| 单词 | current |
| 例句 | The current eddied around its gaping mouth and the cauldron seemed to be muttering defiance. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I have noticed that she needs a new pair of white socks, her current pair having grown rather gray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the boat sagged as soon as the current got hold of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the middle of the river the current eased and the boat shot straight ahead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There were so many vivid currents of feeling between them that the very air felt electric to him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “No, you asked me about the current number of magicians and I answered to the best of my knowledge. That was our agreement.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The only possible course was to take advantage of the prevailing winds and currents and make for South Georgia Island, 800 miles to the east. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z But now Livingston, frustrated by the low current and energy of the beam, guessed that the grid was blocking more than they thought. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Had all those years, as well as Mom and Dad’s time on the street—not to mention their current life in an abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The way the current worked here, once something floated into an eddy it had to be pushed out again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His eyes don't leave the diagram, and he taps the sheet and says, "Get a reading on this rheostat, David. If the dial's out of alignment, that could double or triple the current getting past." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Alec jumps out at him, grabs the boy’s arm just as the current latches on to both of them, ready to yank them away into the darkness. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It was better—not only did they have light to see by, but the current was slower, and the boat sailed more smoothly. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I’m sitting on a log at the edge of my current village, plucking a goose. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This was before the current house and barn were constructed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Every morning after she finished her exercises, she read the paper cover to cover so that she would be up on her current events. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z If the drugged Healer had tried to return at night in a smallboat, she wouldn’t have had much of a chance against the current. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This time, however, he was judged too frail for doctors to apply electric currents to his brain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z "I can promise ye that. The currents are aswirl right now." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Two boats are capsized and held against the rocks by the current,” Cherrie shouted. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He cursed himself for not noticing the current sooner, and not paddling out while it had still been weak enough to let him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z With your current score, you aren’t eligible to purchase chicks from Redwood Farm Supply. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “Thusly, I have decided that these new costs will be retroactively added to the current outstanding balance on your indenture contract.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Downstream, conunoners and highborn captains alike could see the hot green death swirling toward their rafts and carracks and ferries, borne on the current of the Blackwater. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He put the T-shirt back on, wet, and picked up the paddle and started to work, swinging the stern of the raft, keeping it in the middle of the current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She’d be even worse off than she was today, stripped of all magical powers, without all her current abilities, and never able to learn anything new. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I needed to create a portfolio of current events articles and show how they related to stock prices, and to get the back issues. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The fourth day, when the Astrea lay at anchor, her sails limp, another ship passed them, moving steadily against the current. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I realize now that my feeling for Alice had been moving backward against the current of my learning, from worship, to love, to fondness, to a feeling of gratitude and responsibility. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There were ripples round it, for under the banks the current was as swift as in midstream, on account of weed-cutting and sound camp-sheeting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I fell back onto the raft, and I believe it was terror as much as wind and current that widened the distance between raft and lifeboat so swiftly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I say that because, based on current quotas, a person’s chance of being gleaned within the next one hundred years is only 1 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I’m unable to travel back to the Third World in my current condition. I barely made the journey to this holy hogan, and I have used almost all the medicine in my pouch.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We explained why we were there, and he told us that the current medical records were in another building, and that there wasn’t much history left at Crownsville. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The truth, however, is this: far from undermining the current system of control, the new caste system depends, in no small part, on black exceptionalism. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It’s bigger than my current room but not as big as I want. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The current system of control depends on black exceptionalism; it is not disproved or undermined by it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A dark suction pulled me on, almost reassuringly, like a canoeist paddling straight at Niagara Falls instead of trying to fight the current. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The net worth of each person is calculated in current US dollars. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But just under the surface the tidal current is working—stronger than the defendant had imagined it—and carries Carl into the folds of his own net, which still trails out behind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And then she was in the middle of the ocean, carried by warm currents, the water changing from sea green to midnight blue as she sank from the surface into the depths. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Separating hydrogen and oxygen only requires a couple of electrodes and some current. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever had been there, the music, the currents of air that had moved so restlessly that day, was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Melyngar began to swim, her strong legs keeping her afloat and in motion, but the current swung her around; she collided with Taran and forced him under the water. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I could pretty much move however I wanted to underwater, just by willing the ocean currents to change around me and propel me along. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Her eyes were wide open and unblinking, and the skirt of her dress fanned out and swayed in the current. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The current vogue for poisons has failed utterly to take into account these most fundamental considerations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The water deepened under her hull, until their poles could not touch bottom, but still the current pushed them downstream, until... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sefia was afraid to breathe, afraid of disrupting those glimmering currents, but she watched, and she hoped. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The current moving the blue rowboat, bobbing it towards me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Ellsberg called a friend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was offered a position, at half his current salary, at MIT’s Center for International Studies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The profile listed my indent account balance, pay grade, blood type, current performance review rating—every scrap of data the company had on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I thought of leaving, but it would take me hours of walking in my current condition. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Most of them were gill-netters, men who traveled into solitary waters and dropped their nets into the currents salmon swam. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In my current situation, there is nothing more I could ask for. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I pulled up a map of the town and traced a route from my current location to Halliday’s childhood home. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if the current whips all around and sends my tentacles off in some random direction, my eyes are always right side up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost thirty-four out of its forty-seven genera of large mammals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least the current’s with me,” she murmured as the boat slid along. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The current was moving much more swiftly than it had in the middle of the night. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The electrical current travels up the fluids in your brain, turning your head into an antenna.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In the dream I’m adrift on the current in a leaky boat in the dark of night and can’t find my oars and can’t see the shore and can’t do nothing to save myself. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The blow wasn’t enough to kill him, but it was enough to make him consider his eventual death and his current life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Sefia’s eyes unfocused as she slid, dizzy and nauseated, through the currents of his life. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Turning toward our house on the hillside, I see movements of a different kind, tall shadows stiffly pushing through the currents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The men have all but disappeared, and I let myself drift along in the current of churchgoers and ladies, of young fellas and the rest of the non-red-blooded Americans. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Sneakers, books, and backpacks traveled through the rooms on unseen currents, and there was always food underfoot and an old frying pan or two on the steps outside the back door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z But getting there means navigating unseen currents that can force them far downriver—or even backward. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The current had him in its teeth fay then, spinning him around and around. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had started the lessons the year before, in late summer when the river was lower and the current sluggish. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’m from Virginia myself,” she said, and for some reason this stirred up the current that had moved in my limbs when I’d first entered the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t have happened anyway: The force of the current pushed me backward, dragging my body under the bridge. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Tide or current has shifted ’em, or I don’t recall exactly where I set ’em. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When Mom finally kicked him out, Dad went to a new bank to open his own current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional swirls of the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t swim against the current, and in the time it took Anya to inhale, he was gone over the waterfall’s edge. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The currents shifted, and she saw his birth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Common sense and knowing the currents would tell you that the kayak had drifted downstream, especially with the fast-running spring tides. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He started paddling, the raft moving sluggishly now that there was no real current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The sun's hot and severe, so while I wait for my water to purify I strip down to my underclothes and wade into the mild current. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z If he kept moving the raft with the paddle he should come to where the river narrowed again, and pick up the current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z In the summer, the water felt wonderful, but in winter, the icy Benguela currents made wading out into the waves a torture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tides, currents, and winds were one thing, the force of luck another. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Kathy found a website with current photos of New Orleans from the air. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The breeze made them tremble, and some spiraled down and spun away in the currents of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The current still flowed black and strong beneath, but the surface was a roil of blood and flame. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The whirlpools vanished, and the current returned to normal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Knowing that the immense energies available to Lawrence via the cyclotron were hopelessly out of reach of their equipment, they opted for lower energies but a higher proton current—less power but more particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The current was tearing into his eyes and Alex could hardly see. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Instead of struggling with the knots in my wet hair, I merely place my hand on a box that sends a current through my scalp, untangling, parting, and drying my hair almost instantly. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Supporters of the status quo argue that passing new, tissue-specific legislation is unnecessary, and that the current oversight practices are enough. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They struggled forward against a hard current, sometimes seeming to stand still despite their straining at the oars. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Two months prior to current visit, after delivery of fifth child, patient had significant blood in urine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Finally the air currents stopped dragging her down, and she flew high enough to locate her mountain, but the entire western horizon was swathed in clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Betsy was already there before her, her current novel in her hand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Any differences—between the far past and the recent past? Between older and more current American history?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Henry already hears nearly everything about Alex’s current life, but talking about how they grew up has always been some invisible line of demarcation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As he watched the current carry them away, he mumbled, “I am sorry about the flounder.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Watch where the current whirls, and how the shore comes down. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The current was running very strongly, so he decided not to take her out and try the slippiness of the new paint, but his fingertips told him the difference. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Since the catastrophe that had burst the worlds open, all the Arctic ice had begun to melt, and new and strange currents appeared in the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Downstream was nothing but a wall of fire, and if the wreck brake loose the current would take him right into it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From bank to bank the current, regular and unvaried, flowed as fast as a man strolling. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse slowed a little and tossed his head above the current. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The tidal current carried him gently east, just as he’d predicted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Go down there!” said Alice suddenly, pointing to a street of little shops at right angles to the current. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As the truck lurched over a bridge across the Nenana River, Alex looked down at the swift current and remarked that he was afraid of the water. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was too weak to swim against the current with the drag of the fighting kid under my arm. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In 2011, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, first established in the Reagan administration, highlighted current scientific research and issued a call for greater emphasis on arts education. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I arrange my face in the middle of the book, my hair spread like seaweed floating in the current of the story that sweeps me under and away to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The current seemed to cut around me once I wormed my way to the upriver side of the van. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It had probably been moved away from the Westminster Bridge by the current. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Decherd Turner had called again and told me to bring my typewriter and current work. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The toy was drifting farther and farther from the boat, like a useless twig in the current. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The current was clutching at him and he fell. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Waving, too, were the wider expanses of pale green cressweed; but these rippled with the current, lightly and quickly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The helium balloons sway in the gentle air currents or stand at attention. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Her smell drifted out the screen on the air currents from the storm. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone had just arrived who sent a current of dismay through the concealed hoodlums. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She practiced treading water until the current carried her against the weir, then he towed her across the pool so that she could start again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They were designed for winter wear, when treacherous drafts came down chimneys and insidious currents of deadly cold found their way through keyholes. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z I know it’s silly and useless—epically useless in my current state—but I am an animal like any other. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z All silver and shiny, with the new jagged fin stabilizers that were supposed to read the magma currents automatically. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He is to be alone, apart, while he is prepared by the current Receiver for the job which is the most honored in our community.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z And I said, “Can’t afford no air-conditioning. Them things eat current like a boll weevil on cotton.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “As your current commander, I order you to transfer the prime security clearance over to me.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “She put Ben on that piling—the one right there, but then she got pulled back out by the current.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z At first they could see nothing, and then from the east-southeast came a thick flow of ice on a riptide current, like a wide river of tumbling, churning chunks and floes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z An icy current wove through the air, carrying along with it hollow sighs and a swell of dull mutterings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes later they ran the big current at the entrance to Tarawa lagoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Every now and then a current of air lifted them and their dry whispers joined the other sounds. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Two women at the river’s edge were beating clothes against rocks while their children placed twigs and leaves on the water and watched as the current caught them up. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “How much of your current output,” he asked, “consists of types equipped with the Nexus-6?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z A waiter, again unbidden, brought the chessboard and the current issue of the Times, with the page turned down at the chess problem. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Despite being a full-time wife and mother for the last four years, Katherine had been careful to keep her teaching certificate current. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A shiver of current scurried up his spine. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Well, your fall coincided most favorably with the currents.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Suppose one of them did jump out of the boat and go down with the current—what would that tell the others, if he did not come back? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lady Constance, it is Miss Lumley, the governess! I must have your ear for a moment regarding the children. Their current accommodations are quite unacceptable.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The still eddy waters next to the banks had frozen, but out in the middle, where the current was swift, the water was running, leaving a trough in the ice pack. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Remarkably, under current law, an actual conviction or finding of a formal violation is not necessary to trigger exclusion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She has a gold pin on her perfectly ironed blazer, in honor of the current tournament season, and a clipboard tucked under one arm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the force of the current tore it from his hands. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They dragged parallel in the current, like as many pencils in a desk furrow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A cool current seemed to shoot through the pins around her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z If in this wandering narrative I seem to have cut the cords of family joys and sorrows, of Junior’s current delinquency and junior Junior’s new tooth, of business triumph and agony, it is not so. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing, that is, until they found themselves inside a two-story home, with enough room for all their current and future children. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She became aware of the other feeling gradually, for it was swimming against the current within her: Sidhean’s pain and sorrow, rising up like a beast, and it pushed itself between the two of them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She started the engine and motored slowly out in the direction of the open water, following the current. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then suddenly the current slowed even more, and the tunnel opened out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The dinghy was no longer heading my way; in fact, it seemed to be sliding away in the current. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He said he and the other rescue workers would head downstream with the currents toward the bay, the most likely course the kayak had taken. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The sharp currents of wind could be seen in whorls of snow twisting like miniature tornadoes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A current favorite author was Francis Newman, a Latin professor at University College London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But the thought is abstract and far less alarming than the current agonies of my body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But this was tantamount to calling Lawrence’s bluff: at its current level of development, Ernest acknowledged, the calutron could produce enriched uranium fast but only in very small quantities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In my current state, even his glib computer-generated voice was somehow comforting. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Practically from cradle to grave, black men in urban ghettos are treated like current or future criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Our community has only one Receiver. It is he who trains his successor. “We have had our current Receiver for a very long time,” she went on. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He swam strongly across the swift current toward the path he had seen from the top of the tower. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z One of the current events we studied in social studies class was the unusual number of small planes that had gone down in sudden squalls in the Atlantic that year. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And so today on television and in magazines you get the current simplifications. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was power, current, force, direction, a pulseless world-stream steady in limbo. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re both kicking, trying to cut the raft across the current. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z A stone weir slowed the current and was a favorite diving and jumping-off place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I feel like I could cast a fishing line out into the sky and reel it in, tugging as it bobs through the currents of stars. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The main outline of the visible and available evidence, however, reveals a man questioning his own characteristic excesses, which had somehow put him on a course that led to the current impasse. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He just couldn’t figure out if he meant current him or TimeStar him. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I think of the knife, spoon and fork as an electric current. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with such help as Sam could give, it was hard work to pass across the current at the southward end of the island and drive the boat eastward towards the far shore. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There was a current pulling him south, and he couldn’t fight it anymore, even if he wanted to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Hopefully not a nightmare like my current situation. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He knew all the natural harbors, the swiftest currents, how to avoid a squall even when it seemed intent on destroying him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The electric currents start shooting through me, just like before, and there goes my balance again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But that suited its current inhabitants just fine. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z If Aristotle had described a current of information moving across generations, then Mendel had found its currency. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It sends a current through me, and for at least a moment, disconnects me from my thoughts. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z My current but ever-changing cocktail now provides me three meds in the evening. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They’d been fishing, in short, the same waters, with Carl a bit farther toward the north and down current: a thousand yards closer to the shipping lanes that gave Ship Channel Bank its name. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The fire in my mother’s eyes brightens and she reaches out as if some current is tearing us apart. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Such is the consolation offered by any of the current bilingual schemes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She began to paddle against the current, but the movement was so slight she couldn’t keep track of the direction. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the fact is, take current immigration laws, adoption agency policies, and the political situation in Afghanistan, and the deck is stacked against you.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Following their morning class, there was an hour for lunch, and from one o'clock to two o'clock the men read American magazines and newspapers so they were familiar with current events. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Her hair was all staticky from the invisible electric current that seemed to run inside her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It took time for the current to travel to the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Then, through the gloom, I saw her—a woman the color of the water, a ghost in the current, floating just above the sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even the air we breathed was drawn in by a stolen fan, run by stolen current. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Sitting there in the water—Brian could see him, die big man with his hair waving up in the current, his eyes open ... Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The currents of light shifted, and Lon saw her initiation ceremony. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I used to think he didn’t notice all the currents of tension that ran through the family, but as I get older, I see that barely suppressed conflict doesn’t bother him in the least. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The sun shone, rain fell, winds blew, currents flowed, the sea built up hills, the sea dug up valleys—the Tsimtsum did not care. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z While Otto’s legs dipped in the rushing water all the way to his calves, Mr. Flux fell in fully, stretching and flopping his limbs against the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Chin high, he staggers across, stumbling on the uneven riverbed, lurching into the hollows, straining against the current. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It floats instead of sinking and begins to drift away in the current. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Posterity eventually rewards those, like Bach and Handel, who can absorb and repackage the currents and fashions of their times, giving the resulting collage a distinctive voice of their own along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The piece of timber swung in the current and I held it with one hand. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The current would take it back toward the city, in the opposite direction of their escape route. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z His parents had grown up in neighborhoods less than five miles from their current home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was midafternoon when he and the men noticed that the current was starting to pick up its pace. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Several trophy cases commemorate the school’s mostly unsuccessful athletic teams, and a big bulletin board lists the colleges that current seniors have been admitted to, along with the dollar amounts of scholarships they were awarded. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z You have always been one of my most important projects and I am interested in hearing of your current mental condition, so please get out of the pillows and write. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the small waves sliding up the sand and beyond them a curving line of foam where the currents raced. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He had had an allowance since he was ten, starting at five dollars per week and increasing steadily with inflation and age up to its current twenty dollars. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The federal court system has effectively immunized the current system from challenges on the grounds of racial bias, much as earlier systems of control were protected and endorsed by the U.S. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A witness, though sworn to secrecy, revealed that “on the fourth application of current, the prisoner’s eyeball broke and the aqueous fluid ran down his cheek.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But now those five that weathered it got off to southward, taken by wind and current on to Egypt; and there Menelaos stayed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked toward the shore as the slower current carried her downriver. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Annabeth didn’t need her eyes to visualize the river—a black briny current filled with tortured souls being swept deeper and deeper into Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Before Cherrie could blink, the fierce current yanked the outer canoe loose and knocked it on its side. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The underground current spat Anya out into murky light, and her lungs screamed for air as she clawed toward the surface. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The stillness was broken by Van Helsing’s voice speaking in a low level tone which would not break the current of her thoughts:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I should’ve been blind, too, this deep in the water at night, but I could see the heat from living forms, and the cold of the currents. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The air was bumpy where warm currents met cold. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z They could ruin a publishing house with ease from their current accounts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The fading vortex drifted away down stream and then I saw the arrow again, nose into the current, wavering delicately to the motion of the water above which the Mayflies slanted and poised. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew quite well the pattern of what could happen when he reached the inner part of the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z "I want the current guards dismissed and thrown off my patrol." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The dry vernacular of the science paper read: “The current data shows the need to text now may simply reflect the need to engage in a behavior that only has value in the short term.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A strong current and a high wind had carried the peach so quickly away from the shore that already the land was out of sight. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z It was addressed to William Tecumseh Sherman, a famous Union Civil War general and the current commanding general of the U.S. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The man moved with exquisite calm, like a leaf drifting on the surface of a pond, making its own way on gentle currents. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She glances up at me, and takes note of my current state. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I could not say how far we’d gone, but at a widening bend of the river, I felt us slow in the eddying current along the other shore. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The winner of the Curaçao tournament would earn the right to play the current World Champion, Mikhail Botvinnik, in the next world title match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were past the Teeth and out of the vortex and now, suddenly, the current was on their side, pushing them forward, taking them exactly where they wanted to go. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z As the most recognizable Muslim American at the Olympic Games, my opinion on the current presidential campaign was in high demand. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But then these electric currents start shooting up my arm, and he is rubbing my palm with his thumb, which makes the currents go shooting through the rest of me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and concentrated on the waves lapping against the hull, the ocean currents, the winds all around me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the sea began to seek its old place, running backward in long, foaming currents. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you think Travis would have thought of...our current situation?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Most of them aren’t even from Supernatural Investigations, but they are current members of the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, ten being the most stressful, rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The shrimp who falls asleep is carried off by the current. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, so getting yourself killed is your next brilliant trick. I guess that would just about top your current one.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The up-and-down motion reminded me of a ship fighting against the current. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Every Friday in Miss Xinh’s class we talk about current news. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “It may be useful in explaining their current condition,” Penelope said, unflinching. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I had spent the last year trying so hard to re-create myself, just being seen by an old pal would feel like bridging a dangerous gap between my current self and who I’d once been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z If anyone came after me, it would not be Dr. Bright nor my current master, Simon Bass, who might be willing to listen to reason. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “At least with the FSEB’s current point system in place, right?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Remove your foot,” he said in a low, casual tone, “or I’ll test my current batch of alkahest on it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The paddle felt loose and weak, but he didn’t have to push against the current, after all. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Around his mother, on the other hand, the golden sparkles were much stronger, and the currents they moved in were more settled and powerful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I hadn't been seen yet, still half in the farthest tent and with Lincoln’s unobservant current state. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I’m distracted by the electric currents and trying not to show it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It collapsed in the current early this morning. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Gabe moved forward and felt the pull of the current against his ankles. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The unintentional side effects of wind or wave or current. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z With every sail spread and bellying taut, the Astrea moved sluggishly against the current. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you ever thought to tell your parents how you feel and ask them to change your room? You’re older, and the style might not suit your current maturity level.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The sun and salt and wind and currents had melded the bags into ropes and clumps. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And now I felt numb, strangely weak, as if someone had unplugged me and the current running through me had stopped. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If he tried to take too big a step, the current would knock him off his feet and carry him back downstream. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Nothing to move it but the tide and current, and that same tide and current is moving me and the keg in the same direction. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Dicey knew enough to simply follow these races until the boat had floated out of their currents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The raging current had tossed and twisted him, almost tearing him to pieces. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Hanging down from the ceiling in drapes are colorful banners of the competing Warcross teams, each one displaying a team’s symbol in celebration of the current championship season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If I borrow £500, then £500 is a debit to my current account, and a credit to my list of liabilities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Malcolm dreaded having to reach for the paddle and push her away, but in the end the current carried her down the street. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Isabelle Derby, the current mistress of the house, turned out to be surprisingly motherly and caring. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Water beaded across her shoulders, shining like drops of milk, and her breasts swayed in the currents. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I cut out all distractions from my life so I could focus only on fencing, and yet alarming current events continued to dominate the headlines, making it very hard to stay focused. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was moving toward the rising sun, which meant the current was flowing east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As a social worker, I kept current yearbooks from all the buildings in my district. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Nothing depressed him more than the moments in which he contrasted his current mental powers with what he had formerly possessed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Finally, swimming to the middle and staying in the swift current, he swam downstream. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of them, high in the sky, circling on the hot air currents, were the night-gaunts, dozens of them, riding the thermals. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The brown algae waved in the gentle currents and the green eel grass swayed and little sea horses clung to its stems. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z There were wide currents full of meaning flowing fast around her; the Gobblers and their cruelty, their fear of Dust, the city in the Aurora, her father in Svalbard, her mother....And where was she? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They were about fifteen feet away from me, being dragged down, into the body of a heavy current. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Flux snarled and began fighting whoever that hand belonged to instead of the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The current was not fast—as he had guessed earlier it was about the speed of a person walking—but it was steady and strong. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Emergency LED lights lit the corridor, running on current from the ship’s batteries. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Because of my current work, the first thing I looked at was the bone-tar canister. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I know our barbed wire entanglements are strong and almost undamaged;—parts of them are charged with a powerful electric current. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t possibly attempt a long trip with the boat in its current condition. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Something struck hard in Ekon’s chest, coursing through him like an invisible current of energy as the words sank in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I grabbed a soggy hamburger wrapper out of the current and immediately the paper turned dry. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z There’s something forbidden about the whole thing that makes the electric currents burn stronger, and I want school to be over forever so we don’t have to come here at all. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The blue balloon bobs, almost like it’s waving, in the gray current. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He knew the depth of the ocean and which way the currents were flowing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Plus, she liked how she looked in her current outfit—everything from the high heels to the deep red lipstick that matched her scarf. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I cannot take anyone anywhere. The current is strong, and I am just one. Is that your ape?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z That same strong current made it easy to bring slaves across the Atlantic to Brazil, and over the next four hundred years some three million Africans were taken to Brazil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It’s the fourth time I’ve had to sit through my childhood medical history and my current issues. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I rub the beads in my left hand and feel a warm current drifting up my arm, across my shoulders, down between my breasts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a pleasure to remember the old days, in part because the current ones were hard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He climbed, circled the culvert once, then boarded an air current that carried him off toward the Hudson River. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z One afternoon, Plutarch joins me and gives me an update on our current situation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They watched P. T. swimming across, the current carrying him too swiftly, but he not seeming to mind. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The swift current had eaten away at the footing, causing it to lean. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One way of understanding our current system of mass incarceration is to think of it as a birdcage with a locked door. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was a small meal, but each bite sent a hot current through Pax’s body. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t surprised to hear the news—he had a degenerate nature. I don’t know if the current master of Randall will pay your reward. I don’t rightly care.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But a few of them were on the small side, and I didn’t want a current to drag them back to where the bone ships waited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Actually, the Mississippi River is a treacherous and sinister body of water whose eddies and currents yearly claim many lives. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I step on and the current freezes me until I’m lifted on board. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But unlike theirs it was full of little swirling currents of intention that eddied and broke off and drifted about, to disappear as new ones were born. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This time she glided into a little bay where the current was sluggish, and tied up to what she thought was a willow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The current Butler had been guarding young Master Artemis for twelve years, since the moment of his birth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Can you steer a small boat into the current?” he asks. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Europe might contain all the cultural capitals and current world powers, but in terms of America's national interest, it was a mere sideshow and distraction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Through a tunnel of washy sounds, I hover just above his arms, floating on a current above this chaos. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The air currents dropped steeply earthward, making it difficult for Frightful to fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And when the current struck him, it would all be over. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other side was Westinghouse Electric Company, with a bid to wire Jackson Park for alternating current, using patents that its founder, George Westinghouse, had acquired a few years earlier from Nikola Tesla. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Down the creek to the river, where the current is fast and the water is deep. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I watch in amazement as blue currents of electricity snake across the doors and along the walls. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z You could bask there in tingly bubbles, your nose on a level with the icy river and only inches away from its swift currents that pulsed just beyond a thin wall of lavic rocks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The balloon bobbed and weaved with the air currents for a while, the patches of trees making way for taller and taller buildings, and Zane sat, not thinking much of anything. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z You do not know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z This conclusion is likely to be equally unpopular in Japan and in Korea, because of the current mutual dislike of those two peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As it turned out, I didn’t even need to control the currents. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The place was a back eddy, a pool of jetsam beyond the pull of the main current, and that suited him just fine. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole ice pack was moving in a clockwise direction, sweeping west and north with the current, up along the Antarctic Peninsula. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z When our hands connected, I swear to Christmas I felt a current of electricity jolt through me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The raft would move with the current, if it did not get hung up. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The powerful current would quickly knock him off his feet and carry him away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instrumental jazz buzzed in my ear, sending my current stress level to a 6.9. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Refusing to let go of their ropes, the camaradas rushed into the river, fighting against the current. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And one fine morning---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The current owner of the cleaners, Rick Blair, was questioned but considered an unlikely suspect. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I should try to think bigger, beyond our current situation where I am of the utmost importance, to the future where I may be worth nothing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The program began, with the current mayor telling a very long and very boring story about her grandmother’s bravery and ingenuity. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I pulled my feelings book from under my pillow, flipped to the current page, and downgraded from desperate to mediocre. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z All I know, in fact, is that my legs have lost interest in the current venture and have announced their intention to fold. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lethal electric fences, however, use a continuous current that can make a person lock on to the wire as voltage causes involuntary muscle contractions, paralysis, and death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Adrenaline rushes along the current between me and the unseen creature, and we are alert without seeing one another. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The water is almost to Mark’s upper thighs, and he knows the current is about to win the battle against all of them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Just then, the current song ended, and the club grew silent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z How could she, with her current filing system? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They can share, while my sister and I stay in our current room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Inside Vogel's bomb, the full current of the ship's internal lighting system flowed through a thin, exposed wire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dreams seem to her mere sparks of color and electricity, cut off from the current of her life. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She was amused by the fact that, going against the current, she swam to remain still. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was here in an aircraft that he had strange gods before him and his religion was a theology of wind and current, a worship of stars blinking in the intransient dark. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The strain broke the tree’s limb, and the four girls plummeted into the water and were borne along by the fast-moving current. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “I must point out that the move I have taken provides you with the opportunity to overcome the current deadlock, and to normalize the country’s political situation. I hope you will seize it without delay.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The current holders had the obligations of contracts on their side, and such obligations must be observed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They crossed a river by a concrete bridge where skeins of ash and slurry moved slowly in the current. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Our pinkie fingers are maybe an inch apart, and it’s as if an invisible current runs between them. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I look around, trying to calculate our current situation, but the numbers just aren’t adding up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I don’t want to admit to Kelton my current uselessness, so I just say, “We’re not that far. Let’s just go.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The current gently pulled him and he gave in to it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The air grew hot and stifling, but it was not foul, and at times they felt currents of cooler air upon their faces, issuing from half-guessed openings in the walls. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I imagined a great anvil-shaped cloud forming over southeast London and hot air rising in convection currents. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Gerry then presented his own personal estimate of the revenue required to compensate the slave owners for purchasing their slaves at current market value and came up with the figure of $10 million. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The only thing a deep breath did in our current apartment was make me want to pinch my nostrils together. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z A few days after buying the volume of Shakespeare, Sissy woke up one morning and nudged her current lover, with whom she was spending the night in a quiet family hotel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Deadly antiship mines known as torpedoes bob on the surface, drifting with the current, ready to explode the instant they come into contact with a vessel. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z You can’t believe how strong the current was under the ice, even just up to my knee. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The unpredictable current and the vast, complex system of wildlife that resides beneath the churning water gave me hives. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Against the ink-black expanse of Lake Michigan, lightning bolts rippled through the clouds like strange currents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His upper body sways with the currents, but his pant leg is caught on some branches from the bank. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She taught her three children the art of debate and tutored them on current events, translating for Jim the images of famine and war that upset him on the TV news. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The current pulled at him, and he waded deeper. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I grabbed it from its current hiding place in my bedroom and starting reading in reverse. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z My eagerness to escape into the woods, if only for two hours, overrides my current concerns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It emanated from him like currents of heat, so loud and blistering that without even probing him, the chief mate could sense flashes of pain in his chest, visions of black and amber liquid, shame. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A moment later the gates began to stir, creaking, dripping, and slowly, slowly opening against the current, making the water seethe and churn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There two hawks circled as they rode the warm air currents of the afternoon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight he soared on the thermals and the air currents, seeing things that only an eagle could see. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain and was thrust to ten thousand feet; revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She also dug some of the chick stuff like Dido and Faith Hill and Coldplay, but her current favorites were definitely the White Stripes, which didn’t surprise me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z For the current painting, she had incorporated more than ninety different shades. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As I walk, I take stock of the current state of my neighborhood. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Presented with the current situation, I didn’t know what to do, how to proceed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The presence of Clyde’s gun should have terrified her, but a wave of grief swelled for Mr. Griswold’s current uncertain state, followed by a tsunami of anger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z That means he is tired and going with the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His feet no longer scraped the rocks on the bottom, and the current lifted him, carried him. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Thus confused, my mind turned this way and that, like a paper kite dipping to every current of air, unsure of its own meanings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a pleasant change of pace, something finite in contrast to her current, overwhelming, ongoing task: to prepare for her departure, picking the bones of the house clean. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And each of us, this writer especially, will pray that the current Allied success at the Battle of Cantigny signals a speedy end to this war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z On rare occasions see the need for reflection and are often overwhelmed by the current changing context. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The number of small farms merged into collectives was a number about equal to the current population of Texas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I don’t know if he was thinking about that too, or if he was still thinking about his rivers and strong currents. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I decide not to mention to them that if I’m not back by midnight, I’ll be ripped from my current body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before the current picked up, and they were facing another series of rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She nudges both children to talk about what happens in school, to recount the plots of the books they read, and to discuss current events. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She wanted to give everyone time to get tired of searching before she ventured into the current again. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We also held weekly meetings to talk about current issues, and everyone was welcome to come and ask questions. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The current will have set us far to the eastward, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even for western Kansas, renowned for the longevity of its Indian summers, the current sample seemed far-fetched—dry air, bold sun, azure sky. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Some were caught in eddies, others lodged among the stones, and a few raced on the current on their way to a larger stream. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Up and down, he whirled the star, hands pushing and pulling at the golden currents as if they were streams of water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Captain Newport says our route will be like a big circle, following the winds and currents. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z And all this time, in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait—Skylla to port and on our starboard beam Kharybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Could it be that only Crocodile Guts had the strength to maneuver against the new, strong current? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The current carried them slightly downstream, Dicey’s strokes carried them across, the smooth water eased their passage. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z And there she stayed, for the creek was so slender and the currents so tricky and the oyster beds so perilous that no salvage captains would risk their own vessels to retrieve the Moily Bell. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The current carried him around the bend, where the river narrowed again and flowed a little faster. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z At times, moreover, I was quite pleased with my current experiments on bacterial viruses. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We’d beach the canoe and walk around for a bit, then paddle back home against the lazy current. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Yet sweaty hands and wet clothes can easily defeat the skin’s natural resistance to current. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Malcolm had to peer closely at the ground, so thickly was the rain falling, and he felt against his boots a current of water running strongly away from the river. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Beaten, he would let himself float aimlessly, feeling the hug of the current, the kiss of the tadpoles, the lash of the rushes that grew along the banks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Its heavy bulbous shape billowed out as rising air currents added to its mass. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Bono rowed us far out into the middle of the river, and then let the current take us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “And what side do you take in the current situation, sir?” he asked. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the comer of his eye, he saw the hulk they'd been tangled with drifting downstream with the current, spinning slowly as men leapt over her side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The current grew stronger, coiling like a gray serpent about Taran’s legs. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z At 10:00 a.m. the prisoners were taken from their current cells and moved to their "death" cells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In one of those tests, he sat in a special seat as they zapped him with electrical current—an electric chair, of sorts— and studied his neurological responses. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I placed Bowe right up there with my roommate as a person to blame for my current existence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “But you must be able to travel on it—they have boats,” thought Gregor, noticing half a dozen crafts tied up above the rush of the current. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But with everything underwater, and all kinds of unpredictable swirls and currents likely to have been born in the darkness, who knew where he might end up? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Inside of thirty feet it was matching the current, or close to it, and Brian watched the banks sliding past as the raft moved silently down the river. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Stirred by air currents of a mysterious origin, the fabrics flapped up and floated around the room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Since then my apolitical brother had been taking an unusual interest in current events. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He said, “There is nothing wrong with the currents of his positronic brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He hung there in the phosphorescence of the sea, gathering light and undulating, and his boat moved now on the tidal current, brightly lit and silent in the fog. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The frequency of incidents seemed tied, to some extent, to current events, to the general media profile of Muslims that week or month. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Just going down the long staircase was as strenuous as fighting against a current. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I can feel the bandage on my head detach and wash away in the current. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The captain shouted an order, and the vessel began to turn ponderously against the current, maneuvering out into midstream and giving a blast on the whistle that echoed for a long time around the valley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I check the current time: 1:44 a.m. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A current of warm air, rising from the woods, was carrying them along. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The busboy and the Mexican who intervened were paid several thousand dollars and the owners promised to promote a current Mexican employee to waiter within a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As I go, I bring up my map with Hideo’s current location. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All this occupied what had been the royal palace before the current queen’s grandfather built a finer one straddling the Eder and gifted this one to the Scholars’ Guild. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Members staged plays, sponsored sports teams and sewing circles, and taught courses in black history and current events. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They were in the grip of a current that held them off the island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It did not cover the whole man, but kept most of him in shade, and when it was done Brian pushed the raft back out into the current and started moving again. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The current surged and rolled over her, batting her around like an old sack. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z So I'm labeling each sample by the current sol. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In some places we have to slow down because there are rocks, branches, and other obstacles that I imagine were swept up in a current when this place actually transported water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z "Yes. And currents that pull things under and send them far out. And rocks to get snagged on, and predators." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She had felt the current take her, sweeping her out to sea. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Teachers who have done this activity with their students say that most of them draw the shape of the current United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z When I asked Weisberg to make her own list, she came up with ten, because she added the architects and the hospitality industry people she works with in her current job. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Electrical current. Tucked into the heels of those blue suede shoes I gave you for Christmas,” Ladybird explained. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z As we stepped into the little boat, the river looked big with a rough current, and the people on the other side looked small and far away. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I think, I hope he does, and the thought alone sets off the electric currents and sends them shooting through me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The presence of Clyde’s gun should have terrified her, but a wave of grief swelled for Mr. Griswold’s current uncertain state, followed by a tsunami of anger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The current best estimate for Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion metric tons, a difference of only about 1 percent from Cavendish’s finding. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Race plays a major role—indeed, a defining role—in the current system, but not because of what is commonly understood as old-fashioned, hostile bigotry. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You’re here somewhere,” she said, and down the hall the little echo went, slipping in a whisper on the tiny currents of air. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z You would go backward in time, so the first floor would have the current century. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix intends to move Harry Potter from his current place of safety on Saturday next, at nightfall.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Like I’m a piece of driftwood caught in a current. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Exhausted, I could barely stand in the waist-deep current, tangled up in my shorts, which had pulled halfway down to my knees. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z And I felt that I would fall, had fallen, moved now as against a current sweeping swiftly against me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her touch sent a warm current through my body. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The two men constructed an instrument that included batteries, coils of wire to carry electric current, and a telephone receiver. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the Pottses’ licensing file, a caseworker noted, The current placement, A. R., has been with the family two plus months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z There was only calmwater and clear skies and those five crates lazily bobbing along an ocean current. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Known today as electroconvulsive therapy, this involved sending electrical current through the brain and inducing seizures. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Islands of water hyacinths floated past in the drowsy current. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a list of her current classes, but I already knew those. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Men cried and scattered, and some ran in flames to the water’s edge and plunged in, to be swept along and out of sight in the current. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the force of the current was too strong. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He’s a jagged rock worn smooth by years of water currents, and if the light is right, hidden bits of goodness glint like mica. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Might not be the harbor at Spinney Cove, if the current sets against you, but it will be land. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z For this very reason, I was not one bit sad to say goodbye to our current apartment with its orangish carpet, watermarked ceiling, and faint smells left by previous owners. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The current pulled at me, but it wasn’t carrying me away anymore. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Also, there was a difference in its depth; his current sadness was as deep as a pool that went up to his neck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z If we fail to appreciate the differences, we will be hindered in our ability to meet the challenges created by the current moment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was too late to ask for help, and he waited to die the way smoke dies, drifting away in currents of air, twisting in thin swirls, fading until it exists no more. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His boat and his knowledge of the Potomac’s currents are vital to their escape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z At six he would let the gathered court know about the current status of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes, after the programs, we would sit around and talk about all kinds of things, current events and other things, for an hour or more. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Our bodies turned with the current and Peach’s back scraped along the oak. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The winds changed direction, and the currents altered their flow, and a new world floated out to meet him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He said there wasn’t anything worth reading in the current papers anyway. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z So if I buy a bar of gold worth £500,1 credit £500 to my current account, and I debit £500 to my list of assets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Shin did not know it, but to pass safely through the fence he needed a device that could shunt the flow of current from the fence to the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They point to the current composition of state prisons as “proof” of this imagined fact, ignoring that sentencing practices distort our understanding of who is placed under state control and why. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I willed the ocean currents to aid me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow is going to be a good day with this current,” he said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not sure what our current approach is. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “A simple matter of mathematics, Johnny. If the current against you is flowing at—say—ten knots an hour, you have to be making at least eleven knots to move against it.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She blinked again, and the currents of light disappeared. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Although Roosevelt was one of the most popular presidents to ever hold office, the Republican Party gave their support to Taft, the current president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The fever pitch of anxiety and fear is the everyday current mood at this place. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Naturally, Miao-Yao speakers did not acquire their current fragmented distribution as a result of ancient helicopter flights that dropped them here and there over the Asian landscape. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What if the current forms of animals were also the consequence of natural forces that had accumulated over millennia? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They still ran parallel to the waters of the Rio Grande, much too close to the current that roared furiously below. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Warily it hung in the current below them, undulating from side to side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The 14th Quartet might, for him, be a communication announcing, “Beethoven here,” answered, after passage through an undersea of time and submerged currents of human thought, by another long signal a century later, “Bartok here.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t a matter of favoritism, but just that he lives in the present and is focused on his current students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Around me the air is stagnant, despite the little current, the breath coming in past the curtains. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to ease himself into the silvery current and wade the last ten yards to shore but was instantly whisked away like a feather. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mandy chose the best three and altered them in keeping with the current fashion, even adding a graceful train that would follow me everywhere. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon, he was wading through the water, the current sucking at his legs, pulling him forward. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Will work to become knowledgeable in areas of their current job responsibility and put efforts in trying to communicate effectively. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Somkit expertly steered the boat to the north side of the bridge, trimming the motor to match the speed of the current. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The processor was slower than a sloth by current standards, but it was fine for my needs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he jerked upright as if an electric current had been applied to his limbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I considered all these people, current and former staff, to be family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Roy,” he said gently, “this is an excellent subject for biology or social studies, but perhaps not for current events.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth hooked one arm around his waist and struggled across the current. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z All considered, it may be in my best interest to fly the coop rather than sit on my current nest egg. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A yacht knifed through the early morning water in a long, green V. Sea gulls, balsa-light, hovered on invisible currents above the river. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The current sucked me under and slammed me into Peach and the black walnut. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Miep came up one afternoon all flushed and asked Father straight out if we thought they too were infected with the current anti-Semitism. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Something about air currents or cloud formation, perhaps?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “If you unchain yourself and come with me, I can guarantee a meeting with our current chief, as well as other members of the department.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Everything was fine until we reached midstream, where the current was much swifter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel hoped that they might somehow drop out of the current and reach that side, but the punt moved quietly on, down the very center of the broad pool. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. They might be a bit flickery, but they’d light. Mainly, it would run your refrigerator, your freezer, things like that. They don’t use much current.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The movements were hard to do in my current condition, like trying to walk through water. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The currents shifting, as though something was swirling and swimming, creating eddies under the surface. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I don’t take my eyes off my current target. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He raised himself up on one arm and watched them go; he felt a current of air from the movement of their skirts and feet and shopping bags. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Catching an air current that took her up and over a mountain, she looked down on acres of open fields, meadows, and grassy clearings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Her words went through me like an electric current. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The white sails by this time had already entered the river, easily making headway against the current. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I’m alerted by, I don’t know, a soft shift of sand or maybe just a change in the air currents. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Myrta came to see that underneath her husband’s warm and charming exterior there flowed a deep current of ambition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But she could not help it—their eternal life together, as well as his current happiness—depended on it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So is our current system of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Florida and Tiller were letting the swift current carry them along. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She could see them more clearly this time: each current was made up of thousands of tiny specks, all drifting and swirling. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The river was dark as ink, and the boat soon vanished against the glass-smooth black surface of the strong current under a moonless night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the herons raised their heads to watch as the Shy Maid drifted away from the bank, out into the current. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The bergs, with their deep bottoms caught in opposing currents, crashed in zigzagging paths through the ice as far as the men could see. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The White Hart and Queen’s Crown were content with their current musicians. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I heard Osh yell behind me, but I kept on, the wind shoving me off balance, the current tugging at my legs, and my nightshirt heavy with water. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z But there was something else, too...a current of magic that Aru could feel singing through her veins. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They were moving more slowly now and the glow of Havana was not so strong, so that he knew the current must be carrying them to the eastward. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an unsettling current in his voice, a genuinely conspiratorial note, as though he believed literally everything that had been said. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When the overhead lines were first dragged down by explosions, the cables sparked and whipped like live snakes but the current soon ran out. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents,” said the old man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In my current state, my mother's visage is all that will come to me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Ah, you must depart directly if you mean to catch the current,” said Vikus, slipping the backpack with Boots onto his shoulders and leading him to Ares, who was already carrying his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Was it the cause of the Dust current, or was it the other way around? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That’s about two hundred thousand dollars, at the current exchange rate. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "Well, there's been a change of plans. About our current approach," says Haymitch. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Veneration of such things as ‘Turkey in the Straw’ is at the very root of our current dilemma.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dallas watched it rise on the air currents over one brown hill and then another, until it disappeared. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “We’re moving!” screamed Peach as the current began to sweep us around the edge of the oak. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As the throng of people moves, I let myself be taken away by the human current. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z A blanket of pale mist still clung to the surface of the water, the murky green current swirling past underneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As indicated earlier, any effort to downsize dramatically our nation’s prisons would inspire fierce resistance by those faced with losing jobs, investments, and other benefits provided by the current system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I say that my current offering isn’t a mystical story, or a religiously mystifying story, at all. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Pindar in the early fifth century tells the current tale about the feast Tantalus made the gods and protests that it is not true. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe someone else killed her, some bad guy who followed her and stole her purse and emptied her current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Trails of it wove across the chief mate’s square features, in and out like sparkling currents. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The current carried him swiftly downstream, but he was also making a little progress across the river. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d never know that underneath, the currents run so hard and so fast. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Ishmael kept to the middle of the group, swimming and keeping low, breast- stroking, and tried to think of himself as a dead marine floating harmlessly in Betio’s lagoon, a corpse borne by the current. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As the current swept the Shy Maid beneath the bridge, their shifting shadows danced upon the mossy walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was, in the current view, a thriving, stunningly diverse place, a tumult of languages, trade, and culture, a region where tens of millions of people loved and hated and worshipped as people do everywhere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He would use the current to help carry him away from this armpit place. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Where once he’d watched trout swaying in the current, tracking their perfect shadows on the stones beneath. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He struggled in vain against a current of bodies, then gave up, exhausted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course Edison urged the fair to use direct current, DC, the prevailing standard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The leader of the school Revolutionary Committee, Chairman Jin, was making a speech on the current revolutionary situation. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the water touched my legs, my muscles turned to jelly and I fell face- first into the current I submerged completely. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The current was fast, but the river didn’t look deep. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Still, the idea that there is a current of brutality in corrections work is hard to deny. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The current was swift there, but midway across, three boulders rested against one another to form a secure perch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As an adult, he found his magic in the manipulation of electrical currents. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The electric current freezes me in place on the ladder until the doctor injects the tracker into my left forearm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z And his dad went on for twenty minutes about the scientific aspects of the current. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There the current, after running over rocks where village women scrubbed their clothes, widened into a calm pool. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The current was pulling him away from where they stood. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “If Grandma’s too big to move under the current conditions, does that mean all people are?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Had I been conscious of the full extent to which I was pushing against the current of my environment, I would have been frightened altogether out of my attempts at writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And I reached and reached, pulling massive armfuls of the water back along my sides as I kicked through the current. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I watched the currents meander, the lazy ripples that once in a while broke along the surface. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The current gently pushed the lifeboat closer to the illusion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He stepped through the tear in the tent, once again carried along by a current of people. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Our boats slid easily through the waves, three abreast, a friendly current bearing us coastward. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But even then I would feel a sudden, terrifying urge to rush forward and take hold of the man in the chair, while the current was on. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Birds swooped just below me, playfully dipping and then rising on the air currents. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Only his suit has changed, updated to fit the current style. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The current feature was The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The 1933 Solvay Conference on Physics brought together the sciences aristocracy, including a score of current or future Nobel laureates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And as the dinghy rocks in the growing current, I see the rope holding it to the pole begin to fray against a cluster of sharp mussel shells. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “And what? We forget the current score and start all over again?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Louis had battled his way through twenty-seven professional matches with twenty-three knockouts and no defeats to reach his current status as the number one challenger in the world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The process would yield less current—that is, fewer particles—but give them higher energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And parents have begun to understand the need to keep our records current so that when those children are taken we can contact someone. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A humming noise alerts me to the fact that the electric current has been switched on. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Certainly, the current system can seem rigged to produce that result. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the current era, white Americans are often eager to embrace token or exceptional African Americans, particularly when they go out of their way not to talk about race or racial inequality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He saw three river runners too, long lean boats built tough to brave the swift currents and rocky shoots of the White Knife. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The last betrayal that sent Velutha across the river, swimming against the current, in the dark and rain, well in time for his blind date with history. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our current policy can lead only to disastrous defeat,” they warned. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I presented what is more or less the account current when Dobyns arrived in Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He climbed onto the back of the raft, kneeling at Derek’s feet as he had before, and used the pole to push it away from the bank and out into the current. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z From various and uncountable tributaries, in creeks and brooks of color and motion, the parts of this river had joined, become one mother current, and flowed on. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like struggling against a cold, fierce current, and she was afraid she would drown. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The current roared past the rock and took him like a chip, sucking him downstream. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z So he was free to lie in the river and drift slowly with the current. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Norwegian whalers were the only source of information about current conditions in the Antarctic, and the news they had for Shackleton was bad. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Her hands became birds riding currents on the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I pry the box open to reveal a new and unexpected wrinkle to my current situation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s our current exclusivity, not that multi-species past, that is peculiar—and perhaps incriminating. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Only further threats, notably Shays’s Rebellion of 1786 and the unsolved burden of war debt, overcame the ex-colonies’ extreme reluctance to sacrifice autonomy and pushed them into adopting our current strong federal constitution in 1787. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They entered the Pacific currents and skirted the rocky coastline of Marin County. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “The circumstances surrounding my current state of undress.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The current loomed behind him, a liquid wall of black and green. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He added that Congress remained free to impose federal oversight on states where voting rights were at risk, but must do so on the basis of current conditions. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Between her kitchen windows, a skiff riding the current through the Narrows. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Last spring, one of Otto and Sheed’s classmates, Wallace, age eleven, fell in the creek, and was swept south by the current. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Quickly Roy picked out one fish and, teetering precariously, plunged both hands into the current. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Astrea shuddered, stood still, and then began to swing sideways in the current pouring like a mighty river through the strait. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The tide and the wind were pushing in hard now, and the current funneled through the mouth of the harbor; the green boughs and branches of the fallen trees lay scattered across the clean snow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z More current than the wire could handle had passed through. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were kids from Uruguay and Korea who had just learned English but were doing extra credit for the current events stuff in Intro to Wall Street, reading Barron’s and Crain’s Business Daily. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She nods and explains that the mild electric currents might help speed up the healing process. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It was my current theory that hands were the most revealing part of the human body—far more significant than eyes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 My action was not prompted by the current allegations being made against her in the media. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the middle of the madness there remained that true and natural beauty, and it took my mind away from my current situation as I marveled at this sight. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The man in the gray suit fiddled with the valve knobs, checked his gauges and, when he seemed satisfied with their current position and direction, left his post to take a seat next to Zane. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z All about, like a moving current, a mountain river, came the new air, the oxygen blowing from the green trees. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z As Felix finished his waffle, he glanced up at the TV, which had the current time and temperature in the corner. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z While the raft followed the current well, because the logs stuck down into the water and were not streamlined, for the same reason it moved with the paddling horribly. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Winds and currents were a mystery to me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The current food is always arranged into a senseless, vertical tower. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish he would turn with the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I release the boulder and lunge toward them as the current tries to sweep me away. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Like ripples on the water, half-formed plans rose and died in the currents of their thoughts. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Percy guided the boat through the strong currents off the northern California coast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Within the roaring current, thousands of voices cried out—shrieking in agony, pleading for mercy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He looked out at a piece of stick floating down on the even two-mile-an-hour current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He left the silent house and walked to the stream, where he stood staring at the motion of the current. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As long as the area has a current Permission to Terrorize zoning permit from the Department of Supernatural Licenses and Records. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A murmuration of starlings swirls on the air current. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The illusion was painful, but it was so much better than anything in Matt’s current life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all guns, it has precision, guided by magnets and electric currents, and can accurately shoot a target three blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Letting the current carry you along but keeping you always safe, always moving. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Clippinger swore at us at first, calling us fools; and, when he saw that this booted him nothing, grew fearful as the boat dipped lower in the current. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The current grabbed her like a fist and pulled her into the deep. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As I stare into the Teklanika, I can hear rocks the size of bowling balls grinding along the bottom, rolled downstream by the powerful current. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We run after him, fighting the current of people heading toward the buses. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It takes her a minute to place the three, given their current condition, but already she wears a look of consternation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I won’t say I could see the bullet, but I could feel its path, the same way I felt water currents in the ocean. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The first time I ever did that, small starbursts of Mouse’s blood remained, so from then on I set them adrift on the current instead. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z But a while later, maybe a few minutes, maybe an hour, the current slowed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A current must have carried him, even when he was becalmed. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Geologists had proposed that the current shape of the earth—its rocks, chasms, and mountains—had been created by the transmutation of previous elements. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You are, of course, aware of the current situation? Aware of East Pakistan’s fight for sovereignty?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My friends also convinced me that my current nose was just fine. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Challenging these forms of racism is certainly necessary, as we must always remain vigilant, but it will do little to shake the foundations of the current system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The mud in the roads actually seemed to flow with currents, as in the rivers and streams, but when it hardened it would be worse than cement. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The current running under this conversation had changed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Yet another notable difference between Jim Crow and mass incarceration is that many African Americans seem to support the current system of control, while most believe the same could not be said of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The older woman appraised Dimple’s current outfit with pity. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The currents of light washed over her, and she realized the porter couldn't speak. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Then I remember the lobby of the Department of Magical Science is constantly changing to reflect current breakthroughs in the field. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “There’s a current in the water. It’s all right. It’s taking us in the right direction.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Here it just seemed to hang in the currents of the air until it found the convenient moment to plop onto the granite plate. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The current one, she said, would disappear as soon as she had received another baby from the clinic. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The current swept up the boat like it was a dried leaf. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It came off the wings of huge mothlike creatures drifting and looping in the underwater current. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Confronted by the most vital intellectual currents of the time, his genius was immediately recognized by his teachers—one of whom introduced the young man to the dangerous mysteries of the Co- pernican hypothesis. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We aren’t allowed out in a boat by ourselves because of the currents; anyway we have no boat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As for my current situation, the big gain is the helmet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The gurgling sound I had heard was the swift current as it sucked its way through the channel. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just “watching,” but flishing and flailing and swirling the air currents! The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Now I was left in dread, alone, while wind and current bore them on to Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z All the waves and water hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The assumption is that the convecting fluids in the Earth act somehow like the currents in wires. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Contemporary observations are changing our understanding of planetary systems, and it is important that our nomenclature for objects reflect our current understanding. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He had tried to take too big a step, and the current had knocked him off his feet and was washing him away. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Noodles continued to dissect all the stuff he thought was deep about comics, and how when he draws them, he adds tattoos and jewelry and stuff like that to make them more current. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The sight of him, struggling in the current like a fly in a spider’s web, filled them both with fear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The strong current was carrying the cage out to sea, and us with it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He pulled off Robin’s hosen and carried him into the water, holding and dipping him where the current ran deep. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The circuitry seems to be there, even if the current is not always on. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Before returning to their home cities, the two surgeons recommended that the current treatment continue. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The helicopter gradually began to move, following the colorful current of evidence all the way up the beach, all the way to the marina where the Coral Queen was moored. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I could see the brush, but even with my momentum and swimming as hard as I could, the current was taking me away. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She sped with the air currents into a thermal that spiraled her high above Delhi. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z What is most striking about the design of the current caste system, though, is how closely it resembles its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The earthquake, the second Great Depression, current events. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Powerful currents of distrust collided as immigrants and blacks sold each other out and business owners did their best to capitalize on the divisions. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z History, government, religion, politics, and current events became his greatest interests, and during the thirty-three-year interval from his first Reykjavik stay to his second he spent most of his spare time reading and amassing knowledge. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So on the morning after the funeral, he sent the current overseer, a burly man named Evan Fowler, to get me from the cookhouse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Mark’s body is jerked into the current but he holds on to the railing; his body is pulled out and then to the side, slamming into the concrete wall next to the track. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “We’re not getting married, Kojo. Under current law, the minimum age of marriage in this state is eighteen. We’re both twelve. Case closed. Do you have your note from your mom and dad?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He sees beautiful paintings at the Louvre, at the Musee du Luxembourg, and at the Salon, the French Academy’s annual exhibition of “living masters” of the current art world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The caveat is that such work has to exist, and in the current economy, it doesn’t. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Mostly, I didn't understand how my sister and cousin could function in their current state. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z However, the famous explorer didn’t think that Roosevelt’s current plans, to travel down an already well-known river, “could offer anything new to an Expedition whose object was to unravel unknown aspects of our wilds.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z If the winds and currents were strong, he would be in New York City by the afternoon. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, there is. Are we going straight for it? Can’t you paddle us out of this current?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There, I would sit on the clear sandy bottom of the river and let the current take me downstream, where I would resurface, put on my dirty clothes, and return to the farm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It’s the only way I can deal with my current situation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They spoke instead in a desultory fashion of current events. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I nod my head, understanding that complaining about our current advisors is probably not the best way to win over a future advisor. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z First Charles told his father that he was worried he wouldn’t be able to support a family with his current plan of pursuing science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It means we will have to continue the current housing arrangements for several more weeks, but at least it’s a solution. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “When I went to check it out, I got sucked right down here. See, they have this strange phenomenon with the air currents....” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And then the current turned him about again, and Davos saw what awaited him downstream. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It felt like swimming through the woods, my arms fleshy paddles against the cold air currents. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She reached out, and I felt the current brush my face like a caress. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If she paused, the current rocked the boat in a frightening way. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A current of its energy runs the length of me, intoxicating. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Seeing the cause of my current dilemma calmly pitching his tent back at our site makes me furious. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z If the stream would settle down, fish might be an option, but the current is still too strong. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At some places, an anbaric cable looped down from a bracket and provided enough feeble current to power a naked lightbulb or two, strung out over the nearby huts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In Eugene Maleska crossword terminology, he's braw and pulchritudinous, while Will Shortz, current puzzle editor for The New York Times, might define him as a "wower," the clue being "Turns heads, in a way." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Ms. Keen silently writes their names on the blackboard, along with their current grade. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The currents of history spun around him and came into focus, and he knew what had caused them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But he also knew there were no jobs open to him that could pay like his current one or offer the same security. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 Her anxiety is a quiet hum and not the heavy-metal band you’d expect, given her current plan, and given the future that awaits her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z His redesigned tank nearly doubled the energies produced by the cyclotron to 6 million volts and quadrupled the current. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An electric current seemed to course through Harry, jangling his every nerve as he stood rooted to the spot. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They compiled a wish list of a half dozen candidates, among them the young Yale instructor widely considered back East to be the best of the current crop of fellows: Ernest O. Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You could break right through an electric fence if you were strong enough to handle the current for a second. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She could feel air currents on her skin now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the ocean was turbulent and unpredictable, with dangerous currents and constant wind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Yandry took them out into the center of the river, where the current was strongest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the same moment the rope parted and immediately the little punt began to move along the bank in the steady current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Pandemonium had probably taken over the dining hall, and I could only imagine the currents of fear ripping through the teachers, let alone the students. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Thread must believe I somehow got under the thing, even with that deadly current running through it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It's just as Heinrich Mann said, no one is willing to go against the current, to take a stand. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I shuffled through our sketches to find the place where we’d drawn a loft bed for Bobby Gene over our current dressers. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A current of air blew in my face though, somebody must have left a window open in one of the passages. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Here the current might even be a little faster. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Vast clumps of seaweed swayed in the current, forests of red and blue and green and all hues in between, home to creatures that had never existed in the natural world. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Its thick pilings caused races in the current that could trap a small boat and maybe even overturn it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem of olfactory sensing shares some of the current puzzles and confusions of immunology, apart from the business of telling self from non-self. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I paddle out into the middle of the river, where a bit of current will speed me on my way. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Without talking, we watched the dark currents of the Yazoo swirl under the bridge below us. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Class lets out and I’m pushed out the door in a current of students. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Oriana’s current maid, a hairy, wizened creature named Toadfloss, brings tea and cakes, meat and jam, all piled on a massive silver tray. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And then at last the current slowed, and the boat stopped thrashing about so wildly. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Will more paper donations continue when our current supply runs out? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Sissy’s current husband worked for a pulp magazine house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My jaw was clenched, the muscles there seized as though the White Noise was still running through them like a current of pulsing electricity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I’m good on Dickens, cooking, current events, politics...let’s see, oh, and cats.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There was no current supporting him from underneath, just the hideous void gaping below him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The fugitive bulletins made them a requirement in his line of work—Homer maintained a thorough collection—and current affairs generally upheld his theories about society and the human animal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He finds a relatively flat rock near the side, where the current isn’t strong, and sits down, his feet dangling over the edge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I willed the currents to carry us out into the bay. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Looking back at the shore, Tally realized that she’d been carried away from her camp by the river’s current. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The current sucked at me as I climbed inside the branches, working my way in little by little. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Trying to create another current in the muddy tide. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Immediately below, a shallow ripple spread all along the waterline, where the current met the woodwork. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When the stick turned against the current to swim toward the bank, I saw it was a water moccasin and threw a cinder at it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Well, I have enough nerves right now. I must be on my way to win the gold,” I joked, trying to make light of my current situation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “We have the East River, with currents fast enough to kill a man, and the North River, two miles wide. Both are mighty hard to cross.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We held the rose of Sharon branches in our open arms, held them close to our chests while the cold black water swirled all around us, trying to tug us back into the current. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s caught in the current, and it’s floating away!” screamed Petunia. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z My mother’s current shift ran from 4:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M., plus three hours of overtime. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z His knuckles burned and a sharp current of pain ran through his wrist, up his arm, exploding in his shoulder. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Had there been a choice, I'd have picked someone more muscular and less sickly-looking than the old sailor who propelled us into the current. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z As it spilled over a pair of stones, the current split and then reunited in a liquid silver braid. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Though they may harness winds and currents, they are unable to control these natural forces, and are always constrained by their physical design. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Already a dozen galleys had crashed into it, and the current was pushing others against them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Before me is the butterfly, flapping its blue wings through the current. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “There is a current contract on file placing you at Hall High School. You need to honor that contract.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth’s curiosity about public reaction to the assassination led him to make an additional request of Jones: Please bring some current Washington newspapers from the day Lincoln died or from today, the sixteenth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunate incidents had occurred, mistaken ideas had been current. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Once they were on the river, with the current, he would not be able to work back. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z "Did you help pass the current beauty laws?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Everything was waving in the current, feeding on microscopic plankton, growing bigger by the minute. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t want anyone who knew me or knew my family to know about my current circumstances. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I tried to find the spot where the two rivers’ currents seemed equal— where they met to form the bay. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Molly is in a canoe, paddling hard against the current. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Did he happen on the article by the Norwegian physicist Rolf Wideroe while “glancing over current periodicals in the University library,” as he related in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Shadow tuned the radio to an oldies station, and listened to songs that were current before he was born. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z A large willow tree hung over the water, dipping the tips of its branches in the current. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In the current political climate, conservatives extol marriage as the solution to many of society’s ills, while liberals argue that it alone cannot compensate for the effects of imperiled neighborhoods and failing schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The four of us have to fight the current of people to not get swept away with it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And felt my other foot slide down into the dark water and the current yanking at both knees. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Nok watched the boy named Somkit as he expertly shifted gears, weaving around the choppy sections of current as if he knew exactly where to expect them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z We reach the end and I grab the steel-gray railing so I can lean out and see the river’s currents doing their thing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the far west, in the wild waters beyond all the known currents: the place of the fleshless. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If they visited earth, Librans would also find windstorms most startling and unpleasant, compared to the gentle air currents they knew. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At three o’clock that afternoon, the current suddenly picked up its pace, and the men again heard the ominous roar of rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The current gently tugged at the plants growing in the water. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo sensed a current of disapproval; for once it wasn’t directed at her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was softer than it had been on the other side of the Great Divide and I seemed to remember reading that the warm airs from over the Japanese current penetrate deep inland. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides Grant and Blaine, the other candidate seeking the nomination was John Sherman of Ohio, a former U.S. senator and the current secretary of treasury under President Hayes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The paints floated on top, riding the current like a boat, but the papers swirled about, soaking in the muddy water, being sucked down, around, and down. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z One prayer brought God up to date on current events with a view to their revision. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But not of all the current art world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I sliced into the water and willed the currents to bend around me, making a jet stream that shot me forward. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z One last log spins, trapped in a swirl of current. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It was easy going at first, but the farther we swam from shore, the more the current tried to push us back. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The more she knew of the king’s current position and maneuverings, the better. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The forest was an indistinct shadow, now near, now far, as she struggled against the current. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As she passed her on the way to the armchair, Mrs. Coulter touched Lyra’s hair briefly, and Lyra felt a current of warmth flow into her, and blushed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z None of this is meant to cast blame on Alexandria’s current residents. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z This time the current was left on for more than two minutes, during which witnesses heard the grinding of Kemmler’s teeth and saw blood drops from burst capillaries form on his cheeks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The water seems no more than an inch deep in most places, straight across the wide bay, running in shallow currents, crested by delicate foam. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead, he forced us to discuss current events. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Then he began to swim with easy, powerful strokes, striking out towards where the current was swift and certain, where the Really Deep began. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You can look up the visa bulletin website for current wait times for each category. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z A swift current grabs the tube and sweeps it into the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I can’t count how many times I wanted to tear those things down myself. But considering Nan’s current condition, no more renovations without doctor and landlord approval. All right?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z When the curtain descends on this current wave of attention and the thematic celebrations cool down, my sisters and I will remain proud. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I longed to hurl myself into this current,” she said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Ignatius ate his current popcorn and stared raptly at the previews of coming attractions. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The electric current freezes us in place, and this time I'm glad because I'm not really sure Peeta can hang on for the whole ride. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She holds her arms out to me, and I slip through space like a feather on a current of wind, effortlessly carried by the force that is Claire. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z My temper flared like a sweet electrical current coursing through my body. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a swift current which swung left, towards the eastern shore where the channel was clear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I reached inside myself and remembered the waves and the currents, the endless power of the ocean. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He spoke on an emotional level—talking about our current living conditions and the things that needed to change. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The human heart is a deep, dark river with hidden currents,” Flora said to her father. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z My mother and Nodayimani conferred, and decided that it was unwise that he have tobacco in his current state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z California had drawn the most favorable lane— lane number one, nearest the western bank of the river, where the current was least likely to affect a boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That afternoon, Catherine’s birthday party was attended by many friends, French, Haitian, and African, including current and former PIH-ers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A current of air slipped through the gym, fluttering the sleeve of her shirt and carrying her sweet peppermint scent my way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “There was a current out there tonight,” she said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “With your current celebrity status, I thought it best if we hid you in plain sight, put you on one of the teams. It will allow you to be physically closer to the other players.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He could feel he was inside the current now and he could see the lights of the beach colonies along the shore. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Based on their current average speed and the number of miles that they had already traveled, they would run out of food thirty-five days before they would finish their journey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z As the jellyfish moved, or drifted in the artificial current, its tentacles writhed against the glass so that it looked almost as if it was trying to break out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The gold currents washed over her, pushing her deeper into the depths of light and memory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We regarded it as our duty to keep ourselves current on the politics of the country, and we fought long and hard for the right to have newspapers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His evident distress at these Quaker petitions was rooted in his belief that the current debate represented a violation of that understanding. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They will lose touch, run out of energy, and die for lack of current. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A cold current rose out of the depths. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In the interests of secrecy, the food scientists would not talk to me about current projects. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Maybe,” he said, “we could plug into a house current, too.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Leaning forward, he pulled the paddle against the current, and the boat responded slightly, revolving a bit, so that again he saw the boys, but they were farther from him now. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Tendai swam along the bottom, over waterweeds that bent in the current, and splashed to the surface beside a flat rock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Even so, in Nazi Germany, his current job was considered cushy. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I don’t believe they were faithless, but sincerity failed to give them substance, and they were swept away by other, stronger currents. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was a brush island ahead and the current moved toward the shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Everywhere she looked she could see gold, just as Atal had described it: sparkles of light, floating and drifting and sometimes moving in a current of purpose. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Before the bombing, very little of the current 13 was aboveground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Johnny said, “Mr. Bowditch, sir, how do you sail against a current like that? Like they say it is in Sunda Strait?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They shot down the Tumblestone, letting the strong current push them past the looming Wheel Tower. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Again and again, the current thrust her under, but every time she came up gasping for air, striking at the rapids with her arms and legs, searching for shore. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The most volatile current debate among American school administrators, teachers, parents, and students concerns “high- stakes” testing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I have a grand, master plan to leave my current self behind by joining the ranks of the silk feathered hats. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But if we do so, we should labor under no illusions that we will end mass incarceration or shake the foundations of the current racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She holds my current grades by two fingers: D, C, B-, D, C-, C, A. No basketball team for me, because the A was in art, so my GPA is a whopping 1.7. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She was talking “books” with Mr. Gouvernail and trying to draw from him his opinion upon current literary topics. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z They would be sweeping in on the flood tide, but the Lannisters would have the river current to their favor, and the Blackwater Rush flowed strong and swift where it met the sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The newspaper contained several items that would have been excellent for current events. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Every Tuesday, Mr. Ryan’s history students were supposed to bring a topic for a current events discussion. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He lives with his mother and two younger sisters, including one born just ten months ago, from his mother’s current relationship. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I picture the lock of hair dancing in the current until it reaches the Bay of Bengal. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Brian, Derek, and the raft traveled one hundred and nineteen miles down a river with an average current speed of two miles an hour, in just under sixty-three hours. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “I think we should continue the current romance. A quick defection from Peeta could cause the audience to lose sympathy for her,” says Plutarch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I kept afloat and swam your sea, or drifted, taken by wind and current to this coast where I went in on big swells running landward. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And, too, there are the deeper currents among even well-intentioned Southerners, currents that make the idea of a white man’s assuming nonwhite identity a somewhat repulsive step down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The eerie phrase conveyed an escalation of the logic of eugenics: it was not enough to sterilize genetic defectives to cleanse the future state; it was necessary to exterminate them to cleanse the current state. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Lyell had argued that the current landscape of the earth was the consequence of natural forces that had accumulated over millions of years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The lamps that laced every building and walkway produced the most elaborate demonstration of electric illumination ever attempted and the first large-scale test of alternating current. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only Captain Reed kept them moving forward, seeking out sluggish currents in the still water, maintaining their course despite the blinding light and the blistering heat of the west. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Small Max darting like a fish through the current of Mickiewicza. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He’s ducking his rump under the current, swishing back and forth until the bandage comes off and floats away. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I mean our current president who was the puppet president the day the girls were killed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eyes shut tight, tipped back into darkness, icy currents against his face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was as current on world affairs as some people are to what’s going on in their living room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if we have a school-wide discussion on diversity? We could show our videos and discuss issues like racism, sexism, and homophobia related to current events, like the Black Lives Matter movement or celebrating Pride.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He wanted to make sure that what he called “the executioner’s current” would be George Westinghouse’s AC. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Via high-speed data lines—a blazing 1 kilobyte per second—Goddard sent Mission Control real-time information on the spaceship’s current position. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I spent the little free time I had reading Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and memorizing a poem for English and keeping up with current events by reading the daily newspaper for my history class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The current was swift and they went forward slowly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Looming things that move with the current, swinging all together like a flock of ducks set down on a pond, beaks to the wind. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He used an electric current to stimulate an amphibian’s calf, then employed the galvanometer to measure how long it took the electrical current to run along the sciatic nerve. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A banner vanished suddenly as its bearer was swept under, and soon after the first dead man drifted past their walls, borne along by the current. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The bag thing is manageable, but having to actually clean the bowl in its current state is just cruel and unusual punishment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As they lurched into the deeper water they began to row diagonally upstream, against the current, the way Velutha had taught them to. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It took perhaps twenty minutes after the farmer informed Utah Power of the accident for them to switch off the deadly current pulsing through the lines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As he waited there, suspended from his paddle between the rocks, his legs could sense the change in the current. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Ruby sighed and held her breasts, laxly rubbing the nipples until they grew stiff, letting her body flow and twirl with the currents, her toes stepping lightly off rocks, pressing gently along patches of sand. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The current was pulling our rowboat toward what looked like a tropical paradise. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He realized that thrashing about in the water would only create the current that would bring the creature over to him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Legislators who were sympathetic to the cause told women that in the “current free-love storm,” it would be best to table women’s suffrage legislation, at least for the time being. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z For so many years, Ucho and I had been on the opposite sides of a river filled with horrible currents of misunderstanding. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I could conceal my current location by taking the call as audio only, but that might make him suspicious. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After chugging through a bit of math, he decided that the current year was the 525th year since the birth of Christ. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Indeed, the year 1936 introduced a string of technical improvements yielding higher energies, higher currents, and unprecedented reliability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Her voice was low and expressive, with a current of laughter and happiness under the clear surface. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When he touched me, it stung my hand as if an electric current had passed through us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sharkey said that, after all, she knew the current seventh grade, for she had taught them just last year; and in her opinion, when they were very, very good, they were mediocre. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Or else a Scholar would forget what he was supposed to teach her, and drill her at great length about the subject of his current research, whatever that happened to be. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Part of the problem is that I have no one to talk to except for the members of my current French class, who mean well but exhaust me with their enthusiasm. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Like last night when his mom said she didn’t have money for new sneakers as she dabbed superglue on his current pair where the rubber was pulling away at the bottom. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I summoned up a current to carry us, and we started gaining speed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z In this way they crossed the room to the other side, where again the passage narrowed and the current ran faster. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His current household consisted of his most recent wife and his three youngest children. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Viola says, still rowing against the current, the boat twisting and turning. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes I really feel it in here, especially late at night, a current going among us, like an invisible needle stitching us together into the glorious, free nation we are becoming. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And though the current pulled at it, dragging its stern sidewise, the boat was wedged and could not follow. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A current washed over him, releasing the knots in his shoulders and back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten,” I said to Fig, “rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I dropped the robe in the water and watched as it swirled away, dissolving in the current. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And you can only see that current from high up, which is why you never knew about it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A quick survey of current diseases lets us trace out four stages in the evolution of a specialized human disease from an animal precursor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Two minutes after the current had been shut off, Kemmler began to gasp and gurgle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some sort of current glues me to the ladder while I'm lifted safely inside. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The current version would keep you alive—if you could get it down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A mood-music app,” I added, “where you can find a song to match or help change your current mood.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I would purposely let my mind wander to take me far away from the current confrontation. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Besides, I don’t trust myself with it, considering our current company.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe we should. Or maybe we could just make an official report on the whole scene—like, for current events tomorrow morning.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the previous year, twenty-nine of the school’s current and recent students had been shot, eight of them fatally. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam could see a whole river of things in his face, currents shifting and swelling, vacillating from grief to fury. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes she thought about swimming the river, but the Blackwater Rush was wide and deep, and everyone agreed that its currents were wicked and treacherous. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Especially when the current political party has been in charge that whole time. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I could see that there is a current of sraf high in the treetops, she went on, and it moves against the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Victor opened the current telephone book as well as last year's edition, then called every movie theater he could find. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes bum. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring the aromatic scent of wild flowers, redbuds, papaws, and dogwoods, drifting on the wind currents, spread over the valley and around our home. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A rivet's current was a tricky thing, and the wildfire was not spreading as evenly as he had hoped. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Women, in particular, express complicated, conflicted views about crime, because they love their sons, husbands, and partners and understand their plight as current and future members of the racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once he’s settled, I row out into the creek and let the current take us. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The Company rested now for a while, drifting south on the current that flowed through the middle of the lake. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She had absentmindedly let the crowd carry her along like a current, and they had pulled her away from the main canal, onto a narrow street. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Immediately the current seized it and spun it round so the stern was leading, and Malcolm knew his mistake: nothing should be tentative. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The powerful current pinned the canoes in place, and water quickly rushed into the vessels and sank them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “I have not followed the political currents, so I’m not aware that he is running for office.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He could walk in the current and erase any tracks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But instead of ripping the ropes out of their hands and smashing the canoes against the rocks, the force of the current kept the canoes pinned underwater. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She saw the trees on the far bank at a strange angle; she saw the gray sky lurching above; she saw Maila battling against the current. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z So I need almost four times my current plan's production to survive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Why is it that all the fast-moving fish of the dark current have purple backs and usually purple stripes or spots? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Each morning for the next two months, she played with the air currents high above her rocky little island, then streaked to her palo santo on Espanola Island. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Their crowns entwined and crisscrossed and whispered with rain, and bowed and shifted as troops of monkeys passed through them like currents of wind, leaping from crown to crown, crying their untranslatable cries. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The current that rushed through me was terrible and electric. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The color makes everything so saturated, so current, just like real life. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then, he drew another X. "That's his current location. Get me a ruler." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped paddling and let his pirogue drift, taking up again only once the current dragged him backward. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Texts go out to recent alumni of the theater program, mentors to many in the current cast. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The knight went with it, a log caught in a current. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It moves with the current, swiftly towards the sea. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mia. Would you be willing to give me her current phone number?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a current that was bringing colder water from below. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Our current politics tell you that should you fall victim to such an assault and lose your body, it somehow must be your fault. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Volpe’s current students want his former ones to know that the tradition has been upheld. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But to complete it, he had to track, down the current holder of that position, which he failed to do, as you know. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Okay, he’s swimming hard now, through the chaos of currents that surround the cliffs...and then, he’s out of danger. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Down the street, at the crossing of Mill and Marcher roads, the crowd thickens and more villagers join the current. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z The last time she asked I told her maybe she shouldn’t base her entire future on her current high school boyfriend. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The current master of Ashton Place had the same long and narrow nose, sloping forehead, and prominent, somewhat pointed ears depicted in the ancestral portraits that hung on the wall behind where he sat. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z If I suited Pop’s fancy, I might be invited to one of her sherry parties and meet her current crop of foreign girls. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Life is like crossing a river. If you try to take too big a step, the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, it will. But not until the current has passed through it. It will act something like a fuse, in fact. Except the electricity will travel along it,” says Beetee. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Robbie’s arms were wings catching the air currents and he was a silver ’coaster. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I’ll be all alone with the current worst person of Livingston Middle School. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Pedro Cabral was trying to sail around Africa to Asia to buy spices for his native Portugal, and the ocean current took him to Brazil instead. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Many of the bandits, Campos says, are current or former police officers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form—“English Socialism,” that is to say—it had been current earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He does not know his instructor’s current residence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z By the time he cleared the bay, the receding current would help wash him away from the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z When he saw Faraday, he excused himself from his current conversation and made his way toward them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They were immediately swept downstream by the powerful current. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the fourth largest proton event in the past three years, and will likely continue at or above the current level for the next several weeks as we approach the solar maximum. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if she was drawing the air toward her; Kaede could feel the currents in the room bending to her will. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We now turn to another important difference between mass incarceration and Jim Crow: the direct harm to whites caused by the current caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The river is cold, despite the heat of summer, the current strong. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The current carried him past Jesse, but he made it safely to the bank and ran back, shaking great drops of cold water on Jesse. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The golden light shone brighter as we approached, and the current felt warmer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z My current sanctuary was a room with thorny branches covering the walls and the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Daring and swooping with the currents—the way we felt as teenagers in love. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I willed it to ride the current, to keep away from the wall. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z As Peach gagged, Dismay banged into the rose of Sharon bushes and yelped, then bounced into the current and was swept away, tumbling under the water. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Gradually the stream grew smooth and once more they saw the fish below them, waving its tail as it held its place in the current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The current song ended and a new one started. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Not that everything was silent—the wind carried whisperings with it, a current of noise just underneath the airy quiet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We walked on in edgy silence, tension humming through us like an electric current. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Here, the current was slow and the water clogged with trash of all sorts: fruit rinds, broken boxes, torn fishing nets, empty rice sacks, nine-year-old prison escapees. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They must beat their way between Java and Sumatra, fighting against the swift current of Sunda Strait. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z With Park siphoning off current and funneling it to the ground, the level of voltage that Shin was exposed to as he crawled over his friend’s back was probably not close to being lethal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z First came the newsreels, each one a few minutes long, about current events around the world. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Not from her current point of view,” Grandpa agreed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z There was a current of electric hatred between the two of them that only violence could ground. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The front end took the river, swung down and into the current, grabbed the madness of the water and ran with it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z In Chicago, there was cash in your pocket and a steady stream of new job openings if the current one wasn’t working out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He became the world’s foremost authority on thermodynamics and the first to elucidate the principles of the convection of fluids and the circulation of ocean currents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s a hidden warning in his voice, and I sense that he knows more about the current dangers in Summerland than he’s letting on. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It wasn’t my current injuries, or lack thereof. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She flew to him, and together they rollicked above the bridge, tumbling on air currents that bounced and rippled like water. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z By the time the park found its current resting place, every single one of the children had fallen asleep, and the park was a mosaic of their dreams. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the same time I wrote a letter to Washington, breaking the news that my current experiments on the biochemistry of virus reproduction were at best interesting in a nonprofound way. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As always, I listen a moment, but there’s no telltale hum of electrical current running through the chain link. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His body fevered and froze in alternating currents of temperature. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A cold current rippled through the bay, churning up plumes of garbage and silt. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Riddle, wrote one spectator, “was accused of everything under the sun save the shooting of Lincoln and the current recession.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of them whirled upward in the icy currents, took a few moments to get their bearings, and set their course for the valley. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But he crowded the current a little so that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished if he was not trying to use the bird. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It often seems to me as though it were the vibrating, shuddering air that with a noiseless leap springs upon us; or as though the front itself emitted an electric current which awakened unknown nerve-centres. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The island takes its name from the Dutch word for seal, hundreds of which once cavorted in the icy Benguela currents that wash the shores. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel the current swirl me and I stayed under until I thought I could never come up. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Holmes was the first scientist to understand that radioactive warming could produce convection currents within the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “The current is strong. I had enough trouble when it was me alone. Now I will have two more.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I recognize it instantly as the current generation of Warcross glasses that are being sold in stores—much more powerful than the old rentals I’ve been using up until now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But even now when I reread it, I’m amazed at how current it feels, like it was written yesterday. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Crossing the Seine I saw a string of barges being towed empty down the current, riding high, the bargemen at the sweeps as they came toward the bridge. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Late in the morning they passed a stretch of ice where thousands of fish had been killed by a cold current. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A jolt of current shattered one of his back teeth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “And I can do grits. We didn’t have electric current out where I lived. But I’m ready to learn right. On a real stovetop.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The River Styx’s current swirled with strange objects— broken toys, ripped-up college diplomas, wilted homecoming corsages—all the dreams people had thrown away as they’d passed from life into death. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The current did not slacken and the punt came round the bend almost in the middle of the stream, revolving as it did so. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The current carried a drifting leaf into a little eddy. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Start the current! Start the current again!” someone else shouted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It hesitated, seemed to hold for a moment as if trying to find the current; then the moving water caught the logs and the raft started to move. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I could even see the currents, warm and cold streams swirling together. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils, assessing the current of warm air for information. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In Karhide/Orgoreyn years are not numbered consecutively from a base year forward to the present; the base year is the current year. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the current slackened, the run vanished, the dark became light and there were leaves and sky above him once more. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking about rowing on the dark water makes me tired and I lie back on the dock for just a little while, with the current humming around the pilings. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z There is a paper airplane floating on a current. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Following the stream against its current seems the smartest course of action. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The very notion that I’m devoting any thought to who I want presented as my lover, given our current circumstances, is demeaning. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "But Ambrosia is the right favorite for the current royal family," she says, and the momentary happiness disappears like a popped bubble. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was an early device used to detect and measure the magnitude of an electric current. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Her growth has slowed over the years, but yes, she may one day become too colossal for her current confines.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I plunged into the sea and willed the currents to take me far, for away—a hundred yards, two hundred yards. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And other currents that say, “Don’t stir up anything. Let’s try to keep things peaceful.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I decide it’s best to take an inventory of my current “liquid assets,” so I get up and head to my dad’s home office, where the rest of my ÁguaViva is. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after I let go, I can feel the stupid current. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Not only was the current swift, but the waters were laden with all kinds of debris: tree trunks, brushwood, drowned animals, and once the bloated corpse of a man. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good-bye, my dearest, dearest friends, Ford keep you! Good-bye, my dearest, dearest friends, Ford keep you. Good-bye my dearest, dearest ...” When the last of the Deltas had gone the policeman switched off the current. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But more than this, and at once, he felt the pull of the current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter mentions nothing of the current location of the circus or anything about it coming to Germany, much to Herr Thiessen’s disappointment. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I swam upstream, feeling the current against me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The walls are made of dark paneling, and of course there are portraits of our former heads of school and the current board of directors, complete with Dr. Santos on the end. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And gradually she stopped moving; the lifeline held fast, and she felt the weight and strength of the current pushing against her as she hung there in the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He’d been following current events in Latin America, including the murder of Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero by a right-wing death squad. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For a few moments she struggled to get back to the edge of the pool, but there was a current in the water and it tugged at her limbs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z There was no sound but our breaths bubbling up and obscure thuds from deep inside the ship, pieces of the broken hull knocking in the current. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It’s been distressing to see how the behavior and the political agenda of the current president have caused many Americans to doubt themselves and to doubt and fear one another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If he could get into the current and move with it and stay with it, a hundred miles would take thirty-five or forty hours. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “That was the easy part. Fowl Manor. On a two-hundred-acre estate on the outskirts of Dublin. Fowl Manor is only about twenty klicks from our current location.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Brown divulged what he was learning at the weekly Klan meetings: the identities of the Klan’s local and regional leaders; their upcoming plans; the Klan’s current rituals, passwords, and language. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In her current situation, her family would probably die if she failed to act. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It said the state was going to increase funding for the entire program, which would affect the sentence lengths of both current and future residents. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The synthesized voice of the cab’s computer told me the drive would take an estimated thirty-two minutes with the current traffic conditions. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She marches forward, against the current, even as the mob grows, cascading in an avalanche of panic that picks up everyone else in its path—including those who don’t even know why they’re running. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Of Donay on the raft and me swimming behind, swimming against the current, up into the mountains, up to Haiti. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As Abbey and I had hoped, the current and the wind were in our favor, transporting the dye down the shoreline in a shiny stream from Dusty Muleman’s basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z To put the matter starkly: the current system of control permanently locks a huge percentage of the African American community out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I tried unsuccessfully to relax, but the electric current that seemed to be originating from somewhere in his body never slackened. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Bach was able to do this, and what emerged in the current were primordia in music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Off came the last ragged garment, down went the crutches, and with a “Whoosh!” he was into the water with the others and away with the current. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z As soon as they mentioned “the current situation,” Dad told us to go downstairs to play with my little cousin Hua-hua. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet when he was young he used to play the mandolin, and he knew the words and the melody of every current song. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Rather than practicing my irregular verbs or trying to make sense of my day, I pass the time by replaying one of my current, ongoing fantasies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Her current project is a book on Andrea Mantegna, and he impresses her, remembering correctly that his frescoes are in Mantua, in the Palazzo Ducale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a definite current in the great wide flood, not all of it, but a stream within it moving with what felt like purpose. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Earlier in the day, the doctor and Rondon both agreed that their current camp was too muddy and uncomfortable for Roosevelt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The patterned grains of wood in the scarred surface reminded her of currents in the Mississippi River. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Benny looked down at his current outfit, a jersey and jeans. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I need to find out whether the wind goes always in that direction or whether it alters like the air currents during the day and the night. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He stood at the starboard rail and closed his eyes, sensing the currents beneath them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z "The current plan already has him recharging all day long," Venkat explained. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When she met his gaze, an invisible current nearly put him on the ground too. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I turn my back and look at the stream until the undershorts splash into the current. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The telescope addressed directly issues that were already under discussion; the microscope opened up new lines of enquiry whose relevance to current concerns was not obvious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But somehow the pulse of current smashing through my body prevented me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The light was too gray and dim for him to be sure, but Malcolm thought he could see a current of scarlet trailing away from the man’s throat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If you don’t quite get my meaning, ladies, gentlemen, vuvv—remember that I do at the current moment, on this night of all nights, have a temperature of a hundred and four. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A current of love rushed from his heart, and the boy began to pray. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To accomplish that goal, at the current kill ratio of 2.5 to 1, would cost the lives of more than 175,000 U.S. soldiers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “These current propos could be done without you. There’s only one last thing you could do to add fire to the rebellion.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This involved a return to Ernest’s old “brute force” method: when all else failed, dial up the energy, step up the current, and wait for something to happen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The latrines had been placed beside the river, so the current would wash away the wastes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He does not hunt elephants anymore—he approves of the current worldwide ban on ivory—but he does hunt Cape buffalo, which is not an endangered species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She has continued to exist, survived her childhood illnesses, the near-drowning in a rip current on Rockaway Beach at the age of twelve, other dramas. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My hair needed a bit of a trim, but was shoulder- length and straight, as was the current fashion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The effects of tide and current baffled them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Not only do they stick them in,” he says, “but sometimes they twist them around or attach an electrical current to the ends of them. It’s a little uncomfortable, but it doesn’t really hurt. Why?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Meaningful reforms can be achieved without such a movement, but unless the public consensus supporting the current system is completely overturned, the basic structure of the new caste system will remain intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Having three separate address books makes her current task a bit complicated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They were hurtling out to sea, the black water ripping them past the lighthouses and into the swift currents of the Callidian Strait. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Eventually some of the divorce’s trauma wore off or at least receded enough so that the casual observer would not notice, and Bloom merged himself timidly again with the currents of his time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran to the dinghy, pulled the stick it was tied to out of the ground, and began to shove the boat out into the current. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The skiff was barely seaworthy, but it had survived the trip to the island, even through the wild currents that wrecked much bigger boats. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The fish drew closer; its fins stroked the sluggish current. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My silence, at this point, was total; any scene which tended toward scrutiny, demonstration, and display was deeply repugnant to my current spirits. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The current Blood Shrike has a habit of torturing first and asking questions later. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In so doing, Clinton—more than any other president—created the current racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nailer took the children to mean that their current place was as safe as any could be. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant we were at was one of the ones in Brooklyn that was featured in a Times article I had yet to read for current events. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The speed with which the current caught him was frightening. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A lone snowflake dances past the window, wafting on an air current. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The Congress of the People represented one of the two main currents of thought operating within the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom nodded, and Carmen smiled as I watched Abuela’s and Abuelo’s ashes move with the current down the twists and turns of the many canals that made up our beautiful neighborhood. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “No. We could never make the boat go against that current.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was over his head, and he had to fight the current. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He glared at him, then remembered a much more pressing question than that of their current location. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "Aye, tomorrow it'll be clear. But don't ye stray from the causeway. After a night like tonight, with devils' pools and the cross-eyed currents, the sand will be hungry indeed." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I apologize that all I have to offer for the noon meal is some cheese and bread, but it looks like now even I am subject to the current rationing within the town.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We need an effective system of crime prevention and control in our communities, but that is not what the current system is. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The tree reflections on the even current were unbroken as on a lake. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A single blue current of electricity snakes up the door closest to me before fizzling out. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z We were swept into another level of exposure and into the swift current of other people's expectations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z An invisible current that pulls a person out to sea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The rain, the mad current, the bullets, the crocodiles, the welter of arms and legs, the screams, the blood.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And Cade was there, struggling to pull himself over the roof of the van as the current tipped it toward him. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The dry-season current was so sluggish she was able to move much more swiftly than she had months before. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Such gadgets were also employed to measure speed; how fast was a current traveling? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They were nearly up the first hill when the wave hit full force, upending girls like bowling pins, the fast-moving current carrying them down, out, under. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The current carried infernos everywhere, and their bright blazes turned the water into swirling oranges and reds. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There was a supple geometry to his arc, a fish bending through a current. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The river was sixty or seventy feet across, leaving the lake, and the current at the sides seemed a bit slower. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z My body is fighting against the current, trying to get to her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I taught social doctrine to Muslims, and current events, and politics. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The ocean current is like a treadmill beneath our keel,” the captain tells me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A current had driven them backward, in spite of all their efforts. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I cut my arm breaking into the upstairs bathroom window of my current place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Her current plan is to stand still and say little until this ride is over. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z "It was our last thick-gauge cable. If another such problem occurs, we will have to braid lower-gauge lines to carry the current. Also, the power output from the reactor is declining." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved ocean currents and architecture and Charles Dickens, and his variousness made her feel limited, overspecialized. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “All here, Rhine. Name and current address. And big surprise! She does know somebody in San Francisco.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I told the president that the current conflict was draining South Africa’s lifeblood and talks were the only solution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A trumpet blast sent the horsemen forward at a ponderous walk, splashing down into the current. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And he would press his thumbs into the upper part of my arms, making me squirm with currents of pain. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as they gazed, the Silverlode passed out into the currents of the Great River, and their boats turned and began to speed southward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When at last Lola spoke her tone was reflective, as though she were pondering subtle currents of counterarguments. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I feel the prickling course of electric currents, the cool pads warming against my skin. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the minute the door closes behind us and the current stops, he slumps to the floor unconscious. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “The current would mostly take us down the river, and then we got that little motor in case we get tired or in case we run into trouble somewhere.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The current became too much for the injured robot, and it carried him away. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z From wrecks far out on Sow and Pigs Reef, in currents that crossed and tangled to suck the drowning sailors under and spin the surfboats like tops. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It said what Jaden was talking about before, how current resident sentences would all go full term from now on, and in some cases they could even be extended for consistent misbehavior. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z |
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