streets of the garment center. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Principal Maldonado sat at a large desk in the center of the room and invited Mom and George to sit across from her in two brown cushioned chairs. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, at the very center of our galaxy, sits a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as two-and-a-half million suns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We pushed through the doors of the community center and found ourselves in the multipurpose room, where only a few kids were hanging out. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Father Cham lay in the center of the room on a mat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Now she rose languidly and walked slowly through the heat to the fountain in the center of the courtyard of her apartment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The old field at the community center was fenced off and private. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The neighbors stopped walking near our center, as we had sent a few of them to the hospital. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jacobs spoke with an easy detachment, a combination of fear and humor that only centered on himself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be centered in the air above them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hands pushed him into the center of the ring and the referee was saying, ". . . three rounds of two minutes each . . . you know the amateur rules . . . break clean . . . shake, boys, and come out fighting." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s grief for his brother was as real as if it were a stranger who lived with us, a stranger who had taken my place in the center of the universe. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The whistle blew and Coach Spinks called Ben’s group to the center line where they queued up in two lines to wait for their chance to go against the returnees. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ideal for the job, centered low as he was in his fireplug body, a plow of wellmuscled forearms in front of him, a pulling guard for a sweeping Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interwoven in the red strings were thousands and thousands of small clay figures, each no longer than her finger; like a spider, in the exact center, sat the Old Man of the Moon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I strip a tough vine of its leaves, thread it through the hollow center, and tie the spile securely to my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within days, she’d called several local community centers and found one that offered adult education classes, and signed up to take math and reading placement tests. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the cell door slid open, he stood in the center of the floor, his hands in the air, his eyes level. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By the end of World War II, Los Angeles was the second-largest manufacturing center in America, with an industrial output surpassed only by that of Detroit. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The man looked at him, shook his head and flicked his cigarette away and walked to the center of the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Edinburgh at that time was a center of intellectual vigor, and Hutton luxuriated in its enriching possibilities. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The economists decided to test their solution by conducting a study of ten day-care centers in Haifa, Israel. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Between the living room and the den, we have the center console, or kitchen. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a while, Mariam stood by an oval-shaped pool in the center of a big park where pebble paths crisscrossed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then in the center of my vision a small head pokes out from behind the nearest pod. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I get that ringing in my ears, the kind you get when all the blood rushes to the anger center in your brain. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He did manage to get our keys back so we could get away from the evac center—and he seems to genuinely want to help us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

His look said, “Volunteering at the animal center isn’t a job.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked at the floor, the center of which was covered in a very expensive, very old-looking oval rug. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A grate squats in the center of the alley, just a few feet away from me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Billy came to the center of the ring and snapped a glove out. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you stare at the center of the universe, there is a coldness there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I yelled out some expletive or other, trying to find my center of gravity, but it felt like I was on an ice rink without skates on. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For now, however, the center needed to hold. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The group marched to a rectangular clearing that had been roped off in the center of the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Hector struck with a true aim; the spear hit the center of Achilles’ shield. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet helps me hobble out to the center of the courtyard. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was a white cloth in the center with hay and fir boughs in front of each person. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Living in her respectable house in the center of town, crowded by four other houses, each so near anyone could peer through the windows and whisper a judgment, Faye felt trapped. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The ball went right through the legs of the shortstop and into center field. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, we can reason conversely that modern areas with a high diversity of languages within a given language family lie closer to the early center of distribution of that language family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is not coincidence that such a momentous decision centered on the schoolhouse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One sunbeam fell directly onto the octagonal center design of a blue Oriental rug and the other lit up the red head of a very old lady. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

School isn’t out yet when I get there, having walked about a mile from the center of town. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And in the center of the room, in a small oval alcove, sat the prized piece—the amber swan. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If the riddle was too hard, he could keep silent, get away from the sphinx unharmed, and try and find an alternative route to the center. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Inside was a hard rubber ring with a slippery center. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Take, for instance, the room in his new lab next to the control center where he’s been examining the brain of the teacher wearing the EEG cap. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He faced what he knew to be the center of Forest, the place where Matty and Kira were trapped, and he willed himself to look beyond. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

From the Sun to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is 30,000 light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” asked Kyle as they entered the media center. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a gold cameo with a creamy pink face in the center. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the plan: to take over the centers of power in the city like the Justice Building, the Peacekeepers’ Headquarters, and the Communication Center in the square. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of their days together she would keep it on the center of the mantel, flanked on either side by the rest of the menagerie. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was generally agreed, however, that a steel rod came up through the center of the platform at night and he strapped himself to it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you look around at 24/7’s call center, you see that all the computers are running Microsoft Windows. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The miller and the smithy were also in the town center, right next to each other. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I spoke to parents and ANC members and told them that every home, every shack, every community structure, must become a center of learning for our children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole place is singed, but you can still see the definitive structure of a school, except for straight down the center, which is entirely gone. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I pause at the center and smile big and let my eyes dance. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dredges would leave an island at the center of the lagoon, to be called, simply, the Wooded Island. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Japanese lanterns with candles in them hung on bamboo sticks at the corners, and red crepe paper twisted in scallops from the center to the corners to give the effect of a tent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, the floors are black with a huge white symbol in the center of the room, but most of it has been covered up with bunk beds. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Resting his chin on his hands, Mitch stared at the center screen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurled himself like a fireball down the center aisle. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

By morning Gabriel was playing the deep tones in the center of the drum. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ma smiles at me and waves before grabbing hold of the metal ring in the center of the door. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Aimee steps up to the center and we all know this is about to get mad real. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thirty minutes later, they walked into the adult detention center and stood in front of the receptionist. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I keep him in my grasp, but my attention is on the center ring. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In a violent explosion that seemed ripped from the very center of the earth, Spiral Castle crumbled in on itself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Just try, for example, to reread this paragraph by staring straight ahead at the center of the page. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

William stood in the center of the road, shoulders heaving, deep red blood spattered across his skin and face like war paint. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There's a picture taped to the center of my vision heart, of me and my friends on a hike in the redwoods. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We skidded to a halt in front of the exhibition center, and the driver helped me with the box and we went running to my display area. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The town of Churdan in the center of the county is like a ghost town. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Turner felt himself go cold in the center, a cold so deep it made him nauseated. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A small river snaked around one side and curled toward the center like a capital letter G, emptying into a sparkling blue lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She can hear him fumbling at the ring in the center of the floor: the trapdoor comes up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps. We actually had a lot of photos. Had them all touched up and hung in the old sanctuary right after we converted it to a community center.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Clancy had the kind of confidence that made him the sun at the center of East River’s galaxy. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Other population centers of states outside the capital may also qualify as true cities, which are lacking in chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the square, Aggo fed him a withered apple and dropped him in an instant with an axe blow between the eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That was Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, the snake who goes around the center of the world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Until the curtain comes up and he's standing there, ten years old and alone in the center of the P.S. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Scythe Goddard and his scythes strode to the center of activity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Will you take him to the medical center today or tomorrow morning, Mom?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They formed a giant spiral, with a large mark in its center. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His house stood rather far back from the street, in the center of a delightful garden, so that it was quiet and peaceful at the old gentleman’s study window. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to my CD player first, picking it up off the floor and placing it precisely in the center of the table. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon the school bus dropped the school-age kids off at the day-care center; and then we all went home when the center closed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Near the center of the field First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross squatted in the muck, almost entirely submerged. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The visitors from the European Commission, the UN, UNICEF, and several NGOs arrived at the center in a convoy of cars one afternoon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was cold to the very center of my bones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With infinite patience the clerk folded the straps just so, located each purse at the center of the brown parcel paper he painstakingly tore from the roll, and commenced creasing the edges. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped by the relief center to see if there was any food, if a plane had finally managed to land. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were bringing their forwards out, sending their guards into the low post, and using their center for some picks that looked illegal to me but the referee didn’t call them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For the first half-dozen moves each of the men slipped pieces out onto the board, into the center, leaving the back rows untouched. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Salad bar in the center. Specialty foods on the right. It changes every day. Looks like Asian food today. Probably soggy egg rolls and questionable sushi.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

At its center was Huitzilopochtli, a martial god who wore a helmet shaped like a hummingbird’s head and carried a fire-breathing serpent as a weapon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bird rose into the air, laughing at the useless weapons of the people below, but the arrow followed him upwards and pierced the center of his heart. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She opened her hand and threw the necklace into the center of the fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of decaying stuff in the center of Forest,” he told her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

My eyes widen, and the next thing I know, Lanetta is grabbing my hand and yanking me with her to center stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The first bullet got the man on the left; the second and third bullets took the men on the right and the center of the table. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spotlight shines from the ceiling, its source unknown, and standing in the center of its circle of light are my mother, my father, and my brother. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The brand wasn’t like American brands, which were initials or letters or even numbers; it looked like a big butterfly with its wings outstretched, or two loops of rope tied together in the center. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s in the garment center,” the clerk at the counter said. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I still had one arm draped over Bluie, in fact, when I awoke just after four in the morning with an apocalyptic pain fingering out from the unreachable center of my head. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I knew the routine by heart—at this very moment, the tail end of the Grand Spectacle was exiting and Lottie, the aerialist, was ascending her rigging in the center ring. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Ah," I sighed, for in the hollow at the center, two drumsticks were stored. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They all worked, ate, and slept at the dam site, located about six miles southeast of the center 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

Civilization came to the people, and Cuzco was the center of it all, a thriving city of nobles and priests. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As they neared the town of Easton, they began to pass shopping centers and development houses, little, low one-story ranchers with sprigs of new grass and one or two puny trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Decoded, the letters revealed a German plot that centered on India. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her daily schedule, however, usually overflowed well beyond the job’s narrow duties, since the club quickly became a center for the city’s black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Two steps lead up to a black door that has no knob, just a gold keyhole in the center. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She was the only adult in hippie clothes—peasant blouse, long cotton skirt, Day-Glo headband with a yin/yang disk in the center of her forehead. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I was nervous, shuffling in the center of our group in the line waiting to have our passports inspected. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Earth was the center of the greater universe, so London was the center of our miniature universe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the crowd’s attention centered on the next group of strikebreakers being herded into the packing plant, our presence went largely unnoticed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A single campfire burned near the center of town, where the night-watch gathered to warm up every hour or so. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We walk alongside the busy roads until we reach the town center. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Others, like Bienvenue, had joined along the way and made the team the center of their new lives in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My attention was centered on the northern blue skies. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead a large round table had been set up in the center of the hall, with tall chairs all around it where men might sit and talk as peers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What the hell, I was thinking when I realized he and others were banging on my center gate— the red dots were responding to an emergency on the top floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would find herself waking up in a revival center tomorrow, a laughingstock. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Others shipped them on a rigid schedule to researchers at twenty-three polio- testing centers around the country. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then when I call you, line up in two lines at center court. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Letter writing was one of the centers of social life in nineteenth-century England, along with visiting relatives and friends and going to or giving parties. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of town, only yards away from the modern buildings made of steel and glass, streets of painters, ceramists, and sculptors had sprung up on the side of a steep hill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The community center is a couple of streets over on Ash. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A few months after Glenn Burke started in center field in the opening game of the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers traded their five-tool talent to the Oakland Athletics, the worst team in baseball. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Then, when one of their players got fouled, the coach took out both Glen and Frank, moved Jimmy over to forward, put Jose at center and put Trip at the other forward. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had a building on Burthe Street that housed a resource center and dorm for visiting students from the Arab world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They start in hay carts and trash bins; they follow kerosene trails down the center of streets; they turn corners; they enter bashed-in doorways. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was overwhelming and beautiful, and I stood in the center of the room, trying to absorb it all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In such an orbit the Sun is not at the center but is offset, at the focus of the ellipse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I hadn’t seen them before, but on the far end of the convention center there was a group of African-American kids in matching uniforms. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This is critical, since most of the self-confidence issues regarding the arts is centered around the idea that children can “get it wrong” or the idea that what they create is less than perfect. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In an infinite universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite number of stars on each side of it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of ten, Butler children were sent to a private training center in Israel, where they were taught the specialized skills necessary to guard the latest in the Fowl line. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The woman in the center was hopping up and down. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Immediately after that, we were ordered to report for the nightly gathering in the yard at the center of town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At the least, we can say that China was one of the world’s first centers of plant and animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the center stood a clock tower, the tallest of the interior structures, rising to a height of 120 feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was a cinema near the city center, ten minutes’ walk away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was in a juvenile detention center. I guess one day, he took out his fists again. My mom is right. Things don’t just go away because we want them to.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Garbage bags lined the curb waiting for collection and the concrete was uneven in places, but she moved right down the center of the sidewalk, never taking her eyes off me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Gold comes out from the center, then fades. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Uncle cleared the path for Thorn and Seven, dispatching monstruos as they ran to the center of town, where they would hopefully find protection and safety. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al stands in the center of the hippodrome, stupefied. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They’d pick them up from the welfare center downtown and drop them off at the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room the Giants’ coach, Don Hay, stood misty-eyed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Everywhere bulldozers had pushed up earth dams to hold back the water, making a series of life-giving lakes down the center of the ranch. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like the early sketch for a board game. See the circle in the center of the other circle? That’s probably where you place the spinner. You move your pieces around the ten rooms...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Just before my birthday party had started, Chapter Eleven had been down in his basement laboratory, using a hacksaw on a newfangled Titleist that advertised a “liquid center.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

First he gouged two circles near each other in the center of the gourd, then scraped at the rind between and below the eyes, to create the impression of a nose. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I watch his feet move to the center of the room, and his hands, steady as they accept the knife from Marcus, are deft as one presses the knife into the other. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

For thirty-five years he worked with teenagers at a community center, the Neighborhood House. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the center of die clump was one large tree shaped like an umbrella. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland stood in the center of the front room by the tree. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Besides, the relief centers have nothing. And did you not hear that all the children in Nnewi died after drinking relief milk? The vandals had poisoned it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when she says, Nicky, your father and I are separating, it’s like a bombshell drops right in the center of your heart and splatters all across your life. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a tray of vegetables in the center of the coffee table with a small bowl of hummus for dipping. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I ran into Ryan’s mom the other day and she was telling me all the fun things the community center is sponsoring for kids this summer,” Mom says. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Portia took up the Bible from the table in the center of the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the way back to the center of Tijuana, Lupita ducked into an alley and opened a seam of her jacket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He forced himself deep into the dark center of the grove and, kneeling, laid the wreath upon the thick carpet of golden needles. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the center of the yard, two cobblestone paths intersected, making a cross. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The center of her mind was filled with the image of the great, white clock at the railway station, on which the hands did not cease to move. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then bang bang bang—on the center gate again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a Muslim from America, I was the center of attention. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my eyes temporarily blinded from the flashbulb, I moved toward the center where everyone was. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

This topic had become the center of my thinking because all the adults around me were always talking about what it meant to be white or, among our people, light skinned. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, on a round wooden table that is painted black but inlaid with light stripes of mother-of-pearl, there is a small iron cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I ran down the center aisle to the other end of the locker room. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The center incorporates a lab with a glass wall through which visitors can watch paleontologists cleaning bones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

But it was the refugee community that seemed to really embrace the center. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He thought he was the center of all things.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I knew that the devilfish would not be in the center of this cloud, that he had left it behind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could no longer stand the rooms where Antonapoulos had lived, and he rented a place in a shambling boardinghouse not far from the center of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge open space in the center of the sphere served as the club’s zero-gravity “dance floor.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a lot of pressure to be at the center of so much attention, especially when the stakes were so high for Muslims in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the middle of all the dancers, a large clear bubble was suspended in space, at the absolute center of the club. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The room was completely bare—except for the drain at the center of the floor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Alight placed above the center of the tank shines through the water, refracting as it ripples. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The basement is small, with crates of goods in one corner and a round table in the center. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He cut off their center when he caught up with me but I was already on the way up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that they were happy for my win, but it was a lot being the center of so much attention. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Behind my half-head, in the center of the picture, in the empty sky, a pier glass is hanging, convex and encircled by an ornate frame. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center stood a stag, magnificent and virile, gazing sideways at Elena. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The phonograph she had borrowed from her niece sat on the mopped linoleum in the center of the room, the cord rising to the chandelier, where it was plugged in. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vola chose a fresh block from her wood bin and centered it on the workbench. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The older boys always took the dry center of the upper field for their ball games, while the girls claimed the small top section for hopscotch and jump rope and hanging around talking. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Red poppies in the center of the table would give a friendly wave from their glass jar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when she was delivering herbs, if we’d finished our chores, Mother would drop us at the Carnegie library in the center of town. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The crowd shifts, putting me at the center of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was certainly the sense I got from talking to a lot of the call center operators on the floor. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The one who told the Chumley kids that they weren’t the center of this or any other known universe. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I had to bump past a few people in the hall, run down the back stairs, and chase him down on the path around the academic center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Robinson, at center, is being wrestled away from the registration desk by bystanders, while the woman at left tries to avoid the altercation and King ducks. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did take the time to visit, the adoption center ladies fawned over him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed like they would never end; she had never been in the center of a mountain before. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Watch, unable to breathe, as our center fielder, Britt-Marie Hogan—my best girl friend—runs with everything she’s got to keep up with the soaring yellow ball... Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Tiller removed a tarp from the center of the boat. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people all congregating in a shopping center parking lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our conversation centered on the possibility that at Pasadena I might continue X-ray work with viruses. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Then he bent down and wormed his way into the center of the mat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Voldemort was in the center of the battle, and he was striking and smiting all within reach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, a transparent bubble appears in my center view with a pleasant ding. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Claudette’s arrest made her the center of attention wherever she went. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Kira said, “I’ve walked the forest path between this cottage and the center of my village so many times.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The dementors — tall, hooded creatures whose faces were concealed — were gliding slowly toward the chair in the center of the room, each grasping one of the man’s arms with their dead and rotten-looking hands. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The butterflies still danced, preoccupied in the center of die clearing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The campers drew swords and advanced toward the center of the battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Towering wooden poles stick up through its center line, already flying Old Glory. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be at the center of things. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She clutched her amulet, running a thumb across the stone in the center. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The chair will be my desk, lock, bed, and entertainment center for the night, so I want to make it as comfortable as faux cracked leather allows. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It dominated all, the pulpit: a wooden platform raised above the congregation, with a high stand in the center for the Bible, before which the preacher stood. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We’re taking over the community center to get ready for Barrio Fiesta. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I let him into the shower, allowed two officers and an inmate through the center gate, and then returned to the task of trying to clear W-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the four of us soared across the valley, over a road, and landed on the terrace of the visitor center. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It stood in the center of the room, a minor feat of engineering of which Kote was rather proud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Turning, he centered the disc of light where he thought Bessie’s face must be. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But in the end the final decision, to include the final choice of words, came together at the center, which was always Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That night marks my life’s dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bride and groom would walk along at the center of the procession, with six girls in front and six in back, and rows of boys on each side. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I lower my hands as the others lower their guns, and walk into the foyer, passing through the center of the crowd like a piece of thread through the eye of a needle. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then, his lips pursed, his face turned red and he strode quickly up the center aisle in silence, pushing through the heavy bronze doors, their hinges complaining at his exit. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Now she stood in the center of the room, between Coraline and the mantelpiece, and looked down at Coraline with black button eyes. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The Gran raised one hand and sent Seven’s bubble over to the large white sofas at the center of the room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But though a few blacks had their homes in various other neighborhoods of the city, by the early 1900s the Black Belt was the center of black community life. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The way was narrow and steep, the steps worn in the center by centuries of feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She placed two fingers in the center of Liyana’s forehead and closed her eyes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the unopened can out of her great-uncle’s coat pocket and sets it in the center of the attic floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The saw’s humming was almost a scream as it got near the center of the trunk. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A small window appeared in the center of the screen, prompting me for a maintenance-tech ID number and access password. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The tracking stations captured the signals with their sixty-four-foot receiving dishes, then relayed this data plus voice communications through a jumble of submarine cables, landlines, and radio waves to the computer center at Goddard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The garment center was once one of the busiest places in New York City. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Harpers Ferry remained at the center of things throughout the exuberantly bloody conflict that followed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a daisy,” I said, throwing a circlet of the white flowers with their sunlike centers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

An iron finial had pierced through her breastbone, right in the center of her chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I have plenty of experience being the center of attention—on a soccer field, a basketball court, a baseball diamond. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table were white sheets of paper fastened together by a metal clasp; it was his signed confession. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stand and move to the center of my room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Our Dauntless guards lead us to the center of the room, where we are greeted with, at best, murmurs, and at worst, jeers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the exact center of it was the staircase, where I stood. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were shocked to see that Mr. Lemoncello himself was seated behind the librarian’s desk at the center of the circular room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Guys are coming at me, left, right, center. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as he left work to meet her at the medical center, he felt like he was the sick one. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In the center was a small leather wine holder and, beside it, some cheese and some apples. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The billiard table in the center is covered in bloodred felt. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I think about standing in center field during the last inning of the third game—a game we lost 5–0—with tears streaming down my cheeks. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I'm not too political, but my parents are Democrats, and my cousin Anu is becoming so far left she can't see center. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We plunge forward, emerging in the center of the circle. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His place was dead center, between Marcus’s father and another privileged senator. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It gave the people of District 8 a reason to be out on the streets after dark, gathering either in the square or in various community centers around the city to watch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the table, someone had disassembled an Archimedes sphere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of a room, smoke drifts lazily out of the top of a chiminea, leaving the room in a magical haze. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Like I could possibly forget it. After I got back from the revival center, everybody called me Rhonda Roadkill for months.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With this, and the bodies, they were forced to walk in the center of the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He holds the door open, and I walk into the center of his suite. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, an Amari in glittering armor appears at the center of the room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I stared at it for a while, in love with the idea that something so ugly could be hiding something so beautiful in its center. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coffee shop, a fancy restaurant, an old movie theater converted into a fitness center, a dry cleaners, another coffee shop, a clothing boutique, a sushi restaurant, and so on. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the sun was dropping near the center of the west window, they stood up. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She snaps a sheet open wide in her hands and takes the center with her teeth to fold it in half. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting around Christmas 1937, when he administered his first dose of a phosphorus radioisotope to a patient at the university medical center, John’s need for the substance became “insatiable,” Kamen recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There was a job placement center, part of the guidance counselor’s office, I believe, and I planned to go there looking for a job. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Thirty artisans, mostly masters, from all over Boston were the center. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony would order Wes and Woody into the center of the ring. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The carpenters then installed pieces of wood, called lagging, that spanned the space between two centerings. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Zero was, quite literally, at the center of Brunelleschi’s painting. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I spent two years in a juvenile detention center for breaking my father’s arm. Both arms, actually. And his nose. He also had a fractured skull, but that probably wasn’t entirely my fault.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She crawls along the center beam, from which the narrow planks of flooring emanate, toward the stone bulk of the chimney at the far end. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their thoughts seemed to converge in him as the spokes of a wheel lead to the center hub. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like the hero of an action movie, Jule West Williams was the center of the story. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Through the center of the room ran an underground river, and Tyson was sitting by the banks, cradling Grover in his lap. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So rather than continuing west to the desalination center at the beach, she decides to crank her wheel right and follow the truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The glass booth in the center of the station is empty, and there's no one around watching me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But the community center dance is tonight, and she had to help decorate.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pooh pushes me back to the center of the Ring. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She did not expect to see a ring of candles with her mother’s braid and red dancing shoes at the center. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only break in all that whiteness was a drain at the very center of the floor, surrounded by reddish stains. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A normal spleen is a soft sack with a drippy red center, which reminded Dalgard of a jelly doughnut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited for darkness, and then she padded to the center of a clearing, nestled herself between some rocks, and became part of the landscape. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Midday, he worked out on weights in the center group area. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Leafy plants lined the walls, and the skylight bathed the table in the center of the room in morning sun. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I stared at the sunlight cutting through the patio screen, my body levitating in the center of the pool. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And at the end of each class, our teacher would gather them up and pile them in the center of the floor. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it isn’t until we pass the aquatics center that we get our answer. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was even a train system to facilitate transporting the miners from the Nut to the very center of the main town in District 2. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The subsidiary theme in the correspondence is one urging me to come to Manhattan so that she and I may raise our banner of twin confusion in that center of mechanized horrors. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The design was pitch black, with a sea-green trident shimmering in the center. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mechanized steps swing out from a shining center, where a tiny golden bird rests. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Esther wasn’t supposed to work, but she came to the center wearing a jeans skirt instead of her normal white uniform. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He clicked a knob and zoomed in to higher and higher magnifications until the hazy sea of green turned into a screen filled with hundreds of individual cells, their centers dark and bulging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As Alex was soon to discover, the Special Operations Division of MI6 sent its agents to the same training center used by the Special Air Service—the SAS. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The outer core, then the inner core, to the very center of gravity, and then gravity reverses. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They are, in a basic sense, our reward centers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

Muhammad’s papers were gone from the table, and Mom’s favorite rustic-candle formation was back to commanding the center space. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mostly it centered around a trip to the La Push Ocean Park in two weeks that Mike was putting together. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

In the center, a golden brazier of fire seemed to burn without fuel or smoke. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A sheet was spread on the floor with a tumble of items in the center. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

During the next week, Cole settled into the monotonous routine of the detention center. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The shuttle could pick me up from the student center at the university where Aaron coached, or it could pick me up from a downtown hotel. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I dragged the bucket to the center of the room and got to work, sliding the mop over the floor in long, easy strokes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“How about the big one in the center there?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I was at the end of my sixth month when my childhood friend Mo- hamed arrived at the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She moved Ruth May to her own bed while we moved the big, heavy table out into the center of the front yard. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each star is the center of its own solar system, planets encircling it, and moons encircling each planet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will burst into, like, a zillion colors but will leave a gold, shimmery center in the tub. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Cabot could see the white stick sitting on the edge of the counter, a bold blue check in its center. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The tone of his words fell dead center, without a trace of friendliness or unfriendliness, not interested and not bored, not energetic and not languid. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genes were never at the center, or even at the periphery, of his thoughts. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...when I think about it, don’t you think that a place like the Heart of the Jungle, the very center of this entire place, seems a bit...obvious?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The following morning Neel and Baba said goodbye to Ma and Rupa and then boarded the ferry to the regional scholarship examination center. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would’ve seen him when they paraded all the basketball players out into the center of the gym. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We learned that we would be moved to the center of Germany. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, a young man was—dancing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turned and saw Fern still standing in the center of the stage. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Owner reached the circular wooden counter at the center of the main storeroom and lifted the hinged section to float inside, settling himself behind the register. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But staying on center stage takes work—lots of work. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gasping, thoroughly pooped, the men trudged into the half-mile-wide grassy alpine bowl with the small circular lake in the center and collapsed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The country,” states the center, “saw a resurgence of white nationalism that imperils the racial progress we’ve made.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They landed in a public park, in the center of a vacant soccer field lightly dusted with snow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the large excursion steamers began to list toward the center of the river as people crowded their rails. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What would my pen pals say if I told them that I am standing at a detention center because I went to open my postbox for their letters? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe that I had the courage to go through the center of the line and dance in front of 500 people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His father had taken him one Saturday to the community center hall, where a dojo had been established in a corner of the gym. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Though I kept insisting that we should keep the backbone in the center, I knew none of my reasons held water. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

There was a man not much older than she was, with salt-and- pepper hair, floating behind the large circular countertop in the center of the room. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al is delirious, standing in the center of the hippodrome track with his arms and face raised, basking in the coins that rain down on him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The rest sat facing them, filling every square inch of floor space except for an aisle up the center. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was to become the center of learning in the Eastern world—and one of its first scholars was the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Bunnicula, not sure what to do, jumped high in the air and landed, with a great scattering of greens, smack in the center of the salad bowl. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plain box held five smaller boxes—a small round one in the center and four curved boxes that fit around it perfectly. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Reggie takes a slide from a tray near the computer and, using a dropper, puts two drops of the orange liquid in its center, then seals the liquid in place with a second slide. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This was exemplified quite well by the map in the Ottawa office of Vice-Co-ordinator Hiram Mackenzie, in which the North Pole was centered. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Kira could see that doors had been opened in an outbuilding beside the Council Edifice, and from the storage place long spears were being brought and placed in piles in the center of the plaza. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small diamond set at the center of a gold filigree flower. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its center they filled with straw, brush, bark shavings, and bundles of dry grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One patrol has made its way around to the back of the square, and now they have the crowd boxed in, pushing people in toward the square’s center. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By the time they got back to the arts center, where they had left the car, Joaquin could feel the sunburn on his nose and the beach tar stuck to the bottoms of his feet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Just across the center line, two hungry giants were glaring down at me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A call goes up through the congregation and two of the brothers do a shuffling dance down the center aisle, a wooden box containing a snake in each of their hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The duplicate designs were: a circle with a large maple leaf in the center, the tips of the leaf touching the sides of the circle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Felicia feels as though she were in love again, at the center of the universe, privy to its secrets and inner workings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant I was left with no nose at all—and with nostrils drilled into the flat center of my face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When Marcus calls my name, I will walk to the center of the three circles. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A massive bonfire was burning at the center, which had been emptied of market stalls and was now filled with revelers in costumes of all colors and kinds. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the conversation centered instead on Dorothy’s recent work with insulin. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The church was the center of my community when I was a child, and much of who I was came from what I had been taught at the Church of the Master. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

If you had one of these black holes on the surface of the earth, there would be no way to stop it from falling through the floor to the center of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My command center was located under an armored dome embedded in the rocky surface of my own private asteroid. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If the source is in motion from right to left, it emits spherical waves progressively centered on points 1 through 6, as shown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Manzanar, mealtime had always been the center of our family scene. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as though she were the center of this small, surreal galaxy—indeed, that it was she who was dreaming him, and not the other way around. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was indeed a visitors’ center, but it was shut. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As a young child, my life was centered around the big, old, white wood-frame house at 1121 Cross Street that was my home. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole show was centered on the end of school and was filmed in an auditorium in Osage, Arkansas. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They peeled themselves off the wall, away from the punch, cookies, and candy, and made it to the center of the dance floor. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to the center of the mall, the crowd became too thick. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When my father’s business had failed, we had traded our comfortable house in the center of the Jewish quarter for a wattle-and-daub cottage on our neighborhood’s outskirts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They form up in the center of the courtyard directly in front of the stage, just as Cook said they would. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I think of the wild energy of cyclones, but at their center is a tiny circle of calm. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the center of it is a large Victorian sink. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He also found that the evangelical ministries were hobbled without adequate salaries to attract professional staff members and without centers of their own where students could gather, socialize, and study the Bible. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the book from the center console. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Uncle Phil places a gentle palm against the center of my back. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We passed the tour bus as it turned into the community center. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

On the center of Aru’s palm, the number eight was already beginning to change form....She was running out of time. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I do wish you could center your big brain on the crimes we ourselves as a people are responsible for.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Helpfully, the middle C key had a full corner missing, a wedge about the size of my fingernail, which got me centered every time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And so the room remained dark, a black hole in the center of the household. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gathered our things, left our tea cooling in our mugs, turned off the lights, and marched out of the health center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

More over, even though hemoglobin was not the center of the universe, Francis’ previous two years at the Cavendish certainly had not been dull. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When he stands in the center, he looks from the Dauntless bowl to the Candor bowl—the orange flames that rise higher each moment, and the glass reflecting blue light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

All I was doing was passing out health center flyers, not trying to induct first years into some hedonistic, druggy sex cult. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, there was a playground next to a day-care center. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered the outskirts of the city, I could see people streaming toward the center. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of her was even more whiteness, a ring of it, and in the center a low shelf of land almost hidden in the glare of sunlight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wednesday afternoon I was in the media center, reading my favorite book, The Invisible Man, or pretending to. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The center shape grew smaller as she found her twilight vision. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers the way the church building was at the center of town life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landscape is lush and green, with a huge lake at the center, and nothing but trees and woods for miles around. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Um, okay,” he said, coming to stand with me in the center. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I loaded my plate and was about to take a big bite when I noticed everybody getting up, carrying their plates toward the fire in the center of the pavilion. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She goes into the bedroom and rolls him over so he’s sprawled across the center of the bed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Some insect, maybe a grasshopper or worm, found its way to the center of the chicken run and all the chickens went crazy pecking, flapping, and scratching to get at it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The information booth was in the center of this hall. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hated the sign that rested above the door: a large silver badge with a smaller, blue star in the center. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He carried his weapon in one hand, muzzle down, moving without any hurry up the center of the trail. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was something else, the center of hell maybe, the premonition of which made Dedd draw closer to Jaimito until she, too, finally fell asleep. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the first note of the first song rang out, the Spencer family, all fifteen of them, made their way down the center aisle. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was as if all the berries, all die pits had exploded in the center of him, ripped and tore at him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born in 1596 in the middle of France, Descartes would bring zero to the center of the number line, and he would seek a proof of God in the void and the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I hustled out of the media center and put myself out in front of the main entrance doors to sneak a peek down the corridor. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

God’s house had been everything to me: a house of joy and the center of our private sanctuary—where we met to organize and pledge to support each other. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I could have put my own hand on the center console and then our hands would have been in the same place at the same time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It felt strange to be hosting, to assume the center of responsibility. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I crossed the center line, just a little bit, and I hit the car.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was a picture of a woman to identify in the center. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined a long loaf of pan de agua, the kind the baker made with a coconut frond down the center of its crunchy crust. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And the old oil lamp was hanging over the center of the table, shedding its unstable yellow light from the round Rochester wick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Good thing we got here early,” he said, his gaze traveling down the long rows of baking stations in the center of the room, where the contestants would be competing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were almost finished now, spread open too far, splayed, exposing obscene black centers. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any words etched there, but I did find a small monogram etched in the center of the key’s crystal handle, a single calligraphic letter “A” that I recognized immediately. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a morality to the house, and Emma was the moral center, the bribery notwithstanding. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael slipped three center pages of Seaman Milholland’s notes free and folded them into quarters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Standing in the center of the clearing was a figure as white and shining as a ghost. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then I turned and saw Fern still standing in the center of the stage. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was now an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pool there, and Oakway had also become the biggest parachute training center in Britain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The center of this tight-knit community was Ismail’s apartment, flat 13, Kholvad House, four rooms in a residential building in the center of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeps him away by talking with Olivia about the growing, growing numbers of their GoFundMe, about the invitations that are piling up for her to visit schools and community centers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I pulled her along as we ran up the stairs to the shopping center on the pier. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mama knew they were taking all the alien men first to an interrogation center right there on the island. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since we think there may be massive black holes at the centers of some galaxies, this is a conceivable explanation of their red shifts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lifeless except for overcrowded, overflowing evacuation centers, looking like anthills spaced out at five-mile intervals. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Billy pursed his lips, and the little straw that had been in the corner of his mouth rolled down to the center. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Joe Starks and his cigar took the center of the floor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But once installed in the Palace Flophouse it was the glory and the hearth and the center. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every section in camp has its own toilets, kitchens and food center,” Mohammad says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was old and tired around the edges, but at its center it was patient. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I point to the mirrored orb dangling in the center of the dance floor—if there were going to be dancing at this wedding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As Alex rounded second base, Rex passed the center fielder and was closing fast. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the center of the room was a great wooden table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

All too soon, the station wagon pulled to a stop in front of the detention center. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One morning I slapped an enormous bee between my hands just as it had lit upon a flower and it stung me in the tender center of my left palm. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many refugee families, Clarkston is just a first stop in America, a place to get a foothold before moving on to secondary migration centers in the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Alec tapped the map just to the left of the spot that marked the center of the Berg routes on the workpad screen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And Anne, who later married and took the surname Treisman, was destined to be one of the researchers at the center of that stage. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It looks like a Harry Potter cover except there’s a Ben-looking wizard in the center and he’s hiding behind a demolished wall as evil wizards search for him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This is about a thousand times the temperature at the center of the sun, but temperatures as high as this are reached in H-bomb explosions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otis paused to pull his poker from the flames and thrust it smoking through the center of the sumac spill he held. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most compelling, and chilling, exhibits was the Krupp Pavilion, where Fritz Krupp’s “pet monster” stood at the center of an array of heavy guns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the deep center a large carp flipped its tail and then disappeared as quickly as it had surfaced. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She put the other at the center of the table. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was the Land Cruiser’s center spodight— huge, bright, and powerful, like a setting sun. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Triangular, with a slightly raised border and a smooth shining center. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A crest of golden roses ran down the center of his helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the low center of gravity, Kendra found that leaning was enough to prevent the boat from capsizing, but the naiads were relentless. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They lapped around my body, making me the perfect center of a whirlwind cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room is my scrap box. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then he brought her around and headed in, aiming for the center of the break in the surf line, which he could now see was close to a mile wide. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt something warm in the center of her chest, like an open meadow in the summer or a crackling fire on a winter afternoon. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, for most of the day, he had stared at his bedroom ceiling, at the three beige blades of the fan churning at its center, their edges grimy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the dining room, I see the old-fashioned phone in the center of the round table and notice there’s no cord attaching it to the wall. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

There’s a black leather couch in the center with a giant flat-screen TV along the wall. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A cheerful Start! message and an estimated arrival time hover in the center of my vision, waiting for me to follow the map. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My legs are churning and I’m moving past her and toward the center of the room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or if we were hungry, we pooled our money and headed to the kan-yenya stand, which was really just a giant vat of boiling grease over a fire, next to the boozing center. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for her, being the center of attention like that when she obviously doesn’t want to be. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She drew a dagger out of her belt and began to run her finger up and down the ridge along the center. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I stared at the curving stairway of stone in the dim hall, the center of each step worn smooth by the tread of many generations. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They are led to a small table at the back as opposed to the long one in the center that he normally sits at. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already, the black center had lightened, familiar images of county landmarks brightening into view. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The fetterling in the center of the room looked like it belonged in a museum. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He could’ve written a “left of center” ticket, a moving violation that would have laid the matter to rest. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They met in the center of the bridge, the dry moat beneath them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And walking into it didn’t just mean that he was in the center of the room. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He put the Sun at the center, made the Earth rotate on its axis once a day and orbit the Sun once a year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex kept his eyes down as he made his way to the center of the bridge, the highest spot. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Asif was already sitting at the desk at the literacy center, typing on his laptop, when I walked into his classroom. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The young soldier stood off by himself at the center of the field in knee-deep water, reaching down with both hands as if chasing some object just beneath the surface. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, knotting the loose end of the spool tar to the string loop tied to the center spar. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the centers of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Now imagine a rock thrown into its center. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Sampson, a Liberian who sometimes played goalie, she said, would move to center mid—Mandela’s position. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Each of these leaves clasps, at its center, an iron-containing chemical named heme that can bind oxygen—a reaction distantly akin to a controlled form of rusting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My plan was to follow this catwalk to a prominent rock prow in the center of the wall and thereby execute an end run around the ugly, avalanche-swept lower half of the face. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Troy Price got a better job, as executive director of Pikeville’s new support center for abused children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He had a lot of friends at the community center and he made them by honoring them. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She didn't think of what it was like for me when Jennifer came bounding over after she got back from the beach so we could go to the community center to check the cast list. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sir—” the lieutenant grinned—“a lovely spot. Safest place on the battlefield. Right smack dab in the center of the line. Very quiet there.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She focused on thoughts of her parents, and her brother—who was still in a revival center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Billy’s office was part of a suburban shopping center. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed and shouted “Wooeeeee!” at Guitar’s list, but because his life was not unpleasant and even had a certain amount of luxury in addition to its comfort, he felt off center. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of an arch was the carved outline of a scorpion. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the track, a closer broke from the pack and rolled into Seabiscuit’s lead, a ghost from his past. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked them why they gave him that nickname, and they told me it was because he always had to be the center of attention. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It just makes the rumors louder and wilder, and always with Pamela at the center. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But the idea that it could have been Finn who’d scared her made that mark in the center of his chest throb. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

That points to something wider: while the fusillade of insults moves its object out of the embrace of the community, it seeks to move its speaker closer to the center. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was precisely because they were heading into the center of a racial storm, he said, that the possibility for positive change was tremendous. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The beast was on its knees in the center, it's arms folded over its face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could see it now—a blue star centered on a white field, surrounded by a red border. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You, like Ema, have a pure spirit. You have blessed energy centers and true balance. You are a protector. You look out for others. You are their shelter.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I stared at that middle line and waited so long for its black center to resolve into tight strokes and dots that I forgot to pronounce it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her furry snow boots were by the door and her white fur hat was in the center of the coffee table like a cake. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He helped me to build up a new research center, where almost all the observations were made by the Tanzanian field staff. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We make our way toward the square at the center of the Quarter, where the Moon Festival is in full swing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He says it was his plan to take it to the recycling center. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The CIA chose a dead-drop site on a railroad bridge over the Moskva River, away from the city center, near a sports stadium. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They appear as rings, but only because, as with soap bubbles, we see more of them at the periphery than at the center. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dwarf could see them basking in the sun, brown and black hummocks with jagged ridges down the center of their shells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We can walk you to the health center.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back where the press was thickest at the center of the column rode a man armored in dark grey plate over a quilted tunic of blood-red leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He died without a face in a room I never saw without my kisses in the stained gauze or without my prayers entering the center of his pain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy, when we thought that the earth was the center of the universe! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, nobody could enter or leave the center until Mr. Ali said it was safe. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He barely looked at the road, yet the tires never deviated so much as a centimeter from the center of the lane. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy’s clockwork heavens—with Earth at the center—were extremely accurate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To me, this meant working in the garment center or its equivalent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It gets hard to walk around the center of town, hard to think about the next step cuz so much Noise is weighing on yer shoulders. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Imagine for a moment that you are the manager of a day-care center. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There, front and center of the screen, was the logo from the card. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that the center of gravity in American collegiate rowing still lay somewhere between Cambridge, New Haven, Princeton, Ithaca, and Annapolis. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A figure Briony had not noticed was coming down the center of the drive and showed no intention of standing to one side. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This was the Mississippi, dead center of the USA. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sugar story in the United States centered on Louisiana—though even supposedly free states like New York made fortunes in transporting and selling sugar grown by slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But because two handlers were strolling up the center aisle between the rows of cages. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But I'm not convinced I won't be perfectly barbecued by the time we reach the city's center. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room the dwarf stood with his servants, and four strangers in the black of the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was roughly the same height as Bob, with elaborate Stygian iron armor, a single diamond blazing in the center of his breastplate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I walk to the arena without looking at anyone or anything but the center of the room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Even at her most distracted, Sarai’s feet kept track of the slope, and knew to stay in the palm’s flat center. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“We think at least an inch thick. We need a hole drilled through its center too.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the center aisle, I recognized Edward Cullen by his unusual hair, sitting next to that single open seat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She set the bowl down in the center of the table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now I stare at a transparent clock displayed near the center of my vision, counting down the time. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stood in the center of the floor but Dolores never looked up. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the back of the sling I had sewn a tiny quilted triangle, red at its center against two shades of green; it marked the baby’s nape for luck. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers were all colors of yellow that day—silky yellow petals like wild canary feathers, and blossoms as dark as the center of the sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The movement of Mark Antony’s ships caused confusion in the center of the line. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The cops and the FBI would hunt him down, rescue the two stolen dogs, send the other mutts to the nearest animal control center, and haul him off to jail. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The barrel of the pistol pointed at the squinting plastic statue of Jesus that was centered on the dashboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably to fund a student center. They’d put my name on it, out front.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They walked along the front of the first section of the shopping center, but saw only a restaurant and some clothing stores. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d written all the facts and numbers in the center of the board, but he’d also painted a border of smiling eggs to add an “artistic design element.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A window pops up in the center of my view, and I see the underwater ruins. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the center of the auditorium, there was a long table. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

We dump our snacks in the center and everyone picks what they like best. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once inside the trauma center at Clarion County Hospital, Nikki was put on a respirator and wrapped in blankets. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clearing was about the size of the first floor of Hazel’s house, and at the very center of it was a clock. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Richard was good-looking too—round-faced and hazel-eyed, with a way of holding your gaze that could make you feel like you were at the center of the world. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Apparently feeling about the issues is striking more than one nerve center.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The petals, one moment unfurled and bright, retreated into the center, curling up as an oily stench suddenly wafted through the greenhouse. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He breathed the scents of the foxes, linked in grief over the loss of their silver center. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to run with him into the center of the field. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The library was the smallest one I’d ever seen, and the community center wasn’t much bigger. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They returned to the circle with the church at its center and to the steep main street. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make my way down the center aisle, buttoning my jacket against the cold, giving each button more attention than required. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In addition to all of the family-friendly amenities, including good public schools, libraries, and a community center, Maplewood was also an anomaly because of its racial and economic diversity. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The ref blew the foul as their center turned and grabbed Jimmy by the throat. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Start by putting a good sized lump of sugar on your tongue. Brown sugar’s best. Right on the center of your tongue.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he took her hand in his and ran his thumb down the center of her palm, the blood in her veins seemed to freeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Garvey left the detention center that day, Cole jabbed his fist into the air. he exclaimed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She lived, in those days, in a fiery storm, of which Richard was the center and the heart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

From a fire in the center of the bark house a thin curl of smoke rose, then vanished through a crescent of sunlight in the roof. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

OCTOBER: At a press conference, President Roosevelt calls the relocation centers concentration camps. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The people gathered in the center of the village. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"The thing I most love about it," Mabel says, "is how they're holding hands right at the center of the painting. It's so important. It's what the whole thing's about, I think." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"I see you now, boy, old and stooped," said Major, shuffling to the center of the room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was little, she’d bite into the hard candy right away to get to the honey center. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a futuristic information desk and in front of it, at the very center of everything, was a makeshift stage. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The melee seemed to halt for a split second as all eyes turned to look at Og, who was now floating at the center of the dance floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Finally the tunnel expanded and its core became so brilliant that I felt we were in the center of a gigantic million-watt light bulb. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Parker gave massive bear hugs to everyone in sight while the Permian team gathered quietly in the center of the field to pray. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The head was in the midst of about fifty large, artificial earthen mounds—the ruins, Sterling concluded with excitement, of a previously unknown Maya civic center. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a heart shape here in the center, but it’s got little fissures in it.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then they were in darkness in the center of the salt marshes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was drawn to those parts of the city where one could find the most tourists so I could throw myself into their center. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You don’t win no game with your center shooting threes. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging there front and center is the red dress my mom bought me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If I changed direction, the treadmill would sense it, and its rolling surface would change direction to match me, always keeping my body near the center of its platform. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fathers own improvement on the Wrights’ original design was to put four wheels on the bottom of the frame’s center. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the marble floors are white, with a black Candor symbol in the center of the room, and the walls are lit with rows of dim yellow lights, so the whole room glows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Being the center of attention again could only bring more suspicion about him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the center of Freebie's leash and pulled both the dog and Benji inside. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her stomach tightened as G-force took hold, dragging her to the center of the earth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She’d been alone so long, Tally found herself enjoying being the center of attention. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Abdel Nasser’s picture was at the center of the front page. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

One short bit of road running thru the center, paved back in the day, never upkept since, goes to gravel real quick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The woman, standing in the center of the circle of chairs, pulls back the black silk with a flourish, revealing a still-intact chair on which now perch several snow-white doves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They picked up Trip and he bounced the ball into me and I was one-on- one with their center again and I was deep. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Free breakfast from six a.m. until ten in the hospitality center downstairs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Citra’s conscious and has one more day in the revival center. She’ll go back home fully recovered with Scythe Curie; no harm, no foul. Well, plenty of foul, but that’s what you wanted, wasn’t it?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“This is Mohammad. He’ll take you to the clinic first, and then the children’s center.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then in a blink everything at his center was at peace, and he could not remember if any of it had happened at all. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The following day Esther told me that there were visitors coming to the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Collapsible chairs were poked into the still-soft ground and a large wooden cross was hung from the center beam at the rear of the tent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z