| 单词 | dense |
| 例句 | There was no breeze in the dense vegetation. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook’s dense passages, but terms like “civic humanism” and “the Scottish Enlightenment” dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then, around the corner, gliding noiselessly, came dementors, ten or more of them, visible because they were of a denser darkness than their surroundings, with their black cloaks and their scabbed and rotting hands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The meat itself was moist, dense, and almost shockingly flavorful. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z My dad reached back sometimes and I gave him a chunk of the dense cake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see if the sky in the east was getting light yet, because the storm clouds were still dense and low. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The jinx broke: The dust-figure exploded again, and it was impossible to make out the newcomer through the dense gray cloud it left behind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I drew in my breath as if I were standing on a high dive and took a tentative step toward her, still in the dense shade, still hidden, still safe. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was holding a long sheet of paper dense with writing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sam put down his gear in a dense grove of young hemlocks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As they moved closer, they could see branches of cypress and yew hanging down low over the water, dark green, dense, and gloomy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Leading the dense pack of horses around the turn, He Did took an awkward, sagging step. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Why should wars tend to cause amalgamations of societies when populations are dense but not when they are sparse? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are no mountains, valleys, volcanoes, rivers; no boundaries between land and air; just a vast ocean of dense gas and floating clouds—a world without a surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The air is dense with the chattering of shoemakers and the gamy scents of leather and tannin and dye. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Things get dense and thorny if they're left on their own. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The dense iron of the locomotive rusted from his mere presence, and the paltry patches of grass shriveled and died under his feet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The air held a damp chill, as if the sun that had given a pale, late-winter brightness to the streets in Newton had been too weak to penetrate the dense branches above the woods road. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked on through the dense, dark trees. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z One night, asleep in the dense tropical dark, Maria and Dorothea heard a loud clatter and buzzing somewhere in the house. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Police were waiting to lead them from the car through a passageway that other officers kept open in the dense crowd. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “I’m still studying the chapter on Artificial Selection. It’s taking me longer than I thought. It’s dense reading.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My mother used to make me atole de grano when I was a girl, the dense corn kernels buried in the anicillo broth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Its land slopes upward, along the rise of a hill, covered in dense clusters of evergreen trees. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We disembarked and rode for days in the back of black trucks through dense forests. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Apollo said that he was merely giving to ears so dull and dense the proper shape. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The caterpillar was covered in dense fur that looked as plush and inviting as a cat’s pelt, but I knew better than to stroke it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Its window boxes were always bursting with climbing white roses, and their scent clung dense and sweet over this portion of the canal. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In short, plant and animal domestication meant much more food and hence much denser human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I tried listening to The Misanthrope and Fontaine's Fables, but they were just too dense for me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Driven by a sense of urgency, she soon ventured beyond Paramaribo, hiring workers to hack through dense underbrush. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Dusk thickened, conch shells were blown, and the air grew dense with the incense of prayers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z But a Special stood between her and the border of dense trees and brush, waiting to intercept any stray Smokies. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They turn down a long dirt road in the middle of a forest, dense with hemlock and birch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Snow was falling again; the streets were long paths leading through a dense jungle, lit here and there with torches held high in invisible hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet Congolese pirogues are made of such dense wood if they capsize they sink like a rock. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I left the South Summit ahead of Mike, Yasuko, and Andy, and almost immediately descended into a dense layer of clouds. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Frisby had never realized until that moment, standing next to it, how very big the bush was, how dense, how incredibly thorny. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Or, more exactly, as she thought now, the shadow in which she had lived was fear—fear made more dense by hatred. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She was going to go strawberry picking, but the haze is too dense for that. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We went east through a fairly dense stretch of forest and then swung back west until we hit our coordinates. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Its flesh is red and dense, and the cloying smell of it fills the forests at harvest time. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He had set off on an easterly course, but the undergrowth had grown denser as he progressed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty dense, you know. Your police file makes for pretty dull reading.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z This means that when the star got sufficiently dense, the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t hear myself step, so dense and damp were the needles. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Seth pressed through dense undergrowth until he reached a faint, crooked path, the kind made by animals. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as the crowd around them got denser and more agitated, Goddard pulled back his hand, removed his ring, and handed it to Rowan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Five Soviet spacecraft— Veneras 8 through 12—have landed on Venus and successfully returned data from the surface, no insignificant feat in so hot, dense and corrosive a planetary atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was surrounded by a dense forest, and beyond it I saw a range of jagged mountain peaks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The dense, hard soil suddenly gave way to soft powder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Leukocytes become more actively phagocytic, release lysosomal enzymes, turn sticky, and aggregate together in dense masses, occluding capillaries and shutting off the blood supply. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t a dense forest in that direction, spots of trees that dot along the creek, ferns and brush. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling, but in regions that were slightly denser than average, the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The most important conclusion of the most important biochemical paper of the decade was buried, like a polite cough, under a mound of dense text. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic diseases of dense populations to evolve. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On very hot days, the algae’s weave became tight and dense, and the island increased in height; the climb to the ridge became steeper and the ridge higher. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Lugging packs weighing more than fifty pounds, the young men slogged across muddy rice fields and cut through dense forests. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I can sense desire in him, a dense, smoldering heat. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I slipped in behind her to get carried along by her wave, but the crush was dense and I was given a warning too. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees were too dense, and anyhow it might look like something completely different from this side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother saw in the dark a denser dark, and she knew she was being followed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That dense blah, gray feeling was interfering with his thought processes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Several massive, shaggy work horses stood up to their knees in muck among dense cattail stands in which hundreds of noisy redwing blackbirds cavorted. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The pine trees gave way to a tangled thicket of Brazilian peppers and dense ground scrub, which looked impenetrable. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a number,” she said, looking at me as though I was dense. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But she shoved through the dense crowd quite near enough to me so that I could see her coat of imitation fleece and her gold earrings. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Scruggs threw himself down on his belly and fired blindly into the dense jungle foliage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The air is just as dense as the last time I was in here, but now it is misty, too. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A small group came into view from the denser pines by the rock. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I grow lighter, less dense, and larger... larger... exploding outward into the sun. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z As a cloud of gas collapses, it gets hotter and denser, and hydrogen atoms slam into one another with increasing force. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The evil smell made Matt’s eyes water, and he could barely focus on the dense yellow sludge on the bottom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The sulfur-colored mist extends downward to some 45 kilometers above the surface of Venus, where we emerge into a dense but crystal-clear atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The haze grew denser as the guards shrieked, their flesh seeming to shrink against their bones. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Using machetes and axes, they cut through the jungle’s dense foliage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, has an atmosphere about as dense as our own. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Lev and I stick to the side streets and small parks where the trees are dense and we can disappear into the shadows. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The air in his truck is dense, and I can feel it all the way down to my bones. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The man was filmy, and staring through him at the screen was like looking through a dense fog. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z As I took a step back, the floor rolled beneath me, and the air grew denser, stifling. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I flew to the end of the drive and veered off into the dense brush on the deer path that led to the river across the crescent parcel. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The smog blanketing Tehran was transformed into dense orange clouds by the lights of the city below, and then we were flying through it and I couldn’t see anything else. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He stayed there longer than was necessary, crouched over the dense fermentation that was coming out of the wooden box until habit told him that it was time to start work again. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And the fog continued to roll in from the north, dense and cold and occasionally drenched with the strangest imaginable light, in which great forms could be vaguely seen, and mysterious voices heard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember several of the dresses being dense, but this one feels like it weighs a ton. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The room was dense with awkwardness, and Ifemelu, as though to dilute it, once again examined her hair in the mirror, patting it lightly as she turned this way and that. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “It’s a bit dense,” she admitted, holding up the brown volume in her lap. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was a spectacular sight, which grew in intensity as the air became denser. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The young mouse had discovered a path of sorts, skirting the dense underbrush and avoiding patches of marshland. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She lifted her sword and went into the dense cloud of dust after Nergal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Bears clustered at the battlements, white faces filled every window, and their heavy forms stood like a dense wall of misty white ahead, marked with the black dots of eyes and noses. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Almost as soon as we left the summit, the wind dropped, and within 500 feet the world was quite calm, eerily so, and the dense fog was nothing more than straggly, drifting shreds. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The sun made even the dense holly and hawthorn bushes on the edge of the clearing look harmless. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Through the second Aru could see the leaves of a dense jungle. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was dense with bronze rust, and its jagged angles nibbled at my palms. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This, he wrote, made it more important than ever to provide a counterbalance of “dense, broad, luxuriant green bodies of foliage.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Einstein’s equations also predicted something much more sinister: the black hole, a star so dense that nothing can escape its grasp, not even light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Requiring that its human competitors straddle erratic animals moving in dense groups at extremely high speed, race riding in the 1930s, as today, was fraught with extreme danger. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Abbey, don’t talk that way about your father,” Mom said, “and the word is ‘deluded,’ not ‘dense.’ Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The air shimmered with flowers, birds, and insects, but the dense heat suffocated. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It took her long minutes to find the path in the dense brush. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The air over their heads churned and darkened, a cloud coalescing out of nowhere, gray and dense and gravid with rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The beaver took them along the water and up to a dense section of forest that jutted into the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The road or path or whatever stops on our side at the bridge and becomes rock and dense forest beyond. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “I’m afraid Nico was quite sincere about wanting to help you. The boy is as honest as he is dense. I simply convinced him to take a small detour and bring you here first.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z "Glad all my stories sunk into that dense head of yours." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Aristotle took the view that harder substances are denser and heavier than softer substances; it followed that ice is heavier than water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The darkness was somehow denser than normal darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We have seen that large or dense populations arise only under conditions of food production, or at least under exceptionally productive conditions for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Engulfing fields in dense mats of root and vine, kudzu swarmed over entire farms, clambered for miles along telephone lines, wrapped up trees, barns, and houses like a green Christo. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts spread its wings over both their hearts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Marines even spotted anyone, shooting could suddenly erupt from the dense foliage of the jungle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Once he got past the dense language, the books Jen had loaned him were full of revelations. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I have a denser, more malevolent little triumph to finger: energy has passed between us, and I am stronger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was arranged for the Laughing Man to meet the Dufarges at midnight in a designated section of the dense forest surrounding Paris, and there, by moonlight, Black Wing would be set free. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I can’t face another night of dense cold in my bones, of dark loneliness in my heart. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I’ve climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and felt how quickly the dense Kenyan heat at the base of the mountain transforms into the chill of its snowcapped peak, where deep breaths are hard to find. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When I first got to Miss Preston's I used to run off and hide in the branches of this tree, climbing as high as I could and hiding amongst the dense boughs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I would still wonder about other things,” Axel says, looking from the dense forest to his mom in the garden. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But eddying blasts swirled round them from every side, and the snow flowed down in ever denser clouds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Since gold is more dense than these other metals, he argued, how could it be made by taking something away from them? The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Water is a thousand times as dense as a gas. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point, the star is so dense that every teaspoon weighs hundreds of millions of tons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The walls of the hospital room seemed to be made of stone, the beard on the nurse’s or doctor’s or whoever’s face dense and shaggy as moss. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “But I also realized, about eleven minutes, fifty-five seconds ago, that I am beyond dense.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Rahel stopped and turned around, and on her heart a drab moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts unfurled its predatory wings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We drew closer and peered through the dense curtain of green that surrounded a small adobe hut. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I longed for darker denser woods that I could lose myself in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Corn was their most important crop, but beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, cocoa, and other food crops flourished and supported the dense population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We weren’t on a dense forest path, but we could barely see each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The smoke Bitter had painted around it was as dense as clouds, and Jam thought she could see it move, a jerky tendril here and there. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was a nerve-racking night of dense cloud and stormy weather, but when Marina got back to her airfield, a surprise was waiting for her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It’s so smooth I’d need dense color, layered until not even a flicker of white paper showed through. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of tombstones surrounded by dense shrubs and weeds. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Some vague thought was trying to worm its way into my dense, naive, childlike mind. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Venus has a very dense but unbreathable atmosphere, and a human on its surface would be crushed by the pressure. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The white walls and towers of the Convent of Santa Clara rose out of bougainvillea hedges dense with violet and crimson flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were penned in by dense trees, and the ground was rocky, but it was the best place they could find to set up camp. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “Christ! Sounds like that one ripped a hole in the ground,” one of the twins shouted from the main latrine behind a dense thicket. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He crashed into a hill of groundsel bushes and wedged his way into their dense center. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Without his helmet he looked very young, and the streetlight under the dense green of the leaves above shone full on his face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail cut away from the lake through the densest part of the forest. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Only the black walls of the old prison remained, the roof long since fallen in or destroyed so that the night sky was visible high above, dense with clouds and free of stars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Moreover, most people in agricultural and industrial societies lived in dense, unhygienic permanent settlements—ideal hotbeds for disease. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the breaks in the dense tree line, Taylor glimpsed men behind a barbed wire fence carrying guns. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Light from cooking fires in derelict buildings softens the dense dark. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A History-shaped Hole in the Universe through which, at twilight, dense clouds of silent bats billowed like factory smoke and drifted into the night. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in the sense of the atoms of my body becoming closer and more dense, but a fusion—as the atoms of my-re^merge into microcosm. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Adaon led them to a dense thicket and signaled them to dismount. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z At the very next corner, deep inside the dense, impenetrable shadows of a narrow, winding side street, he heard the mysterious, unmistakable sound of someone shoveling snow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At the top hovered an embankment of rolling, snaking fog so dense it was like stepping into another world. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Camp that night was two tents thrown up hastily in the middle of dense bush with the spring bugs newly awake buzzing at the tears we hadn’t had time to repair. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm, like bread dough rising under cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Thus Neolithic Europe never reached the level of social organization that produced the masonry architecture of Jericho or the dense urban community of Çatal Hüyük. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was better because it wasn’t raining yet, though the clouds were dense and opaque. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He bent his fingertips, and the particles spun, whirring into a tightening spiral that grew narrower and denser. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The rest of the officers fled toward the two exits in panic and jammed up the doorways like a dense, howling dam of human flesh as they shrank from going farther. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The dense hair on my arms was almost blond, and my eyebrow hairs weren't nearly as thick as the ones my sister had been born with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The hill jutted above the dense tangle of forest, rising solitary and sudden, its windswept heights visible from miles off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sweet, carrion scent of dogwood filled the air; in the evening sunshine, the insects hummed around the dense white cymes hanging low above the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This proves the storm is moving east to west, because the denser part of the storm was to the east yesterday. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They gazed intently at the dense blue of the horizon, as if a little silhouette might appear there at any moment. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Black holes are so dense that if you get too close—past the so-called event horizon—the escape velocity is faster than the speed of light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She wrote about the tendency of Nigerian women to give advice, sincere advice dense with sanctimony. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He’s let his facial hair grow in a little, and his hair is longer than I’ve ever seen it—dense enough to show me that it is brown, not black. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The sinuous channels, stacked polar plates and other evidence suggest that Mars once had such a denser atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been practicing this trick, but never with something so heavy and dense. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They developed locally dense populations chronically engaged in ferocious wars with neighboring populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With her hands tied behind her, Tally lurched into the brush off-balance, tumbling to the ground as her bare feet caught on something in the dense vegetation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Once or twice he thought he saw something larger moving ahead of him, but when he got nearer, he discovered it to be nothing but a large, blackened log, or a dense clump of weed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Once again, the jungle felt massive, dense, and even sentient. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Its branches are spread over most of the greenhouse, and its roots bubble up from the ground, forming a dense web of bark. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Any picnic tables or playground equipment that might have once stood nearby had been swallowed up in dense, thorny-looking bushes and trees. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Rather, they stood in what appeared to be a dense mass of vegetation, as sparkling green as the leaves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They put her up front to help cut a path in the dense vegetation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The opposite bank was not far; the ground appeared smoother, the forest not as dense. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Goddard looked out at the crowded pool deck that would have been far less dense, and far less beautiful, had it not been for the presence of professional party guests. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Kendra ran and seized the pool skimmer, swinging it at the relentless horde of fairies, never touching any of them no matter how dense the swarm appeared. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z These woods were dense and dark and dreadful. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A smell of loam and another, pungent scent rises from among the leaves, a smell of old things, dense and heavy, forgotten. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure has long since lost count of her strides when they reach a crowd dense enough that she can feel heat spilling off of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The smoke rose in dense fumes and arranged itself in complex patterns against the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the discovery of the microwave radiation by Penzias and Wilson in 1965 also indicated that the universe must have been much denser in the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had reached the true marsh now, where thicket gave way entirely to the dense fringe of papyrus growing in the shallow margins of the Nile. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Once they’ve digested their kill, they cough up dense hairballs, which they pick clean of edibles before rolling in them. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And the air was dense with exaggeration, conversations full of overprotestations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z All eyes were riveted on a dense ring of people in the street. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood quite still, holding on to each other, gazing at the dense black boundary of the graveyard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “God, Abby, how dense are you? Seriously? I draw a picture where we’re practically on top of each other, and it didn’t occur to you that maybe, just maybe, I might actually like you?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Finally I spotted him, still under the dense shade of the canopy at the edge of the hollow, watching me with cautious eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The trees here were still tall, so I wasn’t very far north, but they were dense, so I wasn’t too south anymore, either. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The train slammed past under a column of dense black smoke. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in the orchard now, in the dense interweaving of orange trees, and Richard felt a strangeness overcome him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The day broke, humid and overcast, with the wind warm and the sky a dense blanket of grey clouds that looked like bunched-up, dirty cotton sheets. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At first I didn’t see the soldiers at all—just a giant, swirling mass of insects, so dense it was opaque, about fifty feet down the footpath. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Our pond was nestled in an unusually dense section of woods. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Often, I couldn’t see five feet into the dense foliage on either side of the path. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One of the Specials was only a stone’s throw away, scanning the forest with slow back-and-forth sweeps of his head, his eyes searching the dense trees relentlessly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Among animals, too, epidemic diseases require large, dense populations and don’t afflict just any animal: they’re confined mainly to social animals providing the necessary large populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It transformed from a grayness to a dense feeling in his heart, like he had lost something important and would never get it back. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The Congolese pirogues are made of a dense wood that sinks like pig iron when given half a chance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the star gets so hot and dense that the hydrogen atoms stick to one another and fuse, creating helium and releasing large quantities of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Someone threw a firebomb through a broken window, and the panic-stricken passengers, choking from the dense cloud of smoke, escaped through an emergency exit seconds before the bus burst into flames. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z One side of it was solid earth, the other a dense screen of thorns and branches impossible to see through but with enough cracks and crevices to admit a little air. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Jalil had taught her that gray clouds got their color by being so dense that their top parts absorbed the sunlight and cast their own shadow along the base. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z If she concentrated very hard, she could feel the gravitational pull of that dense nugget of power, smooth and hard and sealed off like a nut. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Tonight, he knew, was what old-timers called ghost time, with fog as immobile and dense as buttermilk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She gave up straining to espy, past the apparently real, something denser. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the Ho Chi Minh Trail was covered with dense forest, making it hard to hit from the air. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Behind him six Recruiters crept forward in a semicircle, trapping my brother between them and the dense trees in which I was hiding. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She hands the letter back and stares down the alley at the dense ranks of clotheslines and coalbins. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He turned off the lane into a rutted path that led through dense underbrush up to a knoll. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The early universe was filled with radiation and a plenum of matter, originally hydrogen and helium, formed from elementary particles in the dense primeval fireball. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I slept in just my shorts, wrapped up under the stiff blankets, surrounded by a barrier of dense pillows. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was hot, and the road was bordered by dense vegetation on either side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sand is wet and flat and dense. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As darkness fell around us, the road twisted through dense forest for several miles until it came to a short, narrow bridge with room for only one car to pass. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Hab's atmosphere is over 100 times as dense, so it turns to liquid at much higher temperatures. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Broadfoot lived on the other side of the pond, in a dense section of forest that was home to many animals, most of whom were in desperate need of a good thaw. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As they boarded higher up into the mountain the creek widened, cutting an archway of trees into the dense forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “For a bright guy, you can be so dense.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Threads of magic unwound from the stranger and fluttered toward Luna and her own dense magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The fog was dense, like steam from the bowels of the earth. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Then they motored onward, up a rocky creek bed and through dense alder thickets. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the vapor was dense, and it was difficult to make out anybody’s faces. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They live together in dense, interdependent communities, feeding and supporting the environment for each other, regulating the balance of populations between different species by a complex system of chemical signals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The hedge maze is taller than the height of an ogre and formed of dense, glossy leaves in a deep green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The water butterflies swim in swarms and conceal their magnificent purple glow by hiding among a home of dense vines.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She looks to be around Johanna’s age, her skin patterned with dense freckles and her hair so dark it’s almost black. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The bread, dense and moist, tastes like Ireland. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Eventually, all the air is squeezed out, and the snow is a dense, heavy ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Once, in the middle of a dense stand of oak, they came face-to-face with three men palling a load of firewood in an ax cart, with no way for either to get around. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He saw the world through glasses literally dense with dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Mapping, I learn about paths, but I also learn about forest health: How dense are the trees? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The foam was so dense that this hardly mattered, but he had a nasty feeling that Myrtle had been spying on him from out of one of the taps ever since he had arrived. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Instead, one part of the explanation for farmer power lies in the much denser populations that food production could support: ten naked farmers certainly would have an advantage over one naked hunter-gatherer in a fight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then it was a very steep descent—3,000 feet in three miles—through dense, cool green woods to a back road that led through exquisitely pretty open countryside. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z So now Odysseus made his shirt a belt and roped his rags around his loins, baring his hurdler’s thighs and boxer’s breadth of shoulder, the dense rib-sheath and upper arms. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually, he began to see in the darkness; she was on the other side of the bed, her dark body like a shadow in the denser darkness surrounding her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to the dense thorny branches of a Blood Rose, cut and pinioned into cruel horizontals against the wall, yet still wild and heavy with dark red blooms. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie Company was spread out in a long line in the dense jungle vegetation. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I’m lucky at least to know that Colin likes me. Even if he is as dense as a...” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The route led down into a wooded valley with a chuckling stream edged with brittle ice, which the path followed for perhaps half a mile before taking us steeply up into denser woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Hubble’s observations suggested that there was a time, called the big bang, when the universe was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Adjacent to this potential hiding place lies dense forest. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At once light and dense, there was something lithe about it, almost serpentine. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was no fire, and we stopped in a pretty dense area. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked in two lines on the sides of a dusty path, looking into the dense bushes with our bloodshot eyes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The rain started again just after noon, and I sat under a dense pine nursing my last tin of meal replacement, the last-resort tin with the expiry dated for the previous year. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Francis found it impossible to believe that Bragg could have been so dense as to have missed his oft-repeated idea, and he as much as told Bragg this. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The morning fog is so dense that he cannot see the roofline. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Now that my thoughts were on Falconer, I cast my eyes about for him, but my stature was so small and the throng so dense that I stood no hope of spotting him. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Out of the mist jutted a row of cavernous wooden structures that must be warehouses, and beyond that the dense, dripping green of fields and woods. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He felt himself surrounded by dense, overwhelming fogs of possibilities in which he could perceive no glimmer of light. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As I got closer, the smell of tobacco in the air grew denser. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My hair was too thick; it always tightened back into a dense bunch right after she ran a comb through it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When he was young—before the government maize and tobacco estates arrived and cleared most of our trees—the forests were so dense a traveler could lose his sense of time and direction in them. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z While the yard on the immediate left contained a pink bucket-like aboveground pool and the house to the right boasted a trampoline, Petey’s yard was dense with foliage. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Each morning hundreds of men climbed to its roof; each evening they picked their way gingerly back down in a long dense line that from a distance resembled a column of ants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z With the rise of dense, sedentary, food-producing populations came the rise of chiefs, kings, and bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They would all collapse to form a roughly uniform, dense “soup.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The much heavier consequence was that the Dutch settlers in 1652 had to contend only with a sparse population of Khoisan herders, not with a dense population of steel-equipped Bantu farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Around him, close enough to touch, was a dense phalanx of horses moving at terrific speed: Indian Broom on the rail, Pompoon on the outside, Mandingham right on Fair Knightess’s tail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed through the dense bosque until I came to the bank of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I passed Humansdorp, the forests became denser and for the first time in my life I saw wild elephants and baboons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, when I felt that I could no longer put one foot in front of the other, a voice boomed out of the dense bush. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z At dusk they drink tea and chew the mealy, dense bread from the Ruelles’ bakery. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The following night the white-out was still so dense she could not see the ground when she crept out for snow to melt and drink. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z An atom, Rutherford realized, was mostly empty space, with a very dense nucleus at the center. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place, gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowds that pressed around the cars were so dense there was no space between people and they blended into one another, wrappers blended into T-shirts, trousers into skirts, dresses into shirts. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There were no clouds on the horizon, but the air felt dense with moisture, as if a storm was simply refusing to form. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Their foliage was dense and dark green, their vast trunks gold-red in the heavy evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As far as Oshiro was concerned, it was all dense, dangerous jungle when they were out on reconnaissance missions known as “recon.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The building was surrounded by people on all sides, but it was not as dense in the back, and the driver managed to make his way through to the rear entrance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Australian Aborigines, of course, stood in the way of European food production, especially because what was potentially the most productive farmland and dairy country initially supported Australia’s densest populations of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is something very massive, very dense, and very small ticking and purring inside M87—from a region smaller than the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The last time Bailey entered this particular tent, Poppet was with him, and it was filled with a dense white fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Tally was glad when Shay took her lunch away from the rest of the group, to the edge of the dense forest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Huge curls of dense white smoke swirl up into the night sky. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the marshy ground where the stream met the lake she found dense patches of sedge. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Surrounding the uranium would be a tamper—a shield of very dense metal. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The crowd was so dense that he couldn’t get through. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The island, which was about nine square miles, had a thick belt of quite dense bush around the edge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z These people seem to be living together, clustered in small, dense villages, but they are really solitary, unrelated individuals with no evident use for each other. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods were dense and that wasn’t so easy as it sounds. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She caressed his neck, buried her fingers in his dense hair, and when he slid into her, she thought about Arize’s pregnant belly, how easily it must have broken, skin stretched that taut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She barely recalls their faces, only the fringe of their dense hair leaning into her carton crib. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After using his machete to hack his way through the dense foliage—all while getting stung and bitten by wasps and ants—Kermit would set up the sighting rod. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z In contrast, the crowd diseases, which we discussed earlier, could have arisen only with the buildup of large, dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To trace out that chain, let us now remind ourselves how large dense populations themselves arise. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here and there the perches gave way under the weight with a crash, and, falling to the ground, destroyed hundreds of the birds beneath, forcing down the dense groups with which every stick was loaded. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These cells, with bars front and rear, had dense screens installed from ceiling to knee level to keep the occupants from throwing things out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The woods are dense, with thickets and patches of poison ivy that we have to make our way around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z At the other end, Sally is putting the finishing touches on a dessert she’s brought, intently assembling layers and covering them with glistening white meringue that shoots up like a dense thicket of flames. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z What happens next is not completely clear, but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state, such as a neutron star or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She uses her cane to beat back the dense undergrowth. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z After washing his face in the farm spring, he and Mole resumed their trek into the dense forests of the Catskill Mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z No, it was a thick, aging book, crammed with dense lines of text. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The com itself seemed to shield her as she ran through it, impossibly growing taller, denser, reaching outward and upward, alive, alive, whispering for her to run, run, not to stop, never to stop. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The roads squirmed with traffic; the cities were so dense with people that all attention had to be devoted to not hitting anyone or not being hit. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z While one’s first association to African antelope is “vast dense herds spreading across the horizon,” in fact the males of those herds space themselves into territories and fight fiercely with each other when breeding. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The road curved slightly and then leveled out, and there was a patch of dense underbrush to my right. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Frankie had ordered honey cake, but the dessert the waiter brought looked nothing like the dense golden-brown slabs of lekach baked for the new year. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They reached the edge of the flowers, a dense growth of trees and brush that started at the foot of a towering mountain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Not least, the Americas were more fragmented by areas unsuitable for food production or for dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, in the dense alphabet forest of the page, little black tulips began to pop up in a quick, random pattern like falling raindrops. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Silver moved in a halo of light, for the sun sparkled on the guard hairs that grew out over the dense underfur and she seemed to glow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They also have nothing to do with me, wrapped as I am in dense minor-key enchantment. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He takes off his cap and runs one hand over the dense stubble of his hair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The trees grew thicker and denser the farther back in the corner they went, more alive and full of leaves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Everyday people lying next to each other on a makeshift beach, the mottled spring light passing through the dense trees before softly surrendering to dusk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In Florence, however, Galileo’s disciple Torricelli heard in 1643 of Berti’s experiments and realized that he could simplify matters by using a denser liquid. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A long, high bamboo bridge spanned it, and dense, prickly foliage grew up the high, steep banks on either side. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not too dense in here? All these flats?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z On the outskirts of the city the traffic became denser. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Gaston and his wife would have liked to incorporate him into the family life, but Aureliano was a hermetic man with a cloud of mystery that time was making denser. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The boys landed in dense, thorny scrub and when they finally managed to free themselves they hesitated, not sure in which direction to go. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m dense and heavy, I feel nothing other than this heaviness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We cut through some dense underbrush for a half hour before we got near the hamlet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was whisked by car through the dense pine forests surrounding the airport to an address on Durham's North Side. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A wedge of light had forced itself through the dense clouds. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The dense crashes of Sigurd’s enormous boots in the field grew closer behind her, getting louder, and she pumped her arms and legs faster. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She recognized the tall spikes of yarrow and its dense clustered blossoms; around them twined the flopping stems of coreopsis, above a carved base of that plant’s mounded dark and feathery leaves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I doubted even rocket candy could get this dense little rocket off the ground. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was surprised by how dense my anger felt, and how easily it sprang up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She moved ahead, pushing through the dense bush like a coyote. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z To wait out of her sight, I climb into a young hemlock with limbs that hang over the falls and sit among the dense needles. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The finish photo captured the scene: a dense cluster of horses stretched out for the wire, ears flat and lips peeled back in extreme effort. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees were denser, the ground less manageable, and the wildlife—judging by the sounds and smells around me—had changed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The vegetation grew less dense, and finally she came to a clearing where the land looked ruined, burned. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was the handsome male with the dense white beard. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They would squint into the dense, oppressive sunlight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The fog, sometimes thin, sometimes dense, floated before them, around them, over them, like some living thing. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z We turn down another road and head into an area dense with trees. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z He was approaching the sparse, skeletal trees in front of the denser woods when he was startled by a blur of movement at his feet, followed by a hurried set of clacking sounds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A thin mist began to creep up from the river, and it grew, and grew; till soon a dense fog enveloped the ship and all around her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Throughout human history, centralized states with metal weapons and armies supported by dense agricultural populations have swept away sparser populations of stone-tool-using hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ground began to slope upward, and the tangle of barbed branches we moved through became less dense. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The fog was dense enough to make him ponder running for Elliot Head before long; for all he knew he was setting his net in the Seattle-bound shipping lane. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He imagined there were thirty or more boats out there, all hidden and silent in the dense sea fog, moving to the same tidal rhythm that moved under him, keeping everyone equidistant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In that rosebush, concealed and protected by dense tangles of fiercely sharp thorns, was the entrance to a rat hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The whole platoon was there, spread out in the dense brush along the trail, and for five hours nothing at all happened. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I can barely see her for the dense limbs, but I do see the parent goshawks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In case you didn’t know this, a practice pad is a thick, dense, flat piece of rubber. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Not since the lightless passages of Moria had Frodo or Sam known such darkness, and if possible here it was deeper and denser. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was too dense and green to be taken then; if the stem were broken then, before the final season, its wet flowing vitality would be lost in a single breath. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Down below, Brooklyn grew taller and denser as it sloped toward the river. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In a few more minutes they had left the open countryside and driven into a dense forest. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Flies perched on them in dense clusters, so that for a moment it seemed as if their frayed white caftans had been splashed with dark-colored paint. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In one square the crowds were particularly dense, and as Meggie pushed her way through them with Mo she saw they were standing around a fire-eater. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Into this dark, dense maze stumbled Florida and Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z As they picked their way through denser underbrush, a twig snapped off to one side. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z By the time a carcass reached my spot on the line, the fluids had mostly drained out, everything except for dense clots of blood in the neck and upper chest cavity. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Over us hangs a dense cloud of smoke. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Our best protection against this plant is therefore the maintenance of dense shrubs, ferns, and other perennial vegetation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Scarcely visible, far back in the dense tangle of the glossy leaves, are the eyes of cats. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z No, it was more like a dense forest, not of trees, but people. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Through the dense trees in the forest I spied branches hiding an old potato cellar. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Knots of dense galaxies are separated by vast voids. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They set off into the dense growth, and they weren’t coming out until the job was done. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was only fifteen miles to La Push from Forks, with gorgeous, dense green forests edging the road most of the way and the wide Quillayute River snaking beneath it twice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The dense bushes along the fences, where many birds lived, had been clipped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Foliage arched over their heads, casting a welcome shade made denser by the stands of tall reeds. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The wisps of vapor had thickened into a dense mist that generated a pale light. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The truck interior was dense with the scent of his cologne and Obinze would, from time to time, take deep gulps of fresh air through the open window. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His eyes moved under his lids, and his lashes, resting closed—as dense and glossy as the fur of rivercats—fluttered gently. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “It can be a bit dense. But I’m surprised you didn’t learn he was a passionate abolitionist, Shayla.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z When it fell back, it disappeared into a dense thicket of trees. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Three camaradas were assigned the difficult task of clearing the path of vines and dense foliage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The blades were made of dense iron, twelve inches thick and five feet across. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A towering man with a dense mustache, Emmett, as Tom’s father liked to be called, was poor, stern, hardworking, and pious. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Soon, I found myself at a secluded area north of the Court of Honor, a wooded island carved from the lakeside, lush with gardens, dense foliage, and manmade streams. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The shoreline was dense with brush and timber. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He is as tall as Pa, with an angular body and cropped gray hair that sits straight on his head like dense jungle bushes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a short while the trees beside him grew denser as he walked, and only birdcalls and squirrel rustlings broke the silence. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Ghiscari hair was dense and wiry; it had long been the fashion for the men of the Slaver Cities to tease it into horns and spikes and wings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A dense swampy mist seeped out of the bag, and her wrists were bound with several loops of twine. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Where all other plants have shed their leaves, the sage remains evergreen, the gray-green leaves — bitter, aromatic, rich in proteins, fats, and needed minerals — clinging to the stems of the dense and shrubby plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In every direction, I saw sprawling, dense forests and I dwelt not on the greenery but the fact that there were many places a guerrilla army could live and train undetected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The resulting fixed abode contributes to denser human populations by permitting a shortened birth interval. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In one condition, the subjects walked in a dense urban environment and then tried to learn and remember information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mr. Weasley’s car was standing, empty, in the middle of a circle of thick trees under a roof of dense branches, its headlights ablaze. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Tayo had to strain to catch the meaning, dense with place names he had never heard. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The entire universe must have been incredibly hot and dense; it would have been glowing with bright light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was an acrid stink of saltpeter, and the air was dense and grainy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Beyond the water, wherever you look, a narrow beach and then dense greenery. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The amber color was denser, and like a photographic filter it emphasized some colors and held back others, giving a slightly different cast to the landscape. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Alex is opening his mouth to retort when a royal attendant materializes at their table like a dense and dour-looking ghost in a bad hairpiece. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In the dense fog, the nervous red glow of a guard’s cigarette as he sits dreaming, cursing the cold but probably rejoicing in the rain—most likely he’d be the son of farmers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was dense and gray; it was difficult to estimate distances. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I could tell Amar what’s really going on, but that would require undoing the dense knot of propaganda and lies the Bureau has tied in his mind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z By the morning, yesterday morning, the water had sunk down into all the holes, and there was a dense fog. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He rambled through the dense neighborhoods along the river that were more squalid than ever since the mills had been slack this winter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The words hang there, and the air in the room goes dense with the truth of them. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The small talk was of the microscopic variety, and although it was good to be with her family, never had the barrier between them felt denser. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Her fingers stroked the short, dense fringe of moss that grew across the top of the log. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “As you know,” he said, trying his best to turn his guts and spine into the hardest and densest of wood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The dense hedge walls that comprised the maze were ten feet tall, making it impossible to peek over them, even if you stood on top of one of the benches placed throughout the labyrinth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The races were segregated by a dense, carefully woven web of laws, signs, partitions, arrows, ordinances, unequal opportunities, rules, insults, threats, and customs—often backed up by violence. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I actually became interested in those dark, dense paragraphs of print. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The trees had begun to grow more dense, and the ground rose toward the comb of a hill. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z All those are direct ways in which plant and animal domestication led to denser human populations by yielding more food than did the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Miig turned to the right and we followed, tumbling through a dense thicket, coming out the other side into another low clearing with nettles in our hair. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z In an optical photograph of a dense star field, there are hundreds of thousands of stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to see through the fibers of whatever is over my head, but they are too dense and it is too dark. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Unassumingly entitled “Experiments in Plant Hybridization” and published in a scarcely read journal in 1866, the paper was written in dense German and packed with the kind of mathematical tables that Darwin particularly despised. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A dense thicket of brambles grew south of the village. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On termite mounds Nhamo discovered jabvane bushes with purplish black fruit, and in dense thickets near the water grew brambles with dark, sweet berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond was dense forest of pine and spruce, and the mountain like a black wall, but the steps were there, chiseled deep into the rock, ascending into the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The road rose to meet him and the darkness grew dense. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At first they were just dark brown columns of silt, denser than the water around them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Inej smelled her perfume—lilies, rich and creamy, a dense golden smell. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z That’s why the nuclei of atoms are so compacted and dense and why elements with big, crowded nuclei tend to be so unstable: the strong force just can’t hold on to all the protons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A noise like a laugh came out of the dense knotted mangroves. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Abbey, don’t talk that way about your father,” Mom said, “and the word is ‘deluded,’ not ‘dense.’ Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The one-sidedness of that exchange of germs becomes even more striking when we recall that large, dense human populations are a prerequisite for the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The nucleus of an atom is tiny–only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume of the atom–but fantastically dense, since it contains virtually all the atom’s mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On the return trip, the vehicle skidded through the friction of the increasingly dense atmosphere, building up heat that could reach 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They walked in silence for a long time through dense, flat brush with thin trees rising straight and high all around them. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Her voice was a whisper, as if she could startle the water and it would rush off into the denser bush, leaving us behind. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He had precipitated it in dense, swirling strands out of white blood cells that he had wrung out of human pus in surgical dressings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Seven years later the last dense growth of the prickly pear had been destroyed and the once uninhabitable areas reopened to settlement and grazing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He picked up a big, fluffy snowy owl and put his nose into the sweet, dense feathers on his head. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The feeling of dread was a dense cloud that blocked my view of everything around me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotelians also held that solids are denser and heavier than liquids. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The twin rails of the train tracks were being swallowed by the dense jungle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I was probably pretty dense compared with her. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Two policemen walked ahead, making a path for him in the dense crowd. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The hair that was not on the top of his head seemed to have fallen to the bottom of his face, as he had a dense white mustache and a goatee like a broom. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z All night they struggled through the forest, which grew denser the closer they approached the Ystrad valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I walked around the corner, and way down this side, which seemed to go on for another mile, was the moose, blocking the path between the brick and a dense thicket of bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z This was a ground operation, and Scruggs was carrying his Mid rifle through the dense jungle foliage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was trying to seal off the front of his cell by hanging plastic bags and blankets all over the bars—the smoke was that dense. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a pair of fingerless gloves knit from a dense navy blue yarn, and a thick pair of brown wool mittens. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The platoon would walk single file through triple-canopy jungle, slashing with machetes when it got dense, hunting for the enemy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The crowds became denser, more suffocating as we approached the port. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I finally came across her, holed up in a dense thicket of bee myrtle close to a little seep spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z They soon realized that the woodland on this left bank was lonely, thick and overgrown—denser than the nut copses and bluebell woods of Sandleford. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The hedges were overgrown and the labyrinth had turned into a dense thicket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The air was dense with moisture; clouds thickened and darkened the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She could feel the steady beating of her heart, the rhythmic pulsing of her blood through her veins, and beneath her the dense, solid earth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow continued to fall dense and heavy, but the wind was still. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, it can ricochet through even a thick layer of dense material without losing much energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One thing he failed to see was that if a neutron star shrank enough it would become so dense that even light couldn’t escape its immense gravitational pull. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This June morning is hot and humid with a haze so dense I can barely see the huge hemlock tree in which I live. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When the area was first settled, the plateau was covered with a dense primeval forest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The mighty Amazon jungle, which landed squarely in that unknown space, was a dangerous, dense, and nearly impenetrable wilderness. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z During these marches I got a sense of the landscape, which was very beautiful, with dense forests and spare highlands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was trembling, but not with cold: the stuffy runs of the Mark were dense with thunder; the air felt like a deep drift of leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As she talks I watch the freckles on her cheeks, dappled like sunlight through dense leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z As he picked it out he noticed its unusually dense dorsal tufts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z From a distance the trees along the edge of the beech hanger appeared full of great, dense shadows, impenetrable to the dazzled eye. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would one of you please tell me,” he begged, “what’s all this got to do with pancakes? Maybe I’m dense, but I really don’t get it.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the trail faded into dense foliage, Neel handed Rupa the flashlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The sea barely rippled, and a dense fog hung over it. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Barbarossa ran his hand through his dense curls. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the square, handsome face of his father, the porcelain complexion of his mother, and the dense overhang of eyebrows that ran in the Darwin family over generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To his left waits the city, gray and dense. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So close was the ookpick, the white owl of the north, that she could see the clove markings on his wings and the dense white feathers that covered his legs and feet. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When he asked scientists for updates, they’d hand him fifteen- or twenty- page technical papers, dense with formulas and calculations. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The dense tropical trees along the river’s edge towered overhead, providing shade along the banks, while big-beaked toucans called out with their harsh sounds and flocks of parakeets flashed their green, blue, and red feathers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z What is agreed upon is that Lawrence understood almost immediately the import of what he had seen, even though Wideroe’s report was written in dense technical German, a language that was largely beyond Ernest’s ken. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It's real bakery bread, not the flat, dense loaves we make from our grain rations. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Blinded by dense snow and freezing fog, Zhenya wasn’t able to see where she was landing, and one of her wings hit the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The stacks were so dense around the pile of crushed and charred trailers that it was too dangerous to try to clear them out with one of the old construction cranes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was a full moon, so the whole island would be illuminated with light except for the most dense corners of the mangrove forest. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The nearer we drew to the theatre, the more dense the crowd became. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a nor’easter up and down the East Coast, bringing with it dense fog and high winds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He did not see how so many flies, more than a hundred fat greenish flies, could have come in through that crack to buzz together in a dense turbulent cluster. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The ice grew denser, and open water became harder and harder to find. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “And my ma says I could get a stone to tell its secrets,” he said, still staring into the tree’s dense canopy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the fog in my chest could grow, denser and denser, until someday it’d swallow me, and I could be gone, too. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Caputo quickly moved his men out of the open space and under the dense forest canopy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Youn points to an area where the shrubs are high and dense, and waves for me to come to him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A cold moth with unusually dense dorsal tufts landed lightly on Rahel’s heart. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He even nailed some pretty dense math problems like, “Find the least common multiple of six, eight, and sixteen.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Freeway bridges curve in toward the city’s heart, the dense, gleaming skyscrapers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the far end of the sky, where daylight begins, a dense radiance like a shooting star breaks forth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later the sleek black head appeared; two dense obsidian eyes stared at the sleeping mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At the stream bank she sets out their drear picnic, which is only dense, crumbling bread daubed with crushed peanuts and slices of bitter plantain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But the highlands, already occupied by dense populations of New Guineans, were not reached by Europeans until the 1930s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Seeing the girls, it squawked and darted into the dense jungle growth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She worked her way down through its dense limbs almost to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Those areas also came to support the densest populations of European settlers in modern Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And so as we plunged into the steep, dense, covering woods of Shuckstack Mountain, I stayed closer than usual to Katz and carried my walking stick like a club. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They were passing through a particularly dense patch of trees, however, when Firenze suddenly stopped. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Perhaps organisms that float in dense planetary atmospheres will be very much like us in their atomic composition, except they might not have bones and therefore not need much calcium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked Mother if I could cut off my hair, which hung in a dense swelter all the way down my back. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The rough waves and dense fog made it nearly impossible to navigate the dinghy. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They're slow and ungainly, tripping over their own feet, tangling in the dense underbrush, dragging themselves along the ground when they can't find their footing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Even through the leather, she could feel the dense heat of the bricks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The ridge above us is heavy, dense with trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z You could only look out by standing on a chair and holding open the pane, and then you only got a view down onto the dense shrubbery. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The air felt damp and cold like the ground after the snow has melted into it, making it dense and rich. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As they passed overhead, in so dense a throng that their shadow followed them darkly over the ground below, one harsh croak was heard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There is no dust here, no clouds, just an atmosphere getting palpably denser. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some patches were so dense with weeds that strawberry plants struggled to survive. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Peeta takes the lead, cutting through the patches of dense vegetation with his long knife. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind the dense sandstone of the header, the Captain believed, was a vast, undiscovered coal seam. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It originated in Borneo, where it inhabits dense jungle. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a path surrounded by dense bush, and she knew that it was a place where it was dangerous to stop too long. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She stops, not knowing what he is as dense as. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The clouds in the sky grew steadily denser, and foretold a heavy summer rain before nightfall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Next came the antitank gunner, clumsy and dense, warning Germans away with a Colt .45 automatic in one hand and a trench knife in the other. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Already a dense mass of people was blocking the south side of the square. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She gently combed her hair, dense, soft, and tightly coiled, until it framed her head like a halo. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But when I see the secluded roads and kilometers of dense forest, I understand. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One possible contributing factor is that the rise of dense human populations began somewhat later in the New World than in the Old World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The silence was dense; the darkness was cold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One after another the doors of the portables opened and the teachers looked out, staring into the dense rain, trying to spot the cause of all this commotion. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a dense accumulation of leaves glued together in a ball. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Their owners had hacked a space in the dense scrub that now covered everything, but the clearings looked temporary. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Haukelid was awful to look at,” Nielsen later said, “with a dense beard, and marked by the tough life in the mountains.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently Frightful flew from her perch, wove her way up through the dense tree limbs to open sky, and returned to her bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful watched a duck fly into the reeds and a willet find shelter behind a dense clump of sedge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z But from the ground you couldn’t see it: she looked through the spyglass herself, but the dense blue of the sky was all she could see. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We rise high above the ship, out of danger, and out of the dense fog bank. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z His neatly clipped black hair, silvery about the temples with scant patches of grayness, reminded me of my father’s head ten years before, those dense shines of hair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Paths, which in daylight seem clearly trodden ways, twist and turn in the night, looping back on themselves and vanishing into dense thickets. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The cloud of dark smoke grew denser as they ran down the hall, which was streaked with soot and slick with water. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z ‘Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Behind it, Battersea Park appeared as a square of dense green bushes and trees that were making a last stand, fighting back the urban spread. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She sat against the clay wall as far from the entrance as she could manage and watched the dense sheets of water sweep past. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They move fast and efficiently through dense mobs, as if they have a Teflon coat, very rarely bumping into one another. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Its pernicious ghost—gray, furry and with unusually dense dorsal tufts—haunted every house that he ever lived in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The dense undergrowth came up to his shins, grasping at his ankles with every step. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As dawn slowly turned the dense jungle from pitch-black to gray, birds began their melodic calls. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z All that was left were footprints in the sand leading toward the dense forest that spread out beyond the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Flying in an open cockpit with the wind continually pounding against them, they immediately encountered dense fog that stayed with them for almost their entire flight. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Venus was evidently covered by a dense layer of obscuring cloud. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh 200 billion pounds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a dense layer of Candor surrounding the entire complex of Erudite buildings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z |
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