The walls of the room began to tremble, dust trickling from the cracks between the bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I have red shoes, she thought—that goes with being Eleanor; I dislike lobster and sleep on my left side and crack my knuckles when I am nervous and save buttons. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the weak light that came through the dusty windows, Malcolm saw how chapped and cracked the skin of her fingers was, how red and raw. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Naturally he was barefooted, and his feet were cracked and bleeding from the cold. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My half-sisters gossiped loudly, while I sat cracking seeds and laying their flesh in a pile. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We picked our way through, though with little stealth remaining, for each step cracked and snapped as porcelain shattered beneath our heels. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Dresden had not suffered so much as a cracked windowpane. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cain had cracked one of her ribs, and it ached every time she breathed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

From 1991 to 2001, the homicide rate among young black men—who were disproportionately represented among crack dealers—fell 48 percent, compared to 30 percent for older black men and older white men. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Rondell threw a piece of seaweed at me, still cracking up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ahead was a lone streetlight, casting a yellow circle of light onto the cracked sidewalk. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I lay there watching moonlight pour through the crack of the ill-fitting door as everyone drifted to sleep. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw him crack a smile and we both laughed some more. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, she checked on Aziza, felt the parched cracks of her lips, the faint pulse at her neck, lay down again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the new camp we had been working more in higher ground, and I thought the small cracks between my toes would heal. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly falling... twisting... everything out from under me and my head cracking against the wall. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Apartheid’s walls cracked and crumbled over many years. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She’d stood by the front gates, leaning against them, when she’d heard a loud crack and something had zipped by her right ear, sending tiny splinters of wood flying before her eyes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The dishes on the table shattered, everyone ducked and clapped their hands over their ears, and I thought I could hear, from the frozen floors below, cracks spidering through the ice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As the sentence is written, the yolk is the one cracking the egg. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad didn’t crack any jokes and Mom brought the shirt for Bobby, who shook her hand and told her Your son is great and she told him she knew that. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And wedged in a crack under all the refuse, he found what he’d been looking for. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all of the fourteen entrants wanted an opportunity to go to the Interzonal, and it was rumored that some had entered to take a crack at Bobby Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He takes the dirty, cracked light out of the plastic bag. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the men struggled out of their tents, they saw two cracks running through their floe; the edges rose and fell in a strong swell. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was seated on a flat rock, cleaning a wooden bowl, scrubbing the cracks in the rounded poplar with a rag dipped in fire ash. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the crack gets skinnier and skinnier and they keep sliding down, the ice begins to squeeze them. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘Please! I -1 only meant -’ The ghost screamed as the dirt covered his body like a shell, then cracked apart, leaving nothing but a pile of dust. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"A man climbed onto our school bus today. He had a huge stick...Threatened to crack open the heads of anyone from Chennai." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He landed on his kneecap, cracked it, and stabbed himself in the hand with the clippers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cracked necks, straightened spines, and made custom arch supports out of foam rubber. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe Zak’s just cracked from the strain of the First Trial. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A black and mighty whirlwind arose, scattering the flowers and cracking the trees, carrying screams upon its currents and making the very stones of the castle shudder. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Absentmindedly, I began picking at the cracks in the couch’s leather, digging my fingers into the foamy whiteness. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I cracked it open and saw writing on the inside cover. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bigger stooped and saw, through the cracks of the furnace, the coal spreading out fanwise over the red bed of fire. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched behind it and peered through the crack between two of the folding sections. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Pretty sure I cracked the code though,” Mapper said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The opening phrase, to crack an egg properly, is attached to the yolk, not to whoever is doing the cracking. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He licked his cracked Bps involuntarily at the same time Koffi’s stomach audibly rumbled. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

By the time we get on the bus, my back aches, my hands are cracked, and my eyes burn from all the cleaning products. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But if I wanted a crack at the summit, I knew that I had no choice but to ignore my infirmities and climb. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The asphalt under Ishtar's bare feet cracked, and everything around her and Nergal took on a hazy glow. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lightning cracked bright and hard, blinding after the darkness of the ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were massive cracks and bulges on the north side of the mountain. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

For users, crack meant poverty—whole lives stripped down like a stolen car, the parts sold off to pay for their next hit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She opened it a crack to see Pastor Tom standing on the porch, his Bible pressed against the front of his coat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went down the long red hall under the dusty banners and stood before the dais with its three great hearths, where three bright fires cracked and sparkled. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I take in a big breath and leave the shade of that magnolia tree and walk across the street, stepping over the cracks in the pavement. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The strength of the words were undercut by the way his voice cracked with strain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of intense white, a lashing crack, and the monkey’s form was flung high in the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My grandpa pulls out a bag of walnuts and proceeds to crack them open. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But then she cracked the window enough to be heard and shouted, "I'm Patina's auntie!" and the girls came running to the car. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

One inmate, a Latino, seemed candid when describing the drugs he’d done in prison: marijuana, crack, powder heroin, Valium. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire length of the grip was cracked, with a deep seam visible where it had been glued back together. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I hated the way my voice cracked with fear, and the way everyone seemed to look at me when they heard it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alex rolled forward as the door swung shut and just managed to get his hand into the crack. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"And a vat of gravy," Fredo cracked, but Simeon didn't laugh. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘Why, that when you asked for a crucible he handed you the old cracked one.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black Betha rode the flood tide, her sail cracking and snapping at each shift of wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Gaunt cattle, their ribs protruding and their heads hanging low, stood listless at the bottoms of dried-up stock ponds where the mud had dried and cracked into mosaics of tiles as hard as stone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a dry splitting crack of thunder right overhead. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“The crack of his skull vibrating up the hammer, up your arm, into the hole in your chest where your heart is supposed to be.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then an almighty explosion like the crack of doom. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ate them as he walked, cracking the shells one by one, working the nut meat loose with his tongue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if I lost the trail in blizzard or fog, or was nipped by a venomous snake, or lost my footing on moss-slickened rocks crossing a stream and cracked my head a concussive blow? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His voice cracked and wavered as he plucked his lyre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even worse, it focused on the angle she most wanted to avoid—the fact that she had cracked Chinese codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He then seized Merry’s feet and drew him out of the suddenly widening crack. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The path was easier now, made of crushed gravel and graded rocks, and he cracked his whip to urge the four black stallions on faster. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You made it seem like the Crystal Ball filled with smoke and cracked.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His lips were cracked with long, bloody splits dividing ’em every little bit. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Kelly grabbed two of her jackets, handed one to Melissa, and skipped down the cracked pavement to Uncle Bill’s car. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Black, spit-shined police shoes with hard rubber soles cracked down on every inch of hardwood floor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

President Ronald Reagan officially announced the current drug war in 1982, before crack became an issue in the media or a crisis in poor black neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They’ve slipped between the cracks like snakes. Infiltrating our ranks. Supplanting the best of us like weeds.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah?” he asks, picking up pieces of smaller glass caught in the grass that grows up through the cracks in the cement. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There was another crack, closer this time, and the others started to get nervous, too. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His voice was cracking, and I could tell he was holding back his tears, literally shaking, trying not to cry. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first show, Dracula, Welles simulated the sound of a stake being driven through the vampire’s heart by cracking open a watermelon with a hammer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The picture was developing, of the two men in the bed with his mother, each nibbling on a breast, but the picture cracked and in the crack another picture emerged. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course my whole family has to escort me to Times Square at the crack of dawn, where I’ll be hopping on a six-o’clock bus to D.C. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The streets were blue and cracked, and they were streets, I mean, like for when things went on the ground. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crack the window open to let out the heat trapped in my room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As the small door unlatched, something—some heavy rectangular thing wrapped in soft leather—fell out of the crack in the door. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Because if she were here today, she would have loved to get a crack at that thing,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the fact that we were so tired and strung out emotionally, but I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Our hungry wishbone cracked and ran slick with marrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between tasks, perhaps a dozen times a day, the students scrubbed their cracked and bleeding chilblained hands under freezing water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I leave the door cracked open just a bit. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So many things made me crack up that I was always bursting into laughter in class. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I squinted at the boy's face through the crack of my good eye. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined joining one, introducing myself as the new kid in town, cracking a few jokes, starting to groove. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I still can’t get him to drink anything,” I said, voice cracking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Upon hearing me, the night turns black with evil as the wind howls and a thunderstorm cracks its lightning whips above us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the point that I’ve somehow moved from the sidewalk near the street, up the cracked walkway, to the base of the porch steps. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks are cracked, tufts of weeds forcing their way through, and sometimes there aren’t any sidewalks at all but dirt paths along the black pavement of the street. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The crack of the gun rings loud and frightening in the hills. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

That night, when I woke up in the middle of the night, I noticed a crack of light under the bathroom door. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d already made up my mind that we weren’t going to crack them open and eat them on the spot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged the rest of the brush in under the bridge and broke it up, standing on the limbs and cracking them to length. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Estraven’s smile was an ugly split in a peeling, cracked brown mask, thatched with black fur and set with two flecks of black rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena dangled from the stone wall of the castle, her legs trembling as she dug her tar-covered fingers and toes into the cracks between the giant blocks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He joined the Signal Intelligence Service early in the war and mastered the Japanese language in three months in order to join the fight to crack Japan's secret military communications. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracked as she said the final word, and as soon as she did, she lifted the mistletoe dagger and stabbed Håkon in the chest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, and his voice was cracked with lack of use. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I know you,” he whispered, through cracked lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ever upwards, sometimes stopping spreadeagled against the surface as he figured out his next movement, taking full advantage of every crack and joint in the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Black-and-white linoleum tiles are cracked in places, worn thin in front of the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a loud crack that seemed to come from deep inside the heavy trunk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of him he saw a small piece of bloodstained newspaper lying in the livid reflection cast by the cracks in the door of the furnace. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This really gets us to cracking up, and Addie yells, “Morons!” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sees me through the crack in the layered tarps and whimpers a little. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They cracked some for Mother, and pretty soon she sent out fresh cookies and milk. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It cracked against the counter edge, tumbled to the floor, and shattered. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I nearly fall off the bed before turning to find my door barely open and Lara eyeing me through the crack. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The gymnasium was contiguous to the east wing of the school, and a grassless football field with cracked baked mud harrowed by cleats formed the far boundary of the campus to the north. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first line of defense against a hot agent is sticky tape, because it seals cracks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got more by thumbing cracks in the wall, spilling broken chunks onto the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He laughs again, and when he does, the walls break apart with a crack and fall away, leaving us in a circle of light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As soon as I took a step toward him to grab it, he slipped it back in his shirt pocket, shook his head, and cracked a joke. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Each concussion threw him, staggering, and he watched in sick astonishment as the cracks grew to gaping rifts wide enough to swallow a man. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

How they torture their captives, behead them, or crack their skulls with axes so as not to waste their precious ammunition. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the door only a crack, but two wide hands reached in and forced the door ajar. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was an awful thump and a crack and a scream. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I could tell that inside, Mr. Keegan was cracking up, too. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the right was the birdbath altar with the plaster head of Nefertiti, lovely and gracious in spite of the cracks and chips. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janae always has a pin in her hair, and it only takes her a second to crack open the lock. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We heard a sharp crack and a loud crashing noise. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wonder neither she nor David had cracked their heads hover- bouncing across it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The stoops along 145th always looked more or less the same, cracked steps with people either standing on them or sitting on them because life got too depressing in their apartments. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seven cracked a small smile before cleaning up the dishes, putting the leftover cake away, and going to her room for the night. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Screaming noise, ropes slamming against the mast, cracking of cloth being whipped or snapped—everything so loud it hurt his ears. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the first crack appeared in 1789, the real break occurred two years later. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a shot cracks the air and echoes across the mountains. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“When he said Abby’ and ‘dead,”’—my voice cracks, and I dig my fingers into the cool marble of the counter—“like it was no big deal, I just...” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He must have been at the bakery at the crack of dawn to trade for it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the other kids had to wear cheap plastic mittens that would start to crack up after two or three snowball fights or one real cold day. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked the plastic container and grabbed a couple fries before returning to my investigation of Pickett. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"That leaves three beans for each us," Ben had cracked to Eleanor earlier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I figured she was just somebody who probably had a long week at work, and wanted to crack a cold brew to get her weekend started. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a mirage, Khalid told me once—like the mirages you see way out in the middle of a desert, but instead, they shimmer over the cracked pavement and potholes of our little town. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The policemen were shaking the trunk so hard, Mother could hear it crack. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as it had two months ago, a cold, damp breeze leaked through the cracks, but it smelled nothing of roses. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And how could they leave Cedar, where every crack in the sidewalk reminded them of Dad? I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Barry stabbed a stick into a crack in the concrete step. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, I hear what feels like the last knock at my door, and standing there, on my cracked front porch, is Audrey. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine! I’m not doing anything. I don’t smoke crack, I don’t snort Ritalin or suck gas from whipped cream cans, and I don’t shoot up Drano.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

As he rounded the corner, he noticed a familiar-looking gray Oldsmobile, a jagged crack in the rear window, parked in front of the house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was watching them through the crack and hoping to heaven they would hurry up and leave so that I might be safe at last. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"You gonna be good, man. We'll take care of you," I said, my voice starting to crack and slip into a cry. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, feeling small and stupid, it's me who gets up and cracks open the door. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then she heard the crack of a branch. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mustafa and I groan in disgust, and all of us crack up. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Made six doublings in a row and cracked the bank.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stick snaps with a loud crack against his forearm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The British intercepted the telegram and cracked it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The room felt hot and sticky, so I kneeled on my bed to crack the window open. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The walls showed cracks, and clods of mud had fallen where people had bumped against them, but these I left for patching in the morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rumble of protest from the horde was silenced by a crack from Cluny’s tail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I switched on the light and looked into a cracked piece of mirror bradded with bent nails to the wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sookie’s hands were red and cracked like winter hands, and he had sausage fingers. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I pulled the door all the way closed except for a crack. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the whirlwind of half thoughts spinning in my head came to a halt when I cracked my eyelids, found Baba still standing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But as I walked past Becca’s bedroom, I heard some muffled noises—specifically, moanish noises—and so I paused outside her door, which was open just a crack. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I say again, cracking up, pounding some crazy bass notes to match the funky treble. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It was a peculiar, cracked, braying, jeering note; in his mind Winston called it a yellow note. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The next day, at the crack of dawn, the old man was opening his toy booth when Hugo approached. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“They were provoked,” Penelope said in a cracking voice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Moses’s cowboy hat flew off as he fell back against Felix’s car, cracking a headlight. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I cracked the door open and peeked in again. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And because Momly gets to Ma's house at the butt crack of dawn, Ma goes to bed dumb early on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays so she can be up and ready to go. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

And then he cracks up laughing, and stupid Eliza is on my other side going ‘What is it? Come on!’ Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I nearly crack myself up with these but keep a straight face for the interrogation. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I poke my hand in the crack and scoop out the sticky sweetness and lick it from my finger. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the crack, I can make out the silhouette of a woman lying motionless in an all-white bed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had these parents from hell who'd put him under massive pressure to get a whole raft of A grades and when the exam came, this kid just cracked and couldn't even understand the questions. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You could slip down and crack your skull wide open.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaf of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And even then it wasn’t so much a smile as a crack in the glare. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing Ma weeping and Pop wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier double-time and Ray holds my hand. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are even roaches in the bathroom, emerging at night from the cracks in the tiles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A faint light leaked through a crack, and he hurled himself up at it, paused, took another breath, and plunged into a large, murky room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cracked it once in the air, apparently for his own amusement, then brought it down across the back of the black man. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The marshes were at an end, dying away into dead peats and wide flats of dry cracked mud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then there was a crack and a bullet whipped past. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The bones in our forearms meet with a crack. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The other day he cracked me up with a story about him and his best friend arguing over some sports team. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His skin cracked and split open, but there was only more fire beneath, his coattails rippling behind him like a pair of wings. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hermione screamed, but the dragon opened its mouth and belched flame again, blasting the tunnel, whose floors and ceiling cracked and crumbled. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When she told us about the spider, we all started cracking up. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a crack in the wall I’ve never noticed until now, and a spider is building her web in the corner of the ceiling. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bulldozed right over, as if we had been nothing more than two daisies poking up through the cracks in the tile. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

No shells fall and no rifles crack and the light is soft and shot through with ash. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Meantime I fall across the stern and crack my elbow. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had fallen near the far wall of the cave, as now could be seen, and before him stood a stony door closed fast: his finger-bones were still clawing at the cracks. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The surface seemed smooth and uncut, but the insides cracked in circles that went round and around. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I go, watching him crack open a beer. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sun beat down, and I could feel my skin heating and cracking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wrenched the quivering stick from the crack and held it as a spear between him and the white pieces. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Boys clowned and made faces trying to make her laugh, but she looked straight ahead and never even cracked a smile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The crack between the boulders couldn’t have led into a cave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like it could give way, crack, and swallow me whole if I let it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The whole street trembled and cracks formed in the walls of Ishtar's house. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be cracking open fortune cookies in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ever-constant needle taps against my head, waiting for me to crack. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I honestly can’t believe the disc hasn’t cracked in half yet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

So I just crack my knuckles and wait for Ma to say something to me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He’s cracking his knuckles one at a time. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sailed past her head and cracked the window. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a loud crack, and Harry’s cloudy Patronus vanished along with the dementor; he sank into a chair, feeling as exhausted as if he’d just run a mile, and felt his legs shaking. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Probe for the invisible cracks through which one might fall out of the white glass ball, and fall, and fall, and fall....An unrelaxable tension little by little took hold of all my muscles. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stone ceiling was low and angled, the paint cracked and blackened from the heat of a raging fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I peek out the cracked door before I go. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Beau’s eyes dropped even farther into the crack. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When that hour struck, Reynie was peering through a crack in the open door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into his pocket for a piece of paper and scribbled a note that he folded and wedged in the crack of the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then we saw that the girls were doing some kind of dance, so we imitated them, cracking ourselves up. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Three small hairs were embedded in the crack, and Art Moran carved them free with his pocketknife and tucked them into the sheath in his wallet that also held his driver’s license. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rather shakily, I got to my knees and peered once again through the crack in the screen. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Jason’s head and shoulders shake as I bump him over cracks in the tar. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crack them and slurp them down raw out of the shell. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He smiled at me through the blood and cracked teeth. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel heard a cracking sound, like the keel had splintered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had to dig his toes into the crack between the wall and the bookshelf to keep his balance. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s something Gina does—squeezes your head to her body with one arm, yells “Head hug!” and then cracks up. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was naked, with shadows for underwear and cracked cement for skin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a warm night for early June, and since the AC in Satan's Hearse hadn't worked in this millennium, the windows were cracked open. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t he just put the rumors to rest and say the sopho mores would have their crack at the varsity boat the following year, as usual? The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

“Watch your mouth, Michael, ” and my voice cracks on mouth, a big over-the-top Mom-about-to-cry crack. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry you weren’t there to see my dad try his best to be upbeat, cracking bad jokes in his speech, choking on his words. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“There must be something wrong with him up-stairs,Dad remarked, and tapped himself on his noggin as if to say that Mr. Spizz was nuts. “How can you tell if he’s cracked?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I curtsied and hurried out of the room, leaving the door open a crack so I could easily open it when I came back with my hands full. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started cracking up extremely loudly, and he slapped his knee. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was really just a chance for everybody to sit around and for the old-heads to crack jokes and tell me and Maddy stories about him. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As usual, he opened the door from the back stairs to the kitchen only a crack. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the south side of Chicago, people wanting to sell crack vastly outnumbered the available street corners. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Rodas, his voice cracking with emotion, says, “We could never keep going forward without people like this. These people give you things. In Chiapas, they take things away.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And then she took herself in hand and said, in a voice that cracked with self-control, "Now, now. No need to be hasty. I am certain that a deal can be struck between us." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The famous producer told him he was good in the role, even if his voice did crack once or twice in the higher registers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We both breathed very slowly and listened to the music and the fire crack. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then silently a great doorway was outlined, though not a crack or joint had been visible before. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I unlock the door and open it a crack. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The visitors were cracking their knuckles, eyeing us like it was slaughter time. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

When smoke stopped coming through the cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips and Ma would put them on the fire under the meat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ekon heard the crack in his own voice, but he couldn’t stop it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The roof had cracked open like an eggshell and rain was pouring in. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I must have fallen asleep because I remember being startled awake by the sound of loud cracking thunder. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to slide it in the crack, just like last time. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Beatriz’s steps match the different beats: a slow tread through the grassless patches of black soil, followed by a faster two-step on the cracked concrete. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His feet ached from pressing into the stone cracks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They are blown to pieces, annihilated—there are only broken bits of trenches, holes linked by cracks, nests of craters, that is all. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a little pushing and prodding, one side of the crate cracked open. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She unbolted the door and opened it a crack. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Clary, like defendants in other crack cases, challenged the constitutionality of the hundred-to-one ratio. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I almost tripped over a crack in the sidewalk, and to catch my balance, I grabbed on to her arm. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I think of the feasts at Elsinore, loud with laughter and the cracking of bones and sucking of marrow, with dogs growling and fighting over food thrown to the floor. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His head cracked against a stone, and he fell stunned with his face in the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The air rang with the whistling, and the crack! against Roy’s flesh. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The tarred patches on the cracks of the street were melting. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I beg you. We are peaceful,” Papa said, breaking the silence, his voice cracking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The pliers flew out of his hands and cracked against the window frame a few feet from her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look through the crack from my bedroom door and see Mrs. Olsen and Mother shaking hands. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In one corner there was a cracked sink, over which a slab of a broken mirror hung. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hit the ground so hard his shoes cracked the sidewalk. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be a moment to thank God for the nourishment before us, but through my cracked eyelids, the meager offering didn’t look like much to be thankful for. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a cracked windshield and a hole rusted through the floor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

With the goal of turning lady math teachers into crack junior engineers, the laboratory sponsored a crash course in engineering physics for new computers, an advanced version of the class offered at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly, we started to titter and crack up, collapsing finally into full-blown fits of laughter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Although no admissions of racial bias or racist intent could be found in the record, Judge Cahill believed race was undeniably a factor in the crack sentencing laws and policies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I left the door cracked for Pa, who was getting the blanket out of the trunk. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And crack was a sound that most times waren’t too good. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The crack of a broken bone shot through the gymnasium. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the session with a crack of his gavel at nine forty-five. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At first he would pace up and down the cave and stand at the opening sniffing through the cracks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rules had shifted, fallen into the cracks of distance and foreignness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now Ms. G. is cracking down on me too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Olanna put down the phone and felt a sharp cracking inside her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lad, acquainted with his master's plan, slipped into the crack. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He simply pulled out the correct tools and quickly cracked open the safe. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was within a foot of the slightly cracked door when the voices from within floated to him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A rider cut him off and turned him, and the others boxed him in, cracking their whips in his face, running him this way and that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he kept a lookout for killer whales, which nosed up through cracks in the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Lorraine muttered, her left hand opening the front door just a crack. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry’s dreams were confused and disturbing: Nagini wove in and out of them, first through a gigantic, cracked ring, then through a wreath of Christmas roses. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Assuming Brooke had arrived early, I cracked the bathroom door. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I knew she could not see the picture with the cracked frame or the fresh African lilies in the oriental vase. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Glass cracked and crashed to the floor, but I barely noticed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did that mean they needed to crack another layer of encryption? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Silena tried to swallow, but her lips were dry and cracked. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He heard the creaking and cracking of wood again, groaning like a living thing, like the hungry stomach of the world growling for a meal. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her left arm and three ribs were broken and her jaw was cracked. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, however, for no apparent reason and without my awareness, sorrow would crack my resolve. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I start kicking at it, and the crack spreads horizontally, and then Radar and I get our fingers inside the crack and start tugging. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t talk like he was dealing crack. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed through the crack and went home with him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood, and his mummified skin cracked like old leather as he moved. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The spinning rod flew from my grip and I pitched backward, expecting at any moment to crack my skull against the planks of the transom. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nokomis baked the deer bones, cracked them, and used a special long carved spoon to scoop out the hot rich marrow. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I’m standing on it, the boards crack and separate, the bridge sways. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The exhibit’s close on December 31, 2000, is just when the astronomers on top of the hill crack open their champagne bottles to celebrate the turn of the millennium. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The giant clay container had once held wine, but now it was empty and cracking. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We only have a few minutes,” my dad says, his voice cracking as he releases us from his embrace. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The doors and windows were tightly shut, and the cracks of the window frames stuffed with cloth, to keep out the cold. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where Momma was now, wailing at the water’s edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone-work rose thirty feet, without a crack or ledge, to overhanging courses like inverted steps. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She put the ochazuke in her own special bowl with the gold cracks and took it into the bedroom with a porcelain spoon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I lie on my bed staring up at the cracked ceiling, peeling all over. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She barely had a second to congratulate herself for making it before the branch creaked and then cracked. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was sweating like a heroin smuggler at a border crossing when we cracked the door open onto the girl-less girls’ floor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The torrid cracks of the furnace gleamed in the crimson darkness and he heard the throaty undertone of the draft devouring the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to keep them out,” confided the colonel, and began cracking his knuckles savagely as he wandered back and forth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I'm afraid that if I open the door a crack, the sorrow will never leave, will grow in me like a cancer. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then it got down to where there was popping and cracking. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly was questioning the ceiling with her eyes, seeking an answer among the grease and cracks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When I was young, we always had rain," Aunty Silver says, motioning out the window at a stretch of cracked earth. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The cracks on our windshield told their own story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the cracking, frolicking flames I saw the face of Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My foot is half an inch above a crack, and I freak. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

While crack use was hardly a black-only phenomenon, it hit black neighborhoods much harder than most. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ben folded his arms and felt the cracked, lined leather between his fingers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this door was open just a crack and barely lit. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rain came almost at the exact spot where the crack was that had clipped her the day before. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

But Mom watches the video that shows people actually talking and cracking jokes and even going to college by using that machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Edwin remained standing along the wall, watching intently as Garvey placed a big pillow under Cole’s head and ladled spoonfuls of chicken broth between his cracked bps. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, Mr. White cracked a smile and stood smartly upright again, breaking the spell. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“When you were talking to that woman the first time, you were cracking up. Both of you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Señora Oralia’s door was open a crack, and the smell of something delicious filled the hallway. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve forgotten there’s a man sitting at the window, watching the street and the yard through the crack in the curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Ice cracking and shifting. Millions of tons of ice.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finch steps back, shielding his eyes because the sun is peeking through the branches, and there is a crack as his foot comes down on a twig. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I — well, like I say, I’ve taken a liking to you. Just thought I’d offer . “Well, thanks,” said Harry, “but I think I’m nearly there with the egg . . . couple more days should crack it.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had that glassy look in her eyes, the way that crack heads do. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Why did I ever crack open the callus anyway? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her private cracks, however, were known to him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down a few more buildings cracking up about my bro, until I got to my own classroom. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Winifred pushed the patient gently back on to the pillows and held a bowl of water to the cracked, dry lips. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You can’t do that!” he cried out in a high cracked voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She waved her torch toward the black crack in the back wall of the cave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"I've never wanted anything but to be a player, ever since the day I crept into the theatre at Blackfriars and watched The Lady of May through the crack of the door." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Making that choice would crack a person’s soul right down the middle. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other difference between crack and other drugs was its method of distribution. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I want my voice to echo and crack the ground beneath my feet. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I’ve never understood those movies that show families up at the crack of dawn, all cheerful because, “Yay, Christmas!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was no longer worth killing someone to steal their crack turf, and certainly not worth being killed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Every crack of thunder and flash of lightning makes the back of my neck prickle, as if electricity is dancing over my skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I clench so hard, I feel a tooth crack. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I scoot out the door, leaving it open a crack to watch what happens next. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And my mother, I said, my voice cracking. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I call them cracks because that is what they were. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parking lot itself was nothing but a square of cracked asphalt, marbled with weeds. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The gun cracked, the men rushed forward, and the race was on. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I jumped in my seat and cracked my kneecap on my desk. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We all took guesses, but she wouldn't crack. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She kept pulling new ones from her sack, cracking them open, and reading the fortunes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We stepped out of the elevator onto the white marble walkway, and immediately cracks appeared at our feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They then struggled frantically to pull open the jaws of the crack that held poor Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I squint to keep the sweat from burning my eyes, and pull with all my force back and forth until the crack starts to make a jagged opening. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we could make you a dress?” asks Millie, her voice creeping so high it almost cracks. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The lobby is empty and there's nobody at the desk to tell me I can't be visiting patients at the crack of dawn. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And after three weeks of keeping this secret in, I was darned well not going to crack over a stupid piece of penny candy. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the wire I heard gunfire, screams, shouts, then a big crack sound, and the phone went dead. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, though, despite the exhilaration inside and the crack of artillery fire outside, she fell asleep. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

His voice was high and cracked with fear. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When she cracked a grin, Micho said, “There we go! That was a good one.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Pieces of ceiling snapped and cracked and rained from above. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This cracks his temporary shield a little bit. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the dark wooden staircase, Joseph noticed another black door open just a crack, nearly hidden in the shadows. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At one point, my head cracked back against the plastic side paneling and drink holder, but no one was paying attention to the strange noises in the backseat when someone was firing a gun. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Twig didn’t respond, just kept cracking invisible eggs over my head and running streams of fingertip yolk through my hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The young falcon was climbing the cliff, beating her wings, taking hold of rock cracks with the hook of her beak and her talons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He’d crack a really silly joke, trying to make me smile. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Another crack of thunder booms and lightning flashes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twigs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the middle of the night, Luke’s would chirp and he’d hear Toby’s cracked voice, asking him to come to the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One of the ear pads is dangling from wires, and the casing is cracked. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We open his study door, just a crack, and listen for noises in the hall. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down to where the guys on the corner laugh low and shout dirty jokes to one another, cracking up and slapping skin as they try to top each other. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s voice cracked on the last few words. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She cracked open the door, her right eye peering out to see who was waiting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But half the fountains were dry, half the pools cracked and stagnant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now Freckles goes and peers through the crack in the door, and steps back, and looks at me, and then peers through again. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As I look around the party, trying to spot Lorena, I see a couple making out in a bedroom through a cracked door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Dude, watch out! Step on a crack, and break your mother’s back.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Toby did a little dance as they walked, cracking himself up again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She is as I remember her—cracked lips, thin, and bruise-eyed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a low crack, like a distant boom of thunder. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I peeked through the crack, I saw her going through the trunk at the end of their bed, where she stores all our baby stuff. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go!” the sheriff yells from his horse, cracking a whip over our heads. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The one on the floor was sopping wet and striped green with slime from the aquarium, which lay on its side, empty and cracked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He knew where they were going: the big tent on the far side of the fire pit, its painted canvas walls cracked and faded by years of sun and rain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her head cracked to the right and blood flew from her nose. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Three stakes had been driven into the icy ground, and three charred bodies were bound to them, their blackened, cracked skin still smoldering. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was always in a bad mood—not exactly a bad mood, but you couldn't get her to crack a smile or cry or anything. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And overhead the cog’s canvas sail rippled slowly, like the fur of some great beast stirring from a long sleep, then filled with a sudden crack that turned every head on the ship. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With crack on crack of thunder, he let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in sacred fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the water. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twigs cracked again, and then they heard soft, thudding steps, in the leaf-mould out beyond the bushes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Manchee, who don’t seem to ever get tired, is busy running around, lifting his leg on all the plants that have grown up thru the cracked floorboards. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

Then he cleared his throat, cracked open a big white smile, and began to sing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Max is staring into the cracks of the concrete sidewalk. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The light crept through the cracks in the walls and under the shutters and seemed to delight especially in dancing on my eyes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked on, the crust cracking uneasily under us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The proximity of the picture made her grab it and kiss it again, the ice cube in her mouth cracking against the glass. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boats cracked loudly against the ice, grating and scraping on the edge of the floe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He laughed, but his voice was cracked and hideous. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Thomas half stood as he watched the Glader crash down into his chair, tipping it over backward, cracking it in two pieces. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The crack of the hammer as it connected with the head of the nail. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He crouched below Newt against the lowest of the wooden boards, pressing his eye against a crack—it was terrifying being so close to the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I used to sit there and watch you—cracking jokes with the teacher, charming the girls with that freaky smile, and laughing when you flunked one of those pop quizzes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had condensed on the windows, covering the cracked windshield like a filmy overlay of lace. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She had finally thrown away her cracked and rotted shoes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her grippy shoes were ruined, their soles cracked like sunbaked mud, so she flew slowly, scooping up handfuls of water to soothe her burning face and arms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“She took a break from her job in L.A., went to Camp Half-Blood for the summer, because we figured—” His voice cracked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

How he’d hesitated for only a moment before leaping over the crack, barely making it to the other side. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If Dad had been in there, ants and worms could have gotten in through the cracks and eaten him, or at least microscopic bacteria could have. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She kept cracking it open to take a peek outside. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"You’re completely cracked. Listen to me, and listen to me good. All right? You never fight back. Ever. You do what the officers tell you, and you don’t argue with them." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was a roughly built log cabin with mud plastered into the cracks, and there was one door and one square window covered with greased paper. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rumors circulate that there may actually be money on payday, and even the working men begin to crack smiles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Another crack could open in that old roof. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He raced across the ground.To his left he heard shouts and a loud crack accompanied by a flash of light. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows swayed and shifted, furtive animals racing across the cracked white walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the large man, who had yet to even crack the slightest smile. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He gave a fluid snap of his wrist, and the leather coil lashed forward with a fearsome crack, catching me across the back of the hand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She opened the door a crack and he crawled out, dark against the warm pink light in the corridor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was fungus, too, issuing out of the cracks, and in the groin of a branch, in weird, spongy shapes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Then came trout fresh from the river, baked in clay; her prince helped her crack open the hard casing to expose the flaky white flesh within. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was why she always had broken nails and cracked skin and why, with time, her fingers grew deformed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xan pulled herself to her feet, her joints creaking and cracking like rusty gears. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I leaped from my seat and nearly cracked the window glass with my forehead. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, crack was the wrong road and anybody that lived in the hood knew where that was at, you don’t have to teach fish to deal with water. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fezzik picked up a rock the size of a cannonball and aimed at a crack in the mountain thirty yards away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you know that crack was ten and a half inches deep?” he said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’d started smoking crack, which was plentiful, to replace the booze, which was scarce. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Favorites include cracked corn, black oil sunflower seeds, and mealworms. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Dap rolled his eyes, disarranged his hair, cracked his knuckles, kissed his finger-tips, and made other gestures calculated to express his point of view. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach up and wedge the bill into the frame’s alarm switch so the alarm doesn’t go off, then I open the door just a crack and slide through onto the rooftop. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“But there’s no need to do it so loudly at the crack of dawn. We have the whole summer in front of us.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When I got upstairs I saw that Herman E. Calloway’s door was still open a crack. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A hush went through the room like a crack through a china cup. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Mavor, My brother Danny Chipped his tooth On the cracked sidewalk, His fault really Because he was on His skateboard With his eyes closed And his fat mouth open. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of Tyler had faded, and with it had faded his music, drowned out by the crack of metal crashing into metal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I crack open my eyes to see the rabbit’s furry foot brushing against me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With a crack, the bolt snapped, pieces whizzing out of sight. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The second Mom turns on the light, a dozen roaches skitter and scurry toward the crack in the wall. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her heart leapt and danced, and she cracked a smile. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then, as if in answer, the earth gave a deep, splintering crack and threw him to his knees. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Bfff...She got it!” the spotter pilot yelled, his voice cracking. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Denna pointed to a break in the cliff, a deep crack about two feet across. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There is a crack of thunder, a flash of light. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, like Laura Cramp, when pressed up against the rocky reality of their son's death, the Millers’ faith finally started to crack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His head struck with a terrible crack, but Tendai was certain he was already dead before he reached the ground. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What passed for the director’s office was four bare, cracked walls, a mat on the floor, a table, and two folding chairs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fear of cracking up or going crazy—moderate, a 2. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Someone started pounding on the top of the cask and the lid cracked open suddenly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were no houses or buildings as far as I could see, only wheat-colored fields patchy with dirt and cracked wooden telephone poles with drooping black wires strung between them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He stuffed paper, cloth, moss, tinfoil, and anything else he could find into the cracks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She sat up and put her eye to the crack of the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The next time I’m woken, it’s by a cracking at the door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s like my heart is cracked in half and will never be whole again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She pulled the huge door open a crack, peeked in, and turned away to look elsewhere in the building. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crack on the back of the ukulele had been neatly mended with sticking plaster and the round hole in the middle was covered by a piece of wood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She called out, “Mama! Mama!” until the crack in the sliding doors became too small to let in her voice. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still working, despite the cracks on the screen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The men were taught to pick locks, crack safes, set booby traps, and use poison. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the ax handle come ’live; it shakes and cracks into long skinny splinters, Pap screams, and his hands come flying off the handle like it had turnt itself into a lightning bolt.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Billy thought maybe he had known this cracked messiah in Dresden somewhere. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen to make tea, and as she waited for the water to boil she watched daylight creeping into the cracks around the shuttered windows. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was cracking under the stress or what. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I thought something inside me might crack in two. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The dark wood looked like it was a hundred years old, chipping and discolored and cracked. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Harry unlocked his door and stepped in front of the cracked mirror. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He ducked it, slugged me in the stomach, cracked me in the mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Outside, the thunder rumbled and lightning cracked into something. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful—the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie splashes water in the pool and cracks up every time the splashes reach my mom, who has moved a bit closer to us now. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We slip round the house and try to peer through the cracks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the side of the house, she grabs one of the chickens rooting around in the tom paper wrappers and cracked plastic bottles and dirty diapers strewn in the weeds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of cracked pince-nez balanced on the end of his twitching nose. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As Sophia chauffeurs us away from the scene, we crack open the seal on a pilfered bottle of rich man’s Scotch whiskey. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The more he played along, the more power they had, so he cut through the small talk before they could see him crack. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Black tar bubbles out from the cracks and grooves and drips down into the grass and sinks into the earth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But at the crack of dawn the next day I would be up to catch the first bus to the ranch. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a small crack in her voice but the set of her jaw makes her look defiant and strong. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His skin grew cracked and itchy without the daily wash of his beloved swamp water. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I can see the cracks, like the lines of age on a face. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flowering vines sent up creepers from every crack in the wall or pavement, and young trees had taken root in the Walls of abandoned shops and roofless temples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mom picked up the creamer and poured some into her coffee mug, which had the restaurant’s logo: an illustration of a cracked egg with a smiley face. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The cocaine was easy to come by, for the invention of crack coincided with a Colombian cocaine glut. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I leap over the cracks, pretending I’m playing hopscotch. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In a crack between the floorboards I finally find the key. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He stretches his arms forward, cracking his knuckles under his gloves. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I followed the winding path, walking over potholes, some so deep they seemed to crack open into the center of the earth. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Looking at the boys, under whose chairs water was pooling before spilling between the floorboard cracks, she knew they could never understand her ambition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This time Camilla came to the door, opening it only a crack and looking out warily. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Through the cracks between her fingers, she saw a big, blurry silhouette standing in a rectangle of light. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she whacked him across the face and his nose made a crack like a branch breaking. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The longer he knelt there, scrubbing away tediously with his glum companion, the more he desired to raise his chunk of sandstone and bring it down with a crack on Nebre’s head. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Broken parts flew in all directions as a huge crack appeared in the lens. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I crack the seal on the bottle of alcohol and, in one motion because I won’t do it if I think, empty the entire bottle over my hand. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Will himself had gone home from their wrestling sessions aching, and wondering if he hadn’t cracked a rib or two. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He opens it with his bare hand, cracks one of the back windows open, and pours the beer out through the crack. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I think of Sophie’s cracked lips, think of her saying, Please, just tell me this isn’t real. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Another thing that surprised me was that the coffin was cracked in a few places, probably from the weight of all that dirt. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The violence associated with crack began to ebb in about 1991. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Resurrection Stone had cracked down the vertical line representing the Elder Wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Proceeding cautiously, Kyril Montana advanced through underbrush and dead leaves, automatically avoiding twigs and small branches that cracked underfoot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the kids growing up in a housing project on Chicago’s south side, crack dealing seemed like a glamour profession. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The image in the mirror was Jack, but ten times worse—dark blue and seemingly made out of cracked ice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

It's epic being up at the crack of dawn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“First off,” said Kyle, “I’m really sorry about that garbage man crack I made the other day.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I check them again to make sure there are no cracks in the glass. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Archie kept that smile on his face until he felt his cheeks would crack. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all about, stone, cracked and splintered into countless jagged shards, was scattered far and wide, or piled in ruinous heaps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We listened to the cracking branches in the woods until we couldn’t hear him anymore. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Joe looked up as if searching for a window or a crack in the walls, but there weren’t any. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey laughed, and if I closed my eyes, I could imagine Jesse was with us, swapping stories and cracking up at our lame jokes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The concrete of the court was cracked everywhere, as though an army of robot jackhammers had trampled through. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He leans in and kisses the Doorman on the snout, just long enough for me to take the photo and for Audrey and Ritchie to cheer, clap, and crack up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Did he have a heart attack or something? Or did he fall on the ice and crack his head? Just tell me. Please, Mami.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His clothing in tatters, his shoes cracked, the old knapsack on his shoulder his only luggage, he looked like a beggar, but his bearing had a dignity that was in frank contradiction to his appearance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His joints popped as he flexed his fingers, and he rolled his head from side to side till his neck cracked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged the sparrow stumbling and tripping to the crack of light. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But those earthquakes send cracks up through the dirt and into the concrete. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She watched the water rise and listened to the cracking and booming of caverns collapsing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The kid cracks up and the artist cuffs him on the head like a proud father might. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

One of the glass panes in the door had cracked from the force. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was said that he loved the sound of his club cracking open a skull like a pumpkin, but this was not true. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Because anybody over the age of six could crack this code in like ten seconds.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t like the taste of walnuts, but I find myself fascinated by the methodical cracking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He held it above his head to block the sun, which had darted out from behind a cloud to further bake the cracked orange dirt. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Kill him, Cissy!” shrieked Bellatrix, but there was another loud crack, and Narcissa’s wand too flew into the air and landed on the other side of the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The weighted head of Kaz’s walking stick whooshed through nothing and cracked against the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Today I was going to take another crack at it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Charlie guzzled down his beer really fast, then pulled the one meant for me out of his pocket and cracked it open. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to set, glittering red through the cracks between the ramshackle buildings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day she kicked at a cracked sheep’s skull with the side of a bare foot and sent it bouncing over the edge of the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Skeptical, Master Hyrrokkin squinted to read, then gave a crack of a laugh that turned every head in the huge, hushed room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a crack between two of the largest boulders, something I’d probably passed by a million times, but... The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The whole table of boys starts cracking up, and blush girl runs back to her friends and buries her face in her hands. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her parents were asleep; her mother had been taking sleeping pills at night to calm her nerves, and the crack beneath their bedroom door was dark. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then he heard a deep groan and a crack that echoed above the wind. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The word is she's hurt pretty bad because he cracked a bone in her neck, but she'll be okay in the long run. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Waves thundered and cracked when they hit the Frog. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few churches or public buildings still stood above the rest, though their roofs were holed or their walls cracked, and in one case a whole portico had crumpled onto its columns. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I hand off the phone, the two start to plan my tour and my next video, and crack jokes about my musical taste. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She would crack the bathroom window and go to bed, and by the time Pearl woke, the sour smell of developer would be gone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was a stone packed inside a shell that wouldn’t crack. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Big Rose stuck her big head in through the crack and met eyes with mine. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My hands curl into fists and my voice cracks as I feel the anger hit me like a giant swell in the water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We found a small window in the back with a cracked pane, knocked out one corner of the glass, and climbed through. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are crack vials and used syringes strewn about the concrete that surrounds the playground. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That didn’t stop him from cracking a beer. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When Dad finally answered, his voice sounded funny, like it had cracked a little. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“From a distance, I mean. You can’t see the wear on things, you know? You can’t see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I clenched my fists so hard, if I had been holding a walnut, I would have cracked it. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He cracked open his address book and began calling reporters, asking them to announce that he’d gladly meet Riddle’s sum, and War Admiral, anywhere and any time Riddle wanted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She cracked up a bit and said, “People never tell me that.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The vinyl on the haptic chair was worn and cracked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My stomach swirls, and I crack a smile, begging for him to ask me to join him. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The morning sunlight was already filtering through the cracks of the shutters, but it was as silent in the big house as if even the books on the shelves were sleeping. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It will only crack and burn, and it’s so beautiful, Set Jorah will call me a fool if I ruin it, and yet, and yet ... A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It nibbled and licked at a crack between the stones until it dislodged some sort of greenish root. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I cracked a Red Bull and then my backup laptop, which wasn’t really a backup. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Yan Chang warned me that my skin would freeze and crack into a thousand pieces. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day we trudged northeast through the white absence of everything until there were no longer any cracks in the floor of nothing: a day’s haul. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would've cracked a joke about it taking me a million hours to do forty-five minutes' worth of work, which is why Doris assigned it to me. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It sounded as if the whole world was breaking and cracking apart; there hadn’t been a storm like that in memory. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crack of the whip sounded, followed by a scream. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The walls were solid blocks of stone with no major cracks that she could see. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was another crack of thunder; and then the rain came. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was the door to the room unlocking and cracking open. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In this case there were two identical patches of spiderweb cracks and two reproductions of the same Rembrandt. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Once all the men and gear were safe on the same piece of floe with the boats, they began to relax, only to have another crack split directly under the James Caird. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As I followed Ray outside, a giant web of lightning appeared in the sky like a crack in a glass, and lit up the neighborhood as bright as daytime for half a second. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I got up, went to the cracked glass, and saw that it was both raining and shining outside— a bit of meteorological weirdness whose name no one can seem to agree on. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She felt him trembling and her fists were tight enough to crack. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Different kind of sand comes in through the cracks.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth rushed in just as a crack appeared, and the whole ceiling dropped. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the tournament, someone asked how well he thought he’d do and he answered, “It’s a question of when I’ll crack up.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“For a doll when—” his voice cracked, and the twins’ cries rose behind him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One tile had an ugly crack across the middle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"If you don't open it, I'll crack it open with your head." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The drug economy played out every day on the cracked concrete lawns of Robert Taylor, and her preteen older sons, Nicholas and Willie, could not help breathing it in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thunder cracked and the angel fell out of the sky. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

About twenty feet behind the goddess, the ice sphere began to crack and hiss. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My room felt hot and stuffy so I went over to crack open my window. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calista’s shuffling got really loud, and she started cracking the cards on the bench between shuffles. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He cracked one eye open and looked around. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Nothing happened, but the cracks seemed to be spreading across the floor more rapidly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I feel like an old piece of leather, drying and cracking in the heat. every step is an effort, but I refuse to stop. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He sent his long whip-lash cracking over their heads; then with another crack and a yell he started the company off again at a brisk trot. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’m examining a cracked hoof in the blacksmith tent when August sends for me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I cracked up a little, I don’t even know why. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time ever, I cracked the top sixteen and came home with a twelfth place finish. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Carlos caught my eye and stopped me from cracking a basketball joke before I could even open my mouth. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I said, cracking my voice like a whip, startling the students’ attentions back to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to follow one of the cracks to see if I could make it into a corner. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And there came a second crack, loud and sharp as thunder, and the smoke stirred and whirled around her and the pyre shifted, the logs exploding as the fire touched their secret hearts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the crack of the starters pistol, the pint-sized pilots released their brakes, hunched down into their homemade roadsters, and willed their cars down the hill. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I pick at a crack in the seat. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They could only afford a cramped two-bedroom unit with faded linoleum, brown shag carpet, and a cracked kitchen sink. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I hear the crack of impact as candies skitter across the hardwood floor. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dill jumped as his father slammed his hand on the table, a sharp crack in the still room, and stood. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

An organ with yellow ivory keys and threadbare pedals leaned back in the shadows beside a black leather chair whose horsehair stuffing cantered out from every crack. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I opened my fingers a crack, like a child with a secret, and smiled at the silver globe cupped in my palm. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee’s voice cracks, and she stops talking. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He watched as Reg tried to lift himself up, but there was an officer’s knee in Reg’s back keeping him down and the sound of a crack against the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But just before he secured the raw wooden slab a voice drifted through the crack; it wheezed, “Sister Henderson? Brother Willie?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then,” he explained, “we shall secure it with fish glue, and the dust which comes from using the rubbing stone to polish the wood will fill in the least crack and make all smooth.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then he swung by the Juvenile Detention Center to take one more crack at Dana Matherson. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long crack eased up on the side of the other house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They kept the windows cracked and we drove around for about an hour more. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

By way of explanation, he told her, "We were trying to get them to stick in the cracks." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Could you take out the garbage?” she asks, her voice cracking a little. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When she finally cracked one eye open, she found the goddess was staring at her, visibly perplexed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So I’m a little flustered as I go into my spiel about cutting back my homework, and during it Ms. Rucker’s expression never cracks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Before crack, it was just about impossible to earn a living in a street gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A grandfather clock lay splintered at their feet, its face cracked, its pendulum lying a little farther away like a dropped sword. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The crack of the guns is heard long after the roar of the explosions. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick leaves of the ivy served well as handholds, and Thomas was elated to find that the many cracks in the stone wall were perfect supports for his feet as he climbed. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Jus looks at Mr. Rivers, who has his jaw clenched so tight, it wouldn’t surprise Jus if his teeth were cracking. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Once during the long evening one side door and then the other door was opened just a tiny crack and quickly closed again. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just as I remembered from last time: When it’s not latched properly, there's a large, gaping crack of air, and the door blows open. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

One side of it was solid earth, the other a dense screen of thorns and branches impossible to see through but with enough cracks and crevices to admit a little air. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Malfoy gasped and gulped and then, with a great shudder, looked up into the cracked mirror and saw Harry staring at him over his shoulder. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“We hope without cracking up the flying machine.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cracked yellow walls were lined with electric lights in wire cages, posters for old shows, and photographs of actors who had appeared in the theatre over the years. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I watch her through a crack in the wood at her feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The angler fish’s large abdomen crashed against the ice, and surprisingly, the ice did not crack. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Spot, Mama Ya-Ya, and me will spin, cracking through the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as she was cracking the spine of yet another dusty history, Ophie would catch movement out of the corner of her eye, and there would be the ghost boy standing in the doorway. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I get to my feet, grab my dressing gown and open the bedroom door just a crack. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were my best student in Kabul University,” he added, cracking a tired smile. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The dirt was orange, striped in places where crumbs had slipped through the cracks when Mami swept. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I pushed myself to my feet, wiping away whatever tears were left, and cracked open the bathroom door. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I climbed down just as quickly and looked around for something to crack them with. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When he stood again at the edge of the hull’s cracked hollow, Pima was standing alone in the water, foam up to her thighs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’d cracked an FBI server once, as a test, and gotten away with it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I, on the other hand, apparently went over like a felled ox and was lucky to land on the grass and avoid cracking my head open. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He resettled the rope on his shoulders and cracked his knuckles. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The leader didn’t stop moving until they reached a huge bus, its sides dented and scarred, most of the windows webbed with cracks. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I wasn't going to give the police any reason to crack me over the head.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Here’s an even simpler way to say it: To crack an egg properly, leave the yolk intact. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

George said good-bye to Kelly and walked her bike up the cracked path along the house. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Mom?” she asked, cracking the door open just a smidge. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dining table was made of wood that cracked in dry weather. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the cracks along the Wall go from red to grey to black, from streaks of fire to rivers of black ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the bones cracked apart over the blade her golden bangles jostled, her forearms glowed, and she exhaled audibly through her nose. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

As the heavy ax chewed its way into the tree, it began to lean and crack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom opened the door a crack and let us in. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thunder boomed and lightning cracked, lighting up the sky in sudden, glaring washes. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Preoccupied with that revelation, she trips on the sidewalk crack. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed the door open just a crack to see who it was. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And then I noticed that it was only cracked, not broken apart. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Water slowly crept through a crack in the bottom of our boat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’m used to seeing my mom on the other end of that handle, so I do a double take so fast I crack my neck when I see my dad standing there. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

His feet seemed too big for his body, with cracked dirty toenails, eight toes on each foot But the top half of his body was the weird part He made Janus look downright normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The simulations drove a crack through Al so wide he could not mend it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

No flesh remained on the arid bones, but the two friends cracked them open and worried away every scrap of marrow from inside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She owned the crack that made her stumble; she owned the clumps of dandelions whose white heads, last fall, she had blown away; whose yellow heads, this fall, she peered into. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face is totally serious at first, but then he cracks and starts laughing. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He heard the water, flowing into the pool, drop by drop from the big crack in the side of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Under their shoes, the paving stones were moving—spiky plant tendrils were pushing up from the cracks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Olanna could hear the sound of the planes far off, like gathering thunder, and soon the scattered sharp cracks of antiaircraft fire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I opened the window a crack to hear better. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I said nothing, and Leper, having said so much, went on to say more, to speak above the wind and crackings as though his story would never be finished. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m cracking up thinking about how your face looked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

By cracking your enemy’s codes and ciphers, you could learn their military secrets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I leaned my bike against the tall tree shading over the building and walked up the cracked cement sidewalk. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At NASA’s High-Speed Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base—the place where pilot Chuck Yeager first cracked through the sound barrier in 1947— engineer John Perry manned an X-15 simulator. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Celine was a brave French soldier in the First World War—until his skull was cracked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing fancy on there, as far as I could see; maybe a few scratches. I only ever saw it really close up after it had been cracked open.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was crying and touching everything, but I wouldn’t let her know where I was, because I was sure that the cracking up at the end would make it all OK. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was not irrational worry, because dried blood was unusual, even for when the callus was cracked open. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I checked out, T. Stared at this crack on the wall in the visitation room until it started looking like a spider. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cracks got so large that one of the letters outside fell off and could not be put back up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not safe,” Luke said, closing the door to a crack and coming back to sit on the floor, “that man’s going to shoot somebody.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A chunk of plaster had been clawed or kicked out of the wall, with a long network of cracks emanating from the spot. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of giving dogs a bath,” cracked Scruffy, “but this is ridiculous.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I went between the walls of clay and picked up bricks that had cracked open; when my barrow was full, I would wheel it out onto a wooden scaffold and dump it into a pond. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took in the dirty concrete floor, the cracked walls. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But on Day Six her voice cracked as she told me about my last ballet recital. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I hear a splintering crack and my head snaps up just in time to see a short branch fall from the canopy, crumpling in the undergrowth below. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The new ciphers were not as demanding as those she had cracked earlier in the war, and they did not yield much in the way of vital intelligence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But that one spark of triumph faded when Mr. Bates, his voice cracking with anger, bellowed, “So we just gonna let them do this to us, burn our homes, scare our babies?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But having caught the pig, Nettle thought it was fair dos to crack open a bottle now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What about sand that comes in through the cracks?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivan’s voice cracked, and he wiped a tear off his cheek. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The clay was cracked and slightly soft to the touch. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was biting her lip to keep from cracking up at her own hilarious self. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever she cracked one system, more challenging ones rose to take its place—and day after day, she was forced to grapple with them alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was called on day and night to X-ray all types of ugly wounds to see if the bones behind the bruised or bleeding flesh had been cracked, chipped, or broken. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the soft light of the full moon, he cracked open the dog-eared book to one of his favorite parts. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There were cracks in her perceptions, and she was trying to make sense of them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“He caught up with them, took a flying leap off the bicycle, and cracked their heads together? Knocked them out cold. That's gangster.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even Mom cracked a smile at that one. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed, turning my gaze toward the long wavy crack on the ceiling. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I look at Ayesha, who cracks a smile and then lets out a laugh. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Tears were sliding down her face like a cracking dam doing its best to hold an overflowing lake. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The crack slips out before I can stop it, but Ms. Rochambeau doesn’t flinch. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We veer off the bridge, through the tolls, and into areas of steep streets and skinny houses smushed up so close against each other that no light can squeeze through the cracks. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I cracked an eye to discover a little humanoid figure trying to hide inside my shoe, but it had gotten tangled in the laces. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They walked down into it, and at the end of the dent they found a crack about as tall as a person but not nearly as wide as a door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded the robot’s head with his heavy hooves, denting and crushing it into an ugly shape, and with one final crack the head broke loose, soared through the air, and squelched into the muck. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Do they ever crack them pecking hard things? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Lateesha found out, she slammed the door in my face so hard the paint cracked. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a threadbare tunic, one sleeve hanging off her too-sharp shoulder, and the skin of her legs and feet was visibly dry and cracked. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From ’bout a mile off it sounded like one person playing and all you could hear was a steady, regular crack! sound that rolled toward you like it was being carried on the wind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Over Percy’s head, the glass dome cracked and began to leak. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Its crack was louder, and I heard it through my body rather than with my ears. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She lowered her tray and he took one, cracked it between his fingers, and chewed the nuts inside before he asked for two cups. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His father drew near again and put his mouth to the crack of the door. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t actually crack it,” I say, quickly. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he shouldn’t crack on people all the time,” Julia says. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

TimeStar puffed up his chest and made a show of cracking his knuckles, but when the childlike Clock Watcher’s bottom lip began to quiver, he backed down. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Valley cracked open one of the books and began to read. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tom Grieves opened the pantry door a crack and peeked in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horns cracked out in the darkening stillness; grindstones screeched. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva looked at the hollow eyes and the cracked lips of the men lying on the hot sand, and his own mouth felt so dry that he nearly choked when he tried to swallow. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the crack of a twig or the rustle of a leaf they passed and vanished. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I cracked the door, listened a moment, then peered in. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another whoosh and more violent cracking sounds followed. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Written on Nazi Enigma machines, they would be much harder to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Reflections glimmered off the Wall, every crack and crevice glittering pale blue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I passed the patty to Needles, who cracked off a corner and then passed the rest to his brother. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Charlie gripped the cracked leather steering wheel so hard, his knuckles turned white. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My head feels like it’s going to crack in half like an egg. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Mother,” said Jonas, only one of his eyes visible through the crack in his door, “are you going to open it? It sounds as if they might break it down.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And I’ve never dared to even crack the door and peek inside. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I hear the bone in his leg crack against it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ashley had been around these parts for far too long to really crack, but I was still surprised to see her so frazzled and at a loss for what to say. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There he sat cracking marrowbones, neat, tough, durable, his sleek furlike hair shedding the water like a bird’s feathers: he dripped a little onto his shoulders, like house-eaves dripping, and never noticed it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the third crack of the cane. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just looks at me with his big eyes that are blue in the middle and yellow all around and slurps his tea from the great cracked mug his mother left behind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The tear in the sky had spread like a crack in a windshield and was boiling the lands below with its glare. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At last a crack had developed in the wall of evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning cracked, illuminating a hole in the hull overhead. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was her soul that cracked each time the tone broke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He sat there laughing, slapping his knee as he cracked himself up. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a loud crack, the tree house suddenly tilted sideways. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A hidden door cracks open to reveal a small office drowning with circuit-phones that look like endless rows of candlesticks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She brought Vajra down with a sickening crack, and the demon flew back, slamming into the wall before evaporating into...demon dust? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This place stinks like rotting wood, and the floorboards creak like they are going to crack open under us. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

At the time, it happened so fast no one saw it, though several people said they heard a sickening crack, like a twig snapping. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I dart in front of him and the belt cracks against my wrist, wrapping around it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The small window at the top left of my vision opened a crack. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz had taught her to crack a safe, pick a pocket, wield a knife. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The rags have fallen from the window crack, and the air is cold. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts the stake as though it weighs nothing and splits his head in a single clean movement—ponk—like cracking a hardboiled egg. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His head unfortunately cracks open in two halves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Max studied the pattern of the cracks in the plaster. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His face was crooked, yes, but sad, like the reflection in a cracked mirror. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They’re made of wide, rough boards with cracks in between, gray with plaster dust and scattered with white speckles, like bird droppings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we were here to learn English,” Jack cracked, which made everyone laugh. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He moves with expert speed, and I can’t help tumbling to the floor, cracking up. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

‘Thank you, Sam,’ he said in a cracked whisper. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A cracked thought hits me and I want to laugh. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I looked at Mong, who cracked his fingers and then hopped down from the bleachers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t do it and now the Capitol will kill him or torture him or hijack him or—the cracks begin opening inside me, threatening to break me into pieces. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This claim would spark a belief that still seethes to this day, especially among urban blacks, that the CIA itself was the chief sponsor of the American crack trade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Every bounce cracked his head against the bottom of the cask. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as I spotted them, I kept my eyes averted and spent the rest of the time moving one foot back and forth and staring at a crack in the tile floor. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Remember that game, ‘Step on a crack, break your mother’s back’?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Camilla had given us a key, which we didn’t want to use unless we had to, but just as we were contemplating it the bolt snapped and Charles squinted at us through the crack. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We’d use our shovels to scrape at trees that were getting too heavily coated with ice, trees that were about to crack. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buckets of seawater are pulled up for us to wash with, but it makes my skin so dry, it begins to crack. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Halsey wasn’t kidding when he said he was a crack shot—every time his Springfield rang out, a cry and thud sounded from across the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A booming crash sounded behind him, followed by the rolling, cracking, whirring of the Griever. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The spine cracks faintly when he opens it to the title page. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Warrior guns cracked and boomed; the men swung clubs and thrust lances. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Two streetlights illuminated the surface of the cracked asphalt, and a tall wire-netting fence rose to their left. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The messages were rising in number, and they were getting harder to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The first blow cracked the glass, sent the birds outside scattering. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the secret door is closed, only a slim crack of brightness would appear underneath. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The guy who wrote this stupid magazine article about cracking open bank vaults in the 1930s!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

His head cracked against the wall and the man fell to the ground. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I flinched at the crack of the coachman’s whip, my swollen throat tightening uncontrollably. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The heel of my shoe catches in a tiny crack in the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I peer through the crack between the door and the wall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the other men cracked jokes and laughed, he did not. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He fell with his leg twisted under him, and could hear the crack of bone. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

So tired I was almost dreaming, I walked back to the square—past the post office, past the hardware store, past the movie theater with its dead marquee: plate glass, cracked sidewalks, stars. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I open my book and get cracking on the problems. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He slurps again, and his tongue is red from the blood that’s cracked down my face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“How many stars in the sky?” he repeats, cracking open an eye to stare at the ceiling like he’s imagining the night sky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One eye—Rosa’s, I think—appeared in the opening crack. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Under the bones lurked a ruined and wretched creature with cracked brown teeth and a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I cracked up, but Grover nudged me because Hera was giving us a dirty look. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There came another sickening crack, and this time a flood of sobbing broke from the witch. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They still looked frighteningly close; he took a better grip on the vine and loosed one foot to search for a wider crack. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The wood floors were dark and difficult to clean because the mop strings caught in splinters and cracks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Here I am washing my hands and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Spy Club door is open, just a crack, and there’s light coming from inside. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some had sunk so deep into the bog that only a comer showed; others lay strewn about like some god’s abandoned toys, cracked and crumbling, spotted with lichen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As a young woman, she had played a key role in code breaking during World War I. She later cracked the codes of American mobsters, smashing their crime gangs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The clubs and whips were cracking around me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, I clench my fist, but just as I’m about to hit the wood again, a crack appears in the doorway and Audrey’s tired voice edges through it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In steep places stairs of stone had been hewn, but now they were cracked and worn, and split by the roots of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the crack at the base of the screen widened; we pushed it open, and we were standing on the roof of Nimh, free. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They flashed until I thought they would splinter and crack when she told Dad she wasn’t going back to the city. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cracked open one eye and regarded me blearily. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Through carved archways they could see spacious courtyards filled with greenery, and there were great buildings that looked like palaces, for all that the steps were cracked and the doorframes loose from the walls. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before we sent it, our crack team of wizards imbued it with the power, when activated, to open a hole in the world and destroy everything for a mile around it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Alby showed the slightest hint of a smile, a bare crack in his usually hard face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On my side of the hole, there was a crack I usually traced with my fingers while Jay had his turn looking up into the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carried her basin of cracked pottery back into the fish shack, and came back a minute later. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even among prisoners on death row, the annual execution rate is only 2 percent—compared with the 7 percent annual chance of dying faced by a member of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation crack gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The guard’s head hit the marble with a crack, and he was instantly unconscious. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Their great hinges and iron bars were wrenched and bent; many of their timbers were cracked. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I hear a cracking inside me, my ribs are collapsing in on my lungs, which is why I can’t breathe. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then our eyes meet and we both crack up like we’re made of the same air. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He heard the crack of breaking branches out in the woods. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They made a cracking, snapping sound when I stretched. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Femurs, shinbones, skulls—the dismembered fossils of many hundreds of people, heaped up in no apparent order. crack. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The first five minutes there isn’t much talking, just the sound of shells cracking and mouths slurping. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Although unshielded from the elements, all the woodwork appeared to be in flawless condition: no peeling paint, no cracks, no splinters. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Alex swam forward slowly, completely blind, afraid that at any moment he would crack his head against rock. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Red light cut across the air right in front of them with a loud crack, throwing them back and into the mud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Coraline stared at the leaves on the trees and at the patterns of light and shadow on the cracked bark of the trunk of the beech tree outside the window. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I went to the place where the others were hidden, but they were dried out and cracked. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cracked the door and I spotted her face, round and yellow, with rounder eyeglasses that made her eyeballs look bulging. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I start to wonder how many sidewalk cracks I’ve stepped on. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a deep rumble, and then a shattering crack. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the DJ booth just in time to see it crack open as the Great and Powerful Og emerged from within. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

These had been designed to make Abwehr messages harder to crack, but the British had picked up on the patterns, which they called “lobsters” and “crabs.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The class is singing, “Daaaaaaang!” as Curtis sits back in his chair all stupid-like, trying to come up with his next crack back. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My rag caught on a crack in the bar top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He heard a deafening crack and simultaneously felt a sledgehammer blow to his ribs. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She pulled the craft onto sandbanks and poked as much caulking as she could into the cracks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So long, Air Ball,” Ty cracked as the door slammed shut behind them. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The marriage line is faint, crisscrossed by tiny cracks in the skin starting and ending in a mystery. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But he cracked the screw and sniffed the contents. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a cracking sound, and the next thing I knew, the corroded metal of the garbage can began to collapse and I fell to the ground. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We are the Guardians of the City. It’s our responsibility to watch and keep the city turning. To see it begin to crack alarmed us to no end.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

If there were such a thing as a world mind, it should crack over this. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows cracked and shattered to pieces, letting in a blast of fresh air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

With a sweep of his arm Henry knocked it away and it fell on the floor with a loud crack, batteries rolling in all directions. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘If you don’t crack tomorrow, we’ll toss you into the harbor.’ The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac slithered over to look out the cracks in the crawl-space wall. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its door'd been left open, but inside was dark as that cracked tomb under Saint Gabriel's. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

What the Nazis didn’t know was that a Polish team had cracked an early Enigma machine in 1932. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She dialed and cracked me a can of Pepsi as she waited for my father or his voicemail to pick up. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In other words, a crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She heard the crack before she felt the pain, and Celaena screamed, dropping to her knees as her shoulder dislocated. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I feel something inside me crack open then. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Three deafening cracks sounded in quick succession, and we all ducked as the sky flashed orange. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Not if he doesn’t get the truck back. Or if Charles cracks it up.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When you see somebody wasted on crack it even looks like they got AIDS. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

William and his team spent the next week working hard—“almost day and night,” he later said, trying to wedge open the crack in the cipher that Gene Grotjan had found. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The grass withered, and the stones cracked as if something was moving in the earth beneath, trying to push its way through. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Watch you don’t slip down and crack your skull open or fracture a arm.’” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biter preferred to grab the men behind the head and under the chin and crack their necks with a single twist of his huge pale hands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Through the crack, Pinmei saw the worn knot of Amah’s sash. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s cracked and blistered from all the scrubbing and scrubbing. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This time, when we got to Malone, my dad came down immediately and hugged me so hard, I thought my shoulder bones would crack. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was hard for Hanako to take her eyes off the bowl with gold cracks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The only sound was the eggs being cracked and then, slowly, the hiss of the pan. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The new adobe floor was still curing and the hairline cracks were not yet filled with plaster. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear Polo, we are so glad we will see you in a mere matter of hours. We miss you. We miss you as the dry, cracked earth misses the rain.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small black stone, dirty and jagged, covered in veins of gray and white like cracked glass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Its meter is cracked, several fuses are blown, and the transmitter plug is missing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was convicted in federal court and sentenced under federal laws that punish crack offenses one hundred times more severely than offenses involving powder cocaine. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its nose was splintered, and the hull was cracked. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put die three fish on the board, pushed sharpened pegs through their tails into cracks on the cooking board, and propped it next to the reddest part of the coals. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the smallest crack was open when Lee came in the back door, shuffled along the hall, getting out of his poncho, and caught them there. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve learned at least one thing: there are young people, even those of the opposite sex, who can discuss these things naturally, without cracking jokes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His sword sheared off limbs, cracked heads, broke shields asunder—though few enough of the enemy had made it across the river with shields intact. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For a second, confusion flashes there, an all-too-brief crack in her armor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The dome was cracked open on a building she guessed was the Senate House. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“To show Nipper I’m mad at him for making that crack about jitterbugging,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was looking through the tiny crack between crate and wall, watching a foot in a black boot trembling on the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His pubescent voice was cracking from the stress. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The Fitzsimmons barn was one in which a horse who did not display spectacular talent could slip through the cracks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a few more minutes before they stopped cracking up and walked toward their homeroom. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no electric light down here, no heating either, or any other comforts, only the quiet tombs and the mice scurrying over the cracked flagstones of the floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had meant to fill that wide crack with thick mud and let it dry and harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Thomas asked; he dug in the darkness of his thoughts, trying to find a crack to his past. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I handed it to him and he cracked it open and took a large greedy drink and burped. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He would never watch another fist fight without fearing he was going to faint and crack his skull open on the pavement or suffer a fatal heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Shortly afterwards, I heard the cracking of their whips die away in the distance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the same time it was as if a door had been cracked open, letting in light from the other side, from a hallway he had never seen before. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I thought about trying to squeeze inside with them but then saw a brand fly land, tuck its wings to its back, and wriggle through a tiny crack at the bottom. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe you lose track of whether the things inside your head are normal and reasonable or filled with cracks and flaws. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Hodor," he sobbed between cracked Ups as he lifted Bran in huge strong arms and bloody hands and carried him back out into die rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He turned at the sound of the opening door and nodded at Lanning, who entered, cracking the knuckles of one gnarled hand with the other. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Worries had lodged in the cracks in his mind since Umuahia fell, but he did not voice them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They fixed the cracks themselves, carefully, with dabs of joint compound from a pint-sized container. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opens a crack, and a dagger of light cuts through the darkness. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Aarfy launched himself forward an instant later and cracked Yossarian on the bridge of the nose with the sharp rim of his flak helmet. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” Ben yelled, sighting Matt and Karen tiptoeing down the stairs, “here come three hundred crack troops from the emperor’s own regiment.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart feels like it’s cracking in two. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Father cracked the reins on the backside of Red Rabbit, and with a lurch the wagon set off. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddy yanked the tablet away from Shay and cracked it against the wall, then pulled David in against his protests. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I would’ve bet twenty dollars T. Ray’s name was squashed into the cracks and crevices out there. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burning branches crack from trees and fall in showers of sparks at my feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And I return to my floorboard, shove it into the crack, and make a lever. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

As soon as the silvering began, long before the cider cracked the jugs, there was something wrong. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Early every spring I took the canoe to the sandspit and spread fresh pitch in the cracks that needed it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear the hollow boom-boom-boom-boom of the flak pounding all around him in overlapping measures of four, the sharp, piercing crack! of a single shell exploding suddenly very close by. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Curzon was seized by a fit of coughing so violent I feared his ribs would crack. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I was in that room during the first explosion, and I know where the floor is cracked. I can help.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The door to the taproom was mostly closed, but there was a crack where it was hinged onto the wall. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stretched my arms, rolled my head and neck around on my shoulders, and cracked my knuckles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But there was only the ceaseless whine of air-raid sirens, and below that a series of dull cracks like rolling thunder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Through all of it Fujiko maintained her dignity, though she’d felt herself beginning to crack while relieving herself in front of other women. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They deliberately sought young kids who were slipping through the cracks and had been written off as their personal crusade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the crack of a twig he jumped. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then it hit him: Calvin wasn’t smirking or cracking his knuckles or trying to act tough. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That does not matter to the Tiger Emperor,” the villager said, the bitterness cracking the hushed tone of his voice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It is, basically, a giant crack in the snow and ice. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Dunmore’s mizzenmast, cracked by shot, collapsed, and took with it the main topmast. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I leapt from my bed, and—thunk!—cracked my head on the sloped ceiling. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop where I am and look at Miss Leefolt, but she staring at the funny L-shaped crack in her dining room table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes could twinkle and laugh, too, and kids said she could crack really funny jokes. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only problem is our guy is down by thirty points in the polls,” I said as the two of us began to crack up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He cracks open a roll of dimes against the edge of the counter. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It was the crack in Elizabeth’s dining room table... that’s how Hilly knew for sure.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The moths tested the terrace doors first, but found most of them closed, and far too well made for any cracks that might admit them, so they flew down the chimneys instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Light spilled through a crack in a red-rimmed cloud, and I walked toward it along a path that led from the honey house into the woods. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain blew a small wind dance through the cracked window. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She squatted down in front of a glass case full of small objects: vases and jars, some partly cracked or broken, crudely made jewelry and tiny statues. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violence skyrocketed after Mitchell’s death as other gangsters battled for a piece of his turf as well as the increasingly lucrative crack trade. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The cracked white paint crunched against my back. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He filled the cracks in the wood with a father’s pride and a mother’s belief. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Now its lackluster facade is gray from mold and pollution, and its walls cracked from neglect. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the cracks in the rocks, I could see the claws of wedged-in crabs, spitting bubbles, sometimes moving slightly like they wanted to keep an eye on us, like they were spying on us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everywhere he touched seemed to glow with warmth, and cracks appeared in the bleak cold of her heart. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All I saw of the sun the next morning was a crack of light at the top of my left eye, like a small window too high up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the cracks would spread into treacherous gashes, sometimes ten or fifteen feet deep and wide enough to trap a man’s leg. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In places the staff coating already had begun to crack and chip. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mormont picked up a crab claw and cracked it in his fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It cracked with the laughter of madness as it inflicted death upon the people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do we just lie down on the cracked, dried mud of the lake bed and call it a day? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you like in a crack den, or something?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He cracked it open so we could hear better. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coachman was still chuckling as he gave the horses a crack of the whip. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He felt it drag his hand around like some great magnet, saw a spurt of golden fire through his half-closed eyelids, heard a crack and a scream of fury. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the nut lying in the middle of the cracked sidewalk didn't squish under her foot. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After burning all the letters, he got out a hammer and nails and boarded up the cracks around the front and back doors so no one could go out. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you jump over the cracks in the sidewalk.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She sighed, and in a cracked voice, said, “This is no time ... for telling stories ” “Tell me one true thing. I will know' one true thing. Tell me what you sat on.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a crack in the sink, which at this moment seems a disaster, worse than any of the other flaws and absences. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not back up the hill, Safaa,” he says in his funny cracked little voice. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A crack was beginning to form down the middle. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many? How many. Got a crack tennis team, you know.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty pours the lye over them, cracks two raw eggs into the mix, and stirs it all up with a wooden paddle. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bring my fingers up to air-quote the word date, and the blanket slides down into the crack of my elbow. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And out the demons came—from every cave and crevice, through every fissure and crack, from under the rocks and up from the mud, stomping and shuffling, slithering and sliding, through the murky shadows. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They beat my Dante all to hell. They cracked some ribs, they punched his face. He has bruises everywhere. They did that to my son.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Someone in the back makes a crack about identity theft. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The cats crept away, disappearing just as they had arrived or been bom in the cracks and crevices of the roof. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had a crack on the nut, like you did, only worse. Audrey thought he was dead, but he en’t. Just keep still now.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This emphasis on illicit cash proved to be a winning effort, for nothing infuriated the law-abiding populace more than the image of the millionaire crack dealer. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It’s huge, with a wood floor that is cracked and creaky and has a large circle painted in the middle. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was an unusual piece of decoration, that was for sure—beige and cracked and knobby, as wide as a rib of celery and as long as a pencil. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A crack in a wall steadied my eyes and prevented me from feeling as though I were falling. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She's always the toughest person in the room, but with me leaving, her armor cracks. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He put a fist to his mouth, cracked up some, and I left the diner. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It raised the whip, and the thongs whined and cracked. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I cracked open my art box and dug for the turquoise pencils. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t get rich, but an engineer’s salary was more than enough to crack into the ranks of the comfortable middle class. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His body had been starved of oxygen, and the pressure had cracked several of his ribs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Bibi arrived in the storage room wearing cracked plastic slippers and a housecoat whose hem stopped some inches below the knee, a length we had not worn since we were fifteen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Me mum, she slapped at me when I touched it. Slapped my head around so horrid hard I thought my neck would crack. It’s how I learnt about the oleander.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kino moistened his cracked lips with his tongue. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs at the crack of dawn this morning and saw Dadi in the kitchen, stress cooking and baking. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jets of light flew from both wands, the floor around the witches’ feet became hot and cracked; both women were fighting to kill. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Within, the seven walls were cracked and crooked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wall cracks open like a hinged door, leading into the palace kitchen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It whistled, a pale blur, and then hit the stone with a loud crack, blocking his way. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Their lips crack, and their eyes grow dull. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

More refuse showered down from windows and balconies: half-rotted fruit, pails of beer, eggs that exploded into sulfu- rous stink when they cracked open on the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When we were a block away from Calhoun Place, a barrage of thunder cracked open the floodgates to the sky. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The thick iron was cracked and splitting in three places, and the upper comer of the left-hand door looked partly melted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her style didn't come from her clothes—leather boots, cracked all over the toes, a fraying shawl and faded sweater she hid under—but rather from the way she stared ahead with resolve. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe this was a sign of change; he actually felt a little chilled by the morning air seeping through those same cracks as the light. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He’s the doorman and security guard, and he’s always cracking jokes while he’s waiting to carry suitcases up and down the stairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every time there was another crack of thunder, Winn-Dixie acted all over again like it was surely the end of the world. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He reached up with one hand and, with a deafening crack, effortlessly ripped a two-foot-thick branch from the trunk of the spruce. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But it was only eleven o’clock in the morning, we had been on this journey only three hours, and already everything was cracked and broken—and some of us with it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

With the first crack and whoosh of water, the clamber to get out was so fierce that others who were trying to help were pulled to their deaths. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could now see how its paint was cracking, and how the timber frames of the little cabin were crumbling away. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, no blood; not even the under-skin pooling of a bruise or the marrow leak of a cracked bone, which had happened once. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“This is crack,” he says, taking another bite. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

By playing in white tennis tournaments I got to meet Keith Breb- nor, coach of one of South Africa’s crack junior tennis squads. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This view, while understandable, given the sensational media coverage of crack in the 1980s and 1990s, is simply wrong. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This crack in our front hallway has been there for three or four years. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every day Mama said, You’re going to crack your head wide open, but no sir. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach O cracked his knuckles and nodded to a freshman walking by. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and open the door a crack, peering out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tore the grass to shreds, crushed the neatly manicured bushes, stomped the flowers, and cracked one of the house’s windows with a rock. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, none of us did anything but stare at the hole and the spreading spiderweb of cracks radiating out from it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lucas cracked the smile of someone with only half a working face. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We both crack up, and Jax looks like he wants in on the joke, and Deb-and-Kiki glare at us like we are so weird, but we don’t care. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She knew every splinter and crack in each of the thirty wooden floorboards. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he judged that enough time had elapsed for Wiglaf to have performed the first part of the plan successfully, he crept into the crack himself. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

We continued to crack chestnuts open, until I could no longer remain quiet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice cracked and I didn’t even care. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The sound he had heard was now quite loud, and before much time had passed he saw the head of the great snake appear from a crack in the rocks. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I opened the shutters a crack and peered out. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fellow thinks he’s going to be the master of Africa and winds up with his nice European-tailored suit rumpled in a corner and his wits half cracked from the filaires itching under his skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed she was some student who had gone cracked and run underground before she could be confined to Haven. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In search of something similar to her box, Mouschi had found herself a pile of wood shavings, right over a crack in the floor. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A bottle rocket zipped through the air, over Diego’s shoulder, narrowly missing his ear, and exploded with a frantic crack. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were grown men with thick forearms and huge, cracked hands; depending on the season, they were covered in gray dust or black mud. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At what point does it grow so cold that I accept that Mirjam has either been killed or slipped so deep into the cracks of the underground that we will never see her again? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I fell asleep to the sound of ice groaning and cracking in the floors beneath us and the attic above. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The ground at his feet split open and skeletons crawled forth—dead Romans with missing hands and caved-in skulls, cracked ribs, and jaws unhinged. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She tried to stay on top of the sewing and to keep dust from gathering in the cracks between the floorboards. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she and Kyle cracked up, remembering the box tops from their first puzzle in the Board Room on Saturday morning. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Karl reached a cracked and bleeding hand for another piece of bread. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bats chattered and spun around the rafters, sailing through a cracked window into the cold night outside, and then it was quiet again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The leather is cracked and flaking, the thick shoulder strap leaves a brown mark on my blouse where the leather stain is rubbing off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A full minute goes by, but then the door cracks open, just enough so that I can see his shadow on the tile floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They kissed the stove too, and the radiators, and the crack in the back bedroom, which had gotten much worse. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama turned and opened the door a crack. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swung once, hard, coming down on Brooke’s forehead with a horrid crack. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The thatch roof and cracked unpainted walls bothered Ugwu, but not as much as the cavernous pit latrine in the outhouse with a rusting zinc sheet drawn across it to keep flies out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She bent her good knee again and looked through the crack. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The locks cracked through the silence like thunder as they came together again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Anyways Anatole gave her compliments right and left, which tells you right there he was either a polite young man or mentally cracked. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for a few seconds after the first crack I felt virtually nothing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fall against a table and smash it, and wall timbers crack. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand shook as I tried to straighten a piece of the table surface that had cracked and curled tightly around itself. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was still shining through the cracked glass. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Minho had thrown a large chunk, a piece that had fallen from one of the cracks in the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I followed the jumping light into the garden, where dry stalks pointed to the skies like scrawny fingers, and rotted, wormy vegetables sank into the cracks of the parched soil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that point, I’m not sure there really even was a middle class anymore—just all of us hoeing for root vegetables next to our cracked aboveground pools. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I swung out again with my right, hard as I could and with all my weight behind it, and this time I heard a loud crack and a scream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The roads where I live are still cracked and patchy, and it’s not safe to drive on them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He cracks by walking hurriedly around the car and getting back in, behind the wheel. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The shot to the chest cracked a rib and punctured his right lung, but the bullet he took to the right shoulder messed up a bunch of nerves. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And Glerk felt a crack in his heart, as thin as a pencil line. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The great man then gave him one terrific crack. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers called my parents to school, and I saw they had been saving my pictures, curling and cracking, all alike and black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered, for a minute, if his head had cracked open again, if he was dreaming. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Look what good can come from cracked eggs! The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A clump of grass poked out from a crack in the sidewalk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had fed an extension cord through a crack in the screen door, connected to a box fan that blew at his feet. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Strips of cracked paint wrinkled away from the walls, like insects clinging to a nest. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lord, Mrs. Myers was liable to crack her face if she kept up smiling like that. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Storch was saying, cracking the poor goose’s bone with his large teeth. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The door cracked open, and she cautiously peeked her head into my room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go into the men’s room, so I crack the door and call Ziggy’s name. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I peek through the crack in the door to find men and women in army fatigues arguing as they huddle over a Battleship board game. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

So by the time Joe Trace whispered to her through the crack of a closing door her life had become almost unbearable. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baxter took a few of the eggs and cracked them into a large bowl. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

From my vantage point at the laundry room window, I could see a thin stream of electric vehicles crawling along the cracked asphalt, carrying goods and workers into the city. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Orange, heavy, spilling out of a crack that widened as they watched. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next sound we heard was the sharp, clean crack of a branch coming from above us to our right. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She shoots me a strange look, grabs a plastic bag holding an aluminum tray, and reaches the back door just as her mother cracks it open. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I crack the egg and empty it out in my hands. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish my voice would stop cracking and change already. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was, “Oh, little Jimmy’s selling crack now.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many if not most tlamatinime saw existence as Nabokov feared: “a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The door had splits and cracks and sat crooked on the frame. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With that option narrowing, crack dealing looked even better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The second mortar hit hard, cracks splintering through the rock of the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I become aware of the dryness in my throat and mouth, the cracks in my lips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But we keep messing up, either because we stumble over the words or start cracking up. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracked and she started crying again, covering her face with her hands as she sat down on the hard-packed earth, her legs crossed under her. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It is distressing to watch them take their afternoon meal thus; one would like to crack them over their thick pates. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed he did seem to be getting paler and thinner, but it didn’t look as though he’d cracked yet. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her skin is mottled and cracked like a scorched riverbed from the tip of her trunk all the way down to her wide feet. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She sat down at the table and cracked open the book. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My voice cracks, and tears fall down my cheeks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Matthias called through the crack to them, “Stop banging! Stay quiet! I’ll have you out of there as soon as I can break the lock.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I went back later to see if the concrete had cracks in it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a storm in the night; snow piles in small drifts on the mattresses, having blown in through the cracks and crevices in the walls and roof. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She looks right through me, the way passersby usually do, as if I'm no bigger than the beetle crawling in a crack in the sidewalk. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I hear a crack against the floor next to my face, and a metal cylinder about the size of my hand rolls to a stop against my head. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I try to say this with optimism, but my voice cracks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Others, perhaps most of the clay pots, from the way it appeared, cracked and broke into shards in the crude heat and were left in clumps in the desert. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Several windows are cracked or missing altogether, and broken whiskey bottles litter the floor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is also a crack, where ants are having a war. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He felt like getting up early and watching his dad try to make breakfast, crack the eggs and drip them all over the counter. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She cracked her watering eyes open, and through the haze and the smoke, she spied the well. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The road was rocky, and the buildings were made of cracked wood. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A conviction for the sale of five hundred grams of powder cocaine triggers a five-year mandatory sentence, while only five grams of crack triggers the same sentence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The schism over slavery finally cracked the country wide open. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My smile makes me feel like my face will crack. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My head cracked against the icy blacktop, and I felt something solid and cold pinning me to the ground. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The honking sound came again, and then there was a movement, the crack of a twig. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There was many a Tang man with a cracked skull or a broken arm or rib because he had crossed over the invisible boundary line between our town and the rest of the demon city. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, thank you. Karl—” Her voice grew louder with this word and nearly cracked. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe I only imagined I heard the bones crack, but her arm from her elbow down was facing the wrong way, and a slick red bone tip pierced her skin. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cracks up, falling out of the pose Guillermo just positioned him in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Stick your head out the window when you sing this, Dad, so the windshields don’t crack,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was remembering, with some unease, the crack Bunny had made about Henry needing a lawyer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His axe was shivering her shield, cracking the wood on the downswing, tearing off long pale splinters when he wrenched it back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Several were felled before Jess Squirrel and Winifred, along with some crack otter slingers, sent down a barrage so swift and accurate that it decimated the ferrets within minutes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I sit, my back toward the men, studying the concrete wall like the lines, cracks, and scratched curses are a complicated puzzle. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Still, Leo imagined he could feel it in there, dragging him down, waiting to be cracked open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago, they’d been lean and strong, able to crack a nut with a pinch, able to press a seed deep into the earth with one stab of a finger. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A whirring began that snapped and cracked with static, and suddenly I seemed to be crushed between the floor and ceiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adrian and the girls cracked up and took seats a few rows ahead of us, but Marcus lingered in the aisle. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There's no room for thinking, just feeling, feeling like the dread is oozing up through the cracks between the boards on my floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time later, he lugs a great cauldron into the room and begins ladling soup into cracked earthenware bowls. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fiber I tore from my skirt and pushed into the crack held back most of the water which seeped in whenever the canoe rose and fell with the waves. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stray blades of grass poked between the cracks of the footpath. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It felt as if something cracked in his face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then we’re both laughing and picking up gourds, making sure none of them have cracked. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Faxe sat cross-legged, not moving, but charged, full of a gathering force that made his light, soft voice crack like an electric bolt. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I followed his gaze down to the dozens of indentations in the cracked white tile. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t tell her now, he wouldn’t have her collapsing on the tiles and cracking her skull. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before Mack can stomp, the beetle skitters away, disappearing through a crack in the wall. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

A gush of oily gray fluid spilled from the cracked cowling. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

More telling, the stone betrayed no delicate cracks, no pinpoints, not a single inclusion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We hear the crack of a bullwhip because its tip is moving faster than the speed of sound, creating a shock wave, a small sonic boom. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the easy availability of Dr. Hale, the company dentist, his teeth were yellow and cracked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the Queen died without an heir, the ash that had blanketed Taninli would spread, sifting into the cracks and corners of the Wood, sinking into the Nir until the river became thick and slow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The door slammed shut and at the same moment a loud crack echoed inside the cellar. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The ice was so thin in some places that the heavy lifeboats cracked the floes and formed leads of seawater. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When I reached Cleveland Avenue, the street on which Halliday had grown up, I sprinted down the cracked sidewalk to the front steps of his childhood home. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

With delicate fingers, she positioned each flower in a row, keeping them straight across the cracked glass. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The king bent over, and if he had been looking at the gang, he could have seen Pinmei through the crack, her eyes fixed upon him like those of a trapped mouse. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His head cracked open above the left ear and then he slid heavily beneath the waves, water seeping into his wristwatch, stopping it at 1:47. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes twinkled as he said, “New Voice, I’m not a dry tree branch, ready to crack in the breeze.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Three days later, I crept downstairs and went out onto the front porch very early before the daily avalanche of my brothers could crack open the peace of the morning. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mom nodded and she and Willow started laughing and soon everyone at the table was cracking up so hard that tears ran down our faces. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slide out of bed, tiptoe across the room, and just barely crack open the door to have a look. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Someone’s grandmother who blew her monthly Social Security check on crack. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Outside my room their words drift in through the crack in the doorway. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

They divvied it between them, dove down chimneys, squeezed through cracks in shutters. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My throat was scratchy, and the skin around my mouth seemed to crack as I spoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As I did, there was a sound like cracking bones as Acererak slowly lifted his head. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, if Abilene put him into his bed on his side instead of on his back, he could see through the cracks in the curtains and out into the dark night. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I watched her skin grow moist, cracked, and sunken in some places, then ashy and dry in others. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I know. But Lemoncello said books did no one any good sealed up tight. He said books need to ‘have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“So he put a crack in the floor?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The three huge wooden beams have cracked, but none has given way entirely. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mats cover the cracked concrete floor, making a crazy quilt of colored rattan and woven plastic. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

His face cracked into a smile beneath his mustache. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When he reached Peggy’s side he saw that she was staring through the cracks of the door at the red bed of livid coals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We stare at the cloud of runners, sneakers hitting the cracked asphalt of the city street with a steady rhythm. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It cracks me up how expensive restaurants, located in what are basically outdoor shopping plazas, give themselves these snooty, fancy names. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Bones were scattered on the floor at his feet, cracked and scorched and splintered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He chuckled and chattered, cracking his long fingers, and pawing at Frodo’s knees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Whoever got there first summoned up a super-snooty English accent: “Walls residence, the butler speaking, may I help you?” while the rest of us cracked up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the jolt in my arm, I thought I’d cracked her skull. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked open the door and peeked down the hallway. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Every bone in my body was cracking with the need to talk about her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The TV glass! It’s round and cracked up like Charlotte’s web.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“VISERION7” He snapped the whip in the air with a crack that echoed off the blackened walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The next line really cracked me up: Have you heard the one from Spicy Girls, which says friendship never ends? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We paid one to mend a cracked axle on the road once.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He hugged me so hard he almost cracked my ribs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The garage door is cracked open about three inches from the ground, and spewing fumes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracked a bit, like she was going to cry. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

My heart slams against its bone cage, over and over, blood seeping down to the cracks in the ground. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I could hear Dad pacing around the room, and I could smell the cigarette smoke coming through the crack under the door. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were used to Dinka houses—all enclosed with just a little crack or door to let air in. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the outset, crack was bound to be a huge success. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But in the meantime, the general opinion in the neighbourhood was that Bilbo, who had always been rather cracked, had at last gone quite mad, and had run off into the Blue. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jack’s floe had cracked into four pieces now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The cupboard door opened a crack, and Meggie saw a boy's head emerge. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Because the seminar doesn’t start at the butt crack of dawn! Besides which, that is not even the point. Can you please focus, Mamma? What the heck is up with Rishi Patel?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Then it was a mental hospital for a hot second in the seventies, then a crack house. Now it’s abandoned. City doesn’t know what to do with the property, I guess.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Big Rose had opened it and stuck her big ugly head through the crack. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But the heart was whole, no cracks in sight. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Only one door had a light coming through the crack at the bottom. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She stamped her foot and raised her arm in a turbulent gesture that made Yossarian fear she was going to crack him in the face again with her great pocketbook. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

While I paused to cry and my math teacher passed me a box of tissues — do all the kids crack like robins’ eggs when they get hauled in here? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Love, thick and dark as Alaga syrup, eased up into that cracked window. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the gang’s talk about how crack dealing didn’t do any harm—they even liked to brag that it kept black money in the black community—Booty was feeling guilty. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He heard a cracking sound as the sky crashed to earth with a violent impact that shook the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He kept his eyes on the crack in the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his hands and cracked his knuckles, as if he were or :e more forgetting how the Witch frightened him whenever she was really there. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was yellow now, and cracked, and soiled, and when they gave it into Ben’s hand he hushed for a while. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another splintering crack echoed like a gunshot deep in the Maafa, and the ship tilted, lifting me higher while Uncle Cotton slid to the other side. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The courtyard with its benches and cracked cobblestone ground is spattered with black-and-white bird droppings and filled with green-and-white uniforms and brown legs and shiny loafers, running and screaming and pushing and jumping. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They apologized about it later, claiming that the image of pint-size me with such a hulking instrument between my spindly legs had made them crack up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crack open my eyes and force myself not to gasp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A ceiling slams onto the walls around us with a crack, and Four hunches over, groaning. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It would seem that this small crack in the mystery was opened, not so much by the old people’s magic, as by hunger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hark! in the courtyard and down the rocky way the roll of heavy wheels, the crack of whips, and the chorus of the Szgany as they pass into the distance. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If Cardan were to try to stop her lesson, she looks like she would eat him alive and crack his bones for marrow. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I bring the lamp down again, and again, and again, until the hard drive cracks and pieces of it spread across the floor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

One night it grew too cold in the lifeboat to crack the corset’s combination. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Are we near? the boy would wonder, as Hodor clambered up a stony slope, or descended into some dark crevice where drifts of dirty snow cracked beneath his feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She knelt and wedged her fingers into a crack that ran along the floor. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The witch-woman cracked her whip, and her cart jolted off down the muddy road, drawn by a matched pair of horned white billy goats. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She laid into the dogs, cracking her whip. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early-morning light had a sharp sheen about it, making everything look bright and crisp—the ivy, the cracked walls, the stone blocks of the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The board was cracked and the tiny wooden dice were so ill-cut that they would hardly lie on their sides. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There is naught that an old Ent can do to hold back that storm: he must weather it or crack. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Percy wasn’t sure what that meant, but he wanted to crack the floor and send these stupid gold-shirted twins down to oblivion. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We walked toward it through red dirt and dried leaves that cracked under our feet, the air smelling of wild roses, pine, and cows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Through a crack in the rocks, I watch the moon cross the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and Ron both jumped and looked up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The idea was to signal, as publicly as possible, that the transit police were now serious about cracking down on fare-beaters. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the shattered pine tree, a woman knelt at a cave entrance that had cracked open between the tree’s roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Wagoners cracked their whips and the scarlet dragon swung forward, sluggishly at first, heading for the town gates. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isabella starts dancing sort of wild, making me and Julia crack up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

His light brown face had grown tough with age, cracked but soft, like a pair of well-worn work boots. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And then crack! as one of them hit the Centipede right on the nose and crack! again as another one hit him somewhere else. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Such buildings made perfect places for crack houses and numbers joints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He looked for ruts and cracks but found only a pile of warm dung deposited by one of the horses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A leaf falls from a branch, and I press my fingernail into the space between its veins, cracking it into pieces. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then Grandma nudged him too and cracked a joke about him being too cool. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Courts also had rejected claims that crack sentencing laws were racially discriminatory, largely on the grounds that the Supreme Court’s decision in McCleskey v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His face appears in the crack of the flap. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I could put on an interesting outfit, crack a joke, and talk about sodium content in kids’ meals without being totally boring. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The high-stakes crack trade brought a new level of competition and organization to the streets. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Many crevices and cracks, filled with plants, ran down its face. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water squirted up through the cracks, tiny geysers until Alfhercht could press them back down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As snow blew in through cracks in the wall, Haugland tapped out a coded message: the team was intact and healthy, and would now begin scouting the target area and preparing the landing site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly I pulled up a chair, placed a box upon it, and climbed up and peered through a crack at the top of the door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while I noticed smoke coming out of the cracks in the window frame. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And just above my head, I discovered a hole had appeared in the windowpane, little cracks splaying out from it like the web of a spider. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Looking up at this bizarre light fixture while standing between two cracked and peeling, yet somehow still majestic, horned carousel stallions, all I can think about is watching the solar system episode in Mom’s lap. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Joaquin felt something crack open in his chest, and at the same time, another fissure started to seal itself back up. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

Dad lay on the kitchen floor cracking jokes about an ordinance that had recently passed in our little farming village. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I watched through the cracked windshield as he made his way toward a sign pointing us in the direction of the Monongahela National Forest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The moon is bright, shining silver around the cracks of the lily curtains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

However, the road outside the house was not in good condition, and the delicate silk wrinkled over the many cracks and holes in the street. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He picks up another and cracks it in half in his hands. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Light from the inside streamed out of these cracks, making the hogan look like a sad jack-o’-lantern. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In 1935, shortly after San Francisco’s new Bay Meadows Racecourse opened, Howard assembled a group of modestly talented racehorses and hired a crack young trainer named Buster Millerick to condition them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cracked against the house just above their window when they waltzed by again. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The horseshoe hit the warrior—crack!—on the side of his helmet’s bottom brim. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Each one had cracked the hole in the wall a little wider, allowing the next talent to come through. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The stump is broad and gnarled and cracked. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her voice cracked, and tears rolled down her red and peeling cheeks. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing has been the same since my parents started smoking crack. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those cracks have been made from the earthquakes this island has. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Something happens to my heart; it cracks like the sugar crust on Mami’s flan, hearing the nurse talk to me that way. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He kissed her quickly and clumsily, to cover the crack in the word. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked an egg into a mixing bowl and then measured two and a half cups of flour. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She climbed—hand then foot, then hand again, seeking the next small crack, the next divot in the soot-slick walls. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He slammed the door of the carriage shut, and the cracked glass shattered completely, letting in the rain. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nowak knocked on the door and then opened it a crack. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Cas cracked her ankle on something buried in the rubble as she looked for whatever had made the sound she had just heard. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A tinted window with spiderwebs of cracks is like an ominous eye, looking at them as it approaches. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to be such a mess,” I say, my voice cracking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle pointed to each box top as he cracked the code. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The guys smoke joints with the windows cracked and the fan on high to diffuse the smell in case we get pulled over. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I cracked the laptop password eventually: it’s Blenheim. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk from one room to another, breathe through the crack in the window frame, feel my heart beating as if to say, “Fulfill my longing at last...” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The door to the dressing room cracks open a little. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mam- machi’s violin and violin stand, the Ooty cupboards, the plastic basket chairs, the Delhi beds, the dressing table from Vienna with cracked ivory knobs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years after the drug war was declared, crack began to spread rapidly in the poor black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and later emerged in cities across the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A sharp crack revealed a small victory, but any elation ended when he realized that the momentum of his swing was now pulling him back down to land right on top of the creature. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room, the broken angel is upright, with a stunning crack zigzagging across her back beneath her wings. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There was a loud crack, and Harry’s fist was suddenly clenched on thin air. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The mouth in the mirror cracked into a grin. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was around them, exploding around them, the lightning cracking around the shelter, so close it seemed to Brian that it came from inside him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Above the engine roar comes a loud crack, followed by a scintillation spreading underfoot, as the Packard hits a dark patch on the frozen lake. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I crack open my window and whisper my poem into the wind, praying it will carry the message to her, bring her back to me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Already, cracks were forming in the ice and his eyes were rolling furiously. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Beside him the little heater popped and cracked as its parts grew warmer and expanded. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This corn is struggling to grow through a crack in the sidewalk. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

His voice cracks, and he turns to me wide-eyed and with his mouth open. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The floe beneath Patience Camp cracked again and again over the next several days. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

My heart slowly cracks under the new scar. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The media were only too willing to cooperate, because as far the New York media was concerned, crack was the hottest combat reporting story to come along since the end of the Vietnam War. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

According to the most up-to-date rumors, the drug he ordered from the restaurant was crack and he was caught dipping into the cash register to pay for it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeking through cracks in the walls, they could see antiaircraft fire light up the sky. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it looked as if the old man wasn’t going to answer at all, but at last his craggy face cracked enough to allow the escape of two small words, “I see.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, gradually, the glow fades, and I find myself suspended in midair, overlooking a vast expanse of blue ice and snow-covered glaciers, all shifting and cracking under their own weight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The violence associated with the crack boom was various and relentless. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“In January, the wind makes your bones crack. I’d give my teeth to stand over a hot stove. And no one has ever died making sauce.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I am not a large man, and when William pushes past me, thrusting me into the boards of the barn wall, I worry he's cracked all my ribs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Propelling himself with his feet, Ignatius traveled anxiously along the side of the files until one of the miniature wheels lodged in a crack. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the new owners of our house hitting that crack on trash day, their cans tipping and their garbage going everywhere. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When he walked up and down the floor of his room he would crack the joints of his fingers and jerk at them until they ached. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The trees in this spot were tall, weathered, and cracked— haunted-house trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood postman was probably used to being met with chains over cracked doors. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The room goes library quiet, and then all of a sudden, Rock cracks up laughing. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

No other country could crack them, in part because no one could guess how the machine was built. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A crack splintered the wall, and a huge slice of rock slid out, crashing to the floor. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Joffrey's voice cracked as he shouted up from the wallwalk, where he huddled with his guards behind the ramparts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The CDC thought that crack was the problem. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fewer than a dozen shields remained, sad grey things with faded paint and long cracks in the wood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry checked his face in the cracked mirror. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a contest as to who will crack first. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually the guy caught the girl and they fake-wrestled around a sec, cracking up, and then went back to the circle around the fire and sat down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The bell rings, leaving Curtis no chance to crack back. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I leave the door cracked and fix the sofa bed, storing my backpack underneath. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Three of the rooms were collapsing and a frightening crack had opened up from the porch to Fernanda's room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At his touch they rained to the ground in quick succession of thunderous cracks. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the crack was much thinner than he'd thought, now he got down to it, he could see nothing except a faint greyness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Call asked, his voice cracking in the middle of his question. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His back and head bounced against the sidewalk with a loud crack. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Appa came home that evening, his eyes bloodshot and his breath reeking as usual, he set packages wrapped in newspaper on the cracked kitchen counter. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I am lucky, it might crack his skull. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We wanted to crack up but saved that for later. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing aside, aimlessly cracking a twig over and over again until it became a limp ribbon in his hands. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just as he’d feared, there was a crack in the hull. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As we pushed on the door to go inside, something caught: A towel was stuffed into the crack along the floor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The paving stones were cracked and uneven, slippery underfoot, and rough against her soft feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Big crack,” Tyson said when we were at our table. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hmm...The archipelago makes me think of travel. Perhaps you’ll be seeing the world soon. And the heart with little cracks in it...Perhaps you feel you’re giving away pieces of your heart?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Say something ironical. Make some crack about Primo de Rivera." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The longer ones had been cracked open for their marrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I almost think she might have cracked him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Margo says, “I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It’s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don’t meet up right.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The paint is cracked and flaking off in long strips. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I watch those cracks now, watch them good, like I’m daring them to crumble this house on top of me and bury me alive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tiny roots crept up between the cracks of the marble stones. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The next day, dawn broke as they were crossing a cracked and fissured plain of hard red earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Grass and weeds were sprouting around the edges, but putting his hand against the crack, he could feel a draft of air rising from below. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I planted myself in a seat in her office, crossed my arms, lined my eyes up with a crack in the wall, and braced for the inquisition. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sherrie wanted to talk about the disposition of certain funds, but John kept joking with her, stalling her with odd cracks and silliness. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know every brick and every tree trunk and every crack in the sidewalk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He held Maddie’s cipher sheet in front of him as they walked:“I’ll be able to crack this in no time,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The kiln had to heat up slowly—too rapid a rise in temperature at the start, and the vessels would crack. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Any crack in the wall was enough for his fingers; the least imperfection was all he needed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here Uncle Andrew rubbed his hands till his knuckles cracked like fireworks. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We never laid a hand on each other again, and even though we’d get into plenty of verbal clashes, our tiffs tended to end the way our fistfight had, with us cracking up. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flies down the rocky stream bed and forcibly cracks against a boulder. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had he come to that realization than he heard a sudden crack, loud as thunder, the deck lurched beneath him, and he slid back down into the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He started singing his number to the tune of "867-5309," which cracked her right up. park Park tried to remember the first time he saw her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There are lots of cracks in the sidewalks and she has to be careful not to trip in her high heels. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When added to the language barrier, that made the problem almost impossible to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We'd usually get funny ones and sit there cracking up over the stupidest thing. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as the twig cracked my eyes snapped open and I was wide awake. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded like the crack of a whip, and he was always smiling, eyebrows arched and mischievous. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Would the Thin People—the famine-victims and refugees—slip through the cracks in the doors? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because when you get back, Uncle Charley and I have another code for you to crack.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that a crack boss didn’t have as much control over his subordinates as he would have liked. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Depends how many times a day he cracks your head.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Asta became a moth, and as she settled near another crack in the wall, Malcolm felt a shock as she saw something. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a long pause as he cracked his knuckles one at a time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rather than let myself get lost in that feeling, I cracked open my mathematics textbook, which was like a jolt of caffeine—seeing the numbers and problems dance before me was like greeting old friends. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The crack of wood breaking startled me, but I let out a breath of relief when I saw it was only Jay punching out the pieces of his model airplane kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Has he flipped, finally cracked under the pressure of being smarter than everyone? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hope you haven't forgotten that while all this was going on I was still stuck behind the screen on my hands and knees with one eye glued to the crack. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The cracks run across the liver and deep inside it, and the liver completely dies and goes putrid. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a man on the left about to shoot,” said Hester, and as she spoke, a crack came from his rifle, and chips of stone flew off the boulder a foot from where she crouched. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll put some blasting powder down,” said his father, “and if that doesn’t crack it aside we’ll start a new hole.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If a crack opened up between one team and another, the result could be disastrous. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

There’s a slow hiss of an exhale across the line, like air escaping through a crack in a window. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Trees bowed in deep kowtows or broke their backs, a series of snaps like firecrackers popping, until one loud, sickening crack added to the cacophony in the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My right knee cracked when I went down. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the distance came the crack of a gun, followed by a shout. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I sent word to Vancouver that I felt that I had the thing really cracked but that I needed a Cantonese interpreter.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Chess opened the door a crack, then looked back at the others. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the crack of the starting pistol, Syracuse immediately jumped in front, rowing at thirty-four, followed closely by Washington, rowing at thirty-one. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We were different here on this path, our hard cracked feet pounding the hard cracked earth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The banshee turned into a rat, which chased its tail in a circle, then — crack!— became a rattlesnake, which slithered and writhed before — crack!— becoming a single, bloody eyeball. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen cassette tapes cracked under their weight. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger caressed the cracked lid with his fingers as if trying to call the dead back to life with the warmth of his hand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Tell us the story of why the tortoise has a cracked shell!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Any second now the crack of my behind will be playing peekaboo with the whole stinkin’ audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She cracked her knuckles as her eyes narrowed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I walk home on the cracked sidewalks, thinking about what I’ve done. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We could even smell the sickly fumes of ether filtering through the crack under the door. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It only takes two seconds to crack an egg,” Gen said. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Caught up, she began cracking messages in real time, many of them from the West Coast. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s about the size of a quarter and has cracks all over it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He dragged everything back to where the hull was cracked. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A twig cracked under her feet, and the light went out behind one of the windows in Capricorn’s village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because even if I crack the code somehow, it doesn’t change the fact that Blue isn’t interested. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The flame, nearly invisible at first in that bright sunlight, enveloped a small twig, grew, was enriched with color and reached up to a branch which exploded with a sharp crack. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My heart lifted a little at the sound of his voice, and I opened the door a crack. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of elephants lived on the mountain then, and they could be heard moving through forest, making cracking sounds as they peeled bark and broke limbs from trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to reach a low shelf, where he ensconced himself in a crack. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one remembered the name, or even the appearance, of the temporary gardener who made it his project some years back to plant up the cracks between the paving stones. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She cracked her knuckles and looked to Ekon, her expression wary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I watched the water wash into the cracks between the boulders, racing to see how far it could travel before being pulled back into the sea. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe the virus had even seeped through the small cracks in the container. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If anything, Shay*s hands were in worse shape, red and dry and cracked with the ragged edges of burst blisters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She looked away from her mother, and straightened, catching her breath, looking outward through the small, cracked window. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Wood creaked, canvas cracked, and water splashed, so loudly a man might swear the castle was sure to hear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I got the courage to crack open the shutter, at first I couldn’t make out who was out there. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serber had the room’s attention—until a sharp crack interrupted the talk. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk, as she was walking back to our village alone, she entered a stand of tall trees and heard a big crack from a branch. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked with Summer and Jack, and we just couldn’t stop cracking up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She threw off her sheet and cracked her door just in time to see Matthew careening toward her on his skateboard. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When agents interrogated the Kaw Indian, it didn’t take much for her to crack. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It is your only chance at life,” said Odin, in a voice so old and cracked that Loki could not tell whether it was the voice of an old man or an old woman. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You crack me up, Humble,” I tell him. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t answer, so that he wouldn’t hear my voice crack in panic. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

With one hand she cracked the eggs into a bowl; with the .other she whisked them and whirled them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

There were no cracks in which to thread razor wire and no hinges to remove. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I plunge toward the street, which is cracked and patchy and follows perfectly the curve of the marsh. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I heard the bone in his nose pop, felt it crack, slip sideways. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were still sitting over their port and cracking nuts. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run my finger along the inner edge of the strip lighting, then wedge my fingernails in the crack. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There came a day, however, when the cafe manager cracked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numerous paths were available to our nation in the wake of the crack crisis, yet for reasons traceable largely to racial politics and fear mongering, we chose war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Mama! You’re so early! You must’ve gotten up at the crack of dawn this morning, I hope you didn’t tire yourself out! ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Where he had grasped the torch, his skin had cracked and split. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a noise like a whip crack. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I cracked the window, the fall crisp seeping in, the familiar static of air pushing through a tight space. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It ends when Casterly Rock is cracked open, so the sun can shine on the maggots and the worms within. It ends with the utter ruin of Tywin Lannister and all his works.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to explain to Coach Warner about the shoes. He—I guess he thought I had cracked up or something.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deep cracks in the back of his heels were as black as the soles of his huaraches. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for the first time in his public life he mumbles, his voice cracks, and even an accent sneaks through. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to say something and his voice cracked. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

From the outset, stories circulated on the street that crack and other drugs were being brought into black neighborhoods by the CIA. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

However, without curtains over the cracked glass, the sun streamed through the window every morning, so the children woke up early and sore each day. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He could hear the wind whistling through cracks in the rocks as they neared the ringwall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years ago, the sails had cracked and snapped with every shift of wind, until he'd pulled them down and gone on with muffled oars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A cracked rubber nipple from a baby bottle. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of squirrel made him remember the taste of hot blood and the way the bones would crack between his teeth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kehaar detected them by smell and removed them exactly as he might have picked spiders out of a crack. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towel was so low in the back that I could see butt hairs in the crack. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tugged hard, and the chicken’s neck cracked. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I can see even Caesar’s professionalism showing some cracks as he tries to quiet them so I can speak, but my three minutes are ticking quickly away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I did, both Jake and Tyler started cracking up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He peered through the crack in the door. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the corner of my eye, the walls rippled, first becoming awash with cracking flames, then receding into the churning black waters of the Atlantic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a stupid joke, meant to lighten the crazy-heavy mood in the kitchen, but neither of my dinner pals even cracked a smile. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The brace held, but a crack appeared in the left door. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lightning cracked the sky, and a wash of white color illumined the face looking in at old LaFarge there in the doorway. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded his fist against the nearest rode, which cracked and split in half "Now, come!" he shouted. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the entire scene through a crack in the door. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, there are cracks in the floor which let little pieces of light through, so you can see a little if you have to. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soft indentations in the snow stretched from the attic window over a small incline between four cracked red clay chimneys. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You still think I’ve gone cracked in the head,” Ben said, amused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Men had been known to fall into empty holds before, crack their heads, and pass out even in calm weather. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I won’t make it out of the building before someone cracks a joke. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I spend half an hour shredding up string-cheese sticks and cracking eggs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Above me I could hear feet running and the cracking of brush, which was followed by silence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Memory came rushing back: the stone man reaching out with cracked grey hands, the blood seeping from his knuckles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a pause on the tape, and it sounded as if Albert’s voice cracked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She could smell it now, sweet and luscious and minutes from ready, as she searched for wildflowers between the Emporium’s cracked porch slats. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

From there, he reached for a jutting tree, then another crack in the rock, and then he heaved himself over the first ledge. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I heard a poem, seeping from its cracks. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I could take both at once, steering them in two directions around the crack on the broken concrete path and bringing them back together, again on the other side. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Lighting flashed down and cracked like a whip. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, its white paint was peeling, its shutters were cracked, its windows were grimy with dust. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We walked along in silence the rest of the evening, the only sounds the crunch of the frozen mud beneath our feet and the cracks of the kapos’ whips. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked some walnuts, got down the acorn flour I had pounded, with a bit of ash to remove the bite, reached out the door for a little snow, and stirred up some acorn pancakes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s fine! This might be just the break we needed to crack the case wide open. Do you know where we can find him?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We put stickum paper over cracks in the cave, to catch crawling bugs,” Johnson said to me. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they did too, though vicious animals, cunning, cracked with theories. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, trying to remember all of the goldfish’s instructions, she cracked off a small bit of stone and rubbed it up and down the needle ninety-nine times before tossing it back to the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The thick slabs of gray stone were cracked and covered in ivy, as ancient as anything Thomas could imagine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When the sky turns black again, the air through the window cracks turns to slices of cold. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longer they waited, the more strained their smiles became, cracking around the edges. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her skin, usually the smooth brown of groundnut paste, looked like the liquid had been sucked out of it, ashen, like the color of cracked harmattan soil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Something in me is cracking open, the light coming through is so bright it hurts, and the rest of me is still here, wounded, even though I know it's all for the best. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn’t be prudent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“And there’s always email,” Dad added, setting the cracked screen facedown on the table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The almanac had a strange, soapy smell and made a cracking noise like fire as she turned the pages. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Once my father moved us to New York”—Mrs. Walton’s voice cracks—“I never saw Mrs. Boxley again.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The guys on the bench cracked up and Ducky looked miserable. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was still enough meat on it to fill his empty belly, and after that was done he cracked the arm bones for the marrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell us the story of why the tortoise has a cracked shell!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The white man has perpetrated upon himself, as well as upon the black man, so gigantic a fraud that he has put himself into a crack. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Con,” Taisin said, her voice a whip crack in the stillness. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Weeds pushing up through a crack in the sidewalk are in the distance somewhere. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I know,” I said, my voice cracking, but then it just came out of me. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His voice, always booming and commanding, was now cracked and dusty. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

How long the city had been deserted she could not know, but the white walls, so beautiful from afar, were cracked and crumbling when seen up close. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “You heard the doctor say her skull was cracked. How do you know she can remember?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

More rumbling, more cracks beneath them, more rocks from above. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The black wings cracked like thunder, and suddenly the scarlet sands were falling away beneath her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yo, man,” I said, and then I just shook my head cracking up at him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only ten million more to go, he thought, then placed the shovel back in the crack and jumped on it again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Thomas nodded, absently kicking a loose rock across the dusty, cracked stone floor of the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Soon, the cane was picked up again and a second tremendous crack was administered upon the trembling buttocks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Crocodile Guts’s old cracks had opened up! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he heard me or felt my shadow in the door crack, just like I knew he was smiling. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tyrion peeled the cracked shell away from his egg and took a bite. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He lifts a heavy glass paperweight and brings it down on her hand, hard enough to break her wrist with a sharp crack. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The two courts were made of cracked asphalt. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Through a crack between the boards I watched him pick up his book bag and head off in his earnest, square-shouldered Anatole way down the road toward the school. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed the yellow star on the cracked window of what had been the Diamants’ shop, and then a booming clang made me start. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some of the scales were dented, pitted, and cracked; others were missing entirely, revealing long, crooked scars in the bare skin beneath. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then, with a bright white flash and a crack, a crystal ball fell on top of his head, and he crumpled to the ground and did not move. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Okay, it’s a crummy front porch I stand on, cracked to shithouse, and who am I to say that the world isn’t the same? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t care much for how things happen or bother asking why He can tell I don’t particularly feel like discussing the incident, so he makes a crack and we leave it behind us. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then the great maple began to crack and groan, and the squirrel turned and vanished into a hole. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a pair of loud cracks he volleyed two more bullets over our heads, just to drive his point home. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some said the plate was made of iron and painted to resemble cracked china. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was still beautiful, though her face was a bit wrinkled and cracked with powder, and her auburn hair had a few silver streaks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Up and up and up she went, methodically climbing past nests and ledges and tiny trees rooted in the cracks, and before long our robot felt the soft soil of the island beneath her feet. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I barely crack it open 'fore they push me out the way. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a moment, Lady Constance opened the door a crack and immediately began to wail. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I could feel them peering at me through cracks and knotholes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One was from a halfway house intake coordinator who testified that, in his experience treating crack addicts, whites and blacks dealt and used the drugs in similar proportions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

During the 1980s, at the same time crack was making headlines, a broad-based, grassroots movement was under way to address the widespread and sometimes fatal problem of drunk driving. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mini left the door slightly ajar, so Aru could see one beady pigeon eye peering through the crack behind them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her fingers stroked the cracked, blackened skin on her chin. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were sitting on the short wall in the backyard cracking pumpkin seeds between their teeth, tossing shells into the lilies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He leads me over to the path and paints a tiny green sprout that grows through a crack in the concrete. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The air was dank and cool, the walls scored with alarming cracks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

His face cracks for a second, then just as quickly seals up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the stony cliffs beneath her cracked and fissured. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I cracked walnuts, hickory nuts, and beechnuts, then began a pair of deer-hide moccasins to be lined with rabbit fur for Bando’s present. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lost track of time, until the thudding crack of something dropping inside Doc’s cabin scared me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her lips were cracked and bleeding, her tongue swollen and sandpaper dry. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

That’s where the Augurs have left me, in this salt-white flatness that stretches for hundreds of miles, marked by nothing but angry black cracks and the occasional gnarled Jack tree. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The deserted stoplight creaked as it swung, and that little lonesome moan of a sound broke open whatever was already cracked inside me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His cracked red skin oozed fluid, and fearsome blood blisters rose between his fingers, big as roaches. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bilqis spits in his face, and he slaps her hard—so hard that her scream could crack the earth. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Knocking over two delicate tables and an aspidistra, he covered the floor between them in two strides and pulled Harry into a hug that nearly cracked his newly repaired ribs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For the first five years, they’d smiled and giggled as their dad cracked corny jokes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As he ran past he tagged me on the shoulder and I lost my footing, landing against the cracked concrete on my left side. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The crack of guns behind us was our constant companion, and you knew you had slowed too much if the guns got too loud. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The peanut butter was smooth and dark and slid into the cracks in the floor. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

All she could hear was the cracking glass. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hear the cracking of eggshell and loud slurping. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t giving you money to put some creamy crack on your scalp and burn the mess out of it! You better work with what the good Lord gave you!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The steps were cracked and broken from centuries of freeze and thaw and the tread of countless mules, and even in the dark the heights put her heart in her throat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I looked around, expecting someone to crack a smile, to let me in on the joke. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He came to the door but opened it just enough to squeeze his body into the crack. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He opened the window a crack, letting in the fresh autumn air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Especially not since the Governor was using that fire as a reason to crack down on the people. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the door was closed a jagged crack would show plainly between the two lumps. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I cracked open my cherry bombs and poured the powder from them into the flashlight and then wrapped it all up in electrical tape. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I crack the door open and stare her down. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I cracked up a little and waved him off. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

You saw the flash, then heard the crack, then saw the smoke ball distort and thin in the wind. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In some spots, there were cracks in the crust, and that’s where volcanoes formed. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I began to hurry, twigs cracking beneath my feet and my own hoarse breath loud in my ears, and before long the path emerged into the clearing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Transparent packing tape snaked along the crack in the window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ron bellowed, leaping to his feet as a loud crack sounded outside the tent. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Jon cracked the hardened wax, flattened the roll of parchment, read. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her bed was at the very end of the ward, near a cracked window thickened with grime. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, baby,” she repeated, rubbing her hand on my forehead gently, her voice cracking. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My vision fogged up with tears of relief as he cracked open his eyes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only sign that the monster had ever existed were two green sword points sticking through the cracks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Toady pressed his face right up to the crack. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

After doing this, he had taken a towel or something and shoved it under the crack in the door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

On written lessons she cracked such questions as ‘Name eight famous contemporaries of Doctor Johnson,’ and ‘Quote ten lines from “The Vicar of Wakefield.’” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just a baby’s breath tremor, a hairline crack you could hardly see unless you were looking for trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy picks it up and throws it, crack, against the wall. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Go to the door and open it a crack. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I stood facing the rock, with my feet on a narrow ledge and one hand thrust deep into a crack. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip in and keep the door cracked. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It gave a little, cracking like china, and I realized that I was going to be iced in if I didn’t keep that door open. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if it ever gets to be too much, like it was for Robert Smith, we do that rather than crack and tell somebody. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke softly, his voice cracking a little. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He rapped her smartly on one ear, then cracked her knuckles as she was scrambling to her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I liked cracking the middle of the poori and filling it with dal, and taking a big, messy bite, smooth and crispy all at once. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And Ob cracking eggs into a big plastic bowl and telling Cletus he didn’t believe a word of it. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

In panic, Ralph thrust his own stick through the crack and struck with all his might. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The hard part was trying to crack it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon it would be too chilly to keep the window cracked open, but Clayton was so hot. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He was just reaching for the front door when three loud knocks cracked against the shutters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” I say, my eyes welling, my voice cracking. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Big beaks could crack open big, hard seeds; small beaks were better for hard-to-get-at seeds. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy had crazy bizarre teeth like rocks, and he would crack the nutshells so we could eat the insides. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His mother cracked the door, peeked out, then slammed it shut, quickly. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The seat was cracked and lumpy—no different than most taxis. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crack on the white ceiling of the room, and I could faintly hear the deep voice of the city lieutenant and the quick laughs of the nurse. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She said the life jackets were cracked and the boat needed a paint job. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The plaster had caked hard as the mud walls of the Lamb Men, and like those walls it cracked easily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I hollered, but they didn’t even hear me, because they were playing music too loud and cracking up too much. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A flurry of gunshots, a spray of blood, and the wet crack of a body hitting the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She twisted in the vat, the rough pottery scratching her cheek, but she was rewarded by a good-sized crack at eye level. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

His voice was all friendly, as if we weren’t in that parking lot because of my cracks and flaws. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Drew and I looked at each other and cracked up. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Finn cracked the spaghetti in half and jammed it into the pot with a wooden spoon. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced into the cracked, dusty mirror and saw Ron and Hermione exchanging skeptical looks behind his back. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As I stood in this state of indecision, there was a dry crack of wood and a careless disturbance of undergrowth perhaps fifty feet into the woods—something good-sized and unseen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, they could crack almost any message within two hours. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could hear sounds everywhere now, cracks, rustles, mysterious whispers—but his dogged, realistic brain knew them for what they were—the creations of his own heated imagination. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And he left the bathroom without another word, leaving Harry to stare into the cracked mirror, feeling sicker, he was sure, than Ron had ever felt in his life. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They discuss which tools to use to crack his skull, to slice his throat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finger the rubber crack where the window goes into the door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my pen pal assignment: Lena, who sits in the front row and cracks her knuckles. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Come on in,” she said, and he squeezed through the jagged crack and shuffled sideways until he reached the room. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Back long before humans,’ he said, and his voice was soft and cracked and frail. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a summer job, with the Works Department, filling in potholes in the roads, tarring over the cracks made by frost heave; he does have a faint tarry smell about him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stood on tiptoe and looked through a crack between the wooden shutter and the window frame, which was warped with damp and age. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huge chimneypiece was cracked, though, and the hearth was empty. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“But first we gotta get you clothes. I’m tired of looking at your butt crack, okay?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The man in the grey suit cracks a smile, the only noticeable change his expression has displayed the entire evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was bald and scrawny; his voice piped and squeaked like cracking eggshells. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were lopsided and cracked and the floor had been made of packed earth, but he had always been warm there, even when they let the fire go out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wind and snow bellowed and blew through the cracks in our jurta. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There were no cracks on the screen, thanks to the heavy-duty phone case that his father insisted on buying. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the face of the rock, which was the back wall of my house, were several cracks as high as my shoulder. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. I felt like the ice itself, suddenly shattered, with cracks spiraling out from where she had touched my chest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” Lara said, and then we heard footsteps in the distance, mutters and cracking branches. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His companion, with a boulder-like chin thick with black stubble, cracked his knuckles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Opening the door a crack, I look for anyone who might be watching to catch refugees. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In such circumstances the conviction that there was no new knowledge to be had might bow and crack, but it would not quite shatter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The weather had cracked, the temperature finally dropping below freezing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z