The Peacock would never be expected to turn out her clothes and lift her skirts in front of her girls. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A little queer, maybe—their clothes, especially—but honest. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finish throwing the rest of Aurora’s clothes into a bag and start in on Bryce’s to help him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She had put her own clothes back on, but as they looked up at her in unison—eyes wide, like nervous children—she had the sudden feeling of being naked. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She saw women beating clothes on rocks; their round-bellied babies were deposited on a mat in the shade of a tree. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had no time to pick it up or cross over to the bathroom closets, so we just backed in among the clothes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Frank with his dirty clothes from a day of work on fixing their house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

So, real fast, I say, "But it's a good thing—because now I have to wear clothes out in public again. You were right last night—two negatives make a positive!" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter ordered most of the clothes packed up and delivered, and took one or two things with her when she and Lyra walked back to the flat Then a bath, with thick scented foam. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Most women think of nothing but clothes,” he said absently, and turning a corner we came to a cross-road, and the beginning of a high wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, ancient pictures and clothes and knickknacks were tucked away like secrets. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We just looked quietly back at him, and so he began taking off his clothes, stripping down to his underpants. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need much—a blanket to curl up with and some dried meat—and Kin had a nice backpack that fit Håkon’s blanket plus Anya’s bag of clothes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When he saw her the next day across the hedge, hanging out clothes on the line, she said “Ugwu” and nothing else; she did not smile. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could lose myself playing with my dolls any day of the week, imagining a fabulous life for them with their cool clothes and ever-changing hairdos. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His clothes are a little freaky maybe, but that’s a misdemeanor here, not a felony. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still dressed in their sweaty gym clothes, they sat in the Presidential Suite, shopping online. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is so weird seeing Coach West in regular clothes, shopping at the mall like a normal person. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing wrong with my clothes. They’re brand-new! I just bought them a few weeks ago after I turned young.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Murphy learns that I have come with almost nothing, she sets about gathering clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

With gushing admiration, they photograph indigenous clothes, pay money to watch traditional dances, marvel over everything about Quichua celebrations, crafts, folktales, rituals, gods and goddesses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was then given two sets of clothes and a towel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Can't you see I’m trying to have a nice conversation about clothes? Why do you always have to be so negative?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The next day when I got home from school, I stayed in my school clothes and accompanied our parents, Lynn, and Sam to the bank. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was so stiff and sore I had trouble putting my clothes on. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person who put the clothes in the dryer has no idea that 1 need a foster home. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He folded some clean work clothes and underwear into a carry bag and grabbed the pillow off his side of the bed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queen had dressed him in some of the king’s old clothes, it appeared. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were no clothes or underclothes or shoes anywhere. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has other instructions: Don’t rustle the garbage bag holding the clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A guy in work clothes leaned out the shotgun window with an actual shotgun and fired a long-tailed streamer into one of the logs. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hair, the clothes, everything came together perfectly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s clothes had come to her through Mrs. Lonsdale, and a lot of them had been handed down and much mended. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them have abandoned their blue clothes in favor of black-and-white ones, but they still wear their glasses. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, you want me to bring you a change of clothes?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Children’s clothes hung from a clothesline, stiff with ice, but still sweet-looking. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cold in the room and I’m shivering in my wet clothes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So while it may have looked and smelled like a Saturday from before, her clothes said otherwise. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Still, most of the money pays for diapers, clothes, medicine, and food for his daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He looked up as the boys entered and spread his arms so that they could see his clothes more clearly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Their clothes clung to them like old skin, translucent and drooping. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I have some clothes that might come in handy. Interested?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“How many clothes can you wear in two days?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She wore sports clothes and walked with her head held high. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“A woman who came back from São Tomé had some good children’s clothes for sale.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Consider these new clothes a gift,” she says, “to make up for all the birthdays I’ve missed.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She piled old clothes and old shoes on top. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked at each other, our cold, wet clothes clinging to us, our hair dripping, and then burst out laughing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It smells like she hasn’t washed her sheets in a few weeks, and the floor is covered with clothes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Quickly and deftly he went once more through the pockets of the dead man’s clothes but found nothing there of interest. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives him a look that one trapped person gives another; then Fredericks mother swishes out of a side room wearing tennis clothes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That’s loving our neighbor better than ourselves, and I like it,” said Meg, as they set out their presents while their mother was upstairs collecting clothes for the poor Hummels. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found my clothes laid out on her narrow bed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She wore clothes made out of plastics, mismatched socks, Day-Glo, and braces. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He dressed himself then, putting on his best clothes, that he knew were only for Sunday. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“But his mother should darn his pants and dress him in warmer clothes. The winter is coming. Didn’t you hear the wind in the chimneys today?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, clothes hung on two poles, and underneath were boxes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She tugs open the zipper and yanks out my clothes, my games. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone wore wonderful clothes and behaved horribly to one another. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Y’all are out of control. For real. As far as I’m concerned, there is no money. Fab needs clothes and school supplies,” Chantal says, pointing to me, then at her sisters. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She tucked the pouches of seeds and the small smooth stones between the folded clothes, and she rolled bundles of cattail reeds and willow twigs in a skirt. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stench of human waste, urine, rotting wounds, and strong rubbing alcohol surrounds me, permeating my clothes, skin, and hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much water runs down her face and off her clothes that she is standing in a little creek of her own making. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Each of us had to take off our clothes, roll them into bundles, and dash from one side of the barracks to the other. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Along with the other contestants, I wear a satin sash over my indigena clothes, which, like peacock feathers, attracts the attention of the young indigena men in the room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have to be naked, or the knife would get stuck in their clothes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The point is, it was Friday, “uniform day,” and right after the final bell rang I ran to the bathroom with my duffel bag full of clothes to change out of everything green. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness the UN and the Red Cross kept up their relief missions, flying over Pochala and dropping loads of food, medicine, and clothes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pita tugged at her wet shirt, squeezing out the water and pressing it down over her round belly to smooth it out, while Velia and Delia tried in vain to straighten out each other’s clothes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I still have Viola’s bag with me, tho all it’s got in it anymore are a few clothes, the water bottles, the binocs and my ma’s book, still in its plastic bag. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have a second pair,” I said as I took the bundle of clothes from Sim. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her clothes, even though they are her incognito-wear and not her circus costume, seem too fancy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I lean back into my clothes and take some deep breaths. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My clothes were okay, but I was noticing that lately they were more useful than cute. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Two little girls are washing clothes in the river. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Although he did fall out of a portal, and his clothes looked futuristic. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After changing out of our wet clothes and having lunch, Frankie and I helped Mrs. Baxter peel some potatoes for the night’s dinner. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I banked the fire and blew out the candle and slept in my clothes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good they let you keep your own clothes,” I said to Dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She sent him to the court of Lycomedes, the king who had treacherously killed Theseus, and made him wear women’s clothes and hide among the maidens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinah had been out in the woods all night, but her clothes weren’t dirty at all. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in European clothes, but around his neck hung many charms and around his hips was tied a leopard skin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dismounted to see a sluggish train of women and children and the occasional man, slogging through the mud in their best clothes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was longer than Harry had ever seen it: He appeared to have suffered several gashes to his face and his clothes were ripped and torn. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly all I can see is their gray-tinged clothes that smell like Frank’s cigarette smoke and their ratty hair that never got combed in the morning. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were similar, all of them, their clothes nice and safe, their sense of humor nice and safe, and, like other upper-middle-class Americans, they used the word “wonderful” too often. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d rinsed out his clothes earlier to lessen their scent and hung them from a tree to dry. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He did not care that I wore clothes I made for myself in home economics class, cotton print shirtwaists with crooked zippers and skirts hanging below my knees, outfits only the Pentecostal girls wore. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been too distracted to notice the house’s disarray on her previous visit, the grimed plates, sawdust, and piles of clothes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She was digging through her drawers and saying how stupid all her clothes were, even the good things, but I didn't listen because I was trying to figure out what to do. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Truthfully,” Sally said, “I don’t much care which side of this issue I’m on, as long as I get to skip school and get new clothes. Mother bought me this.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My clothes seem a part of me, even the ones I’ve outgrown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s all make little moneybags to hide in our clothes so we can take our money with us if we need to leave here.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Tyrion fumbled back into his clothes again and groped his way to the stair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Burger was going to pick up some new clothes there, and he was also going to meet up with Quirin and Heinck. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Donna has picked out my clothes for a birthday party—a new black dress that’s so tight, it looks like another layer of skin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am ten years too old to have my mother still picking out clothes for me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He wore grey, although she could not have described his clothes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And yes, they did have more clothes for him!—a big puffy jacket, a hat, a scarf, gloves. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip on my rain boots and briefly wonder whether I should put real clothes on. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My ugly PE clothes will not be fine. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I scramble to my feet, shift the clothes so they hide the posters, and slip on the orange bra and undies set I got for tonight. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was the clothes and the new name and the circumstances. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was Hailsham, maybe a few years before you lot. Apparently she’s working in this clothes shop right now. A really smart one.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught him how to wash his own clothes and cook his own food. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She wore colorful, billowy clothes and served meals at a massive table in the dining room, hosting anyone who turned up, mostly people who belonged to what she called “the movement.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My eyes wander to the clothes hanging overhead, several stories up. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Both of us get chocolate on our clothes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Soon the boys would be up, needing clothes and breakfast. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the floor, a human again—somehow back in my regular clothes, thank the gods—with six other guys who all looked disoriented, blinking and shaking wood shavings out of their hair. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ran along the log back to shore, took off my clothes, and plunged into that icy water. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was now sixteen and had grown to be almost as tall as my father, but his cheeks were hollow and his clothes hung loosely on his bony frame. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In another few minutes he was back where Dicey and Maybeth were spreading clothes out on the sand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She built Mr. Edwards’ face and his clothes and the word that was stamped on the metal clasp of his suspenders. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess that’s why barely one week later Daddy made me wear my itchy, hot Sunday clothes to the train depot. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

One day, Gandhi later explained/'a man in tattered clothes, headgear in hand, two front teeth broken and his mouth bleeding, stood before me trembling and weeping.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Can I give my son a bag of clothes?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“And why are your clothes all wet?” she asked. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was ordered to pick up my bundle of clothes and proceed down the hall, to where a white man and a black man, both dressed in white coats, sat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women and the other girls were shyly, painfully, slowly taking off their clothes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them, the chief’s family is the fattest and wears only new black, shiny clothes, not the faded gray rags we have on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His bureau drawers were all open, and the clothes jumbled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I tried not to think of the doctor with no clothes on with all of them up on the roof but he had that yellow hair on his arms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

T. P. pulled me up and he put on my clothes fast. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard carries Reverend Hunt’s satchel, heavy with his books and Bible and some extra clothes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t have any clothes, apparently, because he’s in a dark blue robe, which smells intensely of body odor. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Fourth Aunt picked up her sons, one under each arm, and hid in the pig house, where they slept that night in cotton clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore the battered clothes of a field hand and an ancient broadcloth coat highly polished by age and wear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture they had in their own hallway showed a boy in old-fashioned clothes staring at some bubbles. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She turned her back to her husband as she slipped out of her nightgown, quickly putting on her day clothes. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Together they worked in a stale little infirmary where Mr. Kapasi’s smartly tailored clothes clung to him in the heat, in spite of the blackened blades of a ceiling fan churning over their heads. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She arrived exalted, rejuvenated, with new clothes in a style that was unknown in the village. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I even thought I might like having myself painted yellow and white from head to toe, especially if they let me keep my clothes on. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My cloak was threadbare, and even wearing my best clothes I was a short step from shabby. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’s this incredibly gorgeous black girl, with curly hair to her waist and the most fabulous taste in clothes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He gave each of us a bolt of cloth and a bottle of vodka, goods he knew we could barter for food, shelter, and clothes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So Siddhartha will come again when he has what he is lacking in—clothes, shoes, money. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s ushered into a courtyard encircled with razor wire, where eight or nine other Germans sit in their high boots holding battered canteens, one dressed in women’s clothes in which he apparently tried to desert. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Be careful. Don't say nothing,” pipes Simeon, his clothes still wet. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“They talk about clothes and boys and all that kind of malarkey. You know.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A bristling sweat seeped into my clothes, dribbled behind my ears. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

What the girls did was to lay the clothes in the water and dance on them until all the dirt was worked out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would explain why the Dictograph set up by the private detectives working for Mollie Burkhart’s family had never picked up any incriminating statements, and why Rose’s clothes had never been found in the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It’s not like he’s taking his clothes off. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was slower with the skinning and dressing, the cooking, the fire starting, and even with the stealing, as they got him better-fitting clothes and a blanket of his own. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, clothes did not change a person, did not really matter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the moonlight, Tristran could see that the clothes he was laying out bore no manner of resemblance to the clothes that Tristran had removed earlier in the day. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Logically they should have been united, not only by the common bond of oil that had kept them in clothes for sixty years, but by the bonds of loneliness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hung up, quickly changed my clothes and fixed my hair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If you are hot, wet your clothes instead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As children, we ate cashews bent over so that the gushing sweet juices did not get on our clothes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Always wore big flowered hats and bright-colored dresses, never “quiet” clothes like nice ladies were supposed to wear on the street. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much to the narrow room: a clothes cupboard, some shelves, and a bed of tidy, tightly packed feather mattresses covered with hand-embroidered quilts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In old suit boxes under the eaves we found folded clothes that went back before the war, way back. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When my alarm rang on Friday morning, the first thing I noticed was that on the end of my bed was a neat stack of clothes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They got company in there, and you in them muddy clothes. You set down too, Caddy, and get done eating.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chou and I slipped in and out of her clothes, laughing and giggling, calling each other Madame and Mademoiselle.Then we’d go into Keav’s jewelry box and put on her necklaces and earrings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twins are already in their play clothes, barefoot, and trying to catch lizards in a plastic jar. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Stripping off my clothes, I let them fall to the ground in a filthy heap. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even my cousin doesn't look as much like a Superwoman in these clothes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Later, at night, waiting for sleep to come, Cheetah doesn’t have to lick any tears off my face because I’m so busy picturing how beautiful I’ll look in mestizo clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By New Year’s we had washed our clothes only once since that first November snowfall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On most days, by the time I am awake, Pa and my brothers are already gone and Ma is busy sewing clothes for the family or working in the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had slept in her clothes, and scrambled down the loft ladder at once. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She drops off some clothes at the dry cleaner’s where her sister’s former husband’s sister works. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She tells them she is going to work and send them money, clothes, and toys. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Despite the distance, Winnie came regularly and always brought clean clothes and delicious food. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she took their ragged clothes and with thread she herself spun on a bamboo spindle from a wad of cotton she mended and contrived to cover the rents in their winter clothes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Looks like ladies’ designer clothes,” Imani says as we get closer. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Who even now could walk freely into his room if she wanted to and smell his clothes, stroke his shoes, and lay her head on the very spot where he had lain his. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” I say, leaving her room with my regular clothes draped over my arm. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, I wanted to be able to ride the merry-go-round and swim in Fair Park Pool and to try on clothes in the department stores downtown. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A man in high-tone clothes and a round red cap shouted, “All aboard,” then pult up the steps right into the train. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But you must remember that the animals knew nothing about clothes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Not all the expensive clothes in the three suitcases in the trunk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was her horse that convinced him, or her fine clothes, for it could not have been her words, but he merely shrugged toward the line of marquees. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, he buys used clothes for 20 cents a pound. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We landed in Philadelphia and I rushed to the convention center, finding just enough time to change clothes and run through my speech twice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He put all the clothes in a sink. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We ran inside, shaking the ice crystals off our clothes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to embroider hearts into my husband’s clothes when I mend them. Because I’ll love him so much!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some of Mama’s oldest clothes were still in the closet, and one or two of Tata's jackets, but her jewelry was missing, along with my grandmother’s gilded egg that opened like a box. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I am presently folding my clothes and preparing to clean up my room. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He put back on his salt-crusted clothes, for there was not enough water to wash them, and going out into the grey windy morning looked over this place whereto the shadow had tricked him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The more time I spend here, the less time we’ll have for clothes shopping later. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I will murder that Elihu Krupnik. Where is he? He is supposed to take her in. And look! You left her clothes on. They are filthy.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the sun rose upon her wedding day so did Daario Naharis, donning his clothes and buckling on his sword belt with its gleaming golden wantons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We carted everything we had from town to town by bus—clothes, books, hats, and these huge quilts my mother had brought from Europe. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood is everywhere, smeared across their faces and clothes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know much at all about psychoanalysis, but Danny Saunders, in his Hasidic clothes, seemed to me to be about the last person in the world who would qualify as an analyst. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew that Dudley’s gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley’s gang. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Momma bought two bolts of cloth each year for winter and summer clothes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next drawer was a stack of baby clothes, ironed and done up nice, like for the next birthing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The mango flesh was a brilliant orange color, and when Oliver bit into it, the sticky juice would drip down the mango and onto his clothes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Or we could just take Needles to a church and do the whole, my brother is sick with a syndrome and we don't have no clothes, please help, bit." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Sucker wore his sun suit and the other two kids had taken off all their clothes except their shorts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a while, she left the suitcases behind, keeping only the food and a few clothes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fat and lazy, no son of her own, and still she buys me the clothes for my new job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It is a habit of hers from their childhood to buy rainbow clothes for herself so none of the girls can accuse her of playing favorites. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

‘You think she knows the difference? I paid good money for those clothes. And another thing. I don’t care for that tone. Consider that a warning.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be like camping, only nicer because there’s a roof. Well, except that we don’t have our sleeping bags. But we can make another nest with our clothes like we did in the barn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He pulled on the rumpled clothes he’d been wearing the day before and ambled into the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the bodies had clothes on; others were nude. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His clothes were rumpled and he looked tired, but he said the food was decent and the police were treating him fine. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She did away with her good plates, her napkins, all her jewelry— save for her wedding band—and most of her old clothes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Calypso set the clothes at his feet and backed away as if he were a dangerous beast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nielsen’s is a large open space divided into aisles, with a pharmacy in the back, a candy section up front, clothes, books, and magazines, shampoo, milk, and produce. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And dead, too, of course, but nothing as obvious as burns and a gash, not even blood on her clothes so maybe she’s busted up on the inside. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But Miss Peregrine made him give it up anyway, sending him out to put on clothes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After a bit, he opened it again and stood there, wrapped in a blanket, his clothes on the floor in a heap behind him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He took off his street clothes as Al tried to find a better station on the little radio he had been bringing to the gym since Billy knew him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like we have to walk the rest of the way. Everybody grab only some clothes and all the food you can carry. We have a long way to go yet.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandwiched between the clothes is a silvery white cap like the kind swimmers wear. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And now, my love, take off your clothes. And I will show you what else I can do.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robotically he got into his clothes, though when he reached for his shoes he saw that only one was hanging from the forked bough. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women were talking about the clothes they had brought. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s time for some field training. You’re going to go through those clothes and see what there is to see.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself up off the floor, helping them gather up the clothes and supplies we’d managed to scrounge up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Miss Skeeter say the peace dove be the sign for better times to come. Say folks is wearing em on they clothes out in California.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I popped by after a game a couple of weeks ago to scope him out. Brought some clothes and introduced myself. He’s older and way thinner, but I really do think it’s him.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Along the river’s edge women were scrubbing clothes and even washing their pots and pans. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, where my mother clothes at? Where my mother shoes? I knew about her watch and ring, but it was stolen. That was after my brother killed that boy.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They shed their clothes and waded into the fountain. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrambling and crawling and pushing, twisting away anytime someone tried to latch on to his limbs or clothes, he moved forward, barreling through the crowd of people. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I lifted the window, the whole world around me smelled clean and fresh as clothes from the washing line. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before I went out I opened the little chest of drawers to find clean clothes all neatly folded and right then I forgot about everything except wanting to be clean. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my clothes on like everybody else and I even forget to take off my other shoe, which is wet and squishy and stinks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We jump up from our seats, change into our play clothes, and rush to the door. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They dressed in the same clothes as the men, and they swaggered around like the men, with guns slung over their shoulders. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you picture those clothes very clearly, Neville? Can you see them in your mind’s eye?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She emptied the wardrobes of the house, taking the children’s clothes, the blankets from the beds, her husband’s jackets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw on some clothes and snuck through the house to avoid waking Mom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

With the money from my family, I bought fresh clothes, modern straight suits. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a man in city clothes and a woman in the fanciest clothes ever. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hair, my clothes, my eyes and arms and hands. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The security guard at the front door acted like girls were wandering in and out in their gym clothes all day long. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The giant warthog had slimed his old clothes pretty badly, so Piper had taken him for some emergency shopping in Pylos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She made Jennifer’s bed and laid out her school clothes, as well. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If she had figure faults, her clothes concealed them; if her face was less than divine, it was hard to tell once she got done applying substances. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But how do you take a person’s clothes when that person is wearing them? The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have a change of clothes. You don’t have a toothbrush.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Yi gasped for breath while brushing the rain off her clothes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, I was dusted with DDT and given clean clothes and assigned to a sunny yellow cell to relax until the lice died. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

So hostile did Granny and Aunt Addie become that they ordered me to wash and iron my own clothes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held fine clothes and a cloak to put around him when he came godlike from the bathing place; then out he went to take his place with Nestor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She awaited my clothes, and I, without a word—unable to refer with propriety to undress—stood hapless and motionless. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We dressed in our best clothes and arrived at Velva’s Freeze on time. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

These were made for a woman, and Ash wondered whose clothes they were and how Kaisa had known they would fit her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not much bigger than a good-sized clothes cupboard and there was one small window in the back wall with a sink under the window, but there were no taps over the sink. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The little children paraded in and out of the bathroom, putting their clothes on in the bedroom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drizzle let up long enough for us to shelter behind a rain tree at the end of the avenue and change into our new old clothes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The woman stood up and shook out her clothes and the sari she was working on. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had nothing that was mine but my clothes, wrist watch, and suitcase. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grown-ups pulled wobbling carts of furniture and clothes and pictures and rugs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Our clothes clung to us, and under our feet the dry dust of the courtyard softened into mud and squeezed up between our toes. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And we went down to a clothes store, and sat in the dressing room for a while. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the cold the clothes freeze stiff, like plywood. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The surface, however, the visible terrain, was a landscape of old clothes and crates and newspapers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every week I sat down to create a schedule for my clothes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

With Stick’s gun tucked secretly under my dress clothes, I was one of them, wasn’t I? The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Farther down, she tossed the bloody clothes in their black plastic bag deep into a dumpster. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for breakfast. And the clothes. And... not hating me.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had done her washing the day before and had spread the wet clothes over willows to dry. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But with his clothes on he looked skinny. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Adele had arrived at that point, and as we looked at the shelves of musty clothes, arranged by category—shirts, jeans, shoes—we couldn’t help but giggle. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ten days later, Cilia told him the farm clothes he had hidden in the hay were gone. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely no silversmith would have carried out his craft in what are probably Revere’s best business clothes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added, “Ask the baas if he’s got any old clothes he wants to get rid of. I badly need underwear and socks.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Herold could not bathe or wash clothes and, unshaven, they looked and smelled worse each day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on her feet all day in the sweltering laundry was an opportunity if the tumbled military uniforms bought new school clothes, if each sock made a down payment on her children’s college educations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They still used swords and wore funny clothes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, I did not know, until I read your question, that clothes have a religion. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We had been sort of secret friends for a couple of weeks before people really started getting on them about not having a bunch of clothes. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth most thankfully consented, and a servant was dispatched to Longbourn to acquaint the family with her stay, and bring back a supply of clothes. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Walking here on the streets, I feel conspicuous in my mountain clothes, but I guess I’m not. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

None with a fraction of the flair that I saw in Rae’s clothes. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She seemed content with whatever clothes she found at the front of the closet, with whatever magazine was lying around, with whatever song was on the radio — content yet curious. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have any clothes in there. Or even a toothbrush.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On hearing of Gotama’s approaching death, she had set off on foot, wearing simple clothes, together with her son. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in homespun clothes, Ben Franklin is the center of attention at a reception held for him by King Louis XVI and his queen. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From our bundle, I grabbed a change of clothes and our toiletries, towels, and water bottle. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had forgotten what food other than soggy oats and hard bread tasted like, what a clean body and clothes could do to a person. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“He’s just won a medal. If he wants to receive it without any clothes on, what the hell business is it of yours?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

With the barrel of his pistol, he nudges the clothes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Gavril cut my clothes from my body, pulling them away in fragments, a sleeve here, the leg there. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We wore our best clothes, and Mrs. Moss shooed the others outside. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She opened the washtub cover and threw the gun into the water in which some soiled clothes were soaking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s bad enough my clothes don’t match with the latest fads, but wearing high-waters is considered social suicide in middle school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid wore the same kind of clothes she wore every day and was dressed up. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women washed clothes in the ponds; children collected the water. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wiped the kitchen table, rinsed out the spit cup, put clean sheets on Grandpa’s bed, picked up clothes and newspapers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Gitl had been working in the sorting shed, where mountains of clothes and shoes, mounds of books and toys and household goods from the suitcases and bags were divided up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gotta get comfortable again in another house with different food and clothes and rules and stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Just wood and that pink insulation stuff and tiles and clothes and food, all the colors of their world thrown together like a giant had had a temper tantrum. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I say as I climb out of my clothes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She is still in the clothes she had on yesterday, rumpled now. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t wear all crazy clothes, but I do like my Ben Franklin sunglasses because everyone looks at me when I wear them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he could speak again, he said, “Still them raggedy clothes, huh, fish?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quilts on our beds and the clothes in our chest were limp and smelled of mildew. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Mami has been bribing her with old clothes and tips and extra days off to keep her happy with our family. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When I came into the yard, my sisters and brother surrounded me, their curiosity comforting, as they pulled on my dirty clothes with remarks that I smelled bad. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Billy did as he was told, took off his clothes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I pulled the wagon with clean clothes down the little lanes, I found myself studying houses with new eyes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the sky in the cave entrance Juana could see that Kino was taking off his white clothes, for dirty and ragged though they were they would show up against the dark night. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy flipped through rows and rows of clothes, hunting for something that fit. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I'm wearing my clothes from last night, though someone has removed my shoes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you want to change your clothes, girls?” she asked us as she was tying her sneakers. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had to buy beach clothes when they got to Florida. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I became quite the ninja when it came to undressing in our high school locker room, developing strategies to change my clothes so that no one would actually have to see me naked. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her wrists, stood up, stretched, and only then noticed the condition of her clothes and hair. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For nearly a decade, she and my father held a fragile truce between them, with Jagu living under her care, eating meals in her room and wearing clothes that she stitched for him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We folded our clothes neatly and laid them on the stools at the ends of the beds. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She probably keeps his clothes in here, packed in mothballs. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

About fifty girls, all dressed in indi'gena clothes, sit in the first few rows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind girl went to work in the dark, stripping the dead of boots and clothes and other possessions, emptying their purses and counting out their coins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wore clothes far better and more expensive than what was sold in the store. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his bags of clothes and CD on the steps, then sat and stared at the church sign. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

For five hours, he doesn’t shower or change his clothes or laugh or smile or cry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She has sawdust leaking out of one leg and stains on her clothes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

From what we’d heard they were practically starving and hadn’t any clothes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have told Mom to pack a change of clothes for me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Charlie would not wear new clothes that fit him right, or have that new haircut. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without looking at Hooper again, he went towards the pile of clothes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tennyson was normally a very proper woman who never went out in public without dressing up in fine clothes and a hat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I could hardly leave in the clothes I came in — what would the neighbors think?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Most of my clothes, which are not many in number, are pants and jersey tops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lies on the couch in the dark, in his clothes, his body covered by his jacket, preferring that to the stripped mattress in the bedroom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I were a boy, would I be staying home to fold laundry and iron clothes? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He swung between us like a sack of old clothes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men are in workers’ clothes, not fancy establishment garb. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Whilst we prepared Lockton’s clothes for the journey, she wrote out long lists of items she wanted him to buy in England. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My arms and back complained like the dickens as I refilled the wash boiler, kept the water hot, rubbed grimy clothes on the washboard, wrung them out, and hung them to dry. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She learned from Muff to pour a bottle of Coca-Cola into the soak tub to help loosen the mud, but it still took extra scrubbing before she even put the clothes through Muff’s washer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was still drunk, but his night of boozing had done more damage to his clothes than to anything else; his face was fresh and flushed as a child’s. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At first I thought it was just your clothes, like. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual her lipstick is just so, but when she steps into the bright afternoon sun, I see dark stains, deep and dried, on the front of her clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The kind of cool that comes from teaching yourself guitar and wearing normal clothes and not running a Tumblr called “Passion Pit OBSESSION.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That’s why she had made the boy put on his ragged clothes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought extra clothes rolled up and tied with a string. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bearded soldier ruffled through my nicely folded clothes and checked all of the suitcase’s pockets. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He peels himself out of his clothes and groans lightly as he gets into bed, and switches off his lamp, and says good night, and still she sits. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

New Year was coming and who had all the money he wanted for the new clothes and the feasting? The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For about ten long seconds there was no sound but the rhythmic tick tick tick of the water dripping from Charles’s sodden clothes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

People seemed to want to dial into my clothes, my shoes, and my hairstyles, but they also had to see me in the context of where I was and why. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And just like in Smyrna everyone seemed to have packed all their clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Against the right wall sat a single bed, a messy desk, and an open wardrobe filled with extra denim clothes and a stack of farm implements, like pitchforks and rakes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I say, throwing my Chicago clothes into the laundry hamper while scouting for new hiding places for my agendas and notebooks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Jem appeared puffing, sweaty, and filthy from his enforced sprint, he ran straight past them and dived into the creek with his clothes on. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“On a scale of one to ten, how bad do I look? Ten being burn your clothes.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even in my new, period-appropriate clothes, I felt transparently out of place. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I jumped out of bed and slipped on my clothes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy hangs a rope across the room to hang the clothes till they dry, stiff and hard. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His clothes are, well, let me describe them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“That was stupid of me,” he said, dabbing at his clothes with a napkin. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My night bag, which contained only a flashlight, a few changes of clothes, and a granola bar, sat under my bunk bed, packed and ready to go. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday, we put on our Kingdom Hall clothes pull out our Kingdom Hall satchels, filled with our Kingdom Hall books and walk the seven blocks to the Kingdom Hall. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I jumped up to run downstairs and ask her to take me to the mall with her, since I was going to need new clothes to impress Tina. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Will I serve the Lord Commander's meals, help him fasten his clothes, fetch hot water for his bath?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I open my bookbag and untwist the plastic bag, with my hometown clothes now bunched into a wet fist, then pull out my navy polo. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He tugged on his last set of clothes, grabbed the phosphor grease, found the silver earring and the luck bag of rice that he’d been given. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It showed how much Momma knew about me that she assumed I minded making my clothes. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When I get back to Dana’s room, I let the towel drop and leave it there, then put on whatever clothes are nearest. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Brother Worbs's flat is a mess: dirty dishes, clothes lying around, drawers pulled open. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, showered, clothes changed, I was back in the lobby. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I could hear the clothes falling into the basin behind the rollers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clothes hung out to dry were still, stiff, as if desiccated by the hot afternoon sun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson arranged his toiletry kit, clothes for tomorrow, and pajamas on the bed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There’s not enough time to give the clothes back before the bell. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rolled their clothes into tight bundles and packed them in. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she slumped down onto the bed amid all those beautiful clothes and her new luggage and started to cry uncontrollably. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mothers with infants have no baby clothes, no buggies, and very little cow’s milk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The funny thing is I made sure it was full. I’m going to put my clothes on,” she added. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The men were grizzled and sharp-eyed, dressed in dark, heavy- knit clothes built to hide layers of road dust. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

One Sunday Mami starched and ironed my white piqué dress, packed a few changes of clothes in a small bag, and told me I was to spend a few days with Papi’s mother. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Underneath our black clothes we were supposed to wear red panties. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“In the dye. My father wouldn’t produce clothes in that shade because of it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Bowls and measuring cups and ingredients covered the counters; flour and sugar dusted their clothes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the steam were about thirty teenage girls with no clothes on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how out of place I may feel in clothes that my friend Jaime Madison might don, it’s better to walk into a job interview dry. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dicey sat down in the middle of it between two brown bags, one holding clothes, one food. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They undressed him, and his clothes were full of yellow jackets and their stings were swelling up all over him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Mom started teaching, I thought maybe we’d be able to buy new clothes, eat cafeteria lunches, and even spring for nifty extras like the class pictures the school took every year. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each piece of clothing is folded neatly, with reverence, especially the children's clothes, which have the most items and the fewest takers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my pillow, my keepsakes bag, some clothes, and my toothbrush. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Debris, dirt, grass, and twigs from the river still stuck to his clothes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Druggett was a frightening man to me, his clothes always covered in burns and smears, his head wound in a bandage that, he claimed, fastened his brain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It held a change of clothes, a loaf of trail bread, some jerked meat, a skin of water, needle and thread, flint and steel, pens and ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s some broken electronics, wood scraps, an old coffee table covered in stains, and a bag of clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Dusting the bark from my clothes, I walk toward the largest tent. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The storerooms held supplies of every kind—canned food, clothes, furniture, blankets, light bulbs, medicine, pots and pans, reams of paper, soap, more light bulbs—everything the people of Ember could possibly need. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I came home and bought you all kinds of clothes and toys, because I loved spoiling my baby niece. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he would ask me to take off my own clothes, that he would then turn me this way and that, looking at me from a distance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, Heinck, Quirin, and Burger carried the wooden boxes, the bag of clothes, and the suitcase full of money up a sand dune. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Their clothes were torn and snagged by briars, burrs were clinging to them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demand for new garments has slowed, and people have taken to mending their own clothes— it’s one place they can easily cut corners. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

Inside were Gram’s things, all mixed in with Gramps’s clothes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But he only hesitates briefly before he’s stripping out of his clothes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the mess and misery of the house only as long as we had to, trading our wet clothes for dry, finding our shoes, trying not to look at anything else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“But we will continue our studies of the earth’s rotation at another time. Now, gentlemen, it is time to put on your clothes.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Her makeup was smudged and her clothes rumpled. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She takes off her disgusting clothes, rinses them, and hangs them up. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t mind changing her clothes in public. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Eventually, faith faltering, Helen studied harder, walked more, bought new clothes, wrote her parents less. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw on my clothes and ran down at once; my patient is too dangerous a person to be roaming about. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They are her burying clothes as she doesn’t want to be buried in a shroud. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rocked me for a while in silence, until I noticed that his clothes were changed, his hair smooth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled on some clothes and tiptoed down the hall. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When we were in Mirpur Khas, it was easier to tell who was who, but out here, we all looked the same in our dirty clothes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

First, while sorting Nancy’s clothes, Mrs. Elaine Selsor, her aunt, had found tucked in the toe of a shoe a gold wristwatch. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a small tree and we got clothes for presents, but the most important thing was going to visit the Nativity scene at the church and going to la misa de gallo, midnight mass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she answered timidly, looking up from the edge of the pool and from the clothes she was beating upon a smooth flat stone, “The pearls? I have them.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The clothes had been taken from the bodies to keep the living soldiers warmer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Why do people have words on clothes, Ted?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to put clothes away—the question is, Where? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I need more clothes. I didn’t pack for a long trip!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Through the bedroom is a gray sitting room she treats as a closet, her shoes and handbags and clothes scattered across the floor, piled on a fainting couch, spilling over the backs of chairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Buying new clothes was something that didn't happen very often in our family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The women stayed at home and made shoes and mended clothes, if they were thrifty, and thought of preparations for the feast of the New Year. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I want enough food to eat, clothes, and shoes that will protect me from the cold. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the real world I had never met anyone who sewed her own clothes, but in Century Village, I had met three. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still in his not-from-Fry clothes, with his dreadlocks all over the place, he yelled something. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I quickly slip into the last of my dry clothes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Brand-new clothes that should have been worn by a younger woman. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earnings buy clothes, shoes, and paper for school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a man, his clothes and body pretty much completely burned away from the chest down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tally felt strangely exposed without her sleeping bag, lying there in her clothes, but the warm sun and the long night’s travel put her quickly to sleep. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m cold where I was hot before, and I’d really like to put my clothes back on and go crawl into my closet, please and thank you. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Ma takes us girls to a nearby pond, which is already crowded with people washing their clothes and naked children, tentatively putting their heads under the muddy water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at her clothes and her hair and her glasses and her luggage with the wheels. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had told me to wear comfortable clothes, so I’m wearing the loosest pants and sweater I could find. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sure, you need your clothes, but you need your life more. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They gave me some clothes, a dress of hers, and burned the Aunt’s outfit and the pass in their furnace; they knew that had to be done right away. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since I can’t remember how she dressed, it must have been that she wore clothes that matched herself exactly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shin threw away the stolen, ill-fitting clothes that identified him as a North Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was Danny Saunders, sitting on my bed in the hospital dressed in his Hasidic-style clothes and talking about wanting to kill me because I had pitched him some curve balls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her suitcases were in the closet, as were her clothes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rain was falling harder now—my hair and clothes were damp—and I crossed to the other side of the street and stood, clutching my purse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He immediately stood out from the rest of us because his tennis clothes and rackets were worth at least twice the tennis team’s annual budget. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We always looked neat and clean, but it wasn't the same as the other kids who had store-bought clothes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of them are wrapped up in coats, others have on clothes and shoes that look like they belong in the trash. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Look at her clothes and her hair and her glasses and her luggage with the wheels. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We are scrubbed and in our donated clothes, the girls in dresses with white pinafores and thick stockings, the boys in knickers that button below the knee, white dress shirts, neckties, thick wool suit coats. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

All you have to do is take away their clothes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, dear. Your clothes need a good wash.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He listened awhile to her rubbing clothes on the metal washboard, then he gazed abstractedly into the street, thinking of how he had felt when he fought Gus in Doc’s poolroom. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the women inside the laundromat transfers an armful of damp clothes into a dryer. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then we went indoors and trashed the gifts he’d given us: jewelry, clothes, books, anything. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But the Mansfields were already there, so she had to put on her hostess face and ignore Lily's casual clothes for the time being. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Jason charged at Percy, who was now on his back, his clothes smoking from the lightning blast. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t eat that much, and all of his clothes were hand-me-downs from Matthew and Mark. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a meal of C rations, they’d turn in, still wearing their combat clothes and boots. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But if you ever want to go clothes shopping, I can help you. I helped Lauren. Changed her life.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At any given time he had at least two knives stashed somewhere in his clothes. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I felt the clothes on my back ready to ignite. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes in that there’s a bag over my shoulder and that I’m in the same clothes I wore when we fought. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the main room he took off his clothes and put them on the bed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Her hair was pulled into its usual ponytail, and her checkered dress looked like the same type of clothes she’d wear any other day. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mysterious nature of his death was unlucky enough, but it would be even worse for him to be buried in the clothes he was wearing when he died. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Let’s see what you have in your closet She opened the closet doors and started thumbing through the clothes f had hanging there, giving little motherly comments. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were baby clothes: little pink puffy shorts and a pink flowered onesie. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There are other newspaper pictures too, showing thin- looking children in scruffy clothes, standing in front of piles of rubble. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell they were new because they stepped off the trains in real clothes, not camp uniforms, with their luggage and children in tow. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I went up to my room and changed out of my clothes and into my running things. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By Thursday night, only mattresses and a few clothes and toiletries remain in the echoey house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is considerable overlap: a naked goddess wreathed in flowers, with a couple of dogs standing by; biblical people with or without clothes, plus or minus animals, trees, and ships. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I charge the eighty-five dollars to Mother’s account since she’s always begging me to go buy new clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She sprang from the bed and began to put her clothes back on while Wes slowly sat up and wiped his eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I wrapped Little Ann in my coat and hurried into my clothes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The police probably barged into their home before they had had time to dress,” my mother said, replying to my brother’s question why the man and woman had no clothes on. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tremble, run upstairs to my room, and change my clothes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

After a while, I stood there, wearing the same clothes I had worn on Sunday for the ball game. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Doctor Korczak brought me new clothes, the second person ever to do that. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

When Mama took us to the bargain basement sales in the Loveman’s and Pizitz department stores, we never asked why we couldn’t try on clothes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We slept on piles of our own clothes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and said, “I don’t think they’re locked, Bud, there’s nothing in there but girl’s clothes and toys.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want us to fight, so we had to get in line, and when our turn came, people handing out clothes would put their hands in a bag and pull out whatever they touched. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Inside are hundreds of buckets, lined up two deep in front of trunks and clothes racks, with names or initials painted on the sides. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Shut up. It’s Friday night and we got places to be. Put some clothes on and let’s go.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Why I swam in my underwear and left no clothes on the sand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The children sit at his feet in their cleanest clothes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The two boys moved so quickly, it seemed that their discarded clothes were still floating to the ground as their bodies hit the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later Lupita and Salvador came out of the yellow house, wearing their old clothes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It was tough to raise enough cotton for clothes and grow enough food for all of us and the mule. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks a bit pale, and yet he cheerfully set off to sell some clothes for Mr. van Daan. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t so much sit in the chair as fall into it, like clothes heaped onto the floor at the end of a long day. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the first sign that the flow of milk was slackening, they collapsed in exhaustion, not worried about lying in milk because their clothes and hair were already drenched. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He’s been sleeping in his clothes since we came to the Bureau. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

How could they ever earn enough money to give their daughters pretty clothes and send them to Europe during the summers so they wouldn't get bored? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The women studied the pictures of clothes and houses, gardens and cars with great interest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drove it forward at a man coming straight for him, thrust its tip into his stomach and watched as his clothes ignited. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Everywhere there was stuff—tents, clothes, backpacks, raincovers—hanging out to dry, dripping sluggishly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I don’t want them to see you without any clothes on.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wesley made beautiful clothes for her daughter— dresses just the right length and color and that perfectly fit Cynthia’s tiny waist. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he piled the man’s shoes and clothes in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Brambles snagged at his clothes as he ran and a branch knocked his hat from his head. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They all had pieces of paper pinned to their clothes, with names written on them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He put in some extra clothes, in case he got wet, and some paper and a pencil, so that he could write a record of the journey. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any shoes or clothes in that house?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I dressed in my heavy clothes, remembering I didn’t have a jacket. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They beat me up pretty bad, pulling my hair and tearing my clothes and calling me a teacher’s pet and a matchstick. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if she was just going to set his clothes on fire why did she need Vaseline? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It appears quite old," Mr. Norton said, looking across the bare, hard stretch of yard where two women dressed in new blue-and-white checked ginghams were washing clothes in an iron pot. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most of the time her sweet smile and beautiful clothes and perfect skin filled me with rage. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And to top it all off, the dude's got clothes straight out of a music video. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Bodies were on top of him in an instant, clawing and ripping at his clothes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was barely light outside, but the spring humidity had already seeped into their shack, weighting down their clothes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He greeted Rebeca in the dining room, tied the dogs up in the courtyard, hung the rabbits up in the kitchen to be salted later, and went to the bedroom to change his clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For days they lived in wet clothes and ate cold food. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why don’t you put some clothes on ? Why are you walking around naked ?” “I don’t want to wear a uniform any more.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always wanted to go to Europe. We could get on a ship and have nice clothes—dresses from Paris.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took her basket of sheets and clothes and melted back into the house. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"A set of clothes for Rani," I say at last. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At the Charlestown ferry slip he washed in the cold sea water, and because the sun was warm sunned himself as he did what he could to make his shabby clothes presentable. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made more sense to buy thrift-store clothes, and they had the armholes in the right places. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She probably thought I was washing all my clothes or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Their modern clothes flickered, turning into gray hooded robes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’ll struggle, she’ll lean into me with all her weight, press her flesh, and then somehow the clothes start coming off. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena is there, dressed in street clothes and lined up for food. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It’s Rachel, surrounded by a bunch of kids wearing clothes that most definitely did not come from the EastSide Mall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle had left some clothes at the house, and she took them out and sat with them for days. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He had not changed clothes nor washed nor shaved in a week. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounds so hard that I think it will burst through my clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racks of clothes, shelves of books, shoes, tennis rackets. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The dogs attacked the protesters—ripping clothes and biting flesh. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that if they wore civilian clothes and were captured, they risked being executed as spies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“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 was dropping off my books in my locker after school—and grabbing the workout clothes I’d stashed in there with my gym bag—when I heard a sudden swell of voices. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes flicked over my clothes and face and hair. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When we were bathed, our mama wrapped us in towels, led us into the sleeping room, and presented each of us with clean, sweet-smelling clothes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A damp wind had greeted them as they climbed down the steps from the station, blowing right through their thin clothes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There had to be at least fifty of them, their clothes smudged and sweaty as if they’d been hard at work, all shapes and sizes and races, their hair of varying lengths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t change her clothes, but just took off her boots and reached into her pack, into the little pocket she’d sewn into it to hold her most cherished possession. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In his excitement, the dog sniffed our clothes and licked our faces so frantically you’d think the frenzied creature had three heads. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Kevin and I didn’t have enough clothes or any deodorant at all, so often, we smelled too. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was held away from the fire itself, the heat was so intense that Encanis’ clothes charred black and began to crumble without bursting into flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You said you couldn’t carry anything, and I guess that includes clothes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We’d have to watch the Meehans and everyone else parading around in their new clothes and staggering home with eggs and potatoes and sausages for Sunday and sailing off to the films on Saturday night. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once in my room, I spread the clothes on my bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When we get home, I run upstairs with my bags of books and clothes and throw them all in a heap onto my bed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was too soft to be a hand, and it wasn’t the touch of clothes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“During World War II, the people of Norway wore paper clips on their clothes as a protest against the Nazis,” Mr. Brademas puts in. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I changed into dry clothes and took the bag of graveyard dust and powdered brick, still heavy with water, out of my dress pocket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He remembered lots of little things about life—eating, clothes, studying, playing, general images of the makeup of the world. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Pain runs through my healing arm, and I hear the silver bullets Tess took from my clothes clink together in my pocket. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I turn and walk away, but the smell of death still clings to my clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They know their work clothes will be mended, washed, and ironed on Monday, that their Sunday shirts will billow on hangers from the door jamb, stiffly starched and white. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaily's eyes raged with lunacy; his clothes were torn and filthy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Will you please get out of my clothes?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Commandant calls me up every evening to take her clothes for washing and braid her hair for the night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I must have been a strange sight, always dressed in men’s work clothes, my hands as rough and weathered as the sides of the crab house where I worked. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I shucked off my slave rags, put on my master’s clothes, and rode off on his horse to my freedom,” Captain Smith finishes his story. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, my limited wardrobe consisted entirely of ill-fitting clothes from thrift stores and donation bins—the social equivalent of having a bull’s-eye painted on my forehead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in golfing clothes and looked slightly ill at ease. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A half hour later, they had backpacks full of food and water and some clean clothes they’d found hidden away in the small barracks section. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He said, “Quick! Get some clothes and go for her. She is at the bank of the Ota River.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a snit, he pointed an accusing finger at my clothes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Moss bolted into the bathroom and peeled off his clothes, started the shower, and then jumped in before it warmed up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The third officer had come through from the kitchen and was rifling inside a box of Chaim’s clothes that hadn’t made it to the front bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Both had swollen faces, eyes red from crying, and rumpled clothes from the long train ride. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing is such a pathetic word, isn't it? But then, you are pathetic. Your clothes are rags and you have a pustulous scab on your neck. Still...” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He put on his clean set of orange clothes. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I just want to be in clothes I like. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A woman’s hair must be covered in the house of God, and a woman must not wear a man’s clothes, especially in the house of God, he would say. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly change into my gym clothes and am the first one out on the field. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Neither could Grayson, especially when he got a load of the kid drowning in his clothes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their delicate winged bodies, prone and limp, were snarled in the girls’ hair, attached to their clothes, even stuck to their bare arms and legs, like dried pressed flowers. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"I still have a good eye for clothes. I know just what I want. And I have an appointment at the beauty salon, too. Besides, you have to study. Pick me up in three hours." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With the few clothes I owned stuffed into a box, we rode in his car to Mason. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin man in khaki work clothes came out of a diminutive octagonal aerie and leaned over a steel gangplank. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one college break he returned home wearing a Lacoste shirt, telling the Warden that he couldn’t wear clothes that weren’t “preppy.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I secretly love seeing him like this, in the clothes he chooses each morning from his closet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Had she mentioned the scraps of paper, or his red eyes, or the musky-sweet smell on his clothes? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had not taken any clothes, not even his mother’s overcoat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Without having met me, how could she know that I hated to get clothes for Christmas? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come and get some dry clothes on,” my mother said, pushing the wet hair off my forehead. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His threadbare clothes were filthy and shredded to the point that I couldn’t tell what his T-shirt used to say. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dirty, clothes torn, hair matted, he’s been tested. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I remember changing clothes in my room and washing up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He might not have cared about his clothes anymore, but his hair was always combed into a neat white hairdo. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was usually past two by the time they got out of their Sunday clothes, cooked dinner, and finally sat down to their long, lazy meal. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her new school clothes were laid out carefully on her chair for her to put on when she woke. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

His clothes weren’t as ratty as the other competitors’; the mere fact that she’d actually heard his name implied he must have been a good thief in Perranth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen her in regular clothes, the kind she wore to relax around the house or run errands. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She let another tooth fall, and was outraged by painted ladies who thought only of clothes and men. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least my mama don’t make me wear the same clothes every day!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He looked around for his clothes and saw that his suitcase was on the floor by the bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Healed in both body and soul, Pedro Tercero Garcia made his way to the capital with a bundle of clothes and a few coins the priest had taken from the poor box. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he hung his clothes outside, they would never dry. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then she brought over a paper bag containing his clothes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At home, he counts out his life savings, which is a higher amount than he had expected, and packs a change of clothes and an extra sweater. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His father shares a bed with him and brings him apples and clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I thought, The minute I change clothes he’s going to show up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We went on, choking in an eddy of windborne wreck dust, powdered concrete blanching our clothes, our faces bone white. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then he folded his clothes neatly over the back of his chair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Usually his clothes and possessions just sort of melted into his animal shape, but apparently he still smelled like a yummy poison dinner. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were even some inside, stuck to her clothes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He didn't think about Scott Spencer until he went into Jack's bedroom to change back into his clothes and noticed that his shoes were on the floor and his shorts weren't folded up. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We got a drink of tea-brown water, and I rummaged through the duffel for the driest change of clothes I could find. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ben grabbed a pile of clothes and stuffed them under the mattress of his bed, smoothing the mattress with his hand to ensure that no lumps were visible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put on fresh clothes, leaving the damp ones in a pile on the floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I grab hold of the phone and peel off my clothes at the same time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And we use fitted when we speak of someone whose clothes are, shall we say, under construction: Alice was fittedfor a new dress. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a bad moment, though, lasting long enough for me to glimpse a future without toothbrush or change of clothes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Angels wear clothes and wings and are Christian. Cupids wear bows and arrows; they are naked and pagan.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a prompt nurse, she peeled back my blood-wet clothes, drew a quick breath as she arrived at the original royal red towel, and applied a fresh bandage. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Bags upon bags of clothes belonging to all the families in the square are dumped into a pile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes are filthy, and the brim of his hat looks like someone has taken a bite out of it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I inventoried my missing duffel, mentally taking the clothes out and placing them on the broad soft rug of my dad’s living room. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next day the sun shone, and Coraline’s mother took her into the nearest large town to buy clothes for school. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I had a cot to myself, decent clothes, more than enough food, and I was being paid! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“But in disguise, like you just fell down and then borrowed some bloke’s clothes.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

After a hot ride on the train, I’m eager for a shower and cooler clothes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the clothes sat extra blankets, blue, but worn with use. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When we got to the honey house, it was deserted except for Rosaleen, who was gathering up her clothes so she could move up to May’s room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the fight dies down, my clothes are more paint-colored than black. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be no fine motorcars and new clothes. Then I know my people will be happier.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We went straight to the juniors' department on the second floor of Broadway Department Store, where she scanned the racks to see what was there before sliding clothes along them one after another. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As a convicted prisoner, I did not have the choice of wearing proper clothes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My room is stark—a narrow bed, a small table, a bare lightbulb, an old chest of drawers for my clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m grabbing hold of the bag of clothes she brought me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My brother’s ragged sweater and sievelike moccasins are the clothes he studies in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really know. I guess try to see my boys. Put on some clean clothes,” I said, smirking awkwardly. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Aside from my clothes and my father’s lute, I had nothing else. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos went on through to the storeroom of his father, a great vault where gold and bronze lay piled along with chests of clothes, and fragrant oil. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As if new clothes and a laptop were going to replace having him at home.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I dug some clean clothes out of my suitcase and set the Dancing Fan back on its rubber feet. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Feel free to fold and iron my clothes, if you want,” Benji joked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain was still dividing the room and when I pult it aside, I was surprised to see Ma standing there without no clothes on. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Since it looked like it was going to be another hard winter, and since Dad wore nothing but his bomber jacket in even the coldest weather, I decided to get him some warm clothes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had removed his black cloak and got rid of his trumpet, and was now wearing his ordinary simple clothes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tori went through her things and found some clothes she thought might fit you,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s larger than Finch’s but packed full of clothes, shoes, purses, jackets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That at least was as he remembered; the ancient stones slick with spray and spotted by lichen, the sea foaming under their feet like some great wild beast, the salt wind clutching at their clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even though it's the third week of October, the summer beats on with the rhythm of a clothes dryer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We each had a room with a two-sheeted bed, plenty to eat and store-bought clothes to wear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were new clothes to buy for all of them, and the old ones to pack away in moth balls. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I moved my pallet as close to the hearth as I dared and sat with all my clothes, my cloak, and my blanket wrapped around me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer asked a fellow freshman, who was unpacking his dry-cleaned clothes, “How come you put your shirts in plastic?” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They wore good clothes and had the pinky color that comes of good food. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I changed into my street clothes in the adjacent dressing room, but I had to stop because my fingers were trembling so violently that I couldn’t button my shirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It looked primitive, made entirely of dark wood, with no clothes or painted features. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In the picture, an invisible wind pulled at her white gown, outlining her body so vividly that she didn’t seem to be wearing any clothes at all. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I quickly pulled my clothes back on and we said thank you and goodbye to everyone. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a mess; he longed for a hot shower with plenty of soap, and for some clean clothes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"The clothes maker shrugged and said all muffled, ‘Shirt, I don't know!"' Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He took off his clothes and stepped into the water. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what I do when I’m back in my room: I take off my clothes and put on my nightgown. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard her clothes rustling in the darkness; she was undressing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That when Little Bobby came outside to surrender, and took off all his clothes except for his underwear to show he had no gun, they shot him anyway. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her clothes and stepped purposefully out into the living room, determined not to make eye contact with Richie if he was there. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I helped choose the clothes, helped make him this way, and yet the effect is not lost on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

How strange I must look to her in my English clothes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She transformed herself into an astonishingly large hawk, descended on the child, gripped the swaddling clothes in her talons, and lifted the baby into the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I shook him, grabbing hold of his clothes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the next day, when he came back, we smelled opium’s strange, sweet smell—like roasted peanuts—clinging to Black Dog’s clothes, and we knew where he had been. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clothes and backpack in her lap tumbled to the ground, and she bent down to pick them up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the young men and women were to practise their songs and get their best clothes ready for the occasion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“It was really spooky,” I said, “because she looked exactly the same. Maybe her face was slightly older. But otherwise, there was no real difference. Same clothes even. That smart grey suit.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They look cute on you. I’ve got too many clothes as it is.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I got it. Now can I please put my clothes on?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They ripped up her clothes and shoes and broke her combs, grinding them underfoot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love and devotion should not depend on the kind of clothes one wore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people sold all the clothes they had and were left naked and starving. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we leave, I look back at the closet of moldering clothes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What I don’t love: pink sofas, green chairs, plastic cover on a table, stained mattresses, old clothes, unmatched dishes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She wore casual clothes to visit instead of dressing up. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They’d kept their weapons, but stripped off their telltale uniforms, begged or stolen clothes, and joined the tide of refugees fleeing toward Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

No one wanted the empty seat next to the huge mound of a homeless man in dirty clothes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I have put everything I can into my one suitcase—clothes, shoes, a good wind-up clock, some soap, an extra pair of glasses. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The mall. We’re going to buy you some clothes that fit.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, everybody will be showing off the new clothes and shoes they got for Christmas. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My embarrassment ran scarlet and deep, hidden under my clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and grinned, tossing the rumpled clothes to Pong. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Food made me want to throw up, blankets and clothes scratched and twisted, every light blinded me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The door is open, and through it I see Tobias stuffing Abnegation clothes into the trash bin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Juana, considering the matter, threw caution to the winds, and she dressed Coyotito in the clothes she had prepared for his baptism, when there would be money for his baptism. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes were torn and his throat was gone and his eyes were wild and he probably would have yelled too if he’d been their age. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once I let the clothes take charge, once I understand that I am only the means of their reunification, they just fly out of the cart to their natural homes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a flyaway look to her clothes, and the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still washed our clothes at the Laundromat, but I carried them home sopping wet and laid them all over the kitchen counters and the floor to let them dry. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

The first time I took all these drugs at the same time, I began to perspire so much that I took off all my clothes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I think I am not as skinny as I used to be, though it is hard to tell in these clothes. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And so he moves in with her in a way, bringing a few bags of his clothes, nothing else. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was still in my street clothes, on top of the blanket. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes had been sent to the cleaners, his hat blocked, and his bags were in readiness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He looked about seventeen and wore well-tailored clothes stained with the effects of the fever. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked into the furnace; her clothes were ablaze and smoke was filling the interior so that he could scarcely see. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I take a quick shower and change my clothes before heading out. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We wear the same clothes and we wear our blond hair the same way. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They turned down the television, went upstairs and changed out of their good, dark clothes, then crashed beside me on the couch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I held the clothes carefully, making sure the folded edges were even. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My clothes felt ill-fitting; and for all my letters to men of power, I was unsure of how I should act. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was rearranging his clothes as he talked. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Imp was mounted on a red stallion, armored more plainly than the king in battle gear that made him look like a little boy dressed up in bis father's clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The “boys”? Those cement faces and eyes of hate that burned the clothes off you if they happened to see you lounging on the main street downtown on Saturday. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat at the table dressed in our Shabbat clothes, my father sipping his second glass of tea, both of us a little tired and sleepy from the heavy meal. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Fine. Lydia helped me get some good clothes for cheap.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I came downstairs dressed in my summer clothes because I had nothing else in my press to wear. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They were all a jumble of frayed fabric and slack collars, the students at the party, all their clothes looked determinedly worn. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They like my fancy clothes and sparkly lip gloss. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I have nothing except the clothes on my back. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost midday when we put on our damp clothes and continued walking. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Textbooks talk about the Triangle Trade: Ships set out from Europe carrying fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods to Africa, where they sold their cargoes and bought people. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ma sighed a great deal, an impatient noise usually accompanied with a frown at their rough clothes, rundown house, or meager food. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even if their skin was as brown as mine, they claimed they had no Indian blood and proudly held up their names and clothes to prove it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Denis, knowing Robin’s plan, was in a fidget to be through with his duties and find William the Farrier’s son and borrow his clothes. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And he thought of their feet so swift and brutal, and the dark gray clothes they wore, and how when they passed they did not see him, or, if they saw him, they smirked. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I can see his clothes in my mind, bright as a lithograph or a full-color advertisement, from an ancient magazine, though not his face, not so well. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Roger’s mother is getting the girls into their pajamas and getting out their clothes for tomorrow, I have a few minutes on my own. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But the good thing is, you don’t wear any clothes during this time, especially when hunting. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ain't nobody trying to be Bolt. I'mma be better than Bolt. Plus, at least I got on running clothes. You out here in your daddy's gear pretending to be something you not." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He hated that and would walk off at once, trailing clothes behind him. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We get to wear the same clothes and never brush our teeth the whole time you’re away?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Our visitor was an older woman with a shapeless figure and unadorned clothes, but as she stopped to greet each of us, she had some small pleasant thing to say. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t care that we have to wash our clothes in the sink with the soap we use to bathe with. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had clothes and blankets and pillows from the upstairs rooms and they fitted themselves out in new attire, the boy’s trousers cut to length with his knife. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he was selling used clothes with a friend in the market to make money while not in school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She wore the same clothes, hair cut, and manner as when we were in elementary school, no make-up on the pink and white face, while the other Asian girls were starting to tape their eyelids. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my school backpack, dumped out the books, and put in some clothes and Mr. Sheep Sheep, and my Micro Machines, and the peach pits. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the space was a cot and a small shelf made from planks of wood separated with cut logs and filled with books, folded clothes, papers, and some braided and bunched herbs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We starving prisoners stood at attention, with our hunched shoulders and gaunt faces and oversized, filthy clothes, while healthy, well-fed children and their mothers came to see the animals. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You need to get her out of those wet clothes.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once our clothes were back on and we were back in Laura’s car, I began to laugh. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In one corner is a long clothes rack covered with a plastic zippered case. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She sits in the corner of the room, arranging and rearranging our black clothes and our food bowls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

To begin with, Sabrina didn’t mind shedding clothes, but she kept her jewelry on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered up the discarded clothes and put them in a box near the incinerator, so they could be burned. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He saw a curly-haired faun in ragged clothes running to catch up with him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In general, they do not seem as young—do not present at all like kids you often see on school stages, in grown-up clothes, who have dressed for the part but cannot quite inhabit it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had jumped up as if he were a lit firecracker, running into the other room, collecting food and clothes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She folded up her bloody clothes on the wooden chair and let Ben back in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Just keeping us fed and in clean clothes and making sure we had the supplies we needed for school was a huge job. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Our clothes,” he said, “got somewhat fusty in the rebels' little New Year's callithump. They're rowdy boys, and I reckon they knocked down a candle during their celebrations.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His clothes were damp and sticky, and his eyeglasses were foggy from the thick and steamy air. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The guards stripped off her clothes in front of the prisoners. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, in homespun clothes, dragged fence posts to a barricade. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we watched, a group of men dressed in civilian clothes emerged from under the tiny bushes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And he gets his clothes at Second Time Around,” I said. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Kemmler’s head started smoking and his clothes began to catch on fire. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children were clean, and although their clothes were a bit large and their hair was long and loose, they looked far more like children than wild animals. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I went to Uncle Clark, knowing that he had incurred expense in bringing me here, that he had thought he was helping me, that he had bought my clothes and books. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she held her clothes out in front of her, I turned around. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie yells, and the lady loading her clothes into a dryer near us looks over with a frown. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She dried her in fluffy white towels and put her in cuddly night clothes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled on my gym clothes—black swishy shorts and a red Chapel Hill Chargers T-shirt—and ran out to join warm-ups. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like, thousands and thousands of kids all over the country got decked out in their new school clothes and were all excited for their first day of school. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wore traditional Afghan clothes, and a bright, colorful cap covered his balding head. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

When he realized it was light, he took off his clothes, washed, dressed again, and went to the chandlery. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Mom several minutes to find a new shirt for me until she remembered all the clean clothes in my suitcase. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Two beautiful people, a young man and a young woman in evening clothes, were at the rail in the stern, loving each other and their dreams and the lake. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next Milton, in different clothes, is greeting more customers; and Jimmy the cook is cracking eggs one- handed; and Lefty is looking left out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Commons smelled like wet clothes, everything dark and subdued. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As if tall girls and cakes and clothes were the worst things in the world. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This was because she was ‘plain clothes’; he wasn’t. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing they’re bigger, and they have on different clothes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She scans me and says, “I can tell, and you’re getting taller too. Might be time for you to get some new clothes?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We did our rounds: knocking on doors, dropping off bundles, and picking up the dirty clothes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma insisted on finishing the soup and side dishes she was going to make with the bean sprouts, and then changed her clothes and did her hair and makeup. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then Kino laid the rifle down, and he dug among his clothes, and then he held the great pearl in his hand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He walked to his locker, peeling off the wet gym clothes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had loaded food, clothes, tools, and utensils in the wheelbarrow, in case they might be able to barter with comforts instead of freedom. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I blinked my eyes a couple of times ’cause it looked like there was a note on my clothes. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I cannot see their bodies, but earlier two villagers had brought out two small bundles wrapped in old black clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only two o’clock but I already done cleaned the house down to the nubs, polished the bathrooms, washed the clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I put a few dried pear halves in his hand and go back in the stream to wash the rest of his clothes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You know that Father Joseph brought us some clothes.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can barely dry off my glasses because my clothes are so wet. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Frank slowed down to check out a clearance table with clothes and toys. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As we’re dusting off our clothes, I notice a small depression past the orange barriers, at the fence line. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I can’t half sleep for him raving bout clubs and clothes and forty- nine brands of beer. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the clothes away, making a pretence of going to the door. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need your clothes,” she said patiently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Detective Hayes looked as though he hadn’t changed his clothes from the night before. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She said, shivering, that it was a queer sight to watch your own clothes, skirts and things, in the water like that. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had to trash your clothes,” she says after I’ve taken the shower that she insisted I take. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

We washed our dishes and clothes in the river, and then jumped in the water in our underwear. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So I drag myself out of bed, throw on some clothes, and present myself in the kitchen. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Becker was captivated by John Dean’s wife, Maureen, who sat behind her husband when he was testifying and wore elegant clothes and pulled her blond hair back in a tight bun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he must have had a certain look on his face, because after she assessed his clothes and hair, she fixed on his expression. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

To go into a vast building full of beautiful clothes, where people let you try them on, where you looked at yourself in minors...And the clothes were so pretty…. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“No, honestly. And all the clothes punch out, too. You don’t have to use scissors.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He must have borrowed clothes and shoes from a friend and gone off to the yard with the others. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lice crawled through my hair and my clothes as I finally drifted off to sleep. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Finding the proper clothes for me was another matter entirely. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids looked hot and sticky and their winter clothes had a sour smell. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If she didn’t tend to the house, she was apt to find clothes, shoes, open rice bags, cans of beans, and dirty dishes strewn about everywhere. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of the dragon’s mouth is a singer with short, artificially blond curls and clothes in neon shades of blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The housekeeper had come inside, changed out of her wet clothes, and made sandwiches. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She was in Culpeper, Virginia, washing clothes in a hotel, when she learned that there was a colony of Negro farmers on an island off the coast of Virginia. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her new clothes, Lyddie could feel the shame burning through her rough brown cheeks. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I hold in my arms and hands as many of her dirty clothes and pill bottles and alcohol bottles as I can. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody washed enough or changed clothes often enough. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was afraid that if he wore his usual clothes, Nipper might again recognize him and drop in on him after school. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But Dr. Kerry was right: it wasn’t the clothes that made this face, this woman, different. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so the clothes should be about dry!” he said aloud. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s neat, with no clothes on the floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Boy21 takes off his space clothes and puts on a practice uniform so that he looks simply terrestrial instead of extraterrestrial. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without any words, Khouy picks me up and loads me onto the back of the truck filled with bags of clothes and pots and pans and food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said all this in an angry tone, for my father had gone on gambling, despite my mother begging him for some money to buy clothes for the infant. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a refreshing hot shower, I put on clean clothes—jeans, dangly peace-sign earrings, and a T-shirt featuring Gloria Steinem's face—and head down to meet the rest of the group. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At age eleven, the Centurions throw us out of Blackcliff and into the wilds of the Empire without clothes, food, or weaponry, to survive as best as we can for four years. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a girl, no older than I was, wearing a set of dark green clothes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A noxious, unexpected wind filtered through his clothes and he began to walk, rubbing his hands together. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were dressed in strange and beautiful clothes, and from their shoulders rich robes flowed out behind them to where four dwarfs held up the King’s train and four river-nymphs the Queen’s. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The battling stick that Mama used to beat the dirt out of clothes when she washed stood leaning against the wall. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jule’s weight was significantly higher, but most of that was muscle and didn’t show under certain clothes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He kept his mouth shut about his military service, and as he wandered around aimlessly with his long hair and unwashed clothes, nobody asked. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Longstreet looked into lean young grinning faces, bloodstained clothes, saw bodies bloated in the fields, dead horses everywhere. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to drop it on the pile with Lyra’s other clothes, but stopped, feeling the edge of the alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If the church stash is low or lacks a needed size, he gives away the few shoes and clothes he owns. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

All of us kind of adjusted and readjusted our clothes, saying goodbyes, all long and drawn out, because we wanted to leave, but we also weren’t ready to go. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing black gloves, the leather warm even through the silk over my fingers, and a black suit of clothes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Arm nodded, so Eye took down the calendar and erased Take clothes to laundry and wrote in Important case for General Matsika instead. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Placing it and her fur pants in a bag made of whale bladder, she tied it securely so that no moisture would dampen her clothes while she slept. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wide smile and was taller and thinner than I’d imagined he’d be—a man who was clearly not much of an eater, who also looked fully unaccustomed to wearing business clothes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And yet my parents thought I was mentally incompetent for buying clothes at Goodwill. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the last day of the term, I shoved my clothes into my suitcase. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few clothes on the floor next to her bed. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s a good reason Momma makes you all wear all them clothes, and it’s got to do with them big doors on the back of the garbage trucks, dig?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was in her work clothes, but her hair was disheveled. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They stood beside the window in their wedding clothes and kissed, and she smelled his warm neck and throat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two days later she got on her bicycle, with Fuchs’s report hidden under her clothes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what he looks like in regular clothes, and what regular clothes are for him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My other clothes are all a little too big or too small, but this jacket fits me as though I went to the store and bought it just for myself. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s eyes moved over my clothes with their superscanning powers, looking for holes, stains, and other un-señorita-like offenses to point out. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself along by grasping shoulders, clothes, hair, anything to keep upright. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He was a quiet, soft-spoken man who wore old-timey clothes, fedoras, button-down wool coats, suspenders, and dressed neatly at all times, regardless of how dirty his work made him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a clothes room where you can pick out whatever you like.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Hurry and wash your face and change out of those filthy clothes before Papi arrives!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She is fidgeting with her clothes, her hair, her purse. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The long- gone day that would never leave—the suitcase on the floor, how she’d tossed clothes into it without folding them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dobby likes work, but he wants to wear clothes and he wants to be paid, Harry Potter. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cersei had tom up the first shift they gave her, demanding the return of her own clothes, but that only left her naked and shivering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was how, one afternoon, Pearl came home with a bagful of new clothes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After ducking down in the taxi so Mom wouldn’t see me, I hated myself—hated my antiques, my clothes, and my apartment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I roll the dirty clothes and sheets into a wicker basket and walk down to the river. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We worked the rest of the day, putting clothes in one pile, household goods in another. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I... I would sooner not, m’lord. Please. I have ... wounds, I... and these clothes, Lord Ramsay gave them to me, he ... he said that I was never to take them off, save at his command...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was afraid to leave and yet she could not bear the life she led, inside all day, sweeping and dusting, making beds, washing clothes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was handed some clothes, but don’t ask what: a pair of wool slacks over my pajamas, a red sweater and a black skirt, white understockings and tattered kneesocks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Jody jumped into his clothes so quickly that he was out the back door before Billy’s swinging lantern was halfway to the barn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dream I’m putting on my winter clothes, in Toronto, but my dress doesn’t fit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My hanging clothes surrounded me like loving aunts and uncles telling old family stories. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I get my clothes at Second Time Around from now on?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In the evening of the following day Miyax hastily put on her clothes and crawled up the frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave away Daddy’s clothes, his tools, his hats ... gone to the Goodwill. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buying them their food or even fancy clothes or a car ain’t going to help if a child is hurting inside. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peel off my clothes, all of them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The touching of the crowds had exhausted her, so she rested a bit, and then, toward midafternoon, she changed into her riding clothes and went to fetch Horse. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His favorite clothes are the flannel shirts and blue jeans that he has had for twenty years. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I had already seen three people in dark clothes with Afros. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell that the fog was thick from the clammy way her clothes clung to her and the damp feeling of the air on her bare hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was Robin who got out the clothes they would need, and blankets, mattresses, and other things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only clothes they had or would ever have—like the only life they had or would ever have—was what the citadel provided, and the citadel provided the garments of dead goddesses. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They looked up to see Tori holding a bag of clothes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The well water is strictly for the gardens and cooking; to wash ourselves and our clothes we must walk a mile to the pond. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t sleep in your clothes,” he said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out that the way to make magic was to rip up my new thrift store clothes with a pair of scissors. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder how she knew we didn’t have suitable clothes.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who would have washed those wet clothes and held you as you cried. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was so used to the specific ridges of Dawit’s shop that this was like wearing someone else’s clothes or putting your shoes on the wrong feet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I decided to leave the Minotaur horn in my cabin, which left me only an extra change of clothes and a toothbrush to stuff in a backpack Grover had found for me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They had so many clothes they were able to give perfectly good dresses, worn just under the arms, to the sewing class at our school for the larger girls to practice on. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saw boxes of our clothes, Ma’s trunk, her “Hope Chest” she calls it, broken in the street. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When her clothes were dry, Miss Maggie put them on again and slipped into her poncho. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Never blushes or turns around to hide herself, just changes her clothes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a calm skill, without the slightest misstep, he left his accumulated grief behind and found Remedios changed into a swamp without horizons, smelling of a raw animal and recently ironed clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She changed her clothes and underwear, right there in front of everyone, and rebraided her hair. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rain poured down, my clothes were in shreds, and my flesh was one big purple bruise, clear signs that I was still in the real world. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of brown grass and clothes drying somewhere. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

This prince liked to dress the creature in his dead son’s clothes and pretend he was a child, Ser Axell claimed, and from time to time he would propose marriages for him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like those ladies you see on American TV these days, the ones who are so happy they have washed out a stain so the clothes look better than new. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two other women inside stop folding clothes and move closer together. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes. This first morning I don’t work in many long time. I get up early and wash clothes so you and your brother have something to wear today as soon as it dry.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When you tilted it a certain way, her clothes dropped away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, after they ate, Josiah would wash up, change his clothes, and go out again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I helped him out and we hurried home to change our dripping clothes and thaw out by the hearth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I bought clothes for myself and my sister and even some for other members of our foster family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Sarai, they were clothes a monster might wear if it were trying to pass as human. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His clothes were in tatters and his face was scratched and drenched with sweat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Leaves on the trees rustled, and our clothes waved and snapped on the clothesline. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dressed in mismatched, gaudy clothes and chimney-pot hats, they molded their voices to exaggerate colored speech; this seemed to be the source of the humor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I bought you some new clothes,” she said excitedly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We stuffed the loose flabby clothes with grass and leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Luke, get the girl a towel. Sweetie, go in the bathroom and get that wet stuff off. We’ve got a change of clothes here for you, I’m sure. Luke?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The clothes she wore were rags, faded and fraying, but warm clean rags for all that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She often wore baggy secondhand clothes and a big hat that made her feel safe in this strange, alien environment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was glancing at the women’s clothes, passing time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When we walk into the restaurant, Yum Li is standing next to the coatrack in his cooking clothes, which Dad calls his chef whites. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she can smell the meat and onion in my clothes and hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One day Mitt came home with his clothes soiled and said that they had pushed him down to the ground and put dirt in his mouth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fearing arrest and deportation, he had never dared break into houses for clothes or food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I bet it was clothes for her husband,” another interjected. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Around me I know it’s empty, all the furniture is gone, the floors are bare, no carpets even; but despite this the cupboard is full of clothes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, all of my clothes, my books, and my sewing machine are here at the Malloys’. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I also observed that his name, backward, was the French verb for wearing one’s clothes threadbare, so I told him that as well, with no offense intended as his clothes were fine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No-one would stop or question a groom in fine clothes leading a war horse and a lady's saddle horse down to the river, and Lasaraleen had plenty of grooms to send. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The sliding door has been rolled back and many of the drawers are gaping open with clothes hanging out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“With a tuft on the end! It coils up under his clothes and unfurls like a whip.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The two colonels changed out of their uniforms into sweat clothes, and Nancy put a frozen chunk of her homemade stew into the microwave and thawed it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened them, Stick was tossing clothes around the room as he dressed for bed. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some buy Mexican clothes or ones sporting the name of a Mexican soccer team. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The night of his initiation, Matthias had rubbed his clothes and hair with the same chalky powder. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We would put on fresh, dry clothes, making sure all the while that no parts of our bodies showed, so as to preserve our modesty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was carrying some folded clothes, a toothbrush, and the paperback chess book that I’d brought to Dad in jail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dimple hopped off the bed and began pacing, her T-shirt and pants hanging off her like she was wearing her big brother’s clothes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the capital city of Stockholm, he took warm baths and put on clean clothes and ate in brightly lit restaurants. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soft, tinkling melody rose from the far end of the room, where a figure in white clothes sat hunched over an old wooden piano. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The last thing they needed as they flew a magical Greek trireme into a potentially hostile Roman camp was a middle-aged satyr in gym clothes waving a club and yelling “Die!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Pong didn’t wear the Junior Patrol disguise anymore, just plain clothes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Bodies, furniture, clothes, and all kinds of property were scattered all over. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If the German opens the wardrobe again and yanks aside the hanging clothes and squeezes through the door and climbs up into the attic, what will she do? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” Ivy said, sitting down with the clothes still in her lap. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Glass, pieces of Sheetrock, broken furniture, cups, nail polish, pans, hair brushes, mirrors, bottles, plates, rugs, clothes—almost everything imaginable floated in streams of water from apartments that looked like flooded basements. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Inside were fresh clothes for all of us, twenty bucks in cash, a pouch full of golden drachmas, and a bag of Double Stuf Oreos. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rubio straightens his clothes and Feathers smooths out her hair, ready to work. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was a small-boned man with thinning red hair and elegant clothes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the only adult in hippie clothes—peasant blouse, long cotton skirt, Day-Glo headband with a yin/yang disk in the center of her forehead. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She must have a hidden microphone under those flowing clothes—she has one of those voices that can make anybody shut up, turn, and listen. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That weekend, I’m in the laundry room throwing my dirty clothes in one of the washing machines, when Miles walks in, dragging a laundry bag behind him, plus a small container of detergent. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She admired the way her clothes were always so crisp and fit just so. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I went with Father, feeling a certain pride in the Company’s craft as I carried the clean, pressed, and starched clothes wrapped in the crisp, blue paper and tied with twine into neat parcels. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back up at the barn I carefully stowed our booty: matches, soap, clean clothes, more blankets, dog food, a single candle I found under a chair, and some books. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bank of the stream, he took all his clothes off, and folded them in a pile. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We noticed at both clothing drives that the clothes had a distinct smell: damp and moldy, like they’d been stored for a long time in wet cardboard boxes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He seemed interested only in Milkman’s clothes, which he took every opportunity to examine. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled wood smoke and sage in the old man’s clothes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There I gave up my street clothes and was given a set of old army fatigues with the insignias ripped off. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t bought new clothes for Cambridge, because I’d had to take out a student loan just to pay the fees. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He’d sneak into cities disguised in ragged beggar’s clothes and hand out gold coins to kids living on the streets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Part Four. Get his clothes in case he tries to sneak back into her house. Part Five. Leave fish for Becca.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They began whispering to each other that they weren’t poor and had better dolls home and better clothes than that girl, too, only they didn’t feel like wearing them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I’ve filled the small bottle left ready for me in the little washroom, I take off my clothes, behind the screen, and leave them folded on the chair. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stripping quickly, he donned the fresh clothes and then drove out of there. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Laila woke up in the morning and found a stack of baby clothes, neatly folded, outside her bedroom door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My clothes seem a part of me, even the ones I’ve outgrown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Last week, Ginia even asked me to go try on clothes at the mall. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had remembered just in time that his girl had no clothes on. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“As you wish, Colonel Regan, sir,” said the man whose clothes were stained blue by the papers he clutched to his chest. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To jump into the river and ruin those clothes!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mama had gone down to our house to change clothes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I immediately packed my books and clothes and left for Granny’s place, where I stayed for two weeks and then returned home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It's a clothes check, to make sure I'm really wearing them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing six metres away, in the same clothes he’d worn on the day at the London Eye, minus the jacket, talking into a two-way radio. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel asked, “Where in the world did you get those clothes, Lee?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many helped their neighbors fight the fire or drag furniture and clothes to the safety of the street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of what remained of our travel-equipment we had given away to various kindly hosts, and by now we had nothing but the Chabe stove, our skis, and the clothes we wore. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss Havisham’s. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Francie and Neeley wore their everyday clothes. little Tilly’s mother, in honor of the day, had dressed her up in a cheap but fancy lace dress trimmed with dark pink ribbon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was better down in the valley, since, as always, the hills protected it, but up in the Bottom black folks suffered heavily in their thin houses and thinner clothes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I already sorted my clothes and took them upstairs to my room. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The Americans’ clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the bag of clothes Tori had left for her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I drew open the curtains and put away the handful of clothes scattered on the floor. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But they had to keep their clothes dry, because if they got wet, they would disintegrate. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I brought out my garbage-can washing machine and rinsed clothes that had been jiggling in detergent for two days. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can imagine the shock when we got downstairs in our Sunday clothes, ready for Sunday school, and Papa said he wasn’t go’n go. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At least, she misses her own bed and her clothes and she really misses Bit, their dog; the way he’d be so happy when she’d come back. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I also saw she didn’t have no clothes on ’cepting a rag hanging ’cross one of her shoulders. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Pilots would climb out with their clothes covered with castor oil, and the smell didn’t wash off. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I got to my feet and grabbed my clothes; the whole thing seemed unreal. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows of blankets, beds, and clothes looked like monsters. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And then Mother made me take my clothes off and get into the bath and she said I could use her towel, which was purple with green flowers on the end. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As we ran, they threw the clothes at us: pants, jackets, shirts . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys swam to the stone ledge where they’d left their clothes, climbed out of the water, and squatted in the sunshine. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

One minute Mom and Bridget and I are bribing him to take showers and the next minute he’s asking Mom if he can buy his own clothes for school. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Honey, it’s going to be a while. You don’t want to catch cold in those clothes.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“No, I only want these clothes. Reek’s clothes. I’m Reek, it rhymes with peek.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When you’re poor you don’t have cars or nice clothes, but the best dancer gets girls, so that’s the guy you want to roll with. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His clothes, still slightly damp from their recent washing, had returned to their usual cinnabar color. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

The black clothes were probably a part of it, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They could run into the parlor, sing fast, pray quick, and be on the road before the rest of Cold Sassy got out its Sunday clothes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She bought clothes and more clothes, lovely things with fat price tags. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing her clothes and shoes sends a jolt through me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Others heaved the sopping clothes into the dryers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Where skin shimmers and eyes flash and apparently they make their clothes from jewels. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Momma will buy me running clothes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I notice that she doesn’t have on the same nice clothes she had on before. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He notices that my clothes are shabby and that very afternoon the Monday Man arrives with more. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I stood afar, conscious of my worn clothes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looked to be about seven years old, and dressed in his grandfather’s clothes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The police officers were sitting on the sofa in the living room, a fortysomething man in plain clothes and a younger one in uniform with acne on his neck. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inevitably there are mystery items requiring extra time and inquiry: clothes that have wandered over from girls’ or men’s, clearanced items whose tags haven’t been changed to reflect their new prices, the occasional one-of-a-kind. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of immigrants start that way nowadays. And the maids get to bring home all the leftover soap and the clothes people leave behind.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing dirty, bloodstained clothes, he looked more like a highway bandit than a prince. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stood up in alarm and the man realized that in his new clothes he made an uncertain figure. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We slipped into our new clothes in the dressing room of a quiet little dress shop on the outskirts of Monclova. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They weren’t, not technically, but I knew why I wanted them—for my body, so it would be noticed—and that seemed immodest even if the clothes were not. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the elaborate shell houses along the Langer See, oarsmen stowed their street clothes in lockers and began to don their national uniforms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The clothes he wore would turn to rags, foul and stinking, and he would be made to wear them till they rotted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the back of Judge Lew Fielding’s courtroom sat twenty-four islanders of Japanese ancestry, dressed in the clothes they reserved for formal occasions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She cried while she nursed Maha, changed our clothes, and cooked our meals. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was trembling top to bottom and soaking wet, his dark hair matted to his head and his clothes dripping. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She wore her white pajamas under her clothes so she wasn’t shy at all to slip her dress off right in front of them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was about dressing them up and buying them clothes,” she recalled. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As he rolled out of his bed I was crawling into mine, pulling the covers over my sandy clothes only seconds before he opened the door to check on me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I simply cannot tell you how awful they were, and somehow the whole sight was made more grotesque because underneath those frightful scabby bald heads, the bodies were dressed in fashionable and rather pretty clothes. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then she cut herself off from us, tapped her fountain pen, and repeated, “Black folks, in black clothes, rapping revolution.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe took to arriving early to change into his rowing clothes before the others showed up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Please tell Signora Spavento that the habits have to be back before tonight,” the nun had whispered to Prosper after she had passed the clothes through a hatch in the orphanage’s gate. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the Captain had changed from his wet clothes into my father’s bathrobe, which barely met at his middle. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to copy his clothes style and how he did his hair. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She sobbed and hugged Aunt Gloria, saying it couldn’t possibly be Salim, while Dad started throwing outdoor clothes on over his pyjamas and Kat stood there, gripping me. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair, her clothes, they were all heavy with the cold water, but she stood quietly, calm and regal as a mermaid queen who had just arrived out of the sea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the topmost shelf, above a rail of threadbare clothes, a small cardboard box was shaking and rattling as though there were several frantic mice trapped inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

By the time we rode the elevator upstairs, our clothes were organized neatly in the closets; the kitchen pantry had been stocked with our favorite foods. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She was back at Maer getting new clothes because her aunts told her she had to present herself better once she was married. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll put our clothes in the washer there, change, then go and watch the blaze before we call the fire departments. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He was drenched, and his thin, white clothes clung like another skin to his black body. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you never let me hear you talking bad about the lady who put food in your mouth, clothes on your back! You hear me?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then I started stuffing clothes into a bag. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even now, years later, whenever I go to the market with my mother, my eyes linger on their beautiful clothes and jewelry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight was bright enough to find her clothes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On a sudden impulse I moved away from the bed and went back to the little ante-room where I had seen the wardrobe was full of clothes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She looked again through the hanging coats and through the folded sheets and clothes on the lower shelves. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Drawer after drawer, hanger after hanger, I filled up my dresser and my closet with new clothes that fit. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arms were up above the heads, the clothes were scattered, shoes were missing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even waits around in their kitchen while she changes her clothes before they head over to Essential Baking Company. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had packed enough clothes, toiletries, and food for two days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her teeth grew sharper; her senses heightened; her skin tickled and warmed till she was forced to shuck her clothes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Mama yelled after them as they ran toward their parents, who were too stunned at the egg in their children’s hair and clothes to notice my mother shaking with laughter. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m skipping my soak this morning,” Cole said, “because I don’t have any dry clothes to change into. But I’ll still carry the ancestor rock.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They left him the rest of his clothes, his dried meat, and a half-eaten loaf of incredibly stale rye bread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mama wants to keep every single thing: baby clothes, our drawings from kindergarten, our cheap Barbie doll knockoffs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Not to mention their clothes and their food. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They found clothes in the closets to wear—clean clothes—which they put on after scrubbing themselves with real soap and drying themselves with real towels. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are many men in navy work clothes like hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them nurse minor wounds or brush gravel from their clothes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I watch her put clothes into one large suitcase and then rush over to my brother’s room and come back with another haul. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Was it also like shouting to walk around with the words “Math kids get pi” on your clothes? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It's weird to see a dude with a bunch of fly clothes on standing in a corner of a crazy party, knitting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m okay,” Mrs. Williams said, brushing herself off and smoothing out her clothes. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

There’s a coal smell on his clothes and that makes me sneeze. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When customers pause by the big pile of clothes, Olga madly paws through it, holding up items, hoping something will catch their fancy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Excited, I rushed about and gathered my ragged clothes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

People also washed clothes and other things in the river, so it was not exactly clean. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew everyone would be wearing new clothes, new shoes, and have new haircuts. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All I needed was a change of clothes and a pillow for the car. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was watching one ringing a bell and throwing the secondhand clothes he was selling up in the air to attract passersby, when our car stopped at the hospital where I was to be examined. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After supper she not only got the clothes out but brushed the floors and swept the cobwebs out of the corners. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My girls’ clothes are secondhand, donated by a distant friend of my mother’s who has a larger daughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His shop sold all kinds of stuff, from hair-care products to body oils to bootleg clothes to African statues. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And there were advertisements for gadgets, fascinating things, for cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, furniture and beds and cribs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached out to rub the fabric of my new clothes between his fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The men dragged the equipment crates to a nearby hunting cabin, chopped open the locked door with an axe, and slept in their clothes on the floor. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I know I’m not some starving kid who has to wash clothes in the Ganges for a nickel, but today just sucks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But you gotta learn to chill, Dad. Maybe you can get something like ordinary clothes for yourself while we’re there. You look like you’re the president of the company or something!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Steven, Emilia, and Maria were ordered away, to take showers and change their clothes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the house, I went straight to the well, got a bucket of water, carried it up the stairs somehow, then washed, spread antiseptic on my new cuts, and put on clean clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His guardian inspected Bod thoughtfully, a boy in his new clothes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She starts dabbing herself, cleaning her clothes, face, and hands. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

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

He would get fresh clothes, more water, good food. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got up and hurried into my clothes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She came up in a net and she didn’t have no clothes on her, so I made her some dresses.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was a small bundle of my clothes tied in a blanket. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in dark clothes sat at the table nearest to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lay down on her bed with her clothes on, but I knew her eyes were open, just as mine were. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found his clothes, put on his pants, and stretched the suspenders over his shoulders. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I left my dirty clothes on the floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My poor wife was there, in bed, with no clothes on. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had smelled oddly musty, like clothes left for years in a chest of drawers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She then went over to the cardboard box and took out the ugliest of the clothes that Mrs. Poe had purchased, the outfits the Baudelaire orphans would never wear no matter how desperate they were. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

And now here I was, sitting in a cold room in strange clothes and wondering if I might go to prison. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hid the liquor inside my shoes in the bedroom closet, in the bathroom dirty clothes hamper, in the laundry room, and in other secret places. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I got some clothes from a penny sale, cut them up, and rubbed them with dirt like I crawled out of a grave. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once again, Sunny looks at the clothes with distaste. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I gathered my little sack of clothes and said goodbye and thank you, wishing I’d finished the bread and the coffee, because it would be nothing but potato soup at home. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take your clothes and hand you the replacements: khaki pants, green undershirt, charcoal-gray sweatshirt. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the landing he bumped into Ginny, who was returning to her room carrying a pile of freshly laundered clothes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He's managed to pull together donated clothes that are more appropriate to his upbringing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning after visiting the pond, he washed his clothes in the stream. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But Rani says you can usually find a few generous people giving away their old clothes. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Upstairs in the nursery Mary Poppins was airing the clothes by the fire, and the sunlight poured in at the window, flickering on the white walls, dancing over the cots where the babies were lying. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, if our clothes were presentable, my mother would take me and my brother to Sunday school. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she left, Milagro and I packed our clothes in a duffel bag and looped the crane scarves around our necks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to remember to bring out anything we can — first-aid kits, blankets, pillows, seat cushions, clothes, and especially food and water.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Others, a bit older, struggle to hold on to memories: One has slept in her mother’s bed; another has smelled her perfume, put on her deodorant, her clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, isn’t that nice!” she says in a too-bright voice, and in that way it becomes clear to me that most ten-year-olds probably don’t sew clothes for ladies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I'm swimming in these clothes, still skeletal, though I know I've put on some weight in the past few weeks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A crispness that my mother, in her shabby clothes, could never match. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Of course. Well, I’m on my way to the tailor. Hafsa’s outgrowing her clothes every time I blink.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the porch light, Dill noticed that her car was filled haphazardly with bags, clothes, and belongings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But it would have liked to touch them in the end, partly to be sure that they were real, partly to sum up the price of their clothes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony, he complained, was wearing all the newest clothes and was now sporting a thick gold rope chain on top of it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We packed all of our things except for the clothes we’d wear in the morning. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with my shirttails hanging out and the necktie crooked, it was easy to see that the clothes were tailored and finely made. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Osh had to wrap himself in a summer blanket while his clothes dried. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have the right clothes,” I say, gesturing to the tunic I have on, stained with Valerian’s blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She found more black clothes and a necklace of beads with a cross attached. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pecola picked up the laundry bag, heavy with wet clothes, and we stepped hurriedly out the door. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A heaven full of spicy flavors that stick to your clothes and make you sneeze? No, thanks!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I nod and grab a red shirt from the dwindling pile of clothes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It felt good to dress in school clothes and go to Philander Smith, our community’s college. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, thinking maybe he hadn’t had time to order his preacher clothes yet. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She asked for help from passersby and swept the streets and washed clothes in exchange for money, but one tragic evening, in a pool of moonlight, her mother died in her arms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slid hurriedly from the bed, keeping my eye on that part of the darkness from where the light had come as I tried to find my clothes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he have to go on the roof of the hospital without any clothes? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One spring morning I was at work in my tent repairing equipment, patching my clothes, and studying maps when a voice said, “General, may I visit you in your tent, please?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cardan’s clothes are disarranged, from crawling under tables or being captured and tied, and his infamous tail is showing under the white lawn of his shirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She spoke to Abby: “They are not rags. They’re clothes that are still good that people donate to be sold. The proceeds go to the hospital.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

As we drive to the supermarket she reminds me that I still need to get my notebooks and some new clothes for school. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Presumably you were reading, playing games on the iPad, choosing clothes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“With our heavy equipment, weapons, and thick clothes, we could hardly move.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran across the lawn and changed into her civilian clothes in the back of the van. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was brown and his clothes had a foreign look. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have those things anymore, the clothes and hair. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added, though, according to Zhenya Rudneva, that “beauty lies not in lipstick or a manicure, not in clothes or a hairdo, but in what we actually do.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I pull my backpack out of my closet and stuff a change of clothes in it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Toby waited an extra five minutes before he got out of the car and stripped off his clothes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And wash his clothes with crumbling bright blue soap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clothes were of good quality, although none of them were new. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I press down and feel Dad’s rosary hanging around my neck under my clothes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Me and my cousins slept in blue metal beds and shared boxes for our clothes. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Too sleepy to think, she unlaced her boots, undressed, and folded her clothes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all very world-class down here, where I used to buy cheap nighties in high school with my tiny clothes allowance, on sale at that and a size too large. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My plans for revenge, such as unscrewing the lightbulb, locking the door and hiding his clothes, have unfortunately had to be abandoned in the interests of peace. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They had brought along a couple of short-handled trench shovels, a duffel bag packed with American clothes, and a suitcase with money sewn in its lining. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They are all dirty, from head to foot, and dressed in odd combinations of old clothes and newer ones, and in clothes too small or too large. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She hated to look at him, hated him looking at her, the way his eyes mentally unbuttoned her clothes, mentally unzipped her skin. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the military tribunal began on July 8, 1942, the prisoners changed into the new clothes that they purchased on their shopping sprees. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The right time and the only time for as long as anyone in Vienna knew him he wore the clothes he put on at that moment. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his clutter is fascinating: guns, tools, army clothes, even a radio of some kind, which he keeps in an army footlocker. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah yes. How it’s all right to burn our clothes when the mood strikes us because we’re going to die young?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Outside, the cold takes my breath away, cutting through my thin clothes like an icy scythe. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

These clothes were too fancy for real Chinese people, I thought, and too strange for American parties. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed street clothes, soap, shoes, a cap, a pair of glasses. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s exactly what your dad would say. Just hair. Just clothes.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Feller and his wife going around getting food, clothes, everything out of machines. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them are wearing much of their clothes, because it’s hot now and they can’t open a window—and what can it matter when you’re all doing your business in the same bucket, anyway? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Cole studied the bay as he removed his shoes and pulled off his clothes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, there she is, wearing old gardening clothes, bent in some position that looks hard to get out of. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You know, Mary didn’t pack the new clothes she bought to take with her on the trip. And poor Mrs. Dalton’s been pacing the floor and phoning Mary’s friends all day.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On this last evening, I dressed myself out in my new clothes for their delight, and sat in my splendour until bedtime. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was no time to change into better clothes, so I pulled my big wool coat over my cat-and-dog pajamas, and we tiptoed out of the house, careful not to make too much sound. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Conquest and liberation and democracy and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, with the heater off, I'll wear three layers of clothes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All other supplies—including soap, shampoo, detergent, and clothes—we have to find for ourselves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took off all of her clothes, put on a long-sleeved scrub suit, and stood before the door that led inward, blue light falling on her face. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the juniors’ section now, scanning the racks for dress-up clothes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The very clothes upon his back belonged to his master, but he did not, as he himself said, ‘take much.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the clothes they had given me and dumped them on the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, uh, because the clothes I really want are out of my price range.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I slip the blue shirt on top of my clothes and follow the team onto the stage. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week, it would be back to off-brand frosted flakes and clothes from Target, and he couldn't wait. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up dirty clothes and old newspapers without apology. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark followed them inside and said in a loud, grouchy voice, “Kids these days got no manners. Showing up wet, with no clothes, expecting a meal.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Amaranta, who was starting to put the clothes into the trunk, thought that she had been bitten by a scorpion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine them without clothes, to think of them as having bodies at all, under their dresses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing clothes borrowed from my father, an old blue workshirt and denim pants that were a little too tight for him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The washer spun to a stop, and Gregor piled the clothes into a couple of dryers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was skinny and sloppy in his rumpled black clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’d looked at transit maps and locations of Laundromats, in case I was there long enough to run out of clean clothes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Already, she has smelled like wet dog and dripped on the floor, and changed out of disgusting clothes, and is wearing no makeup and has chopped hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few days later they dressed Luke and me in our best clothes and Mr. Hines took us to the Department of Children and Families building. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I looked different from the other students with my buzz-cut hair and used clothes, and I wanted desperately to blend in. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Without a moment’s hesitation she pulled off her clothes as fast as she could, threw them over her arm and continued walking calmly forward, praying that the animals wouldn’t smell her fear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and started gathering all the clothes on the floor. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And Noise women have lighter hair and bigger chests and wear less clothes and are a lot freer with their affecshuns than in the vids, too. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

With both children in dry clothes, my thoughts turned to feeding them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wore mismatched clothes of wool and leather, knee-length boots, and a floppy felt hat. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

First they went back to the café, to recover and rest and change their clothes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My clothes had been washed and ironed, my shoes wiped clean of mud and muck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to put on his clothes, moving restlessly about the bedroom. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many small children played in the street, running barefoot or even without clothes. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Finney was lying in the bathtub, with all his clothes on, reading a book. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She looks to be about his own age, and she wears what can only be called a costume, as they certainly aren’t normal clothes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Get out of your uniform,” he said, “and get into civilian clothes. They are beating up people who are in military uniform.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her clothes were soaking wet, and water dripped off the tip of her nose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I pack a duffel bag of clothes and toiletries. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Johnny said Raquel was a modern dancer and wore black clothes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I imagine standing before my family in these clothes, and my stomach twists like I might be sick. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was as though a chimpanzee had demanded to wear human clothes and to eat at the same table as people. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed one of the soldiers and stripped off its clothes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

You can think clearly only with your clothes on. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash brought them the things they needed, worn-out clothes from his mother’s scrap bin, heavy wire to connect the limbs, armfuls of straw they could pack into the sleeves and pant legs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He came away from the window, he prowled about the room, touching things, looking at the pictures, opening wardrobes, fingering my clothes, already unpacked. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Vic dresses quickly, and as soon as his clothes are on, he is all business. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He climbed up the long muddy bank, out of breath and shivering in the wet clothes clinging to his body. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

There was the river where we went to wash the clothes and the kingfisher that watched us from a tree. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His clothes and his skin steamed as if the Tiber’s waters had given him an acid bath. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You can start today,” he said, “but you might want to change your clothes.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They get into the seams of our clothes and they’re everywhere in the coats we use as blankets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Their clothes were torn, and they were frightened; they came up the platform and stood near him, breathing hard. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu imagined her combing through the piles of secondhand shoes and clothes in the side stalls of Tejuosho market, finding the best pieces and then haggling tirelessly with the trader. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Two policemen in plain clothes bundle him off a train while a dozen passengers stare. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All my mind and body wanted to sleep, but I needed dry clothes to sleep in. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He carried the boy’s filthy clothes into the surf and washed them, standing shivering in the cold salt water naked from the waist down and sloshing them up and down and wringing them out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We filled it again for Piper’s turn in the bath and then she made me go up to her bedroom to choose some clothes for her because she didn’t want to go herself. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Pa’s fiancée is nice and wears nice clothes.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I always looked exactly the same—same clothes, hair, expression, midway between bored and aggrieved. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

These clothes are usually the shirts, pants, shoes, and jackets the members of the church’s eight study groups have given the priest for his birthday, to tide him over for the year. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When the girls had finished picking out their clothes and bathing suits for the pageant, compliments of Ladybird Hope’s pageant-wear line, Harris showed them around, enjoying his role as beauty queen escort. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She put each one’s underwear and clean clothes into his own room. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are the same clothes you wore for the wedding.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I must have looked like a homeless kid, with my tattered clothes and my scraped-up face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan was in his room at the mobile home, folding his clothes and then arranging them in his duffel bag. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Do you really think I’d ever be so desperate as to take my clothes off for money? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apart from the clothes they wear, all that many have left are their belts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her clothes were bloody and torn and her hair disheveled. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

After every wet crossing, I would shake like a dog and wring out my clothes as best I could so they dried in ridges white with salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha gave his clothes to a poor Brahmin on the road and only retained his loincloth and earth-colored unstitched cloak He only ate once a day and never cooked food. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing regular clothes, jeans and a sweater, but her head was wrapped in a shawl, a thin brown veil. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Scarlett’s bright clothes were covered in grime and cobwebs, and her dark face and hands were pale with dust. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He rummages through the bag and looks in disgust at the colorful clothes inside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sew up her leaks, wash her clothes, Januka rebraids her hair, and even brings me some tiny ribbon snips to tie at the ends. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"I felt the hot wind go through my clothes, like hell. There were gray ashes everywhere, sticking to my sweat." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was disgusted to have to appear in court wearing my prison clothes of khaki shorts and flimsy sandals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started talking about clothes, makeup, and unfortunate fashion choices of the rich and famous, and that was that—best friends forever! I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The smell of gunpowder was on his clothes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saved me with clothes she loaned me and never took back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Next I slipped out of my damask gown and wrapped my shorn hair and my clothes in a tight bundle for Horatio to destroy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Daily, however, at the hour she invited him, he visited the beautiful Kamala, in handsome clothes, in fine shoes and soon he also brought her presents. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the apartment and fell across the bed in my clothes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will there be fabric there so that I can make new clothes?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I place the nightgown over my arm and start picking up the other clothes from the floor. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In early September, Adele wrote me a long letter saying that she had washed my dolls’ clothes and that my “babies” were doing fine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’s still in his gardening clothes, dirty at the knees, and his hands are sandy. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I woke up early the next morning still in my clothes from the day before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“The music, the language, the way you kids wear your clothes. I think it’s a good thing that someone is willing to protect him from hooligans like you and your friends.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We each took just one extra outfit, hiding it under our clothes so our foster parents wouldn’t notice. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither my new long reach nor Chapter Eleven’s beetle-browed concentration was sufficient to counter Milton’s wicked spin or his “killer shot” which left red marks on our chests, through our clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We passed Rosie’s house and at the clothes line right at the edge of the cliff there was a young girl hanging out brightly colored garments. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the ground feels slick beneath my sneakers, and my sack of clothes thumps against my back as I slow to a jog. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

What I put into them: my own clothes, my own soap, my own money, money I had earned myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how I feel about wearing clothes, anyway. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her father’s clothes smell of straw; his fingers reek of oil. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d left piles of clothes in the closet and the armoire, but no shoes anywhere. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean that she comes home, goes to her room to change clothes, wanders into the bathroom, picks through mail, and then finally arrives at the refrigerator. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They dumped some of his clothes in Olmsted’s lagoons at Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once I’m in the car, I find out she has kidnapped me to go back-to-school clothes shopping. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I laid out her clothes on her bed as she stepped into the bathroom. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn't dwell on it long because the very next paragraph talked about clothes, my favorite subject. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were just like the von Trapp family, except they didn't wear clothes made from curtains or sing catchy songs about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When Francie was raised to twenty dollars a week, Mama gave her five dollars a week for herself to pay for her carfare, lunches, and clothes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Does your husband know you're parading about in your bed clothes?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I just hate all my clothes, nothing fits, and I really, really want to wear that shirt. I think it’ll look cool. Please?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I bathed first, I would have to wear my old clothes afterward. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shay is making fun of Albert because his clothes don’t fit. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

That soap he uses for washing up and his clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His clothes gently settled back on his body. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He peers at my clothes, surveying me from top to bottom. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Two women at the river’s edge were beating clothes against rocks while their children placed twigs and leaves on the water and watched as the current caught them up. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He explored her slowly, learning by heart the smoky scent of her body and her clothes, which had been washed with ash and pressed with a coal-filled iron. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t they just throw up on the clothes anyway? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She whimpered like a scared animal and nearly tripped over a pile of old clothes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We all did a once-over of our clothes, making sure everything was okay and that we looked older than we really were. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A San Francisco middle school must have a very rigid idea of acceptable clothes if James had taken her question so seriously. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She put on an old apron to cover her clothes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were as red as ours, and even though they wore civilian clothes, they looked dirty and had intense expressions like us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Would he think we had forsaken; him and deliberately ripped his wife’s clothes—viciously broken the pigs? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could hear her clothes falling to the floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She buys me four new sets of clothes. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the Other Place, she told him, people threw away clothes with holes in them and got new ones. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Take them clothes off and come on in here.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was stripping off his wet clothes when Steelshanks Walton found him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she translated in Chinese: “You shouldn’t fight and do your laundry at the same time. If you win, your clothes will get dirty.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His favorite pastime was walking back and forth across a thin, long wire that my mother sometimes used for hanging our clothes to dry. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would take near the whole day to wash, hang the clothes out on the line, and iron them, but I loved the way the house smelled clean with wood polish and soap. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I woke the next day I felt surprisingly good, considering I had slept in my clothes and my bladder felt stretched to the size of a sweetmelon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everything about the creature was gray: gray clothes on gray flesh on gray bones. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His clothes are ragged but well kept, though his pants are too short and may have once been blue or brown or green but have faded too much to be certain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In those hours, Ma and us girls wash our clothes in a nearby stream, but without detergent they are not very clean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a rule. Get it? We are supposed to do this, and then we get you new clothes. That’s day one. Isn’t that fun? New clothes! Don’t you want new clothes?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to traipse over to Welch for clothes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In New York the boys were always playing practical jokes on each other and pooling their food and clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

If she saw them watching, all her courage would de-sert her, she knew, and she would drop the bundle of clothes and run and cry like a baby, and then they would have her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was getting late, and I needed to change back into my dress clothes or they wouldn’t let me have dinner. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At length, she prompted gently, “If Sir wish his clothes washed, he must needs give them to me in my hand.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Women with not a lot of clothes on were hanging on to the men. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I gathered up my art supplies and found clothes, but couldn’t decide which shoes to wear to a necropsy. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I was helping Mama fold the clothes we’d used for cover, when Woody came over and put his arm around her shoulder. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d found separate places to change clothes in the stable before heading into the market, and now he was wearing a plain brown kaftan instead of the white one befitting a servant of the temple. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that I don’t even have appropriate clothes to wear—no interview suits, no proper slacks or blouses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was littered with belongings: brass beds, chairs, kitchen tables, pots and pans, cribs, and piles of clothes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Percy. Didn't recognize me without my jogging clothes?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Their church clothes were soiled by the time the last mass rolled around at six. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were given vaccinations, metal feeding bowls, and warm clothes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Klavdiya and her companions threw on their clothes in the dark and ran to the airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Henrietta had wanted to hold Deborah, to dress her in beautiful clothes and braid her hair, to teach her how to paint her nails, curl her hair, and handle men. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I reached for the sack with my best clothes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He had no clean dry clothes, so he wriggled back into the same damp rags and followed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was continually discarding my clothes and trying new outfits. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I bought with my blank check enough clothes to fill the backseat of the Cadillac. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You are the guardian of the human spirit. You shall see yourself as you are. Take off your clothes.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had thrown away nearly all his spare clothes and, it appeared, a good deal of the food. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

While I put on the rest of my clothes, she walked down to the lip of the water. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The refugee workers have Meng fill out many papers before sending us off to the camp’s church, where we are given clean clothes, bedsheets, and food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stay there, she said, dropping my clothes on the step beside me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were instructed to take off our clothes and give them to Siberian men working at the door. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was wearing serious trick-wear: all black clothes, hair tied back tight, a knapsack over one shoulder. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was about thirteen, I guess, but his clothes were weird. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And now she wants to spend five hundred dollars on ready-made clothes? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could do a little clothes shopping as well. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their clothes were ripped to tatters by late morning when Jemmy and the prince caught sight of the sparkling river. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their clothes snap in the wind, but still they stand motionless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise it is naked and the clothes are hanging up in the tree. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the dream, he was forced to flee the scene with “my clothes torn from my back and my skin lacerated from head to foot.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She made him wait in the hall until she put clothes on. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

From then on, Marie donned men’s clothes, took the name of Gottlieb, and made a fortune traveling around Europe, exhibiting himself to medical men. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Kate, you should change into dry clothes and go on to bed. No point all three of us staying—” Just then another broadcast began. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had to leave a little money for mourning clothes to keep the people satisfied. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that Joffrey would require her to attend the tourney in his honor, Sansa had taken special care with her face and clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I go around the room with my laundry sack, stuffing a weekend’s worth of clothes inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A simple chalk mark drawn by the medical examiner on one’s clothes could have a person barred from entering his newly adopted country. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The clubs were smoky, which hurt my eyes and made my clothes stink. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far, it ran to minute descriptions of the lush furnishings of Sherry’s house, rhapsodies over Sherry’s exquisite clothes, and course-by-course accounts of fabulous meals consumed by the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-three teenage girls, in bright chadors and head scarves, sewing clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Most of my clothes are hand-me-downs from the ladies at church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She would never wear clothes like that, and she was still down in Houston, as far as Leo knew. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He did not want a rich daughter-in-law lest she be haughty and disobedient and cry for this and that of food and clothes and turn aside his son’s heart from his parents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When teachers gave us bags of clothes from church drives, Mom made us take them back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You were intended for better things. A mansion. Servants. Pretty clothes.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will your parents let you go to the mall? We can go shopping. I’ll help you pick out some new clothes.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She’s coming out of her room wearing fresh clothes for supper. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And just like he didn’t want that fishy smell all in his clothes, he also didn’t want his mom all in our business, which she was always trying to be in. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Along with the ceiling getting lower, my clothes were shrinking, too. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Clean clothes and medicine and a sleeping bag . . . and you." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The clothes smelled like wet mothballs and jasmine. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her parents are “amicably separated,” but he sends these huge checks once a month, and Twig’s mom makes a lot of money, too, designing apps that tell pretty people what clothes they should wear. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“How would people know, if you dressed in Papa’s clothes and said you were Hindu?” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Orders were pouring into northern factories for food, clothes, and munitions for soldiers fighting in Europe, and the factories were looking for new workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The police on the bridge gathered like a shoal of fish and began shedding their plain clothes costumes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But their dad just packed up the car with his clothes and boxes and books, then came over and hugged Lauren tight, whispering something into her hair before letting her go and embracing Maya. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Each of the two bedrooms contained two single beds, a chair, a chest of drawers, and a clothes closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In time she hoped to be able to make her own clothes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why he could hardly put his clothes on.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to scream, to gnash her teeth and tear her clothes and beat upon the floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We need to change our clothes,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now I got to go to class in Momma’s things or wear the clothes Char gave me yesterday. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

While Zeitoun was putting on his clothes, they backed away from him, shields up, and out of the cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After a bit Jinny sat down, then lay back on the sand and felt the damp hard grit beneath her, through her wet clothes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her clothes faded, her eyes blazing, she is full warrior now and it rather suits her. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He wears tattered clothes in different colors—a black T-shirt with a torn Abnegation jacket over it, blue jeans mended with red thread, brown boots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie didn’t notice and I didn’t care, because most of it was clothes anyway, and if they fit, they fit. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Money became the focus of all their discussions, hers for clothes, his for drink. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today she was dressed like a Christmas tree, with all this stuff pinned to her clothes, shapes cut out of fabric, ribbon. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“They are no different from any other strays—I mean, children. They will follow anyone who feeds them and is kind. Many thanks for the clothes,” she added. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Him and my stepmom are just embarrassed to be seen in public with me in my normal clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The modern shoes seemed strange with their old-fashioned clothes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air felt like somebody’s hot breath all over your body, even under your clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her rumpled clothes lay on the unmade bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The only clothes he was wearing was the bottom half of a woman’s dress that looked like it waren’t nothing but a bunch of long leafs sewed together. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get home and take his wet clothes off and sleep. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At one point people outside rushed the bus, their clothes ratty, hair matted to their heads, strange sores like those Thomas had seen on the woman covering their terrified faces. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled on some clothes, went over to the table, and took out a sheet of plain paper. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was just as embarrassed to see these chains as I was to see that she didn’t have no clothes on. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I gave her one of my gowns, and without curiosity or interest I watched her pull off her clothes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved flash—in his clothes, his friends, and his women. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I looked at the rest of me, my hands, my clothes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There were mounds of cans, heaps of clothes, rows of jars and bottles, stacks of light-bulb packages. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I crept into the bedroom and quietly changed clothes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A moment later he’s bounding into the kitchen fully dressed, as if he’d pulled on his clothes while careening down the steep wooden staircase of our drafty Victorian house. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave him his pain pills, washed his clothes, read him the international section of the newspaper every afternoon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly it come to me. I was sitting in my apartment watching it play on its rings, and I said to myself, ‘Darlene, how come you don’t stick some rings on your clothes?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down in the laundry room, Gregor sorted clothes as best he could. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Do you know what toys and clothes he likes? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wore so many clothes that when we pulled our final coat on we could barely bend our arms. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all bending over the vegetable patch, their clothes drenched with perspiration from the heat of the sun burning down on their backs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s own secondhand clothes felt sticky from her being awake all night. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Jack, Jakob,” his mother said urgently, “put on all your clothes. Hurry very quickly.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

We parked the wagon on the street, and I started to organize the bundle of clothes in a neat pile. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had no uniforms, so they wore ordinary clothes: coats to ward off the early morning chill and large-brimmed hats. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stripped off my T-shirt and all my clothes. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When they had gone, I crept from the water and in the shelter of the willow boughs put on my sun-warmed clothes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But finding a change of clothes—less than three hours after escaping the camp and before anyone could get a look at him—was an extraordinary stroke of luck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I bang until Johnny appears, wearing the clothes he had on last night. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Already I was heavy-hearted in my soul for the flush commodes and machine-washed clothes and other simple things in life I have took for granite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a long, deep breath and look down at my clothes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Many tents have wet clothes hanging all over their fines, piles of wood by the crackling fire, and homemade wooden benches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I got through all the clothes and the last of the whites were rinsed and wrung, my hands were raw and my back was grumbling something fierce. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He wanted to laugh big and own art and wear beautifully made clothes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She slept alongside another foster child, who wet the bed, and every morning she chose her clothes from a box of hand-me-downs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had never violated it, even in the warm, gas-heated house in Barrow, for damp clothes could mean death in the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while that man’s clothes had been normal, the man at the desk seemed to be dressed in some kind of old-fashioned brown suit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Things of Ma’s. I don’t mean old clothes and letters and ragged quilts like you sent over. I mean—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She’d been awake longer than anyone, had already bathed and dressed in the fresh clothes Rhonda had given her, and—apparently unaffected by the storm—was in a much better mood than the others. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She dressed in tattered clothes that left her arms and legs bare, was shorter than me by almost a foot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perry was well acquainted with the workings of such emporiums, having often patronized them, and happily, since usually he found it “so relaxing” to sit quietly and watch clothes get clean. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally got a place to lay our things, we put all of our clothes on the ground to make a pallet for us to sleep on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been practically ripping your clothes off every time there’s been a camera for the last year!” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soiled clothes were dumped out of the wash basket and it was lined with a ragged but clean blanket and set up on two chairs near the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should’ve worn my clothes,” Frankie muttered under his breath, drawing a small manila card from his evening coat’s breast pocket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After my second abduction, I began hiding a duffel bag with spare clothes behind the AC unit under my bedroom window. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Me and Ma have a pretty good disagreement ’bout them clothes ’cause to me they look a powerful lot like a girl’s dress and bonnet. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Salim couldn’t have stayed on the pod for another ride, nor had my watch gone wrong, nor could he have hidden under somebody’s clothes without our noticing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them tore their clothes as he had, climbing twenty feet of steep rock. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now ate full meals, and dressed in clothes slightly better than rags. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chess set was always reverently kept in its own blanket, hidden in a corner of the room with the medicine bags and Deydey’s ceremonial clothes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Aurelia's clothes always look dirty, even though they always smell clean. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They fell into ranks in the civilian clothes they had brought into the Army with them three days before. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s any need for language like that!” said Madam Malkin, scurrying out from behind the clothes rack holding a tape measure and a wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I imagined her seeing my soiled clothes, the little flowers she had worked so hard to make. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ruth was waiting for me in my room, her back to the door, new clothes, funeral wear, hung crisp from cheap hangers, in either hand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

And then I notice that Brandy looks much older than me, with makeup, a purse, and the kind of clothes you buy in little stores instead of big ones. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The sun burnt Tristran's face to a nut-brown color and faded his clothes to the hues of rust and of dust. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Zero glanced at him, then went over to the crates, where he deposited his dirty clothes and towel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He lay on his aunt's bed with his clothes on, and closed his eyes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was different; her skin and clothes were crisper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Clara spent the winters rapidly knitting all sorts of woolen clothes to keep him warm, but he wore them only until someone who needed them more than he did crossed his path. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered her books today, and she was wearing fresh clothes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The first thing Uncle Leang’s wife, Aunt Keang does is to take off our dirty black clothes and give us new ones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent admits that he hasn’t bothered with clothes or appearances at all recently. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mabel's hand was in mine and I was looking at her fingers, smaller than mine and a few shades darker, and I wanted them under my clothes again but didn't dare say it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Once the entire bill was paid off, we could take our clothes home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a few moments he came out in his work clothes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I bought a new suit of clothes and some shoes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from Ruby, with her clothes that always look two sizes too small, who sits in back of me and can’t stop talking even to me, no one has much to say. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He heard Bessie’s clothes rustling in the darkness and he knew that she was pulling off her coat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At his insistence she was removing her clothes, and at such speed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He went about setting up the triangles for our shelter, and I took off my clothes. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their clothes were coarse and homespun, less fine than the white people’s clothes in the eastern towns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Just stop with, with everything! The car, the clothes, the skateboard, just stop!” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be surprised later to find more familiar clothes and treasures waiting in her bags. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I need to get some fly clothes before school starts. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He falls asleep on the floor, wrapped in a blanket, while I hang his clothes up to dry and start on Siunek’s. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She always wore pretty, dainty clothes—dresses with fluffy matching pinafores. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I see what she sees: a confused girl in safari clothes with rock-star hair and purple eye shadow and cherry red lip gloss. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived home the agent made a last short business call, then changed into sports clothes and went out to have a cocktail with his wife beside the pool. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Showing no mercy, the sun burns through my black clothes, scorching the oil on my skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving my house, riding the bus, walking through the library—when I did all that I was wearing a full set of clothes. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team exited from the hot zone in pairs, and stood around on the grass in their civilian clothes, looking pale, weak, and thoughtful. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Undying were all around her, blue and cold, whispering as they reached for her, pulling, stroking, tugging at her clothes^ touching her with their dry cold hands, twining their fingers through her hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My father used to send her some money for clothes, food, and books. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He pushed her onto the bank and, with great difficulty in his sodden clothes, struggled out himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We each took a handle of the basket and carried it to the clotheshorse, a rope strung between two wooden frames that we used for drying clothes and linens. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I buttoned my clothes and tucked in my tzitzis, I felt a bit more in control. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was in strange clothes of black and white that were obviously dress-up. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got home after dark, his clothes were torn. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smoothed out our clothes, a wasted effort, and helped me twist my hair into a crown. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was upset because it had smelled bad and I was worried that Mom would be cranky because my school clothes were messy. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The clothes were worn, but clean and pressed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a time, it occurs to me that I have the rest of my clothes. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The quilt was rolled out on a display rack used for hanging clothes. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They were both dressed in layers of old clothes, and they both had blue knit ski caps pulled down over their ears. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around me, clothes looked like they’d sprouted roots and bloomed on their hangers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I got to business, arranging some thatch that had fallen from a ruined hut and laying clothes over it to make a sort of mattress. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made clothes for her five daughters throughout their lifetimes, and she also made curtains for the windows and sewed quilts for the beds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Often when she came in after running down the hill, her cotton dress would cling to her thin body and Bailey would glue his eyes on her until her clothes dried. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened and he came in looking like he’d been hay jumping—leaping from the hay loft into a mound of hay—all mussed up hair, hay bits, and twisted up clothes. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion knew enough to understand that she was telling him to take the dwarf girl up to her rooms, give her wine, and find some clothes for her to wear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I put on my jogging clothes and headed out the door, got into the car, and drove to my parents’ apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had few clothes and we managed to get whatever we had in a single suitcase. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelf above the coatrack was just as crammed as the space below, mostly with old clothes that were full of moth holes and eaten away by mildew. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I see we don’t like girl’s clothes, do we? Used to wearing breeches out in the fields?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was the stereotypical green-eyed pretty boy with parents who spoiled him, so he had fly clothes and tattoos. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After the rain let up, he pulled on some clothes and went into the slanted red barn to see the swallows. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We can dry our clothes on top of the car when the sun comes out.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Aurora is out of my lap, clearing off random clothes from the mattress. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Charity don’t go around saying ‘I give you food and I give you clothes and by rights you ought to thank me.’ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bruises were forming underneath her clothes, but her hair looked excellent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lee tells us about stage makeup and what kinds of clothes make statements until she’s had so many cocktails that her head is slumped against the bar. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The door to the second bedroom is open, and there are clothes everywhere, Ilse throwing shoes haphazardly into a suitcase. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious. This is a nice event and I could’ve worn something nice. You have on good clothes.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I have to concentrate if I don’t want my clothes to burn. And I’m not concentrating, see? This is totally fireproof cloth. Which means your firewood won’t burn in that pouch.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

On weekends she takes me to market stalls, dropping off the clothes and trying to collect on last week’s goods. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Well, the girls who made snide comments about her clothes and the boys who laughed at her weight could have their opinions. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You mean take some guy’s sopping wet clothes out of the dryer and—and what?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All of them put on clothing from Alfhercht’s tree so they weren’t traveling in torn or bloody clothes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was disappointed to see that they wore ordinary clothes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chip hurriedly got dressed, then tossed some clothes into a duffel bag. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Slowly he swirled his clothes in the water and rubbed them until he thought they were clean. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chill air was so refreshing that I decided to put on some clothes and go for a walk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“We have to buy your school clothes, and a coat,” Mami said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the laughter had died down, I pulled Emma aside and whispered, “What exactly is it that makes Horace peculiar—aside from his clothes, I mean?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When I pick it up, the bag rips and the clothes fall out. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she wrote home, she asked to be sent used children’s clothes, which she took to the orphanage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean was tall and always wore a flowered apron over her clothes when she was at our house. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Odessa High game took place, Boobie was still in street clothes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to quench the tormenting fire frying him in his clothes, he leaped overboard into the deep river where ere they could recover him he was near drowned. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He settled on file couch as one by one all Lyra’s clothes came off, to her resentment and shame; but she still had file presence of mind to conceal it and act dull-witted and compliant. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It had no cycles, so you waited until the water got dirty, then put the clothes through the wringer—two rubber rolling pins rigged above the tub that were turned by a motor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I will at some point. I’d rather have clean blankets and clothes for now.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The boys shuck their clothes where they stand. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Why, you got the best manners I ever see. You always dress up nice. Your clothes never got wrinkles—and you don’t slurp soup.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hooper walked on, stepping past him with elaborate care, avoiding even the touching of clothes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

‘What shall we wear?’ said Sam; for all he could see was the old and tattered clothes that they had journeyed in, lying folded on the ground beside their beds. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

‘Get into your clothes—you lazy boy. Stop by at Deacon Parson’s for a quart of milk. Get to the town pump.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suitcase was full of smart new clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go through the shelves and the remaining clothes, the ones he didn’t take with him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dirty clothes and old energy bar wrappers were strewn around the floor, but when you’ve got a room that big, the mess doesn't look so bad. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the wall behind him there was a benign, mouse-haired calendar-Jesus with lipstick and rouge, and a lurid, jeweled heart glowing through his clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing regular clothes—T-shirt, jeans, sneakers—not his marine uniform. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Family purchasing committees, duly elected, bought the food, clothes, furniture, and athletic equipment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his toes and tried to stuff them in his mouth while Ivy helped Layla fold the donated clothes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“When I came yesterday,” Lyra said helpfully, “Sister Clara put my other clothes in a cupboard in that first room where she looked at me. The one next door. I could wear them.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They had a pile of clothes they got from the elementary school, as well as a bunch of blankets and even some soft toys for the twins. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Edwin crawled under a large spruce tree and stripped off his clothes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Soon we were smacking each other with more than just pillows: the stuffed animals on Ximena’s bed, towels, our rolled-up clothes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Gregor quickly returned to the changing room and stripped off his sweaty clothes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When we finish the shower, can you run home and bring me some real clothes, please? This hospital stuff is just plain nasty!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They had been “civilized” in that they now wore British clothes and had adopted British manners. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the door, and try to kick some of the clothes aside as we walk in. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It’s the clothes I relate to, though, not the customers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went down to the basement, to the closet where his mother had stored everyone’s winter clothes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I pulled out the old clothes from my closet. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were older teens in mostly black clothes and Afros posted like soldiers guarding the outside. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had bundled myself in three layers of clothes and tugged on my warmest fur hat, but even that wasn’t enough to keep out the wind. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Why should we give to Goodwill when there are so many people back home who need clothes? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not argue about clothes right now,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Hastily, I took one of Mamá’s blue dress uniforms out and slid it over my own clothes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

So now I was never going to grow into my clown clothes and I was stuck being a clown. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes—all them nice clothes like they wear. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is putting clothes into a plastic grocery bag. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then Char walked up to me and told me to take off her clothes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later he had thrown off the rest of his clothes and was walking into the sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They bellowed and ran and mixed with the invited people—in their old loose-legged knickers and everyday clothes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I love Indian food, but not the days-old lingering smell of onions and garlic on my clothes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Entering the state of Ihram, we took off our clothes and put on two white towels. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse gasped at the sight of her former charge, but she said nothing, merely bent down, lifted her to her feet with surprising strength, and smacked her hard through her torn clothes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

My mother told me the other bag contained the most ridiculous clothes, all new: bright California- style beachwear, baseball caps, cotton pants with elastic waists, bomber jackets, Stanford sweatshirts, crew socks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gym locker is closest to the door, which means I have to change my clothes in a bathroom stall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our people had lived off the land and counted on cotton-picking and hoeing and chopping seasons to bring in the cash needed to buy shoes, clothes, books and light farm equipment. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lola includes all kinds of things: big coffee tins, mass quantities of toothpaste, shoes, clothes, and lipstick in pretty shades for all the aunties there. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at my clothes, which were scorched, burned, sliced, and tattered from my night of constant battles. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Make my mother give me back my clothes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a boy. You get to lie around listening to stories. I have to scrub the floor, wash clothes, sweep the courtyard and—and—air out the babies’ bedding. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Matt too had lost all his clothes, except for the shorts. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his salt-and-pepper hair, denim clothes, and leather jacket, he reminded me of a TV actor, but he was just an English teacher. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think if I was wearing my own clothes I would feel like two cents next to her. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Expenses for books, clothes, and social events would be more than they could handle, and in any case they needed the money that Marian could earn by doing domestic work for neighbors and by singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He said I need to wear clothes that don’t make me look weird. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That big kid broke my clothes and my arm, I said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They are careful about their manners, their plans, their clothes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I can’t help it. I used to watch them on the river where my mother washed clothes.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If Eleanor's clothes weren't in that locker, if she were wearing anything other than this gym suit, she would have just walked away. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Archer looked up from where he stood waist-deep in the water, washing their clothes in a pool rimmed by flat stones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I shivered worse when the wind hit my bare skin, but I knew it was better than being in wet clothes, so I went to work on my shoelaces. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the old days? To trick the men into thinking they were several different women. A new one each day.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my clothes on and came into the waiting area where Esther, Leslie, and Al- haji sat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Inside these clothes my heart was still beating like mad. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was told that they had accidentally left his clothes behind near their landing spot. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Was I even supposed to bring the other clothes, or is she supposed to wear only burial shrouds? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, thin man, and his clothes hung on him loosely. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey ran the boys upstairs to dry off and change clothes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it’s not like Ellis has grown out of her clothes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"He takes your clothes. Remember that leather jacket? He wears it everywhere." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Like most churches on the North Shore, this one suffered from a lack of air-conditioning and we were all sweating in our best clothes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Alyce found a spot a bit upriver from the befouled washing pool, pulled off her clothes, and waded in. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A doorman in an elaborate costume stood at the entrance, and although he seemed surprised by their lack of luggage he overlooked their dirty clothes with a friendly smile. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His sneakers and clothes suggest his family can spring the extra few bucks. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

An orderly came over with my clothes, and I began to dress. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Wearing simple street clothes amid the pageantry made her feel even more the outsider—and the apprentice armband made it worse. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I knew I wouldn't be able to stomach anything, so I put on my clothes and I left before breakfast. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her fingers seemed more clumsy than usual as she fumbled on her clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I tuck the book away and pull on my clothes. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

One wore ordinary clothes; the other was in uniform. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody would know those were her toilet clothes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My cousins swarmed around to help get my clothes off. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to take off his own clothes, though with less abandon than Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And we have to change into our PE clothes right in front of everyone on our row in the locker room. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Guess no running water? Maybe I can go shopping. I’m not as muddy as you guys. I could find us some clothes ” Haze! only half heard him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Kids made fun of me, because of my clothes, because of how I talked. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

As we rolled out of our makeshift bed and looked around the sunlit room, we found our clothes washed, neatly pressed, and laid out for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But I still had to hang the clothes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I looked up, and there were strings connecting a lot of the windows with clothes hanging on them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s just standing there looking down at something and so I shine the flashlight and see that she’s standing by two long piles of clothes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Years later, I’d fall in love with a guy who, like Suzanne, stored his belongings in heaps and felt no compunction, really ever, to fold his clothes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They took off their clothes and let the rags lie on the ground until they were destroyed by ants. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Two dozen kids in their best clothes concentrating as hard as they could to piece out “prestidigitation” one letter at a time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ivy backed up toward the door, stuffing the clothes into the backpack. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I asked Mrs. Pace when I had worn many times over all the clothes Adele had packed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was still wearing a zip-up hoodie, but we’d managed to get other clothes off underneath, and she scooped them all up and clutched them to her chest. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lucky Girl scrambled ahead of them, loud in the vegetation, unused to climbing, breathing heavily, her clothes torn. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There is blood splattered all over his face and clothes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I apologize, sir. Jane is a good girl but a bit protective, as an Attendant should be. She meant to ask, do you have any clothes suitable for a lady?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We returned to Macún in a rickety truck, our furniture and cooking utensils tied to the sides, our clothes and bedding bundled into cushions. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The weather was warm, so their clothes were short and tight, leaving little to the imagination. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They found dishes on the table and Pearl’s clothes hung over a chair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had to wait for her clothes to dry before she could move on. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z