My father cleans the skin around my wound with something cold. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I think of Gale, who is only really alive in the woods, with its fresh air and sunlight and clean, flowing water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other times, it was just cleaning out the stables. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She comes back with a damp cloth and wipes my face gently then cleans the blood from a broken plate off my hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Each subcommittee handled a specific duty, such as obtaining five hundred cords of wood before winter set in, cleaning the streets, or distributing cash to those in need. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Flap-Jackeroos started playing on the newly cleaned stage around noon. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After I dusted, I cleaned the bathroom and began vacuuming. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ve cleaned enough. Let’s go outside. Let’s go to the park. It’s too pretty a day to waste.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the girl's knees with alcohol stolen from a bar, letting her bite down on a rag so she wouldn't shriek and draw attention to us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The night air felt clean on my skin and it smelled like wet sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Gunn drew up a new management structure and a precise set of goals and timetables aimed at cleaning the system line by line, train by train. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered laborers hired by the city, called scavengers, to clean the streets of decaying garbage and dead animals, since their vile smell might well be causing the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Every corner was cleaned, and corn-dough was rubbed along entranceways to appease the spirits of dirt and sickness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

‘Awake! The shadow is gone and all darkness is washed clean!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” said Harry, feeling his now clean face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Get that cleaned up before it starts to smell.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It became routine for us as the corn ripened to pull all-night guard watches because the army would pick us clean,” he wrote. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Even the faint smell of fertilizer seems clean. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He found laid ready clean garments of green cloth that fitted him excellently. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nok crossed her fingers behind her back as she watched her father clean his glasses for the hundredth time that morning. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take long for the brothers to get out of the city and breathe clean country air, Zundert-like air. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On so many other mornings, she had cleaned off toothpaste, rinsed out the sink. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he’d cleaned the spatter of rain and moisture from the floor of the refuse room, and made sure there were no scraps of rope or other signs of their presence. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The air was clear, clean, lucid, lying lightly upon the world that morning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trampita continued helping me at the gas company and Mike Nevel gave him two places to clean on his own, a coffee shop and a pet store. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was empty now, but sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children and parents who would play there above the lake in summer before half-running, half-stumbling down the slope to the welcoming water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You got lost after the . . ." Piggy cleaned his lens. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dad says it’s our duty to clean up after the brainless morons. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

How many times do I have to remind you that it is not polite to make noises when cleaning your bowl? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were cleaning up after eating some of what they’d caught. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just this moment, plotting how not to leave footprints on her clean floor, she was at peace. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I finish my cereal I’m done hating him for the time being, and I go in and clean up the cans and open a window to air out the smell. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The water in the river was fast-moving, and left almost nothing in the muck-trap of the purifier, which meant it was clean. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There is no way I’ll ever be able to answer cleaning questions myself. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Another young woman in the 587th, who’d been a hairdresser before the war, used a metal rod for cleaning guns as a curling iron. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The hoosh pot was cleaned and scoured, filled with ice to melt, and once the water was boiling, the surgical instruments were sterilized. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Soon Caroline got a job cleaning hotel rooms—twenty-eight to thirty rooms a day for $2-$3 a room, for a total of about $300 a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bathrooms were clean, which was a nice plus. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just before she left for work she said loudly, “Don’t think I’m through with you yet. You get this house cleaned up, and I’ll want to talk to you when I get home.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I bend to my work, make my little cross on top of a clean page, dedicating my composition to J.M.J. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Surrounding her were candles she burned in daylight, clean yellow diamonds, footlights that ringed her, mysterious masked mother, nose and mouth veiled with a cowboy handkerchief. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thin one cackles, Oh, God, I thought you were here to clean the lavatories. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I heard my teammates screaming, so I took off my goggles, cleaned them the best I could, and put them back on. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they had quietly refused to clean the walkway, had just let it go for one day—their own private rebellion. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

How exactly did a person clean their teeth and end up leaving so much toothpaste in the sink? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The women’s hotel on a Minneapolis side street is just as Lillian described it, with a clean but sparsely furnished lobby and a bored clerk who barely looks up when he hands us our keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, an Amity woman in a yellow shirt with clean fingernails took my mother’s blood pressure and set her bone with a smile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The room had been his father’s when he’d been a boy, but aside from a few books on a shelf, it was clear his grandfather had cleaned all his things out. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wandered away from the stage, gave Jones some additional directions about cleaning under the stools, and went to look out of the porthole of glass in the padded door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first building we pass is a tiny stone church, fresh and clean and open, not at all like the darkness Aaron preached in. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the willow laundry basket and lined it with some clean blankets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The next morning, after he had gone, I cleaned the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We picked up the knocked down chairs and table, cleaned the glass from the broken lanterns, and put the books back on the shelf. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Granny always prided herself on keeping his wild hair and beard trimmed, his shirts clean, his pants brushed and “nice.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I got somewhere after riding the rails, I could take them off and have some clean clothes to wear. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This plain of snow shone a powdery white that morning; the sun blazed icily somewhere too low on the horizon to be seen directly, but its clean rays shed a blue-white glimmer all around us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nice white sugar ... when taken moderately cleans the blood, strengthens body and mind, especially chest, lungs and throat,” noted a physician in the 1500s. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I have been trying awful hard to clean myself up. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I sit at the edge of the water, cleaning the fish Finnick catches and watching the sun drop below the horizon. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was fresh looking and clean shaven, neat in his serge suit with its exaggerated shoulders. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Squatting quietly in the cool pagoda, they would help Dobbins disassemble and clean his machine gun, carefully brushing the parts with oil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he went to his room and came out buttoning a clean one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For an outlaw who spent his time pillaging merchant ships and taking the survivors as galley slaves, he was impossibly clean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“They should have the area cleared and cleaned up in about five or ten minutes. You better have Rosemary do some touch-up on your hair. It looks a little flat.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I doubt a person like me would’ve been allowed into those kinds of parties in the 1920s. Maybe I’d be in the kitchen or cleaning the bathrooms,” I joke. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She looked at the other gravestones, and some of them had been cleaned; some even had the burnt remnants of incense or herbs on the ground before them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still admired him, his moral fiber, his life of clean lines, but now it was admiration for a person separate from her, a person far away And her body had changed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The room had been cleaned, the bed carefully made and covered with its green-and-brown spread, and on the desk were my school books arranged in a neat pile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had just returned from cleaning the Western Union and Pat’s Pets. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Either I did not rub the clothes hard enough to get them clean or I rubbed them so hard they were worn thin. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

To clean his place, Nick chipped away with an adobe hoe. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ser Robin, see that he has a good meal and clean clothing. He's to ride at first light." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His work led to one precise moment: when the syrup was so thick, and yet clean, that it was time to “strike.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

As Dill hurried to class, he caught a whiff of some astringent industrial cleaning chemical. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The first thing Amari noticed was that the newcomer was clean, smelling strongly of the scent of too many flowers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the disinfectant I used to clean out the bath,” said Rosa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they came in from the fields, Cora cleaned up the mess that had been made of her plot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The guard never stayed while I cleaned, but drifted back down the hall to his post. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You keep everything so clean,” she said at last, running a finger along the mantelpiece. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to all his other labours he was busy directing the cleaning up and restoring of Bag End; but he was often away in the Shire on his forestry work. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as she began getting ready to go to bed—she would clean her pen and shut her notebooks—I’d begin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finished cleaning my side and rinsed her hands in the bowl. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Mama needed to return to Akira, so Hanako got to work draining the tub water, cleaning the tub, refilling it with the pump, and starting the fire beneath it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be so delicate! Flush it and clean it,” Amá says, rolling her eyes, as if she sees this kind of biological warfare on a daily basis. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Remember when I was cleaning you up in the kitchen?” she asked. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Paganini zigzagged back over to Mr. Jeet and executed a clean jump through the hoop. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Joseph cleaned his glasses and looked into the mirror at his red eyes, his messy hair, and his rumpled shirt. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I love to walk down the aisles, half expecting I’ll find Chucha with the big feather duster the stock boy uses to clean the shelves. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When she come back in, she brush her hands together like she cleaning things up as usual. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Once, when I was a kid—I think I was about nine—I was with my mom at a grocery store,” I tell him when we pass the cleaning supplies. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was cleaning houses in Draper when the mail came, so Robin left the letter on my bed with a note that I was a Commie now. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"We shall not be going to the castle. Perhaps.you can suggest an inn, someplace clean and comfortable and not too far from the river." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seems like no matter how much I clean the floor, there is always dust to get rid of. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It might be a little big, but it’s the only clean one. The others were yellow.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Not sex—love,” I say, panting as the Duchess goes back to cleaning my wounds. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I put on clean clothes and went out with him into the star-raddled night. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like I’m too clean for the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

June helps him stuff a backpack with jeans and a pair of shoes and a broken-in copy of Prisoner of Azkaban, and he stumbles into a clean shirt and out of his room. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He looked around the front hall, took in all the signs of cleaning, ambled over and peered into the parlor, and put on an exaggerated mock expression of being impressed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was no formality and no special preparations except a clean napkin and an extra place at the table. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with strong clean hands would never look at me in love. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the bathroom, and she washed her hands and cleaned her bloody knee. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I stepped out on Mrs. Brown’s back stoop and scaled and cleaned the perch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Having satisfied his palate, he cleaned his palette, and retired to his pallet. pore over/pour over. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sherlock Holmes cleaned his pipe with these. Between smokes.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the sink, me and Jay would clean the guts out of the fish and take the heads off the shrimp while Gran listened. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I spilled the fireplace ashes on the kitchen floor, then kicked over the bucket of wash water I brought in to clean up the mess. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody’d mistake the guitar for new, but I cleaned it until it shone. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s cleaning the bowijidoworis room,” the woman told him, referring to the office of the guard in charge of the rice farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His grandmother had taught Doreen to cook when she was young, telling her only daughter that men didn’t care about school, only a woman who could cook, clean, and keep her mouth shut. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever smelled anything so bright and clean? It’s almost lemony.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The little bit of clean we got at Hildy’s house is already long gone. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Instead I quickly cleaned the shallow cut as best I could using my washbasin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Things like cleaning the stalls and shoveling manure and taking it to the fertilizer pile, and feeding and watering the animals. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Next time she tells you to clean your room, say no. And then when she gets mad, tell her you’re just standing up for yourself,” Julia jokes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Right where I’m working, naturally. Well, get a glass. Not no clean one neither. Use that jar.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days afterward, as we walked our children to school, picked up our cleaning, stood in lines at the ration shop, we whispered. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She uses a piece of her old black pajama shirt to try and clean her teeth, remembering how Pa wanted her to take care of herself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ripped through the still, early morning like something spilled across a clean floor—a squealing—something frightened, something desperate. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aware that he and Desdemona were a burden to my parents, Lefty was extremely helpful around the house, doing repairs, assisting with the cleaning, running errands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The only pleasant thing about cleaning one’s bailie was that this was the one moment in those early days when we could have a whispered word with our colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day, Ma cleaned and brushed all the ashes out of the cookstove. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took my vitals anyway and tried to clean some of the paint from my face and around my eyes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The cleaning woman, always in a hurry, simply flung anything that was momentarily useless into Gregor's room. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Septa Scolera echoed, “and you must feel so much lighter now, clean and innocent as a maid on the morning of her wedding.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The faint smell of manure was everywhere, but the walls were whitewashed and the dirt floor swept clean. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eat quickly. All this must be clean again before you sleep.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“One thing we gotta understand is keeping our mouth clean around here.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s clean. She didn’t get it. I don’t know how in the hell, but she didn’t.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I haven’t cleaned the desks enough at school and have finally caught some disease. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Being immune to fire, he’d stood in smoky bonfires, endured dragon breath, and cleaned out blazing forges plenty of times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She spent much of the day sleeping in a kanga on her mother’s back as Generose worked in the apartment, cleaning or cooking. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it’s like to clean houses all day and then come home and keep cleaning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By late afternoon all the trash was cleaned up and in a plastic bag he’d found. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai had used the last of her water yesterday to clean the wound on her arm, and woke dehydrated—no doubt her weeping in the night hadn’t helped—with nothing to drink. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After the puke-a-thon, Dr. Cramp had stitched me up and lent me a clean shirt—a mustard-colored polo kind of deal—that his wife had helped me into. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The beaches are clean where once they festered with fish guts and flies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, when I emerged from my room, the locals were out and about cleaning up the mess, and a few drunken tourists were still celebrating their victory over nature. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Of course, no matter how high my start value was, it wouldn’t help unless my execution was as clean and polished as possible. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You had to use a low, dirty water fountain, right next to the high, clean one for the whites. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Saturday, wash day, Farmer said, but it was obvious that nothing was going to come out of the muddy water Maytag clean. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He took a long puff on his cigar and then tapped the ash clean. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the case of springs rich in mineral salts, the cures are easily explained: the salts would help to clean and dry up skin infections. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

With his handkerchief he polishes the spoked hubcaps and the headlamps; he kicks mud off the running board, cleans the windows and windshield. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yes, sir. But isn’t it just like my luck to come clean across the state to find my daddy and he turns out to be a mean old coot?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The tub was filled with clean water that had been gathered in a cistern or pumped from distant pipes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The worst part of being on punishment isn’t the cleaning up and washing dishes and raking leaves, it’s not being able to go over to Suesetta’s house after church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Minimalist, lots of clean lines, good for my state of mind. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t go into the water today. The pond is pretty clean, but there’s still random stuff floating around in there, and those bandages aren’t waterproof.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

You were lifted clean out of the stream of history. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Do not spend your time wanting things you cannot have. Be clean and dress nice and neat. Be polite. Make good grades. You will do well. You are so, so, so brave, hijo.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You’ll feel better in a clean shift. Maybe a bath. Would you like a bath again?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin watched him choose a different girl every few days, ordering her to clean his room, which was located inside the factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I clean up best I can then sit up, at the table, with a lamp, doing schoolwork. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

We’re standing at the beginning of a tunnel with one wall made of rock and another made of pure falling water, roaring past white and clean and so fast it looks almost solid. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ll just upset her mother more. I’ll take a food basket there myself. Tomorrow. Now put on a clean apron, Matilda, and wash your hands. It’s time to get to work.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the good clean earth of the room did not wash away or filter the strong smell of death in the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t miss toting water from the well in a bucket for Mama to cook or clean with, or washing up from a basin in the corner of the room. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

No jobs besides cleaning the toilets of German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She is a lovely girl with a delicate nose, red lips, and slender legs, wonderfully clean and well cared for, she certainly baths twice a day and never has any dirt under her nails. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s blue serge Sunday pants were creased to painful sharpness, his tan jacket smelled of cleaning fluid; Jean Louise recognized Jem’s light-blue necktie. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even though I mostly spent the periods cleaning Mr. Peck’s hermit crab tanks, I liked the time with them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She’d even put clean drawers out for me so when I put them on I stuck my old ones down in the pocket of my new pants. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the cleaning people that made him nervous. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He felt the cool, clean hands bending his fingers, twisting his thumb until he gritted his teeth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it. They were dirty anyway. Here,” he said, holding out the cloth, “you better get cleaned up.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Nothing seemed amiss; the pavement was clean, the front doors were in place, the shrubbery had not been disturbed. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The greatsword Ice was across his lap, and he was cleaning the blade in those waters black as night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“True enough. But I don’t think it’s that color. Never mind, the rest is clean enough. Knead away.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A quick glance down reveals that my sickles are covered in shamblers blood, and I give them a quick spin to clear some of it off before scrubbing my face clean with my sleeve. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

One arm had been ripped right off the shoulder,- Arya saw the bones a few feet away, gnawed and cracked, picked clean of meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I got him another glass of water, and cleaned up the floor where the first one had fallen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The lawn is green and clean and quiet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I knocked his block clean off eight times. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ray’s licked the spoon clean and he’s tapping it on the windowsill. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But here there were no showers, no way to stay clean or to rinse out uniforms. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not in a flirty way, but the way people do when somebody’s gotten clean. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the picnickers had eaten to excess and now sat heavy and dulled in the sun, which poured over the scene a clear, clean radiance, a piercing island summer light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We spent those days frantically trying to clean the house in anticipation of the return of the child-welfare man. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flat was scrupulously clean; the neighbor women had attended to that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he fell to cleaning the barrel with the little rod. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, when we got home, my mother would pretend not to recognize me because I was so clean. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was clean, quiet, and very close to total deafness. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before I was somewhere else,” I blurt out, “but now I have to clean the great hall with polish until every inch of it shines.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up a dirty sock and wiped my puke-covered foot clean. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Charlie helps clean up after dinner, which is a total shocker. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I swung the flat of my sword against the first guys head and knocked his helmet clean off. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Candles in clay pots throw circles of flickering light across the clean tiles. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one was so clean in a camp, ever, not even the camp commandants. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had found a slender hazel branch and stripped it clean. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They peeled and sorted and bunched and sprayed and cleaned and stacked and shelved and swept; my father put them to anything for which they didn’t have to speak. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up the mess I had made and left them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

May came in with witch hazel and cotton balls and began to clean up Rosaleen’s stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know how important it is to him to look put-together for work, and last night he was saying that he didn’t have any clean pants to wear.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I did not actually try it, because by the time I had it ready it was time to milk the cow, then clean up and start the dinner. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was clean and airy, but startlingly basic, and presumably would be like an army barracks at night when it was full of hikers and their equipment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If she neglected to check that hollow bedpan handles were cleaned and dry she would be in deeper trouble with the sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

About five minutes later, he came out with his hands scrubbed clean, his shirt wet, and his face composed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He shouted for a thrall to clean it up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t have to do any cleaning,” he said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted nothing more than to come clean with her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying, Rocky’s girlfriend, Adrian, she cleaned animal cages.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today my mother, father, and I went to the cemetery and cleaned graves. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone has rinsed it out, so, while it’s not exactly clean, it’s not caked with blood, either. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not having a stopper, she used part of a clean cloth to plug the bottle. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He went and got a towel and cleaned up the floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wash the pot, clean up everything before we melt another batch.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Emma found some rubbing alcohol in the medicine cabinet and insisted on cleaning and bandaging the cut on my head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She wets a dishcloth and wipes down an already clean spot on the counter. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Piper and Jason took charge of cleaning the lower deck, which had been thrown into chaos during the monster attack. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘As you can see, our home is quite clean, quite safe for a child,” Mrs. Sen had said at their first meeting. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When evening came, she reached down through the grapefruit rind, the tea leaves, and the salami casing to find it, brush it clean, and transfer it to her purse. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly sharpened my pencil and got a clean pad of paper on my desk. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go inside, get cleaned up,” he says to Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I put the pills—those that were still clean—back in the bottle, capped it, and looked at the label: Cysteamine, whatever that is. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ultima cried triumphantly and with clean linen she swept up the evil, living ball of hair. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wraps my feet in clean dressings, which make them feel secure. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were general rules and kitchen rules, bathroom rules and stairway rules, basement rules and outside rules, upstairs rules and downstairs rules, clothing rules, washing rules, cleaning rules, rules upon rules upon rules. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We showered, put on such clean clothes as we could muster, and eagerly repaired to a popular nearby bistro called the Georgia Mountain Restaurant. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No magic! There must be about a hundred cups in that room. Em no good at Muggle cleaning.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She opened her arms to the fire, embraced it, let it swallow her whole, let it cleanse her and temper her and scour her clean. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The occasional Harmony or Unity flashes above, each purple letter larger than the person cleaning it beneath, like an ant holding a grape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the laundry was clean and dry, Perry repacked the suitcase. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My chambers will be clean and orderly upon my return," he told her as she fastened it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

You’re always fussing at me for not reading your stupid dictionary or cleaning up my room. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They never stopped to think about the fact that someone else had to clean up after them—the unseen people like us at night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She starts laughing and laughing, showing us her very neat and clean gums while she howls: “Ooooooh, I got you! I got alla you!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just don’t go pulling ’em up when you gets a cleaning fit.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be the paradise Julie had fantasized about, with sunlight and clean air. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She would fix her hair, cover it with a flimsy net, put on a clean white cannery worker’s dress, and stick a brightly colored handkerchief in the lapel pocket. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a handkerchief from the nightstand and try to clean her up. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Well you aren’t nearly as bad off as I thought,” Bast said, wiping his hands clean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I floated down the stairs, clean, fresh, and hungry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert squirmed away from the rag, but his father caught him and cleaned off most of the mess before he set his son on the floor. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother cleaned the intestines, later to be cooked with spices and rice. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were very clean, because they had their baths on Saturday night. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did my chores—tried to revive my sad little garden, cleaned the chicken coop, put a pot of beans on to simmer for supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Mama says she said to herself soon’s she saw you out there on that street with your suitcase, ‘That boy’s looking for a clean home to live in,’ ” Bess said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would cost a dollar to get it cleaned, steamed and pressed and she knew it would never be the same again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do know how to clean dishes, don’t you?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She followed him into a dark parlor to which clung the musky sweet smell of clean Negro, snuff, and Hearts of Love hairdressing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We cleaned the empty ones out and used them to collect water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled fresh and clean from washing and his curly-blond hair gleamed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must think of the future! We must clean up and rebuild!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. He’s clean—so far, at least. He says he’s got rights, but Angel is a nervous wreck. She can’t live like this. Don’t we have rights too? What can I do?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You talk like the American police. ‘Come clean,’ that is what they say—‘come clean.’ Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about fair wages to clean up the village? It’d help out a few of us, at any rate.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You did a great job, G-man. We will come back from this. We’ll plant new trees. We'll clean up the parks. Your friends will be reincarnated into a better world.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Better yet, why don’t you clean the downstairs bathtub,” I tell Garret. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had finished making the bed and I lay with a clean smooth sheet under me and another sheet over me. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One arm around Hermione, he fished in his jeans pocket and withdrew a revolting-looking handkerchief that he had used to clean out the oven earlier. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to go home, clean the paint off, and never return to CHS again. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

August led us to a tiny corner room in the back with a sink, a full-length mirror, one curtainless window, and two wooden cots made up with clean white sheets. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’s a very good boy, and he’s a good worker. He cleans the animal cages at the research lab. He will be like a brother to you.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Nahlrout, of course. I must be getting old to not notice it sooner. It also explains why you’re not bleeding all over my nice clean table.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It was a clean break,” Joaquin said, like that made the story better. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this comparison was made with regard to the conditions, where hospitals were not open or working, where clean water and other basic services weren’t available. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was always so beautiful to stare up at that white ceiling and imagine only clean beautiful places, where the reward for living a pure life was a great loaf of warm bread. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He slipped the clean diaper under the baby’s bungy with one hand before removing the soiled diaper with the other. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps me clean, and when the floor is tidy, the cloths rinsed out, and I’m dry from the rain, we lie down on the bed and wait for the Gestapo to come. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His uniform was clean but wrinkled, and the dark circles under his eyes looked like they covered most of his face now. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were covered with shavings and smelled like they really had been in here for three hundred years, without getting their cage cleaned. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then they scoured my head clean and tied up my hair in ringlets with cotton rags that stuck out all over like a frightful job of bandaging. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When I find some I clean it off and flatten it out and store it between the pages of my school reader. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I find a clean white shirt laid across the end of Kinko’s cot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When we were both clean and dressed in new clothes and had moved the furniture back where it belonged as best we could in the sitting room we felt pretty cheered up. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers from the clean sections weren’t allowed in the dirty sections, and the workers from the dirty sections weren’t allowed in the clean sections. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Amelia glanced quickly at the hanky—making sure it was a clean one, Lyddie thought wryly—but she murmured a thank you and blew her nose. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

"The boy will clean them. I won't have you tracking mud up my stairs. Mind the bell. Those who come late to meals don't eat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The bare stone floor had not even a rug, and there was a drain in it, perhaps for the sake of cleaning. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The storm had blown out the July humidity, leaving behind clean air and a dirty road. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The cap and gloves were white as clean new snow. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what you all expect, isn’t it, for someone to come up behind you and clean up your messes? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In my family we didn't have many clothes, but my mother worked hard to keep them clean and we were never dirty. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A nurse is cleaning bloody equipment at the sink. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The chamber into which she had stepped was spacious—at that level, almost half of the huge trunk was hollow—and clean, but the floor was extremely rough. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was handsome and clean and dressed well and spoke in fine sentences. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The master put the wagons and carriages in the shed and set Willie to cleaning the mud off wheels and undercarriages, and the sleds were brought out. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the great room was cleaned up once again, at swordpoint they forced them out, between the roundhouse and the palisade, pell-mell to huddle in that dead end without exit. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The furniture isn’t broke down and the walls are clean. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They snap on their rubber gloves, clean him up, change his clothes—he always wears sweats—and sit him back in his chair. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners, the clean efficiency with which they move. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not until an hour or two after each and every one of the incapacitated folks has been cleaned, fed, and parked outside their doors that it’s safe to poke your head out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The children are always clean, and the little girl, whose name is Jane, wears pretty dresses and patent-leather shoes with straps. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces weren’t hardened, and their guns were so clean I assumed they hadn’t fired a shot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A woman in Long Beach, whose house she cleans, agrees to sponsor her residency. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

All morning, as people have been loading the bus, I’ve been scrubbing the apartment clean, finding excuses to walk past the window to glimpse Antonio outside. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trash bagged, cleaning done—he had even wiped the small countertop next to the sink with a towel dampened in salt water—there wasn’t a single thing left to do. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It resembled some of the other throw-away things she brought home from the discarded piles outside white ladies' houses where she cleaned or the hotel where she worked as a maid. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Nice? I look like a sad orphan girl who cleans chimneys.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I cleaned up the dinner dishes, then sat in a chair by the window for about an hour, not doing anything except thinking. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was cleaning outhouses by the end of the day. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where my mother saw junk, Dad saw the clean lines of the machine age. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I said I wanted a place to escape, but I don’t want to hang out in a closet full of cleaning stuff. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter Cherry was cleaning the espresso machine, her back to Puglisi. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I cleaned them and threw the innards to their friends. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I folded my hands across my chest, as if to keep my broken heart from falling clean out of my body. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Abbot wiped his paws upon a clean cloth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He thrust it into the earth to clean it of the foul thing’s blood and then rinsed it in the stream. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me clean you up,” I began as I turned away from the window. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, a porter—he gestured toward a young inmate cleaning the children’s play area—had written a love letter for him in Spanish. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The locks on her suitcase opened with two satisfying clicks; she enjoyed again how neatly her belongings fitted together, clean against the green lining. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Porch had been leaning for twenty years, and then just fell down, split clean away from the foundation. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not normally a betting man, he cleaned out his pockets and put it all on Seabiscuit’s nose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, say you leave the tap running while you clean your teeth, or leave the house with a light burning, or drop a piece of litter and can’t be bothered to pick it up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

His front was still clean and white, but his back was now filthy. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly toweled off, pulled on clean clothes, and ran his fingers through his wet hair. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

His beige uniform was clean and pressed sharp. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My sister had the cleanest white tennis shoes of any eight year-old ever. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Hey, cleaning lady,” a girl farther down the table calls out. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like a beast-boy! What do you say, Kira? I think it’s time we showed Matt the bathroom! Shall we clean him up and wash his second syllable away?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of January 21,1970, Scruggs was in one of the mortar pits getting ready to clean his gun when a truck loaded with unused 81mm mortars pulled in to a nearby pit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“This silly housegirl does not clean furniture properly. Does she think I pay her to play around?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These were the same clean people who would never have stepped foot on Penikese otherwise. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mom ordered pizza for dinner, to avoid having a big mess to clean up before we left. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

God, it was like he wanted her to eat his face clean off. park He almost told her all the things his mom had said about her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You must have worked day and night to get the house so clean,” she said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Go on out a here so I can do my cleaning.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Aint I told you you cant go up there. They’ll knock your head clean off with one of them balls. Come on, here.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the bad smell in the building had nauseated him, because the monkey rooms weren’t being cleaned as regularly as usual. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rats give many fish,” said the roach, cleaning its antennas casually. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today we’ll clean up the trailer flatbed and get it ready to build on. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had always imagined Maya’s and Grace’s parents following them around like ducklings, caring for them, cleaning up after them, holding out an eternal net so that they would never fall, never get hurt. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

For the rocks to be clean, for the creatures in the ocean to eat the rest of it, for a three-thousand-pound shark to dissolve. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was in his fifties, lean, clean cut. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then the usual number of shows was doubled up—if I’m not mistaken, eight shows a day, instead of the usual four—and Hamp’s pulling power cleaned up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had plenty of water, although he wasn’t sure if it was good and clean or not. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get a high enough score on my initiation intelligence test. So they said, ‘Spend your entire life cleaning up the research labs, or leave.’ Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"All right then, what do you really want?" asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaning lady still usually respected. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything smelled fresh and clean and cared for. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Back off, son. And give me a break. It’s just good clean advice. Your scratch with Luzan cost us, and not just money. People are talking.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know where Tool was, but Lucky Girl was supposed to be cleaning pots for a fishhouse down on the water’s edge. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And that powder you use to clean bathrooms. Cleaning powder.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Boll was bound to be inside, cooking up the fresh muskrat we’d sold her, so we might have a clean shot at swiping a couple of melons and not being noticed. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ill Santa Battaglia tasted a spoonful of the potato salad, cleaned the spoon with her tongue, and placed the spoon neatly on a paper napkin next to the plate of salad. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They begged to be shot quickly, so that they could die while their minds were still clean.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I suppose Hand Clap had picked them up a few days ago and they had been cleaned but not returned. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good falsetto produces a clear, clean “boy’s choir” type of sound, and is where children should try to sing in order to maintain a healthy voice. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And she was behind on the cleaning and the laundry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She found her house a stable of filth and abomination and she set to cleaning it with the violence and disgust of a Hercules at labor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The committee issued a public warning, telling recent arrivals to clean their homes thoroughly, burn gunpowder to purify the air, dump lime down their privies, and whitewash every room. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Tyson found this while we were cleaning the cabin. Thought you might want it.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In midair she ripped the tapestry clean off the standard in one go. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I know how to clean. I don’t know how to make butternut squash risotto with truffle sauce and fried gouda cheese.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Emily flipped to a clean sheet of notebook paper and, in their secret code, wrote, Raven hid forty-nine copies of Maltese Falcon around San Francisco. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It took him all day to clean up the mess. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no handkerchief, but feeling with my fingers I washed away where the dried blood had been, with rainwater that dripped from the canvas, and wiped it clean with the sleeve of my coat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At bedtime we’d shake a little baking soda into the palm of one hand, mix in a dash of hydrogen peroxide, then use our fingers to clean our teeth with the fizzing paste. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We buy dry cleaning shop, live next block. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was very clear, with a bed of clean yellow gravel, and even in the middle was hardly four feet deep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually I stay for a week maybe, then clean up, like it was an Airbnb, and take off without the owners ever realizing I was there. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I swept the floor clean and strewed it with leaves. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite deep cleaning, the shag carpet still smelled like cigar smoke and bacon grease. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It feels clean and open, but it isn’t spartan, because everything is opulent. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The pool that the sweaty Dominican man cleaned three times a week. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“This is a clean, noble, virgin type of bed,” she stated. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Took Leonidas's head clean off myself," the sword boasted. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Who will take care of it? Who will water it and clean up the needles, and make sure Ford doesn’t get electrocuted? Me, that’s who!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Upstream, clean mothers washed clothes and pots in unadulterated factory effluents. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my breath, praying that neither of Jesse’s parents needed clean sheets or towels. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The crowds swarmed onto the roads once again, pausing to clean out Caesar’s restaurant of every morsel of food well before the dinner hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clean, but it didn’t feel clean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“For the sisters. I used to clean and look after the chickens and the goats.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cleaning liquids cause her skin to slough off her knees, which sometimes bleed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Guy like that, what are you going to do: leave him alone and watch him clean the pool? I think you might have been legally obligated to jump him.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All the lower branches had been picked clean, but I spotted ripe, red capulfs higher up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls returned with clean faces and hands, and Teenie handed them each an outfit worn by the house serving maids. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shirt was about as tight as her gym suit . . . but it smelled clean, like Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I can’t think of anything worse than reading a column on how to clean house,” he says, and I notice that his front tooth is the slightest bit crooked. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“These restaurants are not too clean, but the hot water kills the germs.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s clean off the table and get a move on!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Low-ranked wrestlers must tend to their superiors, preparing their meals, cleaning their quarters, and even soaping up their hardest-to-reach body parts. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I change and make wudu in the en suite bathroom, cleaning myself slowly, thinking about talking to Allah. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A double layer of clothes never hurts anyone in winter, as long as the clean ones are worn closest to the skin. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, while every one of Dobby’s strange collection of garments was so clean and well cared for that it looked brand- new, Winky was plainly not taking care of her clothes at all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When the video warns against oversoaking our rags with cleaning fluids, he pauses it to tell me there’s a danger in undersoaking too, especially if it’s going to slow me down. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scrub my hands and feet clean, wincing as the tanroot sinks into the scrapes I picked up in the catacombs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I can clean them later, but I do take a minute to shoot a few into a nearby tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had intended to clean up before I went into his room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I walked past the kitchen and noticed my mom was cleaning out all her cabinets. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A second CO didn’t come clean soon enough, though. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is propped higher, on clean sheets, and the IV is gone. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re cleaning up because Mr. Woodwell has been invited to supper and Dad says it don’t matter if the old man is halfway blind, he still knows dirt from dirt. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He made me stab my own hand, clean through. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The blanket of snow hid the soot and made the entire town seem clean and cozy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And nothing in the house was ever finished or cleaned up right. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He understood why Aron could not work at home in an atmosphere not conducive to hard clean thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben’s training has given me a memory so clean and sharp I have to be careful not to cut myself sometimes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mama held my hand while Doc MacRee cleaned my leg where the tree had ripped it up, and I cried. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, but it don’t come out so clean for me.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After their meals, I wipe and clean the children’s hands and faces of dirt and dribbles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final cleaning was done back in Nairobi. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She suspected that it hadn’t been cleaned once since Henry moved in, and maybe not before that. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was cleaning my gun and it went off.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Last I saw her she was bent over Pa, tryin’ to clean him up. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ah, the clean shining window with cotton batting sprinkled with star dust for a carpet! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like soap or deodorant, but like clean laundry. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After the death, he argued that Garfield had a chance of recovering if his wound had been cleaned correctly in the beginning. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Taking the jacket out, he began to clean the glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, everything had been cleaned up from the night before. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I was assigned to help clean out the rooms for the new guests in the afternoons, since they’re going to be here next week, ma’am,” Ophie tried to explain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And I said, “No, I was trying to clean my contacts. I swear.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we got rid of it. Clyde said he wiped it clean and threw it in the bay.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As for cleaning the house and making a fire, well, I would do that later: the day was long, and my mother’s job hunts often took her away from home for the whole day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind words were genuine, for the doghouse was a handsome piece of work, of nice proportion, with clean angles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He slapped the fish onto the table and, in one clean stroke of the hatchet, lopped off its head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A barber sweeps out his shop, stacks clean towels. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s gone clean out to San Francisco in California for an encampment of the Grand Army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dad found a nice clean box in the Dumpster. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And I hugged the package, which I’d cleaned off with a bottle of water and a handful of napkins from Mama’s glove compartment, tight to my chest as we moved through the hallways. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

After Roberto and I cleaned the dishes, I went outside, behind our tent, and prayed on my knees again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She got him the last clean underwear, which was short and wouldn’t be as warm, and changed his sheets. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

“But I like to keep things clean. A woman comes by every week to clean. I’ve told her a million times to clean everywhere. I’ve even pointed that out to her.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

WAYMER—Hundreds of sharpshooters in and around this rural community are cleaning their shotguns as they look forward to Saturday's 63rd annual Pigeon Day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I can clean ’em for you if you lend me a basin,” he said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like perfume and his striped blue shirt was very fresh and clean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Get your share of food, work hard, stay well, stay as clean as possible, avoid beatings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the sheet was taken off and shaken clean and the flower fixed again in its little pot. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the Trask house from the top clear down into the grain of the wooden floors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I noted the bathroom was clean, though the fixtures were antique and rust-stained. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step outside so that he and his coworker can wipe the tables, mop the floor, clean the machines, and count out the register. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He says their boots are clean and their uniforms spotless. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I do every chore I’m given. I clean. I sit in the classroom. I eat. I sleep.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When things were really bad for the family, they boiled clean sugarcane pulp to make what Lili called her special sweet water tea. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His long, clean, yellow teeth appeared and disappeared in a yellow face all webbed, though he was not an old man, with fine, soft wrinkles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was immaculately clean, the floor mats freshly vacuumed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been on the hunt all the way down from Ontario, and we haven’t had the chance to clean up in a while.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the meal, he talks nonstop about ancient Italy and the Italians’ love for clean, simple cooking, which means my project and this boy are forgotten. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I put you babies in the clean places at the laundry, as far away from the germs that fumed out of the ghosts’ clothes as I could. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the house, made sure he always had a supply of clean shirts, cooked him his favorite dishes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I sluice its coldness over my face, clean off the dried blood, wet my cracked lips. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The world is dirty, no matter how much they clean, and we know they will not welcome our grubby little questions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They worked all day on a ditch, drinking beer, until they were bone tired and the ditch was clean, with its banks built up strong again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's filthy and impatient, but the goats are clean and their milk is rich if you can afford it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to wax those floors again. It’s got to be clean.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He swept the boards clean and knelt and hooked his fingers in the ring and lifted the trap door and swung it open. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The palace was made of the same clean,white, unadorned stone as the Ice Court walls, and the whole place felt as if it had been hollowed out of a glacier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The buildings, particularly the ones for the prison staff, were clean and contemporary; but the housing for the prisoners was archaic and dirty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to clean up, and that bathroom would be as good as anywhere else I’d find. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Well, the guy evidently hadn’t been getting the three-times-yearly preventive cleaning and lubricating, which made all the difference. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s always called me Mama, since he spent most of his first year strapped to my back with a shawl as I washed dishes and made meals and cleaned the apartment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had already made it to the top floor, and I joined in with the group cleaning out my family’s old flat, carefully avoiding Mr. Tatarka’s apartment. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered up his paintbrushes scattered on the dining table and dropped them back into the brush jar with a clatter then wiped the table clean with a damp cloth. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I cleaned him up again and lifted him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then I tell her what Mister Leefolt say, how he real clear that I ain’t to talk to her no more about the cleaning article. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the course of her cleaning, Mia began to observe carefully. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew I should clean it more thoroughly, maybe with dish soap, but looking at Luke, the way he was writhing on the grass, I didn’t feel I had time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I feel great at the moment, though,” said Harry, looking down at his clean, unblemished hands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The elf was carrying a stained rag with which he was attempting to finish cleaning Mr. Malfoy’s shoes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His clothes were clean, his head erect, his complexion brown and healthy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Everyone take out a clean piece of paper!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Kino’s ragged white clothes were clean at least, and this was the last day of his raggedness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’d finished cleaning off the dried blood, she dabbed some antiseptic cream on. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After helping to clean up, Hanako decided to put on Mama’s coat—hers was still damp—and wait outside for him so they could have a talk when and if he arrived. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We have to get back. The master needs clean water. If we take too long, we’ll be whipped. And Pretty Pig and Crunch are there.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I try and read his Noise to see if he’s telling the truth but it’s almost all shiny and clean, a bright, warm place where anything you want could be true. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had never felt the comfortable silence we shared as we cleaned the rice, carefully, because the grains were stunted and sometimes looked like the glassy stones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I do not understand, but I guess three days is how long it takes for them to clean the city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth waters at the smell, but I place it carefully on the floor, not trusting anything so clean and pretty. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I throw on any clean clothing I get my hands on, then grab my phone and zoom down to the kitchen, where I’m surprised to see Dad’s made us pancakes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I can see brown-tinged water rushing through one pipe, disappearing into the machine, and emerging clean. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote to the nurses asking for a wire to clean my teeth. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Cardan stands next to me, dressed in flat black, his dark hair combed away from a face scrubbed clean. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The nasty, smooth, clean, man-smelling peg was laid bare to the length of a rabbit’s ear, but still it did not come loose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stove and countertops have been scrubbed clean, and I wonder if it will all be torn away to make room for a bigger kitchen like the one at Darius’s house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’d better go to school and clean out my locker.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the cat emerged and sat down, daintily cleaning his whiskers. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a roundness and firmness to her, a clean, strong roundness, and her heavy blond hair cast a glow over her shoulders when she wore a bathing suit. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thriftily he picked it up, cleaned the coin with his handkerchief, and dropped it into the black pocket purse he carried. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad's official job in the Republic was to clean up after the war- front's soldiers, of course, but there were always hints that this wasn't the only job he had. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

While Dudley lolled around watching and eating ice cream, Harry cleaned the windows, washed the car, mowed the lawn, trimmed the flower beds, pruned and watered the roses, and repainted the garden bench. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Moxie came to see what he was doing and sat and cleaned herself nearby, for company. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After cleaning the Western Union, Roberto and I drove up Broadway to school, just like before. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“If you were clean confessed, and had done penance and been absolved.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Where is the breakfast?" asked the middle one of the gendemen grumpily to the cleaning woman. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every inmate still out claimed he was a porter—an inmate employee who swept, mopped, or cleaned up the common areas at a designated time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calypso stood at a washbasin, cleaning the dirt off her arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The boy knelt down to clean her face, slowly lifting whole patches of blood from her cheek, her nose, one eye, then the other. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even people who reportedly smell bad despite the fact that they’ve just taken a bath and are wearing clean clothes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Enrique tries to stay clean by finding bits of cardboard to sleep on. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He grabs the hand sanitizer, but first cleans his own hands and the bottle before handing it to her with a pained smile. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took hours to clean that grimy theater, as there were several screening rooms, and we would generally finish around six in the morning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Davos had furs to keep him warm by night, wood to feed his fire, clean clothing, a greasy tallow candle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After I got out of the bathroom, I saw that Mrs. Sleet had put some clean clothes on the bed. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He looked for his black shoes, found them plaster-dust white, tried to clean them off. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because then look at us: we’d both be sitting in the greenhouse, making a mess, and who would clean it up? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What I couldn’t get out of my skull was the thought of their rough, grimy hands all over my clean sneaks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But he had on new overalls and a clean long-sleeved denim shirt. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Each time Naima cleaned the rickshaw, she imagined scenes the rickshaw painter might invent once these panels faded. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of coconut husk that I could use to scrape the dishes clean, and a tin of powdered soap. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He needs a clean sheet of paper, no extraneous marks. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They washed windows and swept floors and cleaned lavatories and put jars into boxes and sealed cardboard boxes in a factory that made malt syrup. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He licked the grass clean of every drop, then looked up, eager to express his gratitude. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It would have to stay there, then, lie on the floor beside his bed, night after night, until Mrs Boland came to clean and took it away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

From my backpack, I removed a clean set of clothing and put it on. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“John,” said his mother, “you sweep the front room for me like a good boy, and dust the furniture. I’m going to clean up in here.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sound of the ten o’clock wave reminds me I should get back, and I return to the others and clean my kill. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing his dress uniform, polished black boots, and clean red sash, Lee rides forth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived before rec was called, supposedly to get a jump on the cleaning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly I just wake up every day and do the same thing: get out of bed, put on clean clothes, and stay in the house. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should have stood at a clean right angle to the main tower, but it was angled strangely, as if it had been hastily built. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

You must try to stay clean, or you will get sick. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew there was no demon, but there was no way I could come clean. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t expect the streets of New York to be paved with gold, but I did expect them to be bright and cheerful, clean, lively. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The kid groaned and made a big show of slowly closing the freezer case and cleaning his hands before slouching over to a wall of shelves packed with dry goods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Environmental Tipping Points are things that we can change: we can fix broken windows and clean up graffiti and change the signals that invite crime in the first place. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she had persuaded her mother to quit her job as a cleaning lady at Wanamaker’s Department Store. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I washed up in the cold water bucket, quickly pinned on a clean apron, checked my kerchief was on proper and followed Becky to the parlor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered reading an article about a man who cleaned sewers—on an oily bit of newspaper in which Appa had wrapped pakoras to surprise us with on one of his good days. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The smell of dirty and clean, mixed up together. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the morning, die air was crisp and the cay smelled fresh and clean. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes new recruits were punished for something they didn’t do well enough, or someone in their platoon didn’t do well enough: cleaning their boots, pitching a tent, performing in drill competitions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school, JT came up to me while I was cleaning out my locker. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black nurses did their best to care for, comfort, and clean up the sick and dying, but their task was overwhelming. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I throw another piece of coal on the fire, give Max some of the warm water to clean up with, heat more, and wash his clothes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I do,” Lawson said, adding, “I want to make a clean breast of it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The home is impeccably clean, with soaring ceilings and beautiful, modern furniture. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d intended it to be funny, but she finally pulled away and began cleaning up like it would solve world hunger. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d cleaned up his backpack from his trip south and had kept most of his Bargain Mart supplies. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When they had eaten five or six apiece, they licked their sticky fingers clean and started to explore again. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She cleans them clunky things off and clips them on my ears without even asking me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she was clean, the slaves helped her from the water and toweled her diy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She stayed by his mother’s side as the two of them cooked, cleaned, and sewed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stella hated touching fish guts even more than coop cleaning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The only reason East Shoal knew about the graffiti at all was because Hillpark’s main gym had been closed for several games while they cleaned the floor. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He had gone in the morning to clean up our new home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Nettie, The first thing I notice bout Mr. is how clean he is. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen parts of Hunt that seemed well-run, clean, efficient. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Who’s been kindly to your hurts?” the boy’s mother asked as she looked down at the clean white rags that bandaged the boy’s fingers. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clean the trout and wrap it in May-apple leaves, then dig a hole in the earth and build a fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, listen, winehead—I want that pan back clean, you hear?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She softly swiped a warm towel around my face and began rubbing my hair clean with a second wet towel. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The canister flew across the room and hit a cabinet, spraying rice grains all over Mama’s clean floor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The flight attendant brought wet paper towels and tried to wipe me clean, but even when the dress was clean, it still smelled awful. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning, a civilian animal caretaker put on a space suit and went inside to feed the monkeys and clean their cages and check on their physical condition. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty and clean rice were in two careful mounds on the enamel trays before us, with the stones placed on the mat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Run out to the garden and get a head of lettuce, Matty, while I finish cleaning the fish. Then you can make a salad while the fish cooks.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I use an antiseptic wipe to clean the cut on his thigh. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hate her, Eleanor thought, she sickens me; she is all washed and clean and wearing my red sweater. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

But he just nods and raises his leather greaves, now clean, to the firelight before hanging them from the hooks embedded into the wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was wearing khaki-colored shorts and a clean, white T-shirt with a dye picture, across the chest, of Jerome the Ostrich playing the violin. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"Drive X-Ray back to camp. Let him take a double shower, and give him some clean clothes. But first I want you to fill everyone's canteen." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She yanked her shirt off and used a clean corner of it to wipe her hands and face. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stared at the guard, who appeared well rested, clean, and fed. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She worked as a janitress and kept three tenement houses clean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the disinfectant we were given to clean our cells, when sprayed on the dried milk, made the writing reappear. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I have no intention of learning how to clean. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We just ate, helped clean the dishes, and then walked our full bellies back to campus, thankful for the exercise. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know that anyone has gone in to clean it since they left, though, so I apologize if it’s a mess.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Once they’ve digested their kill, they cough up dense hairballs, which they pick clean of edibles before rolling in them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I show him that the bed is still clean because the boots are brand-new. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“No animal likes to be cooped up too long. Your father and me are going back on the hill to clean the leaves out of the spring.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Mrs. Zuckerman, “he’s clean, anyway. The buttermilk certainly helped.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She kept her hair cropped short and dyed jet black and smelled sharp and clean like cut grass. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The cuts were mostly flesh wounds, but they still needed to be cleaned, or they would get infected and then who knows what could happen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I wake up, eat breakfast, help Mamá Jacinta cook and clean, and then lie around reading and writing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Any time somebody barfs in the hall, or there’s a food fight in the cafeteria, guess who has to clean it up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“You can get a head start on the fall cleaning,” said Mother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s millions of clean ones lying about! Anyway, I’m not a servant. I’m not going to wash them.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the booth, Lily said, “Did you make sure these glasses were clean?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I still brought in fresh flowers and gave the linens to the cleaning girl. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lowe made me clean the erasers for a week and apologize in front of the whole class for taking up their time with my nonsense. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Money he earns cleaning toilets in a big building and doing other throw-away jobs in a place called Los Angeles, The Angels for heaven sakes. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe-shine chair gleams in the low light, the faucets and fixtures all clean and polished. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doc cleared a place on the table for the clean glasses as he washed them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of it was old and dark, but I guess I got enough good, clean honey to last us a long time.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Han squatted in front of Doha and wiped his tears away with a clean handkerchief. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The broken end was clean, as if it had been cut with a knife or snipped with a pair of scissors. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rain washed them both fairly clean before we reached the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was simple, clean, and very elegant—we looked at things, said what we thought of them, and with more depth than I thought possible, we understood each other completely. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I gave birth in the woods behind my house and put the infant up for adoption just as soon as I'd cleaned myself off. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The passage down which he led them was softly carpeted, with cream-papered walls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Hard to imagine her legs once strong, the bones hard and parting water, clean sharp strokes, not bent and wrinkled like a baby, not drowning under the sticky yellow light. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had cleaned this chimney in a long time, Magdalys decided. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sean bought the groceries and made sure his brother had clean clothes and notebooks for school. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the time I was done with the washing, my hands felt raw, but the dishes were clean, and the teashop man grumpily agreed I’d done more than enough. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Catching the afternoon sun, the petals filled with color, a clean cup of lemon in the winter light. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my clean uniform I washed in the tub last night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Someone is splitting through the top of my head with an axe, a messy axe that won't make a clean cut through my skull. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They were intermittently abundant in the sprawling camp, which used few pesticides, relied on human waste as fertilizer, and supplied no water for cleaning privies or taking baths. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were already clean but She believed me anyway. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The mother goat turned around and licked her baby clean. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Your MRI came back clean. It means you don’t have a brain tumor, or anything like that.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I rub a sprig of rosemary and bring its clean, strong scent to my nose the way she taught me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The laborers hadn’t cleaned up when they finished. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Along the way, they changed the way lettuces were grown, harvested, cleaned, and packed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I sobbed while she tried her best to clean our grass mat and me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honestly,” said the maid who could usually be found trying to clean the high windows on the second floor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was aware of his clean, masculine smell and at the same time of the smell of salt water and crab, which was my only perfume. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in his fatigues which were cleaned and pressed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we had already cleaned up the attendance files. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Trying not to bend at the waist, I fumble in the drawer under my bed for a clean shirt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We go out to the graves and sweep them and clean them and tell the dead about some of the things that have happened. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the guest bathroom, I clean the cut, cover it with a white bandage. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The fans of the falcons of the Delhi Bridge trooped back into the clean, roomy bird barn and watched with great concern while Perry stroked the terrified falcon to calm him down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Laney was put in charge of soothing Jessie’s wounded soul by feeding her cheese croissants while Isa, Hyacinth, and Oliver gathered cleaning supplies and a garbage bag and went upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She spent her free hours in the library, so wondrously well lit; the sweep of computers, the large, clean, airy reading spaces, the welcoming brightness of it all, seemed like a sinful decadence. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His mother called it cozy and easy to clean. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the Abbot had departed, Chickenhound snuggled his filthy body down against the clean white sheets. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It certainly needs a good cleaning,” agreed Mrs. Bramble. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He took out a handkerchief and wiped his finger clean. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had an idea for a simple cleaning business for homes and offices that would employ refugee mothers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We went in and found that every hiker for twenty miles was already there, several of them sitting around a wood stove eating chili or ice cream and looking rosy cheeked and warm and clean. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then she told everybody to strip and put on clean underwear. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dishes When the last plate is scrubbed, the leftovers put up, and the floor swept clean, Mom comes into the kitchen. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Sissy gave her a fat little cloth strawberry for cleaning the needle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a figure of romance to them now, where before she had been too neat, too prissy; almost, somehow, too clean to be a real friend. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom really loved it when we were doing things together—she and Abbey fixing the salad and potatoes, Dad and me cleaning the fish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We spend the first part of the morning unpacking and cleaning. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I spend the next hour helping the redheaded girl clean the room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I pity both of them. The child is not clean.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hire more scavengers to clean up the tiny and forgotten alleys, he recommended. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“No ants in my pants, though. Another season of cleaning all of those guest cottages.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He was cleaning the .22, getting ready to go out after rabbits. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

After we’d calmed down a little, we cleaned up around the blockhouse and carried our rocket and our other gear to Roy Lee’s car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So they can give a nice, unblemished apartment to some nice German officer and his law-abiding wife with clean hair and mended stockings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She lays a clean cloth across his angry flesh and nods to Prim. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They dug up all the gorgonbladder in the grove and washed it clean. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Every spring a waterman starts out with brand clean crab pots. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on. Pm sure you can find something to clean, anyway.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the table is finally clean, Levi sits down. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I do my best to clean it, but since the dishcloth was also purchased before we went into hiding and consists of more holes than cloth, it’s a thankless task. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Onions made him feel cleaned up, as if the tears they drew from him took away impurities. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sissy’s kitchen was big and warm and sunny and spotlessly clean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took them off and cleaned them with his shirt. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“You better get cleaned up. The car’s coming in ten minutes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Apa sits in the passenger seat, shaven and clean, wearing a white shirt and the only tie he owns, the one he wore on the plane from Korea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ugwu brought a rag and some water and, while he cleaned, he listened to Master’s uneven breathing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Duchess helps me to pull on a clean shirt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The force of the blow lifted the thief clean off his feet, and, before Constance could grab hold of him, he overbalanced and hurtled over the edge of the parapet with a horrible scream. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Fern was beat down enough after seeing that hen’s neck snapped clean while its body did a dying funky-chicken dance. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There, in the sea-star field, they swam and played tag, until everything they owned was sopping wet and clean as they could get it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Longstreet dreamed, storing up energy, knowing the fight was coming and resting deliberately, relaxing the muscles, feeling himself loose upon the earth and filling with strength slowly, as the lungs fill with clean air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though she would still look like what she was, a farm worker, at least she would have a fairly clean face when she tried to talk to Lucky about Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I lean into Mom as we watch Finway swim in his clean new world. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After her visit to Hopkins, Henrietta went about life as usual, cleaning and cooking for Day, their children, and the many cousins who stopped by. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At that, I place the knife on the rack, on top of the mountain of clean dishes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The takeout containers were still there, but the rats had licked them clean. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Mama, with her mania for cleaning everything top to bottom, was mortified. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he’s twelve years old, helping his father clean their church on Saturday morning so that it sparkles before Saturday evening worship. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They both want me to come clean, to tell my parents I found the box, to be honest with them about how Tm feeling. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After Aurelia's first year clean, she and my mother got really, really bad star tattoos as a way to celebrate. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I had an identical backup suit hanging in the MoshWash cleaning unit in the corner of the room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Every night after dinner I washed the dishes and cleaned the counters with a new sponge my father had bought me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning he soaped his chest and arms and neck and feet—and about twice during the season he got into the bathtub and cleaned all of his parts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His moves were so clean and strong I couldn’t help but be surprised he was willing to waste his time here, with our little club. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds, the razor would either get jammed with hair and need to be cleaned out or catch a chunk of hair and rip it out of my scalp. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was careful to clean up his droppings, it was difficult to capture the seed casings that he scattered across the floor. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Girls stood in bunches in their long, fine evening dresses, and the boys roamed around in clean duck pants or R.O.T.C. uniforms or new dark fall suits. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When many people think of the Periclean age in Athens, their image is often suffused by the pure light of reason—a rationalism that seems as clean and bright as the city’s marble remains. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I use my knife to cut open the rabbit’s abdomen and clean out its entrails, and to peel the rabbit’s skin away from the meat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Even though I tried to clean up a little, the center console is stuffed with pencil stubs and pieces of paper, cigarette butts, a lighter, guitar picks. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I expected the nurses to put her in a clean room in the main hospital ward, where doctors could treat her and make her well. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

While Mama and Papa began cleaning up the apartment, the kids helped their aunt and uncle pack up. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The monkey workers had stopped cleaning the cages, because they did not want to go into the monkey rooms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking into the homes of strangers, sitting on their furniture, and drying the tears of their children was harder than cleaning up the sick. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maids were expected to clean fifteen to sixteen rooms a day by themselves, and though the shifts were supposed to be eight hours long, in reality it took much longer to clean so many rooms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"I don't think there's any real damage," Catherine Theodorakis replied, "but we'll have to close for a few days to clean up." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As I open the door, the clean scent of apples greets me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world was washed clean by the winter rain, and it felt new under and above us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, Mama Ya-Ya keeps teaching me every day. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

A clean, cherry-red Camaro screeches to a stop in front of me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I put on my mom’s rubber cleaning gloves, crammed some toilet paper up my nose, took a swampy breath through my mouth, and fished it out. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, she’d told me with a laugh, her husband did all the cooking and cleaning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Run clean up and put on your suit, Will,” said Papa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to wait. He’s treating your grandfather. At least we can clean the kid up,” said Rosa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she waved it off; the tackle was clean, and to the delight of the Thirteens, now bent over in hysterics, Muamer decidedly wasn’t. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

If we don’t clean up and protect our earth, spring may grow as quiet as Juliet’s tomb.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The onion was small, but he ate it, thankful for part of Heqet’s lunch at noon, then poured the crumbs carefully into his palm and licked it clean. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She would make a pot every morning, and we'd eat it clean. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She could feel the Ebola blood through her gloves: it felt wet and slippery, even though her hands were clean and dry and dusted with baby powder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This man, when I am clean from a bath, he appears. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He drilled the axeheads clean, sprang, and decanted arrows on the door sill, glared, and drew again. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the flat and looked over the food in the house and planned their supper. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running a mile in PE last year had been way worse than having to clean my room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

To support her daughters, she took in laundry and later found a job as a cleaning woman at Wanamaker’s Department Store downtown. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Both of you think of clean water—a storm of water. Don’t hold anything back. Picture all your power, all your strength leaving you.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Keep it clean, keep it clean, she thought. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no choice but to strip him naked to get him clean, but I have to say this doesn’t make much of an impression on me anymore. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, the knees on Bo’s pants had poorly stitched patches on them, and he wasn’t exactly wearing the cleanest of sweaters, but that wasn’t unusual. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took him to her room, cleaned him up, made him drink a cup of broth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After Dad cleaned me up and I got back in the car, I told Brian and Lori and Mom about the word, and they all started laughing as hard as me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took me a long time to get clean. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now, she and Doc had to get up earlier and cook, then clean up the kitchen before going off to work. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

David, with the floral notes of his clean clothes and the minty smell of his soap and the intimate, familiar ways our bodies fold into each other. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Each renter was, in some ways, another dependent, another soul to worry about, to provide with shelter, a solid roof, air-conditioning, clean water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The homeroom teacher is saying that if everyone gets things cleaned up quickly, we can have a paper airplane contest with some of these papers. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I answered phones and made plasticene overheads and picked up dry cleaning and kids from day care. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gotten out of my bath, dressed in clean clothes, towel-dried my hair, and was sitting quietly in the front room prepared to announce to my family that I was a vegetarian. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laid a clean white napkin over the bloodstains on the pillow. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were going downtown to jobs I knew about—jobs as laborers, cleaning people, messengers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I know how her voice will sound with the first word of the day, not as low as it should be and as spare and clean as light. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There aren’t nearly enough bathrooms and the ones there are are hard to keep clean, get freezing in winter and are generally too far from the donors’ rooms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on a clean shirt at two o’clock, another at three o’clock, and another at quarter past four. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d rather be in Arizona,” says Ben sadly, rubbing his eyeglasses clean on his T-shirt. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The air smells musty, like the pages of a library book mixed with cleaning solution. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had probably spent all day cleaning the place so it would look nice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the hen in the barn on my father’s workbench, cut it up into frying-size pieces, and divided it evenly into two piles, one for him, one for me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could clean the stalls or feed the animals, maybe even slide onto old Belle and have me a look around the place. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Ash, go and clean something,” her stepmother said, irritated. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo and Sam were led apart and brought to a tent, and there their old raiment was taken off, but folded and set aside with honour; and clean linen was given to them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shawn worked long days cleaning, cutting and welding the raw materials for the granaries, and once construction began he was usually onsite in Malad. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before going to school every morning, we made sure that the house was perfectly clean. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

To create enough clean fresh water to fill this room, she needed to go even deeper, tap her emotions even more. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But only if you finish that hot chocolate. I cleaned out a septic tank to earn this money. Not that you should feel guilty or anything.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Wednesday night is laundry night—the clothes blowing clean on the line above my grandfather's garden. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The cleaning lady is not called the cleaning lady, however. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The room is clean, but even before I know what town I’m in, I know we’re not in the nice part of it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“If Shad ever comes back, I’d like for this room to be clean and nice for him.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys put on dry clean clothes, which were exact replicas of the sopping clothes they were taking off. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was clean inside and outside and waiting for the doctor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She played carefully and kept her dress clean and smooth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come see. There’s a man cleaning the sidewalk with his beard!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I thought I wasn’t that bad anymore, but I forgot how nice clean air is. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He had not elected to eat in the bath, however—or even to linger beyond the not inconsiderable time it took to get clean—being far too eager to continue talking with Suheyla. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"No questions asked. Everyone comes in the door with a clean slate." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He purred and he cooed and he cleaned his paws. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

She checks that we have clean water from the water truck. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t suffer looking at the university’s gleaming glass administration building—all clean lines and razor-sharp edges that cut to the bone. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“While I was cleaning his room yesterday, I found the bullets and the receipt from the shop.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The pine shelves smelled sweet and clean, like they were fresh cut, and were filled with bottles and jars of roots and dried flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After he had laughed, cleared his throat, and cleaned his glasses one more time, Ogden Loring began the class. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she presented herself at the makeshift cooking area to clean dishes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started cleaning them with her pajama top. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her voice was clean and neutral; she intended only to state a fact, he realized. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just long enough to hand out report cards and clean out desks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked unusually clean, as though he had been polished. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But under the deceptively clean and level slate the topography was the same, and instead of San Francisco or Europe or Mars I would be learning the old landscape, brook and hill and tree. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When Florence Dean was home, I would follow her from room to room as she cleaned, talking about anything that came to mind, knowing that she would always listen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I go to the Osprey that morning, partly because I just don’t feel ready to leave yet, and partly because I want to clean the place up for you. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If it’s clean work, it would be my pleasure.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She made two flannel bags, sewed a bud of garlic in each one, attached a clean corset string and made the children wear them around their necks under their shirts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes continued to scan as I shook the can, making sure the contents were mixed so that the paint would come out even and clean, creating a crisper result. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Choked themselves2— thrashed and turned sick, after all the trouble I had plucking their grass and cleaning their muck and not one egg. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

More to the point, Joel says he doesn’t need this machinery because his meat is already clean. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"I overheard the nurses saying my blood was clean as well. But I know this smell now. I will never forget it." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fore­head was wet with fresh, clean, refreshing perspiration. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Old Eurykleia saw him first, for that day she was covering handsome chairs nearby with clean fleeces. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For decades, black elites engaged in private rescue efforts to make black communities tidy, clean, and respectable in a futile effort to gain white approval. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Shut up, both of you, and come and clean up this place!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The water was cold and clean and wonderful, and I felt much better as I stood in the warm wind and thought about the treasure I’d rescued from the hornbeam tree. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A friend helps Lourdes get work cleaning oil refinery offices and houses by day and ringing up gasoline and cigarette sales at a gas station at night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For indeed, the notice outside advertises not only 'teas, snacks and cakes', but also 'clean, quiet, comfortable rooms'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

This meant I had to spend part of each day cleaning up his quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He knew a big party was coming because Doe bought steaks and a great deal of beer and Doc let him help clean out all the upstairs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You said the living room was clean too, right?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was more than holding the oil field mess at bay; the more she cleaned, the less of Henry was in the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You will clean the kitchen and prepare the dinner, girl, then you will take yourself to the house of Lady Seymour and do what she requires of you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All clean, no lice,” she said after running a fine comb through my hair. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Trampita offered to help me clean the gas company on Friday so that I could finish work in time to make the performance at eight o’clock. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She says, “I will if you really want me to. But I would much rather you leave everything just like it is. This is clean and straightforward.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

George reached out and made a clean catch with one hand. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I brushed her clothes, cleaned her boots, rubbed her neck where it ached. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled the overnight case out from under her bed, put underwear, toothbrush, clean shirts and shorts into it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these days I date my love of the veld, of open spaces, the simple beauties of nature, the clean line of the horizon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Linga took particularly good care of the mules and Mrs. Linga would often go with her husband down into the mine to help groom the mules and feed them treats and clean their stalls. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And there was always the danger that a voracious army of ants would swarm through, eating up their specimens and leaving trees and bushes “clean as the handle of a broom.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The browning grass had recently been clipped short, and the brick path leading to the graveyard was swept clean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishtail took extremely good care of his pipe, cleaned it often, prayed with it every sunrise. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It is a cramped but very clean and neat space. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was immaculate, everything fit him perfectly, he had the cleanest shave at Fullbrook; he looked as strong and fresh as a tree—he even smelled something like cedar. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cats encircled me, hissing, growling, and scraping their claws on the floor, leaving deep, clean grooves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He never hung around and helped clean up or talked trash with us. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They crossed the Nimrodel — curse their foul feet in its clean water! — and went on down the old road beside the river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They wanted the prison yard clean and it was untidy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home Mami gave each of us a toothbrush and told us we were to clean our teeth every morning and every evening. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mamá Jacinta says that she used to clean the meat in the river, but it became so polluted that she had to start washing it in an outdoor sink. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Caleb’s backpack, with the clean suit and explosives inside it, bounces against his lower back as we walk. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A week later, my test came out clean, and there was nothing the doctor could say about what they called my strange habits. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I hauled water from the well, boiled it, threw it out the back door, and started again with a clean chamber pot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“They think I press buttons and the house is clean. They think I five in a palace.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I won’t take the whole store. Maybe a bolt of any fabric I want against me cleaning the rest of that backroom free of charge?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I did my best for Alice, hurt her as little as possible, got her clean and bandaged the worst of her injuries—the dog bites. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

You become sparkling clean, but the water never gets dirty. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had often longed to hear the noise that these clean and deadly missiles would make in solid flesh. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if I say you have to lick the lunch tables clean?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

You took care of your own messes, her mom always said, plus she still had to clean up the blood. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His toes, which peeked through leather slippers, seemed feminine, perhaps because they were so clean; they belonged to feet that always wore shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was about to get up and give herself a rigorous cleaning when she noticed a peculiar twig. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It took me ten minutes to clean him up and find myself another shirt. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trumpet breaks into a high solo, and it's a bright sound, shiny and clean. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But other things could be done to purify it, such as getting rid of the bad coffee and cleaning up streets and alleyways. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I found myself cleaning your face and mouth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The house, consisting of one room, was small but clean. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Did I hear you say you wanted to clean the toilet?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She began to clean and cook and preserve some of the food I brought in for winter. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Wednesday, June 12,1935 The next morning I get up and pull a clean shirt off the hanger. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last, to give the others a chance to clean up and catch their breaths, Jinny decided to take Loo to lose his shoes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s a pity they didn’t clean you up as well. That dirt’s dangerous.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were mostly thin, beautiful women in formfitting dresses, and heavyset men in what Luke’s dad and brothers called sissy clothes—shiny shoes and clean, dressy pants and jackets. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I quench my instinct to clean it up. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When they arrived in the City, the merchant dropped her off at the Square, where a dozen men and women were cleaning up the remains of the bonfire from the night before. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning dawned bright and fair; the air was clean, and the light pale and clear in a rain-washed sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It seemed like every time I went down there, she was washing floors or windows, one, despite she’d cleaned the whole house good last summer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once Yakov’s right side was clean, we covered it with the sheet once more. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

An expanse of clean, unbroken snow stretched blue and twinkling as far as I could see. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the edge of my bed, I pulled on a pair of clean socks. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe my hands clean on a nearby towel, reach in my bag and take out Guillermo’s copy of Mom’s book on Michelangelo. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I open the door to the janitor’s closet, grabbing the paper towels from a packed shelf of cleaning supplies and trying not to wake her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Stella raced through her chores, making sure the carrots were sliced perfectly, the potatoes peeled thinly, and the table cleaned and shined for dinner. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hare replied with a lie, but continued to sing about the doings of the clever hare, who was no longer thirsty and had clean fur. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Adam thought of his stepmother—as unloved as the farm, adequate, clean in her way, but no more wife than the farm was a home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Henry, generally, was clean as a cat, and I’d never even seen him take off his coat without hanging it up immediately. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It would seem odd, now that the brake was clean. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would earn the title after I determined if I’d been born allergic to cleaning or if the aversion had been learned. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Tristran walked over to it and looked down; it was the skeleton of a bird, clean and white and dry. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I was there on Friday. Nobody used the machine during my class. The room was clean when we left, and I’m sure I locked the door.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A month or so after the fire, I was setting down a clean pitcher of water in Lady Seymour’s bedchamber whilst Madam read the newspaper aloud to her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks as if he's had his own stylist because he's clean and groomed and about as sober as I've ever seen him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The river, seen from the height of the bridge, seemed blue and sparkling clean. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I get water on the glass I got to get out and clean 'em." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I gave her my water bottle and we sat on a fallen tree, resting as she rinsed her eyes clean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Very gently Mama worked the entrails out and in a pan of warm soapy water, washed them clean of the pine needles, leaves, and grit. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleaned and bandaged Nate’s blistered hands and patched up the holes in the bottom of his boots. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought all the rooms at Thornfield beautifully clean and well arranged; but it appears I was mistaken. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She dressed in a brown plaid skirt and a clean white blouse every day, dependable as the tile pattern on the classroom floor. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then he pushed it outside for the rain to clean. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When it’s done—clean plate—I feel better than I have about anything I’ve done in a long time, maybe a year. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As the mice conversed, the moles hurled the last of the rubble from the ramparts, then set about brushing the stones clean. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I told him, “Take it easy. I don’t have no dog to clean up the carpet.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been clean in an alcoholic program for two months—I got a diploma for that— but I relapsed when I got out again. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small group of us begins cleaning while most of the kids continue to run around like they didn’t even hear him. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even though she rushed through her other chores, Naima took her time cleaning Father’s rickshaw. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs a shop rag to clean his hands. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Gram used to say that you should never trust a man in clean boots. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“When washing, do not use hot water. They’ll shrink. Stop shaking them out like that. I recommend you always take them to a cleaning professional.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Dilsey stood for a while at the table, then she went and cleared the breakfast things from the diningroom and ate her breakfast and cleaned up the kitchen. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never used to think about things like is a bathroom clean or not. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In China, the Old Man had told us, there are days reserved for grave cleaning, where you make gifts to the dead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He cleaned and oiled his new gun and prepared it with extra care. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You can read this while I clean my room.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Once he quieted down, she asked Roberto and me to clean the beans to cook for supper. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards they stretched the linen smooth to dry on the shore where the sea had washed it clean. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I got lots a energy.” “... and then there’s all this silver to clean.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She bends and carefully cleans the blood off her shoes. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It’s the end of the day, and she is cleaning up her classroom, straightening rows of desks, and sorting piles and piles of paper. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Well, it’s not something I would have chosen to dwell on myself, but the different kinds of stains require different cleaning approaches. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The superbomb can be designed to be either relatively clean or very dirty,” Lapp wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The great curved prow cut clean and quick through scudding foam. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening after I finished cleaning the gas company I waited for Roberto to pick me up. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. But now people will probably call you Lightning Girl instead of the cleaning lady. Which is actually cooler. Isn’t it?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The steam had gone clean out of her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Then I will clean one ear and one nostril,” rejoined the barber promptly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Nielsen, turning to Mrs. Murphy, asks, “And can the young lady cook and clean? Is she hardworking?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

With that promise in mind, Aru had cleaned her room and washed the dishes without complaint. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Demons fear three things: cold iron, clean fire, and the holy name of God.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And if I ain’t fired, then I need to clean that bathroom so Mister Johnny doesn’t think the secret maid is slacking and fire me a second time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nobody moved stuff in Eva’s room except to clean and then they put everything right back. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I handed the stuff for tea to Jay, and he placed it all in a clean cloth for Mama to sort through to make the blend she liked. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I take my phone and show her pictures of the trailer bed all cleaned up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Just needs cleaning? That is a delicate piece of equipment. I can’t spray it with Fantastik and call it clean. It has to be professionally sanitized.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They’re fine, clean guys in straight, pressed suits—well-off cats who earned their bank on the slant. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hell, yes, but —" "And you like our good, clean, sociable atmosphere?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the walks were swept clean of snow and ice, I could see they were concrete, not wooden. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Plus Bess with her obsessive cleaning is impossible to be around. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“We can scrub your house clean, care for cows and pigs, work your garden, and carry just about anything.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My, my. Dr. Zinchenko has certainly cleaned things up since Mr. Loblolly was here.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

While I waited for the drugs to kick in, I dried my clean hair till it was impeccably straight, and fussed over what I would wear tomorrow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The seats were swept clean and the bicycle polished. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

One time, Papa said, when he and Mama had first settled there, they’d run clean out of salt and had to beat up pieces of the rock and boil them in water. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Edward Tulane was mended, put together again, cleaned and polished, dressed in an elegant suit and placed on a high shelf for display. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She put on the clean shirt and the clean sweater. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The wall is endless, clean and white, stretching far down to the habitats beyond my own. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The police had put up wooden barriers, but no one had begun to clean up the place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The tools looked clean and well-oiled, saws, hammers, pliers, axes, mallets, planes, drills, screwdrivers, a level. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bitter hadn’t cleaned them or put them away; she must have finished, dropped everything, and just walked out, which was strange. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

No lie, every time a sneaker is cleaned improperly, a kitten dies. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I bet Dad hasn’t cleaned them out for years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in front of them and breathed the cold clean air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed young and healthy, groomed and clean. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lately, the meetings is more about civil rights than keeping the streets clean and who gone work at the clothing exchange. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After we finish eating, my mom and dad head upstairs to go to bed early before the big day, but Auntie Idris asks me to stay behind to help her clean. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The room smelled cold and clean and aromatic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the end of the platform, kicking aside the litter the cleaning robots hadn’t got to yet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had cleaned his office, too, and knew there was an alarm button under his desk he could press for emergency help. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

RiRi was cleaning her new boots with spit and a finger. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even get excited about emailing Thomas today, since that wouldn’t happen until after I cleaned my room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Travis brung that pointing stick down on top of his desk so hard it was a miracle the desk didn’t split clean in two! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

What kind of grandma had a cleaning lady? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I got into the habit of cleaning up after Richard Parker. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Heron nodded, and he and Tom Warrups left I picked up the beer mugs to clean them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s three o’clock by the time the dishes are clean and we’re ready to eat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Already, though, he was picturing himself walking his bright, clean children up to Pastor Tom during an altar call, sunlight coming through the windows, the choir singing, the whole church looking on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And guess who had to be the one to get her cleaned up: me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were clean, white children, and their beds were soft with Ei. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad said the cleaning supplies are under the sink. I’m sure you can figure it out.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Our leaders always look clean and refreshed at the end of the hottest day, because they work in very pleasant environments,” charged Reynolds worker Mabel Jessup. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a quick breakfast I cleaned myself up a bit then hid my bloody white shirt in a bag and walked swiftly toward the back door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I finished cleaning the Western Union after it had opened and was late for school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jennifer comes home and asks me to put my plate in the dishwasher and clean up the mess I made in the microwave. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Scrubbed clean at Lombardy’s behest, Bobby was dressed in a dark shirt and starched khaki pants for the first evening of play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi’s car smelled like him, a clean scent that made me think of a clear azure sky. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here was an oaken sill, cut long ago and sanded clean and bedded true. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the receiver wedged against her shoulder, the cord stretched across the kitchen, she cooked, cleaned, and strained tinctures of goldenseal and blessed thistle, while having the same conversation over and over. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pa shakes his head while cleaning the pots and pans before we eat so the dishes won’t seem as mountainous when our stomachs are filled, a trick Abuelo taught him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I clean the kitchen up nice, then I get to work making the bathroom sparkledy. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a fine November rain falling but it looked cheerful and clean even with the rain. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You'll have to finish your bottle after I clean you up, little girl!” she said with a chuckle, and lifted the infant to the table. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Richardson took a sponge and wiped the sticky counter clean. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She insists it will make a mess, and she doesn’t want to clean. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He stripped his man clean in the open court, raced down the right wing and did this nasty reverse dunk. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Like tiny specks of floating dust, people hang from their harnesses far above, cleaning the ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mummy wipes the mess while Bess runs upstairs to bring Granddad clean trousers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They carried the fish into one of the sheds near the wharf and began to clean them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young girl pulls the least rickety chair under a fan and wipes it clean with a cloth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One afternoon everyone was at work—my mom and Abel and both of the white parents—and the kid and I were playing together while his mom was inside the house cleaning. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And there are photos of them doing stuff in the world: cleaning the litter in Carkeek Park, volunteering in a soup kitchen, marching with picket signs at the capitol building in Olympia. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“When you cleaned out this house of anything valuable,” Harry began, but Mundungus interrupted him again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We got to have a fire, Mal. We got to clean her, and we got to feed her.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were older, hard-time prisoners close to parole, and their detail was to come and clean the cells and circulate books and magazines for you to read. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some of it was meant to keep the camp itself running: cleaning the barracks, the guards’ houses, the hospital, the kitchen. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either stop all this nonsense and clean out that shed, or. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to get a head start on cleaning my baking mess, something I usually left until after my treats were out of the oven, cooling. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I dreamed that all we had to do to fill our house with that warm, clean furnace heat was to move a lever. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kino heard the creak of the rope when Juana took Coyotito out of his hanging box and cleaned him and hammocked him in her shawl in a loop that placed him close to her breast. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had cleaned up the shavings and slipped them under the door of the stove when the draft was open. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked harder at keeping her house spotless and clean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had your chance to come clean when Barrone interviewed you the day of the attack. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Whoever had wanted to save her could clean it up. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now that the city was cleaned up, Mr. Stone was apparently trying to renovate its inhabitants. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the best efforts of his scout and cleaning lady, his room was always filthy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you know, reader, Roz had always liked to keep herself as clean as possible. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I made certain this time that our room was entirely clean and the beds were made before I grabbed my schedule and backpack. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the while that they dwelt there the sun shone clear, save for a gentle rain that fell at times, and passed away leaving all things fresh and clean. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And for the love of God, will you clean up that mess?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we parted to carry out our various evening chores of fetching water and cleaning lamps, we would say “Peace, son” or “I’m out,” phrases we had picked up from the rap lyrics. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I ran out like a shot, pausing only a second to get a few drops of water to clean my hands. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made me feel fresh and clean and new. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a clean knife from the drawer and thrust it into the big lump of pastry she hadn’t yet rolled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They left her with him all day now, to watch over him and clean him and keep him from being lonely, but she just made it worse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A few days later Mrs. Ortiz gave me a bath and dressed me in clean school clothes instead of pajamas. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“In that case, I take back what I just said about the bus ride, just to keep my record clean.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He explained that a couple of days before, he had been cleaning the operating room as they finished up with my surgery. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could we ever recover enough to clean ourselves up and go to school? The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Yakov’s body had been returned to the table and was covered by a clean sheet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He paced the house, smoking, peering out the window, cleaning his gun, loading and loading it again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m not hungry, but all I can think of is water—clean and fresh and running. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think of anything but cleaning up. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He clapped his hands once and a single sheet of clean white paper fluttered to the floor. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to clean up and change my clothes,” he said. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long table where he worked had been swept clean, with not a stamp nor a knife in sight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As I cleaned it, the liver suddenly looked so tempting that I could hardly wait to prepare it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the stuff had been cleaned, starched, pressed, shined, and spit polished. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t watch Vu Lee kill and clean it, but it tasted so good. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My mother bathed me and taught me how to clean myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I almost forgot and started to tell them I was going to be very smart soon like them but Burt intiruppted and he tolld them I was cleaning the psych department lab. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what to do 1st, sit down or clean my desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

So it is straight but clean and has turned much lighter because I am outdoors so much. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think there are some pretty compelling reasons for wiping the earth clean and starting over?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It looked so innocent, that modest little brick house, with its clean white door, the peach tree in the front yard ruffled with soft pink blossoms. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when supper’s over and I go off to the bathroom to brush my teeth, I peek back through the doorway, and Dad’s over by Shiloh’s box, letting him lick his plate clean. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you don’t have a clean handkerchief on you, Mr. Morales.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She helps Terry make the beds, stretching the clean white sheets over mattresses that have never been used. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The war itself, the years of losing, had turned the house into a clean, swept, airy skeleton. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could. I mean it. You bring me a nice clean calabash and I’ll make you a globe of your own.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very notion of “clean” thermonuclear weapons was mercilessly demolished in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Ralph Lapp, a distinguished antinuclear physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore stepped into a hallway tiled in black and white; the whole place was shabby but spotlessly clean. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Get the food quick while it's nice and warm. We'll clean up after.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“They cleaned up them Cardinals four games straight,” Georgia Boy added. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I clean the kitchen, I go in the formal living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A practiced barber, no doubt; her order often cleaned the corpses of the noble slain before returning them to their kin, and trimming beards and cutting hair was part of that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When his face was cleaned he washed his right hand in the water over the side and then let it stay in the salt water while he watched the first light come before the sunrise. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held her head while Mama cleaned her wounds with peroxide. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My room is clean, and I’m out on my table looking at the sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“How long must I continue to torture myself? When will we be certain that I’m clean?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The morning light had broadened, gained greater depth, and lay in a clean sheet across the bay, giving it a silver tincture. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One night without cleaning her teeth wouldn’t be the end of the world. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I struggle to keep my breakfast down as I shower and clean my teeth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I really could do with some fresh, clean water,” the water monster said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fifth labor was to clean the Augean stables in a single day. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock, Bull pulled a clean uniform from a clothes bag that hung in the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the drumsticks were sucked clean and lay brittle upon the plates, the captain leaned back and exhaled his deep satisfaction. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie grabbed a rag from his back pocket and tried to clean his hands, but they were so filthy, all he did was smear the dirt around. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But some part of me understood it was better to make a clean, quick break and not hold on to anything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The women, including Nancy, cleaned up around the kitchen and helped with the children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed that she would always land safely into her father’s clean, well-manicured hands. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She did her best to clean up, but she found it ironic that she was in an actual Roman city and couldn’t enjoy a nice hot Roman bath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I followed Elle’s lead to a computer on the corner on the clean side. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I hated myself for lying to my own grandmother, but I silently promised the virgen I would come clean soon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It looked clean and neat and peaceful, nestled there in the foothills of the Ozarks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and I could see the travail of his spirit in how he took off his glasses and kept polishing them as if they’d never come clean. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

T. Ray sat in a chair and cleaned his nails with a pocketknife. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was different than it had been with Stan; it wasn’t as clean somehow, and it lasted longer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, people with shovels and pails try to clean up the mess. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He cleans up the next three questions and completes round four, keeping us in first place. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in the bleachers, watching some of the guys cleaning up the place. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swiftly they put away the clean oatmeal bowls in the kitchen cupboards, which watched them with painted eyes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But...” “... but you’re an idiot who didn’t even make sure this was cleaned properly,” she finished. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Okay, then. Get in here and get cleaned up for dinner.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had already cleaned out a hornet’s nest in the blockhouse and swept off the launchpad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born, my father worked at ‘clean’ jobs. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In an almost formal manner I was invited into a room with a clean chenille-covered bed, an easy chair, a gas fireplace and a table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday we climbed up to the roof and cleaned out the gutters, since they were overflowing now every time it rained and the dirty water was staining the corners of the Perfect House. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was calmer now, resting on his shoulder, licking her tentacles to clean them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We’d be living in a better place, clean and newly renovated. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He cleaned up the white spot on the floor. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. But I guess there are other things I can do if I finish cleaning out boxes. The house is huge.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We have to get it cleaned up before the Ladies’ Society makes it a missionary project.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was cleaned but not lived in, not by Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was such a simple, clean break. Anyone could have set it. Of course, I didn’t send him to Boston. Why should I?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is surprisingly similar to cleaning and polishing mess pots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Year after year, plainly, all seven scrapbooks stood ready to be perused or pored over by old close friends of the family and casual visitors alike, as well as, presumably, the odd part-time cleaning woman. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The inside of my mouth feels chilly and clean as I speak. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They may even stay to stack the chairs and clean the bowls. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was always something to find fault with for Shasta had plenty of work to do, mending and washing the nets, cooking the supper, and cleaning the cottage in which they both lived. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

"This dinner on Saturday is in honor of Anu's new job. Come at seven. And please, Darnell, wear something clean and neat. One of your suits." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mop the floor, she washes dishes, and we go about our cleaning like this is a regular day. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The six of them got on their hands and knees at the end of the long hallway, and they pushed their cleaning pads into the wood. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The neglect of the dishes, I discovered, was due to a curious impasse: Sally, the maid, now serving also as cook, refused to clean dishes, despising the lowly office of scullion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She could arrange and clean without interruption until two o’clock, when Chicken and Pie came home. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh god! You need to get out of here. I’ve got to clean this up.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And when he came offstage afterward, he would be sweaty but it was such a clean sweat that part of me was tempted to lick the side of his face, like it was a lollipop. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That gave me a smile, but Ma slammed things around like she’d rather break the dishes than clean them. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

And she had to have something clean to drink, because the water they floated on would be full of stirred-up dirt and dead animals. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Rosa cleaned the corner every day, but the stench clung to the cement. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I searched for a stall that looked halfway clean. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The nagual must have wiped my mind clean when we first met him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After Father had given me a bath and cleaned the sick off me and dried me off with a towel, he took me to my bedroom and put some clean clothes on. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to clean the gunk out of my sneaker treads with the pointy tip of a stick. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The day after this advertising was finished he waited in the front room dressed in a clean shirt and a tie. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I clean myself up some in the bathroom. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There would be Mrs Boland for the cleaning and some cooking. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a spinning wheel, so she used a drop spindle to make thread out of the clumps of clean cotton that Grandma Charity and I pulled. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With water so hard to come by and the weather usually so cold, keeping clean was a luxury. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

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

I walk out onto Georgia Avenue and take in the scenery: the shinier-than-usual cars, the well-dressed people, the wide, clean buildings. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We headed down to the basement of the main building to the janitor’s room to get the cleaning cart. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Methuselah coughed and cleaned his spectacles on his habit. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All seven came out clean, but my throat stayed tight, my stomach ached. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Immediately, a thin clear trickle of blood ran down the baby’s face and spotted its clean bib. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I went back inside, I cleaned off my hands in a snow bank. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was cleaning up after we ate, I asked whether he had buried her, and if he did, where. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your room is such a mess,” my mom said, looking at the clothes, both clean and dirty, strewn across my floor. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I liked the open, honest way in which the man talked to me; and, too, the place seemed clean, brisk, businesslike. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flies were fed, cleaned, and watered in that enclosed space for generation upon generation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I sit behind the counter while she cleans the filters of the dryers or sweeps the chipped floor tiles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t showered or put on clean clothes in the millions of miles since I said good-bye to Julia Bishop. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he came back, Nana said, he sounded like a warden bragging about the clean walls and shiny floors of his prison. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Neither of us speaks much during lunch, but when our bowls are clean, Gale pulls up his sleeve, revealing his schedule. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of fixing things for the Negro race, Richard Nixon would win the war in Vietnam, clean up the country of its long-haired, drug-smoking hippies, and get those black militants and bean-pie-selling “Mooslims” in line. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I breathed deeply and felt the crisp, clean air draft my polluted lungs. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I was twenty-five, I found a job cleaning construction sites in the suburbs of Raleigh. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mom says it’s cheaper, and less mess to clean, to eat fast food. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She cut off a piece of the new caribou hide and was scraping it clean of fur when a snowstorm of cotton-grass seeds blew past her face. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stove spews out clean blue flames, unlike the ashy coals back home. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I inspected myself in the mirror, pinching my cheeks to flush them and baring my teeth to make sure they were clean. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, oh, OH! That needs to be cleaned immediately! Come, come!” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Farther out, a few gnawed-over carcasses were discarded to be scoured clean by lower-ranking scavengers. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sure Peck is gonna go home, clean himself up, and call Aimee off his brother’s phone to tell her what a monster I am. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lie repeats the “character, but clean” part about my potential housemate, adding that they are “giving her a chance.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So it's fortunate that I'm here to clean up your mess." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They organize a day where people help clean Liberty Park. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He declared that Garfield's care “was bad at the start” and that the doctor had not properly cleaned out the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I finished putting my clothes in the old pine dresser, I took my bag of bathroom necessities and went to the communal bathroom to clean myself up after the day of travel. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mom hadn’t even cleaned up breakfast before she left for work, which was extremely weird for her. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Both were naked but for towels, and lying side by side on stone benches, pouring sweat caused by the heating beneath the floors, while slaves massaged their muscles and used scrapers to clean their skin. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was so nice, I almost wanted to lie down on the cool, clean floor and take a nap. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was lying on the bench by the window and it had been cleaned because there was no blood on the spikes. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I carry trays of dirty dishes from the dining room back into the kitchen so the dishwashers can spray and scrub them clean. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day before, her mom had made Grace change the sheets and clean out from under her bed, and “open a window—it smells like a hobbit hole in here.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We used the harpies mostly for cleaning the camp, but they did pretty well in midtown traffic too. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now every morning, Mac would rise early to put on a pot of coffee, and Bobby would come down in his clean white shirt, his tie loosened and sleeves unbuttoned. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I helped Grandma clean up the mess while the mac and cheese baked. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had to stay as clean as he could. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the old man's long last illness, and the neglect of the housekeeper, it was some time since they had been cleaned. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It felt smooth and clean to Robin’s hands, and he liked to watch the small white shavings peel off. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

With this cleaning potion, she could make things come alive with color and shine. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She got up earlier and worked faster at her flat cleaning and was finished in early afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not clean. The chemicals are poisonous.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Monique busied herself, trying to clean up the apartment a bit so that Jordan wouldn’t have anything to yell about when he returned. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sweep to get the last of it clean. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She kept their boxes clean, bringing in fresh leaves every day. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It would be good to feel clean again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We're coming up on the Testaments and they look almost pretty with the new snow coating the roofs and making the yards clean and white and soft. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once you arrive at a Reception Center or Facility, you will be provided clean basic state-issued clothing and sufficient personal hygiene items. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He laughed, and when I added she didn’t like me because I was so tall and arrogant and wasn’t clean enough for her, he laughed harder and said something like “Well, that’s life.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I twisted the shirt around and cleaned my goggles again on the back of it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lighter clothes were more expensive and required frequent professional cleaning, so while my everyday trousers and waistcoat looked rather somber in the daylight, they made suitable evening wear. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the clothes were folded and put away, dinner was cooking in the oven, and the living room floor was so clean, I’d be willing to eat off it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to get the house fixed before. The garage has to be clean—I want all of those boxes out.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mom finds me and makes me help her clean out the pantry. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I walk around and look for any spots we might have missed, but it's clean. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The mother would have to do cleaning by the day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It took you seventeen minutes to clean that last room,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished cleaning up the table, then trudged back to the counter. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyone who wants to write something, I get them to paint over it before they leave. That way it’s ready for the next person. A clean slate. Do you want to add a layer?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I really wanted to win, and straight up, if Whit told me that having my blood cleaned was the way to win, I would go to dialysis just like Ma. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and cleaned his glasses. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She fell in and out of a fitful sleep, dreaming of the Wood and the clean, unbroken snow beneath her feet. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The debris in the hallway has been swept clean, but the broken lightbulbs haven’t been replaced, so I walk through stretches of darkness, like patches of bruises, on my way to the right cell. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Just cleaning up. I didn’t hear you come in,” she said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before, when Enrique told her he was clean, she could ferret out the truth for herself. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He wiped it clean of the silky, girly things it had been smothered by, and then sank it in his mouth to slick it up. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My fatigues were starched; I had a neat haircut and the clean, sterile smell of the rear. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’ll leave him with lots of food, and I’ll tell Susanna to bring one of you over here every other day to clean his litter box.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ashtrays were clean, and old magazines arranged neatly on tables. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mareth cleaned them and set them on the torches to grill. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m in a hurry, Francie. Have I got a clean shirt?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny rinsed her own fingers clean, letting a handful of wet sand and tiny shell bits sift through them briefly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t, and when we came back in after set theory, the cream puffs were still there, cooling in the circulating air coming in beneath the clean lower windows. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I better go home. I want to dig through some of Lucy’s stuff before my mom gets home. She started cleaning her room out a few weeks ago.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Petey held on to the barrel of his pistol and shook it at me like it was a hatchet, ready to cleave me clean in half. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

They used towels to clean off the scum. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to run the nail file under his fingernails—which were already perfectly clean. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He started staying after the restaurant had closed, talking to me while I cleaned up. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I have always favored a more active, militant style of protest such as work strikes, go-slow strikes, or refusing to clean up; actions that punished the authorities, not ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She senses when something is happening to me, and she moves quiedy around the apartment, making breakfast, cleaning up the place, or going out and leaving me to myself, without any questions. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We better get this rice and us cleaned up before Mama gets home.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"No,” he said, "I’ll clean it up. I know where everything goes.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of times he had tried to get a job in a jewelry store where he could sit by himself at a desk all day with a clean white shirt on and a tie. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And, um...I can cook. And clean and dress hair,” I trail off into a whisper. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he had completed the cleaning, he asked the man for something to eat. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were shocked by the racial division of the city and surrounding county, where most of the black kids attended understaffed and underfunded city schools while whites attended sparkling clean suburban schools with fantastic facilities. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are allowed into the commander’s cabin, where the bathroom is so white and clean, so worth the embarrassment. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Whatever the oil field crud and filth on the rest of him, his arms and face and hands were scrubbed and clean. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

All were spotlessly clean with slick and glossy coats. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their job, after all, was to care for and clean up the patients. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

So Pa would take the ramrod from its place under the gun barrel, and fasten a piece of clean cloth on its end. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just to clean up around the gym. You were the first fighter I helped train. The first time I got to work a corner was for you. I'll never forget you, Alfred." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cleaned it up real nice,” Styx said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The replete and satisfied Labrador had eaten ravenously that evening, cleaning up bowls of fresh milk and plates of food with a bottomless appetite. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of the Mews there was a little fireplace and a kind of snuggery, like the place in a saddle-room where the grooms sit to clean their tack on wet nights after foxhunting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have heard that your patient has two straight, clean lacerations. What have you brought to remedy the situation?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I caught lots of small fish, mackerel and pollock and cod and flounder, and cleaned ’em, too. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She watched them clean and gut it and build a cookfire on the far side of the stream, and the smell of cooking meat mingled queerly with the stench of corruption. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My mother’s scrubbing clean sinks till her hands are raw. Penny watches you sleep and writes down what you eat. They drink a fuckload. They’re getting drunk until the tears roll down their faces.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He quickly walked off to get some water and clean his face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Clay, for example, slept on a soft, clean feather mattress, with perfumed sheets and silken curtains around the four-poster bed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was Utility 1, a crew of medium-security inmates whose job it was to mow and clean in the area just outside the walls. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I cleaned off my shoes with the towel Coach Fortes found me, got dressed, and headed to geometry. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Steck is still cleaning up from the Socrates Project party, and I refuse to take off my toga. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“After we clean up from breakfast, I’m all yours.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No, we don’t have sponge mops like the one I use in my own house; the hands-and-knees approach is a definite selling point for corporate cleaning services like The Maids. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s clean of blood, and the leather thong looks new. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For the moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy outside: he went very pink, bowed his head and cleaned his glasses again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The dishes rested briefly on a clean flour-sack towel while I dug another out of my things. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Malala describes her childhood village in the mountains of Swat so clearly I can imagine the crisp clean air, waterfalls, and jagged cliffs with narrow suspension bridges. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And then V noticed one particular fist-size photo in the bottom left corner that, for just a moment, elbowed all thoughts of the chameleon clean out of her head. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I went clean over to the other side of the lake and laid down my two pouches and my tote sack and net-basket and pulled off my brogans and all my clothes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I open a Clorox wipe and clean the table and pencils. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was always worried that Tateh’s gun would go off and accidentally kill him while he was cleaning it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now go down to the nurse and clean your face and mouth. And bring me back the key.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She says we need to do a clean sweep. Throw away Nat’s button box. They’ll be no more counting for her. No more obsessions.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I had done for Kunthi, so Kali did for me—but much more: sweeping and cleaning, washing and cooking. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between us are the clean suit, the explosives, and the backpack, arranged in a line on the brushed steel. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t dare look in his direction, but went straight to her looms where Brigid was already at work, cleaning and oiling. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

His sword was knocked clean out of his hand pretty soon. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mail shirts were tossed in barrels of sand and rolled across the lumpy surface of the Flowstone Yard to scour them clean. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hire Korean man to run dry cleaning shop. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With family coming from Virginia, as well as friends coming from other places for the birthday party, all the rooms would need to be opened up, aired out, cleaned, and decorated. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Which isn’t to say that he was clean exactly, just cleaner than me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Akers, a prison administrator, had me mop and clean his office, too. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I thought it was one of those advertisements for painting your house or cleaning your carpets. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mom looks at me, because she’s already told me twice to clean my room and the kitchen. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His father’s plate is polished clean, the chicken bones denuded of cartilage and chewed to a pinkish pulp, the bay leaf and cinnamon stick as good as new. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We need only the best for the cohort. Does he have all his teeth? Can he fight? Does he clean stables?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"My hands won't be soft if I clean ovens and scrape plates all day. Will you still want them touching you when they're all red and raw and cracked from hot water and lye soap?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yesterday Mother Ermentrude herself cleaned and dried all the trenchers and spoons. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He sat on his haunches and tried to clean his face with his front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Mia was thinking about, however, was her own teenage years, memories she’d packed away long ago for safekeeping but now unfolded and dusted clean. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was cleaning up after the tornado hit my house and diminished everything. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Lie down, old man, and I will bring you. your clean shirt. And something to eat.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around for a clean bit of cloth to serve as a bandage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Tallow was sitting by the fire, cleaning and oiling each part of her ancient, frail gun. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The man starts cleaning up the room, grabbing my empty bowl and wiping down the dresser. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I stared at the clean, well-dressed people, busily moving from place to place. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I could tell by how clean their uniforms and guns were. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Leave the body for the wolves," he commanded when the deed was done, handing the sword to his squire to be cleaned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Wrestling twenty-five pounds of sugar back from Moore’s Store was nothing to picking all the gooseberry bushes clean. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I get bored enough to clean out the employee fridge. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sergeant handed me the G3 that was on top of the mortar, and I began cleaning it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He shook me, hard enough that I almost bit my tongue clean off, but he didn’t say a single word. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After I milk Violet, I must also clean out the barn each day. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Would you let Lorraine and me come over to help clean up? Please?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I sleep in hotel rooms that someone else has cleaned and shop in stores that others will tidy when I leave. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once it’s clean, you can sleep in it,” she said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The first floor belongs to Madame Manec: clean, navigable, full of visitors who come through the kitchen door to trade in small-town scandal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He should’ve sent an ambulance and in the twenty-five years I’ve been cleaning houses nobody ever tells you what to do when your white lady keels over dead on top of you. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I followed him, gathering up the blanket and shaking it clean, while he splashed madly in the waves and then sat in the shallows and scrubbed himself with wet sand, head to toe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Not wanting the words from the vet’s pamphlet to return, I found myself doing the unthinkable: cleaning my room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was dressed neatly in pleated slacks, a clean lavender shirt, with his normally dingy hair combed and shiny with gel. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah’ll clean ’em, you fry ’em and let’s eat,” he said with the assurance of not being refused. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I worked my hands through it, picking out tiny burrs and dust flecks so that it would be clean for Mama to spin. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Then why no mention of it until today? Do you think it’s beyond us to provide you with clean quilts? An oilcloth, for that matter?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were pink and clean, I almost didn’t recognize them for my own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Abdulrahman, being younger, would clean the cages when necessary, and Ahmad, being older and more experienced in these matters, would find new birds, feed those who lived there, and train them when the time came. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We were wrapping him up in some clean rags that Mama had brought along when here came Little Arliss. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went on a cleaning binge. It’s what inspired my dad.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Driving your car and shining your shoes and cleaning your house.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked to use the dressing room on my way out and pulled on the clean bra and underwear. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She washed the shrouding clean as sun or moonlight. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, me and Jermaine had always kept our room picked up, but our mother was a slob; she hated to clean. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When all the garbage has been dropped down a disposal and the food cleaned away, she turns down my bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Consider your actions! The hands that spill blood unjustly can never come clean.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing smells as clean as cold mountain air, and the views are really beautiful. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Finally she puts clean sheets on the bed, stretching the cloth tightly at the four corners. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She could not see her footprints from the night before; the whole of the meadow was clean and unbroken. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the bags, Enrique puts on clean pants, a shirt, and a new pair of shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Lets just say that I got some stains on my soul that I wouldn't mind getting scrubbed clean.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Leave this place clean of your foul presence,” the arcanist muttered to himself as he watched them go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Their plates were clean in seconds and they moved to the floor in front of the TV with the game console. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The oatmeal tray was on the floor next to the bed, the bowl clean and not a crumb of toast remaining. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Mrs. Weasley’s ministrations, George’s wound was neat and clean, but Harry was not yet used to the dark hole in the side of his head, despite the twins’ many jokes about it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He put on his clean set of orange clothes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When I stumble out of my bedroom, still in my nightclothes, a whacking sound alerts me that Mama is on a cleaning tear. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Numbers are so clean and elegant; people are so messy and complicated.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small, clean part of me waits to warm and burst through the surface. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“OK. But if I have to clean up your puke, I’ll make sure you regret it.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My face is shaven, I’m clean, and someone’s changed me into fresh fatigues. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I looked and saw that there were many tiny bits of walnut meat scattered about; some of them had been smeared into grease spots on the clean, white pine boards. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take a lot of work to keep the place clean, but I was willing to make the sacrifice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had never used a toothbrush and toothpaste before; at home, we used ash to whiten our teeth and toothpicks to clean them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paces on the flattened grass by the ditch, remaining remarkably clean, while the driver labors to change the tire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he’d cleaned up when I saw him on Olympus, or used magic to make his form seem a little less hideous. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

"An absolutely clean child gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

In front of me was a shiny clean horse stable, a field of wet salty mud, and fifty horses that had been scoured so thoroughly their coats gleamed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I picked out some clothes for her including a clean white shirt, which I knew was completely impractical but the luxury of being clean and impractical was too much to resist. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dipped three fingers in the cake mix, and while staring Travis’s mother dead in the eye, sucked them clean and then stuck his fingers back in the bowl for a second helping. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He had just enough time to walk home, clean all the fast-food wrappers and soda cans out of the Hearse, take a shower, buy some flowers from the White Hen, and pickup Marie. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The fountain he walked to was closer than he thought, the water fresh and clean as he filled the saucepan. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The desecrated poster had been removed and the wall scrubbed clean. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned the seeds out of the center and cut the pumpkin into long slices, from which she pared the rind. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped the barrel and turned the wooden spigot, spilling a couple of inches of warm golden-brown liquid into a clean glass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He navigated the dark, silent mobile home, hoping not to disturb Uncle Jet, who was sleeping on the couch in the living room until the hogan was cleaned. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I made the barber cutting hair, the dentist pulling teeth, the man who cleaned ears, and the man with the basket of cobras. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hall and some of his fellow guides also began working with government ministries in Kathmandu to formulate policies that encouraged climbers to keep the mountain clean. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

To keep a clean flag of flame flying on the mountain was the immediate end and no one looked further. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I put all of my ingredients away, wiped down the countertops, mopped up the flour that had fallen on the floor, and cleaned all the bowls and utensils I’d used. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe your maid left it that way when she cleaned?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how we’ll keep the clothes clean at all.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Gale’s still losing blood from the neck wound, which we haven’t even cleaned. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Everything ’bout my head looked clean and crisp and shiny. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Max’s parents split up before he was bom and his mother cleans motel rooms for minimum wage. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such as a job for her husband and a clean home. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet their coats were sleek, their tails were clean, and they had remarkably few flies on them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was more exciting to work at a real bench, to draw the sharp knife along the clean wood; to hear it “snick” as the knife took hold, then slither off into shavings. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She jerked. “—but I cleaned that chicken al—oh. Sorry, Luke. You need tucking in, don't you?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now the blue-black cold feels crisp and clean, soothing after the smoke. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With her yellow hair she was all pink and white and gold—and so small and clean that it almost hurt to watch her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t keep it trimmed or very clean. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was relieved by an-other officer so that he could change into a clean shirt and wipe off his glasses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never tell him I’d rather clean toilets than be some man’s assistant. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Just enough time to wash up, or as my mom says, splash some water on my hot spots, throw on some clean clothes, and give myself two spritzes of perfume. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He used a few drops of his precious water to clean it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He cleaned his fingers with it carefully, as if to wipe even the memory of Inkheart off his hands. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If I saw him coming into the tavern, I’d go out to clean the barn or down to the woodlot to do some chopping. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another way of protecting yourself is to pray your soul clean each night at the foot of your bed, and I’d done that, too. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She always kept her floors clean, especially in the shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How to clean a tool, properly, so that no trace of what had touched it remained. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They wait on me hand and, uh, foot here. They clean up after me and give me massages. You gonna do that when I get home?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Steadying Kelvin, she stutters, “He won’t carry his inhaler. I warned him. ‘Air’s clean. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It says, “If you had cleaned me more, maybe Mango would have stayed around.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Start cleaning up, men,” he calls to them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With a knife he made a few small cuts above the tail, a couple of clean cuts at the head, and one deep slice up the belly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When we first arrived, there were sand and ants everywhere, but we cleaned it up as best we could. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Farouk and I will join you as soon as we get cleaned up," said Mr. Khan. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I finished cleaning the Western Union and headed for school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Can you hear Gum Baby? Oh, no wonder—you really need to clean your ears out.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Now, that can’t be true,” says Camel as I clean him up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

While he reads an inspirational quote, I slip an individually wrapped Clorox wipe from my backpack and clean my desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s not right. I don’t want to be clean. You aren’t me.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Smallest Man the Varicose Veins he clean forgot to mention, as he wobbled off with less than half the money he had asked for and less than a tenth of what he deserved. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The squad had just got some new barrels for the sixties and two new M-79 S. They were sitting around a tin can full of carbon tet cleaning the cosmolene off the weapons. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had Turner cleaning and painting, dragging rugs outside and beating them, opening windows for new air, and bringing light to rooms that hadn’t seen any since the century began. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Just like when Samira had paired with me for the stretches, Ms. Platt seemed to be cheering me on, happy when I finally did a straightforward punch “clean and sharp.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw Aunt Petunia wince slightly as specks of tea and drool flecked her clean floor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“That thing still clean as hell. You don’t need to wear it though.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And how was she going to go get her blood cleaned? Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Before the dogs were even aware that he had gone he was back again by his tree, cleaning his whiskers with soft rounded paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the burning smell began to choke her, a cold, clean wind blew. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

No one pays attention to me as I clean the desk that Max Christie usually sits in or when I take 3 tries to sit. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We drank sassafras tea, sweetened with some of the sugar Bando had brought me, rubbed our turtle shells clean in the snow, and went out into the forest. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked as a housekeeper in a residence for the elderly in Manhattan, making beds and cleaning toilets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If you do plan on getting one, you better let me help you find a clean one.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, while I was putting on another clean shirt, I sort of figured this was my big chance, in a way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Once he even cleaned out his ears with his pinkies, as if what stood between him and some more vital, degree-holding self was wax. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I wiped each finger carefully with my linen napkin which was still quite clean. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You’d stay clean. You could get some pretty clothes. Sleep late every morning.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the name of the Fatherland, the girls cooked, cleaned, and mended for the ethnic German families. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then a fog rolled in, misting me clean through—no pain, no thoughts, nothing but wet gray haze, like I’d been set adrift in a boat at dawn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was bright and clean and totally, without the least doubt, empty. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His paddle kissed the clean water, his shoulders worked in perfect rhythm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We laugh and tiptoe down the hallway right past the classroom where he is cleaning. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I tie my hair up and clean up the living room. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He would have to take the shovel and clean them out in the morning and make sure that no unburnt bones were left. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

By gently rubbing a handful of sand up and down my arm, I clean off the rest of the scales, revealing fresh new skin underneath. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smiles left our faces as though wiped clean by a sponge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He added wood to the fire and cleaned up the camp area. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, are you here to clean another toilet? Or do you plan on going dumpster diving again? I saw you with your head buried in the trash barrel. I totally Instagrammed your butt.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The light shifted during the afternoon and cascaded through the clean windows, burnishing the room with gold. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo was absorbed in separating his chicken from the bone, and for once he ate all of his rice until his plate was clean. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Captain Vylarr," he called, "I want those taken down on die morrow. Give them to the silent sisters for cleaning." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I find aspirin and store-bought toothpaste in the medicine cabinet and clean towels in the hall closet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wipe my hands on my skirt to make sure they’re clean and then flip through the book, careful not to hurt any pages. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to knock the cases over! I’ll clean this all up, Ms. Parker!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Babi came out of the bathroom, his hair—peppered white with flour when he’d come home—washed clean now and combed back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Was I going to end up like girls who quit school to cook and clean? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“A record? But I got out of Namwon with a clean sheet. You told him that, right?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In no time, I've cleaned and gutted the animal, leaving the head, feet, tail, skin, and innards, under a pile of leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, she quickly dismissed Grandfather’s practice of setting the bird free during the cleaning and inviting it back inside with a mere whistle. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She handed me clean underclothing and a pair of white overalls. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was the rest of her then that white and clean under all the dirt? The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If too many movies finish all at once, it’s a challenge to clean the theaters before the next group of people comes in. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A steward hurried past him with a stack of clean towels. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night Coraline lay in bed, all bathed, teeth cleaned, with her eyes open, staring up at the ceiling. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

From a large handbag embroidered with beads she takes out a clean one and makes the child fresh and presentable. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had just turned down one of many ravaged cleaning supply aisles when she gave my arm a tug. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Iris swiped her hand in front of her like she was cleaning a windshield. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Pax set to a thorough cleaning of the wound. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When it had cleaned all the blood off her hand, it turned away silently and jumped up on Bran's bed and lay down beside him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then I set about cleaning up the mess. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. wants me to time you when you clean a room,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he crawls, his diaper cleans the floor, picking up bits of dust and hair and pulling it along like a little mop. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the knob, and the door opens, just like that, and inside the chapel smells fresh and clean, as if it has been aired out recently. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Like it? Who likes cleaning? No one likes it. It’s just what you do.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But what always struck me about black folks was that every Sunday they’d get dressed up so clean for church I wouldn’t recognize them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the wardrobe and saw all of Leo’s clothing, hanging clean and dry. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"I mean, the worst that could happen is you decide to clean up the street. So either way...everybody wins." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Without anyone seeing, I ran into the blue gum grove behind my house, leaned against a tree, and tried to make myself clean. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I realized that my system was so clean that the joint had already taken effect. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was something to be said for getting clean and fresh again after a game of football. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“My friend cleans the police station, and she overhears a lot,” said Madame Emile. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I flashed to Pa saying, “Where’d you go after you cleaned the stalls, Nathaniel? Looks like a rat’s heaven in there.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was an etiquette about such messes, in those days: there was a line you crossed, from ignoring them to cleaning them up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the beach Captain Smith demonstrates to me how to clean the sword with a rag and sand—he says this sand is fine enough to do the job. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I take my money to the Duchess for a bath, clean clothes, and to see if one of her girls can braid up my hair. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Ah, I cut my fingers many times learning to clean a sword. Let me see it,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

For one week in June and the last week in August, Mr. Smith, the pool’s black caretaker, closed the Leeds pool for cleaning, maintenance, and repairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I put Baby Girl in her high chair and start cleaning the oven. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a clean little town and there was a fine fountain in the square. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She cleaned up the mess with a sigh and left me with my music and an empty spot on my table. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Thirty years earlier, army bulldozers had scraped everything clean to start construction. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he longed for his clean, clear waves of water! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Every seam tight and clean, like it had never even been thrown before. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Impulsively opening her purse, she produced a pair of clean, sharp cuticle scissors, which she passed to Pris. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The door was hit with such force that it swung clean off its hinges and with a deafening crash landed flat on the floor. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Mom’s been asking her to clean out her closet for months. You’re lucky—there’s some really good stuff in there. I guess.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Foods like frijoles and papas, clothing, plows, tools, nails, machetes, ropes, leather goods, baskets, comales for the toasting of tortillas and such, cleaning rags, buckets, and jeans jeans jeans, which have taken over. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pick it up and throw it back at them, watch the unidentifiable mush splash against the bars, messing the clean pressed uniform cloth and white ruddy cheeks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used her shirt to wipe Gavin’s blade clean, and set it back where it belonged. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The curtains drawn, shoes taken down to be cleaned, the towel laid out on the chair in the bathroom and the water run for my bath. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Cheat. Now let’s clean up and get those uniforms on. We have a party to go to.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And I looked around the room, which was very clean and smelled like people didn’t live there. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He went and wiped down and pulled on a clean undershirt and pants before walking the rest of the way down the hall to the living room to tell Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A stray dog bit her, but she’s all right now. Abuelita gave her some antibiotics and cleaned the wound for her,” Juanita said, jumping in to save Pita from having to explain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But another woman laughed loudly and pointed to Kira’s clean new clothes. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find myself pawing at my left ear periodically, trying to clean away whatever deadens its ability to collect sounds. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The spider also sent down three woven baskets filled with clean water. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took the baby wipes from the backpack and cleaned herself up—chest, arms, neck, hands—shivering in the winter air. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I return to the Remake Room and watch the streaks of makeup disappear down the drain as I scrub my face clean. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They rode the rest of the way in silence, Spoon driving carefully as the clean, well-kept buildings in the quiet white neighborhoods gave way to shabby houses on streets filled with black children and garbage. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’d have a whole street full of cars with him! My father said he doesn’t go anywhere without a bunch of people to lick his feet clean.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ms. Hayes kept their house super clean, so we didn’t have to worry about tripping over nothing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We’d helped them clean up the mess in the yard, me stacking plates and cups and Zach folding up card tables. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood floors were dark and difficult to clean because the mop strings caught in splinters and cracks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

To obviate this, I cleaned but two steps at a time, a distance over which a ten-year-old child could step. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped him into a clean white shirt and knotted his tie for him, noting the two inches of empty space between the collar button and Baba’s neck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote the poem on an index card and memorized it while I cleaned the gas company. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I saw he had been crying too, although he had stayed upright and clean. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tree is burned, freshly burned and freshly knocked over, too, the unburned splinters clean and white like new wood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The steady wiping and polishing with the “clean, dry cloth” fell into a rhythm that began to calm her inner frenzy. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

At the edge of a small town they sat in the cab of a truck to rest, staring out a glass washed clean by the recent rains. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When these sores were cleaned and he lay warm in the for bag, as well hidden as winter and wilderness could hide him, there was no more I could do. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jay looked on, his eyes dark and closed off, as what used to be Susie continued to clean the salt out of her skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He sprayed the clippers down to clean them and then stood behind the chair. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It seemed that no one had bothered to clean out the lower deck since the voyage began. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mack and George are chatting while George cleans one of my windows. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When they weighed too much, he reportedly cleaned their pockets of their pennies so they couldn’t buy food or locked them up until they starved down to the right weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally she would go into a paroxysm of cleaning, and she would race around the house for an hour, throwing things into closets. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she stays clean most of the time. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I learned, to my dismay, that the black Communists in my unit had commented upon my shined shoes, my clean shirt, and the tie I had worn. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person who opened up the locker with the combination and cleaned it out was none other than Rachel Caldwell. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I will show you how to clean it, and when you return it, the owner will thank you,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Same day—Wednesday, April 24,1935 The thing to do is come clean. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or you could never clean again for the rest of your life.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the house, got ahead on my homework, and wrote my mom more bogusly cheerful e-mail. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mamou was at the kitchen table, drinking her own cup of tea, when I brought the basket of cleaned sabzi into the kitchen. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The house is very neat and clean, and it smells like incense. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even the blood she’d dropped on the floor had been cleaned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It had a different meaning—not the comfort of big houses or rich food or even clean streets, but the comfort of belonging with the land, and the peace of being with these hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom door stays closed, and by two o’clock I can’t think of anything else to do except clean their bedroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But over the next few days as they worked to give everything in Daffodil Manor one more cleaning, shining, polishing, Penelope chatted with Ophie like they were old friends. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The open air swirled around my face, clean, fresh. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“And tell her to send some clean cloth for bandages. Clean cloth.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled back the soiled blanket and set the cat on the clean sheet underneath. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

By the time we get on the bus, my back aches, my hands are cracked, and my eyes burn from all the cleaning products. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sergeant doctor cleaned my wounds and would always say, “You are lucky.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On benefit Friday, I work late cleaning that house top to bottom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The day off. So when do you clean?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a clean slate, something new in my life. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He gives away most of his clothes to those who need them more, leaving him with little to wear, none of it clean. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It is covered with clean snow-white linen, that even has got the marks of the iron still on it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening the soldiers cleaned their guns, sometimes firing a couple of rounds into the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Girls in foster households took turns doing all the chores—some fetching water, others cooking or cleaning or scrubbing clothes by hand. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gives me a small amount of clean air. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“If I happened to be selling. I haven’t mentioned that yet, I think. You boys all cleaned out?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered once when he was very young, maybe three or four, and he’d followed Mother into Dad’s office while she was cleaning. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even Wesley has direction, although the brother could clean up his language. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me an armful of clean clothes. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Another time he came to tell Ana Diaz that he needed a volunteer to wash one of the prisoners’ clothes and clean out his cell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head clean of such thoughts. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I put the pot of warm water back on the heat and find two clean cups. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Next day, sir,” said Joe, looking at me as if I were a long way off, “having cleaned myself, I go and I see Miss A.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The horn of plenty kept blasting out a clean torrent. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Yesterday was Father’s birthday, Father and Mother’s nineteenth wedding anniversary, a day without the cleaning lady...and the sun was shining as it’s never shone before in 1944. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Others had been picked clean, or were exploding with popcorn and pretzels after their bags had been gutted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

You need to be clean, not just of real dirt, but of all the bad things you might have done with your hands, your ears, your eyes, your mouth. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I've had a lot of practice at wiping my face clean of emotions and I do this now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They clean up the kitchen together, then sit on the sofa and watch television while she corrects her students’ quizzes and exercises. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sam Westing could have pointed his clues at the Sunset Towers cleaning woman without naming her an heir. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers wandered toward the hallway to the left of the spiral staircase, the one with the cream carpet, so difficult to clean. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the early evenings I did my regular chores at the gas company and late evenings I worked with Mike cleaning the Standard Oil Company, which was located on the outskirts of Santa Maria. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Not a dandelion in sight here, the lawns are picked clean. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There, see that waggle-top? That’s a mortar coming. Keep down, it will go clean over. But if it comes this way, then run for it. You can run from a mortar.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was clean when I awoke before dawn the next morning. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Dowdel, I’ll come clean. I don’t think I better enter my bread-and- butter pickles this year, and I’m going to tell you why. The depression is upon us. Times are hard.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I dip the clean rag into the sweet water, give it to her to suck on, and she goes back to sleep. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It did little good to start him clean to school for too many things could happen on the way. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks as cool and unruffled as ever, no sweat marking his clothes, even wearing riding gloves, even clean boots. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We spend the next couple of hours cleaning the rest of the house and bringing out bags of garbage onto the sidewalk. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We beheaded him, cleaned out the palace, and inaugurated the peasant who would begin the new order. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold on, honey. Let me get you cleaned up first. David, get them some T-shirts.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The children. We should bring them out here—let them breathe in the clean air.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Food tastes better in a clean house,” she always says. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, but I’ll stay here and clean up the breakfast dishes. Gideon says I’m supposed to be a help, not a burden.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other maids had brought a bucket of water and towels, but they didn’t attempt to clean Matt up until Rosa gave them permission. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take something up to Noah so he doesn’t starve,” Rosa added, “and do your dishes. It’s not too hard to wipe dishes clean and put them in a dishwasher, Davis.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But even after I’d polished them clean by rubbing them in the sand, I generally wound up with several stickers in my mouth. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone pitches in, and it helps to have a cleaning supply closet right upstairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

By that time she has pushed back his cuticles, cleaned his nails and painted them with clear polish. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They adjusted her blankets, set up clean cloths and towels close by, and made sure the hot water was ready in the basin. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But, by the Lion, if he breaks it again, it may be in such time and place that any of us could swap off his head in clean battle." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was no water to clean her face, so Nguyen and Yen walked out into the jungle where the ground was wet, and dug a hole with a broken piece of pottery. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We’re volunteering with some of my students to help clean up the highway adopted by the college,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

You sniffed suspiciously at the dark, sticky ball and then nibbled at it as daintily as a princess, while the rest of us hungrily cleaned off one leaf plate after another. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“As long as I don’t have to clean it up,” said Ruza, just as casually. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mother walked toward the right, where the beach was clean, and we all followed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the water forces out salt as it freezes, the water below the ice field is saturated with salt and minerals, and the ice itself is clean enough to melt into drinking water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

There was a cart of books, as clean and modern as the ones on Ben’s shelves. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The boots she’d found were a little large, the pants a little short, but the shirt was broad enough for his shoulders, and at least the garments were clean and whole. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She pretended to clean up spilled cake, and to get Jemima another piece. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

They talked in the kitchen as she was cleaning up. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

To take my mind off the anxiety, I was cleaning out the spare room where Cap had lived for two months. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They slept now in clean beds in a warm house while their father, a bald- headed old Negro, sat in the swamps and wept, holding it in so he would not awaken the Negro children. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed and changed into the one clean shirt she had left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He set about cleaning her up as best he could. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz took a handkerchief from his coat pocket and carefully wiped his face clean. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Yet there you are, cleaning out her locker.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The shower stall led into a bathroom, where there was a shelf that held some clean white socks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And here’s a clean one for school, honey.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Using bottled water, Zeitoun cleaned up and prayed on the roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well,” she moaned, “at least they smell clean.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a laundry, but even after the wash, nothing I wear feels clean. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He often prowled through junkyards touching old cars and buying old alternators and carburetors just for the joy of cleaning them up and making them work again. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My head shaved clean to keep lice away. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

He turned the cleaning into a big production, making separate requests for the tiny bags of powdered soap we kept in the office, for a toilet brush, for garbage bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sumac remained silent all afternoon as I cleaned the remaining alpaca fur for Mama. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As he was cleaning up a glop of it, he took a taste. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we get home, I help Mami clean and then we take the sheets and towels and clothes to wash and dry in the machines in the basement. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The three of us march up the clean white sidewalk. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It isn’t as clean as it was when it was the Erudite compound; now it is ravaged by war, bullet holes in the walls and the broken glass of shattered lightbulbs everywhere. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Wish I had something to clean my vest.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don't mind if the house is clean.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he returned to his apartment to finish the job of cleaning up the litter left from the kickoff rally. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and the rays of light that dazzled through the dusty window of my room washed my face clean. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carefully removed the bandage on his shoulder, threw the foul-smelling thing in the chamber pot, and replaced the lid before washing his shoulder clean in the hand basin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After we’d put on clean clothes and locked the door, Osh and I spread the treasure out in front of the hearth while Miss Maggie lit a fire in the stove. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but scan the living room to see if it was true that she’d actually cleaned up after me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I should never have been shifted in the first place, and now that I was sent back to clean up the mess they should aid me as quickly as possible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take in clean air before I speak again. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t put anything into the sweet bread. Now clean it up, before I get really mad!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But as soon as Coach reached down to clean up the first-aid kit, he bolted out of the bathroom—past Coach’s wife, sitting on the couch with a mug of something—and out the door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once a week a dozen chosen kids met at the school library to discuss everything from setting your sights on college to the importance of getting your teeth cleaned. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The suite where I stayed was on par with many of the bedrooms of white people I had seen my mother clean. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was still August, the air already had the smell of October, football season, piles of yellow-red leaves, everything crisp and clean. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smell like pit sweat and sour breath unless I scrub myself clean. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Rupa and Neel took turns at the pump, washing themselves off and changing into clean clothes. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were given soft slippers and fresh clothing, plain but clean. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We’ll see,” I said, and slapped a clean cloth diaper in his outstretched hand. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was no mechanical damage, Mrs. Hameed. The machine just needs cleaning.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The JPL Spacecraft Assembly Facility, known as the "clean room," was the little-known birthplace of the most famous spacecraft in Mars exploration history. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learns not to put wooden spoons in the dishwasher, as he had mistakenly done one evening when he was helping to clean up. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly people started using the word ecology and talking about cleaning up the planet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, the ex-addict when he is proud, clean, renewed, can scarcely wait to hit the same junkie jungle he was in, to “fish” out some buddy and salvage him! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cleaned the bathrooms already, got the sheets changed, the rugs vacuumed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurses brought me delicious meals three times a day, with fruit cocktail or Jell-O for dessert, and changed the sheets even if they still looked clean. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Who’s got some greasy kid stuff I can use after I clean my gorgeous body?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was warm, clean, and, unless I missed my guess, only one owner from new. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Scott got on his knees and sprayed cleaning fluid in the area underneath the dishwasher, where dirt collected. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It is, actually. They’re down in Brazil at my uncle’s for an extended ski vacation. The next person coming over is Antonia, to clean the house.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s clean, smooth, and fast, and it’s a beautiful royal blue. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

That, we could clean up or replace or mend. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When I awoke from my fever, I found myself wearing a clean linen shift and lying on a hard, narrow bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In no time at all I cleaned out the rats. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks so clean and healthy and beautiful, I can hardly recognize him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I'd go back to the hotel with clean laundry and play cards with the other electrical workers who lived down the hall. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m just cleaning up a bit. I told the transporter to put me at my desk, not in my desk.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And then he says, “I think that glass is clean.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They never get as clean as Mama could get them with her washtub. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She walked to the pile of trash and picked out a reasonably clean paper napkin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had to hold her for me while I cleaned the bites, gave them special attention. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

About an hour later we had the turtle, had cleaned it, and I knew that Mr. Jacket was Tom Sidler. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noted that they had clean, smooth trunks, with none of the countless tiny marks on their bark made by climbing meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want to make the shadow pass over all the clean, startled faces, all those who believe in president grandfathers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the carpentry workshop, he found Meeks, the second mate, lounging in the doorway while Harison sat outside, running a cleaning rag over his revolver. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Rufus was so big, Mr. Freeman thought he was a possum, went and got his hunting rifle, and blew him clean away. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had been at die pilot all this time, almost two months, nibbling and chewing and all that remained was the not quite cleaned skull and when he looked up it wobbled loosely. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned her teeth, and went into her father’s office. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Pa’d take the stereo apart to replace pieces and clean the insides, but he hardly ever spun any records on the turntable. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Assigned to cleaning- up chores, he had probably been underfoot with his mates, making trouble and stealing food from the women’s lunches. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With water and rags she cleaned my wounded ear. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A mile later the sand smoothed out, combed clean and white. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birthmark was to grow darker as the years passed, but now it was the same shade as her gold-flecked eyes, which, to the end, were as steady and clean as rain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother would clean off the headstones with an old cloth and burn sage in a shallow pewter dish. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the baby and cleaned the vomit out of her mouth. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, while he cleaned a bunch of stuff off the seat. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Bailey was talking so fast he forgot to stutter, he forgot to scratch his head and clean his fingernails with his teeth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we got dressed, I placed the note pad in the pocket of my clean shirt. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She crossed the length of the room at a run and, not even bothering to try and keep them clean, started rifling through the stacks and stacks of documents. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On the altar die priest was cleaning the chalice and the platters. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's because she had to call from the hospital and cancel our cleaning service, and she had to do that because of me. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basin in the comer was also very clean. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was at my mother all the time now, following three steps behind her as she swept or cleaned, carrying the black Bible and reading and reciting to her. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clean cold air, the constant motion of the treetops, the brilliance of the moon-painted clouds in the dark sky, and the millions of stars all calmed her a little. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell her that I was too distracted with cooking to check that I had clean clothes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Each day she faced us with a clean slate and acted as if ours were clean as well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cabin was dark and damp, the usual smell of mold clung to every surface, but I would have taken that over the Infirmary’s clean, sterile stench any day. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Cora climbed up into the nook with fresh rations and a clean chamber pot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For once, I’m glad Mom is always cleaning our place. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When white men beat their men, they cleaned up the blood and went home to receive abuse from the victim. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach cleaned his hands on the towel that seemed to live around his neck, then raised his voice. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

If she had been born colored, not a soul would of hired her to clean up or cook, either one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I shake my head and begin cleaning the counter with a wet rag. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We finished the meal, cleaned up, went outside together. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the very least, they needed a clean one. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once when she came to visit, Mom sang a song about how God lifts people from the garbage and cleans and dresses them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Dongan didn’t think the extra barrel that Johnson had to keep was clean enough. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late that night we were still at work, cleaning the fish, hulling the rice, separating the grain from the husk. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were soft beds for them with fat fluffed-up pillows and clean, crisp sheets. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Like being truly clean and truly free as far as maximum effort. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t but you two who cleaned the church?” asked Sister McCandless with an unnerving smile—the smile of the prophet who sees the secrets hidden in the hearts of men. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I scrubbed one hundred attempts clean with my eraser, trying to get the right distance between the fins or the right amount of muscular girth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I ask, cleaning up the butterstick melting right on the counter, not even a plate under it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I poured coffee and tea, served oyster loaf and Indian pudding, carried the dirty dishes back to Eliza, and tried to keep the floor swept clean. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later she was lying on her canopy bed in the clean white cotton nightdress which Betty had found for her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mother and Daddy voted first thing in the morning, even before we cleaned the house. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seer went to the sink, moved the washed lettuce to the side, and began to rinse the cleaned salmon steaks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Pard’n me, sir,” Carlyle says, “but maybe the bird is right. A keelhauling will leave him useless, if not dead. And the cannon needs a good cleaning if we’re to battle the beasts ahead.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I like a clean place, but I cain’t say I like sweeping and mopping. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I look around the room, and I want to clean up in here, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was just cleaning up a few things for my aunt. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a line running clean ’cross his forehead that was so straight it looked like someone had took a measuring stick then cut along it with a knife. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

As we entered the first classroom we were to clean, it brought back memories. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Richard liked the clean lines of her thin body, the sleekness of her raised arm. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I bury my face in his shoulder and close my eyes, just breathing in the clean smell of him, the smell of wind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A ripple of clean fresh water spread out from the break, as if all the pollution in the bay were being dissolved. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And when Ellis rose up, his long legs made a clean triangle, then he snapped his legs together and spun one, two, three times, then did a mashed-potato slide off center stage. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “You near ’bout caused my heart to jump clean out my chest with all that running. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was a fine living room, clean and quiet. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taryn’s house was big and clean and quiet, and she always had the best snacks. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I help there. Not with the actual weaving. But I clean up the scraps and help prepare the looms. It is work I can do with my hands and arms. And I am strong.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, posing as friends of the doctor, they returned to the building and convinced a cleaning woman, Maria Martinez, to unlock the door to Fielding’s office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

More neighbors have joined in on cleaning up, and they form a line that moves trash out the store and into the trash cans on the curb. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Her perfume, if that’s what it was, smelled like grapefruit and peppermint, fresh and clean. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The snow blurred from vision the clean contours of these cedar hills. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Love had fixed a sort of padding out of clean feed sacks printed in bright red and white checks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The bullet took off only a tiny flap of skin on the side of her nostril, and it came out clean, with no bullet fragments left inside. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Cornucopia sits in its original position, but its insides have been picked clean. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their parents, in many cases, had been raised in city neighborhoods, but it was as if they had made a clean break, an escape. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

For much of the day I did chores: cleaned the house, gathered firewood, made fire and lugged water. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d cook and clean all day at the diner on Third Avenue for fishermen, railroad workers, and the occasional crew of navy men. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She is exhausted from two days of cooking, from her morning of cleaning, from these weeks of packing and dealing with the sale of the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When all our plates were clean and our stomachs were filled, Grandma told us to turn out the lights, and she brought the beautifully decorated ginger cake to the table with candles blazing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The house he covered with tiles, but the walls were still made of the hard tamped earth from the fields, only he had them brushed with lime and they were white and clean. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She always smelled clean to him, even in this reeking sty of a city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z