"My lord father taught me that it was death to bare steel against your liege lord,"-Robb said, "but doubtless you only meant to cut my meat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there, on the ground in front of one of the best lead dogs, lay something new—half an orange, cut and juiced. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I cut the mandrake root to pieces and put them in a flask of sweet wine to steep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“He will cut cane with us, you will see.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we measured the squares on large pieces of cardboard and cut them out, so we were left with a piece of cardboard that had a ten-centimeter square missing in the middle. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A slice of cold air cut through the office, ferreting me out from behind the rack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Guitar could still create the sense of danger and life lived on the cutting edge. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear cuts deeper than swords, the quiet voice inside her whispered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Everybody said Miss Minner had sold her brains to a famous doctor for ten thousand dollars, so that after she was dead he could cut them up and see why she was so smart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He cuts his hair really short and loses weight. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of thousands of years human beings have been burning and cutting down forests and encouraging domestic animals to graze on and destroy grasslands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed him back and struck again—slashing Riptide across his breastplate so hard I cut a gash in the Celestial bronze. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But like a swirl of dust on the dry salt flats outside, a stream of boys moved to cut off the exit. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve had it cut in the fashionable style—fashionable for our town, at least—right above my shoulders. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hideo’s story stirred something in my chest, cutting through the fog. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The trio took another rest and cut a yam into slices. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t think she has since we cut up Renaldo, and that was only because she didn’t want to get frog guts in her hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The slices we cut off are heaped together in the middle of the floor. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around, finds a sapling that seems to be just right for what he is searching for, and cuts it down with his hatchet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her hand was pale, almost skeletal, but there was something about it, something beyond the bruises and cuts and scars, that seemed beautiful and new in the morning light. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how she didn’t cut her eyelid every time she blinked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I saw Kevin with his crew cut, his head buried between his knees. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His brown hair isn’t in a buzz cut, either. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But I could see by that gleam in your eye you were ready to cut them to pieces. And I couldn’t allow that, could I?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel explained that you wanted to cut only the artery, not the whole neck. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

So there is nothing for it but to cut it open. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam sits by the table with her breath coming hard and says she’ll cut the bread in a minute. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Joints of meat went round, fresh cuts for all, while each man made his offering, tilting the red wine to the gods, and drank his fill. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around midday we would halt, and cut and set up a few blocks of ice for a protective wall if the wind was strong. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The weak flame cut a circle of light in the shadows, but before they could take a single step the match went out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I tried in vain to pin the thing down, and cut it, but it eluded me, and in my frustration I was clanking my knife on the plate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But let's pause for a moment on my dad's red and puffy face, and cut to the events leading up to our provisional estrangement. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If he cramps again let the line cut him off. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set three cups of lentils to soak in a pot, found a knife and cut some carrots and a pair of potatoes, left them too to soak. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But my brothers begged and pleaded, promising we would cause no trouble, until finally Father brought some common reeds and cut them into thin spokes for us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He waited beside her until the great snake came for its prey; then he cut its head off just as he had the Gorgon’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can cut holes in a line, then chisel out the remaining chunks between them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had joined Raskova’s regiments so they could fight for their Motherland, and they must have felt very cut off from the rest of the world during the time they spent in Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Noelle stands up and pulls her hair away from her cheeks, which are red in addition to being cut up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I cut off a green twig and began to whittle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a pair of scissors at last and began cutting carefully through Snowden’s coveralls high up above the wound, just below the groin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“But—” “Tomorrow,” he said, cutting me off and folding my fingers over the cross, “I’ll explain. Just remember, God mends all. Now go,” he said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I started to stammer something, but he cut me off with a laugh. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start picking at a scab from a cut I got a few days ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

By 2:00 p.m., they were surrounded, totally cut off from Alpha and Bravo. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His hair stood up in a razor cut. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After I hang up, I cut open Hannah's envelope and something flutters out. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She cut her eyes at me as if to say, See? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They sent a man to cut my son’s throat, Lord Baelish." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Those who did not carry pistols because they became pistols; did not carry switchblades because they were switchblades cutting through gatherings, shooting down statutes and pointing out the blood and abused flesh. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming the kata-kata weren’t behind the power cut, I figured I had a little time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they would have the story of her death, of the reporters’ finding her bones in the furnace, of her head being cut off, of his running away during the excitement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead, cut my arm,” offered Deydey, “see if you can divide the white blood from the red blood.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not only is the cast getting moldy from my sweat, but it’s beginning to cut into my flesh and leave ugly welts on my skin. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Before I could respond, a grating voice cut through the air. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We apparently have saboteurs who believe they can shut this trial down simply by cutting an electrical line,” Judge Morales said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were cut in the shape of teardrops, as if the queen were weeping blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Two worried about the railway cutting through the forest surrounding Perchance. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The cut on my left hand pained me too much to use it, and my right hand was not big enough, my arm not strong enough, to carry two buckets at once. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, spooning in his stew or cutting up his meat, Luke felt pangs of guilt now. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bread had some mold on it, but I cut it off, too hungry to care. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Socializing was the first thing cut—just like it had been in high school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The palms were torn up from the descent down the glacier wall, the skin scabbed over where the ice had cut her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The creature flapped and struggled, but Doc held it fast and made a little cut on its back with a penknife. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He knew what he wanted to charge, he was just stalling to make it seem like he was cutting them some kind of deal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And on this, of all days, that smell just wasn't going to cut it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

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

“No wonder you didn’t make the cut,” he told me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even if her captain was mad enough to attempt it, the Brazen Beasts would cut him down before he got within a hundred yards of her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he began cutting; to make fine lines and points he used thin blades, for the stems, large blades. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the famous woman poet at my college lived with another woman—a stumpy old Classical scholar with a cropped Dutch cut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Into the slot at the top we slip our valentines, cut from books of them you can buy at Woolworth’s, with special, single ones for the people we especially like. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Randalls were drinking wine out of goblets of cut glass and looked as if they had drained a few bottles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was easy to imagine old King Aerys perched up there, bleeding from some fresh cut, glowering down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The boy I told you about when you cut your thumb.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, I never said I went back in line. I said you can pay someone to cut in line, but I didn’t say I—” “Shut up and listen!” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Boy, you don’t have the sense you—” He cut off abruptly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much blood—on the table, on the floor, on his face and hands and chest—and when he moved, the cuts on his arms and legs opened up like narrow red eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She would slip and turn her ankle, or cut her foot on a sharp stone, and I’d be forced to rush over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s — oh how ridiculous —” She thrust the letter at Harry, who saw that it was not handwritten, but composed from pasted letters that seemed to have been cut out of the Daily Prophet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The passage of time could be read by the marks the beam had cut into the plaster: a path of suffering, a trail of pain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma cuts him a side-eye, and he says in a more stern tone, “I mean, what? What you do that for?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Three black dogs raced across his faded yellow surcoat, and his face looked as hard as if it had been cut from stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She has soft auburn hair cut short, a calm voice, and patient eyes that crinkle when she laughs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could cut the sinews and carry the planks up the cliff two at a time on my back and across the dunes to the Coral Cove, which meant many days. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I cut the engine as soon as I was in a spot, so that the thunderous volume wouldn’t draw attention to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to work that night—Mr. Apatan had given me the last week off, to get ready for our trip—but that’s where Dad usually got his hair cut. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A little lower, and it would have cut through his neck, spinal cord, or carotid arteries; a few inches higher, and it might have entered his brain. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was only cut on his ninth birthday, to be woven into an elaborate neckpiece for his godmother, the queen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Achren could easily have cut his throat as he braved her in the council hall, yet she had held back. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We work straight until dinner, our hands tired from cutting and making the posters and all the practicing we’ve been doing. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My heart shatters like a glass mirror, the tiny shards shooting out into every part of me, cutting at my insides, spreading pain. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We cut our way through the crowd, bumping shoulders with boys who were standing in the doorway eyeing the girls passing by. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They would pick their way along the shore of the river and cut through the meadows back to her uncle’s house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

An excuse leaped to my throat, but he cut me off with a knowing look, and slammed the door behind him. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A turning car honked long and loud, then cut in front of them, wheels squeaking. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

If it is correct, he suggested, perhaps the army’s budget for armaments ought to be cut stringently. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Stheno’s platter, scattering poisoned Cheese ’n’ Wieners, and slashed Riptide across Euryale’s waist, cutting her in half. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At one time I would have cut across her backyard, but I didn’t feel right about it anymore. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it was an expensive, dark blue suit, conservatively cut. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every one he cut down, six more seemed to appear. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They give me tea and a grand cut of bread slathered with blackberry jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They talked about cutting me down, even as they enjoyed the shade from my lovely limbs. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wears her hair long, pinned up at the sides, like the women in wartime posters, and my own hair has never been cut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as she used the rotary cutter to cut a pentagon shape, sewed different scraps together around the pentagon’s edges, and ironed after each seam. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And I remember that information can cut both ways. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced to his left and saw that his partner was the blond boy who had been cut the two previous years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cradle was a sharp steel blade fastened to a framework of wooden slats that caught and held the stalks of grain when the blade cut them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of cutting up her father’s law books, Elizabeth read them and made notes in the margins of the sections that affected women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike on the old tombstones, the lettering on this one is sharp—sharp enough to cut me all up inside. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gina, seeing that she hasn’t died yet, has cut down her daily calls from ten or twelve a day to two or three. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When he finally returned it to me, he announced that the visitation time had been cut to five minutes, on orders from the sheriff himself. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I know that I had a cut on mv head, another on my lip, bruises on my arms. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you just cut one? ’Cause you’re making a face like you did.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Walmart, which was then the nation’s largest grocery retailer, had joined our effort by pledging to cut the amount of sugar, salt, and fat in its food products and to reduce prices on produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And at the back was the new altar to Thoth, with its candles and incense still burning in front of an old stuffed owl that Toby had cut his teeth on. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts the paper bag dress to reveal a low cut crop top and olive green shorts so tiny they could be underwear. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“An early start tomorrow means early bedtime tonight,” Bertha cuts in. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“They cut each other? Out here in the wild? To make themselves ...” Her throat closed on the word, as if she was going to gag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not the woman,” she wrote to abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He cut swiftly, and looked up: that other angel from the sky was only seconds away, and his expression was terrifying. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were in the tree,” the platform voice cut in. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just so you don't get the wrong idea, it's not like my mom just wanted her legs cut off. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had to go to the camp infirmary to have the cut bandaged. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The navy needed ships, they said, and it didn’t matter what his grandmother said or how she begged—they cut the trees down. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Oshiro had seen one drifting on the tide, its engine cut, its running lights out, below the bluff near his home on Crescent Bay, a mere silhouette in the night. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As his ship gained on them, Medea herself struck her brother down and cutting him limb from limb cast the pieces into the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cut wasn’t deep—he’d gotten worse on light crew—but it filled him with fear to see how fast his father was. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the first morning of clearing, Gibrilla’s uncle assigned each of us a portion of the bush to be cut down. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need, I got cut on the rock,” said Harry firmly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Pong caught the scent of incense cutting through the glorious pork smell. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Nixon ordered his staff to cut off all contact with the New York Times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I know the cut on my cheek isn’t bad, and I’m trying to say so, but I keep crying. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn't remember which cutting it was; he'd sent so many, some to be pressed when he got home, others to be potted, and some to be transplanted into his garden. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The key itself was marvelous—the oldest I’d seen in Sing Sing, thin and short, with two circles cut out of the grip and the edges softened by a million touches. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milton cut straight through the traffic until he spotted the green Gremlin up ahead. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I had no other choice. I had to pretend—” His voice cuts off in a small cry, just like when he was little. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hung the fresh cuts of venison up in the dog run, right where Old Yeller had stolen the hog meat the night he came. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mad Sweeney took it back for you. It was part of the deal the two of you cut last night.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His hair was cut in a thick fringe over his eyes, which had dark circles under them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All four got down on their knees, pulling rope and knives, cutting a branch the width of a wrist, tying it and binding it for the long walk back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gravestones are few and recent: blockish oblongs of granite polished to a Presbyterian gloss, the letters cut plainly and without any attempt at prettiness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I cut in as straight a line as I can, using my jaw as a guide. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its Hearth and outbuildings were all of gray stone cut from the steep mountainside to which it clung. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it became apparent to the Army researchers that three of the four men who became infected had not cut themselves, just about everyone at usamriid concluded that Ebola can spread through the air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The United States cut off oil exports to Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After storing her fuel she returned to the kill to cut off more strips to smoke. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were going to kill him and gut him and skin him and cut him up and eat him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The wet food soaks straight through, so when I cut the sausage, it tears the plate, and the juices leak onto the table. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She fumbled with the thing and cut way away from the mark. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Probably to cut down on air- conditioning costs or something. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I saw a small cut next to his lip, but it looked like a razor cut. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The way your dogs are cut up,” Papa said, “it must have been a terrible fight.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s much too far. A boat will cut across the inlet faster,” argued Joana. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They only wish to help, but it’s overwhelming, and when Keenan cuts through the crowd to retrieve me, I’m almost relieved. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But we can’t cut the kite free to go to the moon.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Once a month, a man who does not speak is brought in to cut his hair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then one night after work he followed the two men for several blocks and as they turned a corner he cut in front of them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Ever cut your finger? Right, down to the bone and all?” he asked. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A fresh white tee right out of a three-pack wouldn't cut it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He had been working, because there were bowls of root cuttings and such on the table, but there was no sign of him now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was cut up and hobbling from so many wounds, but all we’d done was slow him down and make him mad. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the look she used to have when we would cut ourselves, a long time ago, up north. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom took me to a professional studio, at the mall, right after I got my hair cut—a shoulder-length bob. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They cut through the woods rather than going down the road. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cut the word into its three syllables and spat them out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was a rainbow halo around the moon, partially cut off by dark clouds. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lifting, dropping, lifting, dropping—by the time the drum cuts out and the trombone kicks in, her arms move so fast they’re a blur, her flesh an undulating, pumping mass. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sharpe did not seem sensible that these hands he cut with the ferule were the same which, an hour later, bleeding, bandaged, arranged his frock-coats according to his order. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He put his face against hers, placed his lips against hers, which were like a freshly cut fig. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why the hell did you cut your wrists? You could have bled to death! Or did you cut them yourself?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Abel nodded and scampered up the path that cut around the side of the lake. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. He answered his own question aloud, and took from his pocket the heavy pages he had cut from the Bible, all written over with the names of his genealogy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had its work cut out for it because there was a lot happening on our float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They cut him! They cut off his ears!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ben was such a good workman, the master had placed him in charge of the slaves who cut the timber. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t even look down as they chop, and I’m surprised they don’t cut off their own fingers by accident. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Close to the stables were the kitchen gardens and the cutting gardens. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their hair looked shaggy, as if it hadn’t been cut all summer. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gathered a pile of twigs and heavier branches and with the knife cut them to a useful length before trying to get them lit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A raw red line cuts across her throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wind had lifted her skirt from around her ankles and cut through her laced shoes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warmth of his body cut the autumn chill, and she moved closer. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I cut Rue's pack from her back as well, knowing she'd want me to have it but leave the spear in her stomach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d heard the mill men tell how the two halves, not even fitted together, were placed cut side down, skin side up, in the coffin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Usually I only cut older women’s hair. Their beauty is a little more, well, potent.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had a nasty cut on her forehead. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She scraped off the butter, cut the bread into thinner slices, and then spread the butter on each smaller piece. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It took two days for Dad to march into my room and cut me down to size. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I look: there’s blood on her forehead, not much, but a cut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I had forgotten what it felt like to sit down to a proper meal,” said Joseph as he cut the beef on William’s plate. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben laughed as he cut off the foots. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am midway across a vast meadow, tall grass cutting my legs, before I realize I have nowhere to go. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were some small holes cut in the fence, each about a foot square. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or else his phone gets cut off because he hasn’t paid the bill. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a real hustler, too, always trying to cut a deal, work an angle. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As Lyndon B. Johnson later put it, “Every school boy in Texas cuts his eye teeth on stories about the Texas Rangers. I wasn’t any exception.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He passed the young man and was cut off again by another young man, also with black hair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was cut to pieces, really, but the pieces were stuck to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time there was a fine steel wire of truthfulness in him that cut off the heads of fast-traveling lies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Pretoria, we felt connected to our supporters and our families; on the island, we felt cut off, and indeed we were. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my eyes on the mirror, to watch myself as it happened, but when the dying man cut into me, my face crumpled and I dropped my head. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They cut HeLa cells apart and exposed them to endless toxins, radiation, and infections. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the smaller forms of damage—bruises, cuts, scrapes—did not seem worth mentioning. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They scrawl on walls by night and cut the throats of honest freed- men as they sleep. When the sun comes up they hide like roaches. They fear my Brazen Beasts.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sound cut through the night like a gunshot. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Into a large gourd they placed her cut hair and head dyes, okra, ashes, and wisps of dried corn silks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man stood at the board and cut the bands on the bundles and crowded the bundles one at a time into a hole at the end of the separator. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa starts in on our explanation, but Don Manuel cuts him off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had cut all my hair off, they probably would have locked me in an institution. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“But now that you ask, it does seem to me that one day they took my skirts and gave me britches and cut my hair.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“We obviously know the mission statement at Beecher Prep, Hal: we practically wrote it! Let’s cut to the chase—what’s going on?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

To cut off your hair after a breakup was a feminine reaction. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The mothers of Saint-Malo,” he says, “used to tell their children: Sit up straight. Mind your manners. Or an Englishman will come in the night to cut your throat.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Blunt cut a neat slice off his meat. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He cut his leg this time,” the Turk went on. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was an uncanny familiarity in the cut of his jaw, in the way he wore his dark, tapered hair, and in the narrow shape of his eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But in flight they were angelic: they cut through the air with such speed and grace that they were called “blue meteors.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The truth is the bull is virtually maimed and tortured, hacked and cut and stabbed until it is near death and then ceremoniously stabbed with a sword. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

After I get the plank cut out, Mr. Woodwell has me set it in his bench vise and he takes up a block plane. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then once they’re out the door, I cut upstairs to the library to sneak a read. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We cut our losses and try to get out now.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The leg became infected. The doctors had to cut it off to save her life.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Over there!” the voice shouted, cutting into the night air as well as Pinmei’s chest. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the winter of 1959 waned and the snow and ice melted, many miners who had been cut off the year before were called back to the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before long his legs were cramping badly, and one of the cuts on his back had begun to bleed again, the red seeping through the yellow linen of his tunic. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Ah, I cut my fingers many times learning to clean a sword. Let me see it,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jody’s father gave him an old pair of spurs and bent in the side bars and cut down the straps and took up the chainlets until they fitted. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arms are cut up and bleeding, pinpricked with thistles and thorns. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The trees have been cut along the road, felled and burned. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"Well, I must say," Grandma Knife cuts in, "I'm pretty impressed you managed to get your mother out so fast." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"You cut your beard. As if I would not have known you with your beard gone, Primus." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she had more than one cutting in mind. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it breaks free of its chains, we are all in danger. We need to cut off its head.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba thought the telephone had been cut, but when she tried to use it it still worked. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he won’t tell me what happened, I know that those bruises and that cut on his mouth didn’t just appear out of nowhere. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s leaning on the table I’m wiping, wearing a gray T-shirt, old jeans cut off above the knees, running shoes with no socks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she popped in and out of the water, cutting, she told the dragon all about her village, the goldfish, and how she had just started her journey. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She has straight black hair, cut very short on the front and sides, and fastened in a long braid down her back. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Soon a shoulder of the hills cut off the light of the fast westering sun. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He smelled like cut grass and sweat, already, at nine in the morning. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, yeah. Real scary. Now just back out of the door and I won’t have to cut you into little pieces.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Wow. He’s got his work cut out for him.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’d recently cut it into a short bob and wore it pulled back with a ribbon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early on, when I apologize about cutting off her morphling supply, she waves it off, saying it had to happen anyway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

O’Dell had delivered a thin aluminum sheet he’d found in the garbage, so I used some tin shears to cut some rough triangles out of it for fins. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s the cake. Let’s get a shot before they cut it.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then they cut through the seal from their side to recover their crewmates. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to rub my face hard in his chest and feel the hair cut my skin. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chases me, pins me to the ground, and pulls out a knife to cut my face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She watched A-Fu’s braid fly in the air; as she pulled it down, the cut pieces of her sleeve flapped like the tail of a kite . Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The tracery of the rose window for the front of the cathedral was carefully cut according to the plans. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

His voice brought a land of normality back to the street, but it could not cut through the smell of blood that came off the town like a musk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it will not be easy to cut a class this small. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eaten by Confederate soldiers during the war when rail lines were cut off, making food and rations scarce. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The Corporation has been accused of cutting costs on its airlines. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was about to do exactly that when the hard sound of gravel under moving tires cut through the quiet evening. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He smiled wide and was about to offer me his hand again when I cut him off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That tangle of shrubs there should be cut down to bring light to the path. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Be careful.The right foot is badly cut,” said Rosa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was foggy and the hills were cut with deep ravines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then we cut out other things—cookware, furniture—and paste them around the figures. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would cut his throat and look inside the stuffing for illegal drugs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even if you cut out the skin, the ink will rise again from the blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“The police must have jammed the cell-phone signal for the school. They must want to cut off any contact the bomber would have with the bombs or anyone outside who might be helping him.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A towering cliff of a black, basaltic rock cut off the sunlight, and the deep night shadow of an airless world surrounded them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I prayed that he wouldn’t hold it against me that I’d dared to finally cut our ties. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I cut it while we were talking,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Another fellow told me our food was so wretched that he had to flee before it made him sick, so I had his foot cut off, roasted it up, and fed it to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest, with black hair as iridescent as a raven’s wing and cheekbones sharp enough to cut out a girl’s heart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I cut the onions into slivers while Elizabeth breathes in the cilantro with eyes closed. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Frightful tried to read the angle of the sun’s rays, but a gray-blue haze cut them out, and she could not get their message. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When they came upon a small room, Young Square Cop cut the handcuffs off Clayton, Beat Box, Boom Box, and Jelly Bones, but he didn’t cut Train Ear’s handcuffs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I cut my arm breaking into the upstairs bathroom window of my current place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Harry turned and saw something monstrous cutting through the water toward them: a human body in swimming trunks with the head of a shark. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But even cutting the jackets in strips might not make enough roping to tie all the logs together. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would have sneered, then, at the upholstered period chairs, the looped drapes, the men and women cut from a glossy whisky ad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was high and wide, so wide that, though the hobbits walked abreast, only touching the side-walls with their outstretched hands, they were separated, cut off alone in the darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

So he cut down even the orthodox ration and tried to increase the day’s travel. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are pixels, of course—but the man still falls backward, his left hand now cut off from the rest of the space, useless. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Carlyle, still fretting over which wire to cut, cautiously says, “Well, Alexa has a right to feel what she feels...” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She kept her eyes on the scissors as she cut up a piece of blue ticking. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t he also cut his ear off and mail it to a lady?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

By winning taxpayers over, they hoped to protect themselves from funding cuts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He hopped up in the cut and sniffed around. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feds cut a deal with Morrison: in return for getting his arrest warrant for assault quashed, he would work as an informant on the Osage murder cases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, after we sit at our table, the questions come: Why’d you cut your hair, Filthy? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She had cut fancy shapes of stars out to sew on the sides. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

After the fabric is measured, cut, wrapped in brown paper, and tied with twine, I follow Mrs. Byrne down the street to a women’s clothes shop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom cut his Hair yesterday And he’s bald As a fist. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing jet earrings, patent-leather shoes, a natty, closely cut black velvet suit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The light from her bedroom window had fuzzed the top of his buzz cut like a dandelion. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their new, higher rents meant that they'd have to cut back on their spending, to work longer hours, or try to wean themselves off their costly psychiatrists. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Nosuh. I couldn’t tell any one thing for sure. The boy’s body had bruises and cuts all over, and his head was pretty much caved in, from a beatin’ and being shot, I guess. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His face and throat and arms were a crosshatch of festering cuts, the leavings of the firesnakes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to cut through the crowd to reach it, and the throng was packed in and tamped down. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had cut through the bolts holding it in place. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His blade flashed out, cut into her skin. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the buffet table, he saw a young man looking with sad disappointment at the cold cuts and pastas. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I can literally walk up to any nopal in town and cut off a paddle. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She cut a bagel for herself, and brought along an apple, and ate them in the car on the way to Reston. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger boys had only cuts and bruises, but Shamsoun had a head injury that required surgery and a weeklong hospital stay. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“That dork cuts her hair with hedge clippers.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Here’s a little memory aid: Commas, which cut out the fat, Go with which, never with that. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wrists hurt from the plastic tie cutting into my skin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He took another step forward, cutting off Clancy before he could start speaking. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Eliza pulled the laces of my stays, cutting off my reply. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Venkat told me to "draw" the shape I plan to cut, but he neglected to mention how. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the news story cut to a section of old footage. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

After the first ten feet of cutting and bending back the wire, his knees went numb; he felt cold air on his skin and knew that his Levis were worn through at both knees. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Times set out to create a financial portrait of the very richest Americans, how their incomes have changed over the decades, and how the tax cuts will affect them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The idea of cutting and sewing a dress by herself was novel and exciting. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she should have cut away essential feathers from his wings, but she couldn’t stand to think of him a captive. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She covered this with another clean, wet cloth, and laid on top of it a round board, cut small enough to go inside the cheese hoop. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two headlights cut slices into the lonely night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut and ran out the door and into the night. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I take my dagger and cut my hand with it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You better cut me off before I say anything else!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Staying away is one thing, cutting off all contact is another. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then he stood it up, put a little roof over the top, and cut a little door on one side near the bottom. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are your potatoes the frozen imported ones, or do you cut and fry your potatoes?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

How about if you lose I cut one lock and if you win I will moon that nerdy group ofsixth-graders that sit near our table at lunch? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

When it moved, it cut the air with a brittle sound. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The earth was eroded to gray clay, and deep arroyos cut through the length of the valley between the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Between her and the doorway, a small brickwork trench cut across the floor, letting water flow through the room from left to right. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure when, but he’d cut his tongue against it at some point. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As I was not good at hauling water or cutting wood, I could not personally argue for a life without Nelson. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pirate leader finishes his speech, there’s a break in the scene, a cut to the commercials. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Next day Pa cut the heads from several bundles of the oats, and brought the clean, bright, yellow straws to Ma. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had charged into battle against her father with a horrible cut already sapping her strength. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She’d said the cut was bad, but the way she’d joked had made it seem less terrible than what he was looking at now. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Seconds ticked by, the yard buzzing as everyone checked out each other’s hairstyles, cuts, fresh sneakers, jewelry, and book bags—accessories were the only way to set yourself apart. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His face ached from the subzero cold and the wind cut into his wet body like a long sharp knife going to the heart of him with pain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing a black dress decorated with hot-glued glitter stars that I cut out of some old Christmas wrapping paper I found in my closet. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He cut a piece of line and tied the fish’s lower jaw against his bill so his mouth would not open and they would sail as cleanly as possible. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decided on a lateral cut down the side of the fish. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

My happiness over my pile of money is cut short. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When I tell him how horrible my day was, he pauses for such a long time, I think maybe the call has cut off. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Too late I remembered I had cut off my long, flowing strands and couldn’t shield my scar from their gaze. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As the deck tilted back and forth, Captain Kontoulis didn’t stumble once, and was even able to light one of the Indonesian cigarettes he favored, dipping his cap’s braided brim to cut the wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to work on S’meggs, cutting up twigs and marshmallows, Mrs. Kapoor had come outside with mugs of hot chocolate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I found out later that Audrey had not had permission to cut it up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A halfforgotten holiday has unveiled every knife that sticks inside me, every cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the street, when guys got cut down in front of me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Branches whipped at my face and cut it, and vines and tree trunks caught at my feet and tripped me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The straps on her shoes had been cut off to look like flats, but they looked worn out, was what they looked like. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let my hair hang loose and abandon my uniform of loose shirts in favor of one that cuts across my shoulders, revealing my tattoos. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“No incisions,” Yossarian said, perceiving through the lifting fog of insensibility that the two strangers were ready to begin cutting him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth’s yellow paisley dress—her own creation—was made from an old pillowcase with holes cut out for her arms and head. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was natural that she should cut a poor figure in the Iliad, where the battle of heroes is the theme. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skirtling along one side of the paths and lanes cut into our mountainside are stone walls. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The immediate task at hand was to carefully review, cut, and splice selections from the four hundred thousand feet of raw film she had shot at the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I went to the bathroom when I got home and examined the cut. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The beam was strong and cut a wide swath of light through the blackness. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day, Ray told me to come outside and I thought he was going to yell at me for mowing too close to the house and cutting the tulips. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“We can finally cut that old ugly thing down now,” says Miss Celia. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Flashes of ugly flags with skulls and bones, swords slashing at people’s throats, and long knives cutting out our hearts edge their way into my consciousness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t he just crew up and cut the girl and take the scavenge? Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we cut out into the clearing, a few feet from where Lincoln sat in his chair, still carving a stick into nothing more exciting than a sharp point. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“If I had I’d have cut off my right hand before it had a chance to do secretarial work for him!” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had smiled then, a smile so tremulous and sweet that it cut the heart out of him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Using the side of his fork, Sherm cut up his last piece of French toast. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I went to my room and put some water on my hair, but you can't really comb a crew cut or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

You are sealed into one of the thirty-two capsules with the strangers who were next to you in the queue, and when they close the doors, the sound of the city is cut off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singing cut through the wind like laughter through a prayer. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Democritus invented the word atom, Greek for “unable to be cut.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past weeks in Paris, in the hours between other tasks, he has narrowed a list of seven lapidaries to three, then to one: a half-Algerian named Dupont who came of age cutting opal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His gray hair was cut short with unruly tufts here and there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s just—you’re all cut up. Please, can we stop for a second? We should regroup. Figure out where we are.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She wore her hair cut short, like all women in the camp, and was required to cover her head with a white cloth folded into a triangle that tied around the back of her neck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We had traveled down to 130th Street and had started to cut over west across Harlem. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Aerys would have flinched away in horror, likely cutting himself on the barbs of the Iron Throne, then shrieked at his swordsmen to cut the Yunkishmen to pieces. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The road angled up to the plateau, cutting a line through more tall houses and shops. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was sharp as smoky quartz, with perfect teeth and eyes that cut. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The trees and fences in the neighborhood had all been cut down for firewood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they attach razor blades to the sides of the kites and in a war of all against all try to cut each other’s strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They cut the engine as the boat glides into the reeds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was the rainy season, and the “road” was a string of mudholes cut by running streams. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a couple of miles there going around by the roads, but by cutting across the fields I could make it in fifteen minutes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the judges get fed up and have her head cut off and that does the job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He nodded at the arroyo cut by the river. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We start to cut across the parking lot toward our ragwort stalks when a guy about our age touches my arm, warm fingers closing just above my wrist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Our guns open in full blast and cut off the enemy attack. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt forward in the dim air and cut an opening. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After all that hearing, he writes, “I am exposed .... cut by bitter and poisoned hail.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Robin cut out a section of five vertebrae. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Pris had now cut three legs from the spider, which crept about miserably on the kitchen table, seeking a way out, a path to freedom. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless he worried it as a dog worries a bone while he doled out cutting sand for old Zahotep’s drill. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The Mayor knows, for he told the merchants of the city that the budget would be cut down, that no new taxes would be imposed to satisfy the clamor of the masses of the needy! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Agents told Blackie that they couldn’t cut a deal with him to reduce his sentence, and he spoke grudgingly at first about the murders, but gradually he divulged more and more. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Will you teach me how to cut steel bars and drill them and how to weld?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I'd planted Mo's cutting two years ago and hardly visited after that. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then they tried to hurry along the rocks and Robert cut his knee quite badly and they had to recognize that this path must be taken slowly if they were to be safe. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not going to let them cut you up, nohow.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I hold it steady, so that the knife cuts into his skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"He cut his head off trying to shave." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had felt—what?—something, to be sure, a dread that had cut like that frigid northern wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, she didn’t know the whole story. And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people. You could have worse friends than—” The Colonel cut him off. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We skidded to a stop in front of the office and Faith cut the engine. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I find the scalpel in her medipak and cut the bandage in two. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She cut out all the talking ’bout love and held her baby tight. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My bigger problem is figuring out some way to be a Sunshine Buddy this week until Miss McDaniels cuts me loose. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I liked to feel his new bristly crew cut. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He blew it aside with a gust of wind, then cut through a line of sword-wielding ghouls and noticed a dozen suitors regrouping by the fountain to charge Annabeth. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But how does anyone know what the animal was when it has been cut into small pieces? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And when the last kite was cut, all hell broke loose. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I cut through the lane, caught the ball, and drove in for a layup. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Up, adjust, breathe, cut through an imaginary line of the undead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at the girl with the glasses, so I could show her that I wasn’t cutting the line, that I knew the owner. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He fries four cuts of bread and wraps them in pages of the Limerick Chronicle, two cuts in each coat pocket. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

It was not like the pavement used in any human city; this was white stone, perfectly cut in long rectangles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My first observation: The green receptacles are not always filled with just cut grass and dead flowers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He made his decking fast to close-set ribs before he closed the side with longer planking, then cut a mast pole, and a proper yard, and shaped a steering oar to hold her steady. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

John nearly pulled us both off, but we had a lot of ground to cover to catch up to Horace Danver before he cut the fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The car skidded, then rolled when the shoulder turned to cliff, a blurred, chopped nightmare where sound and light cut through us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He cut the air between us with the spatula, a drop of grease landed on my T-shirt. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Master Underwood!” the council member on the right shouted, cutting off whatever Grover was trying to say. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Like the Bible barely makes the cut because Christ is only in the second half,” Lydia said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a giantess in the kitchen, cutting up onions as big as boulders and cabbages the size of boats. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A man with gray hair and a military buzz cut got out. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed that there was a small door cut into the face of the peach stone. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. considered himself a radical, but Jacobs was clearly cut from a different cloth—one that was beginning to unravel. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Best to cut your losses on an old man who won’t survive a trip across the ocean. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then he took his gun, and slinging his ax on his shoulder he went away to the clearing to cut down some more trees. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a few, but no friends I’m real tight with, so I can’t cut or anything. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even the Daniels—two-thirds of the spitball war—had been cut loose while I was doing time. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

My gaze cuts to Taryn, who is still standing with Locke. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whoever had planted the mountain laurel had cut a gash into the sprinkler line with a shovel. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He was in a space big enough to stand up in, and he could see steps cut into the stone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Knowing this, our soldiers cut off the Youns’ heads and hide them in bushes or toss them in the jungle so they cannot be found. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d cut the rations to stretch the supply, but that rainstorm was five long days in the past, and now we were down to a third of a jug. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls wore their hair cut above their chins, with bangs, and had plain skirts or monpe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mothers hair had been long and black, like mine, but a week before she left, she cut it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There was a very small cut on his head, but the bleeding had stopped and he was breathing softly, regularly. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The show cut to the living room of the gray house. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Adam lay on the bed, a sheet pulled up to his waist, and Alice patted the cuts with a linen handkerchief dipped in warm water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dagger cuts into my stomach, releasing a trickle of blood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They went rather hesitantly down into the cutting, half expecting the fiery, thundering angel of Frith to appear out of the twilight; but the silence remained unbroken. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you cut an orange into three pieces the slices are bigger than if you cut it into nine pieces. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rasheed had Mariam rub antibiotic ointment on the cuts on the girl’s face and neck, and on the sutured gashes on her shoulder, across her forearms and lower legs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Unless you can cut this fog with your next witticism, keep it to yourself.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

During the day they would swim down deep, or hide in cuts along the banks, but when the sun was newly risen they came, to the surface. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The service road cut through industrial wasteland and dead-ended at a strip mall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The cut which Lancelot had given welled over with blood which looked black in the moonlight, and you could see sane of the insides of the stomach with their secret life laid open. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to work cutting up the fruit in the kitchen. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Junior not only carried a knife, a jiga, in his back pocket, he had used it to cut someone’s face. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

On the way home, I cut through a line of skeletal houses that had been torched the night of the coup. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Especially when it was time for the kite-flying contests—where the boys would skillfully try to cut their competitors’ kite strings. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“And I bet he said those days were dead and over with,” I cut in. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Polite persons do not listen to conversations that are not meant for—” but Emma was already running from the room, and Miss Peregrine cut herself short with a frustrated sigh. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After it was trimmed and the limber end cut off, I hung the lantern by the handle on the end of it and started easing it out on the ice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I made her by hollowing out an enormous boiled sweet! Isn’t she beautiful! See how she comes cutting through the river!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I received cuts and bruises all over my body. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Abby cuts down Prince Avenue, and I take in the colorful jumble of shops and cafes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her first resort was a black crepe de chine dress which, according to the dressing table mirror, bestowed by means of clever cutting a certain severity of form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Coach cut his eyes at me—not satisfied. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The factory is full of huge machines that make the steel and cut it and bend it into watever shapes they need. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was cut short in a military burr. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean against a telephone pole, bewildered, as if something has been cut out of my brain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cool water soothes my skin; it dulls the burning pain of the cuts on my head and above my eye. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here. Look at the fire whiles I cuts this cake.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure at what point that night Auggie had cut off his Padawan braid, or why that made me really mad. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Until Saturday morning else Mr. Leroy will cut my throat and bleed me like a fig. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment I forget about the sting of the cut and the embarrassment of my awkward nerd-crash. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even figure out what to say to her over the dead worm we were supposed to cut up together. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The highways eight lanes wide cut like glaciers through the uneasy land. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I work for hours, obsessively, frenetically, unable to stop cutting into the stone, Grandma and Mom chanting at me with every hit: You crushed his dreams. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I cut off the damaged area leaving me with a garment that comes just to the bottom of my ribs. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Oh, shut it and go and get your hair cut." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I did not shave or cut my hair. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some boys had cut off the long, sharp spears of a Spanish bayonet bush and they were chasing the girls with them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wished I had my sword so I could cut his stupid head off. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I took out my knife, cut the cord and put my arm under. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“They don’t cut you no slack. You give and you give and they take.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A third inmate waited until the beating was done and the victim was motionless before reaching down with a knife and cutting his face from ear to ear, right across his nose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that evening, she pulled into our driveway and cut the motor. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re saying I don’t really like Margo? After all this—I’m twelve hours inside this car already and you don’t think I care about her because I don’t— ” I cut myself off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Her gaze cut to Philbert and me, about which this was absolutely untrue. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She relaxed a notch, smelling barbecue and cut grass in the air. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with the cutting off of people’s public aid and SSI, basically I don’t see any hope for the people around here. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people, too, had good crops, except for Snail, who spent his time cutting back weeds and examining the ground to see when the corn would grow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Ha. No. I’m cutting the crusts off the bread. Go put your phone away, Wart.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I kneel on the pallet and Caleb cuts a piece of my shirt away from my shoulder with a pair of medical scissors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My fist connects with Richard’s teeth, and I feel my knuckles cut open. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He planned to cut off her ears and her nose with his pocketknife and get his money back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And by "structural changes" I mean "cut a big hole in the hull." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raised it to make the first cut. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He probably wasn’t used to pretty girls threatening to cut his throat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Right now her sister, Angeline, was digging at the ground near spruce trees and cutting lengths of the roots, used to secure the house better and to finish baskets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Lending her a lip gloss after the cut. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Neel couldn’t believe it—usually Baba’s was one of the loudest voices on the island protesting the cutting of sundari trees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Nearly there,” said Malcolm, because they had come to a group of trees that cut off their view of the house, and the garden was behind them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After Woolf dismounted, Azucar butted him out of the way, ran over a spectator, slashed the NBC Radio wire—cutting off the national broadcast—and dragged his terrified groom down the track like a toboggan. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides her many cuts and bruises, though — some of them luridly three-dimensional — Helen had a concussion. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the outlying sheds beside the lane, Blackberry began to explain how he and Bigwig had gone back to search; but Fiver cut him short. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could cut out his heart from a safe distance with that. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was transmitted by cannibalism, when highland babies made the fatal mistake of licking their fingers after playing with raw brains that their mothers had just cut out of dead kuru victims awaiting cooking. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cillian comes running up but before he says anything to us, Ben cuts him off and says, “Don’t think it!” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I do not know if he saw me, or if the light cut off his vision, but I saw his bitter, contorted grin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re not spending two hundred and fifty dollars on a—” She cuts me off. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I could wash the cut, at least, and put on a clean sock. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the end, he resorted to making small plywood boxes with a slot cut into the top. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If you steal again, your foot will be cut off. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Papa took his knife and cut the boot from Grandpa’s swollen foot. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the political scientist John J. Dilulio Jr. later commented, “Apparently, it takes a Ph.D. in criminology to doubt that keeping dangerous criminals incarcerated cuts crime.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the photograph and from what Violet could remember from the coffin, the girl needed her ends cut. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder why they chose the noon flight. That will get you into Washington around two. The competition starts at seven. That’s cutting it a little close.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A hint of woodsmoke cut through it, invisible, too far away to be seen, but still present. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are leaves piled up around it, and the windows have pink flaps over them, cut out from an old washrag. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It would be almost impossible to find wood in die dark so he had to have it all in and cut and stacked before the sun went down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sean’s voice was honed to a cutting edge when he said, “Going to see your girlfriend?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Any bruise or cut was treated with extreme alarm. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would stand me Between them, When I showed them My thirty books, And the cuts On the warrior, Our family of people. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he took a breath to start a new para-graph, Mrs. Granger cut him off. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys cut through the stitching along the edges and separated the blanket into two thinner sheets. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The potato is a mess of jagged bits on her cutting board. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Very slowly the boy cut himself another slice and began to eat it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had cut it off short, and as Faro ate he slipped it around the dog’s neck and fastened the buckle. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Madame DuPont cuts copy paper in half lengthwise and proceeds to paper over the skinny glass window in the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The waste of such precious material cut Jethro like a knife. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the footpath that cuts through the grove on the opposite side of the road, she hears the sound of branches being thrust aside, twigs snapping underfoot. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you love her?” asked Degalis, cutting to the root “Yes, I do. She has been good to me. I am fend of her.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears were cutting down his face and streaming to his chin. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The underwear and stuff came from a disaster-relief warehouse that had to be shut down because of the state budget cuts. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In industrial shop, we are cutting wood to make birdhouses. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Trademaster had allowed the razor-sharp blade to make a shallow cut. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I put on my new dress, cutting off the price tag with Jon’s wire cutters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If your hair is not cut by the first day of practice, you’re off the team.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor cut the surface of the pool with his hand, and the water ran through his fingers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw on TV once, a guy had to get his whole leg cut off just because he never treated a wound he got from a bike accident. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Broken fingers went unset, horrible cuts went untreated and led to all manner of sickness. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

From that firebreak we cut across toward the first row of pear trees, looking for what might remain of Block 28. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you cut off the pointed end of a slice of pie and save it for last, you can make a wish when you eat it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Eliza shoved a bowl of beans at Joseph to cut him off. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the last little shirt she was making for Muff’s baby, she’d cut a bit of muslin out in the traditional Mexican style. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had cut the palm of my left hand on a dull blade at breakfast. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The She Elephant made a cutting motion across her throat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only constant is my hair, which is always thick and straight, cut in such a way that if surfacing from a dive, my bangs would fall to my lower lip. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The tulips are red, a darker crimson towards the stem, as if they have been cut and are beginning to heal there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom bruised himself on the world and licked his cuts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was literally the dust of the meat, the bits that fell off the cuts being packaged for the shop, the bits of fat and whatever’s left. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was feeling overwhelmed, so I cut off the questions after a few minutes, and we walked to the front door of the courthouse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A tin gallon can has been cut in half, the lip ragged and dangerous. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those blades would not be cutting into cotton today, but into flesh. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I'm pretty sure they don’t do the paperboy thing anymore, so instead of walking to the library after school, I go three blocks over to New Growth, the place where Sneaky gets his hair cut. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The roads are mostly empty, because it’s the war, though once in a while there’s a truck loaded with cut tree trunks or fresh lumber, trailing its perfume of sawdust. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d chop down a tree, trim off the branches as far up as I wanted, then cut away the rest of the top. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a few more breaths and then I reach up and take the knife from her fingers and cut the cord Aaron bound her wrists with. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I dropped everything and drove to the airport and got on the first plane to Logan, where I found Francis in Brigham and Women’s Hospital recuperating from two razor-blade cuts to the wrist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When a dealer was caught skimming money from a gambling hall, the floor boss would cut off one of his pinkie fingers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She cut through the last strand, gave a tug, and the string fell off. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dad lights the fire, makes the tea, cuts the bread, makes sure we wash our faces and tells us go out and play. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Koffi cut the air from left to right as fast as she could. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It's worse than anything I've ever experienced, worse even than the first time I got cut in that knee. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Later on he went to Pilar Ternera with the hope that the cards would see more than the diggers, but she began by explaining that any attempt would be useless unless Úrsula cut the cards. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His overalls were soiled; his hands were cut and bruised. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I don’t need to go,” Matt said, only half awake and pulling his pillow tightly over his head to cut out the noise of the train. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, standing on the living room’s rift cut pine boards and studying the carved spandrel ornaments on the staircase, she seemed to have come to a place long destined for her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Rashid didn’t know the girl, he felt the loss of the life that was cut short, one that he would now never have the chance to be a part of. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Unwilling to suffer a humiliating defeat, cut down one by one as they tried to break through the cavalry, they mounted their horses and charged off the face of the mountain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then they gathered the stalks they had cut and stood them in bunches at opposite ends of the row. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We brought the ice cream home, and Brian pulled apart the carton and cut the block into five even slices. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was already broken. Somebody could of got cut. Now, show me where they took those guns from.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Brown cuts me a break, and starts throwing the old food in the trash. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

In response, Sam routinely came to my lessons late or would cut my lesson time short. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I heard myself screaming, as if the noise I made would somehow cut off the impact of the grenade. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the darkness squeezes you inside yourself, you get cut off from the outside world, the imagination takes over. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Demand for railcars to carry visitors to the exposition had spared the Pullman Works, but by the end of the fair George Pullman too began cutting wages and workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her thumb was bruised, Maya suddenly noticed, and one of her fingers had a scabbed-over cut. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was cut in several places, but nothing fatal. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They cut your thing off and make soup with it.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then from bits of colored paper she cut dresses and hats, ribbons and laces, so that Laura and Mary could dress their dolls beautifully. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had grown about an inch since I cut it, but it was still just a bit under my chin. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Peach Fuzz’s voice cleaved the air, cutting off the rest of her words. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“It just gave me an idea. We could pull out some hairs—and maybe cut off some fingernails.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dothraki men wore their hair in long oiled braids, and cut them only when defeated. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I looked over her shoulder to see she’d cut open the stomach and found a grasshopper in there, totally intact. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the baby's head stuck for some reason, and the doctor told Will he'd have to make a cut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Rado and I helped him hop back to shore, where we tied his Dolphins jersey around his foot to keep the cut from getting dirty. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I guarantee you,” he said, “if Coach said, ‘Don’t cut your hair,’ all those guys—Prince, everybody—they would come back.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The main highway from Bolivia Mar to Bolivia itself follows the Osmore Valley, cutting a perfect sectional slice through Peru on the way. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After he slapped the cuffs on me, the metal cutting into my wrists, he yanked at my shirt and pants, searching me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Instead of a crescent moon curve they're a half-moon, the blades weighted and sharpened on both sides to easily cut in either direction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Did you do anything to yourself? Did you try and cut yourself; did you try and hurt yourself; did you actually go anywhere?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They would assuredly have cut them to pieces if Iris, the rainbow messenger of the gods, gliding down from heaven, had not checked them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom always said that it was because Teddy saw me first, and because I cut his cord, that somewhere deep down he thought I was his mother. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deep chasm opened up under her, a fissure cut into the cliffs by the sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Pilate sucked a peach stone and her face was dark and still with the memory of how she was “cut off” so early from other people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the day and a half she lasted cutting sugarcane. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from this distance, she could see the cuts and nicks on his scalp, and little strips of blond stubble in the places the razor had missed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A paper raven swooped across the room, slicing its wing across Antain’s cheek, cutting it open, letting him bleed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I was cutting big blocks of snow and putting them in a circle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel blood running down my temple but I know it’s from the sugar bowl cut that’s split open again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But on this night, my mother cut the party short because it was a school night, plus she was pregnant with Maddy at the time and needed my father to massage her feet. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Central to the system’s success, Bigari said, is the way it pairs customers’ photos with their orders; by increasing accuracy, the system cuts down on the number of complaints and therefore makes the service faster. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Another was about men who said they lost their jobs because they refused to cut off their ponytails. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then even the static cuts out, and the silence in the headphones feels like something massive moving through space, a ghostly airship slowly descending. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He announced to the other doctors that he felt two fractured ribs and a one-inch-deep cut in the liver. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She ran down the shed row, cut out into the daylight, and rushed toward the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were the worst loss and damage, for at Sharkey’s bidding they had been cut down recklessly far and wide over the Shire; and Sam grieved over this more than anything else. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had only the bare wall behind him now, and the grating cutting off his retreat to the right—and Basta was coming straight at him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For each one that came and went I cut a mark in a pole beside the door of my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony hadn’t given her permission to do so, so she cut short a lecture tour and returned to New York to try to stop Woodhull. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

June’s voice cuts through the ringing in his ears. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Probably making sure no one got any cutting ideas on the Clemson place. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You can tell your father—!” I dug my fingers into Kevin’s shoulder, cutting off the rush of words before they became insulting in content as well as in tone. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I got a cutting tool and put it in the special jig he had fashioned for our nozzles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mami cut it short whenever it grew into my eyes, but I’d seen dark brown wisps by my cheeks and near my temples. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had been pulled down tight onto the bow and his face was in the cut slice of dolphin and he could not move. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broadcast cut to images of West Oakland High, the front steps cordoned off with police tape. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She asked the women, “Did any of you break a test tube? Do we have anyone here who stuck himself with a needle or cut himself?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sought to cut all links with Indian activists and to move the ANC in the direction of a more confrontational strategy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s just a stupid cut,” she said, but she pulled back the hand that was pressing it and her fingertips were sticky red. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They don’t look like very deep cuts, and they’re thin—I have a feeling that when they heal up she’ll look just fine. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They had been cut from heavy oak planks, and they spi- raled around the massive center timber like the small bones of a spine held in place by thick wooden pegs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Spiral cut ham, eggs cooked every which way, jam in pots, bowls of oranges. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He told Father Rachel would have to have the circus mission where they cut her so she wouldn’t want to run around with people’s husbands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I’m eating the biscuit Miss Larsen heats water on the stove for tea and cuts an apple into slices, arranging them on a chipped china plate from the shelf. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stood by the boards in the little driveway the Zamboni took to get out onto the ice, and found myself getting lost in the cuts and grooves the skates had left everywhere. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Smith, you shall find Powhatan to use you kindly, but trust him not;...for he hath sent for you only to cut your throats.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘Those cords have cut me like wires; but my feet are getting warm again. I could stagger on now. What about you, Merry?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The first two years it seemed like my feet were always cold, or cut, or both. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The quicker they got Lyra out, the better, and that meant darting down there now before Mrs. Coulter woke up, cutting through, pulling her to safety, and closing again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He turned again and sun came across the water, late sun, cut into his eyes and made him turn away. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cut away from the woman to the main square in District 8. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Jasper Jr. knocked me to the ground than I heard Bull cut loose with a spine-chilling wail. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When she finished she plopped down onto her couch like a string puppet that had been cut loose. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rock starts picking out my hair, and I grit my teeth as he cuts through all the naps. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Massey cut his own meat into chunks and stabbed one with his dagger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every single day he looked like he had just walked out of Sunday school: Every thin yellow hair on his pinhead was perfectly cut and licked to a gloss. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you suggesting that I”—she cut herself off, glanced toward the ghosts, and finished in a whisper—“burn up Minya?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Far beyond the dunes, the blue jags of the Serran Range cut into the horizon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She actually did trip on her dress, and her shoes cut into her heels quite terribly, but he would hear none of her objections as he dragged her into the hall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His right arm was cut off at the elbow and the sleeve pinned to his shirt. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"In many places,” James said, as if he were talking to somebody a little stupid, "like Annapolis—there they can’t just walk outside and cut down a tree.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to stretch the plastic band they’d tightened around them did nothing but force it to cut deeper into the soft skin there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It's that idiot’s fault we're in this hole, it’s his fault if they cut our throats, and you still feel sorry for him?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For weeks at a time Harriet swung a broadax in the woods as part of Ben’s crew, cutting half a cord of wood a day just like a man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Need to cut ’em down,” Granddad grumbled, but Nana just shooed the words away with her hand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were back on the street he got out his pocket knife and cut the ribbon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He cut me loose, though, explaining that, thanks to the damage to the gym, we students had “suffered enough.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She embraces her son and holds him back with straight arms while she runs a fingertip over a mostly healed cut along his forehead. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They’ll cut through your fingers with their beaks as if they were butter.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Louie took a half step to cut inside, lost his balance, and dropped one hand to the ground. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cuts was scabbing over and the bruises lighter. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In front of the cutting table sat three five-gallon buckets full of scraps. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But despite the relative proximity of the bus to civilization, for all practical purposes McCandless was cut off from the rest of the world. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed over it too quickly, cutting his leg on a piece of jagged metal. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The land was up and down and up and down, and I wondered how Great-grandfather ever cut it and plowed it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had agreed to cut down her hours at work so that she could be around for the kids more when I was traveling. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A young woman with a lavender pixie cut and silver earrings up and down her left ear greets us near the door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But Raymond’s arm had already been cut open and his mouth slashed. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Strange sorcerous writings had been cut into the bands that girded it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you would just cut it off like that,” she added snottily, and then practically slammed my bedroom door shut as she left the room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was thinking of my father, who cuts the grass and edges it and weed-whacks it and has the ChemLawn truck spray it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Bailey said the man’s things had been cut off and put in his pocket and he had been shot in the head, all because the whitefolks said he did “it” to a white woman. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she passed him a cutting board with a loaf of bread and a knife on it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The demons, it seemed, were determined to cut down on the number of Tang people living on the Golden Mountain. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I mean that if you have the courage I can cut through the scar— free the thumb.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you know what I say,” Ms. Hawkins cuts in, “you have to know your history to even think about understanding your present.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

All about them was the white snow and the night; they were cut off from the world and were conscious only of each other. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the severed treetops and the rough path cut through the brush. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He spun, blocking Ar- ron’s cut with the edge of his shield and meeting Emrick’s with his sword. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cyrus Trask did have his five minutes of horror while they cut the shreds away and sawed the bone off square and burned the open flesh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful she was willing to cut class so that Evan wouldn't learn that he'd turned me into a blubbering wreck. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined the cedars that were now cut and dried and split into house shingles. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When Robin cut the lens from the eye, I held it in my palm. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Alex stayed right by Rex’s side through the whole exam, holding him while the vet irrigated the wound and stroking his paw when the doctor injected the cut with anesthetic. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Gerald remembered times when the lights had been cut off, and the phone, and even the water. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long time ago the house had belonged to a very respectable family, but they had moved into town after the waters of the river began to cut into the cliff below them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Miele’s advantage began with the people he was with on May 6, when the lining of his right coronary artery ruptured, cutting off the flow of blood to his sixty-six-year-old heart. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can tell it’s been recently cut because of the uneven tan on the skin visible between his shirt collar and the back of his fitted sandstone infantry cap. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The aiakh cut was wide but shallow; his left nipple was gone, and a flap of bloody flesh and skin dangled from his chest like a wet rag. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The blades both cut into Sorrento’s right side, creating a shower of sparks, and to my surprise, they actually did some damage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The cut in the fence was a good twenty feet wide, large enough for the cattle to find. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I say, “You think somebody...cut that on purpose? So it would break? With someone standing on it?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Edith is small and thin, proportioned like a girl, her white hair cut in a bob and her face deeply wrinkled. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She began to cut more and more slowly as noon wore on to afternoon and evening, and he turned to look at her with impatience. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Three men eventually approach the body and cut loose his legs and hands. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lina cut the stones out and gave chunks of the fruit to Poppy. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even when yer buying stuff from him and he’s polite as can be, the despair of him seeps at you like pus from a cut. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Think, Mo! It would have been somewhere remote, an unlikely place for any flower to grow. You took a cutting and mailed it to me just before you...just before your accident." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He could feel himself trembling, and braced his legs against the sides of the narrow cut. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not think now why he had ever cut them out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The custodian takes a large metal clipper from his tool belt and prepares to cut the lock. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you’d fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked more like Scout when I was seven and Devon cut my hair like hers except Dad said not to do that ever ever again. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just above his left ear, a groove cut through his hair like a racing stripe. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I hope he falls on his face and cuts off his tongue. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The man lay back with his head pillowed on a heap of cut grass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was cutting canvas and my hand slipped. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My pay was cut back, but I had saved a lot and it didn’t matter to me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took their revenge, not on Hoenir but on Mimir: they cut off Mimir’s head and sent it to Odin. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The White Noise cut out sharply as something clattered to the ground and landed a short distance away. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They may also have been thinking of pure economics: Once you cut cane, it begins to dry out. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the food couldn't cut short the endless hours, any more than full stomachs dispelled their fear of what the next day might bring. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His hair, cut short apart from two thick strands hanging over his forehead, was fair. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Awhile through it, it cuts out and I look back up to where the projection window is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Wes and his friend cut into an alley, trying to intercept Ray before he could get to his house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“That the women make cuts and bums on their faces and bodies to make pictures on them. Then they put colored dyes in the cuts and bums. They think it makes them look beautiful.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I went to cut wood for Mama, though, Little Arliss left the dog run to come watch me work. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run to the end of the bridge and cut onto the grass, down the embankment to the bottom, which is an old dried-up riverbed full of cigarette butts and beer bottles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I looked and saw that they had cut his finger off. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d barely gotten herself inside when she heard the first scream, cut off at the end. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Phil slathers bacitracin on the cut and covers it with a couple bandages, then uses his water bottle to rinse away the dry blood from my leg. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We wore the same haircut, a towering box cut made popular by rappers like Big Daddy Kane, whose elegantly chiseled high-top was the gold standard. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The combs and brushes sparkled with ornaments in cut paste. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ducking through traffic, cutting through yards. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He peered at the cut eye and called over the referee. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as such smuggling didn’t cut into the main business, the gangs allowed it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Gingerly, he cut a piece of steak and put it into his mouth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll be next to me on the couch in her flannel shirt and jeans that have been cut into shorts, and eventually, when she’s asleep, I’ll bring a blanket out and cover her up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A hole had been cut in the side and the barbed rope torn away. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I cut back across the academic quad toward the health center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the dogs’ howling cut off behind them, Aru and Mini went from utter darkness to blinding light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He says he’s cutting back on our food. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Without human inventiveness, all of us today would still be cutting our meat with stone tools and eating it raw, like our ancestors of a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The water had a metallic quality to it, a steel blue in contrast to the sky and seeming to give off a light of its own that cut into his eyes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian kept cutting through the coveralls to the bottom and peeled open the severed leg of the garment. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I cut the cheese into pieces and laid them on the macaroni. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Here the master carpenter supervised the cutting of timber for the construction of scaffolding, workshops, and machines. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

So much was Mary kicked and cut to pieces, that she was oftener called “pecked” than by her name. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

At first she felt that this gave her an advantage—she needed no one else—and then she realized how it cut her off from others. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

AfterI made the cut, I folded the fabric, and Holly waved us out without another word. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Although her parachute had tangled in a fir tree as it came down, she had managed to cut herself free and made it to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I walked around the corner, past the Aguileras’ house, and cut across two empty lots, where I got the left leg of my jeans tangled up on some bramble weeds. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But a loud squawk and a streak of feathers cut them off. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They feed your image live to the square until your execution time comes, then they cut to the firing squad yard inside Batalla Hall, and then they show you marching out to face the executioners. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But it cuts no ice with the boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we buried my father, I watched her crumble, like a puppet with its strings cut, and there was nothing I could do. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I took out my knife, intending to cut it down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the whale slows, the thresher deals more slamming blows and the swordfish cuts again and again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He commented upon Wang Lung as he shaved his upper forehead, “This would not be a bad-looking farmer if he would cut off his hair. The new fashion is to take off the braid.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The frame cuts away, just like that, to a photo of Tariq. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A shrill shriek, suddenly cut off, came from an open window high above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Frank saw plenty of minor injuries—some burns, broken bones, black eyes, cuts and gashes, plus a lot of very interesting hairdos from fires and exploding water cannons—but nothing that couldn’t be fixed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Group B talked to me sometimes, made cutting remarks to me when they didn't like my clothing, and often excluded me from their games, their secrets, and their gossip. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The hippie started to say something but Henry, cutting him short, pointed to something behind the counter. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A part of me was glad I couldn’t see the bruises and cuts there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The day before, at the decisive Battle of Five Forks, Union General Phil Sheridan and 45,000 men had captured a pivotal crossing, cutting off the main road to North Carolina. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You people cut it out,” Miss Annie screamed through her shutters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Harry — we’ve got to go for help —” Hermione gasped; she was bleeding too; the Willow had cut her across the shoulder. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, some twenty-five firemen arrived and, using axes and other tools, cut their way into the firehouse. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Bastian demands that they memorize maps, study the angle of the sun, cut their own belts from cowhide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I can sense a river...or maybe it’s a moat. It’s blocking our path, flowing left to right through a channel cut in the rock. The opposite side is about twenty feet away.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The hatchet cut through the aluminum as if it were soft cheese. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Found it! You must need a cutting board. Everyone needs a decent cutting board.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The two young Travellers cut a great dash in the Shire with their songs and their tales and their finery, and their wonderful parties. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Cato stands before me, almost at the lip of the horn, holding Peeta in some kind of headlock, cutting off his air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even a chainsaw in the distance cut its engine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to thank him for cleaning up my locker, but he cut me off. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Grandma would sympathize with me and make one more thing out of the flour sacks or secondhand material or even cut up her own clothing to make me something new. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She used plain white labels and cut out dots and dashes for Morse code and then stuck them on a black shirt like this: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their arrival outside the wood caused something of a sensation, which Hazel cut short with a peremptory sharpness quite unlike his usual manner. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he cut through to the dark object lodged inside, and after soaking his foot in blood, he pried it out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Your voice was like the beam of a lighthouse, cutting right through my fog of pity. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The wet sound of the dead feeding and the mans fading cries cuts through my heavy breathing and the growls of other approaching shamblers. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then he cut the other line closest to him and in the dark made the loose ends of the reserve coils fast. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One even cut a horse blanket into souvenir pieces. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her name was Sandy Hill Pittman, and nobody on the mountain cut a higher profile or generated as much gossip. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A man stole water from another man and cut his arm with a knife. Papa’s trying to stop the bleeding.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then there are my wounds to contend with -burns, cuts, and bruises from smashing into the trees, and three tracker jacker stings, which are as sore and swollen as ever. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She’s in a miniskirt and tight leggings and flat clumpy black shoes with laces, her hair is shaved up the back the way my brother’s used to be, a late forties squareboy’s cut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cut had gone bad and was bandaged up but it still was leaking something from the sides. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The woman was overjoyed at the sight of so much thatching grass and she immediately began to cut it down with her sickle. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The money he earned from cutting ice or trapping lobsters or painting his pictures went for things we couldn’t grow ourselves. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As he staggered sideways, Count Atlas sped up in front of him, then abruptly cut left and slowed down, pushing back into him again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the tail was cut off—as a trophy for the conqueror—nothing was left to waste: the meat was dried, the heart smoked, the intestines made into sausages. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I love anticipating a teammate’s cut and then throwing a bounce pass between two defenders. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s time to cut losses and send you home.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I’d need to help him cut the sticky strands out later. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Careful you don’t cut yourself,” Mrs. Partridge said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But before she could comment on anything, she noticed the magazine I was cutting. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I’m trying hard to get this, but my cut’s thumping against my brain. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At Ellis Island when the ghost asked Brave Orchid what year her husband had cut off his pigtail, a Chinese who was crouching on the floor motioned her not to talk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house across the street cut a straight, sharp line against the darkening sky. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Like if you say, “The world is flat,” Andrew’s mind cuts it up into squares. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You worked willingly enough to organize white writers,” he cut at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cut grass, trimmed trees, cleaned the bam, ran a gerry tractor, and kept busy all day. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, you got to have a little attitude when you wear this cut. You got attitude, Maleeka?” she asks, with her hands on her hips. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Harry sat up and examined the jagged piece on which he had cut himself, seeing nothing but his own bright green eye reflected back at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

So he cut her off, and apologized for it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Use scissors to cut the circles out and then cut them in half to make semicircles for the scales. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was dry, unappetising, cut in a wedge from the outside; but I had not the courage to refuse it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But they were cutting—” Lyra couldn’t bring herself to say it; the words choked in her mouth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The other Underlanders were following her, cutting straight up the sides of the funnel web. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If we must. We’ll cut each man’s portion by a quarter.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I head-faked, then cut back the other way and sailed around him, touching the ball down without Chas even wiping a finger’s width of sweat off me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I see him cut through the water in the pool, the light dancing off his eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They never cut their hair and didn’t wear makeup, shorts, or jewelry. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Shan laughed, short sounds that seemed cut off prematurely, as though more were supposed to follow but did not, and because she merely laughed, not saying anything, Ifemelu added, “It’s interesting.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He should know better than to dress that way, but I’d just die if somebody cut my pants open in front of everybody like that.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, seriously, we just wanted to catch you up,” English cut in. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But it did not matter because Briony was about to cut her off and the opportunity would be lost. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I cut off the branches and then started to cutting the limb into fireplace-sized logs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hiked taxes and cut services to raise funds for the conflict to come. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Like any teenager, I was largely oblivious to the clumsy figure I cut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I cut my hair, my mom didn’t even notice. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Weirwoods that had stood three thousand years were cut down for beams and rafters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don’t do that sort of thing. They just tie each other’s shoes and cut each other’s hair.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then with his sharp jack-knife he worked at them, cutting the edges of the large one into little peaks and towers, with a large star carved on the very tallest point. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut bread and covered it with margarine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The superintendent found a guy who hung himself up. He even cut him down.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's working the rope against the sharp edge of that old boiler and sure enough, it cuts through. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas—hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The evidence, however, was gone—cut up and thrown away, just like my hope. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His uniform was pressed so sharp you could have cut paper with the cuffs on his khaki shorts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone spun around and stared at me, and Mrs. Maxy’s eyes bugged out because she knew she had cut the string. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is sudden silence as the transmission is cut off. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She said all this in a cool voice that cut each word in a thin slice from the next and then waited, as if to give Gilly a chance to challenge her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her words cut into me sharper and deeper than any whip. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As explained before, this means that one might as well cut the big bang, and any events before it, out of the theory, because they can have no effect on what we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t possibly cut it down today, and what are you going to do when it gets dark?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that I knew I must cut quite the dramatic figure, I quickly grew tired of the drag on my neck, unfastened the cloak, then stuffed it into a saddlebag. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once they cut through my wall, they would have to cut through the cage, too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, I like my Mom and all that, but she runs around like a chicken with its head cut off. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Maidens used a small knife with an ornately embellished golden handle to cut and smooth my hair, and many hands began twining small strands into a series of formal hanging braids. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They cut through to the river’s bank and stood looking up at the soaring metal that arched overhead to cross the river. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't try me," he cut me off, his voice ice. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

On one end she had tied a rock, on the other end, a wooden box cut low on one side like a scoop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Flappers are big-city girls who cut their hair short and go dancing and do what they please.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then he shoved him away from the car and screamed, “Run, boy, or I’ll cut this girl into small pieces! Run! Run!” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most of the lawns here have wire fences around them that will cut your fingers if you touch them and signs that say “Keep Off the Grass!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I understand that the factory is not working at capacity currently, and I did observe that only one of these devices was operating, burning coal and what looked like one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered a handful of fronds, cut them at the base, and tied the bunch tightly with a piece of twine. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put a little into the hole each time Zahotep raises the drill, that the bit may cut deeply. When the sockets are finished, I will set you another task.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

One day shortly after he had arrived, some drunken demons had tried to cut off his queue. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard you cut off your braid,” Mom said to me, sitting down at the edge of the bed next to Daisy. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

With a deft twist of the ulo, she cut off a slice and savored each bite of this, the most nourishing part of the animal. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her goodbyes froze in her throat as she realized her warm coat was made of pieces cut from the family’s own clothing. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I should cut his tongue out, see how funny he thinks that is, ’cause there’s sure nothing funny about being called ugly. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her teeth cut her tongue and the inside of her mouth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a moment of determination between them—Hilly trying to escape, Celia holding on, and then a ripping sound cuts through the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I do not remember experiencing great grief so much as feeling cut adrift. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs another sheet of paper and starts cutting. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Or if there were no guardians around, you could take a short cut through the rhubarb patch. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was clean-shaven and kept his brown hair cut short. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two blocks down, the Southern Pacific tracks cut diagonally across the street on their way south, and a street crossed Castroville Street from east to west. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some nursed gashes and cuts, while others were so badly burned she didn’t recognize them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Prince had no intention of cutting his hair. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He stared at the cut above Bill’s right eye, from which blood still trickled down his cheek. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An offense against God’s creation, to cut open a human body?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Our squad was cool, but the other squads were all cut down to four or five men. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

First I cut off his leg with one sword swipe, as Chen Luan-feng had chopped the leg off the thunder god. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very gingerly the boy began to cut a thin slice of the vast cake. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine. I got cut up a little, but the blood is mostly Nelly’s. It jumped on her. Killed her about two miles outside town, past the Oldstone Bridge.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Across the room, I can just make out another hole cut into the wall, this time without the graffiti. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Unlike Taro’s almost-military cut, Shoji keeps his hair long and straight, like he belongs in an Asian boy band. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to cut off your head,” I told him, “and leave it in the gutter for the dogs to eat. . . .” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the children were set to cutting grass and digging flower beds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One highly effective campaign recently asked you whether you could poke your finger through the hole, approximately the diameter of a golf ball, cut in the front cover of the leaflet. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Deemer angling to cut him off. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mother cuts through the Skulls, coming straight for Helene and me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Wrapped tight enough to cut off all air flow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Those green shoots weren’t going to cut it, not if I couldn’t even peel them open. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bark cut her forehead, but she didn’t react. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sailors don’t notice me approaching, and when I’m right alongside the rope ladder leading to the boat’s deck, I cut Hel from the beam. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The car only went thirty giant steps before it commenced to bucking and finally cut right off. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some of them have on outfits like mine, feathers and glister, cut high up the thighs, low over the breasts. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d eliminated about a dozen people, cutting through half the crowd standing in front of them, when the rest of the infected seemed to finally catch on to what was happening. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was so bright, the buildings seemed sharp enough to cut someone. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sound of broken glass can cut through other noises, even if it’s just a bottle of wine somebody dropped. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the most important fish harvest came in late spring, when the herring-like alewives swarmed the fast, shallow stream that cut through the village. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She snapped the tether of consciousness and cut the moth loose, losing the dream in an instant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Hey!” he yelled when he saw me, and cut the engine back. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“That man was not taking the stone for a dragon spirit,” Minli’s mother cut in. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Radar ran a hand through his buzz cut and shook his head. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

One more cut and this section of track would be clear. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was drilling, or like, cutting or boring. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them are in section, which means they’re cut open so you can see what’s inside them: tunnels, branches, bulbs and delicate filaments. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our story was clearly written on my swollen face and your cut lip—but I didn’t want to tell her the details and risk her feeling even sorrier for us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Peel and cut up three carrots and wash the lettuce. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m ready to cut out this stupid weave. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You look like your picture, except you’re not as thin as you were. I cut it out of the newspaper, and it’s posted on my kitchen wall.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The picture cut to an aerial shot of snowy hills, dotted like a war map with pinprick figures, Mount Cataract looming lopsided and huge in the foreground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The young woman had several pieces of plantain leaf cut and ready. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too quick and too strong for me, however; for before I could get my balance he had struck at me and cut my left wrist rather severely. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He kissed me so hard that I cut my lip on his teeth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I say. Now you just say after me—‘I’ll take double poison and cut my throat if I tell.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is long, her mouth slightly lopsided; something about the top lip is a little skewed, as if it’s been cut open and sewn up crooked. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen doing my new job—cutting food coupons out of magazines and newspapers—when I heard my mother yelp. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Will Whitiker be able to cut back her hours at the hospital and spend more time with her family? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was bad to stumble, and kept stepping on her feet, but they were laughing and cutting up, just having the best time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For the small areas of solid wall the stone mason would actually construct two parallel walls of cut stone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached my house, my feet cut and sore, I decided I would never press the button. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But he cut that too, and inside the smallest little bit there was all the Specters packed in, twisted over and folded up so tight they took up no space at all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wires cut her palms, she gripped them so tight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was in bad shape, with bruises and cuts all over his face and neck. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They did try hard to avoid going into his study when they were bleeding and needed a sticking plaster to put over the cut, because they knew Charles hated the sight of blood. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if I could use pinking shears to cut out a new face for myself. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had lightened just enough now that he could cut the boat's headlights, but they still had the Jade glow of the orb motor to worry about. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Joe took up the big meat knife and selected a piece of side meat to cut. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was like a persistent, deep hammer thud more than the bright, sharp clarity when you cut yourself superficially. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not a bustle, on account of the fact that Miss Preston finds them hideous and banned them from the school, but the cut of the gown makes it look like she's wearing one. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was time for each of the seven regions to make its toughest cuts and choose the four members for its Library Olympics team. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Outside it was cooler, a breeze cutting through the stagnant air. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could literally smell his sweat, hear every ragged breath, every cry, every cut of the whip. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Enough. I have made my decision,” he says, raising his voice to cut me off. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bieber and I cut around to Nick’s backyard and through the basement. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He deliberately cut a square piece of lamb and dipped it into the mint jelly on his plate. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was finding these detentions particularly irksome because they cut into the already limited time he could have been spending with Ginny. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Valerie pushed aside her black bang and indicated two pale marks, one on either side of her forehead, as if at some time she had started to sprout horns, but cut them off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Terry Gallant could be in it. Show that yearbook photo of her in her tiara, cut to her washing floors.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Caitlin, we know he means a lot to you,” my mother started to say, but I cut her off. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The dealer looked at me, then at Mom, who returned his mildly suspicious glance with a look sharp enough to cut diamonds followed by a smile more brilliant that any gem. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just then, one of the football coaches saw what was happening and yelled at us to cut it out. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They traveled mostly on old abandoned trails, astonishingly plentiful in this virtually uninhabited region; occasionally, they cut straight through the bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark waves flung shards of ice at him, and the blood from his cuts steamed and froze. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I mean with them cutting off welfare, a lot of these shorties are going to be even more messed up. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Cayn whirled, steel flashing, drove back the nearest spearman with a flurry of blows; for an instant it looked as though he might cut his way free. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The piece of curtain Victor had cut off was hanging on the wall Ida had put a carpet on the bare floor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He recovered quickly under Ben’s tender ministrations, a mug of mead, and a reminder that not everyone was cut out to have eyebrows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As was the custom, the orchestra cut off the song they were playing and went into “Till We Meet Again.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers lift her hand to kiss it; his hands are on a steering wheel, and they cut a sandwich in half, and they hug his mom, and carry his lacrosse bag. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Early on the morning of the second day he was home, he cut poles and used basswood twine to rope together two platforms, one on either side of the cornfield. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It looked like if I put it together and cut it down like Mr. Parrish said, it would definitely be on the money. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie Begay, another of our code talkers, was with a forward patrol that walked into an ambush and was cut to pieces. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were ripe, or very close, just shy of being dry, and the worms and squirrels had been at them, but they still found enough to cut the edge off their hunger. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

My fear shot forth—a quick, jabbing sword that slashed fiercely, silver flashes, quick cuts wherever my attention drove it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps I had had two frena, and she had cut one. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just get in there and shut that door until we figure something out. Maybe we can keep it—” Alec shushed him, cutting off his sentence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he heard a woman’s voice cutting through the line saying: ‘He said: “He’s stupid.”’ Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I cut the heart out of a dead cat and called it a day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She pulls two feet of tape from the roll, the screech cutting through the dusty silence. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"Simeon, cut it—" Mr. Fantana started, but Simeon shut him down. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My throat cut off the word—silence in front of the most understanding teacher. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother said, “Well, I’m not sure if it’s an actual law but—” “Oh yes, it is,” his father cut in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squeezed his hands together to put pressure on the cut. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“These things may be vicious,” Minho said, “but they’re dumb as dirt. Stand here, close to me, facing—” Thomas cut him off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

See, I’ll say, I’m mestiza or else I wouldn't have cut my hair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I pulled off my visor, I saw smoke pouring in through the holes being cut in the door and the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be some sort of well-dressed ornament who showed up at parties and ribbon cuttings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One cuts into the gut of a legionnaire, the other slides across a throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a short-sleeved polo shirt, as if he’s standing in a Georgia peach grove, and I’ve just cut and pasted him randomly into winter. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Momma’s voice was full, sweet and clear, but always cut through by a sad warble. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“You-know-who has been on the warpath all day long,” said Charles, cutting himself a slice of bread. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As we come to the gate of my community, I can see that it’s blocked by a barricade of sorts; another sign of how deep the crisis has cut. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She put her vase down on the table in front of me, then glancing around my pantry again said: 'If you wish, Mr Stevens, I might bring in some more cuttings for you.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, I’d painted my share of signs and stuffed enough envelopes that I was certain every part of my hands had been paper cut at one time or another. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Father was poised to go on with the story when suddenly Tata Ndu stood right straight up, cutting him off in the middle of hammering home his message. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rumble is deep and cuts through the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

‘This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you’ll feel it this time! I’ll cut your throat.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The door opens a crack, and a dagger of light cuts through the darkness. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The Dugout was sparsely furnished—booth benches with backs on them along the walls, and support pilings scattered throughout the room that cut into the dancing space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We others cut down timber on the foreland, on a high point, and built his pyre of logs, then stood by weeping while the flame burnt through corse and equipment. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With both arms tightening around John’s waist he tried to cut John’s breath, watching him meanwhile with a smile that, as John struggled and squirmed, became a set, ferocious grimace. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When it came, it felt like someone was cutting me open with a knife. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But we were cut off from this type of new thought. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were trespassing on private property, so the police came. They called our parents and cut our dance short,” Mrs. Hidalgo said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Two narrow straps cut from cold-rolled sheet steel were lapped over the extended flange and used to clamp the fins solidly in place. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After Clayton said good-bye, we fastened on our hats and veils and went out to the hives, bearing armloads of black crepe material cut in giant squares. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut it up into nice big wedges while I poured the coffee. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boys would cut the grass and rake the leaves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using machetes and axes, they cut through the jungle’s dense foliage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

If she cut the bad apples from the team, there wouldn’t be enough players for a full roster, she explained. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I can imagine her dark brown eyes cutting to the side, and her full lips pursing. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I just about went crazy then, threw myself inside and insisted he let me cut the grass today. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Borkowski always gave Raymie candy in exchange for the toenail cutting, and if you got paid for something, it couldn’t be a good deed. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was going to tell Petra that all the kids in Tommy’s new neighborhood had crew cuts, but that was pretty nothing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid in high school I cut out vitamin C, I got scurvy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

James nodded, but cut the movement short, as if it hurt his head to move it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I bandaged the cut, packed up my Gillette blades and caught the eleven-thirty bus to Boston. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

We all climbed into the car with jerky, unnatural movements like we’d recently been cut out of full-body casts and hadn’t yet become reacquainted with our full range of motion. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut four more segments of the buoyant rope and tied the lifebuoy to each side of the square. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jason’s gold sword cut through the padlock, and the metal gate creaked open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, Dr. Philobosian’s medical eye noticed the cut on the young man’s hand and the pallor of malnutrition. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our gas got cut off last week, and with no gas, we don’t have heat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For Gogol’s lunches they stand at the deli to buy cold cuts, and in the mornings Ashima makes sandwiches with bologna or roast beef. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Poseidon made some kind of suggestion, but Zeus cut him off. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back to the worm and made another cut and began to pin back the worm’s flesh, taking meticulous notes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

That question sure cut to the chase and everyone watched to see how I'd take it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had to cut his victory tour short, however, when troubling news arrived from home: his Egyptian subjects were in revolt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

What Black said about watching Brother cut became obvious, because while he was cutting Noodles, I realized that he cut exactly like Brother did. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The bump on my forehead was swollen and I stopped the bleeding by lying still and letting it coagulate, then picked away the dried blood except over the cut. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I cut the bottom out of one and the remaining canvas was the right size and shape. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because they peck each other, their beaks are cut off. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wheeled him up an hour later, used my pocketknife to cut holes in the bottom of the barrel for drainage, and built up a fine sweat shoveling in dirt. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are already stiff from cold, so I take Rue's spare pair of socks, cut holes for my fingers and thumbs, and pull them on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I never thought I’d say this, but I miss cutting up dead frogs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He goes on for another minute or so, until I have to cut him off. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Their dorsal fins, some as tall as a man, cut the glassy surface within spitting distance of the rail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joey led the way along the trail by the lake to the mess hall, and then we turned up the path that cut between the dorms. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Black told us about how he used to watch Brother cut when he was younger. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I had almost forgotten about the cut in all the chaos, but it still hasn’t stopped bleeding. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It cut to the very heart of me, making me ashamed of the good work the doctors had done. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Once, in a battle with a gang of white boys, I was struck behind the ear with a piece of broken bottle; the cut was deep and bled profusely. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s okay—” I began, but Ajit Uncle cut me off by protesting mightily. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She then cut herself out of the circuit, leaving him to face the outside world. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When the wheels finally ceased spinning, I reached for the door handle, a spike of total and complete grief cutting through me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When the mines reopen, wages are cut, hours extended, miners sent into blatantly dangerous work sites. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A Messenger? Snakes and dogs, I’ll—” He cut himself off, and for a few moments went absolutely silent, as if trying to decide just what horrible thing to do to Sticky. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Both boys and girls had their hair cut. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my sketchbook, I flip to a blank page and write words, bearing down so hard the letters cut into the page. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cayn helped him with his clothes; white linen tunic and grey cloak, trousers cut open down his plaster-sheathed leg, his badge of office, and last of all a belt of heavy silver links. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After that, Lizzie always sang the hymns she knew, and Turner cut down on the high churchy tunes to accommodate her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I think we can cut these sessions to an as-needed basis. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to apologize, thinking maybe it’s not too late to save myself, but the English teacher cuts me off. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A sloping mound of rocks and dirt, floor to ceiling, cut off the tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop cuts in and introduces TJ—the third partner in this scheme of theirs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

‘And this ledge broadens out to the right. I could stand there without a hold. I’ll——’ his words were cut short. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He would have cut me in half if Pod had not . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Starting his race all alone, Pollard tried to turn the incident to his advantage, cutting in to the rail for a ground-saving trip while far ahead of him, Velociter and Uppermost cruised to the lead. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra did as he said, and he cut through four bars altogether, enough for them to pass through without difficulty. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our destination turned out to be an empty stretch of road cut off by a pile of stones and logs heaped in the middle of the path. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes roved across my face, which was smarting with pain, and then settled on your cut lip, but she didn’t comment. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit began to rip over the track, cutting into Myrtlewood’s lead even as she flew through fractions faster than any ever run at the Detroit Fair Grounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or I’d cut up fruit for Methuselah, still hanging around begging, and catch grasshoppers for Leon, the chameleon we keep in a wooden crate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother even made toast and cut the pieces into little triangles and put on lots of butter. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The radio was cutting in and out while the announcer gave the weather report and said they would be talking to an FBI spokesman in a few minutes. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I figured he’d wait until the dance was over and then—” Her sigh cut me off. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The best was when Madam told us to hang dried rosemary throughout; that cut right through the lingering stench of boots and belchings. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deen had been the one to spot the small green boat, appearing through mist that wreathed the island, cutting through the whitecapped waves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

To be honest, none of us was surprised that Susan made the cut. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m serious. I can show you where one of them cut me before I got away.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A cool afternoon wind blew in, cutting through the oven-hot kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I press my knife harder against his neck, careful not to cut him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My mom’s voice is so soft, like she’s worried that loud words will cut me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He kept the isinglass curtains snapped to the windows to cut off the draughts, and tight around his neck he wore his gray wool shawl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Rathbone throws his left arm up in a defensive reflex and feels the knife cut him to the bone. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I cut my hand, so I went inside, and then Scott came back and asked me what had happened. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s it. The rest of us are just cut and bruised and scarred for life.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I cut myself on your corsage,” Mario said, sucking on the side of his index finger. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The camera would cut to a field of ragged crows and then to a freckle-faced woman who sat in a sunbeam examining her knuckles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When Songololo came to join us, I cut open a papaya for her as well. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nokomis cut new bark, made fancy overlaps and rain diversion flaps. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She had a square jaw and square shoulders, and brown hair cut in a short, squarish way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After all, my mother had never had her hair cut in her life and of course she expected my father to be startled or shocked. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a frosted cake, cut exactly down the middle. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Roy observed that a small section had been cut with wire clippers so that it could be pulled back. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was low, her words cutting into the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The engine cut off, and I sat, motionless, as they continued to listen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It was the Matherson boy,” Mrs. Eberhardt cut in excitedly, “the one who attacked you on the bus. And he tried to convince the police he was you!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None, m’lord. She come alone. Her horse was dying under her. All skin and ribs it was, lame and lathered. They cut it loose and took the girl for questioning.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Very well, I’ll untie you, but he can stay in his chains,” he said, and dropped the scarf back in the drawer before cutting her bonds with a clasp knife. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” I reply, and, eager to see Alice, take off at a run down a dirt road, then cut over to Tenmile Creek, passing through a forest of yellow birch and maples. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I took a pair of embroidery scissors and, with great exhilaration and a pounding heart, cut off the first inch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

With a single deadly swipe, he cut her to dust. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"The girl was wet with love. She would have done anything for Joffrey, until he cut off her father's head and called it mercy. That put an end to that." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Out of one of the drawers he lifted a finely woven broadcloth shirt, carefully cut, and very pink. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he shouted at her, “And shall I look an old-fashioned fool forever? All the young men of the city have their hair cut short.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His mother turned to say something, but he cut her off. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I press the thumbnail of my right hand into the centre of the cut and feel it open up, the pain sharp and hot. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he never complained, not even when Dr. Cajazeira cut open his leg, without painkillers, and drained the abscesses. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When he went to change the bandage today, the cut was redder than he expected. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He said, “I do not want to help cut him. Do you, Meg?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought them in front of him; they were caked with dried blood from the zip tie that had cut into his wrists. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tom looked into the eyepieces of a microscope that was attached to the cutting machine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As before, after taking a cut for himself, Wojek gave us the remaining coins. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two yards from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a yard across. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A metal ridge cut into Mark’s back as the pilot pressed on him from above, leaning forward with his forearm dug into Mark’s neck, cutting off the air to his windpipe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Presently it stopped, as though cut suddenly in exasperation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His hands are tied behind him with roughly woven rope cutting through the flesh of his wrists. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where the huge cut had been, there was a long white scratch, and even that was fading. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He was just showing off. I don’t think he’d have cut me.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thursday night when I get home, Ellis and Mom are already getting dolled up for their Mommy and Me night, and Ellis is in the red dress that is too low cut for a sixteen-year-old. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He walked out to the Trask farm, found Charles cutting wood, and gave him the letter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

During my high school summers, I cut grass in parks and on the medians of highways, unloaded trucks, and walked beside road-paving equipment with a rake to smooth the hot asphalt along the curbs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

By sunset, I’m on my way back to Bartlett, cutting through the heart of Indianapolis, smoking my fourth American Spirit cigarette in a row. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This was the first year they would’ve actually been in different weight classes, had Luke decided not to cut. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With a small knife, the old woman cut a sleeve of the boy's shirt and pulled a delicate red thread. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He wet a cloth in the stream to clean the cut. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a frightening sensation, having him cut my hair again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Toussaint lifted up his T-shirt and showed the cut in his back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got my figure and my mother let me get my hair cut. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Once he got out of the stable he’d head straight down the road afore he cut off into the woods heading for the lake he first took me to ’bout a year ago. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Forest had teased Stocktender first, burning and cutting him before the final moments of his hideous death. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Hip-hop artists quoted him in lyrics, cut his speeches across the breaks, or flashed his likeness in their videos. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They had to cut the chains before the next group tried to take the elevator, but they also had to make sure the Titans were as distracted as possible. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With a loud bark she rolled onto her stomach and cut off her milk from him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get out of my house, before I cut out your heart.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never cut school, but today I just needed a break. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have the heart to cut bread and spread it with margarine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cut in your arm wasn’t super long, but it was pretty deep,” Scoob replies. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

But the electricity had been cut off, and the oil lamp that had once lit the dark between our beds had already been packed away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks into the hall and makes snipping motions with his fingers, meaning I’m to cut it short. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Late-afternoon sun cuts a trapezoid of light through the glass window. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It just rises, and I don’t cut it off. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A closet door cut off one corner, and Emily was surprised to see the inside was a triangle instead of the expected square. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was like they were cutting my face open from the inside out. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I wondered as I cut through the browned C and promptly shattered the entire crust. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That is how I told my parents I was cutting off contact with them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But what she was about to say was cut off by an ear-piercing screech from downstairs. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reel feeds the standing grain into the sickle, where it is cut. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The room, barely six by eight, featured a single- paned window in the shape of a face that swung out to a discreet view of my father’s exquisitely landscaped garden of cut stones and flowers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

While dressing the president’s wound, he accidentally cut himself. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It mostly reminded me of the cutting sounds that a pack of hounds makes once they commence to ripping a possum to shreds. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They cut to what is supposed to be live footage of a female reporter, encased in a protective suit, standing in front of the ruins of the Justice Building in 13. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He began to cut the celery on an old chopping board. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The cut on his head had looked pretty bad. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My plan is to cut it and say I was just joking about being indi'gena. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking get the knife and cut the line, but something in me says no. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She knew these sharp, gray rocks—knew how they crunched beneath her feet, how they smelled after the rain, how they could so easily cut into her skin when she was thrown down. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One night he dreamed that he’d unscrewed the bulb, broken it, and with the broken glass cut his wrists and ankles. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know because I heard about how you got cut, that’s how I know.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll cut their wicked heads from their wicked necks. Just give me a sword. Or an axe. Anything. I’m not afraid!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wonder why Mister Johnny doesn’t just go ahead and cut that thing down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Didn’t say much else when I told him how to cut into the clay and haul it up, until he had a good number of the bricks in the wagon. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and began cutting up a chicken. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s face was covered with purple bumps and red cuts. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “Frank Millet, whom I loved, was aboard her...thus cutting off my connection with one of the best fellows of the Fair.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Now she understood what her mother had meant about gossip cutting like a knife. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Medwyn passed through a cut in a bare shoulder of the cliff, and the next thing Taran knew, they suddenly emerged into a green, sunlit valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I could be fast. I’ll cut the line and grab it quick!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He shows me how to cut the carrots. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

With fluid movements she wipes my arms, legs, and face with a damp rose-scented cloth and cuts and buffs my nails, then paints and dries them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mam was vain about her thick, dark hair and refused to cut it ever again. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You could cut your hand on a rusty tin.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It felt as if her son had a knife in each hand, as if he were hacking at her to cut his way out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The long tables had clearly been cut from the hearts of trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A long, curved sauropod neck cut a slender silhouette against the dark blue sky between them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When he had forced a drink from his flask down the hobbit’s throat, cut his leg-bonds, and dragged him to his feet, Merry stood up, looking pale but grim and defiant, and very much alive. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Another reason that the wealthiest will fare much better is that the tax cuts over the past decade have sharply lowered rates on income from investments. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It is assembled from all the bits of leather that people cut from the toes and the heels when they make shoes for themselves, and throw away. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Anya spied a doll tied around its waist with a string, bundles of wheat cut short and tied with festive bows, and several apples with simple pictures carved into the skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’ll lean on the sink, and my granddaughter will cut paper molecules with her scissors for a project for school. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was ever one person who would decide while lost on the AT to leave the trail and try for a short cut, it was Katz. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not right down to the bone,” she said, “but I’ve cut myself.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A new inn had risen beside the landing, twice the size of the old one, with a lower story of cut stone and two upper stories of timber. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was cut in a hundred places—but he was bleeding golden oil instead of blood. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As he cut off a piece of that goat he began to smile. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where Miss Love had been talking to me like I was a man, now she had cut me back down to size. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was a very short conversation, however, because I cut him off by asking him to recite pi to the sixth digit, claiming it was an entrance requirement, regardless of the shoes. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smooth air flowing around the wing means the plane can slip through the sky with minimum friction, the way the most efficient swimmers cut through the water. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The audition actually went very well, Libby. By the way. Like: I didn’t get cut, or I did at first but then got called back.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I felt around it but the rope was no longer tied to it He'd cut the raft loose! The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut Dad off with a shouted order and shoved him aside. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you couldn’t see the keel, but you could tell it was there by the way the ship cut through the waves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I imagined he worked by oil lamp, cutting and sewing leather well into the night. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was the knee that had gotten cut a couple of months back. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A silver line lay across the opposite bank, sun cutting into the last of the night’s royal blue. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d trailed the professional thieves of the Barrel and learned how to pick pockets and how to cut the laces on a lady’s purse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He starts apologizing, but I cut him off. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Mom was skilled at charming her way around corruption, which had helped her cut through the endless red tape it took to get the sanctuary off the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was still swollen where Kino had struck her, and big flies buzzed around the cut on her chin. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had spent most of it out on the ice, shivering beside a pair of holes they’d cut in the smaller of the frozen lakes, with fishing lines clutched in mitten-clumsy hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She laid a thin stick under the score line and pushed sharply down on the lacquer, as she’d seen a glazier cutting glass, and it worked: now she had two sheets. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had a long, bright knife in her hand and had been busily cutting the horse free from the wreck of the hansom. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

And she would summon the waiter to her side, her voice sharp and staccato, cutting the air like a saw. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then my mother cut a piece of meat from her arm. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had cut off most of my hair. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Billy’s dad had been cut off in 1957, but had stuck around by claiming an old shack above where the colored people lived in Snakeroot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They worried that cutting into the cancer might kill him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By 1931 the effects of the Depression had caused crew programs across the country to go out of existence or to cut back drastically on the purchase of equipment. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the road there was a deep railroad cut—an unfinished railroad; he had not noticed it before. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sloth’s down there now. I saw her. Dreaming about a Lucky Strike got her nothing except shame cuts through her crew tattoos, and a whole lot of bad company.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They crouched under the partly cut tree, pulling handfuls of cut vines from around the track. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the gas got cut off, Trey knew it was gonna happen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Papa took a box knife out of his pocket and cut the cardboard, then he lifted the most wonderful sight I'd ever seen out of the box. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he spoke, the hundreds of snaking cracks in the windshield cut up his reflection. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I tell him instead about the quilt I’m making for the baby, how I cut the pattern out of newspaper and then fine sandpaper, which sticks to the material. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I could beg her for the honor of a dance and cut her throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No one ever cut it that fine, mind!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Yet I see nothing else we can do. Would you abandon him? Would you have cut off his head?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But when that social worker and the cops leave the house, Mom cuts loose. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid that you'll have to stay with us just a little bit longer,” he said to Tyler, and began checking his cuts. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“This edge,” said Giacomo Paradisi, touching the steel with the handle of a spoon, “will cut through any material in the world. Look.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lawn’s cut, the bushes are shaped, and the house itself looks well kept and inviting. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finish eating, I’m so full, my pants nearly cut off my circulation. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She finished cutting and brushed the hair off my shoulders. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here’s a hint: What did the cows and pigs and chickens eat before they became cuts of meat? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They kept thumping against his legs, the straps having been cut for a tall man. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were moving them up the mountain where they would be under total Khmer Rouge control, isolated from the world and cut off from all the escape routes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the loggerhead swam off, we jumped in and goofed around until Thom cut his ankle on a broken beer bottle that was buried in the sand. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Almost twice as old as he should be to still be living here," Grandma Knife cuts in. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One was tall, with hair cut lower than mine. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Don Walter cuts them out and puts them next to the others above his desk, and Don Lucho tapes some behind the cafe bar. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished them—which he did in a humiliatingly short time—he surveyed the lotus root, wiping it on the mat of crushed grasses and wondering how he was going to cut it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I have to keep myself from smiling because I know it’ll make the cut split open again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He bought me cheap gifts: a glass figurine, a prickly brooch of cut glass, a silver- colored cigarette lighter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad made up the next day, and by late afternoon Mom was cutting Dad’s hair in the living room of the apartment we’d rented in Blythe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hid it because I didn’t want to be taken to the hospital and it was just a small cut. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But then how could a stiff crew cut get mussed up? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, the brothers put on gloves and took out a meat cleaver, cutting Anna’s head into “sausage meat,” as the undertaker later put it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She’d have to be careful not to cut herself to ribbons on their sharp edges. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cord was cut through, and the metal wires inside the cord were split apart at the cut section. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With the money he made from lobstering and cutting ice out of Wash Pond and selling his paintings to the summer people, Osh had bought nails, a hammer, and whatever else he lacked. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Cade found fresh tire ruts cutting across the muddy shoulder where the car we’d been following had slid from the highway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were employed to cut down some trees and haul off debris. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Our last short cut through woods nearly ended in disaster.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He smiled, cutting into his cheese cake with a fork and shoving far too large a piece into his mouth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moonlight filled our tiny room and the scent of a freshly cut Christmas tree filled my nostrils. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were cut into long, thin segments by the dark hair that always sat like a shield in front of my right eye. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A woman who used to go out to cut grass for thatching once came across a place where there was a great deal of grass. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I yelled, but they were driving off so fast, I had to cut across the neighbors’ lawns and through their backyards to keep up with them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The parachute blossomed open above him and he was jerked back upward, the harness cutting into his armpits and sides. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

"Gods. Those are deep cuts ... a gash from a sword or . . . how did this happen, my lady?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A special entrance was cut into the bank leading to the road, and wide steps and a large white gate were built there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The freshly cut growth that made the side of his face rough. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Frightful’s wings cut circles in the wind that sped her southeast toward the ocean. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’d heard that dropcops had a nickname for this procedure—cutting an indent out of a fortified residence so they could arrest him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He did not appear, however, to be someone who would kidnap me and cut me up into small pieces. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Seated before a mirror with Mrs. Shigemura behind her, she had learned that her hair was utsukushii and that to cut it would be a form of heresy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Loki would say something, something cutting and clever and hurtful, but his life will have gone, and all his brilliance, and all his cruelty, and he will say nothing, not ever again. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There’s no intermediate point in the process in which you confront the potential employer as a free agent, entitled to cut her own deal. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his way out, he stopped and turned to a tall bag boy with closely cut hair and asked him his name. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The elegant Arctic terns cut swirls in the sky, a spider crept under a stone, and the snow buntings flitted and called. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you intend to secure yourself a high rank, I suggest you don’t make a habit of losing to low-ranked opponents,” says Four, his voice cutting through the mutters and grumbles of the other initiates. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which runs the United States planetary space program, is subject to frequent and unpredictable budget cuts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presumably, during the time I was holding him, another officer would be cutting him down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s exchanged his military clothes for an elegant, white- vested suit, and his hair is freshly cut. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The book had clippings, cut out in ninety-degree angles as square and true as in an architectural rendering, of every story written about the Permian team that year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rips one of Jude and me down the middle, cuts me right out of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They brought the ball into their center and two of them cut, crisscrossing near the foul line looking for somebody to lose their man for the ball. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Will cut another small window in the direction he indicated, and as they looked out, they could all see a change in the pattern of the fighting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He took the knife, made the first cut, and it felt like my head was split down the middle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sorrow’s shrill voice cut like a rusty knife. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five men were cut off from the company. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I kick off my shoes and cut through the water, diving deep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We walked back toward the cornfields, and then cut through them until the back of the giant screen came into view. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the giant stumped toward me, I cut off his head. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stink of acetylene and burning metal cut into my nostrils and seeped like a nosebleed into the back of my throat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Here the clay had been cut away in neat slabs, leaving a pattern of staggered rectangles in the riverbank. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“I mean, depends on a few things, but generally I cut the offending party out of my life and keep it movin’. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Gently, the mother traced my cuts with her index finger. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The dolphin were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water, driving at speed, when the fish dropped. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Frank yelled, “Fire!” they sailed through the air—a wave of death cutting through the six-armed monsters. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She cut out a bird, a cardinal; it came out looking like something dogs had fought over. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mattresses were stacked, bunches of green bananas hung from the rafters, the gash where the machete had cut dripped white sticky ooze onto the floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her hair was short, cut above her shoulders, as one of those consequences. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Later, when the cut bush was dried, we set fire to it and watched the thick smoke rise to the blue summer sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He barged past Ifemelu into the flat, into the kitchen, and reached up to the electric meter, yanking off the fuse, cutting off what little electricity they had. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These arrows had bigger heads, ground to razor sharpness, and they were heavily feathered in a square cut There was a bow inspection, and two or three men were issued with new strings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even cut up some cantaloupe for us that he got at the market. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited for the blood to coagulate, and then she pressed the Band-Aid over the cut, drawing the sides of the cut together to seal the wound. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Times analysis also shows that over the next decade, the tax cuts Bush wants to extend indefinitely would shift the burden further from the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The hunters took the lion’s body and cut off the tail, paws, and mane. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of smile you give to a chicken whose head you’re about to cut off. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“They cut up our papers! Isn’t that illegal or something?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Now go cut a piece of rope in the bag over there.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The engine’s whistle blows mournfully, a distant sound that somehow cuts through the insistent buzzing in my ears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His shirt tore away, the stones cut his skin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I were allowed to cut my hair short or wear makeup, then maybe . The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company’s treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“This girl, I dunno her name. She said you cut people’s daemons away.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He has a cut at the corner of his mouth, but he seems otherwise unharmed. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That evening, I cut up the cardboard backing of two yellow tablets. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The left side of his face was slick with scar where an axe had cut off his ear and part of his cheek. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was spring, and the fields were high with grasses to be cut for hay. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He cried out as he flung them into the river, not even noticing that one of them had cut his palm. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We bundle up, because even though it’s April, it looks like snow, and the wind is an icy sharp knife that cuts right through clothes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, Dr. Cook,” Jay says, and cuts me a glare. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

So I think of that—but then I think of these little shorties when welfare gets cut off. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cut was clean and deeper than she thought a plain Band-Aid could handle, than she would’ve thought a razor blade could cause. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“The longer the war goes on,” Maddie said, carefully cutting her iced bun in half with a tin butter knife, “the older I’ll get.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor Mr. Sera was cutting yellow roses from his garden. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That night he cut his wrists with his razor and he was found in the morning by his landlady, his eyes staring upward with no light, dead among the scarlet sheets. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Guess I did fool Betty Jean, though, because she went over and cut me a piece of apple pie. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ringtones cut through the darkness, breaking the sleep of a dozen other people in the square, people who will travel with us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got to worrying about the deer, and for many days I climbed trees and cut down tender limbs for them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mitch: Dad found out that she broke her wrist and had a cut on her head that took three stitches. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I pry the lid off the bait bucket and cut up some herring and drop it over the side. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He told her he wasn’t cut but twice but she had to have him naked so she could look him all over and fix him up to a certain extent. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But when I opened my mouth, the old man cut me a warning look and gave his head a quick shake. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet with a hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he’d cut to length with a hacksaw. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the very first play he whipped a no-look to Mong’s man, who cut through the lane for a finger roll over the rim. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I felt the cold pierce my bones, cut off the circulation in my hands, and seep into my soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, all right. Let’s cut the yappin’,” Bull said, picking up an imaginary microphone by his dashboard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I blurt out, cutting right to the point. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think a woman would make cuts and bums in her face to look beautiful?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

To refocus her eyes, she looked out over the field before she bent once more to cut the deep-green vegetables from their vines. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Rufus had told me his short cut, and that there was another longer way by road. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers would grab them off the street, beat them, and cut off their beards and side curls, known as payot, just for sport, or what they considered sport. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Shady took a knife from his pocket, cut a chunk of sausage, and squinted across the field at Sheriff Dean. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Someone or something cut his face, and he could taste blood in his mouth. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A few of the cut pieces are still on the ground. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When Ma wanted fresh meat for dinner Pa took the ax and cut off a chunk of frozen bear meat or pork. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled like the floors of the room full of cribs, and her long hair had been cut. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the ball toward me and Brothers cut me off as the guy guarding him brought his hand down to stop the pass. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Beetle blades—it’s how the Creators watch us. You better not—” He was cut off by a booming, ringing alarm that sounded from all directions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, meeting his gaze, but his stare was so rude I was forced to cut my eyes away. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My mom—who had cut her hair short for the convenience—was still messing with it in the rearview mirror, and still frustrated. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“A cup on the floor. Doesn’t it suggest this boat got waked? Don’t you—” “There’s no other evidence,” cut in Art Moran. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I do not take any short cuts, I do not forget to turn at the deli on the corner, I do not get lost, not even on purpose. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Yours, too. Because, as a result of it, it looks as though your own life is going to be cut unpleasantly short." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

My forehead hurts along the knife cut, but after three days the bleeding has stopped. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He closed the cut-throat razor, put it down on the side of the sink, dabbed at his tiny cut with a toilet paper swab. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I felt that the ground was being cut from under the feet of the party’s best writers.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s probably been over a month since my last cut, and the barber wasn’t that great. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They had cut down the bush around the village except for the entrance from the river through which we arrived. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to hustle. I cant stand another cut. The dean told me last week—” He put the watch back into his pocket. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He mounted her high and low and gave her to his khal, and Jhaqo gave her to his other bloodriders. They were six. When they were done with her, they cut her throat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No worry then but how to find a good stone, not round exactly but flattened and water-shaped, to use in a sling pouch cut from a discarded shoe. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All around the room, she could see glimpses of the tall man with the cut across his chin: Laughing, mouth open, molars showing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Towards the end of the afternoon, when all the heat had gone out of the sun, the woman stacked up the grass she had cut and loaded it onto her back. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as he entered the station, the phone service cut out. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t make the team, okay? I got cut and I didn’t want to disappoint you, so now I go walking, all right? Are you happy?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Together they dragged on Boots’s throat till he felt his air cut off, felt himself choking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He cut a dark glance toward the broad jowly deputy, who was leaning against the door. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My mind went on autopilot: stab, dodge, cut, deflect, roll. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He would cut him in on the profits, but Tom was a dreamer and could not be trusted with a good sound plan. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She cut off an inch and hurried back inside, brushing the soil off of it and the knife blade. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t too crazy over me having a half-naked girl in my room. Even if she was 2D. This was her compromise. Every time I take it down, she cuts a new dress.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I come into the living room and explain my plan, which is for us to drive around town and take small cuttings from interesting plants. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the further side it reared up again, many fathoms at a single leap: a great grey cliff loomed before them, cut sheer down as if by a knife stroke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

An Yi was about to say something else, but Teacher Gu cut her off. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help remedy the problem, the men cut some buritipalm branches, bundled them together, and attached them to the sides of the canoes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then O-lan crept out and she took a great iron knife she had in the kitchen and she cut a great gash in the beast’s neck, and thus she severed its life. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

His short hair has zigzags cut into it, and a cross pendant dangles from his neck. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the confusion, Annabeth moved quickly to cut the bonds on Hazel, Piper, and Coach Hedge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Apparently Kelton’s patience has also run out, because he’s the one who cuts to the chase. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You said you wanted a gentleman’s cut. That means no facial hair.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Shucks, I thought you was looking for me to cut me,” Harrison explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pouring mustard tea on the girls’ cuts and bruises, and keeping them at their tasks with spellbinding tales of her Baltimore days and the child she had cared for there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I was able to get some comforts for Magwitch,—Provis no longer,—who had received some very severe injury in the chest, and a deep cut in the head. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens scrawled all over the board, and a student cut in to ask which formula he was talking about. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up till now I've been driving 25 kph, so I'm going to cut that to 5 kph. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put her up front to help cut a path in the dense vegetation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The enemies fell like tall grass cut by a scythe. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noor had recently cut off her long dark hair, revealing delicate features and making her dark brooding eyes more pronounced. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The cuts from scratching mosquito bites I got over the summer were now fading thanks to the cocoa butter Mama made me rub on my legs at night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Now let’s cut this out,” Mr. Levy said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were, I sensed, going to cut to the chase. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It vomited fire and fetterlings as it cut through the burning waves. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They’d looked delicious hanging from the tree’s branches, but cut up into pieces, they emitted an aroma unlike anything he’d ever smelled before—the scent was intensely sweet, almost sugaring the very air around it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as they appeared in Macondo, the soldiers put aside their rifles and cut and loaded the bananas and started the trains running. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I took my nail scissors from the dressing-case and cut the page, looking over my shoulder like a criminal. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell Robert to cut down to his mother’s cottage, Frank, and bring him back.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi pulled open the paper to reveal a small wooden box pasted over with flowers and pictures cut out from catalogs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had stayed so close that the old man was afraid he would cut the line with his tail which was sharp as a scythe and almost of that si£e and shape. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would mean, of course, cutting back on some of his international travel, yet a few weeks later he was back in Tomsk, visiting TB patients and checking out the Russian programs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It sucked that Oliver's Story had made the cut, but Love Story hadn't. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When I left his salon, I had an uneven, boy-short pixie cut. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If that were it, I would take you out tonight,” he said, his voice cutting. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I shall cut the boot off he thought. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

So many weeks we spent cutting trees, splitting clapboard, tying thatch, making wattle and daub. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He cleaned and cut up the six beasts, hung some of the meat to freeze, stewed some for our meal that night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After hundreds of years, when the great trees finally got too old and dry, the Ka’t’sina carvers from the villages came searching for them to cut pieces of their soft dry wood to carve. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

An hour out of the basement, Fang and I trudged along the dark corridor of road cutting through the wetlands park on the outskirts of town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kroeber cut back the tally still further, to 900,000—a population density of less than one person for every six square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She called the welfare department to have the family’s public assistance cut off, and then reported the violation to the Housing Authority, starting the eviction process. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a dingy tank top and jeans cut into booty shorts, with kneesocks and sandals. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He cuts his clippers off again, brushes off his customer’s neck, and hands him a mirror. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I decided that even if I didn’t have enough time to cut boughs for a bed, I was going to have cooked fish and a fire to huddle around during those cold night hours. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord Ramsay does not want to hurt you. He only hurts us when we ... when we forget. He never cut me without cause.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the trees were cut in half, as though a huge pair of pliers had snipped off the tops. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At one point the man released one hand, cursing—the straw had cut into his palm. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

"An immortal dragon of power cut from this stone will be a fitting sculpture for my formal chamber." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fires now raged unchecked in the first circle of the City, and the garrison upon the outer wall was already in many places cut off from retreat. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Whatever his fortune, whatever the cut of his garment, there would always be the hem—the tuck and fold that hid his raveling edges; a someone sweet, industrious and loyal to shore him up. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, so 1 came to cut my throat along with the rest of us idiots,” Panky cackled sardonically, slapping Amarante’s shoulder, the force of his blow almost knocking them both over. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It moves down the rows, cutting the baby greens at the same point just above the crown. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then I went to the river and cut the tall, green alfalfa that grew wild and carried the bundle home so that I would have a few days of food laid in for the rabbits. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the day-care center suffers only $3 worth of pain for each late pickup, why bother to cut short your tennis game? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“What is up with the menagerie, lady? How are we supposed to cut this tree down?” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But they didn’t tell me nuthin bout that. They just asked if they could cut her up see about that cancer.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had washed the cut, poured some boiled vinegar over it, bound it up, and thought little more of it, trusting that the pain would fade and the hand heal itself in time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Why? “They were going to cut me up.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"You cut a pig's throat to let the blood out," said Jack, "otherwise you can't eat the meat" "Why didn't you.?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I untied my frayed shoestrings—I had to cut them, too—and slipped my sneakers off, tucking them under the bench. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“May I cut in, sir? “You look plain pretty, Scout,” Henry said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Philbert got in front of me, trying to cut me off. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise she wouldn’t have given me the two nice dresses that Momma cut down, and she certainly wouldn’t have called me a “sweet little thing.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors cut them open, letting their bacteria-laden contents flow out of Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tangles of hawthorn concealed treacherous gullies and cuts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Through the gloom of night came a muffled shout, cut short. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s like this—I think the company that makes Doritos is cutting down on the number of chips in each bag!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He would be cut off from the living, forever; he would have no name forever. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the dappled light, I pull the little orange backpack from my arm, cut open the clasp, and dump the contents on the ground. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not an idiot, Tom. Yes, I’m perfectly capable of remembering—” A loud bang from above and behind them cut her off, made Thomas jump. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The jagged edge didn’t cut immediately, so she held the screen with her right hand and raked it across her left. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What would you do, with a hammer that would not balance or a knife that would not cut? You would break it in anger, then get another.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards ahead, the boy cut sharply to the right and disappeared into the pine trees. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could cut through there, cross over to Jose Marti Boulevard, and get home that way. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The skin had stitched back together, as seamlessly as though there’d never been a cut there at all. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I reached up and touched my cut, felt the swelling. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t find anything in the document that suggested anybody but Nicole and her Cutter’s Way friends knew about her cutting. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Now it was high summer, with the hay drying in the fields and all the village praying for the rain to hold off until the grain was safely cut and stored away for winter. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s hair was grayish-brown, cut short in the front around his face but left long and stringy on the sides. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She made a pretext of cutting up my meat, and as she cut, she whispered in bite-sized phrases: "Please...Señorita...Sandi...you must...come to...my house." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But being a kid and worrying that the police might cut your head off is something else entirely. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They pledged to revamp their menus, cutting calories, reducing sodium, and offering healthier options for kids’ meals. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Their report recommended that Davis’s salary be cut in half, a clear sign that the balance of power had shifted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You know his daddy got his legs cut off in the mines, don’tcha?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one had a right to cut herself off from other people like that. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dad saw every piece of scrap as the money it could be sold for, minus the time needed to sort, cut and deliver it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We've come to an intersection where three streets cross each other, veining off at odd angles so that the sightline cuts off after less than twenty-five meters. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nick warded it effortlessly, then aimed a swift cut at my head. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She won’t wash her hair or cut her nails on Friday. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

On Sundays After Mass, After the car Is washed And the lawn cut — blades Of grass standing up In salute — we go To the park. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see Amma looking Appa over, hoping that if certain foul bits could be cut away, then sweetness, pure sweetness, would be left behind. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My blade cuts through Helene's leather armor, and part of me screams, Elias, what have you done? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It cuts through the front lawn and into the main building. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The page was crowded with thousands of comments and videos of Nicole, her pageant appearances, student council speeches, tennis matches, mash-up tributes cut to saccharin music. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“But nothing we did worked. And finally the company was going to cut them all down. I was ready to give up. But one day I was at a restaurant over in Cougar.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He carried a country mark on his face, three straight lines that had been cut into his right cheek when he became a man in Africa. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor is the absence of fractures and cuts on an ancient skeleton conclusive proof that the person to whom the skeleton belonged did not die a violent death. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I cut them," I said flat out, letting my pants drop back down. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The old man measured out a length of string and cut it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At the end of an alley, when my route was cut off by a heap of crates and half-rotten lumber, I climbed a ladder to the roof. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’d fought for tax cuts and credits for the working poor and was focused on cutting prescription drug costs for senior citizens. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“But to be sure, I think we should cut your hair in the front.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I cut a steaming piece with my fork, blew on it, and slid it into my mouth. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He put his finger on the river and followed it, tracing the path as the blue line cut through the green, followed it to where he thought he must be. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I love to watch the boys climb up palm trees to cut down the oil nuts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of them cut the rope,” I say, remembering. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The huge links were only partly cut out, so it looked rather like one of the totem poles in the museum, scallops going down four sides. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I...Sorry, I didn’t mean to cut you off, it’s just...John Henry. Whoa.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

That wire was cut from a short distance away by the Careers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His gold blade cut through the tendrils with no problem, but faster than he could sever them, more took their place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Carl and the boys were out culling raspberry canes, and she found them down among the southward trellises, Carl cutting free the older stock, the boys filling the wheelbarrow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a three block area with stores facing the street, the river visible in fragments of green through the alleyways that cut through to unseen parking lots by the water. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today our class was to take sponges that she and Sister Pat had cut up into different shapes and make printed designs on old T-shirts. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We may need to cut our way through them, she thought, as the south gate swung wide before them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Didn’t pull away, just watched, black eyes begging as the knife cut into her brown skin. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She cut slashes in mutowa trees and collected a ball of sticky sap. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ms. Singh noticed them while she was cutting—and I don’t see how she couldn’t have—she doesn’t say anything. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She cut the little dead body up, put the limbs in a kettle over the fire, and served them to Tereus that night for supper. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somebody had to cut this in half. Somebody strong had to drag it onto the sides of the driveway, just so our road was passable,” Axel says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we’ll come quietly,” the Savage answered, dabbing alternately a cut lip, a scratched neck, and a bitten left hand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea came of simply cutting the wood away to leave the lacquer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They forgave him, but he cut all ties with them when his father declined to remortgage their house in order to lend him more money. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want his father to see him with these fresh cuts on his face, the bruises. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Marines fired in delirium, cutting down the first advancing wave of Japanese infantry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I ever caught myself wanting you like I want her, I’d cut my throat,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it might fit me well enough, so I chased away the flies and cut it offhim. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Today she was dressed like a Christmas tree, with all this stuff pinned to her clothes, shapes cut out of fabric, ribbon. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The cheering stopped as if cut off with a sword, and complete silence fell all over the arena. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The middle one cut the yarn, and I swear I could hear that snip across four lanes of traffic. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched down at the cut ends and peered at the annual growth rings, trying to get a nuanced read on how tight and regular the grain within was likely to be. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I mocked the material, the cut, and workmanship of everything he brought out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She chose a simple dress of dark grey wool, plainly cut but richly embroidered around the collar and sleeves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He washed carefully, the saltwater stinging gently when he hit a scratch or small cut—there seemed to be many of them as well as bruises. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word, like a scythe, cut the strings that were holding her upright. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’d cut my last two classes to clock an extra hour on my shift card after my boss texted that a lot of people had called in sick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The blades were so sharp they made cutting the grass effortless. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He then took his pocket knife and cut off a piece about six inches long...then took a match from his pocket and lighted the end.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I look across the dining room, and three of the younger people—the big girl, the girl with dark hair and blue streak, and the blond girl with cuts—are all sitting together. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As she prepared the meal, I studied the array of pickled salads and cuts of meat behind glass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

So Robert escaped me and cut down Rhaegar on the Trident. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders gives Faith the eye, letting her know to cut it out. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d taken to wearing socks on my hands for sleeping to cut back on bites and rashes, and as I peeled them off, I used one to wipe his nose. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was Thursday before Claire finally cut Maya off on her way to history class. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The tiny tail gunner woke up while Yossarian was cutting with the scissors, saw him, and fainted again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My mother, trying to cut the tension, began digging in her church bag, which was way bigger than her normal bag. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had in his pocket and placed on the parlor table the lead bullet they had given him to bite while they cut off his frayed leg. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Every year, the day after Wishing Day, I swear I’m going to cut that thing down,” Francesca said. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One of the cuts went from cheekbone to hairline and it had not spared her left eye on the way. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Off to their left, massive housing projects cut into the night sky. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the summer, Luma had sent word around that she expected her players to get their hair cut short, a rule that hadn’t gone over well with some of the Under Fifteens’ best players. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But sometimes I have different versions of the dream, like when you can see two versions of a film, the ordinary one and the director’s cut, like Blade Runner. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I told myself not to get up in the night and walk across the floor unless I wanted to cut my feet to smithereens. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

However, she faltered as she beheld the mounds of bone-colored rock at the far end of the compound, and the small figures going in and out of the many mouthlike holes cut into the mountains. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Kevin’s now sported a crew cut, a small patch of short blue hair on each side of his head, just above the ear. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She descended to the center of the web and there she began to cut some of her lines. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

My hand is only cut a little and the cramp is gone from the other. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held on to her, and with his other hand, he cut through the rope. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Behind it, cut into the wall, is a small cupboard door, big enough for a person to squeeze through, but only on hands and knees. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was streaming out of the cut and clear down into my shoe. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She decided to turn off the main highway and cut cross-country. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our one lifeline in this stormy sea and Papa is cutting the rope she’s been playing out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously, at some point Mr. Clutter had been tied there, strung up by his hands, and then cut down. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could be cut apart and cut off from home and destroyed in detail, piece by piece. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon unsheathed his dagger and cut it, groped for the edges of the cloth, and pulled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out the circles of tin with her scissors. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Come on back here a minute," he called, his voice cutting sharply through the roar of the furnaces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where they had been grassy and sloping away gradually, the banks were steeper and cut away, exposing the dirt and mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I still say the cuts are too clean,” said the one holding Worm. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

While the rest of the country has fitfully cut back welfare and continues to debate class disparities and the barriers to mobility, Whitiker has quietly traversed several classes in a single lifetime. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Griever Hole would’ve been pitch-black if not for the beam of Teresa’s flashlight cutting through the darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“How about I distract him while the three of you cut around and head for the castle entrance?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And she held my head there and looked at the cut above my eye, then she just looked right into my eyes and we didn’t blink or anything. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I cut boards from Bando’s barn siding into two heart shapes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair falls away from her face and her cuts scream up into the light. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was cut comical, so everybody laughed at it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Cool river air cut through the hot night. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was grateful when she called me back later to ask that I help her cut the ugu for the soup. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they’ll only put in a brief appearance. I can pretty much tell you there is only one thing on Saleem’s mind right now, and it’s not cutting that cake.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He was still exhausted from the training and wondered how he would explain all the half-healed cuts and bruises if anyone saw under his shirt. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A more virtuous job, I knew, would inevitably involve a pay cut. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“What if he had told you to cut my nose and ears off?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I busy myself at the sink, washing the cutting board, so I can avoid talking to her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then he cut them off at the eyes, “the windows of the soul,” rendering them even more enigmatic. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One boy cut his foot while playing on a rusted plow, which poisoned his blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And then I can hear someone say I need stitches since it's a deep cut and it is right between my eyebrows and it will likely scar. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

This held her lull in a small crystal vial, with a dish of plums to cut the bitterness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The hangers cut into my arms, sting my shoulders and back. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not enough time. You’d have to cut trees; it would be dark before you were in action.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five thousand marines there were cut off and could get supplies only by air, even though any helicopter that flew over took a lot of enemy fire from the twenty thousand surrounding Vietcong troops. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the left side she leaves it long, and she cuts a ridge of short hair down the middle of my head so that my hair looks very much like the other men and boys. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The river curved left and the raft went straight, cut across the curve, and jammed into the bank. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I went to a stylist in Berkeley to get the cut fixed and she looked at me and said, "This is the worst haircut I've ever seen in my life." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“We can leave them in the mailbox, in case we don’t cut school tomorrow.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway if I did say something very cutting and snotty, he'd probably get up and come over to me and say, "Listen, Caulfield. Are you calling me a crook?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Cade cut holes for us in each layer of concentric perimeter fencing, and we were in. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A short bark that was instantly cut off as if a needle had been lifted from a record. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of cut wood and Christmas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then again, I had to keep reminding myself, I wasn’t normal; and as long as hollows were hunting me, any life lived outside the loop would almost certainly be cut short. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the following days, she was mostly silent, withdrawn, as they sat outside and watched the carpenter cutting, hammering, smoothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

No paint on her lips or nails, her brown hair cut very short. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Chat-ham sheriff tells me my little toe on my left foot was so chawed up that the doctor had to cut it offen me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Two dirt roads ending in cul-de-sacs had been cut into the dusty ground, although the roads had eroded so much I could barely see their outlines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They looked like big tin cans that had been cut in half and laid on their sides. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With a knife he made a few small cuts above the tail, a couple of clean cuts at the head, and one deep slice up the belly. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

For thirty yards, the two horses hurtled down the homestretch side by side, their cutting, irregular strides settling into long, open lunges, their speed building and building. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking of Amah cut into her chest, but she knew her words were true. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He cut the tape around my wrists and ankles, moved me into his office, and gave me a towel, but he refused to let me go home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“This is Cormier’s cut. You can give it to him tomorrow.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The cuts on her naked body were smaller, dotting her arms and legs like slightly parted red lips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She threw the knife into the back of the chair again and again, hiding the rips under a fur throw, the resulting cuts and abrasions on her hands under gloves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bates might not like my suit, or the cut of my hair, and my chance of a job would be lost. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch him eyeing my cut, making sure the bandage is in place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You take the chicken out after two days and cut it off the bone and put the meat back.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Just tell me what you saw. “The middle one took out her scissors, and she cut the yarn.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now it seemed inconceivable to him that he had ever thought of cutting his throat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps a dozen cuts in all, most of them on the tops of his shoulders, a few across his back and along his arms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"And yes, I did ship you a cutting. What about it?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He would cut his grant request to $500,000 and try to make up the balance from other sources. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He had decided not to truckle with Might any more—to cut it out root and branch, by establishing another standard altogether. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pressed the white cloth to it, the red blooming like a rose, and her finger smarted from the cut. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Releasing the handles, he examined his arm, then made his way unsteadily to the bathroom of his apartment to wash the cut off. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I will cut you into pieces as a sacrifice to Night!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If I had to answer to someone, I preferred that it be the person least likely to cut my throat. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t have the cut of a Caliban curse, but it’s all right. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He cut short my profuse apologies with a magnanimous wave of his hand, and went back over to his and Mme. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Lupin straightened up, rubbing his arms where the ropes had cut into them. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She would even cut her hair and sell it—a maid back home had told her that girls with good hair could always do that. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If that weren’t trial enough, a few hours of standing in her proud new boots and her feet had swollen so that the laces cut into her flesh. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we consider cutting an apple pie, continuing down beyond a single atom, we confront an infinity of the very small. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did as he said, cutting the cables, making breathless haste, all as silently as possible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at my mom, looks at me, then continues cutting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He cuts back, but then he gives in. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Malcolm cut a thick slice for himself and another for Alice, and carved some cheese to go with them as the woman Doris Whicher woke up nearby and looked around blearily. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t she content to be golden perfection without cutting away at me? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I feel like I should take the day—” she started, but I cut her off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘Good. Now -’ A loud whoop! cut through the air. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Standing in the pond, my ankles look crooked, cut by the water’s surface. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then a glass cylinder is lowering around me, breaking our handhold, cutting him off from me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled on his gloves, removed the shroud of blankets from Carl Heine, and then, methodically, using angled scissors, cut away the rubber bib overalls, dropping pieces of them in a canvas bin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A musket cut down one of Sybil’s carpenters—he held a baby in his arms and they both crashed to the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Younger, more hideous, and pocked by thousands of tiny cuts and large bruises and oozing welts all over their faces and hands. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the overalls were gone he began on the T-shirt and cut away Carl Heine’s work pants and underwear and pulled off Carl’s boots and socks, out of which seawater ran. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were many recesses cut in the rock of the walls, and in them were large iron-bound chests of wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At first he thinks she’s talking to him, but she cuts her eyes down to the people around the table with her. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a nasty cut over his eyebrow where he hit the rearview mirror. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He could see a break through the trees that he thought was a ditch or a cut and they came out through the weeds into an old roadway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I felt like a tightrope walker, balancing the urge to hurry out of the cutting wind and the need to step carefully so as not to fall on my hind regions. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maria had cut squares from her treasured gift-wrapping paper and used them to wrap Matt’s taffy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the note a long time, his eyes cut sideways and his head bowed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I cut up the rabbit, fashion a spit out of branches, and set it over the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The other was the blond kid with the crew cut in the number three seat, Rantz—the boy he’d spotted on the rings in the gym at Roosevelt two years before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Frypan wasn’t too happy having a whole box of his wax paper rolls taken away from him, especially with their supplies being cut off. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a scar above his right eye cutting a crooked path through his bushy eyebrow. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But after Sabrina had been born a few months ago, our space talks had always been cut short. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Rondon and the rest of the men cut through the undergrowth along the river’s edge to determine how far the rapids went. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At the city hospital we had drunk out of paper cups and had no knives to cut our meat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They cut and slashed at him from behind and both sides, yet he never was quite there. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

People cut down the trees and put up electric poles that zap them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Stay ’way from me, or I’ll cut your throat,” Cooke warned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling glittered with different- color crystal formations—white and purple and green, like I was inside one of those cut geodes you see in souvenir shops. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had his hair cut short, cropped above his ears, and the drawing was in pencil so you couldn’t tell what color his eyes were, but they were dark, and wide, and sad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to make my eyes cut through the darkness. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all essentially cut from the same cloth, so to speak. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He killed his brother’s two little children, had them cut limb from limb, boiled, and served up to their father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes spends the afternoon training Maribel, a pretty Puerto Rican woman in her late twenties with a pixie cut and stylishly long nails. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Priest hands me a giant pair of scissors, and me and Mama cut the bow together. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Doctors operated behind my ear—for nearly eight hours— trying to repair the facial nerve that had been cut by the bullet. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For some time they had been cut off from the world, as if in an invisible island; now they were laid bare again, peril had returned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I stand and leave the room, quiet as a mouse, the queen's threat stinging like a fresh cut. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Asian girl’s dark hair was shaved down into a buzz cut, and she was wearing baggy boys’ jeans, but her face was so pretty she might have been a doll. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I followed upon the others’ heels, the last in our line, and we cut along the shore toward the launches. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Dad waves at a tower of cars and says, “Luke, cut off those tanks, yeah?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As soon as Emilika left, she sat down on the bed, arms crossed, refusing to come to the table for the bread and butter I’d cut. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He cut his blinker on, pulled over, and put the car in park. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Somehow, he got close enough to the forges of Serra to draw, in detail, the creation process of the Empire's most precious asset: the unbreakable, curved scims that can cut through three men at once. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was bad form to cut loose in the middle, and then also perhaps hazardous; Jack had once told me no one had ever done that before to Dennis Hoagland. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was cutting a wedge of yellow cheese from a round as big as a cart wheel when Tris Botley stepped into the kitchen, bundled up in a thick fur cloak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Danny got to his feet, washed his hands, cut two slices from the chalah, handed me one, took one for himself, made the blessing, ate, and sat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I cut class almost every day, I shaved my long blond hair off and dyed the little bit that was left jet black. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On August 14 Willy cut two teeth, as Emma recorded in her diary; and the next day there were riots in the pottery factories—including Wedgwood Pottery. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors found it among blood and tissue cut out and moved to a basin for examination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It is delicate with the staff,” said Glocer, who has cut the entire Reuters staff by roughly a quarter, without deep cuts among the reporters. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Death has a terrible habit of cutting straight through every careful line you’ve drawn between your present and your future. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“An Yi, you use facial cream every day. That is bourgeois ideology. And your long hair is, too. Shame on you. Why don’t you get your hair cut short in a revolutionary style?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put ointment on her cuts and scrapes. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

No, that’s only a hand cut off, on the third conviction. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chuckling, he said, “Well, I guess dogs can be carried that way same as anything else, but we’ll have to cut a couple of holes to stick their heads through so that they won’t smother.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z